GLITTERHEART

2012-01-02T13:37:00.001-08:00

NEW YEAR'S RULIN'S - WOODY GUTHRIE1. WORK MORE AND BETTER2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE3. WASH TEETH IF ANY4. SHAVE5. TAKE BATH6. EAT GOOD - FRUIT - VEGETABLES - MILK7. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY8. WRITE A SONG A DAY9. WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES - LOOK GOOD10. SHINE SHOES11. CHANGE SOCKS12. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN13. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS14. LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT15. LEARN PEOPLE BETTER16. KEEP RANCHO CLEAN17. DON’T GET LONESOME18. STAY GLAD19. KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING20. DREAM GOOD21. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY22. SAVE DOUGH23. HAVE COMPANY BUT DON’T WASTE TIME24. SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY25. PLAY AND SING GOOD26. DANCE BETTER27. HELP WIN WAR - BEAT FASCISM28. LOVE MAMA29. LOVE PAPA30. LOVE PETE31. LOVE EVERYBODY32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT

SAM / ALISON HAUS

2011-12-29T17:15:00.000-08:00

2011-12-29T17:09:00.000-08:00

I've never been an anxious party thrower, and so have held many gatherings both formal and impromptu over the years. With the exception of a handful of friends, however, nobody had been to my current apartment before this Christmas. Matt and I are stuff people, we own lots and lots and lots of little things... like rocks, and books, and dishes, and sea shells, and shoes, and little bits of paper that we think are special... Our apartment came with very minimal storage and no area compartmentalization, so for a year I felt burdened by the sight of all that stuff all at once and couldn't handle guests. In the last few weeks we made a great show of effort in getting our space functional for the holiday, which was totally worth it but exhausting. Today I have not gotten out of bed, and have read, in anticipation of all the future parties I will now have, and reflective of my holiday gifts to myself and from others: Canal House Cooking, Kinfolk, six back issues of the Diner Journal, and Harumi's "Your Japanese Kitchen." A good holiday to me is spending the day cooking and eating with friends and family, and hopefully drinking something delicious (and possibly expensive), and I am lucky that the season so far has allowed this. I will ring in the New Year, thusly, at work. These photos are from Thanksgiving at Sam and Alison's in Chicago, where Virginia brought the tenderest Japanese turnips, French breakfast radishes, an abundance of greens and alliums from her farm in Cleveland and we ate the freshest turkey I've even tasted.

XMAS EVE PREP

2011-12-29T15:49:00.001-08:00

At this time we were all drinking Ronnybrook Egg Nog and Germain-Robin with freshly grated nutmeg and eating enough terrine and pate to get gout.

Fish plates (!) and festive decorations.

THANKS SANTA

2011-12-29T15:48:00.000-08:00

Just kidding. We puppysat that little poodle, Ollie, for three days though and what a present he was!My mom also took a hint and got me the below mentioned Tanya Aguiniga necklace, which I have worn three of the past four days, has more knots than in the photo, and came packaged like this:

Sort of like a bunch of sweetbreads tied together. More of Ollie!

2011-11-17T20:31:00.001-08:00

I love a rope. I have been known to take a rope off the beach, out of an abandoned factory and off a Jambon Serrano and tie it around me. Now I want this handmade one, by Tanya Aguiniga, at Sight Unseen.

sunny days

2011-11-17T11:48:00.001-08:00

nyc feels like portland in winter right now. not cold, but cold, overcast, drizzly, everyone has a cold. i'm longing for the california trip i took last month.

top to bottom: at the colony club in palm springs, outside tartine with and by the lovely renee of montmarte and anaise, the general store in sf, iko iko, vivier and bentley, coho at a wine tasting, the eames house(!), the fremont diner with margaret (and dan and matt).

2011-10-06T10:37:00.001-07:00

2011-09-29T13:47:00.000-07:00

My brother is part of Chicago art-group PplSft who are hosting COCKTAILS, II in Philadelphia at BODEGA next Month. Sadly, I will be missing the event as I will be (unsadly) in California, but I am designing the food for the event.

ROYGBIV

2011-09-29T13:42:00.001-07:00

FOOD STYLIST LINDA LUNDGREN.

2011-09-23T11:35:00.001-07:00

IDA EKBLAD.i liked this show. greene naftali.

