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[12 Aug 2008|07:18pm] |
Dear Friends,
A little while ago I finished a book of drawings titled 'Wild Rose Road'. It is drawings based on people I've seen and hallucinations I've had, other things too. I draw all wrong and I like that a lot. Anyhow, I'm selling copies of my book for 10 bux. You can see what it looks like here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlfromparadise/sets/72157606303728474/
ALL profits are going towards helping my family back in L.A. not get thrown out of their house. They're on the brink of eviction and I am trying to do everything I can to prevent the worse from happening. I know the economy is terrible and everybody is broke but if you can help out, that would be awesome.
Paypal: Chondriticorders@gmail.com
Soon I will have shirts and more books for sale. Please stay tuned.
XO,
V
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[16 Jun 2008|01:08am] |
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That is my friend Rodger Stella. He was performing with my other friends who are in a band called Demons. This was in Detroit. Rodger is a junkie but he is one of the happiest people I've ever met. I know it doesn't mean that he is healthy, but he sure is happy. I look at him slide down the wall in the same redundant stupor and I am jealous because you can see in his big grin that he has something most of us don't.
So much has happened since I last wrote in here. Of course. I am back in Michigan and still reeling from my trip to Los Angeles. Someday I will understand everything that happened. Just not yet. My mom did stop drinking, finally. She quit around the same time her brother fell ill and was diagnosed with multiple types of cancer. She visit him in the hospital twice and then, very suddenly, he was dead. Things were pretty amazing. Imagine a turbulent emotional roller coaster followed by epic mood swings and horrible chaotic stress. It was so challenging.
But things are a lot better now! So much better. They are also a lot worse and really very sad too.
Michigan has been comforting but also kind of suffocating. I am used to having all of Los Angeles at my disposal when combating heavy stress. There is not enough here to distract me. I miss my traffic and street noise and smog and sub division glory. Ok I will stop now because I don't want to sound ungrateful.
My boyfriend is going to turn 30 and he is doing pretty good so far. I hope that I am ok when I am turning 30.
I got some tortilla crusted tilapia and I am really excited to eat it. Grocery shopping is so fulfilling.
I just realized that it is 4 in the morning. I will never ever have a normal schedule. NEVER.
Goodnight.
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[06 Feb 2008|08:23pm] |
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i am glad they let britney out. she seems, uh, refreshed.
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| stop throwing candles at dad. |
[13 Jan 2008|01:53pm] |
i have been in los angeles for almost a whole week.
well, i've been in a subdivision of los for about a whole week. i can see downtown from across the street at night. it twinkles. i am itching to get at it. i've been couped up all week, playing security guard. watching my mother get frantic when she realizes her half pint of vodka is almost finished. alcoholism is amazing. so i guess if you didn't know already, this is why i am in los angeles. to try and keep my mother from killing herself. to try and keep my sister from falling apart at the seams because of her parents. etc.
i am excited to see the ocean. i know santa monica still kinda stinks. i know that venice is still weird, always weird. i love it. i am excited to touch my skin to the water. there are no oceans in michigan, only still still lakes.
i am fucking dying to see so many people here. that will have to wait.
ha. sundays still move as slow as i remember here. the sky is so fucking blue though! c'mon, even with everything gone totally to shit; THE SUN IS SO FUCKING BLUE. paradise.
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| no more sorry |
[04 Jan 2008|11:10am] |
a christmas post is in order, as it was one of the happiest christmases I can remember ever having. later.
i absolutely refuse to sit here and write endlessly about the old year and the new year. simply, 2007 was harder for me than i could've ever imagined it would be. i am grateful to be sitting here; flesh & blood. having made it through is victory enough. i want to be at ease in 2008, happy.
in 3 days i will be in los angeles. there is layer of total fright skimming the top of everything. then i rationalize- how can i be afraid to go back home? no matter what the outcome there is, i will be ok. when the going gets rough/tough; how much better can it get then being cradled by the arms of your city love. at least i still have her, my los angeles. i haven't been back home in almost a year but that doesn't really matter. i know i will exit the airport and breathe in that gorgeous filth-clogged air and it will all come back to me. like i never left. like i never ran away.
i will miss my g & my kitty more than words could ever do justice.
see you in the city of sand.
