Boring Daily Accounts and Internet Detritus

PART THREE

Sun, 28 May 2006 09:34:05 GMT

TRILOGIES ARE TIGHT

3) Today I saw X-Men 3 and Mission Impossible 3. The latter movie was one of the best I've seen this year. Man it was good.

2) Crushes are fun until you find yourself the likely object of one with its roots in junior high and existing only on a sad one-way telecommunications basis from someone you haven't seen in something like six years.

1) I have a new livejournal: chromanaut_pt3. Add only if you wish.

Sat, 27 May 2006 20:37:47 GMT

PART ONE

Two nights ago I wound up at a dance hosted by the Jewish Student Union. It was at the EMU fishbowl and had about 15 people at its high point.

I danced a lot. My knee is fucked up (swollen and painful).

PART TWO

E.E. Cummings is tight. Those who spell his name in lowercase be chumps. Future livejournal posts will be written in crappy imitations of his syntax and punctuation.

Mon, 22 May 2006 15:02:30 GMT

check out what i just got.

(see type > decomputer)

Fri, 19 May 2006 07:24:47 GMT

Rapid Voluntary Personality Transmogrifications

a) Being hot shit. This one's been going on for maybe a month or so. Hot shit about what I do, what I make, what I'm going to make, so on. Try it if you haven't already. It's fucking great.

b) The end of crushes. (And the crush party isn't happening.) Crushes are umpteenth drafts of long letters flawlessly handwritten in exotic inks with a custom cut quill on handmade paper and sealed with wax rendered from the your own body fat. They wind up falling in on themselves with weird contortions and self-deceit. Now I do business cards.

c) Less attention to how much/hard I'm working. It's a lot. I enjoy about 80-90% of it. I don't need to count.

Tue, 16 May 2006 12:36:54 GMT

i like it when the sun gets up early.

Mon, 15 May 2006 17:21:28 GMT

If you send an instant message to 'uoreference' somebody working at the reference desk at the Knight Library will help answer any question. uoreference = wise man on a throne. Amazing.

Family? I love family!

Mon, 15 May 2006 04:26:24 GMT

Dad: Asian girls really seem to love black labs.

Sun, 14 May 2006 04:54:49 GMT

My neighbors ordered two extra large pizzas from Dominos tonight. Now I hear fast pounding, "take it, bitch," and exclamations of pain as one of them falls to the floor.

This weekend involved exciting climactic situations, defused in the most orderly way imaginable. I'm keeping it vague.

Sat, 13 May 2006 03:33:17 GMT

Two Really Awesome Things I've Discovered Today

Fri, 12 May 2006 06:34:06 GMT

1) Acrylic sheets/cement: this stuff is so rad. You can cut and drill it with any tool you'd use for wood, and it doesn't warm or crack or expand or any of that. The best part is that joining the corners of, say, a box is really easy and not messy at all if you use a needle applicator. I'm making prototypes for slipcasting and it totally kicks ass.

2) Camino: if you're on a mac, this is the web browser you should switch to. It's essentially firefox without the weird user interface. Ever since I started using google calendar, Safari just started to suck. The only thing missing is something like an AcidSearch plug-in, but since Camino is only ten days old I trust it's on its way.

What are you doing this WEEKEND!?

Thu, 11 May 2006 23:18:07 GMT

there will be fireworks, sandwiches, and naked girls.

Tue, 09 May 2006 07:47:04 GMT

Eugene is racist against tall people that want to play soccer. No extra-large shinguards ANYWHERE.

Today I was busy for 12 hours straight, after which I went to Target and aquired underwear and undershirts. I think I was so out of it that I just walked out of the store and left them at the checkstand mom if you stalk me on livejournal that is not code for doing drugs it just means I was really flustered this evening okay.

