little black cloud in a dress

boingy boingy boingy

2007-01-27T02:11:48Z

where the blogging is at starting now... whee!

oh, i miss this.

2007-01-17T09:41:17Z

one time matt and i made 'the little prince'.

2 0 0 6.

2006-12-30T03:21:35Z

Hello. I posted this on that other site, and then realized I should include it here. One of my new years resolutions is to start being creative on the internets again. It may not be here, but I'll be around somewhere soon. Love!!!!

THE BEST THINGS ABOUT 2006:
- Braedyn. My house. Larissa being home. Movies and big cokes and a tiny christmas tree. Reality Bites. Decorating. Late nights with Wellingtron. Late nights trying to find room for all my clothes. Shitty at life dot com. Braedyn, again.
- The Love and a .45 party at the Longbranch, DJ'ing, DANCING. Jeff Freeman dancing in public for the first time ever, etc.
- Dancing in general. Detective dance party et. al.
- 3 Day Novel contest! I wrote a damn book! Dude!
- Letters and tiny presents and real mail and taping things under shelves.
- Tilly and The Wall times four!
- CUPCAKES!!!!
- Late late nights with JFreeze and a six pack.
- The Kicking and Screaming criterion collection DVD.
- Everyone actually dressed up for my birthday party.
- FIREFLY.
- My mom's perfect wedding.
- Addition of Patrick to my life. Plus Mandy and Manfred and a lot of other people.
- Macbook Macbook Macbook.
- Josh being back (even though I don't see him enough, it's still comforting to know he's here).
- Matty's spring visit to Austin. Every second of it.
- College and The Return of Oz.
- Okkervil River at the Carousel and in general.
- The One Kiss Can Lead To Another girl group box set making its way into my life.
- The ladies of the Alliance Abroad Work Travel office.
- Krystal and Sara and adventures in drinking.
- Cory and Logan in town; two-beers Cory!
- Living in breakfast taco central.
- Lots and lots of drawing. Perfecting the tinysized versions of every face I pocket.
- SXSW 2006 at full force.
- ACLFest. Ghostland, Okkervil, Wolf Parade, love love love.
- My Nikon d50. Real pictures. Real love.
- Tres Leches with Cole.
- Perfect periodic lunches with Brad, GEORGE WASHINGTON!
- Scrapbooking with Sarah Grainier.
- Moomin comics released!
- Getting an advanced reader of the most touching and perfect memoir I've ever read (Love Is A Mixtape by Rob Sheffield)

MOVIES I LIKED A LOT IN 2006
(I didn't see nearly as many movies this year as I usually do and a lot of the critically and personally acclaimed I missed, so this list is probably very incomplete)
- An Inconvenient Truth!
- Babel!
- Little Miss Sunshine!
- Stranger Than Fiction! (mostly because of cookies)
- The Science of Sleep! (mostly because of a plush typewriter and Gael Garcia Bernal's face)
- Mutual Appreciation!
- Flushed Away! (mostly because of slugs)
- Borat!
- BRICK!

BEST ALBUMS of 2006:
1. Micah P. Hinson : And The Opera Circuit
Because Micah sounds like an old man. Because he looks like a little boy. Because his feelings are indivisibly both ancient and immature. Because of "Jackeyed" and "Digging A Grave" and especially because of "Drift Off To Sleep". Because when I look back on this year, this is the music that will play in my head.
2. Tilly And The Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
The most effortless and joyous songs I've ever heard, shouted from the mouths of the most beautiful people with beats stomped out and clapped around. The auditory equivalent of cupcakes shoved into mouths, of balloons, of running around a playground, of dance parties, and all other breathless joys.
3. M. Ward : Post-War
Probably the best songwriter of my generation.
4. Shearwater : Palo Santo
I've been following this wonderful band for a long time, and they have changed and evolved so very much, and now they've reached this insane spiritual wonderful mess of an album and I love it. It's organic and petrifying and beautiful.
5. Band of Horses : Everything All The Time
My favorite album to fall asleep to!
6. The Decemberists : The Crane Wife
I really love this album, but the main reason it's this high on this list is simply because of the line "we'll fill our mouths with cinnamon".
7. Belle & Sebastian : The Life Pursuit
I do miss the more sad-sack days of Belle and Sebastian (see Cat Power, below) but this album is fun and it reminds me of springtime and dryer sheets, which is ALMOST as lovely as the churches and bitten mouths their music used to remind me of.
8. Cat Power : The Greatest
In a completely selfish and awful way, I wish Chan Marshall was still really sad. But, that said, this album is still really incredible. Her voice gives me chills and the production is groovy.
9. Tom Waits : Orphans
This would probably be higher if I had bought this album for myself already, but I've been saving it for one of those times (not the month of December) when I actually have an extra $30 to blow on myself. Anyway, I've heard it a lot with other people and it blows my mind and heart apart, as expected from Mr. Waits. "Bawlers" is certainly my favorite disc.
10. The Pipettes : We Are The Pipettes
I think that The Pipettes sound the way Larissa and I would sound if we had a band. Which is pretty great.

