NOTE TO SELF

CONFESSION #2 : MAYBE

2013-03-12T21:26:00.002-07:00

Annie used to be my favorite movie.

CONFESSION #1 : HOW I SPENT MY WEEKEND

2013-03-12T21:20:00.000-07:00

On Friday evening I got more drunk than intended and wearing my hardest to walk in platform shoes... I tripped and BROKE MY TWO FRONT TEETH. Saturday was spent re-couperating, freaking out, and trying to decide where to take my busted grill considering I have limited fund$ and no health insurance. I found out that the NYU School of Dentistry on 24th Street does dental work at reduced rates and so I went in Sunday morning for some emergency repair work. Miraculously, all I needed (for now - I may need crowns later) was compound fillings. The whole thing took about 2 hours and cost $240. I cannot express my relief.

before: fat lip and busted grill

after: new teeth

Pink (Arrangement of Found Objects)

2013-03-04T18:27:00.001-08:00

Pink (Arrangement of Found Objects)

Various Permutations of the Arrangement of Found Objects

Aquarium Store

2012-11-17T19:55:00.001-08:00

Sweet corals. Other-worldly. @ Mahattan Aquarium store.

Pan!

2012-11-10T07:40:00.001-08:00

She doesn't like having her picture taken.

3 things

2012-11-09T12:13:00.002-08:00

1. I am going to start posting again, regularly, using my phone to add photos wherever I am and make notes - like a journal. Starting now.

2. Halloween is over but I can't stop watching horror movies, I've been on a kick lately. Next up is the remake of Amityville Horror with Ryan Reynolds. I didn't know it existed until I accidentally found it while lazily surfing the internet this morning/afternoon.

3. After reading Slouching Towards Bethlehem and falling completely in love with Joan Didion, I am now reading The Year of Magical Thinking. It makes me want to cry/die constantly. Seriously, this book is so heartbreakingly honest and just plain sad I don't know if I can get all of the way through it (though I will certainly try). Life makes you lonely.

WTH

2012-08-11T13:40:00.002-07:00

Somehow a bunch of images were deleted from my blog....like all of them before now. ?? Not sure why that happened but I will move forward all the same.

K

WHY I AM VEGETARIAN: 'Health News' Article on Dangers of Eating Red Meat

2012-04-20T06:55:00.003-07:00

I am going to start collecting and posting articles in support a vegetarian lifestyle as a healthier choice. I am often asked WHY I am vegetarian and sometimes all I feel like saying is "because it is better for you" rather than rattling of a million reasons. This way I can say "go read all of the articles on my blog tagged 'vegetarian'."

Peace

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat-why-bad-20120314

Here is an excerpt:

"First, eating red meat has been linked to the incidence of heart disease. The saturated fat and cholesterol in beef, pork and lamb are believed to play a role in the risk of coronary heart disease. The type of iron found in red meat, known as heme iron, has also been linked to heart attacks and fatal heart disease. Sodium in processed meats may increase blood pressure, which is a risk factor for heart disease. Other chemicals that are used in processed meats may play a role in heart disease as well, by damaging blood vessels."

FIRST GREEN SMOOTHIE / KIND OF A RESOLUTION

2012-01-03T05:39:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year 2012! Eating (or in this case drinking) better is not really a new year's resolution for me, but more of an ongoing learning experience. However since this is my first smoothie; I plan to make the green smoothie a habit of mine; and it is the beginning of the new year - I guess it is sort of like a resolution.

I've been following this website, uncooking 101, for a few months now. It's all about a raw food diet and on it I read one thing I really wanted to try, the green smoothie. While I have not attempted to switch to an entirely raw diet, I have been eating raw fruits and vegetables pretty much everyday - usually an apple or an orange for breakfast and one either with lunch or as a snack during the day - but the green smoothie sounded like a better breakfast to me, my problem was a didn't have a blender. Alas, x-mas came and I got a blender from my mom and so this morning, finally, I made the first green smoothie. I put in:

2 frozen bananas
about 10 frozen blueberries
kale leaves - a bunch
a little water

It is delicious! One thing, I blended it for about a minute and it was still a little bit chunky, I am chewing on bits of kale leaves as I type. The kale needs extra blending time!

