'08 in brief:
new camera:

new job(s):
carrboro-free-press:
picture maker, design editor, and delivery boy.
design firm:
short description-
layout-design-for-teaching-materials-to-teach-pharmaceutical-reps-about-new-drugs-they're-selling.
planning a euro trip with cathypants.
applying for photo competishs.
dad visited. brought laser engraver. sadly broken.
renewing the volvo's lease on life, picking it up today.
maxx passed.
hernia surgery. recovered in 3 weeks. 4 inch scar.
new friends made, half moved away. good excuse to see more parts of the countryside.

feel more capitalist than ever.
saving money is smart,
and valor is balls.
and i like running.

hello!

buhbye.
not needing to blog these days. sorrae!

new timey fol de rol.

bought a cute serving tray thing.
blind and handicapped salvation army soldiers made it for me.
some day in haiti.
zeke just borked in his mouth a little bit.

darkroom building plans.
contract jobs hurt my insides.
still full-time searching.
katrina's offering great pay and health insurance subsidy
but any more food work could chip away at my soul.
goal is saving enough for first year's tuition
until the assistantship kicks in.

want product:


going for thanksgivin' with cathypants.
we did monticello last weekend and
it was awesome. lightly put.

definitely back in sync with
whatever plane i'm travelin' on.
universal swing push and whatever.

application is currently
my middle name.

never had seen this before.
heard all of it 10 years ago
on car rides with austin hood to school with the ammerman twins
who i think both have purple hearts now
and hating that they smoked
and highspeed gravel
and starkville.

AHsome.

got one of my letters of rec in from leslie.
pulling up grad school applications
feels satisfying.

new roomate achieved! shitty parka! aka katie.
responsible, music-happy, guitar-playing, photographer,
opening a new chapter in her life. who's all about the darkroom.
and all about helping me build it.
and responsible like fire.

killed the ackland.
different reasons.

reached and breached 12000 digital photos.
at least in the lightroom library.

weekend was six kinds of awesome.
had a sweet as sweet tea
lazy sunday with cathy and the cheen.

lord love a duck.

per recent subway conversation, and readin' up on Girl Talk--->
-interview from pitchfork-
GT: "I've definitely seen the popularity increase as far as show requests and interest but nothing's changed on the financial end. I've probably blown any money I've made so far on Subway-- I'll get a 12" instead of a 6" now."

trying to do more jpeg research.
reread my last jpeg/imaging paper,
and just getting my ass wet on 'new media' again,
dumped seratonin up in my blood
better than a gram of ecstasy.
but
discrete cosine transforms scare the pants off me.
and fractal compression crap
is for y-front pansy boys.
i need UNC library access
and a book budget.

decided at the damn last minute to try to write a grant for NC's art council.
not really to pretend i'll get it,
just to get in gear.
due november 8th.
community camera obscura
would be the easiest to tout.

effing
gnat went up my nose.
trying to trap them with vinegar and tin foil
before potential new roomie visits tomorrow.

one two three





zeke hearts jinx.
the bottle caps at least.

in progress.

stubbly.

cake lady making. painted the kitchen on layer 2, and worked on making a stove out of gum paste.
rat cake done by the weekend----hopefully.
posters in the window as of today woooooo.

saw my old chef 'baybay' today, out back of the coffee shop.
tried to tell me decorating at sugarland was a step up from the diner.
and worth the degree.
i bit my lip.

dwyer's been sickly.
probly why i'm so stubbly.
fuck appearances.

considering 86'ing the ackland.
first 10 minutes of class makes me want to run and yell mid-jump and make things that better attach me to you and your friends and your friends friends and their grandparents.
but the rest of the 2 hours kind of no. the people talk about artists like they're wetbacks or coons or gooks. by god i'm a teaching fool, but teaching 5 year olds why a certain painting is important kind of goes against the grain. it's not helping them in any way i really want to. i thought i hated the white wall before.
finding that my art history avoidance actually has reasons behind it,
ones i never even thought 'bout.
drivel.
whirling dervish.

