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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
9:34 pm	additive/subtractive how many hippies does it take to change a light bulb? three: one to motivate, one to actually do it, and one to find the lightbulb (he was organizing while on acid the other night).... it is a community effort! hahaha.. its funny because it just happened ^_^ So this past week I learned that when taping stripes onto hula hoops, the colors add the same as light rather than pigment and so red/blue/green make a rainbow when it spins really fast. We played with different color combination on a fan before taping the hoops. It was fun! Current Mood: hoop helmet Current Music: lawn mower! why is someone mowing at 9:45 pm (Comment on this)
12:38 pm	holy crap So my third post ever was this quiz: http://randomlykaraoke.livejournal.com/840.html 20 questions, answer only in song lyrics. I didn't use any of my same answers from the first time. I am quite happy with it. 1. Who are you? "Bionic Ruby Quickly Antidisestablishmentarianism" Word Disassociation- Lemen Demon 2. What do you look like? "The color of her eyes were the color of insanity" Devil's Dance Floor- Flogging Molly 3. What's your secret? "How strange it is to be anything at all" Aeroplane Over The Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel 4. What do you want to be? "If I could attack with a more sensible approach, obviously that's what I'd be doing" Gravity- The Dresden Dolls 5. What can you do? "what good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play. Life is a cabaret, come to the cabaret" Cabaret- Sally Bowls 6. What can't you do? "You can't stop it now, it's already begun" Jerk It Out- Caesar's Palace 7. Where do you live? "They won't make it home, they really don't care. They wanted the highway, they're happier there today" The Way- Fastball 8. What is love? "Collectively our minds are getting lost, and I know that being crazy gets you off" Plead Insanity- Wookiefoot 9. What is friendship? "I see a wilderness for you and me, punctuated by philosophy" I'm a Cuckoo- Belle & Sebastian 10. What are you afraid of? There's no indication of what we were meant to be. Sucking up to strangers, throwing wishes to the see" Can't Come Quickly Enough- Scissor Sisters 11. What would you do with a million dollars? "NO. What, do you own the world? How do you own disorder?" Toxicity- System of a Down 12. What would you tell the one who loves you? "Come in to my world, I've got to show you. Come in to my bed, I've got to know you" Hotel Song- Regina Spektor 13. What would you tell your enemies? "All the birds are singing that you're gonna die" Brand New Day- Dr. Horrible 14. What do you want to do? "Watch the weather change" Disposition- Tool 15. Where do you want to be? "Rambling.... where to begin?" Summer Song- Decemberists 16. What questions do you ask? "I am all, but what am I?" The Blister Exists- Slipknot 17. What advice would you give? "Rise like lions after a slumbering, in greatly unknowable numbers" Pale Horse- John Vanderslice 18. What mistakes do you make? "Suffered in silence so long. Can't you see it's easy to know where you went wrong? You forgot you've got oxygen running through your veins" Holy Grail- Badly Drawn Boy 19. What do people think or say about you? "And the sign said 'Long haired freaky people need not apply'" Signs- Five Man Electrical Band 20. What do you want? "You can do anything that turns you up and sets you free" Southern Girl- Incubus Current Mood: no helmet, headphones! Current Music: muse (Comment on this)
Friday, July 10th, 2009
10:38 am	zomg The Lions Club is paying for my exam and glasses so I don't have to spend multiple hundred dollars that I don't have on them! YAY Current Mood: I shall see! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
11:07 pm	anagrams! these are some of my Ruby Earnest favorites: rune betrays entry abuser busty earner a bus renter bare ye turns run ye breast eastern bury and my Ruby Dawn Earnest favorites: a suntan dewberry byes unwarranted we tune barnyards run weeny bastard wand betrays rune bury new red satan be artsy warn nude wordsmith.org YAY! Current Mood: a suntan dewberry Current Music: none (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
10:12 am	AHAHAHA! I HAVE A HOOP! HOOP HOOP HOOP HOOP HOOP !!!!! I have one! ^_^ Current Mood: bright & sparkadelic Current Music: deathmole (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
12:52 pm	So I have had to leave two different gatherings in the last five days because there are people fighting and somebody said somebody has a gun and the cops are coming. At least the second time this happened nobody pulled a knife on me. Hello Detroit Current Mood: hmmmm Current Music: across the universe (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 29th, 2009
2:59 pm	highs and lows since I've been back in MI. I rolled in Thursday morning, the cat and I spent about 20 hours in my car (including sleep) with no ac. Not a happy cat. But she is doing well now. And I am doing well. I really miss oregon. stuff Current Mood: jhftrggkhggfd (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
8:23 pm	blarg... so I have lost about ten pounds since the AZ ren fair. I think I may have gained it all back in one meal. I am so full. FULL is my entire world right now Current Mood: helmet was no match for med Current Music: the most lovely rufus (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
