Entries from December 2007 ↓

This is my personal best of 2007, similar to Lindsey’s. Here it is, in no order, with no theme.

• Dan’s Drawings – He taped original drawings to my Christmas presents to hide the shoddy wrapping job. I saved them, they are wonderful, so much better than any wrapping paper.

• World of Warcraft – No one wants to hear about this.

• Pilates – I started going to a pilates class at my gym 2 months ago. I bet everyone in the class thinks I am a mute, dyslexic, wobbly ass spazz, but I love it! My hopes are to be graceful (for the first time in my life) and appear to be 9ft tall.

• RVCA ANP Quarterly – This is here because after a subscription in June, and a month of complaints (this is a fucking free magazine! Why can’t I pay to have it delivered!) I finally received an issue Friday. It’s an 11” x 17” art magazine with no ads, refreshing!

•Albums – I don’t talk much about music because I’m not qualified, but this year I loved:
Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala, Beach House Beach House, Panda Bear Person Pitch, The Fiery Furnaces Widow City, Amy Winehouse Back to Black, Bill Callahan Woke on a Whaleheart, Bonde do Rolê all tracks, M.I.A. Kala, Gogol Bordello Super Taranta!, The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen, The National The Boxer

• Ffffound - I am so overwhelmed by the internet lately, it seems to double in size daily. Ffffound is a website (and an RSS feed) of images, mostly art and design related – 100+ a day. Browsing quickly through an endless stream of images as a means to find good art, websites, and portfolios is awesome. I recently read an article that addressed the issue of Ffffound not having an open membership, it’s invite only to join and post. A select group of people are curating images for a massive audience, but on the other hand if it were open to all the quality would surely diminish and the feed would be way too much to keep up with.

• Rocky Balboa – He came into our lives under depressing circumstances but we have grown to appreciate him, despite the bad attitude, smush face, and occasional stray turd. He is a loved and admired resident of the Duffy household. Flza calls him Old Grusome.

• I like/favorite most of the movies I see. I hated Ratatouille.

Drunk Apples to Apples, prezzies, sleepy puppies, movies – Christmas was so fun! Until after dinner when a (dark seeker) diabetic in an SUV, asleep at the wheel, with one shoe on, came crashing into my Saturn parked in front of the house. What a hassle.

CB I Hate Perfume creates uncommon perfumes and scents – similar to the Demeter Fragrance Library, but with better packaging. Perfume is intimidating and I don’t trust my taste when it comes to scents. I know nothing about notes and oils –I liken perfume talk to wine talk. Despite my ignorance, I am interested in these kind of scents, the ones that evoke a memory or an idea rather than say smelling trampy or fancy. I would like to order a smell, maybe Cradle of Light or Memory or Kindness. I’m sure this will end in me and Seven smelling like musty hippies.

I initially bound the thing using a GBC machine and silver combs I found at work. After binding every single one I realized there was no easy way to hang it up. To fix it, my boss helped me un-bind it and make it into a tear-off style pad. This is probably the first project I’ve done for 100% fun since college and I really enjoyed it. Any ideas for more projects people would want?

Dan and I just finished the first season of Dexter. It’s so stylish and fun! The hands down best part of the show is the title sequence by Digital Kitchen. I wish I had Showtime so I could see the new season. Also, they did a really insane publicity stunt – 14 fountains in 14 cities to promote the season premiere.. 

This is a really great picture I found on flickr of my sister Annie and her little family (-2 cats).