jodii

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jodii's Life List

  1. 1. compile a 100-things-about-me list
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  2. 2. get a tattoo
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    20,235 people
  3. 3. get a pet
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  4. 4. go to the opera
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  5. 5. draw every day
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  6. 6. keep a daily visual diary and nature journal
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  7. 7. get up earlier in the morning
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  8. 8. write more letters by hand
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  9. 9. Write every day
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  10. 10. write a short story.
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  11. 11. write poetry
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  12. 12. Learn to play the piano
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  13. 13. eat healthy
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  14. 14. exercise more
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  15. 15. have better posture
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  16. 16. lose a bit of weight
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  17. 17. learn yoga
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  18. 18. paint more
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  19. 19. learn french
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  20. 20. Learn to juggle
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  21. 21. build a theremin
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  22. 22. do the small acts of kindness/giving that I feel like doing
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  23. 23. have more fun
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  24. 24. not worry about what others think of me
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  25. 25. Be A Free Spirit
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  26. 26. explore the city i live in
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  27. 27. learn to knit
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  28. 28. create small pieces of art, and leave them for people to find
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  29. 29. listen to my heart more
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  30. 30. sell things on etsy
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  31. 31. Start my own business
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  32. 32. move out on my own
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  33. 33. run a market stall
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  34. 34. travel to spain, morocco, tunisia, egypt, jordan, turkey and italy
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  35. 35. move to montreal
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  36. 36. write a book
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  37. 37. have my own art studio
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  38. 38. have an art show
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  39. 39. learn to drive
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  40. 40. fall in love with someone who loves me too
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  41. 41. find a job that makes me happy
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  42. 42. Design and build my own house
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How I did it
How to grow an herb garden
It took me
3 months
It made me
Happy


How to save $5000
It took me
6 months
It made me
Woohoo!


How to identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
It took me
4 days
It made me
Smile!


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identify 100 things that make me happy (besides money)
Untitled 2 months ago

I completed this goal a while ago, but didn’t post my list. Here it is:

