Creation-y things

From a free magazine...
Reconnecting Humanity
Crop Circles
(Who cares who makes crop circles?
They look cool. I would like to see some.)

from thefederationoflight

Okay, body

The best and/or worst thing about bodies: they get your attention. They can say...this indicates that you need to bring the balance back...Okay. I obey. I will evolve. I read in more than one place recently that these are things you should say: "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you." True, true, true. I guess you can say that to people, to places (yes, places, too), and of course to yourself. If you look up "beautiful anatomy" you come up with lots of pictures of young naked chicks, but this one's a little different. (Yes, yes, yes, universe, you and your pregnancy themes again. Thank you. )

from cassandraforsythe

Interesting...

discovered by accident, rather sad, but good song, in our unfortunately all-too-often body dysmorphic society...

My Body is a Cage - Sara Lov
My Body is a Cage - Arcade Fire w/ Sergio Leone western
My Body is a Cage - Peter Gabriel

Also my friend sent me this Latina Fatale article How to talk to little girls. There is also an interesting conversation about "peahens" in the comments...and a poem. When your daughter tells you she wants to be an astronaut by Andrea Hope.

Alternate link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/how-to-talk-to-little-gir_b_882510.html

Wow, weird but kind of interesting book idea?

MWF Seeking BFF
It's at the library. I will bite.

Following through

Decided to make an effort to follow through on a summer reading list, and as luck (or whatever) would have it, the first to arrive is the viscera-riddled A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. So, that's probably not one for bedtime. Haven't opened it yet. Online, just looked at these for fun:

http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/07/and-oscar-goes-to-miss-margo-for-her.html

http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/07/pulp-art-what-is-going-on-here.html 

(Oh, to be an illustrator of book covers! Or something visually oriented...)

Also finally read Cold Comfort Farm. I actually feel like this was my first summer reading book. (Not on the list! Ha!)  Had kind of hoped to get a copy with a cover like this:

From Fizzy Thoughts

Instead, I got this:

Very different. The cute illustrations inside kind of remind me of the ones I found in this "memoir" (which I read at a very impressionable age!)

from wikipedia

Altogether, it gave me that enjoyable old-books-retrieved-from-grandmas-house summertime reading feeling. As an added bonus, there was sticky stuff marring the words on some of the pages.

Music to type to

Mmm Skyscraper I Love You
~~~
Oh K. B., thank you for making spellchecking possible this evening
Army Dreamers
Wuthering Heights
(a mere 13 days 'til Emily's 195th)

Wah

"As we grow more separate from nature, we continue to separate from one another physically."

-- Richard Louv, A Life of the Senses

nextnature.net

"Children’s dictionary dumps ‘nature’ words

To make way for modern tech terms such as BlackBerry, blog, voicemail and broadband, the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has opted to drop terms pertaining to old nature.  No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow."

~ http://www.nextnature.net/2009/02/childrens-dictionary-dumps-nature-words/

read, read, looked at, looked at...

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/26/147195131/first-listen-the-magnetic-fields-love-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea

then

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/stephin-merritt-20000-leagues-under-sea

then

From Children of the World Paint Korea - 1979

Cassettes

I read Magnetic Fields: International Cassette Store Day
and looked at some old cassettes (how did I keep them all these years...)
 3 that might be worthy of converting to mp3...

Youngest to oldest: high school (sophomore yr),
high school (summer before sophomore yr), and jr. high

First 3 from an album

I just decided to listen to an album by The Magnetic Fields and these are the first three...

God Wants Us To Wait
I've Run Away To Join The Fairies
I Don't Like Your Tone

Osaycanyouseesometrees

i'twere a tree that became a cabin

tall burnt tree

probably never need to be this close to a bear again

wall calendar shot

MPDM

sees opportunity instead of claustrophobia

alright, have fun squeezing yourself in there

manic pixie dream male?

outside

Cafe no au lait

Black Coffee
B: You don't want room for cream? You want it black?
M: Yes...I just started to drink it that way recently...
B: I went camping this weekend with some friends and had black coffee and it was great.
M: I actually don't drink coffee that much.
B: Well, they say that your tastebuds change once every seven years.
(Later, doing the math...7...7...7....oh that's probably about right...)

O web o' info

Why do you deeestract me all the time from my little manuscript typing job? Why????

http://carolcassara.com/2011/02/natures-valentines.html

stop that

old fashioned models

http://twentytwowords.com/2011/01/27/the-models-who-were-used-in-american-gothic-standing-by-the-painting/

http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/05/27/pin-up-girls-before-and-after/

2 things liked in the last five minutes

1) http://twentytwowords.com/2012/12/13/retta-tells-conan-about-listening-to-puccini-not-rap-and-sings-some-too/

2) http://twentytwowords.com/2013/07/15/the-same-house-from-the-same-camera-angle-in-remarkably-varying-photos-8-pics/#more-78957

so much

http://longnow.org/about/

This "now/nowadays/the long now" graphic reminds me of a language chart, which puts me in mind of a certain kind of thank you...

S: I don't have my homework.
T: Well, that's bad for you.
S: Teacher, I cannot turn it in late?
T: No.
S: Tomorrow? Yes?
T: No.
S: Not even for less points?
T: Absolutely not. This is the third time you've done this.
S: So I get nothing? I get a zero?
T: Yes.
S bows head.
S: Thank you so much...



http://www.breakaway.cc/Asia/Japan/Japan-Bowing.php



Well, this adds some color to the evening

http://chinoiseriechic.blogspot.com/2013/02/one-room-challenge-week-4-devil-is-in.html

Hah

Read something that tempts me to think that instead of spending Friday night typing a manuscript and feeling relieved to have escaped "cell phone guy," I should try to effect circumstances in my life so that I go out to shows occasionally!

1. Dear Daily Mail,
2. You misogynist pile of twats,
3. I'm tired of these baby bumps, vag flashes, muffintops,
4. Where are the news-worthy cocks?
5. When Iggy, or Jagger, or Bowie, go shirtless
6. The news barely causes a ripple,
7. Blah blah blah feminist, blah blah blah gender shit,
8. Blah blah blah OH MY GOD NIPPLE
   
   
   --AFP "Dear Daily Mail"
   http://pastebin.ca/2426234

wondering wtf "mucous paper" is...

something about civilization that D. H. Lawrence was familiar with, apparently.

"Like the boyz of the hood, as human beings we need direct natural experiences; we require fully activated senses in order to feel fully alive. Twenty-first-century Western culture accepts the view that because of omnipresent technology we are awash in data. But in this information age, vital information is missing. Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing below the “transparent mucous-paper in which the world like a bon-bon is wrapped so carefully that we can never get at it,” as D.H. Lawrenceⁱ put it, in a relatively obscure but extraordinary description of his own awakening to nature's sensory gift."

--Richard Louv, A Life of the Senses

iD.H. Lawrence: David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930), English author, essayist, and literary critic.

~~~~~

"This is New Mexico wrapped in the absolutely hygienic and shiny mucous-paper of our trite civilization."

http://lacasadetowanda.blogspot.com/2008/02/d-h-lawerence.html 

"The know-it-all state of mind is just the result of being outside the mucous-paper wrapping of civilization."

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/06/26/manvotional-the-know-it-all-state-of-mind/