The Friday Five: First to Pop

"With the following phrases, post a single image of the strongest thought/idea that pops into your head."

1.) Favorite Food:


Almost anything stir fry with a kick!

2.) Least Favorite Food:


Various nondescript textured things like certain puddings, humus and purees.

3.) Favorite Thing:


Creative Adventures.

4.) Least Favorite Thing:


My insecurities (photo from Cheryl McLaughlin).

5.) A phobia:


I wouldn't call it a phobia... I just have some underlying trust issues.

6.) An addiction:


Mine come in waves. Right now I'm high on guitarists... like that guy.

Today @ Work...

I made Sea World.


This is, by far, my favorite flag design to date.

It is for the ballad, "In His Eyes," and I cannot WAIT to see these over-sized swing flags pop.

God, I love my job.

Double Cherries

I still cannot believe that I found these little guys.

Let alone that I didn't break the stem before managing to take the picture (while driving, I might add).

And yes, they tasted as good as they look.

Cherries are seriously underrated...
one of the few foods that actually encourages spitting.

What Peter Pan Complex?

My second photo submission to Threadless was accepted!
Big ups to haze for taking the picture!!


I still have 5 or 6 other shirts that I need to work on, though. It would be cool to come up with some good staging ideas, get my brother to use his uber camera and actually make a play to get featured on the main page.

I like their little community. Full of art farts and emo kids.

Check it out for yourself!

The Friday Five: School Daze

1. What were some of the smells and tastes of your childhood?

This is an intense subject. As for smells, it was all about my mom's Red Door and my dad's Obsession. The hamster cage. Freshly cut grass in the summer. The baby-sitter's basement. Vicks Vapor Rub. Cinnamon buns on saturday morning. Not to mention, my grandmother's Bengay.

But in regards to tastes -- PB&J, mother fuckers. Potato chips on the side. With a big old glass of milk. Chicken nuggets in ketchup (almost everything in ketchup). Raw carrots. Grape flavored Bubbliscious Bubblegum.

2. What did you have as a child that you do not think children today have?

Having to walk over to someone's house to ask them to play. Memorizing phone numbers. 8 bit video games that mom would only let you play for an hour before making you go outside. Hand-written letters. Metal slides and death-trap jungle gyms.

Oo oo! And the safety of running around the neighborhood and bike trails in the woods unsupervised at night. Goodness could I go for a game of manhunt right about now.

3. What elementary grade was your favorite?

3rd. Mrs. Galfond. She was the prettiest lady in the whole world. I still remember the wave bottles I made in science, the oral book report I did on the Berenstain Bears, and the first day I wore my glasses to school she said I looked gorgeous. No one had ever called me gorgeous before.

4. What summer do you remember the best as a child?

The first year I was an official camp counselor. 9th grade. I walked to work. Fell in love with kids. Did arts and crafts like no other. Played dodge ball like a champion. Made up a lot of dance choreography. Sang a lot of cheers. Had my first boyfriend, and broke up with him in late august (after he gave this kick ass anklet).

5. What one piece of advice would you give to your younger self, and at what age?

Don't chase boys with emotional and intimacy issues. They won't be able to love you the way you deserve to be loved. And you will only get hurt in the end. I would have told myself this right before entering high school, but I doubt that I would have listened.

Two-Faced Flag.

The marching band's third movement, "Facade," is going to stage the battle/balance between the yin and yang in all of us. In following, I wanted a flag that could show the "good" on one side and the "bad" on the other.

Here is what I came up with:



I think I want to cut the middle of the base flag out to make the whole apparatus a little lighter. Because the LAST thing I need is the big finale of the show to be full of complaints from my whiny little children about their widdle fwags being too heavy to spin properly.

A Beginning?

I met the goddess of hope last night

And the truth is...

She's actually a guy.

Rambling, rumbling, strumming deity-

he had the nerve to call me

... a rarity.

Atypical Photoshoot.

It always starts out so innocently...

But then we start to get comfortable...

And then it gets weird...

Someone always gets hurt...

We lose our focus...

And before you know it...

All hell has broken loose. And we are useless.

... Those Crazy College Kids.

$1 Shooters and $3 Long Islands have made a mockery of me.

I have become a cliche:

Get drunk, dance until you stumble, hook up with some guy, get in a fight with your best friend, pass out on a dorm room couch, wake up still drunk, and walk of shame your way back into existence.

But in a way... I'm glad I still had it in me.

The Friday Five: TV Time!

1. What's your favorite TV network?

Bravo. Their reality shows are my biggest television guilty pleasure.

2. If you could create your own channel, what would it be?

I would call it "Art Fart," and it would be a collection of creative programming. Everything from music videos to poetry slams to starving artist movies to The Joy of Painting reruns.

3. What TV show did you watch as a child, that you wish they would bring back?

No. Don't bring them back. Leave my Thundercats, Jem, Alvin and The Chipmunks, Smurfs, Fraggle Rock, Sesame Street, Eureka's Castle and Double Dare alone. You already ruined the X Men and sold out the Transformers... and don't even get me STARTED on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

4. What show have you always hated, and wonder why they ever made such a dumb show?

Hate is a very strong word. I don't know... The dating reality shows gross me out (except for a Shot at Love, which I blame entirely on my old roommate).

5. What TV show's seasons would you buy on DVD?

That 70's Show, Six Feet Under, My So-Called Life, Sex and the City, Sesame Street, Tiny Toons, and most importantly, Clone High.

The Friday Five: A Lil' Bit Lifey.

1. If you knew that you had only one day left to live, what would you do for the 24 hours?

In no particular order...

* To be completely predictable, I'd go down my top ten list of men I'd like to sleep with and have (hopefully) the best sex of my life.

* I'd love to meet up with either Don or Ian, (ideally both), and record a few songs I've been working on.

* An emergency colorguard rehearsal would be held, with all of my favorite former students/coworkers in attendance.

* Depending on how quickly I could get a flight, I'd get up to Connecticut and visit all my favorite family spots.

* There would have to be a cat nap with Bean in there somewhere.

* Coffee with my father.

* Watching the sun set/rise somewhere rural.

* A giggle and tear fest with a few women who should know who they are.

* Hip hop class.

* Dinner at Mongolian BBQ in Bethesda with my family and friends.

But the last 2 hours would definitely be spent writing on this blog, reflecting on everything I have been through, and leaving my loved ones with goodbyes and a "will" of sorts.

2. Do you think that life has meaning?

Yes. And if you don't, I feel really sorry for you.

3. What was your favourite childhood toy/object, or some of your favourites?
(Remember childhood according to the United Nations is anywhere from 0-18 years, so this is a fairly broad span of time).

A flag and a rifle. My softball glove. My bazillions of journals and sketchbooks. The camera. Ballet shoes. Messenger bags. All those books. Starlite, my stuffed Rainbow Bright Horse.

4. When you clasp your hands, do you put your right thumb over your left thumb, or your left thumb over your right thumb?

Right over Left.

5. If you had to teach the most ignorant person on earth the most difficult thing you have ever learned, how would you go about doing it?

Figure out the negative pattern you have gotten yourself into, and slowly... count by count. Learn a new dance. One that takes you where you want to go, instead of chasing after things you don't need. Lots of repetition and reinforcement.