need to call dad.

the bed has sheets now.
and a pack of buttered popcorn jellybellies next to it.
and a coverlet.
kind of still want a big down floppy thing. but i'm into this.
this coverlet thing.

mississippi state says goodnight.


new david shrigley styled matchbox.
that i bought in lightyears.
irony overflows.

also i cut my hair.

somehow.
somehow we might all end up watching a torrent of episode III,
drinking our roomates beers.

makin' cakes like aspen and sugar water.
designer cakes = sugar cut 4000 ways. and elmer's glue.
ate my body weight in fondant and sugar veil and gum paste and other nameless sugar products. katrina sits there and makes me coffee.

need new job. tired of the bakery.
posters go up in the windows tomorrow.

can't help but miss everything:
( it all looks good backwards )

found an' old email account on the server. forgot it.
found this:

damn diggity 2004. seems eons off.
ellie and those damn red shorts.
can't remember when she weds neil.

text messages from idaho are well received.
erin and i need to do some garageband trading,
like all the cool kids.
like laura.

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nabbed the cathy and went and saw superbad.
everything from the apatow camp rocks my girl jeans.
fuckin bill with a beard.

goin to lamar's tonoight
for a cookout.
fun with the lightyears awesomeness.
we didn't invite kathleen. whoops.

got my hallow's eve costume figgered.
but i need a pink tutu...

what you doin in my waterssss motherlicker?

bed ACHIEVED!
40 smackers. frame, headboard, box springs, mattress. used hardly as a guest bed.
god bless.

hooray.

zeke's outside right now. it scares my pants off. look they're off.
boy's a tough sonofa. but damn.

still kind of applying for jobs. sugarland feels less and less right.
i'm still procrastinating on making this damn Ratatouille cake.
ack.

weekend looks good from here.
fridee night at laura's with a gang in tow.

considering opening a business.
more later.

tunnock's motherfo'in teacakes.

& zeke's outside.

denver.
a list:
sunday.
breweries. wynkoop.
red rocks venue.
insane.
monday.
arcade fire / lcd soundsystem.
waiting in line for arcade fire.
playing zilch.
drinking in line sneakily.
drinking in line blatantly.
3rd row center. 4 hour wait paid off.
mind bending.
floating organ. stories tall projections.
happy people.
tuesday.
boulder bash, hippy sandwhich.
karaoke search.
karaoke found.
orbison's in dreams. john rebel yell. duet sweet caroline.
dj - 'I love all you guys, but i love these two guys more'.
wednesday.
flying dog brewery tour.
wondrous beers.
house party invite.
john's lesbian methodist minister couple friends.
house party.
21 year old's house party. sigh.
partygoer - 'i hate the ugly butterflies'. 'you mean the moths?'. 'whatever'.

none of it couldna been done without john's damn treo.

took lots of film.
too broke to develop it.
re-hired at the varsitae. projecting soonish maybe?
5 damn jobs.
3 real ones. 2 kind of float around and try to pretend they're not there.
and teacher class. eff-bomb.
damn my budget.

ponies and skulls.
and people that like the national.
her name's cathy.

I'm at red rocks in denver, playing zilch with the brother. we're 10th in line.

lcd soundsystem at 7, arcade fire at 930. things are good.
americas not too bad right now.

giong to denver tomorrow.
in 4 hours really.

anyone have any reccomendations?
for random colorado/utah fun things?
me and the brother could use it.
we'ver 4 days to raise hell.

my career cruising careers:

