Nostalgic for Nostalgia

Having fun is too much work.

I spent a very lazy day recovering from the first night of Halloween events.  Ignoring my massive pile of homework I wasted time cruising the internet and watching Kim Possible on youtube.  

Whilst searching the mythical web of imdb I discovered something curious.  Michael Cera was the voice of the main character's younger brother on the cartoon Braceface! If you think Cera's voice is high now, listen to the pubescent squeak it was before he went through puberty.

He appears around the 4:00 minute mark in this random episode I came across.  Enjoy this blast from the past. 

Palinodes

Halloweekend is finally here! I've been hosting a Halloween Film Festival rented from the Milwaukee Public Library and Marquette's library.  So far I've shown Young Frankenstien, Sleepy Hollow and The Wicker Man (1973). Movies and Spiked Apple Cider will continue throughout the weekend!


Poetry has been enthralling me lately in my class called "Young Americans".  I love this famous snippet from humorist and poet Ogden Nash,

       "Candy

        Is dandy

        But liquor

         Is quicker."   

Beware, Nash did publish a palinode on the subject later on,

"Nothing makes me sicker

than liquor

and candy

is too expandy"

Cinnaberry

I've become an honorary Ginger and dyed my hair yesterday.  I usually use Clairol Semi Permanent Spiced Tea, but was unable to find it and settled on Cinnaberry.  The color has an elusive purple tone to it, and is deliciously vivid. This was taken at the lovely Milwaukee Public Library.

Despite popular opinion, I did keep my soul.

Oh, Milwaukee

I've been on a hiatus for awhile. But, the wait is over! I'm back at school at Marquette with a fresh new look, and a new job.  I spend my days doing homework and traveling around the city.  

Look at this gem I found on the corner of 17th and Wisconsin.

 

Top 5 Moments from August 7th Lollapalooza

I buckled and bought a 90 dollar one day pass for Saturday Lollapalooza. It was my first music festival and I was surprised at the endurance it took for the all day experience.  Here are my top 5 moments:

1. Getting to hear Symphonies by Dan Black, he was a dancing fiend! His limbs are so long it was like watching a puppet, an eccentric puppet with face paint, white jeans and a great British accent.

2. Seeing tears in the eyes of lead singer Thomas Mars of Phoenix as they preformed their hit album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.  He went down to touch the hands of the crowd and had to be escorted along by event staff. They were so happy to be at Lolla, and it was refreshing and endearing to see it.

3. Watching Spoon sing "I summon you" with my boyfriend Nick.  While we are at college he's 400 miles away and the lyrics give words to the experience.  And it just so happens to be his favorite band. 

4. Watching some bandanna wearing tanned Lolla goer pee for literally 5 minutes straight while he made eye contact with my friend and gave her the thumbs up.

5.  Seeing my boyfriend's Dad get into the DJ stage Perry's while hes surrounded by all the pumped moshers.

All I have to do is Dream

           Inception caught my eye from the first trailer.  I'd see anything featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and the graphics were impressive, especially when the cityscape bent up on itself.  Before seeing the movie in a dreaming slumber I was walking down Wisconsin Street in Milwaukee, with huge European looking buildings.  Out of nowhere the street and buildings began to curve upward, just like Inception!  At this point I did not realize Inception was about exploring dreams. 
           Much to my surprise I had another Inception inspired dream quirk recently.  In Inception Jordan Gordon Levitt and Ellen Page walk on a Penrose staircase right out of an M.C Escher drawing. The other day I had an impossible loop of my own, as I was walking through a purple velvet vaulted ceiling forever 21, then through an duck park then I would return to the beginning of my walk.
           I'm fascinated by dreams, I have a left handed journal that I write down the ones I can remember.  I believe the whole movie of Inception was a dream, in this case it was viewed as a playground for the mind to solve issues. In reality I don't believe this is what dreams are, random firings of the brain, that you can still take a greater meaning out of.  I love what random neural firings in the pons can create, and enjoy going along for the ride not in control of my own thoughts.  My dreams are often about people or completing tasks. But my favorites are the rare moments where I am not involved at all, but creating scenes with other characters in a movie.
          Sweet Dreams.

A little piece of nature

            On the beach in Michigan I found a thin piece of birch wood bark and kept it to make a notebook! First I folded sheets of thick paper into pallets and sewed them into a binding.  I added pages at the front from a 1953 "How To Read Homeric Greek" book that I got from the discard book pile at Marquette's library. I dipped the edges of the pages in watercolor blue and speckled some pages.
           Also pictured is an old notebook that I covered with the same Greek book with addition pages from a German book about flowers.
           Here's the finished product.