i just posted this picture with my story, a rocking chair from germany. i drew it as a rough sketch for a big art project my freshman year in college. maybe i’ll post that sometime. it was kind of a collage ad for my site (back when it was parlor42.com–don’t go there! someone evil owns it now and you’ll be bombarded with popups.). i just drew a few pictures from my stories and pasted it to a board. the background was my favorite: i took a bunch of my stories and condensed them all into one huge paragraph so there weren’t any paragraph breaks. i think there were about 10 pages total. then i pasted them to the board and then pasted my pictures on top of that.

the story of the rocking chair came from a true story. my parents have an old rocking chair that actually did come over with my ancestors from Germany. it’s probably about a hundred years old and has held up really well. there are only a few scars from me carving on it with a kitchen knife and such when i was younger. i broke my little toe on it once while i was running to get the phone.

xanga cut off the end of the title of Elf Power‘s cd that i’m listening to. it’s called Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs. i bought it not just because i wanted something from Elf Power, but also because the title was so freaking cool. the link that i have for that album gives it two out of five stars. idiots. it’s not a fantastic album but it’s not horrible. it’s their first record and it shows: they are immature at times. i think it was recorded on a four track so it sounds like it was made in someone’s house. i love those kinds of records.