this only happens when i'm super bored...

1. Where is your cell phone: nearby.

2. Your hair: is too damn long.


3. Your mother: is insane.

4. Your father: is less insane.

5. Your favorite food: it's soooo hard to pick just one! But I do tend to crave Korean food when I've gone without it...



6. Your dream from last night:
Clockwork apparently shaved his head, only it obviously was not him...just some short, pudgy, bald guy that I forced myself to like because I thought he was my boyfriend...

7. Your favorite alcoholic drink:

Cubalibres (rum & coke) and Blue Moon.

8. Your dream/goal:
So many....ultimately I'd like to work in art/design/writing.

9. What room are you in: my bedroom.

10. What is your hobby:
Lately I've been getting into crafty things...knitting, crochet, sewing...

11. What is your fear: clowns :(


12. Where were you last night:
This week has been unbelievably boring, as I have been stuck in this lame town.

13. Something you are not: Motivated :/ I'm working on it...

14. Muffins: should always be blueberry.


15. Wish list items:
Right now? A car, a camera, long boots, black skinny jeans, feather hair accessories, lots of yarn, felt, needles/thread, new paint brushes, various sized canvases...

16. Where did you grow up:
South Korea, Chicago, and then various places in Ohio.

17. Last thing you did: watched Futurama.

18. What are you wearing: a bathrobe (I'm sick...I think I have the black lung *feeble cough*)

19. Your TV: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia


20. Your pets: Zeppy.


and I've momentarily adopted my dad's dog, Lucy.


21. Your life: is somewhat dismal at the moment.

22. Your mood: cabin fever.

23. Your friends: are cute and I miss them :(


24. Vehicle: feet?

25. Something you’re not wearing: socks.

26. Your favorite store: Rag-O-Rama.

It's usually pretty hit or miss (depending on what you can find), but when it hits, it hits big. And cheap.

27. Your favorite color: right now I am loving all the fall colors...yellows, oranges, reds, purples in particular...

28. When’s the last time you laughed: earlier today.

29. When’s the last time you cried: erm...

30. Missing someone: always...


31. Your best friend: ^ :)

32. One place you go over and over:
I don't really have any regular haunts around here. Maybe Hobby Lobby.

33. One person who emails me regularly:
I don't use email all that often. Of any regular contacts I'd say my sister on Facebook, and maybe Ruben on Twitter.

34. Favorite place to go: Bodega. It's been far too long since I've gone there for $1 grilled cheese Monday.


35. Where do you want to be in 6 years:
Successful and happy with this guy :)


xo

The Sounds ft. Foxy Shazam

So the show was AMAZING, as expected. We were convinced that the opening band, Foxy Shazam, was on speed. I've never seen a more energetic and all around nutsy band. And the lead singer looked/sounded like Freddie Mercury. It was so weird. And pretty much awesome.






Some crazy Foxy Shazam antics include: the guitarist spinning his guitar around so that I feared it would fly off stage and hit me in the face, the piano player standing on top of his keyboard and smashing down on the keys, the trumpeter lying on the ground convulsing as he played, and the lead singer crawling around the stage doing flips and headstands, jumping into the air on the shoulders of the guitar player, drop kicking the mic a million times, throwing water at everyone, stage diving twice in a row, and finally lighting 3 cigarettes, chewing them up, and spitting them at the crowd. At one point they just threw the guitar at the crowd and the audience played.

It was fucking EPIC.

I was afraid Foxy Shazam would be hard to follow, and while their antics weren't nearly as rambunctious, The Sounds still totally killed it.







We were so close to the stage (pit, second row) Maja Ivarsson fist bumped my sister. It was cause for way too much excitement. The only annoying part about the night were the people in the front row who didn't even seem to be fans of the band and got annoyed when people would rock out too hard. I kept thinking, "This is a rock concert! Not the bleedin...Splish Splash show." All in all, it was definitely worth the trip.



xoxo

Road Slut

(en route to Cincinnati)
ALICIA: I need to get on 270 right now!
ME: Stop THROWING YOURSELF at 270!
ALICIA: Shhh, I'm just using 270 to get on 71.
ME: YOU WHORE!

.halloween.

My weekend was a blast! We got caught in the rain (which turned out pretty fun), lazed at Clockwork's uncle's house (potato soup + Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas = cozy trippy fun time), partied in Athens (I saw Day/Night/Green Man, AND Charlie in all his crotchy, stretchy, pantsy glory), and topped the weekend off with Zombieland ("That'll do, Pig. That'll do.")



(Velma Kelly & Sweeney Todd)

I thought Clockwork's costume turned out amazing. He looked exactly like him. Most of the time, though, people would yell "Johnny Depp!", "Edward Scissorhands!", or (my favorite) "That barber...the barber of Seville!"

