20 years ago tonight I sat with my parents in our brand new American living room, fixated on our new television screen watching an event that I didn't fully understand but knew I needed to remember for the rest of my life. I didn't know anything about communism or even that there were two Germany's before that, but I do remember feeling like it wasn't just me and my parents who were entranced with it, the world was too. I think it was the first time in my life where I felt the zeitgeist, I couldn't articulate it of course, but I remember it well and I remember understanding that although it was fascinating to me, it couldn't compare to what those who were physically there were experiencing. Only two other events that happened during my childhood do I remember with such surreal vividness as the fall of the Berlin Wall; the LA Riots and the Assassination of Mexican President Luis Donaldo Colosio. I remember watching fires take over the intersection of Normandy and Florence, and countless replays of an inconspicuous hand with a gun reaching out from a crowd and shooting a newly elected Mexican president in the head, and being so frustrated at the fact that these events were being mediated and contextualized by a television screen which I've never trusted.











Last week I watched Goodbye, Lenin for the dozenth time. It's so funny, sad, sweet, and smart... If you haven't seen it, I will absolutely vouch for it. It's a sweet movie about nostalgia, relationships, unfulfilled hopes and imaginary heroes. I won't give the whole plot away but I will post one of my favorite lines from the movie: "The country my mother left behind was a country she believed in; a country we kept alive till her last breath; a country that never existed in that form..."

Not only did Daedelus save Halloween with his fantastic set, but he also played the song I requested earlier that night. There tends to be a direct correlation between the rising popularity of a musician and the decline of the quality of their music, but in Daedelus' case it is the exact opposite. His music has remained interesting and unique despite his growing fanbase. He doesn't sound like anyone else, he sounds like Daedelus. What a lovely man - and what a ridiculously amazing musician!







Pictures of myself in my Snow White (err..Snow Brown?) costume to come, perhaps...
I hope all yous had a fun Halloween!

bought my roundtrip ticket to London last week...
reserved 3nights in a hostel in Central London 2hrs ago...
buying rail tickets to Paris tomorrow...
searching for hostels in Berlin...
leaving exactly 3months from today...
this is finally happening.

Note to self: do NOT get faded before you begin taking pictures of the party.

Tonight i discovered that all i need to get my ass on the dance floor is a cece peniston track (and friendly drag queens don't hurt either), also, i can pull off fabulousness with the bare minimum.

virginiaarce.com (still under construction) finally has some new content up! many thanks to the badass bigthumps for his generous assistance all things website-developing-related.

check it out, and don't forget to throw some feedback this direction!

waaaaaah waaaaah fucking whaaaaaah! pat buchanan, you old white priviledged piece of shit, shut the fuck up. and what is this bullshit about america being built by white people and that's why they get to rule it? who picked the cotton and the strawberries on the fields and built the goddamn railroads?! and apparently in the 60's, the ethnic breakdown of america was 90% white and 10% black and no one else outside of those groups existed, according to pat at least, and it's pretty clear the old bigot would love to keep it that way.

why does rachel maddow and msn continue to give this joke of a person any airtime?

memory
time
illness
language

these have been my unlikely muses as of late, time to make something...

If you have about 30minutes to spare, watch the film below, La Jetée (1962), by Chris Marker. My mentor showed this film to our sophomore photo class years ago, and regrettably it was 8am and I was running on 3 hours of sleep so I missed half of it - BUT - I recently watched it again and was blown away. The plot revolves around time travel and love in a post nuclear world. Beautiful, poetic, visually arresting, and brilliant.



( parts 2 & 3 )

the next four years are looking bright...


^^that stupid gif makes me laugh, sorry.