Creative Block Demons

Haven't written here in a while. You know what they say, "no news is good news" right?

Got myself an awesome boyfriend.

XD

I never thought I'd find someone so awesomely awesome, but he truly is special. I've been so happy that I haven't felt the need to post at all here in my "emo" blog. :)

I miss him like crazy, can't wait until he comes to visit me!!

In other news, I've been playing way too much Pokemon, but I'm feeling the itch to do something creative. Not sure WHAT to do yet. I really want to start writing again, which is kinda why I'm posting here in the first place. It's kinda funny, I'm noticing that my typing has become so much faster since I last did "serious" writing. (and by serious, I mean hilarious :P) But since my ex was last in my life, I haven't felt like writing much because he was a writer too, and took himself reallllly seriously, and thought that he was supposed to be the best writer of all time and all that pretentious jazz. So he was kind of a downer when he read anything I wrote. In fact, he was such a downer whenever he saw any kind of art I made. He made me feel terrible about everything that came from my head. I'm good about creating when I'm at school, but at times like summer it's just tough to get any inspiration at all. I think I'll start small, with weaving magazines maybe, then work my way up to writing by collaging other people's words together. Then I'll spill out my own words, and come up with something I'm proud of.

Sounds like a pretty good plan, that I came up with just right now, haha. THIS is why writing is important, it helps me organize my thoughts.

Night blogger! Thanks for listening, as always. <3

emo blog is emo

Sometimes I wish I had someone I could call when I have trouble sleeping. :/
Can't stop thinking and I have a busy day tomorrow.
A year ago, stupid Chris would've been the only person I have to talk to. I'm SO glad that's not the case anymore, but I still kinda miss having a person I could call whenever I wanted. But I don't want to put that pressure or burden on anyone. Everyone is busy doing their own thing, including me.
I miss love. Love is a nice, distracting thing. I don't want it and want it all at the same time. Just like chocolate.
I'll be fine, it's just on clear warm nights like this that I get all introspective and romantic.

Stardust

Sometimes I forget that I'm human. Life is a strange rare thing, and sometimes I just get lost in observing my surroundings. I keep thinking about how weird is is that we're all here, that this is all happening, that we're all behaving in this manner of being. We were all born of stardust, and somehow we ended up this way. i don't know if I believe in a creator, or the big bang, I just know that it's crazy that we're all here in the first place. I don't know why, but we should all appreciate the time we have, and make it worth the while.

Why is it always windy on days that I have to transport delicate neon over large distances???

Today in my science class, my teacher, who is a professional cosmologist and physicist, told us that in her class Pluto is still a planet.

WIN

:D

This is why I keep my head in the clouds.

I think I'm quiet because there aren't always words to describe what I'm thinking about, or what I feel. I don't always think in words, I think in feelings, or general conceptual daydream clouds that float around in my head. So if someone asks me what I'm thinking about, its hard to descibe. I say "nothing," even though it's always something.

writings

I wish there was a way I could easily catalogue every written thing I have written in my life. So I could just pick a time that I want to look back on and see everything in chronological order from that exact time. Everything that I've ever posted online, everything saved on my computer, every email I've sent, all the notebooks, diaries, sketchbooks that are lying around my house. I feel like I'm going to have to eventually put everything in order someday, I just wish I knew where to start, and the best way to do it.

Reading the Shining is making me go crazy O.o heeeeelppp

blah

Maybe I'm in love?
If so, I really need to stop that.
Too distracting.
Any suggestions for repressing feelings?

life

This is the first year in my life as a student where I feel like I actually belong to a group of friends. It feels pretty good, since I've always had trouble with friends in the past. I was "friends" with people who would backstab me all the friggin' time. They'd lie to me, tell my secrets to everyone. Basically made it damn hard to trust anyone...

I love that I can hang out with people that I can talk to and trust now, but it sucks that some of them are graduating, and if I'm not in the dorm next semester I won't get to see them as often... which scares me because I don't want to become a recluse again. >.<

I'm sure once I eventually get settled somewhere I'll get another group of friends, but I'll sure as hell miss the guys I spend time with now. They're just so nice to me, and actually care about me. It just sucks that we have to leave people behind as we go through life. But that's life.

oh art school...

