Monday, February 16, 2009

People Living Deeply Have No Fear of Death

This is a photo-post, obviously. I've been doing some writing but not of the blogging kind. The following events are out-of-sequence and of equal or relatively equal importance. The end of the story finds me faced with the option to call 911 but there aren't any photos of that. We'll begin with a table full of all the things that keep us "active", "involved" and "in-touch" in today's world (this is the electron-shit accumulation of only 5 people and still a phone and camera are missing):
On Friday I lost my mind. Well, I began to explore the options available to one who might be "losing their mind". Awoke in Teddy's lovely apt., took an hour long bath and caught up with my Venice beach bestie, watched season 3 of Seinfeld and the rest of Almost Famous then forced myself to leave the safety of a white-wall'd apartment for Manahatta island. Fatima and I attended an awesome reading at the New Museum where alcohol chocolates, stories of unrequited love and tales of first masturbation experiences went well with an audience swathed in the standard black of publishers. We got to stare at the back of Richard Hell's skull and I was eye-fucked by an actor whose face I recognized but whose name escapes me. This is my self-portrait while self-diagnosing (the leaves are to recall a Lucian Freud painting):

I left the apartment in Teddy's Prada heals: the most bomb shoes to grace my feet maybe ever. About ten minutes out the door and headed toward the subway I was the epitome of two things: cheap & chic (my 25 cent coat had been returned after a San Francisco vacation) and a teetering example of "no pain no gain" in regards to high fashion. I felt like I was a victim of suede foot-binding:
I love Teddy. We've had our ups and downs but shit if the good don't stick:
It's relatively easy and acceptable for attractive people to make ugly faces. Can you believe these two people are named Ted and Teddy? Have you ever gone to dinner at Caracas with friends with such strange and similar names?
Have you ever loved a sauce so much you were reduced to abandoning social etiquette in favor of physically espousing Freudian hypotheses (the Freuds are ruling my post)?:
I didn't get a shot of Tiffanie but this one night she made me the goddamn best chicken tacos I've had to date. We shared a pot brownie and agonized over a text message she was overdo on sending:
The view from Rachel's financial district apt. Sitting on the deck of such a posh apt. building and gazing on one of the monuments to economic stability in a time like this (I love saying "this harsh wintry economic climate") wasn't surreal but it was something:
From the Paper Tiger party; I was just happy with Jenny's make-up application. It's like football player in the electro hyper-super bowl 2k78. I was also surprised to find that dearest Barbara is married and has been keeping it from us all this time! This is the face I must make when I hear unexpected news:
Just more good times like we do:
Pre-embarking on a night of social unrest. I have two commissions to do murals based off of this piece, score:
I don't ask much from former one-two-three night-stands except to get an address for the diner we once went to post-coitus. Regardless, I found that shit in t-minus and ate like I owned the place. After leaving, I caught a glimpse of how I accessorize on a Sunday:
Kyla and Barbara, just wait for it. These two will own the world before you figure out how to properly bite into an everything bagel (hint: keep the seeded side on the bottom so you don't scratch the roof of your mouth):
I'd die for you lady:
I have always loved the meta quality of a picture within a picture within...:Here Nicholas attempts to show pre and post eye surgery:
I made the awesome mistake of passing out with my facebook acct. open. Duder who is cause of much happiness and distress went ahead and changed my status to "in a relationship" (decidedly not true). Thank you to all who called (from San Fran, from South America, from down the street) and wall-texted; alas, not every idea I throw into the universe returns to me fulfilled but I've had the luxury to learn that most times, it's for the better. Jerks and teddy bears and plane tickets and the amount of lives you get to live within the single one you sometimes lose grip on, these are the puzzle pieces that make things endlessly fascinating and heart-wrenching. These little moments sound like the orchestra tuning as they gear up to barrage you with the symphony, the real whole. Even so, like growing accustomed to darkness in a daytime matinee, immersed in beautifully suspended disbelief, hitting the sidewalk as the sun slaps you into submission can still be as shocking as birth. You're discombobulated but you asked for it and most times still love it. At least I do.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Animals Strike Curious Poses

