A true friend stabs you in the front.

briarsubstitute @ 2009-12-09T13:57:00

2009-12-09T21:57:03Z

10 PAGES TO GO 3 HOURS LEFT CAN I DO IT? WHY AM I ON LIVEJOURNAL RIGHT NOW? TOO MUCH ESPRESSO! WHY IS THIS IN ALL CAPS? AM I TURNING INTO DIANA?

soclosesoclosesoclosesoclosesoclosesoclose to the box of wine in my room and the steak josh is going to make me

I'm gonna get real weird with it.

ohgodohgodohgodohgodfinals

2009-12-07T06:21:37Z

My mom tried to join the army and just got her rejection letter.

uuuughhhhhh real life

2009-11-04T20:58:30Z

Is wanting to open my own gallery in a real city totally unrealistic?

Welcome Back, Santa Cruz

2009-09-21T23:35:43Z

So as far weekends go, the one in which I returned to Santa Cruz was fucking epic. I mastered at organization and my room looks awesome. Josh and I just have to paint my mirror, and patchwork fabric onto my trunk and I'll be super happy with it. On top of that, I was greeted back with a wonderful drunken extravaganza at the new palm house and I had my first steak since getting my wisdom teeth out. It was much needed.

Sunday Josh and I picked up team Berkeley and went to the Wildcat Canyon park with directions out of the Hot Cold zine to get to a magical fort in the middle of the forest complete with tree swings, tire swings, huts, a ton of people and, most importantly, Lucky Dragons playing a kick ass show. At one point the electricity went out so they passed out recorders to everyone and just had everyone jam. More photos will be on facebook as soon as I finish and develop the role.

An excellent beginning to what I now deem the Adventure Year.

Oh you damn fools

2009-09-08T05:44:00Z

So I spent the weekend in Donner with my mother. She spent the entire time talking and amazingly the only two subjects she could come up with were her weight and her (surprise!) fiance. She doesn't like him but he's loaded and, as she wisely imparted, "there is something to be said for having a husband who will be your slave". So, as unbearable as this was, I was forced to resort to norcos to deal which had three negative consequences:

1. I now have a really terrible sunburn

2. my mother now thinks I don't mind when she talks to me

3. she took my joke suggestions for the wedding seriously. These included having the music selection consist entirely of Prince, me wearing a dress that turns into a shorter dress and then a bikini, and the wedding being on a beach with the wedding party brought over by a boat and then carried to shore by buff guys in matching swim trunks and bowties.

I need to get back to Santa Cruz.

Speaking of which, I just signed up for introduction to electronics in intermedia and thus signed away all my sleep for next quarter. I'm kind of scared.

I want to live in woody guthrie's america

2009-08-28T09:06:10Z

Every time I see Akron/Family live I am convinced yet again that they are the best live band out there. (Diana you would have died surrounded by so many bearded men.)

In other news, I have determined that human beings both as individuals and as a race are all inherently self-destructive. (It has been a very complicated summer.)

UGHHH I'm ending this summer by getting my wisdom teeth pulled! And she's not giving me any vicodin because she thinks I'm too small! Bitch please, I can hold my housewife drugs and that was going to be the only point of this godawful procedure.

I'm also going up to Donner with my mother. I am definitely going to bike out a lot of anger and frustration around that lake.

But in good news, major party when I move back to Santa Cruz! Are you fucking ready for this? (I'm mostly addressing Galina in this one. Welcome to the fucking green monster!)

I don't think I really had anything to say even when I started this. Yay sleep deprivation delirium!

I think I'm in love with Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans

2009-08-10T06:20:32Z

"I used to live
in a heartbeat city
I swear I'd fall in love every minute on the street
You might be walking around the corner
and our eyes my meet.

Where you been darling darling
where you been darling darling
where you been darling
we've been holding this moment for you

I told you your dreams would come true"

Yay for:
-seeing YACHT
-seeing San Narciso and Starcircleanatomy and Campfire (fuckin MOOOOOOOOSE)
-going to Disneyland soon and staying at the mothafuckin Disneyland hotel!
-preparing to see Akron/Family with Adam on his birthday
-stealing hella oil paints and supplies (along with a ridiculous number of other things)
-hanging out in Berkeley
-sending postcard collages
-receiving postcards
-button machine!
-planning hella trips for the school year
-long and involved discussions about the finer points of Harry Potter with my aunt
-photography trips to San Francisco at night with Josh
-phone calls from Japan
-simultaneously working on my French, German and Spanish
-Josh.

