another flyer. I am on a roll. rock and roll

Just finished this today. I also found out the album for The franklin Cover Up has been pushed back a month so that gives me a bit more time to work on their album art. I am also working on flyer # 2 with Sean, as part of our flyer making duo-- Awesome Opossum Flyers.

Harry and the Potters are coming to Boise.

I whipped this up last night. I think it took about 4 hours, no, more like 5 I think. Either way, the flyer is done and all I have left to do is design the tickets.

I must be super woman. I do so much!

Alright, I just realized I have about a million jobs, some pay some don't. I am going to make a list for you and maybe you will sympathize with me and how much time I don't have to hang out with people.


1. work about 10-25 hours a week at Tully's Coffee
2. work about 10-15 hours a week at Zoo Boise
3. design flyers with Sean for the Artistery in Portland, OR
4. create artwork for art collective in Portland, OR
5. make flyers, book shows, advertise for new venue/organization, Community Benefits in Boise
6. perform in a band
7. make flyers and other art for bands locally, and not locally.
8. make my own art on my own time
9. soon--go to school, 12 credits this coming semester

Experiments with a fisheye

I took these quite a while ago, but I thought I would give them a bit more "exposure". Har har har.

Pain in the form of a thin and long rubber band...

I had an ortho appointment yesterday morning. The doc checked my teeth and set up my braces for the last and final process for getting them off. In 3 weeks I should have my braces off. I have had this... metal contraption and rubber mess in my mouth since May of 2005. It will be August of 2007 when my mouth becomes whole (or less?) again.

I can not begin to tell you the shit I have had to do for my braces. Sure, I didn't have to wear headgear, but I did have to wear rubber bands (aka "elastics") in such a fashion that they did one or several of the following-- 1. stopped me from opening my mouth 2. stopped me from stretching my mouth to yawn or sing or talk 3. they stretched in the front of my teeth and made me look like a freak, even having strangers I didn't even know make fun of me, stare, or ask me what the fuck was in my mouth. 4. caused excruciating pain 5. caused a number of other problems.

I am trying to figure out how many rubber bands I used in the past year and a half. I will figure out a total estimate and I will post it on here for everyone to see. I know at least that I was getting 2-5bags of bands every 4-5 weeks for approximately 1.5+ years. I still have bags of them sitting in my house. I am trying to find a way to use them...possibly make a sculpture out of them. Some kind of message of being trapped and bound with rubber and now finally being set free.

Let me tell you right now. The pain I am feeling is probably the worst the braces have caused me. Right now I have what are referred to as "spaghetti bands" in my mouth. The band is a long and skinny band, resembling a spaghetti noodle. It starts from the back bracket, goes up to the next tooth, then back down, then back up-- 1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, 4 to 5, 5 to 6. Basically, I have a zig zag of bands running on both sides of my mouth. My teeth don't have wires keeping them in place for these next 3 weeks. That is what the rubber bands are for. If I don't wear the bands, my teeth go back to how they used to be. It is an odd sensation when you bite down too hard and feel your teeth shift in your soft gums.

The pain is comparable to a few months ago when I had a spring in my mouth that rested right under my left cheek. It lay so close to my cheek, that when I opened my mouth for anything, it shredded the inside of my cheek and left welts. I had a non-stop infection and canker sore inside my mouth for 2 months. I kind of was glad my mouth was so infected. I wanted the ortho doc and assistants to have to look into my mouth and see what shit I had to put up with while having their contraptions in my mouth. I always hoped it looked really disgusting. ...Eventually that all healed as soon as that spring was removed.

But in three weeks, my dental work is still not finished. I have caps I have to get on two of my teeth. I had peg laterals, now with the help of the braces, they are now just peg teeth, meaning they are smaller than normal teeth. This wouldn't normally need cosmetic surgery to fix, but they are two of my front teeth, looking quite weird with the rest of my normal teeth.



le sigh.... it shall all be over soon. Maybe I will lose weight... not being able to open my mouth or anything.

When I get Free Time...

I want to illustrate the first half of The Arcade Fire's "Black Wave/Bad Vibrations".


We can reach the sea
They won't follow me
Shadows they fear the sun
We'll make it if we run!

Run from the memory
Je nage, mais les sons me suivent (I swim, but the sounds follow me)

Left my name with the border guards
A name that I don't need
Ce sera un long voyage (It will be a long voyage)
Sur les vagues de l'oubli (On the waves of the lapse of memory)

Run from the memory
Je nage, mais les sons me suivent (I swim, but the sounds follow me)


I can just picture it in my head.... I just need to make sure I render it as I see it.

update on the tour and other stuff

I have been working all day trying to get these flyers finished for the tour that is happening in August. I got them finished, lets just hope they get okay'd and then they can be printed and sent out for distribution. I got the idea for these flyers from a doodle I made last night while I was at an excellent show (I will delve into that later). Lately I have been obsessed with lines and patterns and animals--particularly squids or anything with horns and tentacles. Seems all of my inspiration comes from these obsessions in a combined manor. Maybe I am getting the animal inspirations from my job, or maybe just because animals are so awesome. When I first did this doodle, I was thinking more power cords, like something ripped open and spewing out cords and electricity... but I decided to turn it into a shameful looking squid.




Last night was the show for Real Live Tigers, Karrie Hopper, Unicorn Feather, and A Seasonal Disguise @ community benefits. I was so scared that no one was going to come because it was the first show for the community benefits. But to my surprise, lots of people came! People came because of the flyers I had posted around downtown and folks really liked my work. I felt so good last night about what I had done, though the flyer they liked so much didn't have any of my drawings, just some digital alterings of a tiger (see previous blog to see the flyer). But it was still excellent feedback! Quite a boost of confidence and I was so happy to see people loving the new place. The show was a ton of fun and the bands from texas were so nice. I have met quite a few musicians from Texas the past few months and I have had nothing less of excellent to say about them. Really, fine folk come from that state. After the show we all went to Pie Hole and chit chatted about car games and wanting to move to Montreal (luckily for band mate, Karen, she already lives there) and talked about all kinds of nonsense and laughed at the drunks.


Ooh, also found out I will be having an interview by The Boise Beat, a local writeup on music and art and other happenings in Boise. Quite a nice surprise, hope the publication starts to get more notice from the locals.