halloween ideas

(sailor moon)

vs.


(yes this is a unicorn giraffe)

...

you decide

zebra and giraffe, friends for life

i was let off school early today, so i swung by value village to check if they had something for a friend, they didn't, but i didn't leave empty handed! i got these wicked pins, they have crystals for eyes. and they're awesome. i don't know what i'll do with them yet, they'll probably just hang out on my cardigan, but i like em.



also, on my way home, i had the radio set to delilah (who, if you don't know, plays your favorite love songs by request every week night), and quit playing games with my heart came on by the backstreet boys. i'd be lying if i said i didn't sing along.

this song has been popping up again lately, i really, really like it:


i like working in os, i meet some really cool people and the customers are almost always wicked, or at the very least friendly. i'd say about 95% of the people say "thanks" when they leave. way better than the mall. today i was writing the name lilith over and over for a tag i had to make, and i discovered it's a fun name to write. give it a try!

at some point i'm going to post another passage from the book i'm reading, it's pretty wonderful.

i love the whole world

and the discovery channel

one day they will rule

conflicted

i think this is a pretty picture.
i love owls.
i hate mascots.
so even though i should like it, i'm horrified by it. scary.

another thing that creeped me out, was a short 15 minute film by martin arnold that i saw in my film enchante class. what he did was take approximately 40 seconds of clips from a series of movies (andy hardy) with judy garland and some other guy who's name i forget, and re-edited them and repeated clips to change the story. i can't find the full thing on the net, but here's a clip. if you get bored, skip to the last 30 seconds, it's really weird but while watching the full 15 min, i was thoroughly creeped out. if you want to know, martin arnold changed the story into a love triangle between judy garland's character, andy hardy, and andy hardy's mother. creepy.

mixed media

super catchy, stuck in my head.

so, this conversation happened today, made me laugh:

me: so for halloween this year i think i’m going as sailor moon
scott: cool
me: ya, that or a bad goldilocks
*scott gives me a weird look*
me: ...like, carry around a basket with three dead bear heads in it
scott: oh, ok, I thought you meant like, ”naughty”, aka slutty goldilocks
me: no I did that once, then decided never again, which is why I’m going with sailor moon
scott: oh ya, gotta respect her reputation

and, one more thing:

the countdown is over! in less than four hours, the british will have invaded!

lovely

i'm reading the book "the street of crocodiles and other stories" by bruno schulz for my film enchante class with guy maddin. it's really tough to read, because it's all very poetical. when i do get what's going on, i like it.

here's a blurb i thought was especially pretty:

"An enormous sunflower, lifted on a powerful stem and suffering from hypertrophy, clad in the yellow mourning of the last sorrowful days of its life, bent under the weight of its monstrous girth. But the naive suburban bluebells and unpretentious dimity flowers stood helpless in their starched pink and white shifts, indifferent to the sunflower's tragedy."

another quote i like, but this one is by W.S. Merwin:

"Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color."

run away with me. i love you.

i am, once again, ready an hour earlier than i needed to be. this of course, leads to a blog post. i've gone through my blog pic folder and discovered these hidden gems, that for some reason i saved at one point to blog about, then never did. enjoy.


if i look at this too much, my heart may just explode. <3


i like these.


i don't remember what i was searching for, i'm pretty sure this wasn't it, but it made me lol.


this doesn't even need an explanation.


found this necklace online and liked it. too bad it was over $400

read an online article about some guy selling real life pikachu's. he made a couple mil i think. i don't think they looked quite like this...
i youtubed it and there are animals called pika's (i think) and they're pretty much a cross between a squirrel and a rabbit.


not sure why i have this, but it's colorful, so i like it too.


this was because i went on a walk and i saw 8 dogs. three golden retrievers, three bichon frise, and two beagles. i think it's safe to say "hello suburbia!"

the end. until next time boredom strikes.

crunchy friends in a liquid broth

i've been in my new house for about 7 months now. i still have no idea what 3/4's of the light switches belong to.

i just ate a bowl of croutons. i live off carbs, it's so bad. but mmm stale garlic bread. mmmmm carbs.




soup, soup a-tasty
soup, soup a-spicy
carrot and coriander
chili chowder
crouton, crouton
crunchy friends in a liquid broth
i am gazpacho, ooh
i am a summer soup, mmm
miso, miso
fighting in the dojo
miso, miso
oriental prince in the land of soup!



oh my goodness. i just blogged about croutons and light switches.
i promise something slightly more interesting next time...

hate. love. excite. watermelon. stardust!

school is stressful. i'm already in the "i hate it" mode. i met guy maddin last night and he seems really cool. and really jolly, not at all how i pictured him! he told us all to add him on facebook lol.