L I F E C O A T

2011-09-18T11:30:00.000-07:00

JET KORINE

HORS D'OEUVRES

2011-09-18T11:11:00.000-07:00

If there is an extended period between when guests arrive and when the meal is served (for example during a cocktail hour), these might also serve the purpose of sustaining guests during the wait, in the same way that aperitifs are served as a drink before meals. Hors d'oeuvre are sometimes served with no meal afterward. This is the case with many reception and cocktail party events.
Hors d'oeuvre may be served at the table, as a part of the sit-down meal, or they may be served before sitting at the table. Hors d'oeuvre prior to a meal are either stationary or passed. Stationary hors d'oeuvre are also referred to as "table hors d'oeuvre". Passed hors d'oeuvre are also referred to as "butler-style" or "butlered" hors d'oeuvre.
Though any food served prior to the main course is technically an hors d'oeuvre, the phrase is generally limited to individual items, not crudités, cheese or fruit. For example, a glazed fig topped with mascarpone and wrapped with prosciutto is considered an "hors d'oeuvre," whereas figs on a platter are not.
-WIKIPEDIA

C O C O O N

2011-09-17T23:24:00.000-07:00

celine. zero + maria cornejo at totokaelo.
i have had a vision of a salmon colored coat. it became fall on thursday when i was wearing shorts and sandals so this vision must be realized shortly. somewhere between these two, perhaps.

"If food can be shared with others, conversations start to happen naturally."

2011-09-17T08:06:00.000-07:00

MARIJE VOGELZANG ON SIGHT UNSEEN.

2011-09-08T13:57:00.000-07:00

Fog has become one of my favorite motifs because of its cheap, ambiguous mysticism. It’s shamelessly corny but undeniably pretty. Don’t we all dream of being a sweat-soaked Gene Simmons from Kiss, circa 1977, drooling blood in a swirling fog during a gloriously heroic guitar solo under a spotlight in a cape? Or is that just me? - RIck Owens

I AM INTO YOUR FIRE

2011-08-29T12:18:00.000-07:00

orland and matt at it again!

HPPY HAPY BRTHDY PIGLET

2011-08-02T10:38:00.001-07:00

MM JUKEBOXX

2011-08-01T20:03:00.000-07:00

Oh, Me (Meat Puppets/Nirvana Cover) by MattMarble
Another wheel (another version, one that beats) by MattMarble
Not To Know - Live at Thomas Island by MattMarble
Dog, dog, dog (freedom singers) by MattMarble

2011-07-15T18:15:00.000-07:00

by orland nutt

IUD YOKE, USAGE AND DETAIL

2011-07-14T06:46:00.000-07:00

IUD YOKE.
Aquarius -
Jess gets bucket to collect rain.
Emma puts Yoke over shoulders.
Jess puts bucket of rain and sand on either end.
Water Barer/Ovaries.
Jess picks up rag inside buckets. Lets water drip.
Wash faces.
Emma lowers yoke.
Jess takes buckets off.
Take off first pair of tights.
Quarter turn rotations.
Make mud with sand and water.
Mark calendar. Elbows.

First and third by Giovanna Parolari, second by May Juliette Barruel.

F U L L M O O N

2011-07-14T06:17:00.000-07:00

Badlands Backdrop, Naturally Dyed by Hand with Onion, Logwood, Hibiscus, Coffee, Turmeric, Cochineal, Strawberry and Cabbage.

Dead Dresses, Cotton Gauze Naturally Dyed by Hand with Cochineal. Bone Jewelry w/ Naturally Dyed by Hand Fibers. Rug Void, Carpet + Ink.

Driftwood Calendars.

Calendar Rug. Hand-Woven.

Soul Pelts, Hand-Felted.

Badlands Fabrics + Scarves, Naturally-Dyed by Hand. Cosmic Fabrics, Hand Dyed. Hair Pieces. Dyed-Eggs Filled with Red Sand from the Badlands. Painted Bones.

Soil Shirts, Cotton/Hemp Naturally Dyed with Onion.

Calendar Weaving. Wool and Hand-Dyed Fibers.

Baculum Bone Driftwood Calendar, Dyed with Hibiscus and Painted.

Objects, Set Pieces, Costumes and Sculptures (and more) available by Jess Hirsch and Emma Lipp through Nationale.

all photos by giovanna parolari except the last, by may juliette barruel.

M O O N D U S T

2011-07-14T05:54:00.000-07:00

photos by giovanna parolari.

L U N A T I O N

2011-07-05T00:02:00.000-07:00

NATIONALE
Saturday, July 9th (7pm) & Sunday, July 10th (11am)
$10 | Free for our members
Limited seating, RSVP in person or by email: info@thenewnationale.com

CHICO, 2004

2011-05-22T15:26:00.000-07:00

It took me six months in my apartment to put a single thing on the walls. I live in one open room, the wideness of which threatens some form of permanence, its potential spatial arrangements daunting and utterly unfamiliar. But I will forever be inspired by Margaret and Dan, who manage to make every house they live in feel exactly the same magical way, as if they had never moved at all. The cover of Chez Panisse Fruit? Those were Margaret's figs.