I found a post I wrote in this blog as a FRESHMAN and some of it still applies to my artmaking. Though at the time I wanted to leave school and go to texas, but that would've been a horrible idea. I'm still at the same school and have taken some really fantastic classes here. The teachers still care about your concept and execution, but instead of criticizing you for not being conceptual, they care more about your vision and what you are trying to achieve, which in my opinion is way more important than the intrinsic meaning behind the work. One of my teachers was a very famous influential video artist, and I think the advice I got from her was best since she knows what she's doing. I don't wanna make art that's just for other people, I want to make art that I WANT to make, and that will make ME happy, first and foremost. If I don't, then what the hell am I doing?

Every brain is different, and not everyone is going to understand my concept. I understand that now. But art school teachers shouldn't be telling me what kind of work to make, they should be giving me suggestions that would be fitting for the kind of work and ideas I'm interested in, which is way more practical.

There's this one class I'm taking right now where I'm having the same problem as in my freshman core classes. The teacher didn't like my first project idea for an installation. I took an old idea I had begun in a performance class and created it into an experience by taking out the performance aspect and leaving the light installation. It had no specific concept at the time, but I guess I just wanted to create an escape for people to get away and forget about life for a while. The first thing my teacher said was "maybe I didn't explain the assignment correctly..." and said that I wasn't supposed to take something I've made before, I had to create something completely new. Which sucks because some of the work I make is based on taking old things I've made and trying new things with them. Which is brilliant for when I have the artist's version of writer's block.

Anyway, we recently had our second crit, and this other guy in my class did the SAME thing that I did for my first project! And EVERYONE loved it. Great.

I showed my piece after that, and everyone loved it too, but the thing is that I didn't really care about it that much. I put very little effort into it, and just made something that my teacher would like, since I was so discouraged by my first crit.

I scheduled a meeting with my teacher and told her what was all bothering me. Basically, she straight out said that the class was more conceptual than technical, and if I take the next level class then I'll learn more of that. I wish I had known this all sooner so I could go back and take a different class, but whatever, I'll tough it out and get the credits.

Oh man... this semester is gonna be interesting.

what is love

baby don't hurt me
don't hurt me
no more

This is gonna sound really pessimistic, but I'm starting to think that love isn't a real thing. What if love is only nature's way of getting us to reproduce? It makes sense to me. I thought I was "in love" a lot of times. But maybe it was just merely infatuation combined with attraction combined with pheromones and other chemicals in my brain. If that's love, then it suddenly doesn't seem so special anymore, so why should I bother with it? Love takes up too much time and energy, and I think I need to spend more time alone or just with friends, and be happy with just that.

hey peeps

Imma start posting in here again. I don't really care if anyone reads it, I just need somewhere to write. Also I need something to do since I spontaneously decided to take a break from facebook like an hour ago. Stay tuned!

I would also like to apologize for everything I have written in this blog before, because I can't remember most of it. I just know that I was different back then from who I am now. I don't have time/want to go back and edit anything so I'll just let it be for now.

My dilemmas...

When you have a thought, how do you know what to do with it?

You know that you want to share it with the world, but what website do you use?

There's so many different options. Facebook, twitter, blogs... I just don't know which to use for what thoughts anymore.

I don't feel like using the facebook status updates, because it's so hard to contain all my feelings into one little place, and all my friends have facebook and I don't want ALL of them knowing what I'm feeling.

Twitter is okay, but you only get 160 (?) characters, and I don't really have any friends using it anyway, so no one would see what I wrote.

Blogging has been my favorite option so far, since there really isn't a space limit, but I don't want to share TOO much personal stuff, just in case the wrong person gets the link to here.

Hmmmm.....

hahaha (amused)

Project: Memory

I've started something new. I'm not going to tell ANYONE what it's about though. The only thing you will know is that it is called "Project: Memory," and that it is going to be really cool, on so many different levels. But no one can know any details about it, for my own creative and artistic reasons. When it's done, you will know.

Get out of my mind, Facebook!!

Facebook used to be "a place for friends", now it's a place for sharing random shit.

Wait, hold on...

No, Myspace is the one that's "a place for friends," not Facebook.

FB hasn't changed my account to the new version yet, but from what I've heard from other people, it doesn't seem like a good idea. Here's a fun article about it that I found:

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1885010,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

I think I'm going back to Myspace. THEY haven't changed their design or format in a really long time, maybe only ONE major change since I first joined, but right now it seems that Myspace is a lot simpler than Facebook right now.