1.The sound of rain. The smell of rain. Running around in the rain. Rainbows & mist.
2.Moonlight walks or rafting or swimming at night.
3.Storms, wind, isolated places, cliffs, mountain tops, open plains.
4.Walking.
5.Water: rain, well, pond, lake, sea, river, tears.
6.Staring into fires.
7.Toasting marshmallows.
8.Finding frogs in the backyard – a good sign. Jars of tadpoles. Watching them turn into frogs.
9.Young/baby animals: ducklings, puppies, chickens, kittens, piglets, lambs, foals….
10.Nature, wilderness, parks, gardens.
11.Playing the piano. Feeling the sound resonate through my body – like an aural wash. Especially playing it late at night, in the dark.
12.Hearing the Dalai Lama giggle.
13.Singing, or playing an instrument to animals: I’ve played/sung to chickens, ducks, cats, dogs, horses, donkeys, sheep, birds.
14.Singing – along to my favourite records, for hours and hours, when no-one is around. It just feels good. Something to do with the resonance of sound throughout my body.
15.Watching ants carry away crumbs.
16.The smell of sun on clothes hung out to dry.
17.Puppies, kittens, chickens, ducklings, lambs…their crazy shenanigans.
18.Making daisy chains.
19.Baking things eg. Making cupcakes for friends.
20.Dinner parties, tea parties for small groups of family or friends.
21.Laying in tall grass, cloudgazing.
22.Picnics.
23.Libraries, second-hand bookshops, attics, op-shops, markets, museums, junk yards. Record stores, musical instrument stores. Rummaging, discovering.
24.Red lipstick, red nailpolish, red hats, red shoes or scarves.
25.Winter. Spring.
26.Bees. Fresh honeycomb. The smell of wild honey.
27.Bags of grains, seeds, spices, herbs at the markets.
28.Growing own food and eating it off the plant eg. Standing in garden at dusk eating snow peas.
29.Sound. The sound of rain, sea. Creaking old tin buildings, distorting into the night air. Wind wailing in the sheoaks. Bees humming in the sun. The tuneful gurgling of magpies, and tweeping and song of other birds at dawn and dusk. Frogs drumming away in the night. The sonorous purr of the cat on my pillow.
30.The smell of fresh coffee beans, tea leaves (especially early grey), chai, fresh bread.
31.Sunday roasts. Granny’s rhubarb pie, and apple pie with cream. Mangoes.
32.British comedy: Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, The Goodies, Black Books, The Young Ones….
33.Dreams: I have vivid, lucid dreams, that keep me entertained. It’s like taking a free, crazy, absurd, adventure.
34.Exploring places. Farms. Beaches. Empty woodlands. Old mining camps. Deserted homesteads. Ghost towns. Dumps. Vacant run down buildings. Lanes & city alleyways. Just travelling and roaming in general.
35.Reading. Discovering things I didn’t know.
36.Board games. Video games. Old-fashioned toys.
37.Collecting things. Natural history. Old things. Collecting insects.
38.Creating things: I like to try everything. Origami, kites, feltmaking, bush basketry, embroidery, candlemaking, paper polyhedra, sculpture, knitting, print, woodwork, papermaking, weaving, pottery, drawing, painting, printmaking, photography.
39.Keeping a visual diary.
40.Ancient history.
41.Having fun with friends at their exhibitions.
42.Daydreaming. What if…conversations or rants with siblings or friends.
43.Surprises. Handwritten letters and packages in the mail. Giving people little presents, suprises, or letters.
44.Home-made things.
45.Night-time, dawn, dusk.
46.Barbequed food (rustic/campfire – not on compact portable metal bbqs.)
47.Long baths with bubbles, oils, music, candlelight.
48.Screaming, singing, babbling nonsense, in the middle of nowhere.
49.Being silly.
50.Juxtaposition. Contrariness. Defiance – especially of oneself – for instance making myself do opposites, writing with the ‘wrong’ hand, deciding that the thing I’ve decided most upon is what I won’t do.
51.Moon and cloud, night reflections on water – especially rowing around the large dam in the middle of the night, drifting quietly among the semi-submerged trees, watching the silhouettes of murmuring ducks float over moon and cloud on the surface of the water.
52.Eating watermelon and icypoles on hot days.
53.Whenever I read Buddhist (mostly Tibetan Buddhist) and Taoist texts, I feel a clarity glad-sadness. Sort of like how I feel on a sunny but breezy day seeing a bee that I’ve followed over the field, caught by a little hopping bird. Sort of. I dunno…
54.Being around other creative people. Feeling inspired. Catching the wave. The feeling of crazy nutty hypercreativity that I get.
55.Yellow roses. The way they smell, and the tiny fluoro green spiders I always find on them.
56.Things/people that are absurd, off-kilter, flip, b-side, quirky. The ridiculous. Things that don’t make sense, that do.
57.The smell of an old horse saddle. We haven’t had horses for over 10 years, but the other day I came across the saddle we used to put on my Welsh mountain pony, Stormy. I just love the smell of it: that particular leather smell, mixed with horse and the scent of sweet hay, and earth.
58.Trips, car journeys, camping, with my brothers and sister and dad. Especially when we were little kids. Dad would have Elvis, or the Everly Brothers, or something playing in the car, and we would end up somewhere remote. Fishing and camping trips, or prospecting.
59.Breaking things. Taking things apart e.g. Old TVs, radios, clocks, watches…
60.Banter. Repartee. Being annoying. Mutual gleeful bickering.
61.Dancing outside at night.
62.Listening to elderly people tell stories.
63.The feel of night air on bare skin.
64.When everyone around the house gets that contagious mutual loopiness, and become silly and make a lot of ruckus.
65.Just stuff that is aesthetically pleasing to me.
66.Films that take me away to other lands, that are very visual and aural, or kooky in some way. That explore life from uncommon angles.
67.Watching movies.
68.Talks with kindred spirits.
69.Lush, green countryside, tall wild grass, rolling green hills.
70.Trees.
71.Birds. Birdsong.
72.The sound and feel of particular words and phrases. Propinquity. Tachistoscope. Luminescence. Ponk (the sound of this word makes me laugh every time I hear it).
73.The poetic (not just in poetry).
74.Inventing. Coming up with ideas. Brainstorming. Speculating about possibilities, things that might happen in the future.
75.Writing. Getting to know, or ‘becoming’ characters. Becoming lost in another world.
76.The feeling that takes over me when I sing, or play music. That space of being pure and in touch with something.
77.Leunig, calvin & hobbes, the far side, childhood, bjork, the land, weather, beethoven, sigur ros, haruki murakami’s books, jeanette winterson’s books, radiohead, the innerscape, the well of the muse, emily dickinson, plath, the brontes..
78.The number 11.
79.Flying kites. Doing sudoku, cryptics, crosswords and word puzzles. Jigsaw puzzles. Origami.
80.Maps.
81.Finding my cats sleeping in funny places: inside boxes, in my brothers school bag, inside drawers and empty flower pots.
82.The city at late night time or early early morning – streets mostly empty, and especially when its just rained a little.
83.Looking at old photo albums and slides.
84.Intant photos – good old polaroids!
85.Hot air balloons, helium balloons, bubbles, zeppelins (i wish i could live in one and just have a house i can float around the world in!)
86.Seeing kids riding their bikes.
87.Lighthouses and sail boats.
88.Treehouses too!
89.Having all the bills paid.
90.Sharing and exploring new restaurant meals with friends.
91.Putting together parties for little kids, friends, christmas etc.
92.Receiving suprises, little presents, being appreciated.
93.Finally getting something that I’ve worked hard for or saved for.
94.Being at concerts that make me feel like I’ve been transported somewhere else.
95.When the people closest to me are happy, or have something good happen to them.
96.Whenever I see people anywhere act upon compassion, fairness, and just an unconditional generosity of spirit.
97.Anything that gives or inspires hope.
98.When people in positions of power base their actions upon principles of compassion, fairness, and concern about our world, rather than upon the economics or business (i,e. profit) of things.
99.When there is shown a little courtesy, and respect for other people and animals and our earth.
100.Candles in a dark night, comfort in hard times, and an embrace when all I can do is cry.



