Showing posts with label All About ME ME ME. Show all posts
Showing posts with label All About ME ME ME. Show all posts

Sunday, September 5, 2010

The Origin of Lola


My nickname Lola came about on my 35th birthday. That year a bunch of my friends and I went out to Easton to Bon Vie and then to the Cabaret show. Love that place, btw...the cabaret. Well, I decided to steal the flower off of the table at the french restaurant and wear it in my hair, tucked behind my ear. My friend Isolde started calling me Lola that night... it has stuck...even more so than Pegalicious.

Friday, January 1, 2010

What Was That?


A Decade in Review - Oh who gives a shit? I am having a hard time caring, so why should you?

Here is a list of accomplishments from Arty 2009:
Core Fitness Club (solo) - 12/09 - ?
J. Gumbo in Columbus (2 person) - 10/09 - 11/09
Autumn Joy - High Road Gallery, 11/09
C-Note - Junctionview - 09/09
OAL Sponsored Show at McGraw Hill (solo) 07-08/09
Abstract Show- No Right, No Wrong (Co-chair) - High Road Gallery - 06/09
**Second Place Award at No Right, No Wrong
WCE (solo) - Haiku - 06/09
Agora VI - 05/09
WCE (solo) - Image Optical - 03/09
MS Awareness (group) Upper Arlington Library - 03/09
Sunny Side Up (group) - High Road Gallery - 03/09
**2009 GCAC Potential for 2009 Business Parner Awards
Omnibucket Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Omnibucket Interview with The Polish Ambassador.

Misses...I meant to publish the WCE book via Blurb. I also meant to work on more Omnibucket stuff and did not. And I meant to do more paintings. I won't go into detail as to why I missed these goals...it is not important at this point. All that matters is that my focus is back on now and I know what deserves my attention in my life, so look out for some awesome shit.

And here are my groovy arty goals for 2010:

Books:
WCE - 2008/2009 Review (yeah, still doing it)
The Horrid - sure, in my opinion, Zombiezville USA has damn near ruined the genre...can Omnibucket reclaim it as cool? I think we can.
Twenty10: Documentation For My Unauthorized Autobiography - That is fucking hilarious. And I am serious. It will have an Explicit warning, I promise you.
Interviews:
Issue 2 of Sublime Rush will feature me as one of the artists for issue.
And I intend on interviewing lots of notable peoples for Omnibucket and Sublime Rush. I won't name names at this juncture...let's just say I have me some plans a cookin' with gas.
Art Shows:
Union Cafe in Columbus - March 2009
Local Girl Gallery in Cleveland for an MS Event - March/April 2009
C-bus Ab-Ex at OAL - May 2009
Websites:
Movie Stars My Mom Stalked (working title) - this will be a blog that I will start in a couple of weeks. My mom wrote over 50 movie stars in the 1940s and got their autographed photo. Nah, she did not stalk them...I just like to say she did. This will feature one of those 1940s era stars each week with extra cool stuff.
PeggyMintun.net - My site will be even more awesome than ever before.
4bstr4ct4rt Group - Trying to get that started again as a group. Thank goodness for Shawn Hansen, coming to my rescue on that interface.
Also, working on Art4Art Discussion Blog.

Oh shit, I better get busy.

Oh yeah...a personal goal...being healthier. I am using Daily Mugshot to track the changes in my mug. I'll add it once I have a couple months on it.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Bye Bye 09


Twenty10, please.

2009 was an interesting year for me. I managed to keep up without having a relapsing episode, which is groovy. Although, I did not escape a few rough nights of massive muscle spasms and pain, one being last night. I had some other set backs...mostly because of stress-related-excessive-consuming: ie food, libations, and buying too much shit. But you know, that is what 2010 will be about: self control and documentation.

On the art front, it was an awesome year.
Details to follow soon...you know...documentation.


Also have really gotten into the belly dancing again this year. I see that as a life-time thing and is worth every moment and resource I put into it. One of my goals looking forward to 2011 is to perhaps perform. Why not??

Alright, in the spirit of 2009 and the "excessive-consuming" theme, I am off to the mallz in my neat new yellow hoodie.

Photo 1: One of my favorite, most successful paintings from 2009 - Jupiter Surfaces.
Photo 2: Me + Yellow Hoodie

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

21...


Today was my anniversary...my favorite time of this day was when I was on my way to dinner.

I have been married 21 years.
The rules of Blackjack cannot apply here.
If they did my choices would be as follows:
1. Stand
2. Hit Me
3. ...Double Down is not an option here.

