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so i have been MIA from people's lives for awhile now, and so i guess i should explain myself, but...i don't wanna go too in detail! that'd be intense. but in a nutshell i have been spending a lot of time thinking, relaxing......and a superfluous amount of time taking baths, chilling on my bed naked listening to records (my main form of therapy), sipping an even more superfluous (that's redundant but i insist on conveying having much more than too much) amounts of pinot grigio, being insane, smoking crack in my room (just kidding), being totally self absorbed, impulsive shopping, drawing pictures of myself, me myself i, sexing up my roommate (just kidding...or am i??).....being an elusive ball of joy and sadness whichever way the wind blows. that's about it.

i have also been spending time arranging and decorating my room. for awhile i had these large personal paintings hanging which took up the entire length of my walls. recently i took them down, as i was tired of looking at them and afterawhile i realized how naked really my walls are underneath these paintings, which weren't meant to be hung up anyway. so my walls are bare. i have this gorgeous (in its simplicity) studio desk i recently have just i set up myself. i am so so excited to work on some art, frame/mount them, and hang them up on the wall in which my desk is facing. the center piece of my room though, is my record player. it's the focal point of not just my room, but of my moods and my view, all of which seem to move along with the record. that's one of my favorite records of all time, elliott smith's 'new moon', which i listen to pretty much all the darn time. to the very right, hanging on the wall mounted, are the vignelli's autographs. i listened to them give a talk here - I adore, adore, adore!

here's a photograph of a stop-motion animation i had just completed. i have been resting a lot due to having just been in the hospital for throat surgery and being passed out as well for being fed one too many tabs of vicodin by my doctor. so, in turn, i didn't get as much time to spend working on this animation and the finished piece is something i'm not satisfied with. it's okay enough for me to hand in, but if not for the deadline i would've made the animation more extensive and with more meaning. plus, i would post it here. when i get a chance i would definitely fix that. anyway, being a complete sucker for aesthetics, it was definitely one of my main concerns for each shot to look beautiful. so vivid. oh, and the animation is called 'rat race' - hence the mice with swirly bodies sitting on the record player.

anyway, i should work on some homework now. i bought the new ravonettes' record yesterday, 'in and out of control', and it's playing now as i am writing this. it's really good! i want for anyone with good taste to check it out. it puts me in a mood that's familiar yet unique and unfelt before - a contrast, i think, that tends to make anything really fucking good.