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why do you edit? just give me credit [16 May 2008|04:35pm] [ music | she & him ] i've got three paintings to make. commissions! isn't that mental? i better not run out of juice. podcast: http://www.mediafire.com/?mzbn8btm6tm 2 comments| word up!

holy smoke [14 May 2008|09:06pm] [ mood | tardy! ] [ music | martha wainwright ] omg i actually have money in the bank. i feel like this is sort of the first time i've ever saved money up properly, like with a job and stuff. it's so exciting, because if i plan it right, i can go on such a great trip at the end of the year. so far india's the standout option. i'm tired of new york, no offense. and it's the best city, but it completely depresses me, so i should do something else. like a bit of this: word up!

sounds not so ace [06 May 2008|11:06am] [ mood | dirty ] [ music | death cab ] why did i download the new death cab record? i really don't know. their last record was awful, the record before that, totally average. so i think that maybe they were always average, which a great song here and there, but i was just younger and totally up for all that ben gibbard whinyness. because i think what annoys me most is his voice. but also his lyrics. which are obviously the things that won't really change, which is why i'm not why sure i downloaded the record. i read a chris walla interview, where he likened that long track on the new record to a can song. not so much! anyway the song, i will possess your heart (more on this title later) is a decent jam. but then gibbard starts singing. apart from that repeated lyric you gotta spend some time with me, which i think i'd kinda like in maybe another context, everything else totally creeps me out! first of all, i will possess your heart??? that sounds SO CREEPY. i will POSSESS your HEART. more lyrics: you reject my advances and my desperate plea??? i just feel like this is a band that lyrically, never matured. except that years ago, weirdly adolescent lyrics were a little more appropriate or relevant, but now they just sound stupid. and i long for this mirrored perspective, when we'll be lovers, lovers at last. gross. something about ben gibbard singing the word 'lovers' grosses me out. you know who else writes shit lyrics? zac condon from beirut. no offense, he's adorable but lyrics really bring it all down. pop music is like the only genre where lyrics really matter*, so i cannot accept pop music with bad lyrics. there's no excuse! like whenever i have belle and sebastian on, i'm always like, stuart murdoch is SUCH a good songwriter. sharp! clever! gorgeous! The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for a doorway Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench Life outside the diamond is a wrench omg! such good lyrics! death cab can invest all they want into better production values and "longer songs" (ooh) but i'm sorry, you're crap until you can write well. * okay this is obviously an exaggeration. pop music can run on good hooks and average lyrics too. and obviously, lyrics matter elsewhere also. 8 comments| word up!

[02 May 2008|04:42pm] [ mood | a bit sleepy ] [ music | arab strap ] yalta's leaving on monday. i hadn't taken any photos of her, but here are two from today: 2 comments| word up!

pelvic fracture at the bowls club [29 Apr 2008|03:28pm] [ mood | chilly! ] [ music | breeders ] so i'm involved in this big project for school, which is supposed to take up most of next semester. we're collaboration with this council of elderly jewish women, and we're supposed to turn their stories into little projects which will all be part of some multimedia thing online or whatever. so today we met them all for the first time. omg some of them were so great. i'll probably only work with a few of them in the end. anyway so they had to write down important parts of the life of the person next to them. 5 comments| word up!

everybody shout [28 Apr 2008|05:50pm] [ mood | a bit tired ] [ music | ira glass ] those are pesach snacks. i took them to school on thursday. i don't know why i took the photo. it's just that they're like, such typical pesach snacks. apples (no peel) and matzah. so i took all my art down from the show today and it went really well. almost everything was sold. big bears painting was sold, all the cupcakes and icecreams were sold. the girls girls girls wasn't sold and a set of three multicolour icecreams weren't either, but they went to nikki as a thank you gift. so that's it! exciting. i think i'm going to paint more, maybe starting in a few weeks. anyway, i have to go to gym now. results! word up!

you start writing i'll provide the music [18 Apr 2008|12:14am] [ mood | super ] [ music | calvin johnson ] this has been the unhealthiest week OF MY LIFE. damn you, week before pesach. word up!

trained to defeat the criminal elite [17 Apr 2008|12:19am] [ mood | reads for beds ] [ music | beat happening ] while cleaning for pesach, i finally threw all all of my piece of crap first year architecture models. so dusty. i kept that grey one with the stairs though. throwing stuff out usually makes me feel pretty good. word up!

