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[Nov. 26th, 2009|08:37 am] |
things have been ridiculous I DO NOT BLOG ENOUGH!!!
whew. been reading thru journals though, they do a different sort of chronicling.
our d00mfest was amaze . but leaves so much for next time, i'll post some evidence another day.
everyone has a fantastic time, but we needed more time or a clearer foresight to make it -all- work... soon after our fest of d00m, Thaddeus threw a party called Still Vibrations. It happened last year also (so this was still vibes 2) and it was epic twice in a row. a full evening and night of super sw33t electro/acoustic improv/jam/collaboration between a lot of different musical talents, vocalists, djs, drummers, guitars, funk, psy, dnb......
in the end Pat was mixing live accordion, fiddle, vox and guitar with electronic tracks, all on the fly it seems he is a super wizard. and at the very last track dropped a super delicate remix of Radiohead, Everything in its Right Place..... it was so amaze. pat is amaze. he comes here with a van full of gear and makes it all sound nice, makes allllll these bands and allllllllllll these djs sound nice, keeps it all moving all night, and then mixes it up at the end with his own supa style. he gives props to every body else over and over, but he is also a huge part of what makes it all come together. and he is so good at it! he made a mix outta that !
i tasted it in high school and am halfdecent at getting plugs to fit together, i mixed live musicals... which was challenging and fun. so? perhaps i think... i should go take audio engineering in vancouver. and learn all this, learn super 1337 audioskillz. but when i ring my dad (who has been in the music biz for ever) he says don't spend the money on school. he has facilities and knowledge.... why skool? there are no studio jobs anyway.
i am thrown for a loop. so i go...
should i then follow my own little bird and study animation at x, y, or z school?
should i take a 1yr expensive animation intensive?
should i take a 4yr. BFA, major in animation for the same price?
should i go study audio anyways ?
should i just go to van and continue on my merry way, and learn everything i can from my dadder?
my dadder is as flaily as me; what will happen?
now, here i am in the open wondering which way?
west is for sure, but to school or no? and for why? my other half is looking at the Entertainment Business Management program at VFS. So me doing audio makes sense, but how to learn thru a dad i wonder? i just don't know him very well to be honest!!!!
i've always felt like drawing manga... comic.... graphic novels... is what i should do, because i am a storyteller. its my job to pass on the wisdom.. and to create the future thru speculative story. but now, i've been putting together these events, which bring together these wonderous people who need each other to succeed and grow. so that is also very important... and music is how we connect and communicate. so i want to learn how to record music and therefore souls... and to make these events bigger and more concise.
there is an unsolvable problem in all of this which is, the future is uncertain. who knows if i'll be working within the same system as i'll be learning in? will capitalism even exist by the time i would graduate with my BFA in animation? For all I know the very concept of money will by then be a wisp.... and i'll be calling my hubby across the rubble via our telepathic link. i mean really... who knows??! in the grand scheme of things you have to be ready for death at anytime... or for everything to be turned completely upside down at any time.
i'm ready to ride the wave of whatever the universe has to throw at me. i'm here, in this moment, always surfing.
speaking of death at anytime, even far, far, far too early...
one of our extended family-members on hornby island has left her earth body.
You can hear her continue existing on TemPestilence myspace page. (you should go listen to her songs. you will not regret it.)
Pest you will never be forgotten.
Amazing people keep dropping dead. This will be, apparently, the first recorded homicide on hornby island. For the curious read the article from the vancouver sun. Pest being murdered at the marina on Hornby is MESSED UP! another reason to go back to the coast.... the island is my home now, in a big way, and i need to... be there. or at least partially there... and close to there
if only the sea were a tamer mistresss....................!
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[Oct. 17th, 2009|09:01 pm] |
man.
i am not interested in anything right now.
there is so much to do. and i want to sleep. i hate this comfortable pattern of so much to do and wanting sleep. always want what you cant have. want sleep. sleep sleep.
:[ i want to change my life so drastically that it doesn't seem plausible but it also seems necessary.
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[Aug. 23rd, 2009|02:18 pm] |
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I must say thank you,
to all of my LJ friends over the years,
reading all your journals from around the world with all your different lives really keeps me on track somehow. You put into words what I can't, you give me ideas by sharing yours, and you inspire me to be more awesome in so many different ways.
I realised the other day that my LJ (and my previous username, dagas) goes back all the way to August of 2003. That's six years recorded, photographed, ranted about... Maybe not so consistently, but still. That's a long ass time.
I hope you guys all keep up your journals for a long time. It's so interesting to watch all of us and our lives change.....