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[11 Dec 2007|02:22pm] |
i am back in los angeles on january 7th, 2008.
i can already & very clearly see my self exploding into tears when i arrive.
oh los angeles, how i've missed you so.
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[05 Aug 2007|07:27pm] |
I am really sick and fucking tired of not having health insurance.
A nagging ear infection and a tooth that must be extracted, all within a few weeks is just too fucking much. I hate this stupid fucking country.
All of this is just translating into anxiety for me. Anxiety which I don't have medication for...endless cycle.
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[05 May 2007|07:49pm] |
I am moving journals.
Yet again.
Add me; ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gfromp
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[16 Dec 2006|02:43am] |
very soon i will be back in los angeles for an extended visit. holiday? no. i'm coming back to the city of sand to try and save my mother from herself.
wish me luck.
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| life moves fast slow faster slower onward... |
[15 Dec 2006|12:10am] |
so last weekend i was in bristol, at minehead, at all tomorrow's parties. and i was on opium, walking lost through patch of muddy grass with my friend zac and i think right there & then i realized i have to wake up. i have to move on & forward. i am in love and it's OK. i can be happy now. i can stop wanting every day to suck so that it's easy for me to continue hating myself and everyone / thing around me. i can start living.
last weekend changed my life.
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[12 Oct 2006|10:05pm] |
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i guess i should start by saying that i've moved to DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
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[07 Oct 2006|10:46pm] |
i am going to start writing in here again.
not that anyone gives a fuck.
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[07 Oct 2005|10:53am] |
SUNDAY OCT. 9th
PAUL FLAHERTY, CHRIS CORSANO, & NELS CLINE trio
YEHMERO (spencer yeh & damion romero)
SIXES
16 BITCH PILE-UP
@9:30ish IL CORRAL 662 Heliotrope
You should be at this show. This line-up is beyond epic. If you have been feeling uninspired and need a kick to the throat; ATTEND. It is 7 dollars because Everyone playing is from outta town. But Il Corral doesn't turn anyone away. Come, empty your pocket change and get WEIRD.
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[19 Sep 2005|09:46pm] |
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it just rained a little bit and i cried a little bit.
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[13 Sep 2005|01:30am] |
forthcoming job interviews. excited because i need to finance various projects & move out. in love with reading, taking in text like a fiend; a shaking junkie fixing endlessssssssly.
more more more
later.
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[30 Aug 2005|02:49pm] |
great show tomorrow at il corral. eve, liz, ladies...
anyhow. email me if you want to like, 'contact' me...
even if i write in this journal and i can't keep up with comments or anything because my brain is insane these days...
amen.
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| gift... |
[27 Aug 2005|02:52am] |
something to lift your spirits...
AUGUST 31st:
She-Rat
Obstacle Corpse(corydon of sissy spacek super fame..)
Skull Sküll
Leslie Q
Feed the Dragon(albert ortega and the king of il corral himself; bob bellerue..)
9pmish $5
@ IL CORRAL
662 no. heliotrope dr (just south of melrose)
los angeles, ca 90004
i'm really fond of this line-up. killer cocktail of bands/projects with something to make every heart beat just a teeny bit faster.
good way to shake yourself loose from the m-f 9to5 choke-hold.
i hope i see some of you there.
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| Tomorrow |
[23 Aug 2005|05:43pm] |
Weds August 24
Friends Forever
Rose For Bohdan
Ultra Boyz
Grace's Amazing Kitty Cat Band (member of Privy Seals, gang wizard)
@il corral 9pmish $5
il corral
662 no. heliotrope dr (just south of melrose)
los angeles, ca 90004
SAME BUILDING AS MONDO VIDEO
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