Sat, 06 May 2006 23:34:09 GMT

a new blog for all things intellectual and designish:

www[dot]ligaturelaboratories[dot]net

livejournal is now strictly for boring memories, funny pictures from google image search, and accounts of large neighbors that gasp for air and thrash the furniture around while fucking.

Sat, 06 May 2006 22:23:57 GMT

Ok so,

Why Motion Design is the best class I've ever taken, and why Leon Johnson leaving may be the best thing that ever happened to the UO art program

Because, along with some other people, I suddenly feel compelled to create an art program here that totally kicks ass.

A kick ass art program:

Connects the making of stuff (production) with questions such as:

Who is it for?

How does it work and interact?

What story does it carry?

Where did the physical parts to make it come from? Where are they going?

How does this respond to the current way the world works?

Acknowledges our position as student-makers in that

We have little time

We have little money

We have little permission or recognition to do things

We are tremendously optimistic

We are the present and future

We have more than enough resources to do what we need

We have gobs of thoughts and experiences to tell each other about

Understands

that an academic department is a bureaucratic construction

which generouly offers decades of mastery, resources, physical space, et cetera

but is not a program

which includes an unsegmented flux of students which, like blood, pump through it and keep it living

Connects instantly and seamlessly with

Comparative literature

Commerce (e.g. Business, Advertising)

Philosophy

Social sciences

Physical sciences

It's own cartographic location

of city

state

and universe (e.g. Astronomy)

Unlike this list, is created by many people whom are not still lying in bed at 3:15 in the afternoon and writing but are out in the world doing and making.

A weekly happening occurs Friday afternoons in LA 197. Part craft workshop, part Jason Kottke, and part Cabinet magazine.

This coming Friday: What is the nation? Micronations, ethnic nationalisms, and imagined communities meet textile block printing, taught by Sara Stevens. Flags?

Sat, 06 May 2006 07:57:43 GMT

Dear Livejournal®,

You make my life newsworthy. Keep up the good work.

Love,
Z

Fri, 05 May 2006 19:35:57 GMT

I have been constantly working minute to minute for over 24 hours.

Now I am relaxing, of all places, at my job.

Who wants to have beers this evening?

Fri, 05 May 2006 07:30:39 GMT

Synapsis fire in the right order, unearthing a massive lore of positive emotion.

Tomorrow I'll tell livejournal why Motion Design might be one of the best classes I've ever taken.

Thu, 04 May 2006 17:31:40 GMT

crayons are made of fossil fuel and dinosaur bones.

week 6

Thu, 04 May 2006 01:54:48 GMT

"And then go to Filters, go to Glow, and choose, Bloom. Set brightness to 100, and threshold to 53. Everybody got it?"

This class is bullshit.

Wed, 03 May 2006 07:06:52 GMT

Use a drinking glass as a biscuit cutter.
Bacon doesn't really go bad, does it?

Mon, 01 May 2006 06:57:28 GMT

Today! (Feat. HTML Unordered List form)

Waking up at 5 AM because I went to bed super early last night.

Brunch feat. Lithe Granules and a creepy/endearing/satisying/medievel pancake house on West 11th.

More progress on a movie feat. my Bosh Prose.

Surprise dinner feat. Neighbor Throwback.

Discovery of Rhyme Zone.

*PS: Nato Thompson is the shit.

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:04:55 GMT

i'm working on a movie about my brother playing with matchbox cars at the breakfast table last week, featuring a battle between apple jacks and computer generated graphics. it will be done by monday night.

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:41:45 GMT

leon johnson just broke up with me.

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:49:46 GMT

sometimes my neighbors fuck really really loud. he's big and she loves it.

today there was a monster truck rally and an anti-discrimination rally in the same place.

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:41:28 GMT

super furry animals: rings around the world: sidewalk serfer girl

jens lekman: the burned cd that my friend got from a somwhat creepy penpal from new york who came to visit her and thought they would have sex: i saw her at the anti-war demonstration

jonathan richman: action packed: una fuerza alla