2011-05-20T22:15:00.000-07:00

THE INTERNET IS REALLY BORING THESE DAYS.

MOMMY DAY

2011-05-08T16:35:00.000-07:00

THE GREEN SURROUND

2011-05-04T20:34:00.000-07:00

BY HEATHER KRAVAS AT PS122. REAL GOOD.

2011-05-04T11:38:00.000-07:00

LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS.

MEDICINE WHEELS

2011-05-04T11:15:00.001-07:00

MEDICINE MOUNTAIN, BIG HORN NATIONAL PARK.
Near my favorite town in Wyoming - good old Sheridan.

2011-05-04T10:58:00.000-07:00

I felt the new moon yesterday.

2011-05-04T10:54:00.000-07:00

SAM.

RITE OF SPRING

2011-05-04T09:53:00.000-07:00

Spent yesterday with Lauren and her mom Carman at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden where I got my first official sunburn of the season, then had a wonderful dinner at the Waverly Inn over a bottle of '03 Chateau Pradeaux by a patio fireplace.

LIVE ART IN BUSHWICK

2011-05-04T09:13:00.000-07:00

I love my busted little neighborhood for a multitude of sins, including some awesome, accessible performance resources that I've only recently discovered.

CLASSCLASSCLASS
An approachable, affordable dance class series, some of which takes place around here, some of which happens in the city. Actually started three years ago by Jmy Leary of MGM Grand.

BRAZIL
Founded by dancer Anna Sperber in 2005, this charming little space in a warehouse around the corner is perfect for classes, rehearsals and small performances.

THE BARN
Just a tiny hop into Ridgewood, The Barn was founded by three dancers (one of whom I will see tonight at PS122) to support their practices and yours.

CHEZ BUSHWICK
An artist-run interdisciplinary space offering space rentals for just $8/hr and a wide variety of programming.

THE BUSHWICK STARR
A full-scale non-profit presenting venue with tech riders and all.

ARTS IN BUSHWICK
A volunteer community organization working to engage and sustain the neighborhood creatively. Known for putting on free festivals.

3rd WARD
A large-scale center for continuing creative education, 3rd Ward offers classes and facilities in everything from photography and woodshop to upholstery and inflatable sculpture. (Sadly no ceramics... hint,hint.) The classes are not cheap, but if you know how to utilize the resources and become a member of the space itself you have full access to all they offer.

CPR
Technically speaking, the Center for Performance Research is in Williamsburg. But it's real close, and they're connected to Chez Bushwick, and seem an amazing organization (and a totally LEED certified facility) for classes, shows and connections.

Now if this isn't enough to make you become my neighbor, I'll start talking tacos.

2011-04-28T14:06:00.000-07:00

MGM GRAND BLANKET DANCE.

2011-04-28T13:58:00.000-07:00

MGM GRAND IN NUT. I SAW THIS PIECE LAST WEEK AT THE KITCHEN AND HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT. TODAY I FOUND THIS REVIEW OF THE PIECE FROM THE TIMES BY ROSYLN SULCAS.

DIRECTIONAL HAIR

2011-04-28T12:31:00.001-07:00

MEADHAM KIRCHHOFF SPRING 2011

DIRECTIONAL NAILS

2011-04-26T16:33:00.000-07:00

READ SALLY SINGER INTERVIEWED HERE AND HERE.

I'm in a phase of being sort of obsessed with nail art, partially because I'm not allowed to have it at work and partially because New York women love their nails. Your basic manicure costs $7, making it a very affordable luxury in a very expensive city. When I went to Chicago in March I got neon orange with white and silver fireworks on the thumbs. There is something attractive to me about being a working person who uses her hands and then pampering them in this semi-Sisyphean but totally feminine and fun way.

2011-04-26T16:14:00.000-07:00

STUDIO VISIT WITH BAGGU ON SIGHT UNSEEN. I have gotten to know Emily a little bit and I think they do something very cool and very smart. New York is covered in Baggus!

2011-04-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

ERIC VEIT w/ JAMES at EXTRA-EXTRA. PHILLY, MARCH 2010. This space was rad.

