stuff-your-face day

happy thanksgiving.
happy birthday to marc who turned 34 yesterday.
right now i am in bed listening to the polyphonic spree's rendition of nirvana's song "lithium." it's cool because there are tons of instruments and all kinds of vocal layering, and when he sings "I'm so happy" at the beginning, i actually believe him.
i am having a nice week off from school. yesterday i went back to the cool fiesta store on n. main to get ashley's christmas present. i have a crush on a worker there. i started drawing on a big piece of cardboard. i feel sort of like i'm teetering these days between complete contentment and complete breakdown. the last few days i've felt like that.
i have to think of ways to get through the rest of the school year. i hate to say that, but it's true.
please visit my drawings blog and leave comments. it will cheer me up.

brewing

i was thinking about traveling around for a year.
i could visit different places. like go to new mexico for a month. portland for a month. brooklyn. austin. boston. seattle. san francisco. chapel hill.
it would be expensive, but if i could find a couple of friends in each place that would let me stay for a couple of weeks each, maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
i could make drawings in each place and see theatre.
i could decide on nine or ten places, and stay at each place for a month, then come home and decide where i wanted to move.

another closing...

the royal family closed last night. the show was great, as opposed to thursday's show, which was low-energy and clumsy and mush-mouthed. today we strike that huge set and put the show officially to bed. it's been very hard work! but i think for the most part, the students have enjoyed the experience. last night they gave me a big card they all signed, a little photo album, a framed 8x10 of the set, and a lot of candy. they know me so well. sort of.

new blog

hey kids!
please visit my new blog for artwork, http://www.thornbook.blogspot.com
i will be putting up drawings and such as often as i can.

music head

today i'm going to the gym for the first time in 9-10 weeks. i'm not particularly out of shape because i've been running around so much. and i was never that in shape to begin with anyway. in other words, there wasn't a lot of shape to lose.
my friend peter hedges has a new movie out-- dan in real life. peter graduated from NCSA as a drama major 3-4 years before i did, and came back my senior year to create a theatre piece for us, which was one of my favorite college experiences. it was called a report on the solar system and we got to smash pies in each others' faces at the end. (i smashed mine a little hard and still feel guilty about hurting shad's nose.) peter went on to have his novel, what's eating gilbert grape? directed onscreen by lasse hallstrom (i got to go to the sneak preview), had several plays produced in new york, and continued writing screenplays. pieces of april came out i guess almost four years ago now. i'm happy for him, he's doing so well. i may try to see dan in real life today.
i have been downloading a lot of new music lately.
ANTIBALAS - security
ART OF NOISE - (who's afraid of) the art of noise?
AT THE DRIVE-IN - relationship of command
ELVIS COSTELLO - spike
EURYTHMICS - ultimate collection
GEORGE HARRISON - all things must pass
IRON & WINE - the shepherd's dog
JOHN DOE - a year in the wilderness
JOHN LENNON - mind games
JOSE GONZALEZ - in our nature
MEKONS - natural
MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND - pinata
MICHAEL JACKSON - thriller
PYLON - gyrate (plus)
RADIOHEAD - in rainbows
TV ON THE RADIO - young liars EP
VAN MORRISON - common one AND st. dominic's preview
YOUSSOU N'DOUR - rokku mi rokka
and
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - the darjeeling limited
i guess i've spent a lot of money on music these last few weeks. i don't even feel like going to barnes & noble anymore. what's happening to me?!?!?!?