i have seen these before but have now decided i need to post them to preserve them because i love them so much. they are from TheVoiceThatSaid's flickr account.
i have this feeling like when i get older and want to reflect on this time period (and perhaps all times following) i'm going to be sadly devoid of documentation because of facebook and twitter. ugh!!! i just can't keep it all going in all realms. it's just too much. so what can ya do?
shit it's been awhile. as usual. the month is nearly over. time goddamn flies. already it's lighter outside longer than it was in the dead of winter. thank god. soon there might be a glimmer of light when i walk home to the metro. so what's new. well the last time i wrote it was the beginning of the month. since then some of the highlights include going out to the roxy to meet with sahar and see her friend's band followed by the same night going upstairs to on the rox to see bryce's band. in the mix of that was meeting with josh to pick up his band's EP. it was a night of local music and hanging out in that part of sunset i rarely venture to these days. good times all around though. i met up with V about collaborating in the future. him thinking about going full fledge with his side business and how he might be able to help me.
that same weekend i vended at the first ever LA street food fest put on by sonja of uniqueLA and shauna. that shit was fucking awesomely fun. it was a perfectly beautiful day filled with lots of sun and warmth. over 6,000 people tried to get in and had to be turned away. lines were ferociously long but well worth it. the food was excellent. i made some sales. DJ bryan spun great tunes. and i got to see a lot of my friends all at once. it was downright perfect. well, except for the lines. but they didn't affect me because alex and i were there early to set up and got all our food right when they started selling. no lines!
the following day was vday and alex and i went out to a nice sushi dinner. we've had sushi every vday since we started dating. crazy! haha we love our sushi and it's expensive so it's a day when we feel like splurging a bit is ok.
this past sunday we had another JLC brunch. chy, stacey and i call it JLC brunch because we are all asian and we just gab away while we eat. it's quite fun. this time we hit up grub which is this brunch spot not far from my house in a weird ass location btwn all the various production lots in hollywood. the french toast was exquisite being made from croissants!
last night the usual crew (byron, joe, alex and me) headed out to the dragonfly for the hollywood artwalk night. i drank enough to be buzzed to feel fluid while dancing except our time was cut short since alex wanted to leave early on account he has mad amounts of work to do. i wanted to keep dancing and so did joe but then we caved. well, joe caved and i had to or else i'd be all alone. i was NOT happy about this and actually was mad when we got home. but that was a bit silly of me. oh well, what can ya do. i was a bit drunk.
plastique* has been here and there. sales were a bit flat last month as to be expected post holidays. but i have my stuff on consignment at one shop in chinatown and another girl contacted me about putting my line in her shop in hollywood which is like a few blocks away! and i sent some more product off to the gallery i sell at for consignment in columbus. and i sent some more wholesale product off to another foreign store. i gotta make more stuff. i'm running out of the essentials. the gallery that i did a show at in december wants to do consignment with me as well. and i just got invited to vend at this 826 event in a couple weeks. i totally want to do it since i think 826 is a really awesome non-profit. and elle magazine in belgium wants to do a small piece on me! so a lot going on as usual. that and i gotta get my tax shit in order. fuckin A.
well hmm. being that i had a situation recently involving social networks and people finding things through means of digging, i find it appropriate that i just realized i have been blocked. it was by accident that i came to somewhat realize this and then had to look a bit further to confirm. so hmmm. i'm not sure why i'm blocked. it seems i'm not the only one. is it my place to ask? perhaps. will i? probably not. i have decided that in this day social networking is such a weird beast that you can't necessarily assume it has any bearing on your real tangible life. it might very well and it might very well not. i hear so often "so and so unfriended me! wtf?!" has it really come to that in this world? does unfriending on a social network mean actual unfriending in real life? perhaps. it could be a passive way of saying "yea, i don't want to hang out with you anymore." or it could mean "i'm keeping my shit private because that's just how i want it." or it could mean something in btwn. if a person doesn't email you back, does it mean they don't like you? no. if you send out an e-invite and get no response does it mean that people aren't going to show up? not necessarily. we're so inundated with e-social contact that it's hard to even decide what's worthwhile and what isn't. shit falls through the cracks all the time. so being blocked. what does that mean? it means i'm going to go about my day as usual and worry if and when i encounter a tangible "blocking" in real life.
oh good lord. i just looked at my last entry. jan 8th. and it was about bryce getting a ticket for not having his pass on the metro. funny because the post i'm about to write right now includes the fact that bryce no longer takes the train anymore. but we'll get to that in a bit. i'll go in order.
so let's see. 2010. well it hasn't been the most pleasant thusfar. i was sick for literally the first 2 weeks. turned out i had a bit of a sinus infection and finally went to the doc to gets meds and it all got better. but i was literally sick for the first like 16 days. that bled into the time when alex's parents came to visit over MLK weekend. julia came as well since she was upset from her recent breakup. it was a nice change of pace for her. this prompted discussions at the dinner table about dating, marriage, commitment, etc. all things that haunt my life. me and my confused thoughts about "forever." this is no secret by now.
