EXCITING NEWS

I am not sure if I have mentioned this on my blog before but my momma is a MAJOR måJø® BEATLES fan... Like insane fanatic status. Growing up, our living room was basically a living shrine/museum. Dolls, albums, posters, tapestries, prints, collectors plates, etc...

It wasn't until we sold our house and moved about 2 years ago that she found her long lost "Beatles Box" (which she had assumed was lost in the move nearly 16 years earlier). This box includes hundreds of posters, magazines, newspaper clippings, photos, collector cards AND her concert ticket from the 1966 Shea Stadium concert!

Of course, she was more than thrilled to have finally found this box, but more importantly she was able to really share it with me for the first time.

I recently asked her to let me borrow the box. I have been planning on archiving the material and organizing it for her for a long time, and this year I am doing so for her birthday.

Little did I know... this is going to take forever!!! And in addition to making everything archivably safe, I am planning on photographing and/or scanning a great deal of it. Most of this stuff I have never seen and I imagine is very hard to find online. Thus... I will be starting a NEW TUMBLR just for the purpose of sharing all this material.

It is going to be a lot of work, but believe me, it is gonna be worth it. There is some really amazing stuff in that box, including photos or things from a few other artists.

note: my mom's "married"/ "not married" captions on these photos, in her little 12 year old handwriting...

i love this! it is hard to see, but one of the "errors" in the bottom one is mama cass' missing double chin...

a few things:

I started a tumblr.

its fun. its easy. its where i will post stuff that i love and think you will too, but don't have the energy to make a REAL blog post about. so CHECK it out, for sure. (there is a link on the side)

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If you haven't done so already you should check out PAINT SHIT

a new blog I am posting on with the amazing Ms. Smog, Janel and Boz

if you like art, you will like this.

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today was supposed to include:

-studying

instead it has included:

-sleeping in
-ginger ale
-lindy's with mermer and andy (burgers..... mmmmm.....)
-COFFEE
-creepy van in front of my house
-mopping my floor
-bathtime
-hours of Sushi Cat
-scrubbin' the tub and moppin' the bathroom
-dizzy from chemicals
-thai soup
-bloggin'
-minimal studying

plans for the rest of the night:

-groceries
-ganja
-zach galifianakis on SNL
-more ganja
-TV time with Miles and JQ


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SMOG!!!! you were in my dream last night!!!!

I realize this is very odd and kinda creepy considering we have never actually met, but hey, dreams are crazay like that.

anyways, it was a good one.

you were married and had a baby (one of the last things i read before going to sleep was your "domestic bliss" post) and you let me and a few friends stay at your house. You had made a piece of art that you were giving to me to put in my museum, but you had deconstructed it and made me put it back together (which was extremely difficult!!!!) then you said you would take us to sea world because you can get in for free since you lived in the neighborhood, so we go but than you tell us that only you can get in because you live there, and we would have to pay (damn!). but still, i had a great time, thank you for being a great "dream hostess".