Everyone was so upset over the last major FB change, it's just ridiculous that they want to keep trying new things! Why not keep it one way for a while, so that people can understand how to use it? It's nice that they want to experiment with new interfaces and whatnot, but I think that even the current version has a few problems with scripting. (Like, sometimes around midnight when you post something, on your feed it will say that it was posted "tomorrow")

I don't know, I just thought that Facebook's orginal plan was to make it easier for us to connect with our friends. Now it looks like they just want to copy things from other sites, like Twitter, and make a weird social hybrid machine.

Yeah, I think I'm going back to Myspace.

Who's with me?

Howdy Ya'all

I had the BEST time in Texas! Thank you everyone for asking, by the way.

So, it was kind of a shock being in nice weather for once. Coming from Chicago, I can't say I was disappointed by the 60-70 degree weather. Ahhhhhhhh... I want to go back so much! WHY on earth did I decide to go to school in Chicago? Oh right, my school has an excellent fine arts program...

The windy city needs to get that whole windy thing checked out. Maybe I can somehow convince my parents that I need to take a year off, or something. It would be nice to just get away from all the stress, spend some time with Chris, and maybe make some cool artwork while I'm there. That would be M-A-zing.

But that would never happen, my parents are forcing me to spend the next 3 years freezing my ass off and working until I die... I'm gonna try talking to them about it, but I know that they just want me to get through college as fast as possible, since it costs so much.

iTunes Stats

I got this from Will's tumblr, and thought it might be fun. :)

Number of Songs: 5,670
Number of Albums: 1,249
Most Recently Played Song: It's Your World Now by The Eagles
Most Played Song: Hello by David Cook (Damn one of my teachers for getting it stuck in my head all last semester!!!)
Most Recently Added Album: Out of It by Brad Sucks

First Song Alphabetically: “A” by Barenaked Ladies
Last Song Alphabetically: “Zoot Suit Riot” by Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Smallest Song Numerically: “2 Frogs” by Five For Fighting
Largest Song Numerically: “2815 A.D.” by Thomas Newman (from the Wall-E soundtrack)
Shortest Song: “How's the Level?” by Barenaked Ladies (0:06) (There are some other shorter ones, but it's only because the CDs were all screwed up when importing)
Longest Song: “Diverse Systems of Throb (Continuous Mix)” by Bassnectar (1:19:37) (Lots and LOTS of techno...)

First Album Alphabetically: ‘ABBA - Gold - Greatest Hits’ by ABBA
Last Album Alphabetically: ‘Zooropa’ by U2

First Band Alphabetically: A-ha
Last Band Alphabetically: ZZ Top

First Ten Songs That Pop Up On Shuffle:

1. You'll See - Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, & Taye Diggs - RENT Soundtrack
2. Country Road - James Taylor - Best Of James Taylor
3. Dot - Destiny's Child - Charlie's Angels Soundtrack
4. Jefferson Aero Plane - Reliant K - Two Lefts Don't Make A Right...But Three Do
5. Get Your Regal On - Blockhead - Uncle Tony's Coloring Book
6. Afx237 V7 - Aphex Twin - Drukqs
7. You Do - Aimee Mann - Magnolia (soundtrack)
8. Great Provider - Barenaked Ladies - Maybe You Should Drive
9. Conventioneers - Barenaked Ladies - Rosemont, IL 11-16-06 (bootleg recording of concert I went to)
10. Then The Morning Comes - Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge

Now reblog this and fill it out yourself!

Yes or No?

I have just realized that this is the worst possible question that anyone could ever ask anyone:

"Have you ever lied to me?"

I don't think anyone ever wants to be asked this question. Period.

Because both answers, yes or no, aren't good enough.

Yes would lead to "when did you lie to me? and about what?" And would cause a large decrease in trust.

No could just mean, "yes, I have lied to you, which is why I'm lying to you right now by saying yes."

But the thing is, if the question is being asked in the first place, then it means that the questioner has reason to believe that they have been lied to. And if they have good enough reason, then the answer to their question should be "yes" about 80% of the time.

I don't know... sometimes I think about weird things like this. :/ Just gives me more ideas for my writing I suppose.