11:53 AM - And the Days Roll By...
Current mood: catalyzed
Category: Life

Well hello! Long time no talk. I cannot believe it is half-way through April... Or as we say around here during my invoice processing, QUARTER 2! Ha. Oh man. Let's see what we can get through... on this too-nice-to-be-inside-working Friday morning. (And no, knuckle tattoos are not real, silly!)

Last night I accompanied Quinne Suicide to the SG party and lingerie fashion show at Temple in SF. We had a pretty good time minus the douchey guys (let's just say it was an active game of Your Team). Met a couple really interesting gals and this tiny little sprite that looked like a redhead Kylie Minogue. Hot! I have to say the sound at Temple is phenomenal. It also is really interesting inside, a little cold (design wise) for me but the lighting is pretty awesome. My feet are feeling the wrath of 6" heels and my ribs are still feeling corsetted... but... *breathe* ahhh....

Quinne and I also established Awesometown, USA last month. This entire thing has been such a journey already, and we've only just started. We've hinted around at this "awesome" hanging on the horizon, but let me start at the beginning.

We have known each other for a year or so, but recently bonded while going through really difficult times in our respective lives. We decided to embark on a photography project with the ultimate goal being to put out a coffee table book of these photos by Early Fall.

The theme of the book started out as a mock tourist guide for the Northern California region, but as our ideas grew, and unexpected amazing themes manifested into unexpected amazing photos we have broadened the scope a little bit. We not only have been keeping our skills and creative eyes open, but this project has turned into such a cathartic and expressive journey not only through California but through our minds and our selves. Sounds hokey, but who cares!

This is a journey of our hearts and souls, and we are photographing every minute of it and piecing together a story that may not be for everyone, but the ones who do connect with it, I think will enjoy it quite a bit... And what is this masterpiece going to be called now? Here it is: "Awesometown, USA: A Lover's Guide to Life." We'll keep you updated with out takes and eventual release information.

And thus from the book and all the hanging out and hashing out our shit, our sarcastic mutters of "man, this is awesome..."  became genuine cackles of "holy shit, this IS awesome!" as we undergo the process of shedding our skins and building thicker ones, cleaning the wounds, applying new bandages, taking the bandages off and incorporating the scars into our collective experience but not getting hung up on them. This isn't girl power shit, new wave spirituality peace love unity shit. But I guess this is growing up. It still hurts a little, so it must be working.

And then, again spawned from this book, and expanded by the trips and experiences, we created our fake little town (Awesometown, y'heard!) to amuse ourselves... only to find so many people were into what we were doing and wanted to be a part of it. So I made a site, wrote up a town charter, and Quinne and I became co-mayors of the most awesome town there is.

Whatever you're into... just endeavor to do something. Live your life.

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10:17 PM - Amazing things to come...
Category: Art and Photography

Well well it looks like 2008 is about to get awesome. I've met my match photo/art wise in my lovely friend Quinne and we are about to embark on an amazing project that I can only hint at now because we are literally doing everything the minute our minds stop spinning just long enough to grab the cameras and get going... I am really excited that this is going to be something creative and inspiring, and is going to push us to come up with some great stuff. It is also going to be a bit of a departure from the "cheesecake" stuff, but that is all the more reason I am totally intrigued/thrilled to step out of the "safe" pin-up box and have fun with this...

Hope 2008 is going VERY well for everyone thus far. Don't forget to file your taxes! Haha. Also, Tequila? Over it (again). I'm probably just meant to be a Whiskey girl por vida.

XOXO,
Dangerrr!

Currently listening : In the Court of the Crimson King By King Crimson Release date: 06 March, 2006

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10:24 PM - our new pile of sh-t truck! yay!

WOOHOO!
a super-awesome co-worker of mine recently picked up another truck (65 or 66), so we inherited his 64 chevy c10 shortbed... when we got there saturday, it was basically a rolling chassis w/ a cab bolted on... the boys were up all night last night putting it together, fabbing some new steel parts, and throwing all the body back on... today they re-wired everything, stuck the head and brake lights back on, started her up and BAM! she runs!

but HOLY SHIT IS SHE UGLY! wow... shortbeds are pretty badass, but the cab is hand-painted with gray primer (yeah, brush streaks galore), the inside is hand painted some sort of almost-flat black, the front grill had been powder coated chrome (i actually like it better than the old real chrome, it's less "bling"). one side panel is powder coated white, there's no bed in the back and the tailgate and other side panel are bare metal. tops out at about 50mph, hahah! it was a long drive back over the bridge needless to say...

we're picking up a hood and various other parts at ye olden junkyard next weekend! gonna be a fun project :) i am in love with the red wheels... and the lines on these year trucks... it may look like a pile right now, but give us a few months and it'll be flat black, new tranny, nice hardwood / steel flatbed and fast as fuck... not to mention i'll be sewing up a storm when we pick up some new foam and vinyl...

pictures of the beast coming soon...

XOXODANGERRR

REFERENCE: This is the body style, if you are wondering... only ours is minus a paintjob and those ugly new-school rims & that strange bumper thing...

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