Yo La Tengo

Yea they may be old news but my growing obsession for them is something new eh? Also it needs to be noted... these classy folks are all jersey!

Cubes

After one semester of nothing but cubes you'd think it's the last thing in the world I'd be posting about this artist has kept popping up in blogs I read so I thought I'd highlight him:

aakash nihalani











all just simple clean line trompe l'oeil tape drawings but still pretty intriguing.

Graphic!

I've been trying to catch up on some reading this summer... but trying to digest Robert Venturi while the sun is beaming so happily is... impossible. So instead I've upgraded to graphic novels. No, comics... that's what they are. Marjane Satrapi said calling them by any other name was just adult foolishness. They're exactly what I needed though. I don't want nor feel any need to be spending my day at the park toiling over a sentence for hours. The comics I've been reading are far from Family Circus and often have complex themes that are awesome!

Here's a few of more recent goodies:

Epileptic
I could weird relate to the main character who's little brother (if it isn't obvious enough) has epilepsy and whose parents go all over the world trying a million and one little things to try to cure him. I guess the only relation is the obsession with homeopathy and weird hocus pocus.


Only Skin
I'm only on the third one but these are pretty damn interesting so far... chronicling the mysterious dissapearances of citizens of a small town...

The Ticking
AH this is my finding nemo. By this I mean it is the type of sappiness and life lesson that I absolutely love. This was so dark but so sweet at the same time... a rarity. This is a story of a boy born with a deformity and exiled to a life alone. gaaaaa I wept a silent tear for this story and somehow also related to the main character in a strange way.

La Perdida
blegh... ok so it's another coming of age story and truthfully I'm goddamn sick and tired of those... Woman wants to identify with her mexican heritage so takes a voyage there... lots of adventures blah blah BUT ... BUT it's in goddamn mexico city. And if you know anything about it.. it's that I'm in love with that city so it was cool to see this womans adventures that were so similar to my one week this summer


currently: I'm still munchin on some good poetry which weirdly is similar to complex writing in that a single line can take hours to digest but it's just so much better... b.c. it's not about architecture haha... also I was recommended the painted bird which I'm excited about b.c. I was told the story behind the title which I think is fascinating:

The book title was drawn from an incident within its content. The boy, while in the company of a professional bird catcher, observes how the man took one of his captured birds and painted it several colors. Then he released the bird to fly in search of a flock of its kin, but when it came upon them, they saw it as an intruder and tore at the bird until it fell from the sky.

peace

Good Recipes

So food has been the center of my world for all my life but particularly these few past weeks of silence. So here are some awesome recipes. Super simple because we all know complex recipes will make my head explode.

Whipped Dip
1 can refried beans
1-2 cups pico de gallo

mix and serve with corn tortillas

Pico de Gallo
1 tomato
1 onion
1 jalepeno
some cilantro, garlic, salt, lime

YUMYUM tea
4 cups tea
3 cups apple juice
5ish table spoons honey
some broken mint leaves

My life... so delicious!