So interesting that i've been on LJ for almost an hour and i have so much work to do today! bad lain!
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[Aug. 20th, 2009|08:04 am] |
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MAN,
Last night, I shut my computer to put it to sleep.... And the music kept playing. Hmm what is this I think? So I open it back up and the music stops, but this odd clicking sound starts coming from the right hand corner of my lappy. I'm like OHHHHHHHHH WHAT? Then I took out the battery and crossed my fingers and fell asleep, and this morning it's okay.
WHEW.
I love my puter.
Our art show is today! Whee! I get to show the world my angsty goth kids, and my dragons, and some other stuff. Whee again! I are excite.
Real update soon, swear.
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| gettin ready, gettin stranded, B vitamins. |
[Aug. 18th, 2009|02:35 pm] |
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SO,
On Thursday Bacchus and I are hanging arts up at Bohemia Cyber Cafe, on Jasper ave right next to Two Guys off 109th st. There is a little opening/show thingy on Thursday night at about eight pm.
So those of you from edmonton should come seeeeee!!!
It will stay up for a whole month though!
If only it hadn't taken us until THURSDAY NIGHT to get home from Shambhala, we would have had more time to prepare.
But on Monday as we were packing, who we thought was our ride home said he was taking a girl to an afterparty and then going to gallavant around BC for a while. Fine enough, but 'twould have been nice to know a tad earlier so we could have found another ride. Luckily (or so we thought) our other friend was going to Hornby Island and then back to Edmonton, and had told us the day before that she could take us with her. She owed us some monies and said she would come find us before the festival's end to pay us before we left, so we packed all our stuff and waited at our campsite allllllllllll day for her. Taking turns one of us would go look around, ask around, but no one knew where she was. So, as night fell and the staff began to hassle us to get the hack out of there, we hid in the Arcatribe campsite for the night.
By now everyone was gone except the volunteers. We had been told that our second ride had no room - she already had two other people in her car. But we had one last chance - a dude from Edmonton who was going back there by himself. Sweet, we thought, that's for sure. So we waited again for another day, and as afternoon progressed our searchings FINALLY turned up our third and last chance for a ride. He said he'd pack up his car and see if there was space for us... So we sat there for about two hours while he packed, the skies slowly darkening.
After his car was pretty much packed and there was definitely just enough space for us two and our backpacks, he said.... You know, I've been going to all the festivals this year alone. I need to go home alone, I had some pretty shitty times, I probably need to cry.
So here we are, everyone is gone, no chance of hitching now. And it's getting pretttttty cloudy.....
THANK GOODNESS Robin the awesome had stuck around for an extra half hour just to see what happened with us.... And so we piled the two of us into his one remaining seat. As soon as we rolled out, it started to pour. He took us to Nelson, where we had some ice cream, then we walked to the Greyhound and wasted two bills on a bus to Calgary, where we balked at dropping another hundred bucks to get to edmonton. So we bussed to our friend's place in Calgary, then caught a rideshare home the next day.
So we should've been home Monday evening....... But Thursday night it was instead. Thanks a lot guys!
ANYWAY other than that Shambhala was pretty great, Mr. Rogers and EPROM rocked our worlds pretttty hard. We missed almost all the other music because we were asleep. Looking back it was probably foolish after all to go, but too late now!
You know what is amazing? A tablespoon of nutritional yeast contains about 400% of your daily intake of every B vitamin. o.o I've been overdosing on B vitamins hardcore! Is it possible that's a bad thing?
What else is happening? I'm posting photos. But not now. Maybe just this one, because I really like this outfit :p
I think I will probably re-wear all of my Sham outfits at Astral Harvest just so I can document... Since I slept through two nights of Sham, two of my outfits didn't even get worn...... hehehehe. Astral is gonna be sweet.
More entries are needed to make sense of life. After Thursday... I will do it!
YOU KNOW WHAT IS SO EXCITING, I got like fifty million pounds of kale, tomatoes, beans, basil, beets, peas, lettuce, dill and mint from my friends organic garden! In trade! YAH! Speaking of trades, I met a dude who does holographic art - he makes the tickets for Shambhala. We have a huge piece in which he collaborated with Luke Brown which I worship. Anyway, I'm going to work out a trade with him so I can make him a Sham-proof furry cloak like Bacchus has, and I will hopefully be able to get some of my arts holograph-ized! I am not sure which piece I want to build on yet but I am so frickin excited! He gave me a sample card which is 20 frames - the other one's I've seen are only about three frames. The possibilities are freakin endless.... I don't even know where to begin
Check him out laserguidedvisions.com
YAY peace
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[Aug. 6th, 2009|02:19 am] |
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What I have been doing I wonder?