Not so yay for:
-having a bad reaction to the gardasil shot that left my entire body one giant ache for two days
-work
-becoming lactose intolerant
-my sister x-raying my teeth and in the process destroying my gums and forgetting to put on the lead apron for the first 6 pictures

the summer so far

oh god oh god oh god

2009-06-04T06:58:50Z

Today I stabbed myself three times with an x-acto knife while working on one of my final sculpture projects because I was too tired. At the end I honestly couldn't tell which of the red stuff on my hand was paint and which was blood. I burned my thumb a couple days ago with a hot glue gun and yesterday I burned my burn. All I think about is cardboard and the terrible shit going on in Africa. I need this week to be over because on Friday I get to see Up with Josh and get drunk and forget about all of this insanity.

Speaking of insanity, I got a very interesting email from my mom the other day. Backstory: her boyfriend that she broke up with all of her other boyfriends for died of cancer two months ago. I haven't talked to her in a couple of weeks. She's only been to Santa Cruz once to move me in freshman year. Here's the entire email:

Hi Kristy!
I was wondering if you needed a ride home from school. Your NEW future stepfather has a truck and days off. (He's a cop)
Love,
Mom

Ummmm what?

My room is covered in cardboard and nutella.

The Weekend Thus Far

2009-05-24T21:35:18Z

Pros:
-drunken scrabble
-drunken rest of Friday night
-MoMA with Josh to see the Kentridge exhibit AGAIN
-bomb Tai food
- Duke Ellington's "Harlem" and Louis Prima's "Jump Jive an Wail" both on vinyl
-epic fucking dance party
-an acidic Mose at said dance party
-today's my last day at Marini's! come get free candy 4-10:30!
-kegger tomorrow fo sho

Cons:
-cramps are a bitch
-I have to make 100 places of worship out of cardboard
-I have to write an essay in French
-I actually do have to work today. I'll probably be high.

Animal Collective on Tuesday!

Fused out of iron

2009-04-15T07:17:55Z

I am now 100% in love with the guitarist from Menomena. So continues the MONTH OF AWESOME SHOWS!

P.S. Happy birthday Sarah!

briarsubstitute @ 2009-04-06T16:10:00

2009-04-06T23:17:00Z

“The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.”

* Look at the list and bold those you have read.
* Italicize those you intend to read.
* Underline the books you love.
* Strikethrough any books you started, but won’t finish because they just weren’t working out. It’s not you, really. It’s me.

~~1.The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien~~

2.Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

3.His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

4.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

5.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

6.To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

7.Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

~~8.Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell~~

~~9.The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis~~

10.Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

11.Catch-22, Joseph Heller

12.Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

13.Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

14.Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

15.The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

16.The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

17.Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

18.Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

19.Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

20.War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

~~21.Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell~~ (I was nine)

22.Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling

23.Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling

24.Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling

25.The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

26.Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

27.Middlemarch, George Eliot

28.A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving

29.The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck

30.Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

31.The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson

32.One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

33.The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett

34.David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

35.Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

36.Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

37.A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute

38.Persuasion, Jane Austen

39.Dune, Frank Herbert

40.Emma, Jane Austen

41.Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

42.Watership Down, Richard Adams

43.The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

44.The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

45.Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

46.Animal Farm, George Orwell

47.A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

48.Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

49.Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian

50.The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck

53. The Stand, Stephen King

54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

56. The BFG, Roald Dahl

57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome

58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman

62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden

63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough

65. Mort, Terry Pratchett

66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton

67. The Magus, John Fowles

68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding

71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind

72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell

73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

74. Matilda, Roald Dahl

75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding

76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt

77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins

~~78. Ulysses, James Joyce~~

79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens

80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson

81. The Twits, Roald Dahl

82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

83. Holes, Louis Sachar

84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson

87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

89. Magician, Raymond E Feist

90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac

91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo

92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel

93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett

94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

95. Katherine, Anya Seton

96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer

97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson

99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot

100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

32!

FYI

2009-03-31T19:11:29Z

hangover + pilates = no good

WTF?