2011-04-19T08:57:00.001-07:00

I went to a Passover Seder at my father's first cousin Karen's home last night. It felt somehow shockingly essential to me, eating gefilte fish and matzo balls with people in my blood line. My grandfather Halley, named for Halley's comet and pictured above in his army uniform, grew up in Brooklyn in the Bensonhurst area, the son of Max and Gussie Lipp, both childhood emigrants of the Russian Empire's Jewish diaspora. And it turns out, unsurprisingly yet totally shockingly, that I have an entire extended family in and around the NYC area that I don't know.
I am lucky that one of them, my second cousin in New Jersey named Jay, has put some serious effort over the years into researching our family. He created and maintains a family tree that I accidentally stumbled upon in its skeletal stage maybe eight years ago in a then primitive google search of my own name. As technology has become more advanced, and most everyone living on that family tree has joined Facebook, more photos, facts and ephemera have been made available.
Gussie's father, Schloime Breslavsky, is memorialized as the namesake of an extended family gathering that my father remembers attending as a child. According to the tree:

In 1916, motivated by the death of his wife Esther, Louis Gratz, his sons Isadore, Solomon, & Michael, and 15 other members of the family joined together to form the Schloime Family Society. The Society initially gathered 10 times a year and over the course of the next 42 years came together 290 times to celebrate and support the family in whatever ways they could. After that meetings became increasing less frequent.

My father was but a twinkle in my grandmother Ruth's eye when THIS was the menu at one of them.

Also according to the tree, Max was a paper box manufacturer and Gussie was a dressmaker, a ribbon factory employee and the proprietor of a hotel in the Catskills called the BranLip, from which this card seemingly also exists. Cryptic!

2011-04-15T06:36:00.000-07:00

2011-04-14T20:08:00.000-07:00

i haven't been to a lot of live art since being in nyc, mostly because i work a lot, but most of what i have seen has been largely uninspiring. i bet this kid will be making some good shit in a decade. he also makes me wonder what my brother and i would have been doing in the early nineties if we'd had youtube and a camcorder. scary, maybe.

THE MOON RISES IN THE BADLANDS

2011-04-12T11:03:00.000-07:00

2011-04-12T10:31:00.001-07:00

It's hard to believe I left Portland six months ago, but life in NYC seems entirely regular now - I can direct a taxi around with the best of 'em. We live in a loft in Bushwick in a neighborhood filled with secret factories, open space and ample parking, surrounded by comparatively few people who make comparatively few dollars. I work in the East Village at a tiny restaurant called Prune, and am lucky to have two of my close friends from Portland, Lauren and Susan, there working beside me. Once the initial shock of the incessant honking and gratuitous expenses gave away, I have found it quite normal to spend $10 on fresh juice, to be at the tailor with a celebrity, to see only my coworkers and boyfriend for weeks at a time. I spent several months also working at a small natural wine bar in Crown Heights called Thirst and interning for fashion designer Caitlin Mociun. I have been cooking Japanese food, collecting ceramics, waited three hours for the best pizza and had food poisoning twice. When Lauren and Nialls look out their bedroom window on E. 12th St. they see the Empire State Building, perfectly framed in the glass. When I exit my subway stop across the river and walk the block to my apartment there it also stands, perfectly framed, flanked by the buildings on either side.

I have allowed myself these six months to adjust, to absorb, to decompress. The game is on, however. I have a show in July back in Portland at Nationale, and Jess is coming to New York next month to, among many other things, work on it with me. The wheels turn.

COLOR STORY

2011-04-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

2011-04-12T10:03:00.000-07:00

B R I N G I N G
I T
B A C K

READ

2011-02-24T20:50:00.000-08:00

JESS SOUNDING REALLY COOL HERE

AND MY BOSS SOUNDING REALLY COOL HERE!

COOL!

FOR FREE

2011-02-16T13:42:00.000-08:00

YOU'RE TURNING VIOLET, VIOLET!

2010-11-30T19:00:00.000-08:00

READ THIS AMAZING ARTICLE ABOUT THE BEES TURNING RED IN RED HOOK.

thanks, matt.

2010-11-29T21:54:00.000-08:00

THE WALRUS CLUB

2010-11-24T17:35:00.000-08:00

COMMUNITY

2010-11-11T05:35:00.000-08:00

READ ME.

O V E R W H E L M E D

2010-11-09T22:06:00.000-08:00

Sorry I have deserted my blog in the midst of it all. I have the rest of the road trip to post about as soon as my camera battery comes back to me (i left it in minnesota and have taken it as a vacation from blogging). i am in Brooklyn and trying to figure it all out. I have cast a wide net and am waiting to see what fish to fry. It's funny, I thought i would come here and external factors would filter the immense amount of choices for me, but instead I'm left feeling like I need to re self-conceptualize. I have learned one thing, though: a car in Brooklyn is AWESOME.

LAST SUPPER

2010-10-28T08:24:00.000-07:00

OYSTERS, CHAMPAGNE AND PASTA WITH BOTTARGA. CUE THE MISSING.