the week following that was filled with lots and lots of rain. although despite all of that, i never got rained on once. i managed to bypass all the rain. it wouldn't rain when i was walking to/from work. it was kind of amazing. the rain gods must love me.
then that weekend the rain cleared up and 20 of us descended upon palm springs and rented a house and had a grand ole weekend. people even flew in for this epic 5-way birthday event. ted came from seattle. dan came from portland. and kyla came from san fran. it was an awesome weekend. lots of drinking, eating, and going in the hot tub and pool. at one point the pool was the hot tub. it was just as hot as the hot tub and boy was that nice. it also made me get incredibly drunk. amanda was nice enough to buy all the food and cook for us all weekend. we enjoyed 2 great breakfasts and dinners. half of us went to the aerial tramway that took us up the mountain for which we were ill prepared. it was about 30 degrees up there and none of us had boots on or any really warm clothing. we looked kind of ridiculous. but whatever. it was an all day affair practically since there was such a long line to get on a tram. nearly 2 hr wait. once up there we ate lunch and enjoyed the scenic views. some ventured out into the snow while others, including myself, didn't. we drank alcoholic coffees. it was lovely. all but the part where we were on the tram. that was not lovely.
this past week has been quite a doozy. i won't get into details because of the world we live in, but let's just say that i kind of almost yet not really lost my job due to social networking. if you want the story i'll give it to ya though i seriously kind of just want to forget about it. a few people know because i had to tell someone, but now i just want to let it go. it did make for a tense week. a week that ended with me losing my train buddy and an odd group of us going dancing. bryce quit his job due to a mutual break up with his boss. the details of which no one would care to know nor shall i post since again, the world we live in. the ways in which shit can be traced are mind blowing. suffice to say thursday was his last day and thusly the last day i have him as my train buddy. but we have vowed to hang out outside of the train since we are actually like friends now. after talking to a person nearly every day for like 3 or 4 months, you kind of learn a lot of random stuff about them. we'll see if hanging out pans out or if he's just a flake. i don't think he is, but who knows. when you see someone with forced regularity it's unclear whether they are reliable otherwise.
and finally to end this post, last night lacey, joe, alex and i went out dancing. yes, an odd group indeed. james was supposed to join but opted out at the last minute. it's not odd that lacey and joe were there since they both really like to dance but it's odd in that they both have never met and then alex was there too and alex isn't that big of a dancer. and we went to the avalon to see alan braxe and the classixx. so it was like a lot of dancing. but everyone pulled through. went the distance past 2am. the music was great. the crowd was oddly amusing. i'd totally return for a friday night there. for $12 pre-sale it's not a bad option.
oh and one last last thing i just remembered. i took a bunch of product down to this small shop in chinatown that sells lots of local designer's stuff on consignment. i met the owners at unique LA and finally got around to getting my stuff into their shop. they seem to think it'll do well so i'm super excited about that!
today i had an interesting experience on the train. well, interesting is a relative term. the train is very boring. so i mean even when some kooky person comes on the train it's just a bit more interesting. like the hand sanitizer man! haha anyway. so i took the later train today because i snoozed a bit longer than usual. so i got on the train and my buddy bryce was there. chit chat as usual. and then he mentioned how he almost took the earlier train that we normally catch but that the ticket machines at his stop were all broken except one so there was a line and he had to wait and that made him miss the other train. so more chit chat. we got off the train and headed out as usual. the cops were there this time checking tickets as they sometimes do at random. so i pulled out my monthly pass and he pulled out his tickets. a whole wad of them. but he can't find the one from today! we had just discussed this. that ticket was the reason he didn't make the earlier train! so he was rummaging and it was just us because the rest of the people from the train were all gone. i swear he should have just shown them one really fast and kept going. i mean the date on there is so small they barely look. but he was like just rummaging. so now all the attention was focused on him. and the cops are being typical hardass cops (not like the nice ones i used to see down there every afternoon who were nice as hell... oh i miss them!). they took his license which of course is out of state because he moved here like a year ago. the one cop starts calling it in. have you ever been arrested? why don't you have a california ID? etc etc. like hassling him. i think more so because he looks like a scraggly hipster. they just assume he must be lying. they kept saying "if you told me the truth i'd let you go but you're lying to me." which is totally typical cop. i chimed in a little bit but mainly just stood there for support and also to kind of to distract the other cop so he wouldn't rail on him as well. i started chit chatting with the other cop about random shit. i'm like 99% sure if this had been me they'd have let me go. but they called in bryce's ID to check on him and everything and then issued him a ticket. oh what a morning! maybe there will be some good antics on the way home.
in completely unrelated yet interesting news. plastique* will be featured in the upfront "LOOK" section of the june issue (newsstands on 4/20... my birthday!) of HOW magazine paired with an online giveaway. totally stoked! this is awesome. HOW magazine! woo!!! one of the editors contacted me the other day and it's all set to go. woo!
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