a good lil girl

just finished typing the asian cinema film log entry on a poet. two down, one more to go.

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the first thing i saw this morning was a chick putting up her work for the queer art exhibition. some of her work is absolutely hilarious and i had to take a picture of the "i eat pussy" piece and send it to cheer up one wanker's boring morning meeting. based on the feedback, it was a success.

oh and i treated myself with a good ole girly manicure and pedicure. now i can wear open shoes and let my toes enjoy the sun too.

monday bloody monday

i spent the whole fucken morning in video arts trying to first export my video to digital video camera and then capturing it back to the computer. all this trouble cause it seems to be bloody impossible to burn my videos on a dvd. no matter how i export the videos from premiere, it always looses the sync between the image and sound by the time i get it on a dvd. and when i play the dvd the images run twise faster than the sound. pissing me off i tell you.

anyways, the process lost so much quality on the way that the result looked dodgy as shit. so i was wasting my time the whole day. crap.

sunday confessions

awesome. i just heard that another good friend of mine is reading my ramblings on the other side of the planet. just keep that poor kitty away from those vacuum cleaner hoses...

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what else? today has been a weird day. i've been hungover, stressed, confused, pissy, suffering from pms mood swings, snackish, creative, annoying, sad, productive, lazy and last but definitely not least fucken tired. sometimes i feel sorry for the people who have to co-exist within these same walls with me.

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i have to start dealing with my shit. this particular load of personal shit is like that disappearing/reappearing ink from childhood, that ended up spilling everywhere and coming up just when you thought that you got away with it. i'm finding myself on this bloody rollercoaster going from happyhappyjoyjoy to disappointment and frustration and back again. this seriously cannot be too healthy for longer time periods. and i can tell you, it's been going on for a *while* already.

it's just not that easy to make decisions that you can't agree with deep down. sometimes it would be so much easier to feel with your brain instead of thinking with your heart.

fuck this.

sAs: video work update

an update on my video art project >> starvingARTstudents: video work update

rev-e-la-tion

1. the act of revealing or disclosing.
2. something revealed, especially a dramatic disclosure of something not previously known or realized.
3. theology. a manifestation of divine will or truth.

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i think i just had one. no, i know i did and actually two of them:

1. i prefer dingoes to koalas
2. it's time to leave the pair of my favourite red shoes behind and meet the spring barefoot

a bit of a disappointment to be honest, but hey, such is life.

sa-turd-ay

gah. i woke up early, tried to work on the soundpiece for my video and got told off by my flatmate for making too much noise. not a good start for the day. gladly chris called me just as i was abt to go back to bed and instead i ended up showing him the deep stretching thingie. i have to admit that for a bloke he was keeping up pretty well.

was feeling a bit buggered the whole day and i needed something to cheer me up for tonight's party so we decided to go out for dinner to this nice lil thai place and since the place was b.y.o. we ended up getting pretty drunk. oh well, i did anyway. and it did cheer me up. so alles gut.

tunes for friday

today i'm seduced by after the playboy mansion compilation. some seriously sexy groovy and funky tunes to make your bum wiggle for sure. to pick a song i'll go with gwen guthrie - peanut butter...

"come on, spread yourself over me like peanut butter, spread yourself over me like peanut butter..." *boogies*

meh.

today's asian cinema movie was a bit of a disappointment. i was expecting to see something that would have a strong impact on me and it didn't. oh well, such is life.

still got some printmaking to do before i can fully start enjoying my weekend. oh and meet up with a fellow student who needs some help with documentation concerning his next art project. (as usual) his project sounds quite scary and full on, so i'm actually really interested in hearing the whole story.

oh and i need to start stressing abt my video soon. it's due in less than a fortnight. this bloody printmaking collaboration is capturing my attention too intensively and i can't seem to be able to save up any brain processing time for the rest of the stuff i need to get done. must do something abt that... maybe tomorrow. now i want to go and print :P

you gotta luv white wine

thursday night. bar night. drunken night. luv it. cheers fuckers and join me for a glass of white wine, will ya?

some tunes for thursday

alrighty, go on and dig up that dusty old prodigy classic called "music for the jilted generation" and crank up LOUD the best prodigy track ever: break & enter. the peaking after the quiet breathing bit is just fucken amazing.

*cranks it up really loud and bounces to it*

i solemnly swear...

...that i shall not touch lithography (even with a long stick) for as long as i shall live.

good morning bunnies

yet another early morning. thank you for making it bearable you, you hunky love of my life, mr. caffeine. *huggles coffee cup*

today is thursday and thursday means three things:

1. thursday means printmaking
2. thursday means bar night and drinky-drinkies
3. thursday means asian cinema reader

the problem with this list is, that the latter two don't co-exist that well. or even if by some miracle i can make the two of them work together, there's tomorrow morning's 9am asian cinema movie viewing that definitely does not go with entry no. 2. (couple of weeks ago i did the mistake of viewing a hong kong movie on a friday morning while being [a] hungover, [b] feverish and last but definitely not least [c] suffering from migraine and i can tell you, bunnies, it was not all fun and games.)

maybe i'll just start with the printmaking and worry about the rest as i get there...

graah

damn this printmaking shit is full on physical workout! i just finished filing the edges of my 8 printing plates and my right arm feels like spaghetti atm. i gotta learn how to do it with my left hand too so that i can make the workout more even :P

and i'm hungry. i think i'll go and cook the chicken i marinated yesterday and make myself a big bowl of super-yummy chicken salad.

my spring is here!

i just realized that this was the first morning when i DIDN'T have to turn on the heater to be able to get out of bed!

spring, here i come! *ecstatic*

c a f f e i n e

these early mornings are starting to get to me. i was up till almost 2am drawing my last etching plate for the collaboration print. the good thing is that now they're all done and i can etch them today. but the bad thing is that i'm tired as hell and feel like shit.

oh well, a coffee cup (or six) should open my eyes and help me through the day. and here's a lil bit of björk lyrics that caught my ear this morning. i really, REALLY like her work.

björk - it's not upto you
i wake up
and the day feels
broken
i tilt my head
i'm trying to get an angle
'cause the evening
i've always longed for
it could still happen

how do i master
the perfect day
six glasses of water
seven phonecalls

if you leave it alone
it might just happen
anyway

it's not up to you
oh it never really was

"fuck you *and* the swiss miss!"

them coen brothers still got it. this is a another must have for my dvd collection. i recommend the ladykillers for any coen fan. or if you're cat person. that'll do too.

gawain macsam : "would you tell this muthafucka he can sew this shit back on? it's like that dude whose wife cut his dick off, threw it on the freeway? she just called triple a, they towed the dick and sewed the muthafucka back on. listen up, jackass, i saw the muthafucka in a porno, the thang still worked, it looked like a chewed-up frank, but that little muthafucka be workin' that muthafucka. it's mangly, but he be fuckin' the bitch all kind of ways with a twisted dick."

email kicks arse

i just received an email that cheered up my day even more efficiently than the gorgeous sunshine outside. it's funny how you suddenly think of someone out of the blue and end up receiving an email or a phone call from that person.

this pic was taken a sec before the sunset on one beautiful wednesday afternoon in hyde park (after we got told off for making out on a memorial). priceless i tell you.

the pic doesn't look like much, but i can tell you it was one of those perfect moments. thanks.

sAs: snap happy phone

i finally got all my pics downloaded off my phone and i put some of the studio/arts related ones up to sAs >> starvingARTstudents: snap happy phone

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china july 2004