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I had the chance to see Fischerspooner and Ssion live last week and it was the best goddamn show of my life. Theatrics, dancers, videos, costuming, mirror tricks, and of course fantastic music. I was in the very front of the crowd pushed up against the railing, dancing my little heart out, and I'm totally gonna be in their tour film. I'll be the short, dykey, fauxhawked chick in a white v-neck. Ha! More details here at the blag.

I feel kind of unproductive, I need to haul out my paints and just do something. Work is exhausting, especially since I'm toiling away in retail trying to scrounge up enough cash to pay for fucking rent next semester. Uggghh being an adult sucks it.

Speaking of, even though no one knows who the hell I am, if anyone passing by is mad impressed by what I have to show here, feel free to hit me up for a commission. I'm fairly cheap (ha!) and don't have any delicate sensibilities to offend, so bring it on.

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Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
eh. "In Chains" is fantastic, the rest of the album is downhill from there. DM's best songs are about bondage, anyway. I hate the one they decided to release as a single, "Wrong". self-indulgent piss. blerrrgh. Oingo Boingo did it better with "On the Outside".

IAMX - Kingdom of Welcome Addiction
love. so much love. "Tear Garden" makes my blood run faster, and "My Secret Friend" with Imogen Heap is a really gorgeous duet. it's all good, really.

Patrick Wolf - the Bachelor
haven't listened to it enough yet, but so far I'm pleased. "Vulture" and "Hard Times" are tentative faves. "Damaris" is really fucking epic.

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/24246864/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/24246864/ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:28:50 PDT
FUCK

AGGAHHAKLLDA;S

oh, it went fine. okay, then.

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i have boots that seriously kick ass, an exciting new piercing, and funny people in my life again.

"duodecillion" means... "twelve million".

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Genderfork
for all your pretty androgynous needs.

Bioephemera
melding science and art, oddities and pretty things.

Foodgawker
uhhh. i want to make everything ever posted here. good thing i have friends with kitchens!

The Post Punk Progressive Pop Party
a "on this day in 19--" type thing for the synthpop/new-wave/post-punk set. music-sharing and snippets of information.

Hitchhiker's Guide on Zplet
the old hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy text-adventure game, for those of us who like to use our imaginations when playing video games. i waste a lot of time here. fuck you, babel fish.

FreakAngels
a webcomic with words by the excellent warren ellis and illustrated by the also excellent paul duffield.

Opium Magazine
avant-garde poems and short prose. also, i just really love the word 'opium'.

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oh. back at universitee and installed in a better-decorated dorm room with a friend living on the other side of it. back into routine, you know--massive studio classes, theataaah, drawing marathons, spending too much time at the teahouse, poking my septum, dancing, clubbing, spending a depressing amount of money on textbooks and art supplies, keeping a running tally of how many times my anthropology professor says "gennduh" in each class, hanging out in trees. same old, same old.

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Amanita Design
absofuckinglutely mind-blowing little animations and games. I am so in love.

Bake and Destroy!
cupcakes for the discerning badass.

the Black Oven
similar, but with more references to Norwegian black metal.

Coilhouse
a blog/magazine dedicated to all that is pretty and weird and wonderful. art, fashion, music, photography, robots, and more.

Kate Beaton comics
entertaining and often historically-based to please people like me who find Tesla sexy and think Napoleon crying and eating cookies is hilarious.

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I'd forgotten how much fun writing letters is.
summer is tiresome.
I may pierce my septum.
this book is quite good.
I need to catch up on Doctor Who episodes.
and I also need a new deviantID because that one is very old and these days I'm more of a suit-coats-and-suspenders type than a floofy-dresses-and-striped-stockings type.

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sometimes my art style changes when I'm looking the other way and it's always a surprise--like, "hey! this doesn't suck! what happened?"

and I am obsessed with the show Dexter.

the end.

good day, gentlemen.

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hello there, exciting classes in three-dimensional art! I've never really done any kind of sculpture before, so this promises to be Neat and Interesting and all that.

oh god there's an eyelash caught in my eye ow ow get it out!

so my new year's resolution is DO MORE ART, and well... I'm in art school. it's foolproof! and I'm quite the fool, so I should know.

and in other news, it was Miss Scarlet! in the conservatory! with the wrench! those fuckers are dangerous. did I just make a double entendre? (only if you've seen the movie... and it's a really lame double entendre.)

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/16262341/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/16262341/ Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:37:56 PST
er... Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds have a new album coming out in the next few months, for which I am really bloody thrilled.

a month-long winter break is far more a curse than a blessing.

and such is life.