THEME AND VARIATIONS: ROAD FOOD

2010-10-28T07:58:00.001-07:00

In Chico Hot Springs I ate a buffalo + elk burger. The next morning we had bacon, eggs and hash browns. In Yellowstone, we had burgers with chili cheese fries. In Sheridan, I had beef stew. The next morning we had bacon, eggs and hash browns. In Newcastle, Wyoming Jack had a bacon salad and I had a steak sandwich with waffle fries. In Murdo, we went to the Buffalo Restaurant and Bar (which actually had great white bean soup) where I had a buffalo burger with crinkle cut french fries and Jack had a prime rib. In a stroke of genius Jack asked the waitress if they had a corkage fee. Taken aback, our kind server deliberated in the back, returning with a verdict of $5. We happily drank a bottle of Coho Michael Black Merlot to the amusement of the Absolute drinking hunters, pairing nicely with our copious amounts of meat.

The best coffee on the road we had was at McDonald's. Not kidding, but wish I was.

ELEGANT THINGS

2010-10-26T07:55:00.000-07:00

Elegant Things from Orland Nutt on Vimeo.

DAKOTA

2010-10-26T07:20:00.000-07:00

I have always wanted to go to the Black Hills because of this Doris Day song. Turns out they are not really black. Damn. We went to Mt. Rushmore and did what any self-respecting American does there - had root beer floats and chased a chipmunk. We saw Crazy Horse. We went to Wall Drug, which after offending us for 100 miles with its stupid signs DID NOT HAVE THE COFFEE AND DOUGHNUTS IT ADVERTISED. Jack was so pissed only that giant green dino could appease her. We passed ugly homes, ugly buildings, ugly signs, and spent the night in Murdo in the center of the state, where we sat near some hunters who had just come home from Wyoming and drank Absolute tonics with two limes. Perhaps they were who scared us in Big Horn at dusk with their night rifles?

The red asphalt roads were cool, though.

GOODNESS, LET'S SEE IF I CAN REMEMBER NOW WHAT WE LISTENED TO.
LET ME GET BACK TO YOU ON THIS.

SOUTH DAKOTA BASICALLY SUCKS...

2010-10-24T16:57:00.000-07:00

(stay tuned)

...BUT THE BADLANDS ARE AMAZING

2010-10-24T16:41:00.000-07:00

I hope this in some small way captures what no camera (and certainly not mine) can capture. This is where I am going, watch out... Sunset and an almost full moon. Erosion, fossils, crags, sediment, technicolor dreams.

GRACELAND - PAUL SIMON
MOON SAFARI - AIR
HEARTBEATS - THE KNIFE
(had 'em)

THE MINT

2010-10-24T15:57:00.000-07:00

We randomly stayed in the surprisingly awesome town of Sheridan, WY. We didn't find a good local hotel (the Mill Inn was too close to the freeway for me) so we stayed at the Best Western which did the trick. The highlight was the amazing Mint Bar on Main Street which has been around since 1907 (some repost pictures from before). A total locals spot but friendly to outsiders, the bartender Emily was rad, the whiskey was cheap and the jukebox was killer. The #1 song is Night Moves. The red coffered ceiling offset the great wooden walls imprinted with thousands and thousands of Wyoming cattle brands, and an awesome collection of taxidermy including a creepy timber wolf, an 8-ft rattler and two deer appearing to nuzzle which were found dead, locked forever in combat. We made friends with Crazy Larry, whose shorts and tie-dye t-shirt would not have been warm enough for us, and who named his dog J. Jill in honor of the construction project he was doing when he got her.

(WYO)MING

2010-10-24T15:31:00.000-07:00

Wyoming has been our favorite state so far, and as I am familiar with the midwest territories we are about to cross, I feel fairly safe in proclaiming it the crown jewel of the trip. Wyo is the least populated state and apparently notorious for its suicide rate (the intense winter weather may have something to do with that), but seemed like a beautiful place to me, Buffalo Bill and all. The people were down to earth and friendly, there was incredibly charm to the small towns we went through and very memorable architecture and signage. It is a shame that contemporary cities have bulldozed their old store fronts and replaced wooden signs and old neon with plastic - and it is great to see the genuine article versus retro replicas.

I had never heard of Big Horn National Park before seeing it on the map, but it was insanely good. As the national park's site says, "A landscape of sheer cliffs towering 1,000 feet above a ribbon of blue water. World class fishing and a place where wild horses still run free. A landscape overlaid with 10,000 years of human history. Bighorn Canyon, is truly a place where imagination meets reality!" Amazing. Sadly I was not really able to photographically capture the experience...

