17 February 2010
should be noted
For the record, I think Charlotte Gainsbourg is the most beautiful person in the world.
12 February 2010
06 February 2010
03 February 2010
Originally I made a list of things I would like to do, and things I am doing, in the new year, yew near. In 2010. HOWEVER the only two things I really need to remind myself of are: stop complaining, and stop apologizing. Also, keep thinking about the void.
In the vein of the penultimate, I bought these shoes today:
The relation to "stop apologizing" is such: I was reading a short essay earlier on how girls do this thing where they apologize constantly for the way they look- the way they are dressed, their body, and so forth. This is related to, too, of course, "stop complaining." That I do this, that I am forever whinging about my face, my nose esp., my legs, etc., and that I apologize for looking stupid or looking weird or looking over-dressed or under-dressed or having bad hair or what the fuck ever, it drives me mad. And I think it drives other people crazy too, so I'll stop. And now I've got loafers and I'm going to go to school tomorrow.
Shoes from Stand Up Comedy on Burnside. Pix from the Stand Up website. On sale, too, cool!
More on this later:
This one's from wikipedia. Nymphs and Satyr, Bouguereau (which is apparently pronounced 'Boo-gar-oooo,' but I'm not so sure about that. Jen noted that it sounds like a dance step, à la Lindy Hop and Bouguereau.
In the vein of the penultimate, I bought these shoes today:
The relation to "stop apologizing" is such: I was reading a short essay earlier on how girls do this thing where they apologize constantly for the way they look- the way they are dressed, their body, and so forth. This is related to, too, of course, "stop complaining." That I do this, that I am forever whinging about my face, my nose esp., my legs, etc., and that I apologize for looking stupid or looking weird or looking over-dressed or under-dressed or having bad hair or what the fuck ever, it drives me mad. And I think it drives other people crazy too, so I'll stop. And now I've got loafers and I'm going to go to school tomorrow.
Shoes from Stand Up Comedy on Burnside. Pix from the Stand Up website. On sale, too, cool!
This one's from wikipedia. Nymphs and Satyr, Bouguereau (which is apparently pronounced 'Boo-gar-oooo,' but I'm not so sure about that. Jen noted that it sounds like a dance step, à la Lindy Hop and Bouguereau.
01 February 2010
Trendy Goblin
Some pretty great 18th- and 19th-century Japanese book titles for your perusal:
New Brothel Girls' Illustrated Encyclopaedia (Shinzo zue), Santo Kyoden
Pushing Trends to Extremes or Useless Vogues (Muda iki), Koikawa Harumachi
Correcting Errors about the Dutch (Ransetsu benwaku), Otsuki Gentaku
Dutch Shadow Pictures: What Fun! (Oranda kage-e otsuriki), Jippensha Ikku
Trendy Goblin (Tengu tsu)
From: Screech, Timon. "Machinery for pictures." Pp. 94-133, 269-274 in The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
New Brothel Girls' Illustrated Encyclopaedia (Shinzo zue), Santo Kyoden
Pushing Trends to Extremes or Useless Vogues (Muda iki), Koikawa Harumachi
Correcting Errors about the Dutch (Ransetsu benwaku), Otsuki Gentaku
Dutch Shadow Pictures: What Fun! (Oranda kage-e otsuriki), Jippensha Ikku
Trendy Goblin (Tengu tsu)
From: Screech, Timon. "Machinery for pictures." Pp. 94-133, 269-274 in The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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