Letting it all fall into place, I hope, feverishly, is what I have been doing.
I vended Motion Notion, for the 2nd year which was great fun! I did almost no dancing, but I did a lot of hair. I'm going to reverse that statistic this weekend at Shambhala, during which I have no particular responsibilities, but two outfits for each day. So the only hair I'll be doing is my own... twice a day. Falls ONLY! HA!
I vended with Carys of Dolly Decay which was great fun! We had such massive racks of hair, I'm sad that I didn't take pictures of our magnificent store.
Nowwwww, in the present, for the first time EVER before leaving for a festival, I find myself with some time to kill... In fact I've been ready to go since about 11 pm and it's 3 am now. I cleaned my house, made a big salad for the road, double checked all the outfits, had a few play sessions with the kitten, posted a show-off on heavenly hair, and nowwww..... I don't quite have time to make a full photo post here. Oh well :p I'll do it when I get home next week. Until then here's just a few good ones.
AND I'M NOT GONNA CUT THEM! WHY? 'CAUSE I'M A BUMFACE.
(sorry facebook, you hafta put up with LJ lingo. what's a cut? what is she cutting? why isnt she cutting it? i dont get it!)
Okay Kirabear, you are first.
Neon goddess indeed. This is probably some of my favorite hair.... ever.
The cuteness I must deal with in my everyday life is unresonable.
Magically Delicious Shaggin' Wagon?
This is just a preview.... Action shot.... of me spraypainting. This was the first round which we did at Motion Notion. Last weekend we travelled to Calgary and finished (if you could ever finish such a hilarious thing) the whole thing. I'll post loads of pictures next week... You can see all it's shaggin' glory!
AWWWWW, You're both disgusting. I love how they have the exact same expression on. It's because both their souls are infused with pink.
Wow, this is impressive... It's almost five AM. The lineup for Sham can take about eight hours at times.Coming from a province away it's a ten hour drive... so the line almost doubles it. Ha, the things we put ourselves thru.....
Oh, HAPPY (natural time) NEW YEAR! This is the year of Yellow Self-Existing Seed, began on 26 July. For those of you who don't follow the 13-moon calendar you have some catching up to do.... tortuga.com
There can be quite a bit of reading involved there but definitely worth every second, especially when you begin to chart the paths of you and your friends along with the ancient calendar cycles... it gets VERY interesting!
(man I always have so much stuff I want to write about, I think I should transcribe some of my IRL writings here soon! i think i would make a bit more sense to you all.)
also, SHUF IS TEH B3STEST DEE-J in da WORLD. it knows what I'm thinking. That's pretty cool.
Have a fun weekend everyone... I know I will.... Shambhala bound! ready to dance with the rain and the sun alike! love
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[Jun. 29th, 2009|06:25 pm] |
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"my-life-is-horrible" alert, i'd suggest not reading this if you feel like not reading someone else's bitchy bitching about their shitty and pathetic problems, since yours are probably much more impressive.
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okay, this summer sucks big donkey ballz. i've already missed festivals because we don't have our minivan. now, our backup vehicle is shot because my mum doesn't want to fix it; she just wants to sell it. so, now i don't have a way to get to soundwave or motion notion, which is just awesome. especially since i so desperately need the monetary infusion which is vending at Mono (which requires myself and my wares to BE at the festival, of course). All my customers are not so keen on paying me for my work, so i get to be a pitiful skint piece of shit. my husband is paying my rent this month, because all of you need to pay your rent this month.
i have people who owe me dread moneys from like, november. seriously. and i'm struggling to buy food.
i need a patron who will just pay my living expenses so i can do art. honestly this person would not even need to be rich, it only costs me about $400 a month to live.
i just feel so so so so hopeless.. all of this piling up of stuff. i hate this feeling, like it's all just a big pile of fuck that i can't even look at, and i just end up in the corner, totally useless. and where does that get me? nowhere, but at least i'm not trying and trying and still getting nowhere. Since December, my life has been comprised completely of spinning my wheels, applying for jobs i don't get calls for, making hair i don't get paid for, being really optomistic and feeling like i'm learning a lot but somehow going nowhere. Went all the way across the world for a lie; wasted lots of money on nothing, fucked ourselves out of our beautiful home and back into the cold prairies.
