Happy New Year! ETA for LA is now January 6th, which happily will give me about a week to settle in before I start actually working. Plenty of time to track down permanant accomodation and get through the various paperwork rituals.
I spent the evening at a party surrounded by complete strangers, which turned out to be generally enjoyable. However, after an evening chock full of endless intellectual debate of Philip K. Dick minituia and equally endless discussions of the relative merits of the Toronto lifestyle vs. the LA lifestyle (a subject that I kept reminding people I am not yet actually qualifed to debate with any certitude), I'm feeling like I need to briefly scribble an essentially meaningless journal entry.
In this first hour of a new year, I find that I am not contemplating the past year, nor feeling melancholy about the numerous "old acquaintences" I have managed to forget. I'm not thinking about my new job, or the details of moving to a new city. Instead, I'm thinking about canvas.
Over the past few weeks I considered how I'd like to outfit and decorate my imminent new residence. What I realized, for the first time in my life, is that there isn't any pre-fabricated art that I'd want to hang on my walls. The movie posters and assorted thrid-party paintings and prints that have decorated my living space consistantly for over a decade suddenly seem completly inappropriate and unrepresentative of my personality. What's more, I no longer seem to find any art that conjurs up emotion that touches me meaningfully.
After much gnashing of teeth, I realized that I want to make my own damn paintings and prints for my walls (not to mention my own damn door handles, towel racks, and soap dishes).
So, I'm thinking about canvas. Big canvas with lots of acrylic paint on it. I wish I could say that there's someting meaningful about that, but as I pointed out above, this is a pretty meaningless journal entry.
Anyway, I hope you all had a great time wherever you ended up this evening!
Here's Dragon's Movie Quote Quiz Question for today...
"I think, therefore you are."
I spent the evening at a party surrounded by complete strangers, which turned out to be generally enjoyable. However, after an evening chock full of endless intellectual debate of Philip K. Dick minituia and equally endless discussions of the relative merits of the Toronto lifestyle vs. the LA lifestyle (a subject that I kept reminding people I am not yet actually qualifed to debate with any certitude), I'm feeling like I need to briefly scribble an essentially meaningless journal entry.
In this first hour of a new year, I find that I am not contemplating the past year, nor feeling melancholy about the numerous "old acquaintences" I have managed to forget. I'm not thinking about my new job, or the details of moving to a new city. Instead, I'm thinking about canvas.
Over the past few weeks I considered how I'd like to outfit and decorate my imminent new residence. What I realized, for the first time in my life, is that there isn't any pre-fabricated art that I'd want to hang on my walls. The movie posters and assorted thrid-party paintings and prints that have decorated my living space consistantly for over a decade suddenly seem completly inappropriate and unrepresentative of my personality. What's more, I no longer seem to find any art that conjurs up emotion that touches me meaningfully.
After much gnashing of teeth, I realized that I want to make my own damn paintings and prints for my walls (not to mention my own damn door handles, towel racks, and soap dishes).
So, I'm thinking about canvas. Big canvas with lots of acrylic paint on it. I wish I could say that there's someting meaningful about that, but as I pointed out above, this is a pretty meaningless journal entry.
Anyway, I hope you all had a great time wherever you ended up this evening!
Here's Dragon's Movie Quote Quiz Question for today...
"I think, therefore you are."
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[Edited on Jan 04, 2003]