What does all this mean? I have no idea.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Just a random post with a ton of random things that may not really be so random at all.





So, Tyler Derdun was one hell of a community organizer.

hmmmm....so, last night I was eating a bowl of cereal. Just sitting there munching away, bowl in hand, surfing the net, checkin' stuff out, a little midnight snack cause I realized that I was fucking starving. Forgetting to eat lately... preoccupied with things. All the sudden, and you may have sensed where this is going, I chomp on something unchompable. I had to spit out this seemingly giant hard thing in my mouth. I was eating a combination of two cereals, cause I just had a little of each...corn flakes with raisins and shredded wheat...I am not sure which was the culprit, or if this blend of carbs and processed non-deliciousness spawned a hard talon-shaped object. I just about threw up in my wheaties at midnight. This perpetuated into a night of insomnia...but I managed to get to bed at 4am-ish and then slept in until now-ish, less a 10 minute text-break to let someone know I am continuing my self-imposed quarantine.

Yeah, I am avoiding a massive outbreak of the h1n1 at the office. I am on vacation next week, and decided (with the surprising encouragement of all my friends and colleagues) that I should just go home and wait it out, although, it has me physically worn down. I have a stupid surplus of sick-days to use. I like to say that I do not get sick, I am just chronically ill. Thank you killar immune system, which has never known when to stop. Awesome t-cells.

Working on a lot of new stuff right now. Mostly my abstract, emotional canvases, where I let nonrepresentational shape and intense color tell a story to provoke emotions. I think my work is mostly provocative. You may see it, or maybe not, but you have to really look at it. It is like something is almost there, almost on the tip of your tongue or the brink of your thoughts, and then sometimes you just know. It is chaos. I have learned to thrive in chaos. And I use that chaos to create these little narratives about emotions.

See what I meant by random? Okay, I have a list of stuff to do now...

Photo courtesy of my iPhone. It is a snapshot of a scene in High Art. You should check it out.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

70 pounds later...



Even when I have had just about the shittiest day ever, this reminds me that I look hellah better at the end of it than a year ago. Once i lose the next 70 pounds I will post a triptych.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Transylvanian Concubine by Rasputina

This is how I rock...(laughing now)

----RULES----

1. Put Your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name. Fool! *’s are much classier
5.Put this on your journal.


1. If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
"God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash

2. How would you describe yourself?
"Kissing the Sun" The Young Gods
Lyrics:
Soon we will be on our way
Say goodbye to yesterday

Soon we will be in the light
Swimming in the open sky

We’ll spread our wings around the stars
Watch the way we drop our scars

We will be kissing the sun
Everybody knows kissing the sun
One and one with the one you’ve chosen

We’ll spread our wings as we get higher
Spread our wings into the fire

We will be kissing the sun
Everybody knows kissing the sun
One and one And the thing explodes

[Wild that it mentions scars]

3. What do you like in a guy/girl?
"Rental Car" by Beck
[Let me rent you for a while...I get bored easily.
Honestly, I have no idea what this means.]

4. How do you feel today?
"Timebomb" Godsmack
[Didn't I already tell you to back the fuck up?...oh no, I deleted that]

5. What is your life's purpose?
"Down with the Sickness" Disturbed

[ugh weh weh weh weh. ugh ghh ugh. I am one sick bitch.]

6. What is your motto?
"Szamar Madar" by Venetian Snares
[I'll translate this from Hungarian later on...all I know is the video rocks. It is about the creation of the universe, or some shit like that.]

7. What do your friends think of you?
"Over" by The Perfect Circle
[I am so over...that's ok. I'm tired now, anyway.]

8. What do you think of your parents?
"Gun Shy" by Liz Phair
[um, I have no idea what this means...]

9. What do you think about very often?
"Hunger Strike" by Temple of the Dog
[I have been really fat (morbidly obese...pretty words) all of my life. Now I am losing tons of weight...I'll miss being fat, even if it is killing me.]

10. What is 2 + 2?
"Where are You? (Carol C. Remix)" by Omni Trio
[stupid question=Stupid Answer]

11. What do you think of your best friend?
"Johnny Feelgood" Liz Phair
[My best friend rocks. He has taken care of me for twenty+ years. I dig him more than anything or anyone else on Earth.]

12. What do you think of the person you like?
"3rd Planet" by Modest Mouse
[Hmmm...I like a lot of people...and incidently they are all Earthlings.]

13. What is your life story?
"Up To Me" by Jethro Tull
[Why that is true.]

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?
"Joey" by Concrete Blonde
[ha ha...more like Joey's wife]


15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?