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/12857424/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/12857424/ Sat, 05 May 2007 21:44:19 PDT oh, hey. I really don't ever update this. mostly because I have other places to whore out my art and deviantart is sort of generally irritating and the uploading art process disagrees with my computer for some reason. and the amount of art-stealing going on around this site is truly astonishing, so I may just keep things to my livejournal where I can friends-lock stuff. not like anyone would really be interested in stealing my half-assed derivative scribblings, and if it happened I'd probably just be flattered and then after thinking about it hideously angry, but come on.

uh. I don't even remember what I was going to write. my AP drawing/painting portfolio is due in six days and I'm not done with it yet. I got sacked from a job I hated anyway. my prom was last night and included a detour to a drag show at a lesbian bar and then to a hookah bar and I'm tired as a very tired beast. oh, le angst! and I'm graduating in less than a month, YAY.

einstürzende neubauten mix:
(rather mellow, though I love the bangy metal songs I'm in a hnnngh sort of mood right now.)
01. the interimlovers
02. selbsportrait mit kater
03. der schacht von babel
04. total eclipse of the sun
05. stella maris
06. youme and meyou
07. ende neu (special gomez mix)
08. sie
09. sand
10. installation no. 1 (barry adamson mix)
11. für wen sind die blumen?
12. zebulon
13. die interimsliebenden

(I have a thing for cycles, so I like to start mixes with one song and end with a variation of it-- a cover, a remix, an instrumental, a different language, whatever.)

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/11796289/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/11796289/ Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:54:48 PST take off that dress, I'm coming down
I'm your loverman
'cause I am what I am what I am what I am.
L is for LOVE, baby
O is for ONLY you that I do
V is for loving VIRTUALLY all that you are
E is for loving almost EVERYTHING you do
R is for RAPE me
M is for MURDER me
A is for ANSWERING all of my prayers
N is for KNOWING your loverman's going to be
the answer to all of yours.

I love Nick Cave. The end.

bleurgh, I just managed to splorch coffee all over my keyboard.

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/11088818/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/11088818/ Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:02:13 PST
alas, I've been crap and non-creative lately, aside from school assignments and such. I do have a couple commissions that I need to finish, though. however when I do draw, I find that the greatest perk about having a boy who likes me hanging around all the time (I dislike the word 'boyfriend', it sounds too silly to apply to an actual person) is that I have an artbitch to model for me anytime I ask. in return, he requests mixtapes. ours is a symbiotic relationship.

I adore Metric, how is it that Emily Haines manages to sound so lovely and upbeat while singing things like "if this is the life, why does it feel so good to die?" and "high-rise graves"?

tomorrow, I am going to hang out creepily in a cemetary, bake cookies, and watch Invader Zim. life, it is good.

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/10919179/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/10919179/ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:20:54 PST Velvet Goldmine for the first time, discovered what an awesome band T-rex was, drew pictures of androgynous young men with eyeliner on, and actually ventured out of the house once with blue eyeshadow on my cheeks. truth. oh dear god.

oddly, that was also when I discovered Patrick Wolf. I was very torn and confused. however, judging by recent photos, Mr. Wolf seems to be having his Bowie Phase (every good musician has one) right now, complete with bright red hair and gratuitous glitter, so maybe there won't be such a chasm in my music taste anymore.

mix for chilly late nights that has nothing to do with glamrock:
01. leonard cohen - i'm your man (possibly my favorite song ever, actually)
02. the dresden dolls - half jack
03. einsturzende neubauten - stella maris
04. gavin friday & the man seezer - each man kills the thing he loves
05. jeff buckley - jewel box
06. nick cave & the bad seeds - hallelujah
07. piano magic - the nostalgist
08. cocteau twins - shallow then halo
09. the smiths - stretch out and wait
10. david wrench - who will wear your dress in the next world?
11. calexico - love will tear us apart (joy division cover, obviously)
12. kitchens of distinction - drive that fast
13. patrick wolf - short stories

so, I submitted a few pieces that I've done in class this year, all in all it's a four-part series that was supposed to be in the style of Picasso in his blue period, but they kind of aren't. the only time I like Picasso is in his blue period, otherwise I really sort of dislike his work a lot.
this was my first time working in oils, and I'm rather in love with them.

also, this morning when I left the house it was a balmy sixty degrees. by the time I got home, it was about thirty. WHAT. and it did all three of the following in the course of six hours: rained, hailed, and snowed. and nearly tornadoed. the weather around here is on such crack, I want to kick it in the head and then send it to rehab.