MONTANA

2010-10-24T15:21:00.000-07:00

"OPEN RANGE, LOOSE STOCK"

2010-10-19T23:03:00.000-07:00

We drove from Coeur D'Alene to Missoula for lunch, to Chico Hot Springs by dark. We woke up and drove to Yellowstone, stopping for lunch at Old Faithful, experiencing the most phenomenal sunset ever in Big Horn National Park and retiring in the ridiculously charming Sheridan, WY. Lavender, salmon and rust colored rocks with ochre sand, sage green brush, chartreuse and marigold trees. The sky is electric. I thought I had never seen anything more beautiful than the mountains of Butte, Montana until we hit Cody, Wyoming and the world exploded. Big sky, big rocks. Antelope, bison, deer, goats, birds, cattle farms, ponies and a couple of bear. Piles and piles of antlers, ads for a testicle festival and three times through the continental divide.

FLEETWOOD MAC- RUMOURS
GET IT GIRL 1, ROAD TRIP MIX 1 AND 2 - CREATED BY GIOVANNA
FANCY NIGHT FLIGHT MIX - CREATED BY ORLAND
UNTITLED (ASIAN BENT) MIX - CREATED BY EMILY
AFTER THE GOLDRUSH - NEIL YOUNG - GIVEN BY LAUREL
BEST OF NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS - GIVEN BY ALEX AND LIZZIE
IKE AND TINA - I SMELL TROUBLE - GIVEN BY LAUREL
BEST OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - IT'S MATT'S
ETHIOPIAN INSTRUMENTALS - GIVEN BY ALEX AND LIZZIE

NAVARRE IS NAVARRE

2010-10-17T23:36:00.000-07:00

IDAHO

2010-10-17T23:27:00.000-07:00

THE NEW BONNIE PRINCE BILLY - GIVEN BY HILARY HORVATH

So I am officially moved away, although I left a trail of belongings and longings in my wake. A farewell HA + VL with John and G following a cuddly evening with Crystal and Erin. Jack drove the whole way from Portland to Coeur D'Alene, Idaho where we are resting our sleepy heads at the Roosevelt Hotel, and where we had a picnic of Chinese takeout with '07 Coho Headwaters on the floor of our room.

WASHINGTON

2010-10-17T23:20:00.000-07:00

THE PRETENDERS SINGLES - GIVEN BY LIZZIE AND ALEX
XO MIX, OR AS WE CALL IT, THE SOPHISTICATED BOOM BOOM- CREATED BY JON AND PATRICK

OREGON

2010-10-17T23:05:00.000-07:00

NEBRASKA - THE BOSS - GIVEN BY LAUREL
WELCOME TO MY WORLD MIX - CREATED BY MAY
SQUIRREL SEEKS CHIPMUNK- DAVID SEDARIS - GIVEN BY SASHA
LOVE TO LIPP MIX - CREATED BY MICHAEL AND GIVEN BY MAGGIE

PDX

2010-10-12T00:42:00.000-07:00

P.S.

LOS LONCHES

2010-10-08T16:57:00.000-07:00

I mostly hate food blogs. The recipes are wrong, they are cluttered with bullshit and they make eating feel like a bad commercial. What a pleasure to finally uncover Alex and Lizzie's secret gem La Casetita de los Lonches. Simple and unpretentious, their posts leave you hungry. It helps that I know these are two of the best people to eat, drink and cook with - ever. Hurry up and post more, please!

Plus, I really love prawns.

ICE ICE BABY

2010-10-06T23:41:00.000-07:00

Lots to update on, geez louise. I'm consumed right now by literally an avalanche of boxes, belongings and dust bunnies, a preoccupation with Mad Men and trying to get it all done. The countdown is on: My last day of work is next Friday, October 15th, and I will be departing Portland probably next Sunday. I'm filled with so many ideas I don't even know where to begin. Something I've wanted to post on for a while, though, is the Icelandic Love Corporation, a performance group/art collective Renee clued me in on. Their super visually charged work is incredibly intriguing and I'm dying to know more.

In their explanation of their piece Black Swans, which appears to be an installation, they said "All these artworks stem from performance, even though we meet no living bodies here... except for the audience body."

FIN

2010-10-03T11:35:00.000-07:00

KINDER

2010-10-01T01:18:00.000-07:00

Opening night down, so you are now invited:
Friday, October 1st 7:00 + 10:00 pm
Saturday, October 2nd 7:00 pm

Part of the one-act festival at Lewis and Clark College.
Fir Acres Theater, black box.
Sound by Scott Goodwin, Objects by Elizabeth Jaeger. Jewelry by Andy Lifshutz.

let me know if you are coming and i can give you the insider scoop.

Photo by wonderful May.

THE BUG

2010-09-29T09:23:00.001-07:00

The combination of going to Texas two weeks ago, the fall T Mag travel issue and not having been on a real trip in a while is giving me the travel bug. Luckily I get to make the most out of driving across the country soon, however my friends Lauren and Nialls are giving me a thirst for exotic locales. Their stories in North Africa and Spain so far are k i l l i n g me. Read about them here.

