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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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2:11 pm - "Daniel" (acrylic/marker/photoshop)
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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10:17 pm - Unphotoshopped, for once
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| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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10:11 pm - "untitled" (acrylic)
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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10:38 pm - "untitled" (acrylic/charcoal/photoshop)
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(adapted from a photograph by Mark Harrower)
current music: "epro vs scream vs tnt" (team 9 v beck v acdc v michael& janet jackson)
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| Saturday, July 4th, 2009
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4:31 pm - "summer" (acrylic/photoshop)
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(adapted from a wonderful photograph by Dave Cobb ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) e_ticket)
current music: Magnetic Fields, "Railroad Boy"
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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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3:04 pm - ramble-y midyear post, mostly about art, and hermiting
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2:27 pm - half-year top ten list
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My top ten songs new to me in 2009, as actually listened to by me, by play count on iTunes, for the first half of this year.
1. “Cello Song,” The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez, from the Dark Was The Night compilation. Oddly mesmerizing.
2. “Black Pear Tree,” Mountain Goats/Kaki King, from Black Pear Tree EP. Perhaps the purest distillation of why I love the Mountain Goats – the sense of shaking one’s fist at the sky as everything collapses. A beautiful, beautiful song, and frustratingly hard to find – I had to break my “now that I’m a lawyer I’m not going to illegally download music” rule, since it was on a tiny vinyl pressing.
3. “Pata Pata,” Miriam Makeba. I didn’t know much about her before she died, and I still don’t, but this song (from the 60s, I think) is ridiculously catchy.
4. “Station Approach,” Elbow. Why hadn’t I heard of Elbow before 2009? Big soft-loud alternapowerballads with a cute bearish lead singer who sounds a bit like the guy from Blue Nile and a bit like Peter Gabriel? Yes, please.
5. “Daylight,” Matt & Kim. Big stooped fun song. Something discovered off Subterranean.
6. “I’m Gonna Hate You When You Go,” Slow Runner. I can’t remember if murphy recommended this band to me and mattycub or if Matty recommended it to Owen and me. Their stuff hasn’t resonated as much as I thought it would, except this song, which is lovely.
7. “Just A Boy,” Angus and Julia Stone. Another Subterranean find.
8. “The Fear,” Lily Allen. I hated her first album, mostly. The second has moments of other brilliance, including this nice sideway dis of celebritard culture.
9. “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” by Beyonce. Yes, I’m gay, and this song is amazing, so shut up.
10. “Furr,” by Blitzen Trapper. Another Subterranean find. The rest of the album is pretty crushingly dull, but this song, and its amazingly cool video, make me very happy.
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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7:05 pm - "portrait" (acrylic/charcoal/pastel/photoshop)
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Adapted from an image by bullneck, whose flickr page makes me feel like a kid in a hot, bearish candy store
current music: Suzanne Vega, "Tired of Sleeping"
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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11:03 pm - "disappear here" (acrylic/charcoal/photoshop)
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| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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7:57 pm - "sequence" (acrylic/watercolor pencil/photoshop)
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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8:24 pm - "sunday afternoon sketch (brian in suit)" (acrylic/watercolor pencil/charcoal/photoshop)
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Charming photos on facebook are a distraction when one is supposed to be working :)
current music: Depeche Mode, "Shake the Disease (extended remix)"
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| Saturday, June 20th, 2009
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4:59 pm - saturday self portrait (acrylic/watercolor pencil/photoshop)
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| Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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8:48 pm - "361" (acrylic/photoshop/marker)
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current music: Mountain Goats/Kaki King, "Black Pear Tree"
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| Saturday, June 13th, 2009
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10:43 pm - "why we fight" (acrylic/watercolor pencil/charcoal/pastel/photoshop)
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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9:51 pm - "please" (acrylic/white charcoal/pastel/photoshop)
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| Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
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9:29 pm - "we are building" (acrylic/watercolor pencil/photoshop)
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| Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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10:16 pm - "sketch" (acrylic/lots of violent scratching with a knife/photoshop)
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| Sunday, May 31st, 2009
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10:07 pm - "untitled" (acrylic/watercolor/photoshop)
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| Saturday, May 30th, 2009
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12:30 pm - thoughts on "Up" (cut for spoilers)
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| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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9:43 pm - "untitled" (acrylic/photoshop)
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