8 things...

I have been TAGGED by EvolvingRevolver!

Okay.  Crazy 8 Meme:

8 things I’m passionate about...
1. Art:  It is what I do.  It is what I want to do.
2. Music:  I live next to it. 
3. My family: They have seen me through it all- good and bad.  They have always let me learn my own lessons, and fully supported me along the way.
4. My friends: They are some of the most interesting and wonderful people I know.  I look up to each of them for their own loveliness and wonderfulness.
5. Making Stuff: it is a compulsion i have had for as long as i can remember.
6. Being a good person:  I really try to be, and I believe in karma enough to think (hope) that in turn, people are good people to me.
7. Living out what you believe in: This is a tough one, but I think it is very important. 
8. Chocolate:  Yeah, I had to squeeze that in.  I'm a bit of a chocolate snob, though- so it has to be the good stuff.

Things I want to do before I die...
1. Travel.  A lot.  See things, experience things, and notice every moment of it.
2. Learn a couple of other languages.  Si, bueno.
3. Have a little bungalow with a garden in the back.
4. Successfully live off art alone.
5. Solo show in San Francisco or LA
6. Live on the West coast again for a bit.
7. Re-learn the violin.  Perhaps even the cello.
8. Make a positive impact on as many people as I can.

Things I say often....
1. NIce.
2. fantastic.
3. Right on.
4. Dang.
5. Good stuff.
6. What was that again.... (like EvolvingRevolver, I just might have alzeimers a tad early)
7.  ...you know.  (I hate that I do this- but I use this phrase as punctuation too much)
8.  I admit it, on occasion I curse like a sailor- but it is usually in the privacy of my home or car or studio...

Books I’ve read recently...
1. Chronicles - Bob Dylan
2. Seven Mysteries of Life - Guy Murchie
3. A Field Guide to Getting Lost - Rebecca Solnit
4. A language Older Than Words - Derek Jensen
5. Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
6. The Lost Boy - David Pelzer
7. Spook - Mary Roach
8.  the Princess trilogy - Jean Sasson

Songs I could listen to over and over...
1. In an Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel 
2. American Music - Violent Femmes (actually, the whole Add it Up album... it's sort of a sentimental thing, I suppose)
3. 3 Libras - A Perfect Circle
4.  Aenima - Tool (but really, most of the songs off Aenima and Undertow... and Opiate)
5.  Since I've Been Loving You- Led Zepplin
6.  3rd Planet - Modest Mouse  (... or the whole Moon and Antarctica ablum)
7.  Dang, this is tough- my song obsessions rotate regularly... Eastern Shore - Fiest
8.  I will Follow you into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie

8 Things that attract me to my best friends....
1. They love me despite my dorky nerd tendencies (and sometimes because of).
2. They fully support me and encourage me because they know how much I need to do the art thing.
3. They are interesting, confident, strong, intelligent, and beautiful from many angles inside and out.
4. Their dorky nerd tendencies- each in their own way.
5. Laughter.  They know how to laugh real good.  They make me laugh real good.
6. They are good people, or overall they try to be.
7. They are up for spur-of-the-moment adventures.
8. I am constantly learning something from them.

Thanks RevolvingEvolver- I needed a little posting boost tonight! 
Here is where I am supposed to tag a few more to do this... but for kicks, I'll only tag my buddy Jeremy.  Anyone else who comes across this, feel free to complete- but let me know if you do!

 

**whoops- it saved as a draft instead of a post last night...**

Comments

[maggie ann]

your answers were so fun to read. we have a lot in common.

i think for tonight's post i will fill this out :)