2009-03-27T08:37:32Z

So today I was in Burlingame at a cafe place filling out an application. All of a sudden I'm surrounded by really big men in black suits. I look up and right next to me is ARNOLD FUCKING SCHWARZENEGGAR (sp?) watching me fill out my application. WTF? I was really confused so I just kind of looked at him and he smiled at me and I just kept looking at him and then he turned away. So that was my really awkward moment with the governor. Then I finished filling out my application amidst secret service agents.

List of famous people I've seen randomly:

Arnold Schwarzeneggar
Dick Cheney
Keanu Reeves
Art Alexakis

and, the best of all, all three members of Stella

I know it's nothing compared to some of you L.A. natives, but Burlingame doesn't get much action.

In other news, I think I'm completely in love with Frank McCourt and is that weird?

late to the interweb trends as usual

2009-03-24T06:29:12Z

But I like this one so...

asseriousasyourliferemix.tumblr.com

check out the things I think are pretty bomb.

Cleopatra does the nasty

2009-03-24T04:00:16Z

Hi guys!

My life, interesting? Interested?

Things I did today:

Took two baths while reading Angela's Ashes

Went to see my grandma who spent the whole time setting up a time when I could go see my mom.

Went to see my mom who spent the whole time getting ready to go somewhere else and barely talking to me.

Got tackled by my 9 year old brother who then cackled and told me I'm never allowed to duck tape him to the wall again. He then shot me with a nerf bazooka gun. Who makes this shit?

Stole like 15 fruit strips from Safeway because I started thinking about how terrible it would be to get scurvy and ate them on top of the bart station parking lot while reading Angela's Ashes.

Sewed more. I think I may have a problem.

Sneezed about 600 times.

Told my grandma about all the kids from my Catholic elementary school who are now gay. She gave me a really weird look.

Found out about how this guy was pulling into the handicap parking spot at Mollie Stones when he hit the gas instead of the brake and ran into little girls and a mom selling girlscout cookies. The mom with them lost a leg and the girls were in critical condition for a while. Only Burlingame could have an accident that suburban.

Realized I'm really into super morbid stories. Remember when we hung out and told serial killer stories for 2 hours freshman year diana? Let's do that again.

Found out that my mom wanted to name me Madeline but the nurse told her she shouldn't because I was too small for such a big name.

Decided that I'll start updating this thing more often but probably won't unless I get some good comments on this entry. What do you think, guys?

Realized that Belle, Jasmine, and Ariel were pretty bomb role models but Snow White and Aurora were total idiots.

Thought about what my guardian angel would be like if I believed in guardian angels. I think it would be really well-intentioned but super clumsy. What about you guys?

Out with a bang?

2009-03-10T00:20:41Z

Oh man, here's what my next two weeks look like:
Tonight: Akron/Family!
Tomorrow: finishing Josh's birthday present (finally) and working on a research paper
Wednesday: Finishing that research paper
Thursday: preparing for my French oral exam
Friday: French oral exam and then getting so drunk

Then I have another research paper due Monday, two art history finals on Tuesday, and a French final on Friday. Let the stressing begin.

BUT, on the upside: an amazing list of concerts I am ticketed for in the next 3 months. As of now they include:

Akron/Family

Four Tet (entirely fitting for my first 21+ show)

Mirah

Dan Deacon

Animal Collective (hopefully for reals this time)

Next quarter will be successful

briarsubstitute @ 2009-01-05T16:36:00

2009-01-06T01:09:43Z

Oh man, back from Peru!
The trip was amazing.
I won't crowd your friend page with the details but if you want some highlights:

Ok, so here are some of the choice moments:

First, while at SFO waiting for our plane we saw the glorious triumvirate that is Stella. No joke. This is how we new it would be a good trip. We saw Keanu Reeves at LAX too but that was not nearly as exciting.

Death defying rides in rickshaws in the Amazon...

You haven’t been in a storm until you get caught in a thunderstorm while on a rickety boat in the Amazon.

I got bit by this monkey right in the Achilles tendon!

But then I got groomed by this monkey...

You can’t understand why a fan would be a highlight unless you’ve been in 90-100 degree weather at the equater with 100% humidity. Thanks, heat stroke!

We went to the hippest restaurant on earth in Cusco. The waiters only spoke English and there was a sex shop in the back.

Most of the tables were just old fashioned bathtubs turned into aquariums covered by a plate of glass.

