On top of being a great comedic actress, Amy Sedaris is also quite the domestic goddess. She has a book deal for a guide to entertaining (here’s the press release via her unofficial site). She is featured in the April/May issue of Bust magazine as well.

2. Thesis title is tentatively: Multiples of One: A Partial History of Experiencing Art through Reproduction.

3. My truck is happily sporting a camper top, and will soon have new tires! No more sliding around on wet pavement I hope.

4. Application for graduation was approved. Now I just have to pass everything this semester.

5. Recent watchings, in no particular order, include:
A. Million Dollar Baby (good acting, but as my friend Birk said, once the leg comes off, it can only get worse)
B. The Russian Ark (beautiful movie, so completely like the work of W.G. Sebald, but on film)
C. 1940’s House (excellent, no one does reality TV better than BBC and PBS)
D. Sideways (Paul Giamatti is great, Thomas Church Hayden kinda bugged, but I loved him so much on Wings)
E. House of Flying Daggers (beautiful, good fight sequences, but they totally dropped half of the story line–guess we are only supposed to care about love)
F. Dig! (Joel from Brian Jonestown Massacre steals the show)

6. Statistics are hard.

7. I’ve become addicted to a couple of the design Web sites recently featured in the New York Times
Tree Hugger
Apartment Therapy

Seven’s a good number, I’ll stop here.

Otherwise, the last couple months have been composed of classes, work, and lots of panic over my fate post-iSchool. I’ve been looking at art history programs and wishing I had had the foresight at 18 to get my B.A. in that rather than English Literature. God, two quarters translating Old English, what was I thinking!

What else? My friend Aaron came down from Portland to visit over Halloween weekend. He loved LaLa’s and the Spiderhouse. We hit some thrift stores and drove out to Fredricksburg.

I’m heading back to Portland for xmas break, a couple weeks of cold rain will do me good. Otherwise, I need write a rough draft of my thesis and multiple statements of purpose.

There’s more I can’t think of right now, and the IT Lab is calling my name.

Later.

As she mentioned, we went to the Ray Johnson documentary “How to Draw a Bunny” at the Alamo downtown. Favorite moments left out of her list are the difficulties in purchasing a work from Johnson. RJ encouraged haggling over prices, indeed it seemed very much part of the artist process for him. One patron exchanged price haggling letters with RJ for at least a year. By the time the price was settled upon, RJ had altered the portrait series of the buyer to portraits of Paloma Picasso. Another friend bought a piece of RJ’s at 1/4 less than the initial price. RJ cut out 1/4 of the collage.

My thesis related thoughts are in some sort of stasis. Reading induces sleep too easily. At least I have been drawing again a little bit (not that it’s school related activity).

Yesterday I started thinking about sea urchins. They are good at self protection, but cute enough to cuddle.