i'm bored and finals are over!

TEN random things about me...

1. i can draw better with a wacom tablet than with an actual pen
2. i love tap water because i can't stand the taste of filtered water
3. i don't like wearing pants when i'm alone
4. i wear sandals even when its 37 degrees outside
5. sharpies are my favorite drawing tool
6. i love to sleep but i can't cause i have insomnia
7. my favorite cheeses are extra sharm mccadam cheddar, unie kaas robusto, and cave-aged gruyere.
8. i still rock out to the backstreet boys
9. i will serenade you with terrible music if you are riding in my car with me.
10. i don't want to get married, i think marriage is basically bullshit, but i love weddings.


NINE ways to win my heart

1. smile
2. have a sense of humor
3. be a worldly educated person
4. have an opinion but don't be an ass about telling me about it
5. treat me with respect
6. always be honest
7. have manners/ good ettiquette (my spelling sucks)
8. be passionate about what you say and do.
9. make me feel like i'm the best version of myself when i'm with you.

EIGHT things I want to do before I die

1. never stop learning
2. travel a whole lot
3. have a nice car hahahaha (i dont want to drive the fucking neon for the rest of my life)
4. go rock climbing!!
5. own a fucking awesome house
6. learn to play drums (again)
7. get my writing published
8. never stop trying to perfect my art

SEVEN ways to annoy me

1. be a religious fanatic
2. treat me like shit, especially if it's because you're just in a bad mood.
3. be one of those people who doesn't give tips
4. touch. my. car. stereo. i will KILL you.
5. lie to me
6. act like your opinion is the only one that's valid
7. treat me like i'm stupid

SIX turn ons

1. good taste in music
2. nice smile
3. nice hands
4. perdy eyes
5. tattoos! well, nice tattoos. not ugly ones.
6. christian bale. haha

FIVE things I'm afraid of

1. sleep paralysis (where you can't wake yourself up and you can't move and stuff)
2. camel spiders
3. cockroaches
4. robots. they scare the shit out of me.
5. being alone for the duration of my life

FOUR favorite items in my room

1. PowerBook G4 computer
2. Canon Digital Rebel XT
3. two sketchbooks
4. my knitting projects.

THREE things I do every day

1. talk too much
2. sing
3. attempt to sleep (insomnia for the win)

TWO things i want to do right now
1. eat a grilled cheese sandwich
2. not be in the cold?

ONE person I want to see right now
1. it ain't a person. i wanna see my kitty!! he's back in la with the parentals.


le fin!

mooooonboots.

if people actually read this crap...

I've been looking at all sorts of weird, boring, exciting funny shit lately so here's some of it.

1. Moon boots.
these things are fucking strange. i'm not sure why you would buy them unless it's your goal to look like a retard.



or in the case of this pair, a yeti.


2. the RIAA is afraid of targeting Harvard students!!


3. Norway = the US's greatest fear


4. Jared motherfucking Leto.
here's all the scans...

but here's a preview...


jared leto is rotting my brain.

mike shinoda yay

Standing alone with no direction
How did I fall so far behind?
Why am I searching for perfection?
Knowing it's something I won't find

In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because

I run
Till the silence splits me open
I run
Till it puts me underground
Till I have no breath
And no roads left but one

When did I lose my sense of purpose?
Can I regain what's lost inside?
Why do I feel like I deserve this?
Why does my pain look like my pride?