So, the Paper Tiger party was a massive success and why not? Mlle. Jennipa, woman after my own heart, painted beautiful tiger masks while Kyra DJ'd downstairs. Here they are in front of the background we painted earlier that day. It was bitchin' indeed.Adda and Kyla, fellow Paper tigresses, striking something fierce. Note the cheeseburger to the right:
I stole this idea from Glasslands and tweaked it a little. You sit someone in a chair with a video camera on them then put a piece of acetate over the TV that has their live close-up. Trace their face off of the TV then put the acetate on a giant projector and voila, you have interactive awesome portraiture.
Mike and Mendel showed up for 5 minutes and Mendel pretended to be a famous painter. They look like a coupla creep-freaks! Love it.
This guy, the human carpet, laid on the floor by the bar for days while people stepped on him and ordered their drinks.
We set up Melissa's Binaural Beat Chamber by the entry-way and replicated a cozy Moroccan living room as she did sonic tests. I think I'm listening to the Viagra beats here? Or maybe LSD?
It was a rad night but I'm glad it's over. As much as I like planning shit, I can only do it for so long before I need to go back into hibernation with books and my cats and sometimes a very lucky snuggle-buddy.
Next trick will involve live dance, projections and hopefully I'll get my act together this week and start on the giant papier-mache spider crab puppet.
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Two of my favorite things in the world combined into one = appalling, enthralling, BLACK MAGIK:

Friday, February 6, 2009

I'm Waiting for You and You Know It

This is my back after I slept on a huge safety pin all night:These are my feet and that is my desk:
This is how I've felt the last two weeks (and also my Halloween costume 2 'weens ago):
This is a new version of the blog that I'm working on:
http://bacolicio.us/http://quillandsqualor.blogspot.com.
And this is what you really should be doing tomorrow evening:
HAPPPPPPPPPY FRIDAY!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk?


I am terrible with confrontation. Gearing up for a potentially negative encounter cripples me; I start sweating and the ACME anvil presses slowly upon my chest. It's a baby panic-attack or a low-key version of sleep apnea (goddamn the industrial revolution! I can trace all modern problems back to it and it's the basis for my much-anticipated novel). Anyway, this means that I prefer dealing with "issues" via the written word over the spoken. Thing is, I'm constantly being told to "grow a pair of balls", "man up" or any variety of P.E. Coach-speak. I get it, but I like the idea that I can quickly stick my thoughts in wet-cement, edit them down a few manic-decibels into something partially coherent then send them off confident that I'm saying what I mean (and also maintaining a record of what I said). Is that cowardly? I understand it's impersonal but anyone who knows me knows that when my mouth begins moving out of frustration, a train-wreck of verbs and nouns and expletives will inevitably be vomited across your face. It makes me feel like a "crazy girl" and it shows me too clearly that the cross-wiring in my brain can be embarrassingly faulty.

That's it. If it's cowardly to know and then take the best avenue to say what I mean, then this lioness is the biggest pussy on the planet.
Wait, why does he have a bow? God, the cowardly lion is so androgynous! The hair, the voice, the animal, the fear stemming from inadequacy, etc. Match the traits if you can and as you will.
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I remembered today that I make two World's Bests: pancakes and Top Ramen stir-fry.

Monday, February 2, 2009

A (cryptic)Trifecta of Confusion and Contusions

Here is today's exchange regarding Saturday's deranged (me). This post is an attempt at accountability:

from e to j and a:

i want to apologize for kind of losing my mind (and trying to set a loft on fire) on saturday. the weekend was major bender-bait and i took it hook, line and total, balls-to-the-walls sinker. i let it get away from me but i'm working on bringing it back.

magik markers ruled tho so i'm happy there. and we have a new quiet gay(?) friend to love on.

one step forward, 2 steps back?

i adore you guys,
escher

from a to j and e:

OMG. AHAHAHA. All I know is that u were being all dramz like and freakin out to jen and I was like whats going on and she said u were plotting to start a fire and I just stood and watched as you slinked up the stairs and started to try set the banister on fire with your lighter. Twas amazing.

from j to e (and a):
Hey mama

Don't worry about it! I always got your back even if you try to burn shit down. Although I will also try to convince you your time is better spent doing way awesomererer shit such as DANCING.

But the night was pretty bomb over all. I'm glad alisa made me rest on Friday.

We need a cute baby boy now that lloyd is gone. Although no one could ever replace little debs! We will have to make robert some nom nom meal soon.

Love YALL

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I HAVE THE greatest FRIENDS OF ALL TIME HANDS DOWN BAR NONE GAH.....
i am 50% better and 20% closer to total world/soul/body/mind/heart domination. ain't no thang without some sidewinding and back-spinning.
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Today and most/some of the time:
My favorite president is Theodore Roosevelt.
My favorite movie is "Zabriskie's Point".

My favorite food is Snickers.
My favorite short story is The Nose by Gogol.
My favorite place to be nibbled is my neck.
My favorite place to mail my best friend copies of her passport, credit card statements and medical bills because she was just robbed is Buenos Aires (come home now please).
My favorite dysfunction is confabulation.
My favorite word is "bunk".