Honorably:
- Beck : The Information
"Anything should make you happy, nothing could make you scared."
- Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
"I'm holding out for that teenage feeling."
- Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
"We'll find a cathedral so that you can convince me I'm pretty."
- Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
"Oh, watercolours into the ocean"
- Andre Ethier - Secondathallam
"In my arms you fuss like an infant and you wail like a child, you could never be, never be satisfied"
- Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
"Here in this house in Pittsfield, the ghost of our grandmother works at the sewing machine post."
- Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
"Say, for instance, my girlfriend she loves me all the time."
- Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
"You are what you love, not what loves you back. And I'm in love with illusion, so saw me in half. I'm in love with tricks so pull another rabbit out your hat."
- Nouvelle Vague - Bande A Part
"Let's sink another drink cause it'll give me time to think."
- The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
"Your skeleton splinters my daydreams."
- The Walkmen - Pussy Cats
"Laugh and sing but while we're apart don't give your heart to anyone."
- The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun
"Sometimes you can't go home, sometimes you're already there."
- The Evens - Get Evens
""Why did you ever allow my bones to become your rungs?"
- Bright Eyes - Noise Floor
"I left my baby for a dream as lovely, for a love that's only in the books I read."

i'm updating my livejournal for this.

2006-11-11T01:51:30Z

that means it's important.

my bff made a tshirt. i want to buy it and you do too, so go give it a '5' on threadless. you have to create a login and stuff but it will only take a couple seconds.

hello there

2006-08-26T21:53:55Z

I haven't updated my livejournal in almost two months. Hello. This is because I am working hard (really) on a couple other projects, which will probably involve a regularly updated blog once they're up. I will let you kids know. I realized recently that the past 12 months have passed more quickly than pretty much any year of my life. I can't even really grasp that Katrina and everything else that was happening a year ago was that far in the past.

Right now, I am eating a pink cupcake and I am about to back to work. Keep your eyes open for new new new internet excitement from me in the next few weeks.

LOVE.

oh yeah

2006-07-10T09:26:58Z

sorry for the lack of updates, kids. i would say something clever like 'life happened' but it wouldn't be true. i'm just on a little bit of an internet break, except overly long myspace messages and staring at flickr photos / memories. anyway, i'm back for a moment to tell you to watch WASHINGTON, if you haven't yet. It is an "animated" rap video made by my dear friend Brad, who also brought you Wizard People, Dear Readers and Creased Comics. You love it!

dorky p.s.

2006-04-19T09:46:38Z

when I'm sad I always watch this and feel better. Handy tip number 204 from Summer Anne Central.

today.

2006-04-19T09:43:29Z

It is 4:30 in the morning. I had a terrible migraine tonight and no medicine and I couldn't sleep. So I called my mom and she brought me stuff because she is a miracle among people. But now I still can't sleep and I don't really know why.

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So, some things that happened today, a day (off) in the life of me...

Braedyn (the four year old roommate) told me that my hair looked beautiful. It was probably the nicest thing that has ever happened to me.

We watched Say Anything with Wellington and I realized that as much as I love that movie, it might be the kind of thing you have to see in your youth in order to appreciate it as an adult.

We have been watching X-Men or X-2 pretty much every day, including today, because Brae is really into it. It is making me really really really excited about the third movie. I am pretty into that shit.

I am newly addicted to getting my double iced mochas with an added shot of irish cream syrup. I spent the afternoon lazily drinking one on the patio at the Green Muse, and finishing the wonderful/horrifying/beautiful novel I've been reading, Here They Come by Yannick Murphy. It made me skin crawl and my eyes water and my heart beat. The book, that is. The coffee just made my mouth happy.

I bought supplies for cupcake making all day tomorrow. CUPCAKES!!

I did NOT go see The Fruit Bats, who are one of my favorite bands. I've been really crapping out about shows and stuff lately. I think having roommates that I love and an apartment that I enjoy is kind of a buzzkill for "going out" all the time, but I'm pretty okay with that.

I got a myspace message from someone who wanted to let me know that, although many of our other literary tastes aligned, they did not understand why I was a J.D. Salinger fan. I'm not really sure how to respond to that. I would like to just send every word of "Teddy" as a response.