"We Can Work It Out" by The Beatles
[And I am sure we can and we will, man....as soon as you get over yourself...or I get over you.

Ha...just making shit up again. Awesome, huh?]


16. What will you dance to at your wedding?

"Freestyler Remix 2" by The Bom Funk MC
[thaz hilarious]

17. What will they play at your funeral?
"Gypsy" Fleetwood Mac
[Um...that is not on my funeral playlist!]

18. What is your hobby/interest?
"Thru the Motion" by Pepe Deluxe
[hmmm...I like to dance.]

19. What is your biggest fear?
"Surrender" by U2
[NEVER!]

20. What is your biggest secret?
"Biggah" by Mephisto Odyssey
[This has no words...my secret is still intact!]

21. Your life:
"I Can't Wait" by The White Stripes
[Who you messin' with? Who you think you tryin' to fool. Whatever.]

22. What will you post this as?
"Transylvanian Concubine" Rasputina
[It makes as much sense as anything else.]

Friday, March 21, 2008

The ABCs of My Obessions

Created this ABC list based on my "obsessions" back in January and posted it on my dA account. And when I say obsession, I mean random things that have piqued my interests over the years and now.

A
Art
Astrophysics
Anti-corporate Acronyms
Astrology
Angelina Jolie

B
Bongo Drums
:thumb75001667:
Blogging
Belly Dance (Oriental/Caberet Style)
Books (Love buying books...mostly non-fiction and collectibles)

C
Coffee
Cinnamon (mostly Altoids Gum)
Cultures (global and popular)
Chipotle
Cowbell...can you ever have enough?

D
Digital Art
Donnie Darko
Dentistry

Factoid: It is hard to believe now, but my first career was as a dental assistant. I was good at it in one way (the technical aspect), but a completely horrid bitch to the patients (what is this "bedside manner" you speak of???). I worked for no less than five different dentists in the first year...fired by every one of them. Some of them were kind enough to call it a "transition". One of my patients gave me the nickname of The Grim Reaper...that's when I decided that maybe it was not the career for me. But I still know lots about teeth.

E
Elegant Gore

F
Family Guy
Flash (Design and development)
Female Form in Art
Framing Art

G
GarageBand
Games (all kinds, all platforms)
opening my own Gallery...some day.

H
History Channel
Human nature

I
iPods
iPhone

J
Jeremy Blake
Jewelry (not fine...)

K
Kaleidescopes
Kelly

L
Language (mainly swearing like a sailor in inappropriate venues [it's fucking rad], what's left unsaid, and its proper and improper use)

M
Milla Jovovich
Music (right now I have almost 5000 songs on my iPod...15 days worth of music)
Magnetic resonance imaging and its use in art

N
Necrotizing Fasceitis (a concern for the living, as well as the dead and undead)
Neurological disorders (mostly mine)

O
Obsessions (sort of comes full circle here...)
Osho

P
Poetry
Playing the piano
Photoshop (with my Wacom Pad)

Q
Questions
Quitting

R
Relationships
It's weird...can't really think of anything for R.

S
Shoes (specifically Steve Madden boots)
Sundays (recharging my brain)

T
Tarot Cards (favorite deck)
Tea
Time (and my lack of it when it comes to my "obsessions")

U
Urban Legends

V
Vices (I miss cigarettes...I have been meaning to drink more whiskey, too)
Vanity (I am not so much vain, as I am aware of myself)

W
Watercolor
Wikipedia (rocks)
Writing
The Walking Dead

X
Xaviera Hollander

Y
You? More than likely not...as you can see, my list is pretty full. Who has the time??? ;)

Z
Zombies

Damn...you still reading?

Friday, December 28, 2007

An Amusing Quiz

This quiz is creative...FILLED IN on 01-06-08. Feel free to copy it to your blog...cause you know I stole it from another!!

1 How does the world see me?
I have no idea..I do enough shameless self promotion, but have not yet created enough of a persona (not that I will)to influence the world to think of me one way, or another. Plus, as well as I do Google, the "world" does not really know of me anyway.

2 Will I have a happy life?
So far, so good. I have had a few tragic events in my life and some life altering moments in time, but I try to handle those types of negatives and turn them around.

3 What do people really think of me?
Eeeeew. I have had people call me everything from "nicest ever" to "stoic" to "sociopath". I have been called things like "dramatic", "intimidating", "shy", "gregarious", "intelligent", "blond", "creative", "artistic"...I dunno. The list goes on.