since i left the island, i don't think i've added a single sentence to any of my manga scripts nor have i made any progress on them in my head. the one thing i want to do the most in life, i can barely see the beginnings of. when i was on Hornby i got tonnes of writing and art done. but here every day i am doing stuff, which seems like necessary stuff, but nothing is getting done so what exactly am i doing?
i've been stuck in this rut for years. in fact i've been stuck in it for as long as i can remember, maybe my whole life. this rut where i am busy busy busy busy always being creative and seeing NO results. being totally broke, being totally fucked. it's tiring.
it would be SO much easier to have no creative drive and to just go to Boring School and learn how to be a something-or-other, and do it every day, to have moneys, to spend on heroin, so i could do loads of heroin and die young and that's the end.
so anyone who's been asking me lately, why are you sad? why don't you want to hang out, answer your phone, make conversation? why do you say your life is shit?
this is why.
right now i just want to stab myself, that would be great. no more worrying about moneys and getting shit to happen... and then remembering that its going to work out as long as i know it will, and then re-arranging my brain to be positive and confident, and then re-assessing and seeing how fucked i am, and then forcing myself not to think about it or i'll just attract more bad energy.... repeat, repeat, repeat, back and forth. I'd REALLY like to stab myself. but then i'd probably reincarnate as something like a plastic bag and be forced to decompose for eons, and then i'd be really fuckin bored.
so here i am continuing on my journey of finding stuff out and making stuff up.
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[Jun. 23rd, 2009|10:00 pm] |
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im really..... bored, of
this guy and that guy and this drama and that drama and all these little stresses and bitches and pits of wallowing misery that swallow me, my friends and so many strangers.
every day i read my f-list and i see so few posts of people making progress in their lives.... so many of us are held down by society, by our close family and friends, ultimately, by ourselves.
since we know we create reality, since we know that the universe is infinitely abundant, why can so many of us (myself included, less and less each day but STILL!) not believe it? why can so many of us not tap into that magick flow? are we so separate, so deluded that we cannot even provide for our basic brain-needs by freeing ourselves from our rotating, self-deprecating shit-traps?
for fucks sake we must WAKE UP!
join me on this journey of being here now....... and being nowhere. have faith in the vortex of events, have faith that you are cared for and you are a divine spark worthy of reaching potentials your earthly mind and senses cannot even try to create or imagine.
and if there is something you want to create... imagine it!
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| An Extended History.... a year and a half of nothingwhat! |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|03:08 pm] |
Hi LJ land,
now that i have just finished updating my website and re-organising all my pictures, i think it's high time i posted a show off of some of my old and recent work.
these are just some of my personal favorite falls and extensions, if you want to see the rest of them you can visit my website gallery!
I also posted this to HEF, fakehair, and my nothingwhat newsfeed journal (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nothingwhat .) So, apologies if anyone gets xposted all over the place!
incidentally, those are the journals whereby you can find me and my biz! :]
okay, here we go:
(hmmm it's hard to choose just one pic to go above the cut...)
A pink, purple and black transitional curly dread-hawk.
( manymanymany more... )
Hope you enjoyed, soon I will post another show off of my wigs and maybe some other things from my current stock once they leave my hands. Thanks for looking!
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[Jun. 14th, 2009|05:55 am] |
people are weird, and the way things turn out is always so fascinating.
i can't believe myself sometimes..... the way my life and personality and habits change, all at once it is steady, too fast, not enough.
so hard to judge, i see why you need a 'clear mirror' to see or know your true self. bacchus is my mirror but neither of us is a clear mirror... that's for sure.
sometimes every word is so pickily plucked from the muck, sometimes they aren't even worth remembering.... and which way it goes seems entirely outside of whether it is "worth" keeping. brains are sieves or iron gates or wandering puppies or chalices... at random.
I changed my website around a whole bunch:
now it is nothingwhat.net
I added lots of new stock, pix and custom making info.... Still lots to add as more stuff gets finished and motion notion approaches. slowly working on switching over my FB page to nothingwhat since they won't let me change the name of my page :[ toolz.
got a new lj friend from the hairextensionsforum, who also appears to be an outdoor-festival-going dreadlock-making hula-hooping tea-drinking cat-lover, so you know who you are, hello. yay for all those things we have in common. they are some of the basic building blocks of my life.
Speaking of, both nights this weekend i have gone to leduc to spin fire hoop for little kids. It's been pretty rewarding, lots of fun. Sadly we got paid in rum which i don't drink T-T but i enjoyed myself nonetheless! Perhaps there will be some more fire gigs in our near future.
then we went to the ravine to spin more. i spun a lot, my fire hoop is very heavy and stiff so it is still quite the workout for me. anyway i like the feeling of hooping till it hurts. Its veryveryverysatisfying.
