LIKE A GHOST

i'm leaving minneapolis when my lease is up.  i can feel changes, they are a commin.  i generally mourn things for a really long time before realizing that my reasons for doing so are dumb or at least misguided.  i did in the end get alot from being here.  i'm gonna float on out, and up!  I WISH IT WAS ON THIS, THE MANNED CLOUD.

Passion Pit, "Sleepyhead"

Hercules and Love Affair, "Blind"

Antony and the Johnsons, "Shake That Devil"

i've been doing work again!  i'm sort of letting a comic idea bake.  also some patterns. 

JOAN

i'm really interested in joan of arc lately. i saw a film entitled "The Passion of Joan of Arc." really intense silent film of her trial and burning. the actress who plays her is really beautiful and she has these really deep crazy eyes. the film has an interesting back-story. the original was lost in a fire, eventually a version very close to the original was found in a mental hospital in Norway, in a janitor's closet. i recommend seeing it, its beautiful. i was turned onto it by the stills.   

Did you know that the technical reason they had for burning her was a law from biblical times about gender specific dress codes? 

LAUREN KALMAN

i've been craving material possessions of late. i don't know what that is. i think my slightly bolstered income=me thinking i can afford things. i'm still scraping by for bread, don't be fooled.

this woman's work spoke to that obsessive little spender in me though. i read her artists statement about these monstrous beauties. the series is called "hard wear" and she uses expensive coveted materials and produces these growths that look pus filled and painful. some do inflect physical pain. watch the video of her stringing the pearls through her teeth which can be found on her website.

timely i think. did i learn a lesson though? because now i want that gigantic-gross-golden-gum-goiter.


http://www.laurenkalman.com/lauren/Hard_Wear.html
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P.S. REMEMBER WHEN MY FACE WAS INFECTED AND WENT TO THE E.R. TO REMOVE THE PIERCING IT REMINDS ME OF THAT, YES.