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/10688240/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/10688240/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:23:56 PST in between that I've been painting like a painting fiend, buying books, hanging out in cemeteries (ooh, I so spooky), and... er... accumulating bars of dark chocolate. seriously, there are like twelve of them in a pile next to my desk, they keep multiplying.

mix for autumn:
01. tom waits - ice cream man
02. jeff buckley - the sky is a landfill
03. piano magic - night of the hunter
04. nick cave & the bad seeds - cannibal's hymn
05. the white stripes - truth doesn't make a noise
06. morphine - you look like rain
07. leonard cohen - famous blue raincoat
08. swans - black-eyed dog (creepy-ass nick drake cover)
09. patrick wolf - teignmouth
10. lambchop - this corrosion (sisters of mercy cover)
11. the white stripes - the air near my fingers
12. the magnetic fields - smoke and mirrors
13. morphine - the other side
14. depeche mode - nothing
15. echo & the bunnymen - the killing moon
16. patrick wolf - pigeon song
17. gary jules - mad world

opening night went alarmingly well, and last night... not so much, but Friday shows are always a little off. mostly mic problems, but our super-duper sound kids very quickly and sneakily fixed it between scenes.
I get a bow during curtain call, being Important and all-- artistic director and lights crew chief. how special.
two down, two to go. Cappies (critics) are coming Sunday.

AP English will probably be the death of me. I really, really dislike The Turn of the Screw, it's like Jane Eyre except with ghosts and the most boring sexual tension in the history of literature. god.

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/10417564/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/10417564/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:02:29 PDT if I screw up now, I get to go to big girl jail!

also, have managed to acquire a pocketwatch, an assortment of waistcoats, and a pretentious vocabulary. secretly, I am a sartorially-inclined gentleman of the nineteenth century. or not so secretly, actually.

hmm. I am applying early to Syracuse University's art program and really hope that they don't hate my portfolio.

eeek, theatre season is in full swing and eating my newly-found life away. however, my set is looking frabjuously good and the lights board hasn't broken yet this year, so that's all right, then. show in less than a month! wot ho!

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/10207733/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/10207733/ Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:14:05 PDT I am incredibly lax with these journal beasties.

shoegazer mix:
kitchens of distinction - mainly mornings
my bloody valentine - blown a wish
the jesus & mary chain - on the wall
kitchens of distinction - courage, mother
galaxie 500 - ceremony (a joy division cover that isn't 'love will tear us apart'! shock!)
slowdive - when the sun hits
the jesus & mary chain - deep one perfect morning
kitchens of distinction - prize
galaxie 500 - tugboat
pale saints - sight of you
kitchens of distinction - the 3rd time we opened the capsule
moose - jack
the jesus & mary chain - darklands
slowdive - some velvet morning

mmm, floaty pretty music. KOD are my particular favorites. they used to play "secret" gigs calling themselves the 'Toilets of Destruction', which is frankly amazing. I am going to make a comic about a Toilet of Destruction, and it will be epic.

I ought to be writing an essay about Shelley's Frankenstein, but I keep getting distracted by how damn EMO Victor is. a conversation:
s: his journal is probably a massive abyss of misery
me: full of poetry that goes:
my life
it is sad
my monster
it is bad

profound, isn't it? *tear*

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/9796778/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/9796778/ Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:26:28 PDT I write poetry every once in a while, because sometimes words float through my head and arrange themselves into aesthetically pleasing verse and won't leave me alone until I scribble them down.
it's always odd and leaves me feeling vaguely awkward.
and then sometimes I do stupid things like tell people about it.
"so we're going to need tea later on, because I didn't really sleep last night."
"yeah, that's not surprising. what time did you go to bed?"
"a reasonable time! one-thirty."
"damn, that's early for you."
"yeah, I know. and then I spent the next four! fucking! hours! trying really hard to actually sleep so I wouldn't be totally dead today, but I kept having to turn on the light, scribble things down, turn it off again, repeat five billion times. so yes. that's how I write poetry."
"hmm. what about, may I ask?"
"well, you, mostly."
"...oh."

awkward.

]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/9695658/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/9695658/ Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:43:20 PDT oh, ew, dA. the general consensus seems to be that version 5 is ugly as satan's arse. hey, I liked the questionably green colorscheme that's been around for the past six years.
but mostly I'm slightly narked that the browse setting to fullview no longer works and I have to make a whole! extra! clicky! to view things properly. oh, woe.

in other news, family members don't like it when you draw them accurately. who knew?

in slightly more depressing news, it is virtually impossible to double-major in visual arts and theatre tech. oh, hell. ]]> ~inkinthewell http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/9436493/ http://inkinthewell.deviantart.com/journal/9436493/ Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:06:30 PDT this late jumping on the dA bandwagon, I used to have one way back in 2003. and then I stopped posting about a year and a half ago because all of the new restrictions and things were irking me. and not to mention that the place is absolutely crawling with whingey fourteen-year-olds with lots of x-es in their names. (yeah, I used to be a whingey fourteen-year-old, too... though without the x-es) and now I'm back for more masochism. hooray!

my name comes from a David Sylvian song about Jean Cocteau. because 'bloodofapoet' would have been just too damn emo.

I definitely had more to say than this.

oh, and my name really is Kat, it's not just a silly nickname like every other person calling herself Kat on the internet.

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