1:43 pm	so I started rerereading QC. 183 is especially funny now that I know some ICP ninjas. Picking a fight with one does seem like the worst idea ever... Also, I am hoping to rideshare people in my car for the rest of the way to MI. It should be fun, wish me luck.. both in finding people to share with and in not getting killed by them. This was my my email to someone looking for a ride from Kansas City (which I am passing through): "Hi, I'm heading into KC on Wednesday and heading to MI, I'm not going to Rothbury (can't afford it), but I am more willing to give someone a ride up. I am not heading back to KC, I will have a cat (and litterbox) with me, and I know this would get you there a week early.... so if you say no, I understand. However, I do have clean driving record and a car that gets an average of 30 miles to the gallon." lolz btw, still in CO. Should be visiting friends at the fair monday and taking off tuesday. I like CO, I could srsly get used to this place if OR ever goes the way CA will and crumbles into the Pacific. Although, I like OR, CA, and the pacific enough that I may just stay if/when that happens. Current Mood: ride with me, I have a hemlet! Current Music: incubus (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
9:48 pm	ah haha hmm, CO, yes Current Mood: be hee Current Music: Wookiefoot of course (Comment on this)
Monday, June 15th, 2009
1:46 pm	I really shouldn't have looked at the line up for Rothbury this summer. Fuck me. Wait! $30 work exchange. OMG I WANT IT. $30 and three 6 hour shifts Also, yay for impromptu circus practice with some folks that I met at the beach and followed home! Current Mood: think less (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
12:03 pm	So I'm doing that whole 'making the best out of things' thing it isn't hard, I'm having fun. So what that life fucked with my plans, if I can't enjoy life anyway then I fail. I am not going to be very financially stable for the next few months, but I think I'm going to be enjoying myself more doing this travel route than going to TX, even though it did mean parting from Kevin sooner I'm crashing with my cousin Cassandra on the CA/Nevada border, hanging with her friends and she is showing me around this town. It is pretty chill here, half tourist/half hippie. She is going to possibly take me kayaking on the lake here, it is a huge mountain lake and completely beautiful. And she is pretty broke herself, so I don't need to worry about the things she is going to take me to do costing money. We crashed a hotel's free breakfast this morning by sneaking in a back entrance and stashed some food for the rest of the day. And everybody bikes and walks around if they live here so I don't really need to worry about running out of money if I just stay for a few days. goddamn, I love CA "I'm left hand of God. I'm much harder to understand. While the right hand will coddle you like a child, I will push you to be a man. All of the troubles in the world will fall upon my name. But if you drown in that mighty ocean, the ocean's not blame" -Saint Peter and the Serpent, Wookiefoot Current Mood: not fucked Current Music: wookiefoot (Comment on this)
Friday, June 12th, 2009
8:22 pm	So at the AZ ren fair, our company had overstaffed and when we got there we were told that we didn't have jobs. Everything worked out though. Old news. It just happened again. The fireworks stand overstaffed and we are the ones cut. We aren't even there yet. I have no income until the Mich ren fair. I have jack shit for money until then and I'm still in CA. At least it is pretty here. Wish me luck Current Mood: fucked (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
4:22 pm	BUBBLE TEA IS AWESOME and so is the rest of CA. I have now seen (and played in) the pacific ocean, and experienced the redwoods and the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm going to miss the west coast... but oh well, I'll be back. Yay, autumn! in case you missed it the first time, BUBBLE TEA IS AWESOME also, free concert tonight, YAY Current Mood: bubble Current Music: wookiefoot (Comment on this)
Monday, June 8th, 2009
11:54 am	where I am I'm starting the journey to go to TX to work a fireworks stand for the 10 days leading up to the 4th of July (the music said 4th of July right as I typed it, iron and wine on sirius radio @ the coffee shop I'm at). Heading then to CO to see my cousin Anitra for a week or so before heading to MI. I'll be there until the fair is over. After that, I'll be back to where I am now to help with the harvest. So I have been thinking on my subculture lately. I don't know what it is. I have done less than I wanted with object manipulation, but I think I'm about to rectify that, once I get to MI again. I'll have time and space (most likely). I just need a hoop, but I do have my sphere and my sticks. I have done less than I wanted with parkour, but I have already started to build my strength and endurance up again. I just need to up my discipline a bit if I want to get much further with these arts. I need to get over my dislike of failing, I generally fail a lot before I get anywhere. Most people do from my understanding. This is when pride does more harm to me than good, I guess. I don't think I'll be traveling as a rennie as much as I thought at first, gardens are calling out too much. I'm still moving around though. I generally consider myself more together than hippies. Migrant worker is an outdated term, but broad and somewhat appropriate. I migrate to work... I planted and built fences and I'm coming back in the fall for harvest. It is a better term than nomad or hunter-gatherer as that I am following work rather than food or herds. I would like to lead a life with a closer claim to hunter-gatherer eventually. I want to learn more about wild foods and freeganism in the next few years and then use that knowledge to do some backpacking/hitchhiking. I don't really identify with anarcho-primitivism, though. They don't like science or technology or agriculture. live the revolution, but I don't know what the revolution is. I don't see a collective movement, so I need to keep track of my own movement. Pay attention to what my money supports. Be the change that I want to see. Work hard, art hard, live well, live free I need to keep this in mind Current Mood: out Current Music: coffee shop stuffs (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
