It's been an exciting couple of days. On Tuesday the podcast I did for Long Arm Stapler went out and I've been riding that wave since. Only one person has reached out to me about it but! one is enough for me, it's really sweet that anyone has listened to it at all. I need to work on a new zine for the Sun Scream exchange which I have to finish and mail by tomorrow and I'm trying to finish another zine from June. I'm also on a hunt for a purse! Which is really funny because I have two purses I never use. I'm looking for a chunky leather purse which I can add a bunch of keychains onto. I'm trying to get more into crochet and there are so many crochet keychain patterns I've seen that I think I could follow-- also I'm going to New York in August and there's a store called Friends that I really want to go to so I can find some cute keychains! They also sell blind boxes, but I'm going to limit myself to one Sonny Angel.
Today I am at the library near my house. I was just thinking that it's not my favorite in Charlotte-- my favorite used to be the main library but then it got torn down :( and I guess now by default it's the Hickory Grove library because it was the first one I ever visited in Charlotte. I was hoping that I would finish my zine today but I don't think I will unfortunately. I was able to get a bunch of free discarded magazines for collaging, I hope that I actually will. I've only picked up one book called The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. I actually don't know them but here they are:
I think it's really interesting this paragraph in general is very arely coded:
"The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. Incarnations of the beautiful, mournful, axiomatic truth of our species that we are compelled to make the world in our image and to modify it to our will. They were also brilliant adventures of the mind, test cases of the reaches of human imagination. This book walks through the landscapes of both ancient and modern time; a journey whose purpose is to ask why we wonder, why we create, why we choose to remember the wonder of others."
but I won't check it out because I'm supposed to be reading On the Road, also the library is freezing which is welcomed of course, considering how how it is outside (90 fucking 1!!!) but it is making it hard to type.
Instead of working on my zine I watched a video about a bakery run by two sisters in Japan from a channel that is just about bakeries in Japan! The channel is called Bread Story. I also watched this vlog from an influencer who lives in Honolulu. She's an aina who mostly talks about books and i guess critiques of internet culture. I tried to find more creators like that, but it was mostly vlogs from people who were just visiting or who had just moved to Hawaii. Hawaii is probably one of my favorite places on earth, and I wish I had visited areas outside of Waikiki lol, so I love seeing more of the island, as well as Kauai and the Big Island. I also saw this cute video on instagram (above) about a woman who sells cookies in the Hokkaido mountains (the second largest island of Japan) carrying them on her back! Of course I want to write a story about a woman who sells stuff off her back in the mountains! That is such a cool and inventive idea.
Tomorrow I'll have to finish working on my zine and print it out, fold them and then mail them out. I don't think i'll do anything really fun but I don't really get to do anything fun anyways unless i'm like out of town so! it's okay. see you
your fun furry freaky friend, DOG (woof!)