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Can't ask for more so why unfulfilled
We take apart everything we build
Had it right here but now it's gone
On and on
Break
thank you fugazi.
if you put together fugazi, cinematic orchestra, fiona apple, gorillaz, wumpscut, philip glass, fektion fekler, wimme, royskopp, and black moth super rainbow together, you can have total d00m for 15 hours. FYI.
how about i show off this?
I think those are pretty cool.
Anyway. Bye for now!
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[Jun. 10th, 2009|10:51 am] |
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the things i eat when i am poor.
-65c turnovers fro the italian bakery.
-cheap garlicky noodle with spinach and sunflower seeds.
-soymilk and protein powder and plums in the blender.
-lots of jam and nut butter.
-day-old muffins and suchlike from second cup that dylan brings home for free.
and what happens when i try to empty some of our cupboards and preserves and suchhhlike..
-barley, dried shiitake mushroom, canned baby tomatoes, salsa, nutritional yeast, sunflower and sesame seeds, and busted up bits of blue tortilla chips. (how this is delicious i do not know, but it is, amazingly delicious.)
thanks to Hornby Island, i have lots of plum chatni and preserved baby tomatoes and pears - which we harvested and canned ourselves, which is pretty awesome.
in other news..... i am poor but i have everything i need. and i will do everything i need to do with what i have.
my wife is really hot and genius and so is my hubband! i did good!
my mom is the best, she brought me sugar, lemons, socks and peppercorns. what more do you need in life.
i mean besides this:
Unicorn Chaser from ThinkGeek.com
Thinkgeek is so amazing, i have to avoid surfing their website or i will purchase light-up keyboard whatsits and doodads with my no money. Kind of like shopping japanese clothing online. i want this, this this, this and that. thank you, your total is $9109128309283. Ohhhhhh maybe i'll just get some sewing done.......
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[May. 25th, 2009|07:07 pm] |
Up things are shaping.
Bacchus and I moved into an apartment alll by our little selves. well.... us and a kitten, whose name is Wski Pkal-Whkrs. (whisky pickle-whiskers.) or some variation of that name, honestly we aren't sure yet.
her mum was Snickle-fritz, Mandy's unicorn-stuck-in-a-cat's-body, so she's half-unicorn, and she definitely sounds like it. even her most meowy sounding "meows" are weird, pterodactyl noises.
she is the CUTE! heres some proof. observe the extreme poufyness. this is Wski as she is now at nine weeks old.
and here she is with her semi-twin sister, Lumi Von Gloomy. (who is my bro's cat, now.)
our place is super sweet, it's in the semi-ghetto right by chinatown, so we are within walking distance of some truly amazing cheap shops.... the italian bakery and the chinese bakery are both win.. pastry and sticky buns and sourdough and tonnes of CHEESE!! plus all the homeless people are very nice! it's also wonderful to have the space all to ourselves, we can be naked anytime we want.
we went to our first festival of the summer, which is Kootenanny in creston, BC. we weren't planning on going, until dylan toymaker talked to us on friday afternoon and said 'you get your asses here by ten am and your tickets are paid for. we need your help NOW.'
so off we went, somehow, got there at exactly ten am on saturday. and spraypainted stuff and rigged stuff and bacchus built a sweet altar on top of a rusted car. they built most of the woods stage out of broken farming equipment and tarps. it was pretty fun, but i didn't get any good pics. my brother took photos of some people having sex up against the main stage, though. quite amusing!
also we got to see dr. draw live and adham shaikh live!!! i've heard adham before, but this time he had his whole band with him!! it was awesome, they played at daw, on a really intimate stage made out of haybales.... and so we danced with no shoes on. then we fell asleep on the beach. and i got to see brittany for like a WEEK straight!!!! which is good because she is going to the dominican republic to build a playground!
last but not least.... i have a gig to dance naked in front of a camera on wednesday. i am a little freaked out but it should be fun!!! the artist doing the shoot is making a series of digital paintings of nude ladies. after having a look at some of his recent work i decided to give it a go, since they are very tastefully done and kinda nifty :]
tralalala, hopefully one day i will get to do pinups!!! that is my dream, to do cosplay pinups!! i think it would be amazing!
is there already a band called 'traffic?' if not, there should be.
:D
love y'all.