2:33 pm	"Hi, Freud, how are you today?" "Penis." So long time no update. Oregon is pretty sweet, I've wanted to be here for half of my life and now I'm here. Next year I might be here on some sort of tempoarily permanant basis I'll be back in MI sometime in July, and staying until mid Octoberm, after a short stay in TX and then hopefully CO I'm staying with clowns for the meantime, and building fences and gardening and hola hooping Current Mood: deedeedodeedee (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
1:10 pm	Best soda ever. Go to Norman for the fair. Yum. So I've been sleeping on too many beds of late. Next time I'm on the ground I'm going to be quite uncomfortable. I had been trying to avoid luxuries like this. But fucking hell is it nice. Such Great Heights, Iron and Wine version just came on at the coffee shop that I'm at. This cafe reminds of Cafe Memories, just without the karaoke and the crazy theatre kids running around. This whole town that Kevin grew up in reminds me of Richmond a lot. Except undeniably more country. Richmond is rather close to the suburbs. Also I saw a large scorpion before leaving AZ and I saw longhorn cattle in TX. Yay, new things that I haven't seen before. On that note I may be learning how to use a gun this week. To prepare for the apocalypse, of course. And I just went to use the bathroom and there are back sitting rooms and this place is like three times larger than Cafe Memories Maria, do you have some pics of the cafe you could send me? If you don't have time to sort through, then don't worry about. I don't want to add to school stress. Current Mood: traa lala Current Music: coffee music (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
6:45 pm	So I'm in OK. I should be in TX next week. So on and so forth... Current Mood: dhflkafh (Comment on this)
Friday, March 27th, 2009
3:31 pm	My life is full of more blind corners than I ever could have thought of. This week has been amazing. Monday I spent the night with about a dozen other rennies at a commune called Wind Spirit. We had been trying to plan a trip there for a bit and it finally worked. It was in a valley area in the mountains and it was gorgeous. Full of trees and flowers and life with little foot paths that lit up at night to get from one building to another. I actually did a full sauna. And then ran naked in maybe 40 degree weather to take an outside cold shower when I got out about two hours later. I ate a bunch of good food there. Natural and organic stuff. I ate cilantro and broccoli straight from the ground and a blood orange fresh picked. I was presented with an opportunity to go live in a commune in Oregon for several months. I slept on a bed. Tuesday I laid around on a hammock and drew while the others were off hiking to some ruins. It was a very beautiful place. I think I may winter there. Rent is cheap. 125$ a month to tent it (including food) and 200$ a month (including food and electricity) to live in the RV Kevin and I had for the night. I can really dig that. Tuesday I chilled. Wednesday was the new moon drum jam at a place called Fish Creek Canyon up in the mountains. There were long winding dirt roads on drop off cliffs that had to be driven to get there. There was actual running water there. I danced for a very long time. The drums and chants were awesome. I went to sleep sort of early, before 1 am. Hung out and drew for a bit in the morning. Everything there felt slightly surreal. It was really nice. Hiding from society in a canyon in mountain. (Why do I feel like this behavior will be eventually repeated in my life?) Thursday there was a chili cook off. It was delicious. Today Kevin and I decided that we are going to Oregon instead of Georgia. This is the last weekend in AZ. I'll sort of miss it here. Sand in my eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. And food. 90 degree weather in Feb and March. 30 mph winds pounding our tent and tarp, covering everything inside and outside the tent with sand. Something living and tunneling under our tent. Everything covered in pointies, including grass, wild mushrooms, and toads that aren't toads. But really, I will miss it here. It really is nice. Nice enough for me to want to return. Not wearing a coat is good. Hanging out at the free kitchen. The labyrinths are still amazing even if they are more risky to get to. The Wednesday night bonfires were fun. It is a nice set up here. Next week I should be in Oklahoma. Current Mood: I need sand goggles Current Music: muse, then nickle creek (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
6:52 pm	I am a clothes pin ninja. I would ask you to bow to me, but there is no way your non-ninja eyes could see me in order to bow in the right direction. Current Mood: block it out Current Music: dresden dolls (3 Comments |Comment on this)