cosmic twin mayhem alert!

in just over a week i am heading down to arkansas for the wedding of my cousin ben, who's getting married the saturday after the annual national ritual animal sacrifice. i'll be staying for a week with alison, my cosmic twin! the last time i saw her was in april when i flew down to jump-start my life (it worked.) this time i am hoping for a sort of creative jump-start, since i already have a life but i am feeling rather muddled in the creative arena. i haven't been writing at all or doing anything of any artistic value save for a really cool mobile i made when i had the flu, but that has to be destroyed. it was temporary art.

anyway, this is what i do when i am with ali: we run around and take a lot of pictures. we make out in front of people and take pictures of that. we stay up all night talking. she reads me poetry. we let her four dogs in and out. we hang out with her friends and take more pictures. we make plans to visit the graveyard and the train station for photo shoots and we never make it there. we never make it anywhere on time. we never get around to most of the things we plan to do because we're too busy talking. we share music with each other. ali always has beautiful music playing, always.

i'm bringing a lighted hoop with me and planning to hoop at midtown, the dive bar that's open till 4 am and which serves boca burgers for a dollar or for free if you're a girl and you're there at the counter making out with another girl. how cool is that? i know, sexist. but no, it's really sweet. i only met a couple really creepy guys the last time i was there, the rest of everybody was really nice. so anyway i am working on my first-ever actual hoop routine so that my body will be trained to actually do something and i won't freeze up or just do stupid shit. i know a lot of basic tricks, i just never remember that i know them so i never do them. i've now got them all on post-its on the wall and i'm ordering and re-ordering them to figure out how they best flow from one to the next. if i get it together and feel ok about this i will have ali videotape me at midtown so that i will have a real video to put up on youtube, and on the hooping tribe where i never post anything because i don't have anything to post.

in other news, i am kinda working for star and i learned how to mount his grids and finally mounted a whole one on my own the other day, which was really gratifying! i like doing it, it is a very meditative activity. the next thing i will be doing for him is scanning 2x3 grids for his film into the computer (digitizing them) so they can be used in final cut pro, for his film. i will be doing other stuff too. i'm excited to be a part of the project. it's something i really look forward to working on although i never have any idea when he's going to call me to work. so it's hard to plan around it. good thing i don't have much else going on at the moment. i had this idea of going to massage school, but i might be too lazy to actually look into that. we shall see. it would be cool to become a really good masseuse but i have a feeling that we are at the very tail end of the "service economy" and i wouldn't have much of a career ahead of me.

that's all for now.