And you may notice a lot of opposites in here. There is a reason for this, but I am not divulging my secret. But trust me when I say that I am aware of it and it is intentional.

4 Do people secretly lust after me?
Oh, why the hell not? Seriously, I have had some men lust after me that should have kept it secret. It makes me nervous.

5 How can I make myself happy?
Shoes. OMG. Shoes.

6 What should I do with my life?
Get out of the 9-5 and create art full time.

7 Will I ever have children?
Uh, no. I am way too busy. I have no idea how I would do it. But, I would make an awesome mom and they would have everything they need in life.

8 What is some good advice for me?
Uh...here's what the joke advice is...one of my family members urged me to "not give up" when I told them I was too tired to do something. Uh, I get tired, ok? I'm not giving up..,.I just need a nap. Another one is "get well soon". A personal fav really. I will not get into why.

Good advice is always to advise me to keep a good attitude. It is just that my sarcasm and warped sense of humor take over from time to time and are read as bad. They are not.

9 What do I think my current theme song is?
My sister thinks it should be that newer version of the Mary Tyler Moore song. "You're Gona Make it After All." That is too fucking cheesey.

Right now I will go with the Pixies "Where Is My Mind?"

10 What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
"OH my GOD, Becky. LOOK at her BUTT...." or "Shoes."

11 What song will play at my funeral?
Uh, I will make a funeral playlist on iTunes and let the executor to my estate know.

12 What is my day going to be like?
Well, I have a bit of a headache. And quite frankly, I am not looking forward to the week.

13 Why am I here?
I use to cause life altering changes to people who came into contact with me. I actually thought my purpose at one time was to meet certain people and get them from one point in their life to another. That happened with three of my friends in the past.I think that was a product of being in their twenties and early thirties.

But we do have to be mindful at not only how we manage our own lives, but also how we affect and impact the lives of those who we interact with day to day.

Bottom line is that I am here to create stuff.

14 What will people remember me for?
My art and my quirky, non-traditional writing.

15 What song will I get stuck in my head tomorrow?
With any luck, a Venetian Snares song.

16 Are there people outside waiting to take me away?
No, but that is because noone bothered to alert the authorities.

17 What will this year be all about?
ME ME ME!!!! Just like 1968 to 2007...why stop now.

18 If you reached the top of Mount Everest, you would scream:
UH, my ass would fall off because I get vertigo when I am up too high. I would be screamin' bloody murder...REDRUM REDRUM.

19 The next time you stand up in front of a group of people, you'll say:
Thanks everyone, for coming to my sweetass 40th b-day party. Let's BOWL!!!

20 Your message to the world:
If you love to hate, then hate HATE!!!!

21 Your deepest secret:
NOT gona tell ya. You must read my literature and look for visual clues in my art.

22 Your innermost desire:
Uh, see the question above.

23 Your oldest memory makes you think:
My true oldest memory was at two. I was in the hospital and the nurse was covering my crib with an afghan.

My next oldest memory is being in a highcahir and dumping my plate of baked beans everywhere. I remember liking them, though. I just wanted to see what they would look like everywhere else.

And then my next one was of my mom bathing me in the kitchen sink. Later in life I looked at that sink in wonder that I actually fit into it and it seemed HUGE at the time!!

But the next one had more of a long term, weird effect. I was old enough to walk and sit up in a chair. I was sitting on a chair in the dark dining room and looking at my family in the kitchen. They were all sitting around the table laughing and talking. There was my mom and dad, my 20 year old sister, my 17 year old brother, and my 13 year old sister. I remember trying to understand what they were saying to one another. The language was almost completely foriegn to me at the time, and I was frustrated with them. I could understand every few words, but nothing else.

24 Somewhere in your wedding vows, you'll include:
Past tense...they were all pretty standard.

25 When you wake up in the morning, you mutter:
Shoes. OMG. Shoes. Seriously, I did scream out someone's name last week. Thank god Joe was in the shower.

26 Right now, your feelings are:
I am a little blue.

27 The day you fall in love will be the day that:
Wow. I fell in love a long time ago. I fall in love all the time. It's just my nature.

EDIT: I need to explain my concept of love, in that it is a transient state of emotion that is in constant flux. I may be completely in love at one at one point in time, and then apathtic for the same person at another. The "falling in love all the time" does not translate into "I fall in love with various people"...it means I fall in and out of love with the same people. Love is goddamn complicated.