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[Apr. 23rd, 2009|08:37 pm] |
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finally a new LJ layout!!
check it out. i think it's sweet ^^ since my flist takes on the appearance of my lj's layout, i've been really tired of looking at the old one!
so now.... rainbow swirly squishiness!!
now someday i need to find the time to make a new custom mood icon set with a rainbow dreaded kittygirl.
can you all see my purplehaired custom mood icons?i didn't think i could use them anymore, because my paid account expired.... but i can still see them.
also what IS this thing Lj is doing with friends view?? I hadn't read my flist in forever, and so i went to 'skip 40 entries,' but it will ONLY let me skip 40, not 80, 100, or 120 like it used to. Now i won't show any entries before April 10. So to read previous entries I have to go to each individual journal... so dumb? anyone else's do this now too?
Everyone's life is rearranged already, LJ. Now I'm all lost!
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[Apr. 23rd, 2009|04:10 pm] |
I wrote this update right when i got home from Oz, so I figure I should probably post it before i update any further !!!
OHKAY.
So, in the land of dumb comes the shining light of Muzzer, saying "i shall set you up with a pad for the weekend so you can have some good time."
Cue me, bacchus, cathi, and her friend vanessa getting a little one bedroom apartment in fremantle for four days, and our aussie trip is semi redeemed.
we went to the markets a few times for fantastic vegetables, jumped in the ocean (the atlantic is MUCH saltier than the pacific.....) We tried to go out to a few live music nights, but one was too expensive and we ended up late for the second.... thankfully, there was a sweet duo on the main drag who provided us with continuous funky drum n' sax action... so we ate gelato and danced on the street. for two nights in a row >.<
harhar. i think the streets are better than the clubs here - the street provided much fun interaction.
though two weeks ago(ish) we did go to a HUGE gay bar in Perth, which was quite amusing! we met some really cute boys and they took us there. it was enormous, and the music was terrible, and there were two drag queens dressed as an elaborate crab and octopus.
under the cut lies the rest of that weekend's photos...
( moar... )
and with that we packed our bags, now much-stuffed with the fabric and pressies we had acquired. we got back on fifty million planes and we said good bye to the hot weather and we came home... or one of our homes, anyway.
i have so many more pictures from the last several months....
but one thing at a time!
i am drinking mate and in a cafe window again, this seems to be the only way i can get anything done including blogging!! :p
love y'all
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| teetering... |
[Feb. 17th, 2009|12:58 pm] |
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this trip has given me major perspective.
first of all? I don't ever want to live the way these people do. if this is living a lifestyle that makes money is, then never mind. all they do is work, argue, drink beer, read the newspaper and watch television. they can't even get along with each other, over things like laundry. because their means are plentiful, they don't appreciate what they have. they waste food like no one i've ever seen, and they don't even swim in their pool more than once a week at the most. even the guinea pigs waste food for hecks sake!! they've chosen a life that involves a lot of chores, and when they both work full time they have no other life.
secondly, i see the overhead involved in corporate dealings and how much time, energy, and resources they waste because their aim is so large. the bucks are so many that buying $1039812 of booze, logo-ed mugs and beer-holders and bottle openers and t-shirts and hats and backpacks, and $17 000 manager's retreats, is nothing to them. but they won't spend $150 instead of $100 on steel-toed boots in order to support breast cancer research. its horrid.
third, i understand what is important to me in my life and what i need in my life to keep me sane. that is... i need to make pretty things. routine is not allowed. i can't go more than a week without hula hooping. i can't go more than three weeks without a seriously solid night of dancing. i have to eat a lot of vegetables. and i have to be doing my own thing. hanging on someone elses requirements makes me a bitch. a big ugly bitch...... i just want to make hair, dress people up, and write comics. all the time. oh, and make coffee.
and most of all... I NEED MY CATS!! i miss them more than anything!!!!
so i am thinking.... maybe we should wwoof for a month? i'll work for room and board doing whatever and learning about organic farming or other sustainable industry........ but doing paperwork for a mining giant..... doesn't really sit right. no matter how much they pay.....
maybe i am indecisive but.... i guess that comes with the add.
i think working on an organic farm would make this trip worthit... even though thats what i did on the island hehe! then maybe i can do it again when winter comes in canada..... in sweden, or japan, or somewhere else fun. all i'd have to do is make enough money for my flight there and back and a bit of extra money ^^
now if you will, a pictorial dump of various pictorial things! fifteen of them.
( this one will go under the cut, 'cause there's quite a few. ) |
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| ozzyland decidins and nudity. |
[Feb. 15th, 2009|01:46 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
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ALLRIGHT,
now that we got some numbers (i.e. LOTSA BUCKS!) it appears we are going to stick out the poo that is these jobs in ozzyland.
mannnnn do we ever want to come home! but, if we stay til mid-June, we make thirty g's. okay, thatsa lot.