I reread Lester Bangs' essay on the Van Morrison album Astral Weeks in the book Stranded, and remembered for the fifth or sixth time what good personal nonfiction writing feels like.

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Lastly, anyone who lives in Austin who wants to go swimming with me pretty much anytime I'm not working between now and October should give me a call. I plan to try to be in the water as much as possible, unless the alternate plan involves a cold movie theater and mutants.

tonight.

2006-04-16T08:01:56Z

"the best thing about being a ninja baby daddy is that your son can pick up some hints and someday become a ninja baby daddy." -noah.

chiclet @ 2006-04-08T03:07:00

2006-04-08T08:08:16Z

My dad said I should write this story on my livejournal, so I will;

Yesterday, this elderly couple was in the bookstore. They were about to leave and I was sitting at the "greet" desk that's right by the doors. The woman had forgotten her change, so she waddled back to the registers, while her husband (dirty baseball cap, grey beard, shirt tucked in) lurked around the greet desk. I made eye contact with him so I pleasantly asked him how he was doing. He turned to me, the eye contact intense now, and spoke...

Today? Right now? You and me... You and I are going to have a moment.

I looked at him.

Can you feel it? It's coming. Do you feel that?!

At this point his cold hand reached for mine and clasped. I giggled nervously and shot glances to my coworkers at the information desk.

It's coming! It's coming

He squeezed my hand...

THERE IT IS!!! Did you feel that?! You and I, we just had a moment!"

His wife waddled back and he turned to her

She and I, we just had a moment! Wouldn't it be great if the world was like this all the time?

She looked at me and back at him and back at me and said That's nice and then they left.

for the list of best things ever

2006-04-06T08:24:54Z

listening to a perfect song while pressing down on your headphones until it feels like there are guitars and voices taking up the entirety of your brain and pushing all the other stuff out.

chiclet @ 2006-03-29T00:09:00

2006-03-29T06:10:46Z

- I saw Joanna Newsom at the grocery store (!)

- Jeff has beat me at (internet) chess three times in the last two weeks. But I know if we played scrabble I would win.

- I'm pretty sure I uttered the phrase 'making out is the new huggling' in relative seriousness the other night.

- I really like living with Larissa and Braedyn. Despite / because we're pretty sure everyone in our neighborhood thinks Larissa and I are a cute couple hanging out with our son.

- but I wish I had an extra thousand dollars so I could buy big pillows, cupcake decorating supplies, a million more picture frames, photo paper, a second playstation controller, a little boombox for my room, all the books I have on hold and the extra ones written in my notebook, a new ipod, spray paint to recreate the little prince, and a second external harddrive.

- I have a bunch of projects piling up in my brain that I am really excited about.

- I love you!

Hello.

2006-03-21T22:09:06Z

Oh my gosh. Larissa and I finally got internet last week but I have been pretty distracted with SXSW and Matty's visit and everything else. Now I am sick. SICK. It's terrible. I have updated ye ol' Myspace Blog with my SXSW highlights and stuff. I don't know why I did it over there. I am sorry, livejournal.

Rissa and Braedyn and I participated in the U.S. census, and I was really tempted to mark Riss and I as "unmarried partners" rather than "roommates/housemates", just for fun.

Tomorrow I have to work the Dr. Laura event at the bookstore, and I think someone should strap a muzzle to me before I go in. Seriously, I'm likely to kill someone. With words. Help?

music surveys are like drugs.

2006-03-01T06:39:38Z

Name your top 10 most played artists on Last.fm:

1. Bright Eyes
2. Okkervil River
3. Elliott Smith
4. M. Ward
5. Shearwater
6. Tom Waits
7. Wilco
8. Azure Ray
9. Mazzy Star
10. Iron & Wine

Now answer the questions according to the numbers:

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
Although I may have heard something else, in a movie or something, I am pretty sure that the first time I payed attention to Mr. Waits was a result of my sad fascination with another girl named Summer B. who died of cancer around the age I am now. After she died, her boyfriend released a beautiful post-humous mix CD to benefit charity and celebrate her love of mixing. Tom Waits wasn't on it, but it introduced me to Jonathan Richman (That Summer Feeling) and I listened it every day for months. Anyway, later I visited her boyfriend's website and I read a list of songs that he really liked, and San Diego Serenade was on there, so I found it and listened to it and loved it and it is still my favorite Tom Waits song.

What is your favorite album of 2?
Down The River of Golden Dreams.