In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because
I let myself down
In my fear and flaws

I run
Till the silence splits me open
I run
Till it puts me underground
Till I have no breath
And no roads left but one
No roads left but one

In my fear and flaws
I let myself down again
All because

I run
And the silence splits me open
I run
And it puts me underground
But there's no regret
And no roads left to run

no roads left, linkin park.

mike shinoda officially owns my fucking soul for singing this song. i think i've listened to it for the last 20 minutes nonstop.

jesus christ this song is good.

i was an odd one in high school

I'm watching videos from high school that I haven't watched in about three years. The footage is mostly four years old, and it's of my high school group of friends and myself being ourselves, i.e. very weird. It could be a bad television show. Seriously. And we filmed A LOT of weird crap. Us playing with legos. Eating croutons. Waving at cars. And one part at my 17th birthday sleepover thing where Francine, Tiffany and myself were watching Deuce Bigalow Male Gigalow while Nicole was sleeping, and she was snoring so loud that a) we couldn't stop laughing, and b) she woke herself up at one point. It was amusing. It's still amusing actually... Lots of hours of Nicole being crazy- getting in trashcans, humping trees, being loud, etc..


Turkey day 07! I miss my family a lot today. I've never been away from mes parents on a holiday before and... je ne sais pas. Food was tres bon though, at least. And for some reason instead of showing Christmasy movies, they were showing some dog show and that movie Independence Day. lol. yeah...

cheers and tidings of good pie,
kate

holy pies batman, its snowing!

snow!!!!!!!!




it may only be flurries but i'm a girl born and raised in the beautiful desert wasteland that is los angeles california. if it snows anywhere below 4000ft it's like christmas came early for me.


when it really snows, like pretty powdery loveliness, i hope i have someone to share my joy with.

until then...

kate.

piles of crap and random pictures.

since i dont really have any pictures of interesting things, here's some pictures of stupid things, and two of my room back home.


i was by the harbor eating a sandwich the other day and i saw this particularly fluffy sparrow:


today i was at the Prudential Center for a Rachel Ray cookbook signing- as a gift for someone, not for me. aaand so here's rachel ray signing mi madre's gift:



here's a war protest parade/march thing i went to in october. it was so windy outside.


and just because this still amuses me:


my desk!! the desk that used to be, since its no longer there....

(yes i like cows. stfu. and yes that computer monitor is like 100 years old. and my printer pwns. and the seal is a coin bank, the bottle of stuff is San Benedetto peach iced tea, and the picture is of me when i was 4 or 5 years old.)

my tiny bookshelf and my bulletin board in my room at home back in california.

from top left- my tribalgear beanie, photo of mi madre and me, my entire collection of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes books, and random things of shells. candle lamp thingy.
second shelf: journal, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Brothers K, French-English dictionary, thesaurus (sp?), Lord of the Rings books, and a pile of crap with an incense box and some sort of strap/bag thing.
third shelf: The Turks Today, Faith God & Rock N Roll, When The Wind Blows, The Lake House, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pride & Prejudice, 365 things of a diet? or something i dont know..., a portfolio of my work, NEW RULES by bill maher LOVE THIS BOOK, The River Why, Reading Lolita in Tehran, White Oleandar, not sure, not sure, The Bastard of Istanbul, photo album, You Might Be a Redneck If... this is the biggest book you ever read.
yeah. now you all know what i read. or just happen to own.



and im out.
kate.

hurrah! internet's working again!!

i havent had internet at my apartment for two days and it's been really frustrating because i basically live at my computer. ha.

so here's an odd collection of pictures because imageshack is awesome.



my wine collection, on my kitchen table back home in LA. (notice the vase full of various shells? lol)


me being... well, me. (just be glad i didnt put up the gangsta 'wesside' pic)


my shelf of various foods and teas.


lobby of the empire state building (didn't have time to go up to the top.. it was sad)


tiny zebra striped 2 passenger car driving down 5th Ave!!! 8D


new york public library & its awesome architecture.



my tiny new ipod nano.


from the second time i was in new york earlier this month-
(and if you actually want to hear the tale of that day, just ask me... lol)



julie yeo's withering stare



my burger (which thankfully was not receiving julie's withering stare)



central park at night, blurry as shit though unfortunately.


per the request for sharing more pictures of my 'adventures'... well when i actually have adventures i will share them. for now this is all i can give.

also, here's a preview of some art i've been working on. it's in early stages right now, so don't laugh...