1. Boilermaker
2. Tailor / Dressmaker
3. Welder
4. Automotive Painter
5. Autobody Repairer
6. Cabinetmaker
7. Security Systems Technician
8. Sign Maker
9. Gunsmith
10. Dental Lab Tech
11. Electronics Assembler
12. Computer Trainer
13. Appliance Repairer
14. Heating, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration Tech
15. Millwright
16. Hairstylist
17. Elevator Installer and Repairer
18. Industrial Machinery Mechanic
19. Esthetician
20. Printing Press Operator
21. Personal Trainer
22. Machinist
23. Locksmith
24. Tool and Die Maker
25. Makeup Artist
26. Office Machine Repairer
27. Cable Installer and Repairer
28. Music Teacher / Instructor
29. Sheet Metal Worker
30. Optical / Ophthalmic Lab Technician
31. Bicycle Mechanic
32. Furniture Finisher
33. Upholsterer
34. Picture Framer
35. Musical Instrument Builder and Repairer
36. Tilesetter
37. Pet Groomer
38. Electrical Engineering Tech
39. Electronics Engineering Tech
40. Race Car Mechanic

I'm apparently destined to be a 300lb. working man. a fucking boilermaker?

how've i missed out on bobby bare jr. for so long.

f'ing graphic design has me aching somewhere inside.

need health insurance.
and loan payments.
and a good walk down woodlands road, by liam's, and jack's, and robbie's, and all the way to amanda's.

Ackland teacher training looks promising.
night before i'd promised myself i'd avoid the beers and sleep tite.
went to a cookout.
somehow ended up karaokeing orbison at 2 in the morning at fuse.
was barely standing at the teacher training.
kept excusing myself for water.
no way but my way.

benefit show tonight.
3 favorite bands on one bill.
things couldn't be better for a musical outing.

crap i have to go to the bank.

living back up in here
i'm so out of the loop on certain things
come to find out
america just kept goin when i left it for a quickie with them folks across the way.
recent plunder of things internet:
zach galifianakis
found out fiona apple actually released that album
human giant got turned into a tv show on MTV
aziz ansari is a known guy.

small things, but still
i just didn't know them. they happened.
my head exploded when i found out patton oswalt was in ratatouille.
shocked the peoples knew how awesome he was.

had to clear the ants off zeke's bowl. poor bastard.
gets annoyed when i don't change out of sleepclothes. because he's a nice dude, and doesn't want to jump on to my barely clothed lap and hurt things he shouldn't. so he waits impatiently for the jeans to go on.

new people last night.
drinking with new peoples is fun.
lightyears coworkers are fun.
dancing to impress ain't.
missin' nightlight's old dance thursdays.
after visart. floor to myself for hours.
absolute shite at dancin with people.
i'm lanky as hell, y'damn right i'm all angles and jerky.
watch out for my elbows.
discovering new pockets of awesome in chapel hill.

start to train at the Ackland to teach schoolkids on tuesday.
made rent this month.
jobs aren't being too awful.
although we're about to design a ratatouille cake.
been putting it off for a few days now.
going to be so cake-painting incompetent, can feel it.
sugarlandchapelhill.com is up, although it's pretty awfulicious right now.

hoping to start my loan payments next month.

hard couple weeks.
making rent on an uneven schedule.
and by the skin of my teeth.
starting my Ackland art museum teacher training next week.
starting on a real monetary schedule on the 7th.
start paying back loans hopefully middle of the month.
sigh.

cake lady needed massive amounts of design done really fast.
re-taught myself just how much i hate graphic design.
sitting at home at plunking on the mac with the cat is fine and good,
but slaving over pixels and pantone values and teaching myself illustrator sucks.
sucks very very hard.
gouge my eyes out with a spoon.

matthew came! -


other fun things.
played our first UDT show:


i saw olivia in asheville.
she had two new tattoos.
one of them:


heather at loretta lynn's kitchen,
on the way back from eureka springs:


erin's table and chairs, on indefinite loan, with a zeke on it:


work in the morning.
lightyears gift card designs and then lightyears the store.
get to work with miss laura king at least.
who still rocks the devil's socks.
and who totally wants to geek out on some mac stuff.

and tomarrah night will definitely be,
well
something good hopefully.
yiss.
turn it into a sexy dance.

not dead. lots to post.
no time.

soon.