track what's on my zeitgeist

the true meaning of itchy…

✶ “Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real. What caused the disillusionment? ...Why would an image of something which never happened, travel with me for all these years?” -Lynda Barry (1) ✶ most artists fail to convey their sense of passion for the people whose images they paint. “There are too many stiff copies of photographs,” he [Calvin Goodman] said. “The pictures are merely mechanical records of what the camera recorded. They lack a sense of the subject’s emotions or the passion of the artist.” (2) ✶ “A passionate observer. And his painting captures his passion.” -Laurie Helgoe, on Renoir (3) ✶ “So, here I am, working with objects that are impossible to make.” -Bathsheba Grossman (4) ✶ “Earthquakes happen all of a sudden, and they change everything, all at once. But that’s just the surface—that’s just what you can see. Beneath the surface, all along, there’s been this movement[...] and finally, because the insides have already moved, the surface has to move, too. But on the surface, where everyone can see, it happens in a sudden unexpected burst. The ground rolls and thumps. Buildings crumble without warning. It strikes like it’s from out of the blue. But really, hidden, inevitable forces have been at work all along.” -Eric Moffat (5) ✶ en toen kwam er een olifant met een grote snuit, en die blies het verhaaltje uit. (6) ✶ “I don’t mean to stare. Mister, you’ve got crazy hair” -Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean (7) ✶ “Art is part of survival; art is part of the human spirit, an unquenchable expression of who we are. Art is one of the ways in which we say, ‘am alive, and my life has meaning.’” -Karl Paulnack (8) ✶

Both newly-written “traditional” pieces, and also pop/modern pieces that have 3/4 time.

What is it like to be invisible…?
Urban frontiers
Baked goods _{especially involving rhubarb}
Flowers _{especially their sweet smells}
Ground and sky, parks, front door steps and yards and chimneys
Power tools
Stone
Home

Amsterdam
fighting with Atheer
bumming
studying
French
being ‘a couple’
hunger
the ego
sitting on the green spot
cooking for everyone
being more like my mum wanted me to be and actually being fine with that
staying calm
taking the responsibility for my own life
finding and losing a job within a week
being stingy
having no pride or self-respect and discovering that sometimes it’s better that way
looking for cigarettes/money/stuff on the ground
disappointment
don’t judge a book by it’s cover
so-called anarchists

me and my Bobby McGhee

Sailing boats
Building cabins
Eagles and woodpeckers
Pet health
Child play
Having babies
Cake
New music
Mumbai
Caves
Cherry blossoms, magnolias, and daffodils
Submarines
A 3D revolution
Folks hoping to make a living on ebay

The Peninsula
monsters
literature
music from the 90s
perforated corrugated metal

h
tea
beer
“frank”
saffron
flexoril
texting
my nick
scrabble
the edge
the state
jeopardy!
sick beats
letterpress
blueberries
james spader
beat happening
division of labor
bagel, as a verb
vests, not jackets
the green monster
saint patrick’s day
long-sleeved t-shirts
issues of gender identity
plaid ribbon predicaments
bright eyes/son, ambulance split
calling cards with rounded corners

Chickens
Crows
Pineapples
Giraffes
Little diddys that stick to the walls inside your head

The stories my grandpa used to tell
Plugged up sink
Hot pink
Neighbors with doggie treats
Spilt coffee
Flexible structures
Architecture in service
The way the brain works and its remarkable ability to adapt
And always – black animals