Denial.

Today was a really fun really awful day.


A light bulb suddenly went on, and I realized how truly terrible the economy is.
I mean you don't really think about it that much unless you're directly effected by it. Mother's Cookies just went bankrupt. You think wow...now all of those people don't have jobs, and won't be able to pay their bills. Its truly a sad thing.

On the lighter side of things...

I went to Tim's Hogwarts Banquet Party for a little while.
It was so fantastic and fun for the little bit I was there. It was very well done.

Then I went to homecoming which I hate to admit this....but I actually enjoyed myself.

Ghandi?

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Disappointed.

I wish I could be the person you want me to be. Silence my words, and focus my thoughts on you.

Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them saying:
"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Chicken Lady: A Still Life

This is a charcoal still life of a statue that is part chicken part woman. Haha, how strange.

Art Concentration

So, in my art class we are to come up with an art concentration which means that I have to do twelve pieces on one subject. I have one more art project to do before I start my concentration. However, the problem is that I have not come up with an idea for that yet. ugh.

I was hoping for some ideas!!
If you have any please send them my way.

I really like to draw people, so if you can work any ideas around that I'm down.

THANKS A LOT!!!

I just want to feel attractive today.

I do not believe in Nancy Drew.
Nancy Drew is the biggest lie I have ever heard of.

1. There is no possible way that she could solve all of these cases.
Do you even know how many crimes are unsolved in a year? However, in some mystical
way this woman has solved every crime that has been placed in front of her.
If she's that amazing maybe we could get her cloned and put a Nancy Drew on every
police force!
2. Also, she would have been murdered already. Nancy Drew always decides to go into the
abandoned house (with creepers around every turn) by herself. And somehow she
manages to escape the clutches of all these villains every time.
3. How is it that Nancy Drew can solve crimes that no trained detectives can solve? She
solves these crimes as a hobby. I mean its understandable if she ate slept and
solving crime, but she just gets home from school and decides I'm going to figure
out why that man was murdered.

Repite me, por favor.

René Magritte





and

Andy Goldsworthy





are two of my very favourite artists.

So Indecisive...YUCK

So this week I decided to quit taking violin lessons (not quit playing just take a break from lessons), because I was flipping from all the crud I had to do. Then I realized that is the dumbest thing I could have done. You can always make up excuses for not doing something, which is what I was doing. I basically convinced myself I was too busy to do this. Then I started to question if I was really that busy, so I began examining my time and realized I was being a genuine creeper. I have plenty of free time. Damn.

And why in the hell should I give up something I really love. Sometimes I guess I need a huge punch in the face. Please no volunteers.

Today I decided that I'm going to go down to the 16th Street Mall to sing and play the violin for money...hahahah. Seriously though, someone should come with me.

China.

I believe this was the fastest I have ever drawn a picture. Completed in 14 hours. That's what happens when you wait the very last day to do an art project.
Anywho, this is actually a photograph I took when I was in China, and I decided to use it as an art architecture project.

Breathing.

This is my second art project of the year. A direct trace of a homeless man smoking.

Block Party

The Block Party may perhaps be the coolest event that Greeley has.
enough said.

Physical Education: A Class of the Devil.

Who would have ever thought that P.E. would stress anyone out. Well, it makes me want to rip my hair out. Now, I have no problem at all with exercising. I actually enjoy it to be honest, but the actual class is lame x 4,000,000. I'd laugh if I didn't graduate because I haven't taken P.E. at all. I keep trying to figure out how to get my P.E. credits without actually having to take the class...

Any suggestions???

Hello art. You are mine

This is the first art piece I've done for this school year. Sorry its a cruddy picture of it.

Pages and Ink.

Here is a list of books I want to read, books I'm reading, and books I have read. This is just to help me keep track of all these wonderous books. :)

Am Reading:

Blue Like Jazz - Don Miller
Irresistible Revolution - Shane Claiborne


Have Read:

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
In The Woods - Tana French
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Fall and the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Odyssey - Homer

Want to Read:

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Atonement: A Novel - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Shining - Steven King
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
A Passage To India - E.M. Forster
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Caroll
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes