I've been listening to Fresh Air podcasts by Terri Gross (who annoys me to no end... but somehow hosts her own show and attracts creative people at the top of their career to come talk to her). I'm collecting all the creative energy I can, and embarking on phase 2 of my quilt of creative inspiration. the 2 women in the photos I have pasted on & painted over are featured artists at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn sculpture gallery. They belong here. I'll be using mostly wise phrases from that epically long post Erin put up long ago. "Oblique Strategies." Aren't obliques the muscles on the side of your abs? Hmmm... Anyway. I've been overwhelmed lately with the number of projects I have in the refrigerator, and worrying they will spoil, and out of angst eating out all the time instead (i.e. watching TV, hanging out with peeps, taking 2 hours to book a fucking flight). So, after listening to gross Gross interview the Oscar nominated directors of 2010, a film critic fresh out of Cannes 2010, and the creators of The Wire & Treme, I decided to take 1 step forward on this project. I suppose in finished form it's intended to inject life into future projects with its written words' warmth & wit & with the accomplished faces peering kindly out. An invitation, ultimately, hanging on my wall. That's the idea.
Also, this is my first night living alone. (Another roommate bites the dust.) If only I could afford $1300/mo on my own, I'd probably remain. There is a lot of peace in this place when the only sounds are my thoughts. But alas solitude costs more than I make... So I'll probably move out Aug. 1. But until then, I hope to milk the solace for all it's little teets are worth.