MC ESCHER

2011-08-16T12:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.mcescher.com/

BROKE

2011-08-16T09:33:00.000-07:00

The other night I stayed up late listening to music. I started listening to Modest Mouse, something I hadn't listened to in a long time. I remembered that I used to own this 7" with an amazing song on it. I remembered the cover image and I remembered that the song had a crescendo-ing structure and that it was depressing, in the best way. I could not for the life of me remember what the song was called. Today I 'googled' "Modest Mouse 7 inches" and found it immediately.

This song reminds me of living in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Apart from that, I think its great.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=72h5g66mMZ8

Resist Psychic Death - Bikini Kill

2011-08-16T08:19:00.000-07:00

CANT GET THIS SONG OUTTA MY HEAD
RESIST PSYCHIC DEATH BY BIKINI KILL
Your world not mine Your world not ours
Your world not mine Your world not ours
I will resist with every inch and every breath
I will resist this psychic death
I will resist with every inch and every breath
I will resist this psychic death
There's more than two ways of thinking
There's more than one way of knowing
There's more than two ways of being
There's more than one way of going somewhere
Silence inside of me silence inside
Silence inside of me silence inside
Silence inside of me silence inside
Silence inside of me silence inside
I will resist with every inch and every breath
I will resist this psychic death

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_LAKG_934

Philip Levine: the new US Poet Laureate

2011-08-10T20:16:00.001-07:00

"Fact is, silence is the perfect water:
unlike rain it falls from no clouds
to wash our minds, to ease our tired eyes,
to give heart to the thin blades of grass
fighting through the concrete for even air
dirtied by our endless stream of words."

- from “He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do” 1999

About writing poetry when not working the night shift, Levine has written:

"I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life."

SOURCES:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/books/philip-levine-is-to-be-us-poet-laureate.html?_r=1
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/19

Congratulations, Mr. Levine, you have done well.

Jewelry//New Mexico//Part 1

2011-07-21T06:26:00.000-07:00

MAYAN BEADED BRACELET

$10!, IN TAOS

OMG

2011-07-21T06:20:00.000-07:00

im scared

keep thinking

that im not

who i am

supposed to be

what i have

what i want

im not sure

just what it means

so im crying

oh my god

hit the floor

oh my god
god is dead

KILLER NU DU

2011-05-11T19:40:00.000-07:00

i love it.

PLACE GALLERY: TO GATHER TOGETHER 4/15/11

2011-04-14T10:08:00.000-07:00

I GOT A FAKE BOOB SIGNED BY OLAF BREUNING

2011-03-27T10:18:00.000-07:00

Lollipop

2010-11-15T17:55:00.000-08:00

My sculpture
wall hanging
dreamcatcher
color study
rope, ribbon, and paint
2010

I LOVE

2010-11-15T17:46:00.000-08:00

this song and video

HALLOWEEN PARTY

2010-11-04T23:12:00.000-07:00

painting by ashley epps

my rope piece/ wall hanging

bride of frankenstein costume! $0.

cat burglar

top gun

by andrew d'angelo

WO-MANY FACES

2010-09-30T16:53:00.000-07:00

Heads

2010-08-08T14:14:00.001-07:00

A collection of vintage female figurine heads on display at one of the shops in the Antiques Center at 40 West 25th Street. A wonderful place with 3 levels of shopping, antiques of all varieties....not to be missed.

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Animal Rings

2010-08-06T05:55:00.001-07:00

Get a load of these too cute animal face rings that I scored while visiting St. John New Brunswick, Canada. They were only two dollars at an outdoor flea market by the sea port.

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Part 2

2010-07-21T17:15:00.001-07:00

(i found this one to be less successful than the 1st.)