Heard and Seen

Heard:

"I tangoed in Carnegie Hall as a fifth grader... I had a little vest."

"I had a friend who went to Oberlin for a few weeks. He makes shoes now."

"All these Japanese tourists with beers in their hands." 

Seen:

Man arguing with the cashier at Rite Aid about why he couldn't sample a product before he bought it. 

Man in truck stopped in traffic blaring The Dandy Warhols and picking his nose. 

Things I've Seen, heard, and done

Tingz I've done:

Layed under the stars

fallen asleep standing up

bought a bag of 10 lemons, and loved it

yelled back at a squirrel



Tingz I've Heard:

"I wonder if spiderzilla is still there?"

"Oh really stormtrooper?"

"Can't we just dance without our pants?"



Tingz I've Seen:

Old man on motorcycle with a confederate flag jacket, twice in one week

A piece of paper left on table, with nothing but "Tom Petty" written on it

A light yellow butterfly, fluttering around in the single sunny patch on a cloudy day

Fun things I've heard

Stuff I've heard:

"As a botanist, it's the best place to go in New Jersey."
"I don't know, enough so you can stick a banana though it."
"But there was one smart woman, she ran away so the monkey wouldn't steal her soul."
"You don't have enough nipple to get a piercing." "My deep dark secret is to get a nipple piercing."
"I love it, I feel like I'm on drugs. ..Statistics are my drugs, data are my drugs."
"My alarm goes off for 5 minutes because I can't get the sheep."
"I want to say 'whatever floats your boat', but sometimes the boat should just sink!"
"They met someone, why can't I?" "Don't feel too bad, they met their cousin.."
"I can't wait to shower so my feet don't smell like eggs."
"One man's dood is another man's poop!"
"My ear is really hot. I don't know why. It makes me uncomfortable. Am I dying?"
Person 1: "Want to hear a great quote!?" Person 2: "No" Person 1: "Yes you do, it's great!" Person 2: "Yes please" Person 1:"Okay, um..ummm.. I'm going to botch it. FUCK! Shit shit shit." Person 2: "That's a good quote." Person 3: "'FUCK!' I'm going to get that tattooed on my ass."
"He takes out his knife and shoots someone."

Stuff I've seen/done:

- I watched people have a conversation that I couldn't hear and I observed how many facial expressions they made within the short period of time that I watched.
- Watched someone express pure joy over the smell of popcorn.
- Cried with a friend.
- Smiled so much that my cheeks were in incredible pain (not a bad problem to have).
- Walked to Bar Island and waited for the water to go out so I could walk all the way across.
- Ate the most delicious milkshake ever, got a brain freeze, then felt sick after because I ate it too fast. But, it was still worth it.
- Watched the fish in my common room for a few minutes.
- Popped the resin pockets on a balsam fir tree and got my hands terribly sticky.

really cool problematic artist

Laurel Nakadate

interesting interview in The Believer:    click here to read

what is the difference between creating art and fiction and nonfiction and all that!!!!!!  great and messed up interview and artistic process....

stuff I heard somewhere

phoenix sucks as a place to live and a concept

what does that mean?

I guess it does not suck so much as a place to live because people do live there but as a concept...

I don't understand, what...?

No, I mean, people make choices and that's cool....you can't help where you're born but man when you think about all the different places out there that are not phoenix...

Like every other town?

Yeah, like that...so when you really sit down with it for a while Phoenix does suck I think both ways...as a concept and a place to live.

this is across from Conners Emerson...down the hill..there are three of these signs...yellow w/ white painted hole on them.  you cannot look beneath you just have to trust....also (there is so much) there is a wonderful completeness to it..

Things Rose Did and Saw and Overheard

September 18 - September 30

Things I did:

• captured a deceased jellyfish
• went contra dancing and hurt my feet
• cut my hair too short
• ate a clementine despite discouragement
• cried for no reason
• received the gift of a tiny octopus in a matchbox
• wore dirty socks
• ate someone else's chocolate cake
• asked 53 people whether they thought a coat was green or gray
• sobbed while eating tacos
• hugged a farmer
• fell in love with a periwinkle
• broke a fork while eating eggplant
• waded in a stream up to my knees in work boots
• called 911 because a tree was on fire
• got a package from my aunt containing a shirt with a marlin on it
• swam in the pouring rain

Things I saw:

• a whale jawbone
• 17 people squished into a small, dark bathroom
• 2 teenaged deer and mom
• a shooting star
• a pile of broccoli bigger than my face
• a moss garden
• a fried egg sitting atop rice and chard
• a guy riding a bike and balancing a styrofoam take-out box on his left palm
• a tall man wearing red pants
• full super blood red lunar eclipse

Overheard:

• "Adam becomes a creature of the night."
• "It has formaldehyde in it, so don't drink it."
• "I can twerk upside down." 
• "Your biology is pretty cool." (used as a pick-up line)
• "I'm a tick! I definitely just gave you lyme disease."
• "I need to call New York. They mailed me a warrant for my arrest, but like..."
• "Where's the marijuana tent?" (at Common Ground Fair)
• "I'm just going to take a nap on this Fucus."
• "Not an ambulance!" - Nick Jenei