all my blog posts

are just photographs and clothing sketches and mundane things that happen in my life and the occasional mention of how in love i am with spencer krug.

i was reading the blog of a friend of mine and thinking about how her posts always have some sort of introspect into herself or people or the world in general. mine are just awkward short phrases that i probably just post to make myself seem interesting to the people who find this blog, most of whom are probably people from a knitting website who click on my profile once or twice. i've never really told anyone that i have a blog.

maybe i'll try to make more interesting posts, not just show off how i secretly think i'm cool enough for people to think i'm cool. or are short impersonal sentences just how i am? i dunno.

but i like taking photos and sketching clothes and i'll mention again how much i love spencer krug. seriously. i drift in and out of obsession with this man and currently i'm in full-on love mode. at the wolf parade show, i'm going to have to arrive hours early and position myself to the far-left side of the stage because i've watched enough youtube videos to know that's where spencer is. he's just so...intense. his voice is just so emotional and peculiar. "the mending of the gown" may be one of the best songs ever. and you may remember my fondness for men with facial moles.

i'm trying to come up with a better word for that. mole sounds like the bumpy protruding kind. freckle is more of a small all-over thing. beauty mark is the most appropriate for the way i feel about them but sounds like something drawn on with eyeliner.

in other news, i've received my application package for the national theatre school. it seems more set-based than costume, which worries me. i have to actually build a scale model of my set design and mail it to montreal. i don't even know how that is supposed to happen. i obviously don't expect to be accepted, but now that i've paid the application fee i might as well follow through, even if i don't really have the time. a friend suggested i make spring awakening set in the future. futuristic dystopian germany.

also, i ordered a lens adapter for my camera. it will allow me to use my lens from my old pentax which i loved dearly but put aside for a camera with a working light meter. the new camera has a zoom lens, which is fairly convenient, but i've missed my f1.4. a lot. both because of my love of a shallow depth of field and because of my shaky hands that appreciate the fastest shutter speed possible.

buying things online is a thing i really shouldn't get in the habit of doing. but glasses and a lens adapter for $25? cannot resist. let's hope they actually arrive.

these are some photos and things.

this is justin, he let my put sequins on his face. i am appreciative of that.





these are my cool friends. with a giant tiger.



these are the glasses i just ordered. i was inspired to get them after seeing professor ben on last night's episode of lost.



this is my favourite band. i am going to see this man that i love in another band in april.



gawddam i love this song.

how do i do this?

look at the clock and it's 2:38 am? really?

this makes me very sad.

goodbye to lee alexander mcqueen. i'll miss your ridiculous lipstick and lobsterclaw shoes. it's a pity that we don't get to see whatever was still to come. i imagine lady gaga is heartbroken.

this is my tribute.

um

tonight i had a shower and found that someone had left their large bottle of extra-virgin olive oil. it reminded me of one time when i was in a mall and found a large jar of honey in a photobooth.

i have been sleeping too much lately. so i can't sleep at a reasonable hour at night even though i have class every morning. i've missed it the past two days. but i'm not going to tomorrow. i'm going to get out of bed and go to meal hall and eat fresh fruit and a bacon sandwich because it's friday.

a good night,

sitting in my room, in silky pyjamas, drinking orange juice, knitting mittens, watching the pre-show to the new season of lost.

that's one item off the list.

yesterday, i found out that wolf parade is coming to fredericton in april. i hyperventilated and immendiately called my mom and begged her to let me use her credit card to purchase a ticket at that very moment because they have been on sale for three days already and don't you remember what happened with modest mouse. so i now have a ticket to see wolf parade. that knocks them out of the top spot of my favourite-bands-i-want-to-see-but-never-thought-i-would-unless-i-were-to-travel-to-montreal-or-further. i don't suppose that fredericton will be seeing an arcade fire or joanna newsom show anytime soon, though, so my list may stay unchanging for a while now.

i don't know why i love wolf parade so much. i guess i prefer sunset rubdown, really. but i loved wolf parade first. something about there being two very strange voices that you initially think are the same person and then realize that they are completely different. god i love spencer krug.



i really hope they play some of their older stuff. i guess they're going to be playing some new songs from an album coming out at some point in the future. their more recent album was okay, but nothing can beat "apologies to the queen mary".

fuck i'm excited.

here are some more photographs.

this is phil. he is playing an accordion. i printed this on 11x14 today, it was my first big print. this is not the big one.


these are twelve prints that i passed in as my photo portfolio last semester. they're 4x6 inches. i put them in a cashmere-lined white box. the dust spots are from my scanner, not on the prints. i'm too lazy to photoshop them out and fix the contrast so it looks more like the prints, which are better in real life. this also applies to the picture of phillip.













also, chanel spring 2010 haute couture LOVE.



and the galliano love continues, of course. i've never really paid attention to menswear, but really, who but galliano would put men in corsets?

this is my self-portrait.

you can click on it.

reminder to myself and some other things.

i want to make shoes out of laminated cardboard. maybe recreate the mcqueen lobster claw shoes (as worn during the "walk, walk, fashion, baby" segment of bad romance, for those who aren't necessarily in love with mcqueen as i am, or at least something like them. and encrust them with mirrors or broken cups and saucers or something.

i also have a crush on richard avedon. he had cool glasses and took nice pictures of ladies in dresses and american people. i guess he also liked to jump around a lot, which makes me think he would have been a fun guy. he made this commercial for a fabric company and he gets all happy and runs and hugs the model and it is adorable.

it confuses me because on lost there is a character named richard alpert and one named matthew abadon and i mix them up and wonder why they named the immortal guy after a photographer, because philosophers are more their usual style. i am so excited for lost to start. it is bound to be either the most mindblowing or least satisfying final season of a show ever. likely the latter.

we made an installation in the lobby of the fine arts building last night. putting it together was lots of fun, and i'm pretty sure that it's the most invasive thing shown in that space for a long time, if not ever. it's like a huge blanket fort filled with everything. i put some lingerie on the walls and creepy dolls and lady gaga and fabric puffs sewn to the rust-coloured chair. there are marshmallows and crackers hanging from the ceiling and paper craneodactyls that say awkward things to each other and a huge sign that says TOUCH HIS LEG.

midnight fire drills in the rain do not make me happy.

i want a boy who will wear dress shirts tucked in with a nice belt and shoes as an everyday thing, and be able to pull it off. he will like fashion and musical theatre and preferably sing to me. he will like girls. this is a hard boy to find.