ALSO

I wish I was around to go to this.

OLD WORDS

I found a bunch of my old journals... like from when I was ten and in seventh grade and stuff. They are ridiculous but interesting and a tid embarrassing. It is strange because in a way I essentially write about the same things, or have similar tendencies. I made lists and such. I found an entry from election day 2000 which was interesting because I was writing about Al Gore and George Bush from the perspective of a nine year old. I also found a some of these "All About Me" books that I made, one from middle school and one from 9th grade. My parents and I have been cleaning out things... my parents found a box of old photos, many of which were really fantastic. Great colors. It made me realize yet again how great photos taken with film are, its kinda hard to explain, but there is a good crispness and quality. It is interesting to step back into your old self for a little while, we found our old beanie babies and I was surprised to find I rememebered a lot of them, "where is the black bear?" We also found Samantha, the American Doll. My mom kept saying "you can give her to your little girl." I used to love her and her things. She had a mini paint set with actual paints and a mini copy of the Wizard of Oz that you could read. She is being discontinued now... my roommate Kelly and I were looking at the website after trying to find these Barbies Kaitrin and I remembered... generation girls or something. We never found them. They had a filmmaker barbie though, I'm pretty sure, and an artist, a skateboarder and a swimmer... they are no where to be found on the internet though. Well, we didn't know the name of them, so that could be part of it, but usually a bit of searching will produce something. I just watched In Brudges.

SPACE

I am starting a new journal today! I love it a lot. It is my sixth book journal, and due to my this I figured I would share the others. I included some pages from each...

JOURNAL ONE (my first bookjournal) A Merriam-Webster Elementary Dictionary

This is the template (I guess you would say) of a birthday card I made.
My senior picture is down there... along with this awkward one the photographer made me and Ian do... Above that is a series of photostrips Rene and I made for Sofa when she was Chiffon in my high school's production of Little Shop of Horrors.
JOURNAL TWO The Home Medical Book

A dino.
A Spectra Polaroid that Ian took in Denver of an apartment complex.
My label maker put to use up there, a photo of a Sinclair sign down there.



Below is one of the most fantastic Polaroids I have ever taken. It is dark but for the red letters of HILTON.
JOURNAL THREE Gatie the Alligator

A wonderful postcard of old West... reminds me of Janine now.



The only thing written on the telephone page is... and call my mom.
Rodney, my first RA gave Ann and I temporary tattoos in the envelope, complete with a cartoon Rodney, he was fantastic. Below is a thumbnail of one of Maria's paintings, the same woman who painted the deer hanging on my wall and tattooed my bird. I would love love love to get this painting.
JOURNAL FOUR Dinosaurs
Probably my greatest journal.
The bit above there is from a children's book called The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers. Now I don't have this book, but I think I should. The diagram of the left says A)Book goes in B)Information goes to brain [brain getting bigger] C)Belly gets full. His brain is made of a piece of ripped out text. And the background is graph paper. Click here for more.

A playlist from a radio show above... and a Polaroid from polanoid.net below.

Addresses and the Beatles.

More polanoid.net and a great old postcard I bought in Ecuador.

Passport and airplane necklace on my desk along with a Complimentary Shoe Service "flier" in Wes Anderson font. Below a umbrella I painted.

JOURNAL FIVE An Elephant is Not a Cat

My brother wrote one page in an old Harry Potter journal that I found. I copied this page and made it the beginning of my journal. It says: Stay out! This is my propprty so stay out or else you are dead meat you'll be sold in a butcher shop and eaten by canables ant that's the end so stay out. Below another painted piece I did with a page from an old photography book.

A lovely piece of artwork I saw at the Aspen Art Museum, underneath I wrote a quote that was painted on the wall of an artist studio I was at for a film shoot. It say: Even in madness and death she was beautiful.


Directions for editing on a Steenbeck and a map of Boston below that.

So there you are, a brief glimpse into my bookjournals. Check out bookjournals.com or go here... I've also seen them at Urban recently. OF COURSE. The guy who makes them, Jacob, is a sweetheart though. I've talked to him on several occasions... if you have a book that you would like made into a custom bookjournal he will do it for ten dollars, you just have to get the book to him.

BEATLE BUSINESS

So after I had released the mouse, I went downstairs to find a bird trapped in the house trying desperately to get out a window. I had to open all the doors and run around chasing him until he flew out of one. Woodland creatures all over the house. I've just been talking about the Beatles due to this website: baby Beatles. I find them quite fantastic for several reasons, but one that I especially like is their involvement with mail. They used to send each other postcards and I received a fab book a while back with a collection of Ringo's postcards (the ones sent to him). They are very amusing to read, they address them like:
Cut Mill Lane
Elstead Surrey
Hurry! and
Anyone?
Apple?
Brookfields?
Cut Mill Lane?
Elstead?
Sorry. and
To Big Build Me Up Whiskers Galore
Brookfields
Cut Mill Lane
Elstead
Surrey.
and say things like:
Dear Sir,
Mr. B Lumpy.
of Oniston on Wey
Cathletown.
Arston.
Begs your pardon.

and
Did you know we were the youngest bores of the year!?!? and
Keep off the grass!

and
Dear Ringo, we're here and you're there. This is the truth as we see it. Yours in [something I can't quite read]
You can read about it here.
My dad told me that Ringo used to answer all of his fan mail personally when I was telling him about the book. He doesn't think that he still does, but I may just send him something to see. The only problem is...what do you say to Ringo? On the one hand its just Ringo and he is just a guy and its not a huge deal, but on the other its Ringo who is extremely famous and has gotten heaps of mail for a long while now. I don't know, we'll see if I send him anything, but I think just that fact that he did that is just as great as getting something from him would be. Though getting something would be pretty awesome. I think I will just leave him alone. But speaking of the Beatles:

Across the Universe (Paul Thomas Anderson; 1998)
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