30 day drawing challenge – Day #26: Something You Don’t Like
May 17, 2012
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30 day drawing challenge – Day #25: scenery
May 14, 2012
I’m really losin’ steam on this whole 30 day challenge thing. In the words of Bryan Adams, “Please forgive me.” I will do my bestest to see this thing through.
I planted my veggie garden this weekend. May it grow and flourish and provide me with all the edibles I could ever hope for.
House of the Whining Son
May 14, 2012
What is it about dudes that makes them want to manifest destiny all over the place? For example, the song “House of the Rising Son.” I don’t care what dude is singing it (Eric Burdon, I’m looking at you.), you should just leave it alone. Unless, of course, you plan on singing it with the original female POV (Bob Dylan, you’re excused…THIS time). Maybe it’s just hardwired into them and they can’t help themselves, but try and have a little self control. I don’t need another story about how the poontang and the drinky drink done drove a man to ruin. When sung with the traditional voice, it’s a heartbreaking tale. When changed to a man’s voice it’s just a story about a guy who recreational’d himself a little too much and wound up with a cosmic spanking.
Leave it to the sistas, dudes.
Let us not forget Dolly Parton’s version. She’s giving it all the 80′s gusto and wig action she can muster.
And here’s Sinead singing it the dude way (yes, I have a double standard. That makes me charmingly complex):
30 day drawing challenge – Day #22: Something You Miss
May 6, 2012
I’m not always super hip to the latest thingamajigs nor am I good at seeking out new products that might possibly enrich my life, but if I happen to stumble upon something that just happens to be awesome I stick with it. No need to look further for I have accidentally tripped over the most awesomest thing in the universe and now it has my undying consumer loyalty. The problem is, by the time I form an unhealthy attachment to some sort of name brand product, the cosmos inevitably sees fit to take it from me. Case in point: the Purple Lotion. I call it the purple lotion because, for the life of me, I can’t remember what it was actually called. I don’t think I could at the time either. But I could recognize it by it’s beautiful simplistic packaging that would delight any old person. I have what the kids call “dry skin” and I live in the desert, so this poses a problem. I also happen to think most lotions and moisturizers are gross. If I were a better person I would probably do research and read reviews and probably track down the perfect product, but that would necessitate the kind of effort that I just never seem willing to muster. This lotion was wonderful. Magical. Heaven sent. And then one day it was gone. Gone, baby. Gone. I’ll never forget that trip to the grocery store in 1998 when I discovered the purple lotion had been taken from me. Actually, it went a bit like this:
Maybe we’ll meet again, my sweet. Perhaps when this life is done. Meet you at tha crossroads, my faithful friend…
30 day drawing challenge – Day #19: Something New
May 3, 2012
Being the technology resistant person that I am, it takes me a while to accept change. I still use my Walkman. I don’t have an iPod. It’s a real struggle for me to burn a CD… Basically, me and your great grandma would probably get along great. Well, it’s my little sister’s birthday next week and I wanted to make her a mixtape. And when I say “mixtape,” I mean mix TAPE. As in cassette tape. It is my medium of choice and I have a really hard time straying from it. Literally and emotionally. I find the process of committing random bits of music and soundbites to analog tape most satisfying. It takes forever. It’s a mission of love. You have to sit through every song and think and rethink and consider and reconsider every choice you make. There’s a flow. A rhythm. And sometimes finding the right rhythm means starting over from scratch a few times. Anyway, you get the drift. Well, this time around I had to accept that my beloved medium would not be appropriate considering my sister’s current resources. Crafting a mix CD meant overcoming a few obstacles. Mainly getting my LP jams on to disc. For this I needed the power of the future as harnessed by the olds. Namely in the form of an all-in-one stereo capable of burning LP’s to disc. You may have seen them featured in the catalogs your grandparents get in the mail. I’m not going to tell you how long it took me to figure out how to do it. But figure it out I did. A mix CD was made. I may not have been able to enjoy my usual ritual, but a new skill set was born. Therefore I consider this a success.
30 day drawing challenge – Day #18: doodle
May 2, 2012
Last night I had a dream that I was a gigantic shark and I could jump out of the water really high and I was really good at it. So there you have it. Apparently I’m a 34 year old woman with a 7 year old’s brain. Enjoy my dream doodle.