heart on fire [15 Apr 2008|07:34pm] [ mood | yeah whatever ] [ music | m83 ] i'm a bit sick of school. or not so much sick of, but totally challenged and a little overwhelmed by. suddenly i have a lot of work, millions of assignments, other projects too, all that and i'm already doing one less subject this semester. whatever, i just don't like being challenged. i seriously wonder what will become of me, seeing as unable to manage doing more than like five things. i'm supposed to be looking into my work attachments, which i guess i'll be doing during the june break (which means i won't be able to go away). plus there's my job and all that. i'll probably just end up doing crap this semester, which sucks, but i find it so difficult to pay proper attention to all these obligations. instead i'll just do them all half way. whatever. and pesach. everything at once, always. i want to travel somewhere soon. i probably won't get to 'till november though, and that's when it's cold everywhere. amsterdam, stockholm and helsinki are in my top three. otherwise maybe brazil (warmer) or india? i need to clean out and refold my wardrobe. i'm really excited for my haircut this friday. i don't get how i get new clothes that i love and then three months later i both want and need new things again. that said, i want some new flats. i love the moccasins i got in new york, but i look stupid in them. they make my fat legs look fatter. i haven't taken photos, drawn or painted anything in ages. what else. excited to hear the new breeders record. and i got rejected from this arts writing camp thing at the next wave festival that i applied for. hurts a bit, but i probably wouldn't have had time anyway. yes i'm busy but i still manage to feel pretty aimless most of the time. perhaps spiritual guidance is the answer. here's something fun though: it's a music video from the new m83 record. 1 comment| word up!

blessed precious [08 Apr 2008|01:31am] [ mood | late ] [ music | espers ] i kind of wish i still looked like that! it's from this giant collage of all the cousins at my grandparents house. anyway, my hair's so black and shiny and my eyes are so clear! i guess i must have been about seven or something? little essie! i want to be that again! it probably speaks heaps about how irresponsible and immature i am that i kind of just want to go back and be a kid all the time. my friend and i used to talk about how we got so jealous when we saw a baby in a stroller with the rain cover down, when it was raining. like how that must be the best feeling ever! it's so weird though, like i don't want to be a baby or whatever. but imagine being so small that people can just pick you up like that. i don't know. 3 comments| word up!

together [06 Apr 2008|02:21am] [ mood | fatigue ] [ music | man man ] okay so you can download my latest podcast here, in case you're not on the facebook thing. holy vache, i'm so tired and i need to be up early. some of us have jobs, you know. word up!

we tigers! we tigers! [04 Apr 2008|03:48pm] [ mood | standard ] [ music | animal collective ] i just posted my new podcast up on that facebook group. does anybody here want me to put it up here also? or is anyone who cares already my facebook friend? i don't know. anyway, i just really liked my tights/shoes combo today: that also. have a good weekend, everyone. 2 comments| word up!

he loved colour and he let it show [31 Mar 2008|10:49pm] [ mood | not bad ] [ music | jonathan richman ] i never write in this thing anymore! i've become this like, totally busy person, which is bizarre. school's really busy, and now i have this job, plus all this other stuff. and i'm honestly being minimally social. my family stuff always takes up like 70 percent of my life, and that's a constant thing. like i don't really remember the last time i actually sat down and watched tv for a while. at gym i'll see ads for things on silent and i'll be like, i want to watch that! and that! but i can't. and i love doing not much so much. but i guess i'm making some money now, and i have less time to get all depressive and whatnot. also, i kind of sold a bunch of paintings! i don't want to get all excited until i have the money and all that, i sold my big bear one the other week and today i sold a whole other mess of stuff from my show. one person, apparently, buying them for his kids bedroom in hong kong or something. i'm over the moon but sort of baffled. not to get all self deprecating or something, because i don't mean it that way, but this is the first time in my life that this has happened. it amazes me that people want to buy this stuff. i sounds like a wanker saying this, because i'm not saying it right, but i can't really explain it. whatever. okay! i need to do my cinema reading. 2 comments| word up!

my locket's still empty [23 Mar 2008|10:09am] [ mood | oww ] [ music | elvis costello ] anyway, purim was so great. and this week i have holidays. what else. my blog turned four yesterday! so that's fun. word up!

[21 Mar 2008|09:58am] omg I LOVE PURIM word up!

leaps and bounds in the lost and found [17 Mar 2008|10:20pm] [ mood | alright ] [ music | jose gonzalez ] so i made my first podcast today. download it here. it's up on mediafire. uh, so it's sort of a crap first effort but it's a start. it's just over 14 minutes long, and like all the podcasts will, it's got three songs, plus some talking. sorry for talking so much on this one! i'll talk less in episodes to come. word up!

i slept while you had lunch [09 Mar 2008|02:24am] [ mood | bed ] [ music | atlas sound ] my new glasses, btw: 3 comments| word up!

crazy that it's been a year since my last birthday post [08 Mar 2008|08:56pm] [ mood | okay ] [ music | the sea and cake ] isn't that so weird? my and i were shopping in new york and she found this tiny old book that had like a little fortune or whatever for every birthday of the year. so that's today. lord. i wish i planned something better for today, but it's okay. high birthday expectations are never a good thing. and i guess that 24 just feel like this super square number. two times twelve, four times six, twenty four hours in a day, my parents were pretty much both 24 when they got married, all that. either way. 6 comments| word up!

long arms of the law [07 Mar 2008|05:27pm] [ mood | lordy ] [ music | malk ] put my art up: got my glasses: first birthday present!!! (thanks nech x) deeder: (birthday tomorrow) word up!

yalta! punim! [07 Mar 2008|12:29am] [ mood | ain't no trip to cleveland ] [ music | the field ] 2 comments| word up!

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