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I would like to welcome Ravi R. to the blog. As you can see from your glance to the left, he is now a contributor (when he feels like it).

He is studying abroad and everyone misses him here in the USofA so in the name of guest postings...welcome.

Andy Warhol

I hate Friday classes at 9 am.

I went to see Adam Evil tonight. They rocked. I got their cd. Not only did they ask name and e-mail address, but they wanted blood type. That's cool of a rock band. They had a violinist too. That means, for the past two times I was able to see a band - Adam Evil and Aydin - each had a random instrument. A violin and an accordion. (i'm not sure of spelling, I'm a little drunk). I like bands with random instruments. In the Place to Be (see: my links) (a.k.a. Jeanie's blog) she said if she would ever date a guy in a band it would have to be the guitarist. If I would date a guy in the band, it would have to be the accordion player or the piano player - if you play the keys, your mine. (Doug's poetic reference: "if you play the keys, you have a key to my heart").

Wait! But the name of my posting is Andy Warhol. Why you may ask? I bought two tees when I went to the Warhol for the first time with Jen P two weeks ago (Jen P for anonymity). It was an opening for this new cool Pittsburgh magazine and we were surrounded by probably the best dressed people in the whole city. You know, the artsy-rich. And, Jen P works at the museum so I got in for free (damn the un-free bar!...at least I was driving...didn't Jen know I was using her for her ties to alcohol? <-- bad joke). I got the Nico shirt in mustard (see: http://www.warholstore.org) from the single shots from Warhol's movies collection tees. And, I got the "Television" tee.

The television tee (in faded black) says: "When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships".

After I got into the O.C. last year, I completely feel for this shirt.

Never before have I needed to watch a show every week. I need my fix of Ryan, Seth, Marissa and especially, Summer. I feel like they are my friends. I want to talk about music, the camera shots, the relationships, the screenplay. What is wrong with me? At least I have dragged Doug into my obsession so I can spill my guts to him. I feel stupid (but not too stupid).

Fine....I've also become addicted to the Real World. It's my first season where I've watched almost every episode. But hey, it's in Philadelphia! (It's true that my first kiss, David Y, was friends with Anyssa (sp?) in the Chicago Real World, but she went to Lower Merion...and although I grew up in Lower Merion, I went to the unknown Harriton High, where Kobe did not go to high school).

Yes, so that is my point to this posting. Andy Warhol and his love of pop culture is my icon right now because, I've been dragged in. Some may say duress but I see the addiction. As Jen enlightened me, many people don't realize that Andy (yes, we are on a first name basis) went shopping almost everyday (quotidien - a "q" word!!) his last few years of life. He did it so he could be closer to the masses. It made him feel alive and connected. Maybe I'm trying to be him (although I started this before I found out about Andy's habit)...I feel I can't make fun of pop culture unless I know all about it.

Okay, well, 9 am class is calling me to bed. I have to shower this smoke smell out of my hair.

much love.

Q

I need to start using more Q words such as quite and query.

a reflection

It's funny - when I read other people's blogs I can get a true sense of who they are and what makes them tick. Where each sentence becomes a DNA molecule. And the more posts they post and the more posts I read, I achieve a fuller understanding of who they are.

Yet, when I read my own writing, I can't see anything but words on a page. My entries don't paint a picture of my life, my soul. My diction is not clue to who is making those word choices.

Then, I wonder why I write posts. Aren't most diaries kept to achieve a deeper understanding of self? You may reply that this blog is not a "Dear Self". I have an audience. To that I will reply, true, my blog is to keep me in touch with my friends but isn't friendship a mechanism through which we gain a deeper understanding of both friend and self? There are plenty of homilies intertwining friendship and personal growth or metaphors about friendship and plants.

i apologize that I am so incessant on finding soul-searching answers.

Spreading the Love

Here is a coupon from the Borders Newsletter.

Damn Barnes and Nobles for owning Pittsburgh.

http://f.chtah.com/i/16/276579827/25offcobrandcoupon_203.htm

a link

http://music.msn.com/music/albums2005

Dishes

You know it is time to do dishes when the smell of dirty sink is all across your apartment.

Usually Doug does the dishes but tonight I had a couple moments of zen. I say this because when I'm in the mood to do dishes, there is nothing more perfect than zoning out over the sink. Problem is, I'm hardly ever in the mood to do dishes.

I just wanted to say that Kiren's posts have been beautiful lately.

Dude, blogger is making me very happy. Spell check, no "web formatting" (w/ spaces in between paragraphs), adding pictures, easy hyperlink (no cntl+k), formatting, bullets, pics....Not to mention - an e-mail right away when someone posts to my site, as opposed to two days later. And! a place where I can add my links straight to my blog.

Ahhh...I'm happy for now.

New Year's Resolutions & Lawyers

So there were a few people I wanted to meet this year (or at least a.s.a.p). Actually, there are a lot of people who I want to meet this year but I'm specifically referring to the Wrens and Bernadine Dorhn.

And, I guess meeting them wasn't a New Years Resolution, per se. I mean, I didn't put a timeline on when I wanted to meet them. Truthfully, they would've been on my "to meet" list (if I had a to meet list) as soon as I knew who they were. In fact, as soon as I watched the Weather Underground and really learned about Bernadine Dorhn and realized she took her activist background and became a law professor at UChicago, I wrote a French paper about her. Before the movie, I was familiar with her partner - Bill Ayers - but not her. I'm always impressed with cool lawyers b/c I have hands-on experience with a lot of non-cool lawyers.

Well, guess what? She is a speaker for the 10th annual exhibition of art by michigan prisoners!!! "She will give a keynote talk and participate in our youthspeak panel" - says my PCAP associate newsletter.

Secondly, (although this is no particular order) I wanted to meet the guys from the Wrens. I sent them an e-mail last semester (i posted it to my xanga site, i think). Anyway, Greg responded and told me that the Wrens were planning to play in Pittsburgh and I could be their guest!! Plus, he said he would send me a Wrens carepackage (which came in the mail today!). Well, I can't see any dates posted for the Wrens online but...they are playing in Hoboken, NJ the second weekend of my spring break. I think I may have to give Larry R-W a call to let me stay at his place in Hoboken. Did I mention - in his e-mail, Greg told me that he went to law school before the Wrens?! Two cool lawyers! There is hope...

Yay, so two down.

Btw, I think tomorrow I might get a gym membership. I told doug that I wouldn't get one until February b/c people never fulfill their new year's "i'll lose weight" resolutions. If we started in February, I figured, it wouldn't be a new years promise doomed to be broken.

but we'll see. its still 1/31 so i have 24 more hours of being a slug.