Moon

Last night I was quite tired and headachy from a day of work stress, and the social security office. (Guess what, when you finally finally finally get around to legally changing your last name, it's no fun.) So after work I got to see David's new office, wich is above Golden Apple Comics on Melrose, and he took me to see Moon at the Arclight. We haven't been going to the movies hardly at all, as there's nothing we've been willing to spend our theater $$ on, and it made for a treat. It's definately worth seeing in the theater, Sam Rockwell is great, and the lunar landscapes the movie are beautiful. I can't tell you much as it's a plot you don't want to give away, but it's really good. It's directed by Zowie Bowie too, and I thought it almost a really nice love letter to Ground Control to Major Tom.

Flower Market

My folks came to visit for the weekend and take a tour of the downtown flower market. We had a great time wandering and ooing and ahhhing all the gorgeous varieties of flowers. I bought some Gerber Daisies and my dad made me an amazing arrangement for my living room. It's so cheap there, if the drive wasn't such a task, I'd go every weekend to fill my life with lovely blossoms.

home is where I want to be but i guess I'm already there

I love it in the end when he's dancing with the lamp. So beautiful!

Most Buzzworthy

On Friday night we got dressed fancy and attended the Key Art awards held downtown at MOCA Geffen, where we got to drink open bar all night and sample delicious foodstuffs and snag appetizer treats of silver trays carried around by servers, including cool ice coffee with whipped cream at the very end of the night. There was a free digital photo booth which was really fun also, but the absolutely best highlight of the night was that David's company won an award for the Tropic Thunder website they created, in the category of Most Buzzworthy. This little bee wholeheardedly agrees.

I got my NY black & white film back yesterday and spent the evening mounting photos in the extra pages of my sketchbook. Not it's so full it's bursting open and I can't really close it all the way. Maybe I'll come up with some sort of latch or tying device to keep it shut. I love leafing through it an remembering our trip. The black & whites came out really cool, none are perfect exposures, but I love them, they're really contrasted and feel like old postcards almost. I wish I'd done a little more drawing when I was there, but the photos are wonderful, and really capture the city better than I could attempt to sketch it.

Tiny in the Big Apple

The last week David and I went and stayed with Warren in his beautiful Brooklyn brownstone. He's got the most amazing fireplace I've ever seen complete with winged lions, and a dungeon way underground.





We spent every day seeing parks, museum exhibits and the sights of the city. I loved the Flat Iron Building especially, and the Museum of Natural History. The J. Morgan Pierpont Library took my breath away. I discovered Chocolate by the Bald Man, a real life Charlie and the Chocolate Factory like shop. I got to finally have tea at Teany, which I've dreamed of forever.