And tomorrow my sister and I will be on a road trip to see The Sounds in Cincinnati. November is starting out pretty kick a :) :)

TXTS FRM LST NITE

EMILY: Oh lord, last night was a terrible idea. Do you know what washes off self loathing?

"I've seen a world that no man should see!"

I've begun a daily art journal. I may scan some pages, but for now I'm keeping it as a personal project. Every day I'm going to add another entry, really short sentences/paragraphs accompanied by some sketches. I'm hoping it will encourage me to draw more and channel my creativity.

Clockwork came to visit me today. Our "long distance relationship" has really been less long distance than I initially thought. He's been coming here on Wednesdays and weekends since he left. I haven't gone longer than 2 days without seeing him, so it's been pretty great :)



Lately we've been obsessed with the movie Being John Malkovich. Neither of us had ever seen it until about a week ago (along with Sin City, which everyone in the world has also seen.) So we watched it again today before we had to bring it back to Blockbuster. That movie is just so freaking weird. My favorite scene is when Malkovich goes inside his own head, where everyone looks like him and their speech is limited to the word "Malkovich." So funny.

In other news, I finished crocheting a hat!



It was pretty exciting for me when it actually started to look like a hat. I want to move on to more advanced stitches soon. And I think I may get some knitting needles and learn to knit a scarf...just seems easier than crocheting one...

bye for now
xoxo

She likes her hair to...be real orange, she uses taaaangerines

During the summer Clockwork bought us tickets to see the Flaming Lips, claiming it would ruin me for future shows.

And it toooootally did.

Easily one of the best shows I've ever seen, if not THE best. People dressed as sheep on the stage the whole time, Wayne Coyne rolling atop the crowd in a giant ball, lasers and balloons and confetti everywhere...what's not to like?

10 Things I Love (inspired by...Clockwork)

1. Fat Princess

"In the blink of an eye the princesses were overwhelmed by the intense yumminess." This game is too cute and TOO FUN. But don't let all that cutesy fun fool you. It's quite violent.

2. Hoodie weather! Clockwork LIVES in hoodies. I really want to get him (or make him) a skeleton hoodie. It's very...Nigel Tufnel. (and This is Spinal Tap is one of our favorite/most quoted movies)



3. The Simpsons


It's kind of our thing. I've never met a person (besides my sister) who can quote The Simpsons as much as I can. Until I met Clockwork. I remember one of the first things we talked about was the election and we ended up discussing the simplest way to share protein strings (holding hands, of course). Only one of the reasons he stole my heart :)

(P.S. I am really sad that the election is so over. You don't know how many times I found an excuse to say "Forward, not backward! Upward, not forward! And always twirling. Twirling towards freedom!")

4. Portishead


5. Raising Canes


Usually after a late night we'll get a craving and stumble into the Canes on campus. We always get the Caniac and substitute the coleslaw for another slice of texas toast. It's a lovely post drunk meal.

Oh GOD, the craving begins...

6. Knitting/Crochet. I know, kind of weird, but the reason I want to learn is so I can make him a hat for Christmas. He lost his favorite hat around the time we started dating. I was hoping to recreate it.



I just bought yarn and a crochet needle. I hope it doesn't turn out to be a disaster.

7. Whitest Kids You Know


8. Shaun of the Dead


My boy is really into zombie flicks. I've never been a huge fan until he introduced me to this film. Comedy meets Zombies is a genius combination. (He's about to go see Zombieland for the 3rd time with me)

9. Mid-day naps :) It's becoming our ritual...we're oldies...


10. ♥ him :)


xoxo

O BRO WHR R U?

(keeping in mind his favorite movie is O' Brother Where Art Thou)
CLOCKWORK: You crazy some bitch!
ME: What can I say? I'm a fiendish instrument of torture devised to bedevil all the days of man :D
CLOCKWORK: ...I have boners now.
ME: I thought you might.

The dog is snoring.

I wish I could sleep that deeply.

No matter how long I seem to wait for sleep, it never comes. The worst part is knowing that I'm at my most creative when the rest of the world is dozing. Something happens where my mind comes alive at night with ideas and all I want to do is draw, write, paint, create, but I resist these urges in my quest to rejoin society norms and have a set sleeping schedule. Clockwork and I were discussing this the other day, how if we could somehow bottle that motivation and creative energy in the wee hours of the morning and unleash it during the day, we'd be much more productive people.

I don't know how I'm going to retain this level of motivation during normal business hours, but I'm sure as hell going to try. I'm at a period in my life where I feel like I'm floating along with no set course or goal, and I think it's causing my depression to worsen, so I've decided that I need to get my ass in gear and accomplish things that I can get away with right now.

Well the sun will be coming up soon, and I don't intend to greet it.



Goodnight xo