OH MY GOD this is the third time this car alarm has gone off in the last 30 minutes and I am going to CUT SOMEONE.
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Jul 17, 2013 9:26:19 pm PDT #29545 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 18, 2013 1:02:38 am PDT #29546 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
so I have a child hood neighbor, that probbably knew form birth that she was going to be an artist. She is doing VERY welll and yes she majored in art
I can't claim success on that level, but I knew from a very early age that Art was what I wanted to do with my life - by Middle School I was looking at Interlochen brochures - and I remained laser-focused on that through college and into my professional career. There were other things I had options to pursue a career in (Psychology had a certain appeal, and the head of the Mathematics department once horrified me by saying I would make an excellent mathematician if I wanted to...), but there was never any doubt about what my first choice was going to be.
For the record, I picked what was behind door #3: do the Nestea plung einto bed.
Jesse - Jul 18, 2013 3:00:28 am PDT #29547 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yes! Or even when they have options, it's "Favorite movie" and "favorite book" and "where was your honeymoon?" and "who was your best man?" Thanks, bank. Rub it in. And yes I could make up fictional answers, but I'd never remember them.
This.
Matt, you have job doing art, the practical side of being an Artist, yes? It reminds me of a childhood friend who is a professional musician -- for the Navy. I would never have pegged him as a professional musician, OR for going into the military, but the combination makes so much sense. He was always a practical kid, and it's a steady full-time job making music.
Tom Scola - Jul 18, 2013 4:18:31 am PDT #29548 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Can I be more cranky this morning? I think not.
Not unrelatedly, it's supposed to hit 100° today.
Jesse - Jul 18, 2013 4:21:12 am PDT #29549 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's a fucking nightmare out there.
Amy - Jul 18, 2013 4:22:19 am PDT #29550 of 30001
Because books.
I'm pretty sure I'm not leaving the A/C in the living room today unless the apartment is on fire.
Theodosia - Jul 18, 2013 4:32:19 am PDT #29551 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Since I had to move the car to avoid a street-cleaning ticket anyway (Take That, The Man!), I went to the grocery store before it got too hot, and bought stuff that altogether will avoid me having to make anything hot to eat. Then I stopped by the library and picked up a metric boatload of books that I can read in the coolitude of AC.
Gris - Jul 18, 2013 4:38:14 am PDT #29552 of 30001
Hey. New board.
Matt, you live in Memphis and do art - did you go to MCA by any chance? I had some friends who went there.
msbelle - Jul 18, 2013 5:12:04 am PDT #29553 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I've been in a funk of boredom with myself and lack of doing anything. SO today's playlist to attempt to fight it off is Stevie Wonder and India Arie.
Gudanov - Jul 18, 2013 5:18:44 am PDT #29554 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I find that German heavy metal is good for shaking off a funk.