Chillaxin'

eesh, I'm so worn out. I have been traveling a ton; first to Niagara Falls, then a weekend shuttling back and forth between Boston and New Hampshire, just got back from 6ish days in Atlanta, then back to New Hampshire this weekend and then on to New Mexico! :o :O

I am glad to be visiting people but traveling really wears me out - will have to take it easy in the times I am at home.

Feeling Better In All Ways

I am much more rested, emotionally and physically, than the other day. I had this wierd thing where I thought for about three hours that I felt feelings that would have been very inconvenient...but then once I slept on it I realized that I had been mistaken. Haha. That's vague.

I watched several movies this weekend (or was it just two? :/ ) including Save Me with Chad Allen and Judith Light, and Paris, je t'aime with everyone and their mother. I liked Save Me pretty well (doesn't qualify as a bad gay movie) but I L<3VED Paris, je t'aime. Sigh. So good.

Also...

...I watched another bad gay movie that I will hopefully review soon. :D

Brief SSDD Post

Just dropping in to say that it's always feast or famine; first I am all alone and now there are 3, maybe 4 boys that I like and 2 maybe 3 that might like me.
Too much. Ug.
I am exhausted and have had a stomachache for two days. SO grumpy right now. Thank goodness for yoga and fun clothes you found at Salvation Army that your friends laughed at you for getting but you secretly knew they would make you look like a million bucks and they did. HA. Take that bitches and don't doubt my fashiondar.

Wow, I squeezed a lot of taggable topics into that brief post.

Bad Gay Movies Premiere

I seem to go through seasons of blogging. Sometimes I have a lot to say, and I post frequently. Othertimes...not so much. As you know if you check here. :P When I last posted (really posted as opposed to just dropping off some artwork on the way through) I was in the throes of applying to grad school, my long-awaited art exhibit was about to go up...now I have been accepted to SCAD for an MFA in Illustration, so I guess I will be leaving Massachusetts for the balmy streets of Atlanta, Georgia, sometime before the end of the summer.

It is wierd.

I have lived in Mass. for seven years, and it's the only place I've ever lived in the U.S., apart from a brief stint in Connecticut. But I am excited about it I guess. My good friends L+G live down there and it will be nice to be warm for a while. 'Cause it is is still frigid here right now!! >_<

In other news (because even though there is a lot to say about that, i don't really have the energy right now) I think I am going to start a subsection of the blog called Bad Gay Movies. Because there are so many of them. I have become somewhat of a conneisseur because I've added every gay movie ever made to my Netflix list. Sometimes I go through periods (much in the same way as for blogging) where I just want to watch movies about people like me. Even if they are very poor quality movies.

BUT the thing about gay movies is that in so many of them there are a lot of little glimmers of goodness, and you just know that if they had a few million extra dollars, someone to massage the script a little, and a better cast and director, they could really have gone somewhere. So, I'll be reviewing, commenting, and separating the chaff from the grain.

Today's Bad Gay Movie: Defying Gravity. Caution: Kind-of spoilers.
Starring Daniel Chilson, Niklaus Lange, Don Handfield. Dir. by John Keitel.
Ok, well the title itself is, unintentionally or not, a musical reference, so it gets gay points from the get-go. But, I was kind of surprised. It is set in a college frat house, which I found horrifyingly slovenly, and reminded me of my intense desire to never live with a group of boys ever again. Two of the frat boys are in love with each other, and are carrying on kind of a limping affair (one just wants sex, the other wants commitment and doesn't want to be "one of them" (ie. The Gays). Cue gay-bashing, coma, metaphorical voyage of self-discovery in the wilderness, etc.

BAD: Some pretty bad (but mostly just flat and uninspired as opposed to deliciously terrible) dialog, ambiguous plot points, a lot of bad acting, REALLY awful clothing on the main character(s). Think ill-fitting Seattle plaids.

GOOD: Two of the leads were cute. Maybe three. Even though the plot ranged from hazy to belabored (quite an expressive range, congrats you guys!) there were some moments that seemed really true to me. At one point, the main character, Grif (fratspeak for Griffith. Don't remember his first name.) is being driven out into the wilderness (Ambiguous Plot Point Exhibit A!) by his Abercrombie-esque BFF, Todd. His erstwhile lover Pete is in a coma, he is kind of responsible, and no one knows that he is gay or that he's in love with Pete. It's just a long shot of them in the car, face-on, Todd driving, and Griff sitting, tight-lipped, not moving. I could just feel the tension fulminating inside him. It reminded me of so many car rides, driving along, the darkness the perfect time for the sharing of secrets,but not being able to say anything.

Stopping By with a Little Book

I fell off the face of the earth a little bit. My application is done and now I am just waiting around to hear back. In the meantime, with both my show and my application complete, I have leisure time. last night I watch Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch, which I liked a lot, while I started making a little mail collage. In book form. I should collage more; I really like ding it. I just go through magazines and my pile of scraps, make a pool of stuff that catches my fancy, and then slowly build it all together, trying to craft a visual narrative.




I love this page. it is one of my favorite things ever. The whole book is only about 4 inches tall, so this page is about 2x1.25 inches.





The structure here might be a little hard to discern if you don't have the book physically in front of you. Basically it is one big page opening, but it has 4 minipages sewn into the middle, so you need to progress through those before you can turn the next big page.

Moving Along

Yesterday I did my 08 taxes and the my FAFSA. It took exactly 2 hours and 57 minutes, including time out to help my new roommate move her (unplentiful) belongings upstairs.

She told me that her secretly bisexual ex-Marine friend (who also helped move stuff) thinks i'm hot. That left me merely bemused.

I just made some really good pasta in a brown sauce (like white sauce, but you essentially burn the butter when making the roux. Much better than it sounds).

Boy is this week busy.

To Do
Frame two old rabbit paintings.
Finish tondo.
Finish two new rabbits paintings (75% done, v. small)
Convince SCAD (in 50 words or less! *o*) that I deserve a fellowship.
Organize and/or make food for people at my reception (approx. 100 people, probably)
Come up with labelling and pricing for pieces
Somehow transport two enormous pieces from studio to gallery
Hang work (Thursday night)
Probably other stuff

I love making lists. Even when they are really long, they help me feel more organized.