28 You scream during sex:
Ha!! Uh yeah. I am an auditory person. Quiet sex is boring sex.

29 Your farewell message to the readers of this:
Go forth and blog, create stuff, and have noisy sex.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

This is how I feel today.


This is a work by David Senecal called When We Were Happy.

So, it seems to me that there are forces in the universe that exist in order to suck the life out a person. I believe these forces are very well suited for management in corporations because they usually end up there. Actually they are not. I have only met two managers that have this trait. I am sure there are more out there, but I have been lucky enough to have two. They are both vortexes of ego and inefficiencies.

I go home at night and want to paint, but my hand hurts. It is numb and it hurts at the same time. I spend some time trying to see if I have the range of motion that I use to have. I do not.

Time to go to work.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Upcoming Projects/Goals 2008...

1. My list of 40+ paintings (both traditional and digital)...I will not detail them here.
2. A zombie story for OLOGY...if it develops into the awesome I think it can.
3. Collaborate on a digital project with an artist friend. Whenever he gets to me on his long list of projects.
4. As soon as issue 19 of OLOGY is published, start contacting the next set of people on my list to interview.
5. Design for Celebrity Chef event (CAHS)
6. Work on a pretty large commission...a piece of art for someone's living room....we shall see how that goes. So many people proposition me and it never goes anywhere. About 50% of the time they fall through.
7. Get the Esty store set up and running.
8. Create and animation for a VS video. Would be awesome.
9. Invest $1500 or more toward art collection in '08. I have really expanded my collection this year. My latest is a watercolor from a woman in Scotland. A couple of my favs from this year are from Senecal, as well as a limited edition tarot deck from Shelly Corbett. I really need to list all of the items I have collected over the years and make an inventory. I discuss investing in stocks or art with a friend of mine, and I always say I get more satisfaction investing in and collecting art.
10. Manage an abstract club on Deviant...and possibly a Trad. Collage Club.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

If I Were...

If I were ....

a month, i would be:
October
a day of the week, i would be:
Saturday
a time of day, i would be:
3 am
a planet, i would be:
Neptune
a moon/satellite:
Jupiter's Europa
a sea animal, i would be:
A giant squid or octopus
a direction, i would be:
East
a piece of furniture, i would be:
An overstuffed chair and a half with a matching ottoman
a sin, i would be:
Lust or Envy
a historical figure, i would be:
An Egyptian queen
a liquid, i would be:
Coffee, tea or mercury
a stone, i would be:
Amazonite
a tree, i would be:
A pear tree...er, i dunno.
a bird, i would be:
Peacock
a tool, i would be:
A paintbrush
a weapon, i would be:
Something sharp
an accessory, i would be:
A long, flowing silk scarf
a flavor, i would be:
Cinnamon
a flower/plant, i would be:
a rare orchid
a kind of weather, i would be:
Breezy and cold, but sunny
a mythical creature, i would be:
A glam vampire
a musical instrument, i would be:
Bongo drums, baby.
an animal, i would be:
A spoiled house cat
a colour, i would be:
Purple or red
a vegetable, i would be:
Red pepper
a sound, i would be:
The distant sound of thunder, or a whistle from a train where no tracks exist.
an element, i would be:
Water
a car, i would be:
A Jag-u-wah
a song, i would be:
Steel Cube Idolatry
a movie, i would be directed by:
David Lynch
a book, i would be written by:
Max Brooks...oh, I kid. Stephen Hawking...not really.
a food, i would be:
food for the soul...
a material, I would be:
Chinese silk
a taste, i would be:
Spicy
a scent, i would be:
Cinnamon
a religion, i would be:
Buddhism...and Baha'i
an object, i would be:
A canvas
body part, i would be:
Eyes
a facial expression, i would be:
A smile
a subject in school, i would be:
Art class
cartoon character, i would be:
I am at a loss here
a shape, i would be:
A sphere
a number, i would be:
8

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Cold November Rain

So, in the months leading up to Halloween I had built up in my mind that it was going to be a such a fun experience. And when it actually happened it was blah. It's November now. So, last night I did a Halloween tarot reading on a friend. I recorded it in the blog, then it seemed to take these unexpected and revealing turns and seemed to make to many odd speculations about him, so I did not published it.

I expect that this will be a very busy month. Next week the Bob Ross Tribute contest wraps up. That was fun. I need to think of a clever thing to do next...a contest on DA. Wad thinking of a CSS contest, but I can do that myself anyway. I have quite a few paintings planned for the rest of the year. Getting ready to enter a small work into the December show, OAL Thumb Box. Possibly The Devil's Breath:


The Devil's Breath by =peggymintun on deviantART

OH yeah. And in just a couple of weeks I am going to see the Cult. That will be cool. My friend Karan is going, too. More to follow...

