the woman who tames paper spiders

If you were to send me back 18 years, I'd probably look like this right now. Some guy came into work and punched me in the face.......actually that didn't happen to me but to the owner of Cottage Inn. You know, the really mean short stout pissy man that would be the type who spits in your food. Some guy apparently came in a couple minutes after we left and leaned over the counter, and punched him in the side of the face while he was on the phone. To top it off, he knocked over one of those coolers....the Fago cooler to be exact. The entire place smelled like grape Fago.

I know this is not relevant, in fact it happened like a week ago. You know what else happened a week ago, someone stole my 900 dollar camera.....some week egh. Fuck it, shit happens and at least I wasn't jumped like my roommate (ohhhhh schnappppppp) money is money, and I shouldn't be one to bitch and moan because I've had a hell of a lot of money that I've just blown away on useless shit.

I think I could narrow it down to 5 specific things I've blown money on over the past 15 years.

1. Band T-shirts.

(Might I add, X-large Metallica and Marilyn Manson shirts that I surly cannot fit into anymore. No seriously, I have an entire box at home filled with concert edition t-shirts from Korn Metallica, Blink 182, Weird Al, and yeah....................I should be ashamed.)

2. Comics + Comic Books HERO Action Figures

(Oh I don't know............3 of those long dorky comic book boxes you see at comic stores, in which each comic, is individually wrapped with archival plastic and matt board backing....EACH......(taking a breath).........COMIC. Action figures are another story. I think I've already talked about the x-men series from blockbuster that were actually "manufactured mistakes" that I freaked out about because I thought they were rare mint condish collectors items..............found at blockbuster. Now that I think of it, I should have probably put the two together and saved my money.

3. Clothes

(You could say this was my first step towards acting a little...............how do you say it..........not as masculine as every other guy who wore solid color polo shirts to school everyday. I mean I usually wore the same thing days on end, but....I just liked getting new clothes. And in fifth grade I LERRRRRVED getting bowling shirts from TJ Max. When I found out about the mall, it was just a downward spiral from then on. I remember actually getting my very first.....chain wallet, that attaches from your wallet to your belt loop......yeah.....I'm not gonna lie, I think those are gonna come back in style soon, not the long obnoxious ones, but like the tiny one that isn't even long enough to go past your pocket.

Those are bad ass.

4. cd's

(not even as a joke, I had to personally make a wall shelf when I was in high school for all my cd's. Jim and I busted out the saw's and hand crafted a triangle shelf (because my ceiling was at a slant) for all my frickin' cd's. The last time I counted (which was freshmen year of high school) was 320. Now i've gone backwards in time and have become enamoured by the power of vinyl. And that's just bad news for my checking account in the future.

5. wood + paint

(so yeah, i'm in my early twenties (I just think that sounds pretty bad ass) and I've spent probably over 2 grand on paint supplies and 4x8 sheets of wood in the past 2 years. reasons that will hopefully make me a recognized artist in the ever so dramatic art wold we hear about in school. It'll all pay off, but the best is when you can't come home for mothers day because you don't have enough money in your checking account for even half a tank of gas. So imagine saying this. "mom..........I bought too much Pine and Cherry wood the other day.....I'm negative 40 bucks in my bank account, can you come pick me up tomorrow morning?" ultimate humility, but in the way that just solidifies the fact that you're a dork and you buy wood for a living.)

Money ain't nuffin'.

I found an interesting poem by an artist today at work. It was actually on the back of her book flap.

"I'm the pedlar of chimaeras, the pedlar of simian dreams, of arachnid deliriums....I'm the trickster, a trickster with overpainted photos, distorting enlargments, overprintings, out-of-focus close-ups, distorting lenses...I'm the teller of lies, the messenger of false premonitions, of dubious loves, of suspect memories..............I'm the woman who tames paper spiders."- Annette Messager

(the last part is my favorite...............TAMES PAPER SPIDERS....that's something devendra would say) here's some of her work, check her out dude, it kind of reminds me of Janelle's work