ROAR! i don't want to do school. i want to drop my film making course and pick up maybe another art history course if anything. the film making one is going to take up too much time I don't have to spare. bleck.

in other news...four more sleeps! it's like santa is coming, but instead, it's a 6'4 british boy with blue eyes and piercings. who is not fat...and has no gifts...and can't grow a big bushy beard...so maybe it's not like santa at all! BUT either way, i'm excited as if christmas morning is four sleeps away.

cheap stores adventure

today i had no school, which led to much boredom considering all my friends are either working or in school on mondays. my dad left for a business trip so i was left with the car. i hopped in the car and off i went to value village and superstore, the only two places i can actually afford right now. i found some really big and goofy earrings and a big awkward owl key chain (which, i just realized, i forgot to take a picture of), and a cute sweater dress.






because i know you're all dying to see it, i made an image to show you what the key chain looks like...i have way too much time on my hands.


when i got home my dog looked cute and was happy to see me...so i took a picture of her too. we just gave her a bath and brushed her fur which is usually in tight curls, so now she has a big afro. she needs to get her hair cut, but for now, i think she looks really sweet, because her head looks a million times bigger than her body. plus, like always, her tongue is hanging out, so that multiplies the cuteness factor by ten.

my folks are having a dinner party tonight, and i had to stay home and help them with things. i wasn't looking forward to it, because i find i'm always really awkward with my parents friends. one of the guys here tonight is named ali. and he is the coolest guy i've ever met.
he used to live in iran and has lived through wars and i'm sure some really horrible things, yet he seems like the most genuine and happy person i know. i showed him how my dog could do tricks like roll over and shake a paw, and he was laughing so hard. he kept making her roll over and over again, and each time he roared with laughter. i'm sure he fed my dog half of the chicken on his plate.
he was asking me about what i'm doing in school and i was telling him about my ambitions in film making. he was telling me a bunch of stories about videos he's recorded that aren't quite a film, but they mean so much to him, and that's all he really cares about.
one film he made was about the birds nesting in his old house, a mother and it's baby. the mother was trying to teach the baby bird to fly, but it just couldn't learn and kept falling out of the nest where the neighbourhood tabbie cats would try and attack it. as an innocent bystander he couldn't just stand by and watch so he would help the bird and scare away the cats. after days and days of the mother trying to teach the baby bird to fly, the little bird still couldn't. the little bird ended up killing itself by banging it's head against the cage it was in. and it broke his heart.
i know it doesn't sound like much, but he just seemed so genuine. he told me that whenever i make my first project, to let him know and he'll be the first in line to see it. i think he meant every word.

it may not make sense to anyone but me, and i probably didn't explain what happened too well, but i left the conversation feeling really inspired and optimistic. not only about film making, but about people. my favorite thing in life, is meeting people who are genuinely happy. and people who, when they ask how your day was, actually care to hear the answer.

i feel happy. and i really do hope that each and every one of you have a wonderful day today.

i had gone on a music hiatus for the last few weeks for some reason. well sort of, i was listening to music, but it pretty much just the same two or three artists over and over again and the music wasn't doing much for me. i uploaded a bunch of new tunes to my pod before my first day of class, and have been just wanting to dance dance dance ever since. i'd forgotten about so many bands that i'd put on there! i always keep my pod on shuffle so i don't know what's on next. it's always a pleasant surprise. whenever a new song comes on that i really like, i get a little bit excited and think "I LOVE THIS SONG!", which is silly because of course i will like the song that come son next, I'M the one who put them there! i've been singing out loud a lot and sort of dancing too when i have my headphones on, which is kind of embarrassing, but i don't mind :) i don't have any reason to be in a good mood today, and i was in an awful one this morning, but right now i'm feeling great.


la la la, this is what i was listening/singing to as i biked home today. enjoy!

so i went to the mall because i was really bored at home and walked into a store where this guy who had added me on facebook a week or so ago happened to work (i didn't know this before i went into the store so was semi-surprised, but hey i didn't blush!). when he added me on fb i had no idea who he was but he recognized me from when i worked in the mall and told me the store he worked at so i accepted the friend request and that was that. and so anyway, i get into the store and he recognized me and whatever so we chatted for a few minutes and it was a little awkward, which is understandable lol. it's funny caz i see people in real life who i have never met, but who's blog i'd read or something and i always feel like the biggest creep, but this time we were both aware of the weirdness. it was like we knew each other but totally didn't. the internet makes life and socializing really awkward. or maybe it's just me, i haven't decided yet.

if i'm still at u of m next year (i'm gonna try to get into red river), i think i'm going to try out for a spot in the school newspaper (the manitobian). i'd try for the writer for arts & culture or the music section. don't worry, the way i blog is not at all the way i write. in real life i use proper grammar, punctuation, spelling and capital letters. believe it or not i was in advanced english and at the top of my class!

p.s: bike riding is the new scenster cool right now. but you're only cool if your bike is vintage/old school looking. i've been biking for years and being teased about it just as long. even now that biking is considered cool i don't have a "cool" bike. just you wait!
it was raining today and my bike seat got wet so i put a plastic bag over it while i rode home. now that's biker cool.