HAPPY FACE (?)

2010-09-28T06:01:00.000-07:00

Yet so pleased I caught MGM Grand last Tuesday at Valentine's as part of their west coast tour of Oneness: Making it With Love. Photo by May Juliette Barruel.

SAD FACE

2010-09-27T12:44:00.000-07:00

Sad I had to work and missed what looked like an amazing event. Eliza Fernand, Song and Dance. Photos by May.

AWESOME

2010-09-25T23:46:00.000-07:00

ELIZA FERNAND
6 PM TONIGHT
NATIONALE

30

2010-09-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

Thirty years ago today my parents tied the knot. Sadly my mother was a size two so I won't be able to stage a revival to commemorate the event, however: My friends Lizzy and Nick tied it on themselves this weekend in Austin, Texas, and like Lizzy, my mother wore gardenias in her hair. To wedded bliss, unions, love and everlasting style!

TBA

2010-09-13T23:45:00.001-07:00

I am having a crazy September and am literally unable to make any TBA events (which I have justified with the consolation prize of an impending New York). Luckily, thankfully, I can catch my friends Woolly Mammoth Comes To Dinner and their insane line-up of comrades, including off-shoot projects of Oregon Painting Society and an all-star version of Miracles Club, tomorrow, the Works at Washington High School, 10:30.

woolly artwork by cori vander yacht.

LEGZ

2010-09-11T23:39:00.000-07:00

BOESSERT/SCHORN.
AT UNA.

PALATE

2010-09-09T22:53:00.001-07:00

PALETTE

2010-09-09T22:37:00.000-07:00

ONE OF MY ULTIMATE FANTASIES

2010-09-09T22:35:00.000-07:00

(the tiger cub part)
VIA CAITLIN MOCIUN.

GEMINI

2010-09-09T21:06:00.000-07:00

Although it's September, the traditional month for high energy and fresh starts, Mercury, your ruler, is still retrograde until September 12, so as you enter the month, take it slow and easy. The world will be in warm-up stage, not quite ready for your ideas yet. To push hard now would be out of sync with the flow of things, and you will actually gain more by spending some time thinking and perfecting your strategy.

thanks, g.

LET'S GET CREATIVE WITH THE RENT

2010-09-06T23:28:00.000-07:00

I am Mrs Rachel Daniel, 32years old female from Newark, NJ. I am into (interior amd exterior) decorations and been working within the States and that has given me little accomodation ideas and now that I am coming back to your area fully to continue with my job and also to do some little exploration, I am looking for someone to rent me a room. I saw your add on craigslist as looking for a roommate so I decided to contact you. We could get creative with rent. I recently came upon some hard times with my husband who is there in your State now and have moved on without him. I would have given out the number for you to call on but it's cool if you want the number I'm on here if you would like to contact me by phone. I am a stable person with no kids. Maybe you still have a place available and don't mind having me as your roommate. However, I have a very steady rental history.. I do work and have no criminal history. I just need someone to offer me a decent place with all the move in expense. I'm a great cook and keep things clean. I am also responsible, clean, neat and organized, respectful, conscientious, non-smoker -fun -sweet -sassy -playful -flexible -reasonable -great communicator with sense of humour. I would love to make my payment via cashier's check or money orders. Get in touch with me and tell me about your place, you, the enviroment and let's talk. Waiting to read back from you as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Rachel Daniel.

OR. . .

REPLACE ME IN MY APARTMENT.
ERIN IS KEEPING THE PENTHOUSE AFLOAT AND NEEDS A ROOMMATE. I HAVE LIVED IN THIS JOINT FOR OVER 4 YEARS AND HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT. $575, INCLUDES ALL UTILITIES. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15.

terrarium may or may not come with apartment.

SHAPES

2010-09-04T12:31:00.000-07:00

1. DIN-DIN
2. HOME
3/4. HERITAGE ARTIFACTS

HUM

2010-09-03T00:39:00.000-07:00

I am all a flutter these days and behind the posting times amidst preparations for a new play, Kinder, which will be at Lewis and Clark College at the end of the month and getting used to the idea that I am leaving Portland in six weeks. I am moving to New York, where I will join Matt who in fact left today.

Lots of missing.

love

2010-08-29T00:00:00.000-07:00

COME SEE RYAN SULLIVAN w/ my MATT MARBLE + DAVID EVANS.
TOMORROW. SUNDAY 8/29
NATIONALE.
6:00
donation or free with membership

BlueEyesCryinInTheRain (by Willie Nelson) by MattMarble

GARAGE SALE

2010-08-28T12:22:00.001-07:00

Come buy my cheap stuff.
HAWTHORNE BETWEEN 27 and 28
until 5!

