confused ant

Tonight I went to a dinner party and then I fell asleep on my former roommate annie's bed maybe because I'm kind of sick and had an 8 hour schoolday of manual labor (silkscreening).

Then Andrew woke me up and took me home and then he left and now it's 4 am and i'm lonely and awake.

there is a confused ant that lives inside my computer. sometimes when i open it he comes out and walks around on the keyboard and looks confused.

I have too much shit to do in life. I hope i can do something fun tomorrow.

I made this page cream, maybe because I have liked cream paper so much lately. knowing html (something I've known for a long time) and CSS (which I learnt last semester) is nice, it makes me feel smart.

the following is possibly one of the best songs ever written for an icelandic childrens' musical.

those of you who are familiar with Lazytown: this is the original.

the chorus goes:

Good CD drive
good hard drive
without those things I am neither bird nor fish (=I am nothing)
I act up if I need some megabytes.



Jói recently mentioned how I was blunt in the way I word things that I write down here. Maybe because I use bad words sometimes. He called me "tough". I like the idea of being "tough". I hope you like my "toughness". My silkscreening teacher told everybody that I was strong today. She said it like "ooh guess what guys, she is STRONG!" I like the idea of being secretly strong. I'm going to listen to the radio now and be strong and tough by myself in bed.

CAR FACE

Last night Andrew and I had a good party. Before that Jói and I went to the opening of this Michel Gondry show at Deitch Projects. On display were the sets from his upcoming movie which I am now even more excited to see because now I've been in it. It's about people who have a video store but all their TAPES go blank so they have to act out and record all the movies themselves. here's michel gondry pretending that the trailer went blank and acting it out himself.



later lots of other people came over and we played games. game night works like this: jews give points to jews, icelandic people give points to icelandic people, gays give points to their boyfriends, and despite giving each other points icelandic people loose anyway because they're foreign. everyone has fun anyway because they're drunk.

we also watched this,



Possibly my all time favorite kids' film; All dogs go to heaven (1989) is the reason why I grew up to like a) good films b) really fucked up films. All dogs go to heaven is a really fucked up kids' film about gangsters, violence, murder, intoxication, gambling, heaven, hell, poor people, and other fucked up things. But everyone is a dog. There is a Burt Reynolds dog and a jewish dog and a dog named car face. but there is also a giant homosexual singing alligator who eats people and there is a little orphan girl. Jói kept saying that the little girl had sexy legs. the little girl is supposed to be like 6 years old.

the actress who voiced the part of the little girl was 10 years old when the movie was made. she was also 10 years old when she was shot and killed by her fucked up father. this was her final film and that makes the film even more sad and fucked up.

I don't know why I'm awake at 9 the morning after I get drunk and stay up late. I think I was too thirsty to sleep. Now I'm going to wait for the other people in the world to wake up.

lonely upstream salmon

I would say that 75% of the time I am entirely embarrassed for myself. the other 25% of the time I am entirely proud of myself. there is no in-between stage, no happy medium. I'm just too proud or too embarrassed all the time.

I had a rough week. strangers were mean to me for no reason. this made me embarrassed and sad.

in america people want to kiss you on the cheek all the time, even if they don't like you. (I always imagine that everyone doesn't like me. maybe because of strangers who are mean to me for no reason). Models want to kiss you on both cheeks. I never know which cheek to go for and always end up awkwardly mashing faces with the other person or shaking my head from left to right too many times. "what's that supposed to be, an impression of an upstream salmon?"

my apartment is empty and completely quiet. I have nothing to do so I'll go to bed. I am so glad I have a radio next to my bed. Listening to it makes me feel better.

serious

This is my new, serious blog. I previously posted in Icelandic and film photographs on http://juliet-capulet.blogspot.com/ from May 2004 - June 2007, and in all sorts of fun languages and images (moving and still) on http://blog.myspace.com/juliaher from June 2004 - eternity.

This is my attempt to be more serious and efficient (myspace is not so current anymore) and also put to use this URL that i got for my web design class last semester. I didn't make anything cool in the web design class because I was really unhappy all the time but I got an okay grade anyway because my teacher was really nice. He is dutch and he spent most of our in-class time talking enthusiastically about politics, philosophy or anything else you could get him to be enthusiastic about (which was very easy), or showing us videos of his amazing musical son Taiyo who makes up songs and lyrics and plays the guitar. Here he is.

This is the first post and I will probably not show this to anyone for a while, or maybe just one person.