sketchy portrait thing of trent reznor (photoshop cs2, tablet, photo reference.)


flying guy (inspiration from the work of Derek Hess; again i'm digitally reworking an old traditional illustration)

in vino veritas, pt 1

That's right, I collect wine. I'm not 21 for another 3 months but I've been collecting for about two years. It all started with a taste of some random bottle of $300 merlot in 2005... I was hooked. I never liked wine before then and then i started getting into it


columbia crest reserve syrah

http://www.winelog.net/wines/wine/33957
mollydooker 'enchanted path' 2006. it got a 93 rating from wine spectator.

i also have Rosemount Estate Shiraz... not sure what the vintage is off the top of my head; this random bottle of 'Tuscan Moon' Sangiovese from Trader Joes.. and of course my prized possession-- a bottle of 2004 Caduceus 'Nagual de la Naga'.

http://www.caduceus.org
^^ the Caduceus website... it's a wine made by the one and only Maynard James Keenan. It's the coolest looking bottle of wine I've ever seen and I think that the mollydooker bottles are pretty sweet.

and i'm rambling now. i'll create a better post sometime soon.

not philosophical in any way.

the broken clock is a comfort, it helps me sleep tonight
maybe it can't stop tomorrow from stealing all my time
and i am here still waiting, though i still have my doubts
i am damaged at best, like you've already figured out

I have the apartment to myself this weekend. I thought it was going to be the best thing, having it to myself to clean while i dance and sing to my music in my pajamas, so I can watch the tv I want without even worrying about bothering anyone else... and I'm so happy that I have my own space for the first time in several months, but at the same time I've been on the phone with people living 3000 miles from me all day, or trying to get in contact with them. I find meaning in my life by talking to the people who actually care about me. Fuck this sentimentality, I feel weak.

Someday I'll look back on this and laugh. Someday I'll look back and wonder what was wrong with me and why being this age is so hard. Why is it such a trying age? Maybe because for the first time you start to realize that the choices you make really truly matter. You start to pay attention to shit that really matters and actually affects your life. Maybe not your life personally, but your life in the way that you live it.

anyway, i'm tired and i need to stop rambling to myself, since i'm probably the only one that gives a poop about this.



cheers,
kate

manhattan

i was in manhattan for the second time ever this week and here are some words of advice for anyone going to new york city.

-don't wear sandals if you intend on walking a lot. first because your feet will get disgusting, second because you'll get blisters.
-dont ask people for directions. buy a map and don't second guess yourself if you thought your original idea on where you were going was correct
-please dont be one of those obnoxious people at ground zero/world trade center site taking photos in front of it of yourself smiling like an idiot. seriously. 3000 people died here so don't make an ass out ofyourself.
-go to the shoe floor in saks 5th ave. seriously. it's an entire floor of designer footwear.
-a cab fare from the upper west side to chinatown is $17. and you can pay with credit cards now- its quite handy.
-diners are a must, and starbucks is open nice and early if you need a fruit parfait at 6 in the morning (julie, lol)
-bring a sweater/sweatshirt even if the weather seems good
-central park at night is a must!
-there's a ton of ATM machines everywhere, so if you don't have cash, don't worry (because the cabs take credit cards!)
-there's also a a TON of Au Bon Pain (bakery/cafe) and they have any kind of quick cheap (for ny anyway) food you could need

er yeah.

and now i'm spending my saturday night browsing the Barneys New York website, eating Ben & Jerry's and listening to the Beatles. I win at life.

look, i own ridiculously tight jeans now- (the pictures aren't loading)

and this is a shitty shot of Park Dr. and the resovoir at night. (pictures still aren't loading - firewalls suck)


i heart ny. i heart california more.

i just realized that i'm completely obsessed with anything to do with water. i love the ocean, lakes, rivers, ponds and everything that goes with them. i'm an aquarius though, the water bearer, so i guess it makes sense. i always thought it was funny that aquarius is an air sign even though its the water bearer. heh.

cheers,
kate