mmm...art...mmboy!
ah, sigh...yes...
spent the entire day wandering around one of the huge art galleries here...loved it!!!!! It gets me soooo freeking excited to be surrounded by different modes of expression and creativity...almost electric.
looked at a lot of aboriginal art, contemporary australian art, some amazing photography exhibits....it was all breathtaking and got me itching to reach for my macro lens or some paint....urk...going to have to wait a while....ah, the suspense and utter anticipation....! excruciating...
there was this one painting that was of these two women sitting in this lake, their faces turned away from the viewer, and they were surrounded by all these flamingos who seemed not to notice that they were being watched...and for some reason i was completely fascinated by it...it was almost spooky...hard to explain...
there were a lot of disturbing photo exhibits, some actually gave me the chills...you don't run across that very often...amazing.
during lunch, sam, kerri and i wandered downtown to get some food...and we had an absolute blast...hair being blown all around, b/c it was beautifully windy (i love watching ppl when it is windy...it always strikes me as poetic, for some reason)
...we were surrounded by all these businessmen and women...and we were being total goofs...one of our quotes from that lunch was "cows....they linger." ....of course, this is completely out of context, but it kept sam and i laughing for about a good 10 minutes....kerri ended up getting a cup with 4 shots of espresso, a shot of Bailey's, and 8 packets of sugar...horrifying, even i'm not that hardcore when it comes to caffeine...goodness! I was happy with my bizarre smoothie that had tons of prickly pineapple skin in it...hmm...
we realized a lot of things here are chicken flavored...they have chicken flavored chips, chicken flavored salt...!! crazy!
after a day of amazing art, i walked around the city by myself...watching ppl get blown all around...i love being by myself, and just walking shoulder to shoulder with strangers...watched this girl take pictures of pigeons in the park for a while (so, she automatically is cool in my book)...watched strangers run into each other...watched people pass by each other and share glances that were not simply glances...listened to people talk...got smiled at by a baby. :-)
as i was walking, the line from a song kept repeating in my head...
"and on the street are so many possibilities to not be alone...and all you see is where else you could be"....
it made me think of how many lives we could lead, just by turning one way instead of another..all the parallel lives.....yesterday, on a whim, i decided to let chance take me...i was at an intersection, and pressed both buttons, to see which one would let me walk first, and decided that no matter which one it was, i would just start walking in that direction, and see where it took me...and i did, and it took me somewhere quite amazing...finally i settled down in the grass, and wrote...and was surprised (scared shitless, actually) when this wet tongue ran up my back and between my shoulder blades...it turned out to be a very friendly greyhound.....the dog's owner came up to me and apologized, told me that her dog liked to flirt with pretty girls...but assured me that she only licked the very special ones, so i should feel special...it was an interesting experience....wrote a little rambling vingette about it later...
i realized that i have a very tangential nature...well, i've realized this before...but the other night it hit me again...that my life is one tangent after another...and i wouldn't have it any other way.
i'll leave you with the last song lyric that just played in my ear...
"you shouldn't think what you're feeling.."
ponder!
spent the entire day wandering around one of the huge art galleries here...loved it!!!!! It gets me soooo freeking excited to be surrounded by different modes of expression and creativity...almost electric.
looked at a lot of aboriginal art, contemporary australian art, some amazing photography exhibits....it was all breathtaking and got me itching to reach for my macro lens or some paint....urk...going to have to wait a while....ah, the suspense and utter anticipation....! excruciating...
there was this one painting that was of these two women sitting in this lake, their faces turned away from the viewer, and they were surrounded by all these flamingos who seemed not to notice that they were being watched...and for some reason i was completely fascinated by it...it was almost spooky...hard to explain...
there were a lot of disturbing photo exhibits, some actually gave me the chills...you don't run across that very often...amazing.
during lunch, sam, kerri and i wandered downtown to get some food...and we had an absolute blast...hair being blown all around, b/c it was beautifully windy (i love watching ppl when it is windy...it always strikes me as poetic, for some reason)
...we were surrounded by all these businessmen and women...and we were being total goofs...one of our quotes from that lunch was "cows....they linger." ....of course, this is completely out of context, but it kept sam and i laughing for about a good 10 minutes....kerri ended up getting a cup with 4 shots of espresso, a shot of Bailey's, and 8 packets of sugar...horrifying, even i'm not that hardcore when it comes to caffeine...goodness! I was happy with my bizarre smoothie that had tons of prickly pineapple skin in it...hmm...
we realized a lot of things here are chicken flavored...they have chicken flavored chips, chicken flavored salt...!! crazy!
after a day of amazing art, i walked around the city by myself...watching ppl get blown all around...i love being by myself, and just walking shoulder to shoulder with strangers...watched this girl take pictures of pigeons in the park for a while (so, she automatically is cool in my book)...watched strangers run into each other...watched people pass by each other and share glances that were not simply glances...listened to people talk...got smiled at by a baby. :-)
as i was walking, the line from a song kept repeating in my head...
"and on the street are so many possibilities to not be alone...and all you see is where else you could be"....
it made me think of how many lives we could lead, just by turning one way instead of another..all the parallel lives.....yesterday, on a whim, i decided to let chance take me...i was at an intersection, and pressed both buttons, to see which one would let me walk first, and decided that no matter which one it was, i would just start walking in that direction, and see where it took me...and i did, and it took me somewhere quite amazing...finally i settled down in the grass, and wrote...and was surprised (scared shitless, actually) when this wet tongue ran up my back and between my shoulder blades...it turned out to be a very friendly greyhound.....the dog's owner came up to me and apologized, told me that her dog liked to flirt with pretty girls...but assured me that she only licked the very special ones, so i should feel special...it was an interesting experience....wrote a little rambling vingette about it later...
i realized that i have a very tangential nature...well, i've realized this before...but the other night it hit me again...that my life is one tangent after another...and i wouldn't have it any other way.
i'll leave you with the last song lyric that just played in my ear...
"you shouldn't think what you're feeling.."
ponder!
posted by heather at 12:04 AM
2 Comments:
Oh heather... i miss your tangents and your crazy-contagious smiling and random quotes that make us laugh... today in my language class we talked about laughing being good for your health... how people are not making money off of laugh classes, to teach people how to find their inner laugh. The thought crossed my mind that they needed do anything but put themselves in a room with you, and they'd have it made!
the prof asked us if we laughed every day... and memories of sophomore year, amid all the crazy difficulty, resurfaced, because i think we may have survived because of all the lauhter.
i think i'm going to watch/listen to numa numa before heading out into the cold, for some good, smiling inspiration...
You sure you don't want to ditch the hot weather and bathing suits to enjoy some wonderfully frigid, double-pair-of-tights-worthy winter up in this neighborhood? you sure?
LOVE YA BUNCHES!
just a detail (french keyboards mess up my flow)
i meant to say that people ARE making money off laugh classes and that NEEDN'T do anything but be in a room with you to get their laugh circuits working.
shoulda looked that over before posting... on an english major's blog, no less!
::hugs::
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