What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung?
There are so, so, so many good ones. But my favorite, for now, is from the very first Shearwater album: In a room with missing tiles, we felt ourselves entwined. And she bit my tongue and shouted as I crawled into her mind. It was full of singing mouths and apples in the air, a soft warm little room that was surrounded by her hair.

How many times have you seen 4 live?
I have seen Matt Ward nine times, not counting the Bright Eyes ACL taping where he played one song. I love that man and I would see him 100 more.

What is your favorite song by 7?
Oh god. It's so hard. I guess my answer is Misunderstood, but on a different day you may catch me saying it's Cars Can't Escape, We're Just Friends, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Sunken Treasure, or Ashes of American Flags.

What is a good memory you have involving the music of 10?
Mostly the one and only time I saw them play, just a few months ago. I was at a venue I hate with people I love. Calexico opened. Sam Beam made beautiful sounds for sore ears.

Is there a song of 3 that makes you sad?
I can't listen to Elliott Smith and not feel sad. The one that hurts the most is probably I Didn't Understand.

What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung?
this entire song

What is your favorite song by 9?
Five String Serenade. It was the first song I learned how to play on guitar!

How did you get into 3?
Jeremy Loomis-Norris told me that Elliott Smith was the greatest songwriter of all time when I was about 16. I took Jeremy pretty seriously and bought tickets to see him at La Zona Rosa before I even bought an album. I cried at the show.

What was the first song you heard by 1?
I listened to Fevers & Mirrors in Gomillis's room and later went out and bought it and Letting Off The Happiness. The first Bright Eyes songs I loved was June on the West Coast, and I played it on my repeat in my room for entire afternoons.

What is your favorite song by 4?
I'll Be Yr Bird.

How many time have you seen 9 live?
Zero. Tears.

What is a good memory you have involving 2?
The entire last four or five years of my life?

Is there a song of 8 that makes you sad?
Most of their earlier stuff, which I also prefer. Especially Another Week and Displaced

What is your favorite album of 5?
Winged Life.

What is your favorite lyric that 3 has sung?
I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow is the kind of line that I would have etched on a gravestone.

What is your favorite song of 1?
First Day Of My Life / No Lies, Just Love / Something Vague

What is your favorite song of 10?
Carissa's Weird

How many times have you seen 8 live?
Once. I was distracted, though. Honestly, I'm much rather listen to them in my room before I fall asleep than see them on stage.

What is your favorite album of 1?
Um, this is sort of rough for me. I think Fevers & Mirrors is the definitive Bright Eyes album, but my heart is chained to Lifted... in a very personal way.

What is a great memory you have considering 9?
A million. Um, Mazzy Star provided the soundtrack for the entirety of my three year relationship with Isaac.

What was the first song you heard by 8?
I'm not sure but I feel like it was November

What is your favorite cover by 2?
I really don't like Okkervil singing other people's songs all that much (although the Iggy Pop Some Weird Sin cover is pretty neat). But I do reallyreallyreally like the covers of their albums, with art by William Schaff!

chiclet @ 2006-02-18T20:35:00

2006-02-19T02:39:50Z

I am in Houston visiting the fam fam and yay my grandmother has a computer now.

The really big thing to say is that less_like_math and I were approved for our apartment, which is pretty much the best news that has ever happened, trumping even this. If you want to make us some housewarming crayon drawings, that would be just fantastic.

Johari Window woo.

2006-02-14T07:42:47Z

This is a thing some people have been doing and I'm a sucker for bandwagons. You can read the explanation on the site.

What am I like?

whee!

2006-02-13T16:18:19Z

dj
Originally uploaded by Wellington Chew.

Michaela and Shannon hosted this event at the Longbranch last night with 15 minute DJ sets to interested parties with vinyl 45s, which includes me, and so I got to live out my longstanding dream of being a party DJ for 15 dear minutes. I played the Hawaii Five-O theme, and Reflections by Diana Ross, and Lola by The Kinks, and a song from Ted Leo's old band Chisel, and other stuff I can't remember now. I closed with The Beatles, which may be a total cop-out but hey.

I had a really fun time for the rest of the night, dancingdancingdancing with Freeman, who does not dance in public but who did a really good job. Yay.

Oh, records. Oh, Longbranch. Oh, friends. Oh, dancing. You are all my favorites.

um

2006-02-10T20:34:49Z

with

then

then

WHOA.

Geez.

2006-01-31T03:16:56Z

It's funny when you accidentally leave one song on repeat with the volume turned all the way down, for a whole night and the whole next day, and then you're stuck with that song as your number one most played on itunes and last.fm. Especially funny when it's a super cheesy indie rock novelty song.

Yeah, whatever. Laugh all you want!!