So ta make myself feel better.... i got some wigs. YAY! not for me really, even though I am bald YES! BALD! but rather in order to pimp them out to the max, and then to sell them and probably gift one.
SO that is happening. Speaking of bald...
before....
aftah...
WELL THERE YOU GO.
WE ARE TEH BALD.
too sleepy to post more.... taylor, jewelry, and stuff snaps tomorrow. well, my tomorrow.. later today for you guys. MAN i am 15 hours ahead of edmonton! so odd.
in other news MY DADDY IS ENGAGED. wtf. i find this out thru facebook, and even then only thru the vigilant hawk that is my middle sister. rocko? marriage? quoi? as-tu un tete d merde?
regardless.... i want to dress him up in a pink pinstriped suit!!!!
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| ADDICT! |
[Feb. 13th, 2009|01:05 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | dolls | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | bickley | ] |
| [ | mood |
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| [ | music |
| | david bowie - dance magic dance | ] |
I'm a friggin frig, in case you were wondering.
News includes... Jobs suck less, so we might stay. The tune of $30 g's in three months is a pretty convincing tune. Still bored and annoyed though. Ohhhh And our uniforms... well they are SEXY. I'll post a pic next time as they are on the other computer. But as for 8 months... HELLLLL NO.
Ahem, now for the real deal.... Picking girls again. Later you will see the amazingness that is now Taylor as I have given him new hair and a new face, he now has silver eyeliner. Also, one of his eyes changed color all on its own. It used to be black... and now it's kind of a weird silvery-ish colour. Anyway Taylor and i have picked out all these ladies and are still having trouble deciding....
(pardon the large photos, but you really can't appreciate the sculpts otherwise.)
And remember... These are just faces! All of these girls will be lookin a lot more freaky and dreaded than they do in their stockphotos! They will come to me eyeless, faceless, and hairless.
Doll In Mind's Flowne (the EARS!!!!!):
+body: big boobies for such a small girl...!
Fairyland/Cerberus Project's Marcia: i can get this doll with white skin AND an extra head with closed eyes, YAY!
can't grab any ownerpics of her, 'cause internet explorer is GARBAGE. seriously who MAKES this shit???!
body:
Souldoll's Amy:
Souldoll's Mayu
Soulkid body: (for the last two dolls) double-jointed which is fabulous!!!!!
WHEW!
see, I have to pick between... elf ears, a double-jointed body, or white skin and an extra head. so harrrrrrdddd...
Oh sooo harrddddddd.....
MAN I can't wait! Only a few more months!!!!!!
Opinions are welcome as usual!!
Oh and my LJ is now automatically copying into my Facebook Notes... So anyone reading this on Facebook, hi! I have a blog!
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| missin.... |
[Feb. 2nd, 2009|12:41 pm] |
Whuff. Lain is down under.
After a relatively painless flight (regardless of it's 40-hour length....) and no jet lag, Aussie land quickly made up for it by being a complete schmoz. Our jobs don't really exist, the contracter who was supposed to be hiring us has no use for an IT tech (his company is construction only) and his company HASN'T EVEN BEEN HIRED YET by bhp. Not to mention my husbands mother is a complete nut, very entertaining sometimes, but also completely maddening. Mostly for the reason that we are here, in debt to her for getting here, and as yet jobless... When she had told us our START-date for our JOBS that we were apparently HIRED for. That start date, incidentally, was four days ago.
OHHHH yah. It's great fun. Pretty much we've been at Bacchus' mom's house, swimming in her pool, baking to death (it's been between 30 and 40 degrees every day) and hanging out with her pets... And exploring Perth and Fremantle a bit. Just some shopping.... And cleaning house and suchlike. And doing government stuff, getting our licenses transferred... Though I have to have a license by the time I start my 4x4 outback driving course, and I have to learn a stickshift on the wrong side of the bloody road. Good luck to me.
Oh and I seem to have accumulated a real eye-twitch.... Just in time for our second job interview YAY!
Otherwise.... I miss everyone, my cats, my family. I want ot be at home, making pretty hair and pretty clothes and pretty faces, for people and for dolls. If I was in Edmonton, I'd actually be making MORE per hour than I will be here. With supplemental income from making dreads. YAH. NOT IMPRESSED AT ALL.