PRIMAL BEGINNINGS

2010-08-23T15:09:00.000-07:00

ANNA HALPRIN PEACE DANCING

2010-08-19T10:36:00.000-07:00

Anna Halprin | Planetary Peace Dance Workshop
September 18 & 19 - 12:30-5:30 pm
Registration: $125, Limited to 50 Participants

"Conduit Dance is pleased to host Anna Halprin’s historic workshop, in Anna’s words, designed “to bring the community together in our commitment to World Peace – Peace within ourselves, with each other, and in our relationship to the environment. The workshop will serve as a time of focused preparation towards the performance of our closure event – the Planetary Peace Dance – and will offer the opportunity to reconnect with the joy, strength and inspiration that dance offers us. Drawing, writing, telling stories, and creating ritual will be connected to our dances. People of all ages and abilities are welcome.” Anna provided the following statement:

There may be a future where more of us will call ourselves artists and work together to make art concerned with the primary issues of life. There may be a future where art is once again honored for its power to inspire, teach, transform, and heal. There may be a future in which all people dance together, when the circle is open enough for both grandparents and children, people of any color or culture or spiritual practice. There may be a future when we will ask to join the four-legged and winged creatures and the creepy-crawlies, the mountains, oceans, sun and moon, the rainforests . . . instead of asking them to join us. There may be a future that is all of this, or there may be no future at all."

FEE FI FO FUM

2010-08-18T13:06:00.000-07:00

I LOVE A GIF

2010-08-14T14:52:00.001-07:00

IT'S NICE TO BE HOME.

2010-08-13T20:19:00.000-07:00

STAG'S LEAP.

DETAILS

2010-08-10T20:44:00.000-07:00

WE ATE

2010-08-10T20:26:00.000-07:00

YOUR OWN ARRAY

2010-08-09T13:07:00.000-07:00

I enjoyed Elizabeth and Jenna's performance at Nationale last week partially for what it wasn't. They had wanted to perform outside and had set up a projection screen in front of the shop, but the Burnside construction noises had prohibited this from being feasible; instead, like sardines we packed in around Oregon Painting Society's sculptural objects to enjoy a performance in two parts: First, a video of the pair moving in psuedo-synchronicity in front of a rotating landscape ranging from New Mexican white desert to an Indian reservation to the lawn of the White House. There was no sound, the room was hot, the effect was spare and specific. After the video, Elizabeth read a series of movement directions - that in the end were revealed to be text messages sent from a friend to the girls during their road trip across the country and also the choreography from the video - and we were instructed to follow along. At first I groaned inside, my contrarian nature rebelling against active group participation. "Step four lengths to the left." "Put your face in a neutral position." But then something magical happened, and my resistance melted into total acceptance. "Look bored." "Put your arms at 90 degrees." Delight, in fact. "Whistle 'Walking After Midnight' By Patsy Cline." What could have been reduced to a spectacle for Burnside traffic was instead an intimate and hilarious experience that all attendants gave themselves to, hopping and grinning around the tiny gallery like demented chickens. It felt personal and unique, as any iteration of VERY LARGE ARRAY could in fact be.

Including your own! DVDs and MOVEMENTSCORE booklets are now available at Nationale for $8. Help support commodification opportunities for live artists, a gallery/shop that supports them, as well as buying yourself a great party trick and instant home performance art.
Review of show by Lisa Radon on Ultra.
Photos above by May Juliette Barruel.

P(Y)T

2010-08-09T12:07:00.000-07:00

VERY LARGE ARRAY

2010-08-03T13:23:00.000-07:00

A performance by and with:
Sarah Elliott
Elizabeth Jaeger
Jenna Kaës
Thomas Oliver
...
Wednesday August 4th, 6pm
$6 / free with membership!
N A T I O N A L E

I asked Elizabeth Jaeger if she would be interested in putting together a performance, and she has concocted a wild ride for us with her friends out of their month of cross-country road travel through these United States. Elizabeth is a friend whose art practice I admire greatly - she is inventive, prolific and totally fearless. When she performed in Pinata she even amazed herself with the reserves of her own adrenaline. Please come!

MARTES CON JUAN

2010-08-03T11:32:00.000-07:00

Juan makes me tacos probably twice a week and I usually eat five, no big deal they're that good. Tonight is the first incarnation of Eating With Juan, the new Tuesday night happening at Luce where you too can eat five tacos, or actually tonight a plate of amazing Yucateca food and ceviche plus beer and wine. Muy autentica. From 4 to 9, or until food runs out. DO IT.