It must be getting pretty close to the full moon round hurr. I had a beautiful and eventful day yesterday. Teryn and I spent a lot of time at the Coffeehouse earlier in the day. We met a cool guitar-player named Rob who has traveled around Mississippi and likes to finger-pick the blues. He had a lot of nice things to say to us. We exchanged phone numbers and I'm in the process of organizing a few mix CDs for him.

Teryn and I went to both the Transpace gallery and the University Gallery opening. We saw some beautiful pieces by one Fay Lee at the latter opening -- they were done on lots of grid paper. The pieces were kind of like massive, complex tapestry-esque connect-the-dots... and when Teryn and I got close to look at the work, we noticed that it had all been done free-hand! We were astonished! At the Transpace gallery, we saw a very cool photo series about furniture in very regional, rustic landscapes by a photographer named Jacob DeGeal. Both Teryn and I especially liked the unsanded table sitting in a dormant corn field, although the larger print we saw of the picture that is currently his myspace profile image is also very cool. Furniture in nature: Totally sweet.

We were going to head to the Olivia Newton John Wayne Newton show, but we met Phil on the way, and we hadn't been that excited to donate to a "benefit" concert that was all about sending the lead singer's crush away to LA. Lame! So, instead of going to the Coffeehouse for a second time, we came back up to the room to hang out with Philtron. I drew a picture of two flowers having sex, flower-style, and Phil came up with a haiku for it. The haiku goes like this:

Flowers having sex
Quite indiscriminately:
Watch as they get off!

I also attempted to do a semi-accurate rendering of Phil's sarcastic right eye, but it didn't really work out too well, because I'm not an artist. But I am happy to have a sketchbook, though. I bought it at the Alamo II yesterday with Teryn.

Full moon related behavior included but was not limited to Chrissy deciding one day after she was thinking of breaking up with her boyfriend that she is now going to perhaps marry him for his green card (but next summer would be the earliest it would happen, donchaknow). I had myself a little freak-out, just because I'm so against the idea of marriage in general, but especially for people my age or younger, and especially for reasons that don't take into account the emotional and financial costs of marriage and divorce. Marriage is an outdated and over-socialized originally religious farce, in my opinion. I personally will never marry, and although Chrissy agrees with a lot of my views on marriage, she thinks that exploiting it doesn't make a difference. Because, you know, using a social construct that you don't believe in for your own twisted purposes, thereby corrupting it even more than it already is... Since when is there anything wrong with that?

Alyssa needs to call that child and have a little chat with her, methinks.

Speaking of Alyssa, she came over last night. Her and I flew the coup and went to Chad's to hang out. Amanda ended up whupping Chad's ASS in a Halo 2 tournament. It was a good thing to witness. I got to see Michael as well, although Lunch Box was suspiciously absent. Amanda was wearing a very interesting and gorgeous shirt. She's so svelte that even a potato sack would look good on her, though.

Tonight, I'm going over to Alyssa's house to help her babysit her brother and his little friends. We are going to go on a sunset picnic. It'll be sweet as hell.

Little Dude and I have to return some DVDs in the next couple days. I keep wondering how long it's going to take him to request that we rent "Blast from the Past" again. Seriously, he almost pees every time he even thinks about that movie for too long.

Late last night was pretty cool. Alyssa left after watching a very cool movie called Kinky Boots with Teryn and myself, then Teryn and I stayed up late. We were both a little tired, so we got a little delirious, and we made fun of each other, because I was trying to hold a conversation with her and have a few online at the same time, and things got a bit confusing and funny. I had a very decent sleep, and I'm full with tasty waffle.

Hurray, weekend!

Labels: Alyssa, art, Chrissy, Philtron, Rob, Teryn, Zhora

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