We had to cut off our dreads for this non-job. My hair is maybe two inches long except for my fringe. And it's REALLY fucking sad. I want to make it worth it. But I don't know if that's even possible :[
So it's up in the air really.... Do we stay here and hack it or do we trash the whole stupid plan and get out while we still have $500 in the bank?
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| wack shyt. |
[Dec. 26th, 2008|12:51 am] |
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| | the burbs | ] |
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ok first o all... link.
oh mygod.
"a bioluminescent deep-sea siphonophore — an eerily fantastic creature that appears to be a single, large organism, but which is actually a colony of numerous individual jellyfish-like animals that behave and function together as a single entity. The individual units, called zooids, all share the same genetic material and each perform a specialized role within the colony. The best-known siphonophore is the poisonous Portuguese Man o’ War (Physalia physalis), which lives at the surface of the ocean, unlike the one shown in this video (filmed at a depth of 770 meters). Some siphonophore species can grow up to 40 meters (130 ft) in length."
dude the ocean is a cool place. so glad i am part octopus.
second o all people bought me things for xmas and they are all terrible people but i love them still.
obligatory list...
kameleon ring from my mozer. it has replaced my wedding ring and i am going to get a pink sparkly yin yang for it... it has interchangeable parts.
graffiti women book from my brozer. pretty dope yes.
purple pajamas!
chocolate!
and a salad cookbook ^^
also a pink flask from my seesto! i colored on it and it's fabulous.
o and some reeeallly pretty writing books too.
thanks guys.
anyway.... still too much to do i am afeard! i am still painting dragons for Jake and i have to make FISH still oh god for NYE party. Not to mention installing all these dreadamalox!
tomorrow i get up at seven to go boxin day shoppin. i am going to get the prettiest dress EVER and possibly shoes. the less money i spend the more i can put on my credit card towards DOLL. ohhhhhhhhhh want... this is my incentive.
IN OTHER NEWS i have to cut off my dreads because of horrible horrible drug testing. It makes me want to cry a LOT. I have to be BALD. BALD!!!!!! I mean like I said I can sew my dreads back on in 6 months, but i don't want to be bald!!! i am going to look like a fucking alien!
INCIDENTALLY PLANETDOLL HAS RELEASED THEIR 41cm DOLLS!!! for preorder..... which I can't... but they are adorable!! wowwowow.
oKAY enough ranting then.... but really... why the bald...
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| ohhhhh. |
[Dec. 19th, 2008|11:37 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | my bro's bedroom | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | frig-en frig!!1! | ] |
| [ | music |
| | people shrieking | ] |
I have three full heads and two half heads of dreads to make before the 30th.
I have DDR supernova 2 on a wall-sized projector. (it's glorious.)
i have a lot of annoying people everywhere and too much crap going on.
I might have to cut off all my hair in order to get my job in Australia, because there may be a hair sample taken on our drug test... Which gives a detection period of 90 days.
The only okay part is that after six months, my hair will have grown out long enough for me to sew my own dreadlocks back onto my head.
Totally weird but if it means fifty grand, i'll do it.
Also...
Laid before us is a choice
In our left hand is a red pill
In our right hand is a blue pill
Choose blue and remain as we are
Blinded by a comfortable world
Where habit and propaganda rule our lives
And the quest for truth leaves much to be desired
Choose red and be shown
Just how deep the rabbit hole goes
Unlock the mind and search our thoughts
Learning from our past and preparing for the future
Choose blue and remain a constant
Wherein lies a single truth
That we believe we know the truth
With a lack of purpose, we falsify existence
Choose red and dive into the unknown
Disconnect the wires bridging our sanity
Dissolve our conscious mind
And let instead, a mysterious solitude be our guide
Choose blue and relinquish our liberty
Accept our virtues that they may mean something
Where even in our sleep at night
Dreams are manufactured to please our gullable minds
Choose red and discover a reality
Where subtlety is examined and harshly magnified
Yet it is the underlying purpose of the mission
We may find it impossible not to tremble
Choose blue and be identified by a number
Surrender each breath we take
Just as if it never even belonged to us
Devoid of aspiration, we stumble to find wrongs
Choose red and give our soul something to fight for
Give it reason to justify our journey
Surface those caged demons
And face them with confidence and clarity
Choose blue and follow a path, or
Choose red and make a path
By Yogindra Persaud
1981-2008
enjoy your time between Yogi, I hope you recognised the dawning and gained your liberation.
As a person who considers suicide almost daily, I respect your right to take your own life. I hope that whether you re-incarnate or choose some other path, that you bring as much awesomeness into the world as you did this last time around.....
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