rexx

my love puffs! it has been far too long!

i call you puffs because later i have plans to create some delicious cupcakes involving chocolate cake, chocolate-peanut butter icing, and reeses puffs. in the shape of SKULLS thanks to my adorable little sister's gift to me of skull-shaped cupcake molds.

things have been things which have been busy but great.
i got fired from my shitty job which i hated and could not be more happy about. i think i literally jumped for joy at the sound of the word "terminated".
i was hoping to enjoy weeks of unemployment but i found an opportunity to work in a small cafe that just opened a week ago at the aviary here in pittsburgh. the price was right and i am an aviary member and spend a good deal of time there already with my beloved birds and so i decided to abandon my hopes of days upon days of beautiful productive nothingness and take the job. i love it! it reminds me of my bakery days. busy and myself. fuck the monstrosity in between.

i just bought radiohead tickets for the show at blossom music center in june. this will be my third time seeing radiohead. the first time was also at blossom about four summers ago, which i actually quit a job to make it to and the second was at the tip of a fucking epic road trip down to mexico city with my good friend zepp101. i cannot wait to see them again.

speaking of zepp101 .. on my days off last week i hopped the megabus to new york and then skipped over to jersey for a visit to him. we ate and drank copious amounts of coffee in jersey diners and had an adventure including a few hours of driving around lost in a random china town which had me salivating for bubble tea. it was worth it once we finally made our way to some abandoned ruins overlooking the city of new york. it was a grand time and always nice to skip town for a day or two. or forever.




my soundtrack for the ride was as follows:
Corrupted - Vasana
Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer
Acid Bath - Hymns of the Needle Freak
Dizzy Gillespie - Live at Newpork
Bohren and Der Club of Gore - Black Earth
Charles Bukowski - 90 Minutes in Hell
Deftones - Around the Fur
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn
Gifts from Enola - Self-Titled
Isis - Oceanic Remixes and Reinterpretations
Made Out of Babies - Trophy
Helms Alee - Weatherhead
Mastadon - Remission
U.S. Christmas - Eat the Low Dogs
Neurosis - Through Silver and Blood

pure magic.

this is apparently the year for amazing tours. in addition to radiohead, there are hardly words to express my enthrallment for these two:





shirley manson defined my childhood (in case you've never been able to tell by the heavy eyeliner that i have adorned since fifth grade). i think she is one of the most gorgeous women in the entire world. i look through photos of her now from the nineties and it almost makes me laugh how much my own style resembles hers from back then. it must have been some sort of sub-conscious influence that lingered with me until adult-hood. i was a youngster in the prime of the nineties grunge scene but my baby-sitter was a high school girl named amber who completely embodied all that it was about. she was the coolest person i knew. i hung out with few friends because thats just the hermit i have always been but i would hardly be able to sit still in school because i couldn't wait to get home and listen to the music she would bring over. when i first met her we were still jamming out to cassettes of garbage, smashing pumpkins, pearl jam... there was an awesome radio station in richmond called the buzz back then (long since dead) that taught me about nirvana and we would watch mtv and swoon over gavin rossdale in the old bush videos. her boyfriend was eighteen so he would rent us horror movies. i was obsessed with the children of the corn and friday the thirteenth movies in third-fourth grade (and still am) but my parents would never let me rent them. i'll never forget that girl. shirley manson, fiona apple, and amber williamson the babysitter. cheers to you.


school is going well. i'm currently all online via a local community college and this semester i am taking introductory astronomy, medical terminology, and religions of the world. it is quite time consuming and it makes me sad that i have hardly any time to devour books of my own choosing but the subject matter is so rich and compelling that it has been quite enjoyable. i may even keep my medical terminology textbook for the plethora of gruesome photos.

i did find time to read the illuminations by rimbaud. his poetry is magnificent.




otherwise life has been my usual: bacon, sex, coffee, long walks..

more sleeve work!




oh! and i even got to spend two weeks dog-sitting for my most favorite love-noodle of all time. his name is moose. he belongs to one of my past roommates who ended up moving to colorado. i haven't seen him in a year and was ecstatic to have the opportunity to spoil him again.








the days are longer.
i anticipate the leaves.
i feel a slight pang of sadness that winter never truly reared her ugly head.






there is something about the remnants of tiny activities that you have done earlier in the day, stumbled upon just the way you left them..

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i wish i could ramble on for days and days. but it is a drizzly one here and the first i've had off and to myself in weeks so i'm going to put on the ol' stompy boots and wander amidst the grey. see what i can find and feel and wonder about.

i love yinz babies. i'll be around. lets be in touch.
<3 Rexx