Organization

I spent yesterday cleaning up my room, which included vacuuming all of my hair (Gross? yes. It's one of the woes of having long hair.) off the carpet and wiping clean my bathroom sink. After that I moved on to organizing my school/assignment schedule. Put down all the due dates of assignments and test dates I so can study accordingly. Now I have some plan of attack. All of this took me close to a month to finally get too. I hadn't cleaned my room since I got back from Thailand.

I guess I didn't want to honeymoon to be over.

Small Space Big Style

SSBS. I'm watching an episode of this, and it's right up my alley. I'm constantly looking to decorate my room.

Smallest Coolest Apartment

I know I'm late to the game, but I love this idea! I'm picking up tips. My room could actually double as a small apartment except that there is no kitchen, but I could have a college type kitchen.

Anyways, I love to see the variety and creativity involved.

ART: "Unmasking a Surreal Egotist"

* Unmasking a Surreal Egotist. Dali is one of my favorite artists. One of my dreams is to visit the Dali museum in his hometown. (I think there is one. I saw it on TV. Probably on the Travel channel or Discovery). And I'd like to visit the Guggenheim in Bilbao while I'm in Spain.
[Website: Virtual Dali]

* In other Art news, a 4 year old girl is captivating the art world with her "Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky" like paintings. WOW. She's only 4. I'll admit that I'm a little skeptical about a 4-year-old art prodigy. However, I know little about the art world, and about art itself, so I'm no expert. I wonder if there are other cases of gifted young artists, and are they really gifted? Maybe her father is a little too enthusiastic about helping his child, heh? I don't know. I need more proof that her paintings are truly her own work and one out of her desire to paint, not because her father gives her a little nudge now and then.

vintage in vogue

I'm really into vintage posters. I haven't come across many, but I really like them. Especially vintage travel posters. Those places seem so exotic, and many of them are, but the images portrayed on the posters speak to a different generation, a different beat.

I'd really like to immerse myself in Blues/Jazz. I've been getting the bug for some blues/jazz. I got a jazz book, but I need to actually listen to some jazz greats.

I'd like some of these on my icky, off white or off cream wall:

Henri Matisse
Icarus (Jazz), 1947
Cut Paper

Henri Matisse
Lithograph
"Affiches Originales" series
1959

Ok, I'm a big Henri Matisse fan. Why aren't there any cheap posters of the collage? I don't need one that costs >$30.

I really wished I could have gone to the Matisse Picasso exhibition at MOMA. What a wonderful experience that could have been. I wished that I studied more art history. I had the chance to take art history, but I chicken out. I want to be an art history buff. If I really had enough courage, I would be an art historian. And a proud one at that!

But, alas, I'm stuck in the hell that is I'm-tryin-my-darnest-to-figure-out-what-the-hell-I'm-going-to-spend-my-life-doing exercises. Great fun. Those people who have never experienced this sensation need to get on it. Get on the bus, if only for once around the block, because it'll make you miserable, and people need doses of misery in their lives. Once in a while. If you're not into the bus ride thing, then take a bitter pill, and look ahead 10, 20 years, and tell me that you'll be fulfilled by then...

Liar!

P.S. The last paragraph had nothing to do with the title, but declaring my love for vintage posters did. I sort of got off track.

(Written around April 7)