hello jackson

I just picked up a gig where I'll be catsitting a cat named Jackson in Williamsburg for the 4th of July weekend. We'll get one hour of quality time together each day. 

a little bird

Last night I discovered via Facebook that my cousin is extremely pregnant. Weird.

dream cake

the most perfectest real cartoon birthday cake

three js

what i accomplished yesterday

broccoli

interesting

ultraviolence

i've been very diligently listening to lana's new album and today i've become obsessed with Black Beauty

kathy

Kathy from the first floor yawns and stretches languorously for long minutes before she opens the windows and starts sweeping and dusting. The night air, saturated with sleep and snoring, lazily wafts toward the window, gets out, and slowly enters the dun and smoky grayness of the day. Kathy dips her hands reluctantly into the dough of bedding, warm and sour from sleep. At last, with a shiver, with eyes full of night, she shakes from the window a large, heavy feather bed, and scatters over the city particles of feathers, stars of down, the lazy seed of night dreams.
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stetson surgery

haven't had time 'til now to mention that i went to a glasses store over a week ago and a nice man bent my glasses back into shape with his hands for me for free

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Freedom

First day off from my summer gig. I'm in Williamsburg sitting in front of a Swedish cafe, drinking an ice mocha and feeling awkward.

body rebellion

i stupidly had about half a red bull yesterday at work in the late afternoon and actually did not end up falling asleep until 5am after my long journey home, only to awaken at 7am to get to work on time today. worked 14 hours today, stupidly went to a birthday party at bushwick country club after that and am now back in the late night bucket before tomorrow's probably 14-hour day again. on the plus side, today i got to pull a sword out of a sword swallower's throat. 

long journey home

I had a long but productive and fun ten-hour day of work, starting with picking up thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment in the West Village in the rain and then scurrying around like a mouse for the rest of the day, hauling cables and sand bags and lights, learning how to use the strange proprietary software, and making a lot of bizarro strange slow-motion videos of myself. Around 12:45am we finally called it a day and headed home. Unfortunately, along the way the train hit two emergency stops and ended up shutting down completely two stops from home. The air shut off and it became very hot as we were parked in a tunnel for about twenty minutes. One thing about New Yorkers is that they become very vocal when they feel they've been slighted. The girl to my left, who'd already been insufferable and entitled even before the train stopped, said the operators should go fuck themselves. A man who had had a seat the entire way woke from his sleep to rant and ramble. I could sense the crowd becoming panicky, and I felt glad that I've made earplugs a habit in my public transportation experience. I sat down on the floor and a guy offered me one of his printed out sheets of Sudoku. I've never played Sudoku because I don't get excited by numbers, but I tried it and failed miserably. It made my tired brain felt like it was in mathmagic hell. Eventually we got started again, only to stop again one stop away from home. I feel like a person with no small potential for anger, but watching other people get so stupid mad made me feel inexplicably only more happy and satisfied with life. Got home a little past 2.

deep thought

are we grateful enough to ikea?

charlotte two

This past weekend was Char's second birthday.

 Her Minnie Mouse wardrobe reminds me

of mine

the taurus

Last night Aijia and I took two buses down to Sheepshead Bay, which is all the way down on the other side of Brooklyn, to attend our friend Justin's 30th birthday party. He lives on a converted ferry boat on the marina there. Our journey took a whole two hours and we were so exhausted when we hopped off public transport that we immediately sat down in a Dunkin' Donuts and ate a donut each. Afterwards we boarded our friend's amazing houseboat, where he lives with his girlfriend and twin sister. There was a mini Dachshund in attendance at the party and she was the sweetest, tiniest little dog who would scratch at your leg so you would pick her up. When she wasn't in someone's arms, she was imperceptibly scuttling around on the ground and often getting kicked. Many of the other attendees were Burner-types, vegan-types, and there were all sorts of little snacks like deviled eggs, liquors being lit on fire and breathed in with a straw, and the birthday candles were stuck in a delicious chia pudding.

The boat was not an enormous boat but it exhibited an incredible use of space and had two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and a workshop. The bathroom was probably the strangest I've ever seen, with a toilet that incinerates your poop into white ash. We spent some time out on the deck and it smelled like ocean. When Hurricane Sandy hit, there was a fist-sized hole in the basement and jellyfish washed in in the flooding. When it's crab mating season, Justin says he scooped up a bucketful of crabs and fried them. The party music started as Hank Williams but turned to house.

dog bite hair

she says my bangs look like they were bitten by a dog, "ho gao ga"

Goodnight lun

Im lying in bed and everything's quiet but I can't stop hearing the ice cream truck song in my head

synchronicities

I was just telling Jed this morning about how and why elephants are my favorite animals. In the afternoon I was reading the book Edison's Eve when I serendipitously came across this passage:

 

Also, two nights ago we were out late at a bar in Williamsburg and the bartender, John, had a right hand that was the same as my left hand plus a grafted toe. We were both really excited to meet each other - nub love

yoga log

all the times i've gone to yoga since graduating on may 23rd, plus that one time where i went to yoga to the people instead of this studio

i adore u

bos

This weekend was Bushwick Open Studios, which is when artists in Bushwick open up their apartments and art studios to the public to come in and see their work. It's a really fun/crazy/cool idea because Bushwick is such a barren-looking neighborhood but you know that there's a lot of creativity going on behind closed doors. People seemed to have come from all over to wander around the Morgan/Jefferson/Dekalb subway stops. Yesterday Rothy, Yotam, their friend from LA Neil, and I went into an apartment on Knickerbocker and played some video games and a board game (I'm just as bad at video games as ever), saw lots of paintings in a man's kitchen and bedroom on Troutman, and saw sculptures made from wigs by an artist/recruiter I know on Thames. We overheard a girl liken the experience to Halloween and it seemed kind of fitting. We've talked about it for two years now, but hopefully next year we'll actually participate and show stuff?
And then we went to Williamsburg to have Korean food for dinner and Wiliamsburg was deserted for once because everyone was at BOS.