Most played, as of today...
1. Handle with Care - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Ben Gibbard, Conor Oberst, and M. Ward
2. From the Morning - Nick Drake
3. Two-Headed Boy Part 2 - Neutral Milk Hotel
4. New Slang - The Shins
5. San Diego Serenade - Tom Waits

AWESOME. I am going to listen to it one more time for posterity's sake.

buy me dinner, i'll make breakfast

2006-01-29T12:05:13Z

My breakfast tacos have become epic.

public dancer

2006-01-28T09:07:02Z

okay, um, this may be the single best picture i have stumbled upon while browsing flickr.com. i mean, seriously folks. this guy is my hero.

a small note

2006-01-28T05:18:05Z

I am usually not as much of a Radiohead fan as, well, some people. Which isn't to say I don't like Radiohead, I do, but... well, you know. Anyway, let me just say that this song is really amazing. I think it's the fact that they make freaking handclaps sound ominous. I am into that.

That's all. Go back to doing whatever it is you do.

My dad requested that I fill this out.

2006-01-28T04:37:45Z

I actually did it on myspace already but I'm doing it again without even looking at the old one, because I am -that- bored. incidentally, his answers are probably a lot more interesting than mine.

Four jobs I've had:
1. Toy store wench.
2. Stablehand!
3. Web editor at Girl Games, Inc.
4. Advertising Gal / Marketeer at BookPeople

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Lady and the Tramp (shut up!)
2. Little Women (1993. shut up!)
3. The Jerk
4. High Fidelity

Four places I've lived:
1. Hope, Arkansas
2. Austin, Texas (in five different places)
3. Washington D.C.
4. Little Rock, Arkansas

Four TV shows I love:
1. Parker Lewis Can't Lose (come out on DVD already!)
2. Rocko's Modern Life (I was reminded of this show today -- totally my favorite NickToon -- sorry, Spongebob)
3. Lost
4. Veronica Mars (*cue Rebekah crying tears of pure joy*)

Four places I've vacationed:
1. Alaska -- Anchorage and Denali National Park
2. Camp Myrtlewood, outside of Eugene, OR.
3. Durango, CO
4. New York City

Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Cheese pizza from Hoek's, the death metal place on 6th
2. Breakfast tacos at home -- with cheese, eggs, tofu, onions, and mushrooms.
3. "Spaghetti pancake" (Spaghetti + egg + parmesan + oregano, fried in a skillet. Mmm.)
4. Bouldin Creek grilled cheese. Okay, I really like cheese.

Four sites I visit daily:
1. stupid myspace
2. livejournal
3. austin.craigslist.org/mis/
4. flickr.com

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Pony island with my ladies.
2. Alamo Drafthouse with my dad.
3. Watching Jeff, Noah, and Wellington play video games.
4. Emo's. Sigh.

chiclet @ 2006-01-09T12:07:00

2006-01-09T18:44:58Z

[one] I am still working on the website, relatively properly this time (CSS yays, although I still haven't even started to try to figure out the whole movable type business). It should be up by the end of this month. Be excited.

[two] It's free week at Emo's but all I've seen was the crazy hyper-hip show on Saturday with I Love You But I've Chosen A Really Long Sentence Band Name Even Though I'm Otherwise A Good Band and The Glass Family and The Fall Collection. The Fall Collection features the Dannys (and a Josh), who are old friends of mine from the Toy Joy era. I've seen them play a lot, but they were a lot tighter than the last time I saw them and the room was packed full of people who seemed to be into it. Pride swells in my heart. I got to catch up with a bunch of my old friends at the show and I had a really good time, even though I mostly missed out on catching up with the always beautiful and entertaining Depraved Fangirls

[three] Otherwise, 2006 is moving along and not really treating many any differently from 2005, although I feel that the real turnover to a new stage of my life may be coming in a couple weeks or so. I have been spending a lot of time at Bouldin Creek, and it's nice to go to a coffeeshop where I am relatively anonymous. I read the entirety of Brazil there. I didn't like it much, as it turns out. It's trashy and therefore sort of entertaining, but too manipulative and the emotions seemed shallow and fake to me. Speaking of which, I saw Munich and I didn't like it nearly as much as I liked Syriana, although Eric Bana did a good job.

[four] Putt putt?

ASSIGNMENT: you, in the space where you like to listen to music most.

2006-01-06T09:32:59Z

ASSIGNMENT: you, in the space where you like to listen to music most.
Originally uploaded by Heart Made of Bones.

The rest of the assignments will be with a camera I like a lot better that I'm borrowing from my mom tomorrow. I took this one tonight because I was listening to Patsy and remembered. Also, I cut my hair. A little.