Oh yeah, by the way, it is sunny outside.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Me...a Zombie...Sweeeet.



If you thought that was entertaining, then check this out. I may be an extra in a B movie...as a zombie. That is sooooo awesome. One of my life goals realized. Well, maybe not a life goal, but kewl none the less. The movie is called Book of the Dead.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Blah Blah Blah Blahgger!!!

Blah Blah Blah...Randomness Rulz..No not rules as in guidelines. It rulz as in it oversees, or whatever. Just read it. Oh, eeer, so you knew what I meant.

Speaking as the Vast Overlord-ess of my Blogger...

1. NBC can kiss my big, fat ass for provoking Apple to take episodes of The Office off of iTunes...you greedy bastards.
2. So, my interview with Dredsden Doll's Amanda Palmer will be in Issue #19 of OLOGY.
3. I may have an interview with Aaron Funk (aka Venetian Snars)...if he responds to my message again. I hope he does...he gives interesting responses to his interview, so I hope he is into it.
4. Recent belly dance moves have been KILLIN my left hip...but I have a class performance on the 9th. Solo. Oh, if you only had a camcorder...that would only put you in grave danger.
5. AGORA is coming up fast. Saturday, October 13th!
6. I am a little off track from my art ideas list because I have been involved in a lot of contests and challenges on DeviantArt. I have been emmersing myself in digital. I have embedded some of my better ones of late in this post. I am progressing in both digital and traditional. I think my digital work is getting better, and it is benefitting my traditional. I don't know if I will ever get to the level of my friend Senecal, as far as selling my digital work. I do plan to submit them in a calendar format for 2008.
7. Getting ready for a Halloween Bash. I decided to have it the weekend after. More of a Day of the Dead party, I guess.
8. Eight is always intentionally left blank because I forget what it is for. Consult the Violent Femmes.
9. I am feeling so goth right now (god, that sounds so fucking lame...I'm leaving it)...can't wait for dreary skies and coldness. I love the fall.
10. Read up on this chick (Erzsebet of Bothory)...she is who I will be at my Halloween party


Seven by *peggymintun on deviantART

Queen of Cups by *peggymintun on deviantART

My Brain on Vast by *peggymintun on deviantART

The World Through My Window by *peggymintun on deviantART

Sunday, September 16, 2007

20 Random Things About Me...Plus Pics of Jared and Jimbo

20 Random (painfully interesting) facts....

1. I love to write bad, angsty poetry...the kind that provokes one to snap their fingers, crave lattes, and smoke clove cigarettes in dark coffee houses.
2. I love Indian food, especially Tandoori chicken...yum.
3. I love rockin' out to Guitar Hero, and have been known to play with 95% accuracy with the guitar behind my head. OH yeah.
4. I recently got the chance (thanks to a friend on DA) to interview Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls....!!!! It'll be in an upcoming issue of OLOGY magazine!
5. My current favorite thing to do (aside from my art) is bellydancing and I have been taking classes for almost a year now.
6. I love mountains...but I get vertigo like a bitch.
7. When I was a teenager I wanted to be a disc jockey...but my dreams took a tragic turn into oblivion when I accidentally left the studio mic on while DJ-ing one night...there's a lot more to that story that I will not tell here.
8.
9. Brainchild from Omnibucket gave me nightmares and started my love and fascination with all things zombie.
10. I hate 80's styles...ruffles, pinned pants, leg warmers and big hair. Come on people, once was too freakin' much.
11. My fav coffee house drink is sugarfree hazelnut iced coffee.
12. I love books by astrophysicists, such as Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking, but can feel my brain overloading when I read them. Wow.
13. Sometimes when I drift off to sleep and am very relaxed I see shapes and lights that play like a music player visualization, and I also, on occasion, have hypnagogic hallucinations.
14. I love making Flash animations to music, but I never have time to do it.
15. I most identify with being a Buddhist, but I appreciate other religions.
16. One of these days I want to learn to play the piano.
17. I love reading tarot cards for people, but will not do it when I am not feeling well.
18. The last three cars I have owned have been Ford Tauruses. I don't care about cars...they serve a purpose. If I had to have a luxury car it would be a Jaguar. And I would pronounce it Jag-U-wah.
19. I only like to chew cinnamon gum.
20. I can move my eyes in different directions independently.

Okay...time for pics of Jimmie and Jared....