The bathroom walls and ceiling were just cracked mirror with one blue light.

I got to hold a baby alpaca!

This is why there are so many alpacas in Peru:

Love is hugging an alpaca for your girlfriend even though it’s been spitting at everyone.

I got to go Christmas shopping in Cusco’s open air markets!

The Andes are incredible. They don’t make mountains like that up here.

Machu Picchu was everything I expected and more. Words can’t do it justice. Thanks, coca leaves!

White water rafting in the Urubamba. Class 4.5, fuck yeah!

I finally got to see catacombs! At the Iglesia de San Francisco in Lima

Josh and I didn’t end up hating eachother after 3 weeks of constant hanging out. Quite the opposite.

Best. Souvenir. Ever.

Moral of the story everyone: Working your ass off to save enough money to travel is totally worth it.

mixed media

2008-11-24T23:35:10Z

I'm making a "poetry mix tape" for Izaak. Any good poem suggestions?

FUCK

2008-09-07T06:14:57Z

highlight of the day: working with only 4 other people and a line that remained out the door for 3 hours straight. Then making 7 cappuchinos for rich fucking teenage bitches with their gucci sunglasses knowing they aren't going to tip because A. they're teenagers and B. they're rich. As I'm ringing them up the one with a face that looked like a foot goes "you know, you could do it with a smile". No bitch, the only thing I could do with a smile right now is bring that fudge knife into your jugular.

GTFO

2008-09-03T02:26:43Z

unrefundable plane ticket to Lima + plane ticket to Iquitos + plane ticket to Cuzco + reservation for 4 day Inca trail to Machu Picchu + awesome pro-adventure boyfriend = the reason I'm working way too much at a soul crushing job. Life will be good.

Alternately, I've been listening to massive amounts of Jacques Dutronc and Shaking All Over by the Guess Who. 10 points if you can figure out which of Kristy's obsessions brought this on.

Also, how wonderful is the Republican national ticket turning out to be?

Presents!

2008-04-25T03:26:36Z

Just posting what I have uploaded for anyone who may want it:

High Places:
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?bhmvt9zyzi9
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?b1irgmmzn7n

Charles Manson "Lie, the Love and Terror Cult"
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?fywj9hirx9t

Ween "Quebec"
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?bvixkztdyh0

Animal Collective "Strawberry Jam"
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?0zhbzy2zixh

Animal Collective "Sung Tongs"
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?bnj0ycmnnnx

The Windswept Stars- Self-titled
hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?hb0oojhgzdm

Winter 2008 Stupidity

2008-03-11T04:54:53Z

Victorian America:

-the girl who didn't know what the star of David was other than that the Nazis made the Jews wear it in WWII

-the girl who's argument against things losing credit after they become popular was Michelangelo's David

-the girl. who. puts like. periods. at really random. points. in all her. sentences.

-fine. my lack of sleep-induced moose rant. I'll own up.

Greek and Roman Myth in Art:

-student "So have you seen 300?"
teacher "I watched some of it but stopped after a short time."
student: "Did you see the part where the chick gets raped?"
teacher: "No, I must've missed that part."
student: "Oh, too bad, cause it was really hot."
commence everyone, including teacher, laughing

Contributions by Naveed:

-"It doesn't matter who you are, you all feel the same pain, whether you're a rich white man or a malnutritioned child in Africa."
and the inability of the rest of the class to see that this was offensive

-the kid who believed the Manifest Destiny article was legitimate and decided to agree with it

I'm refamiliarizing myself with brilliant literature.

2007-06-04T21:36:15Z

"That is how the poet Frantisek Hrubin died - fleeing from the love of the Party. The Minister of Culture, from whom the poet did everything possible to hide, did not catch up with Hrubin until his funeral, when he made a speech over the grave about the poet's love for the Soviet Union. Perhaps he hoped his words would ring so outrageously false that they would wake Hrubin from the dead. But the world was too ugly, and no one decided to rise up out of the grave."

-Milan Kunderas, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

banjos, bums, cigarettes, and quilts

2006-07-09T04:02:04Z

I'm making a quilt. I'm not sure why yet. I need 180 squares of 6 x 6 inch fabric. If anyone wants to contribute, I'd appreciate it. I don't really care what the fabric is like.

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: No Subject

2006-05-17T05:05:47Z

I'm peeling