create the soundtrack to my life
Untitled 2 months ago

I guess over the last 7 months I’ve been adding songs into a playlist that will continue to evolve. I don’t see the soundtrack to my life as something that’s chronological. Instead, I have a collection of songs that I feel I identify with – I imagine that if somebody wanted to know me through music/sound, then these are the songs they need to listen to.

Interestingly the majority of songs I’ve picked are instrumental and/or film scores. I think it’s because the scores or soundtracks from films are often closely tied to space, or the geography of place – whether that place is a physical terrain or an emotional landscape. And I feel like my spirit is inseparable from land and spaces.

1. Requiem, OP. 48 IV (Pie Jesu) By Gabriel Faure – Oxford Camerata (Soprano – Lisa Beckley)
2. My Weakness – Moby (That I discovered watching X-Files, Series 7 Episode 11 ‘Closure’)
3. In A Graveyard – Rufus Wainwright
4. Elysium – Hans Zimmer (Gladiator Soundtrack)
5. Fratres for Violin and Piano – Arvo Part
6. Injection – Hans Zimmer (Mission Impossible II Soundtrack)
7. How To Disappear (Completely And Never Be Found) – Radiohead
8. All The Remains – Hans Zimmer (Gladiator Soundtrack)
9. Guitar Solo 5 – Neil Young (Dead Man Soundtrack)
10. Guitar Solo 1 – Neil Young (Dead Man Soundtrack)
11. The Marriage of Figaro: Duetto-Sul Aria – Deutsche Opera
12. Comptine D’un Autre Été: L’après Midi – Yann Tiersen (Amelie Soundtrack)
13. Guitar Solo 6 – Neil Young (Dead Man Soundtrack)
14. Guitar Solo 3 – Neil Young (Dead Man Soundtrack)
15. Tokyo (Intro) – (Lost In Translation Soundtrack)
16. Unnatural Habitat – The Greenhornes (Broken Flowers Soundtrack)
17. Strange Bath – Jon Brion (I Heart Huckabees Soundtrack)
18. Coincidences – Jon Brion (I Heart Huckabees Soundtrack)
19. Porcelain – Moby
20. Bibo No Aozora/Endless Flight – (Babel Soundtrack)
21. The Catch – (Babel Soundtrack)
22. Goodbye – Kevin Shields (Lost In Translation Soundtrack)
23. Adiemus – Spirit of Nature Volume 1
24. Journey to Fort Sedgewick – John Barry (Dances With Wolves Soundtrack)
25. Ellens Fritter Gesang – Franz Schubert (Lyric Soprano – Barbara Bonney)
26. Breathing Soul – (Babel Soundtrack)
27. Gekkoh – (Babel Soundtrack)
28. Jynweythek Ylow – Aphex Twin
29. Avril 14th – Aphex Twin
30. Opus 36 – Dustin O’Halloran
31. Tommib Help Buss – Squarepusher
32. Tommib – Squarepusher
33. Only Love Can Conquer Hate – (Babel Soundtrack)
35. John Dunbar Theme – John Barry (Dances With Wolves Soundtrack)
36. Summer: Tense – Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack)
37. Summer: Dreams – Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack)
38. Winter: Ghosts of a Future Loss – Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack)
39. Svefn-g-englar – Sigur Ros
40. Vidrar vel til loftarasa – Sigur Ros
41. E-bow – Sigur Ros



draw every day
Untitled 4 months ago

hmmm, I’m finding it difficult to get back into the drawing habit. so far I’ve managed to draw, on average, every 3 days. Sometimes I do extra drawings in my visual diary to try and ‘catch up’. I think my eye is a little rusty too – I find myself unable to just draw whatever is in front of me, whereas I used to be able to see something interesting in anything. oh well, keep trying.

Here’s the last drawing I did (2 days ago):



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