day one!

my first day back at school was ok, nothing to really complain about.
my first class was film and contemporary thought. i wasn't too sure what the class would actually be focusing on, i just liked the prof lol. turns out we're watching films that focus on fears and anxieties of different eras. it actually sounds like it will be a really neat course!

then i had an hour to chill, and i met up with craig who also had an hour to kill.
next up was my art history class, medieval and early renaissance art and architecture. sounds like it will be pretty basic, pretty much what we did last year but obviously focusing more on medieval/renaissance stuff. i just took the course caz i needed it to take death and evils in art next term. i knew some people in the class so that was cool. the only thing is, instead of a big auditorium like last term, we have it in a tiny class with a big screen so you can't often read whats written at the bottom of the screen which is usually the important stuff. looks like i'll be kicking it in the front row this term.

after that class, i had five minutes to run half way across campus for my kubrick and a touch of spielberg class. i got there early (don't ask me how) and took a seat in the class. after about ten minutes i realised i was in the wrong classroom! (for film classes that are twice a week, one day we watch movies in an auditorium and the next day we have lectures in a different classroom...i was in the auditorium on my classroom day, arg). but i didn't know what the classroom was that i was supposed to be in so i had to call up my dad and have him check up on the good 'ol interweb. so, once i found my class, i then had to book it into a classroom of 3rd years (it's a 3rd year course, but somehow i'm allowed to take it) and scurry to a seat in the back. there's two spielberg films we'll be watching, and the rest are kurbick. not really sure why i took the class, because i don't really like either director, but it was something to take and a credit to earn i guess.

at 4:30, my day classes were finished and i had 2.5 hours until my night class started. so i went up to a food place on campus, bought a chicken wrap and fries and read for two hours. i've started on flowers for algernon, i'm going to need to finish it this weekend because i should buy and dig in on my texts now.

my last class 7-10pm, was my film making class. i knew two people in the class which was cool. the prof seems alright, but the course looks like it will be intense. i'm not sure if i'll be able to hack it with a full course load this term, but we'll see. our first project has already been thrown at us, it's a 30sec music video. we got shipped off into groups, given a clip, and away we go i guess. it's due on the 26th, which sounds way too soon and i really didn't want to have to worry abut homework until after the 1st of october. my group got bollywood sounding music and the two fellas i'm paired with want to do a reservoir dog-esque thing with it, which is fine by me. they seem really into the course which is nice because usually in group work where the marks really count, i get worried everyone wont pull their weight. i think it will be a cool course, and i'll finally get some real hands on experience. hopefully i'll like it.


it feels really weird being back at university after four months.

p.s: i had a weird dream last night where i was bike riding around an area with my friend laura, and we came to this house where she knew some people and we were all hanging out on the driveway. i was just sitting playing with something, i don't remember what, when one of the guys told me i had really fat arms. then everyone else got into a circle around me and started picking on me calling me fat and stuff and i kept telling them "i'm not fat, leave me alone" but they wouldn't and laura wouldn't leave with me because she wanted to stay and hang out with the guys that were there.

i think i had this dream because i was reading flowers for algernon before bed and he was describing a bunch of times people beat him up and made fun of him, but at the time he didn't realise they were being mean to him. it was really sad.

ode to summer

dear summer,
thanks for being you.
love lauren.

the obvious highlight of my summer in 5 photos:






my farewell to summer bike ride. tomorrow is day one of school. i'm taking 8 film courses this year and two art history :) love love love.

no matter how many you want, you're only allowed one look back.



peek-a-boo


goodbye summer! you've treated me kindly.

breakin it up

whoa. on photobucket they advertise random albums people have that you can look through, and this picture was the cover of the album. it's the MALE lead singer from tokyo tokio hotel. he looks like a really pretty gothy girl.


song's been in my head all day. time flies by (you guessed it) lykke li.

just paid my credit card bill from europe and other stuff, car payment to my folks, and school tuition for my fall term. i haven't had this little money in years. it's scary, i hate it. i'm going to work out a budget of how much i can spend a month. it'll be like $20 a month lol. cool. looks like i wont be buying clothes as often this year, and having to do layaway at m work when i do. i wish the library hired you even if you weren't bilingual. they pay well. i need cash. crap. i didn't plan well for this. (just did some calculations, subtracting bills/other payments/what i'll save per paycheck/etc. from what i'll make a month..i leave myself $30 a week of spending money. yikes. i'm also planning on going to the gym mon/tues/friday morn/sundays, which will be about $40 a week. lol ew, that doesn't even work, that puts me in the hole by $10. i'll have to cut down on my tims/starbucks/other food purchases for sure. i may accidentally get seriously skinny.)

p.s: i think i'm going to go get my bangs back tomorrow if a salon has free time.