but it sure feels that way.

Currently (slow start):

-coffee (featuring new & improved milk situation with the frother Taylor’s grandma gave her for Christmas)
-Sati’s slippers (that I bought him for Christmas)
-Milk-Eyed Mender
-very stone-white sky outside
-two very nice vases of daffodils on kitchen table

Thinking about:

-The This American Life Kaz told me about. Re: China, Apple, my busted iPhone, the wonder of my busted iPhone still functioning despite so much fractured glass, the discomfort of all that fractured glass against my face/fingers, the wonder/discomfort that I will probably pay the deductible for a new one this week and that new one will be made, cleaned, tested by the people in this TAL episode, and what some of the economists said at the end of that episode versus what Mr. Daisey said at the end of that episode, versus what I will do after listening to that episode, versus what Kaz’s friend (or at least I think it is his friend) will do (re: stop using any/all products from China for one year, except for his Mac and iPhone) (I think) (but I don’t know if he listened to this episode), and remembering that my brother lives in China and has lived in China for so long already, and how weird it is that he is there in that place where all this is happening and how he probably has a lot of interesting things to say on the matter, and that I want to send him the link to this episode, or write him an email about it, but that China probably will block it and when we talk on the phone or on Skype in a month or so, our connection will probably be so bad and one of us will get antsy and have to go, and neither of us will blame each other for it because it takes a lot of work for a trans-global conversation to actually be pleasant, and so I might not get a chance to talk to him about this topic for a very long time.

-Hearing Sati skateboard up the street = he will be walking in the door soon = we will ask each other what we’ve been up to these past few days since he lost his phone = I will ask if he’s hooked up the old Verizon phone I’ve lent him = I will tell him that I want to go to the Kingfish soon and so he better get a phone to tell me when he goes next.

-Going to color later today, and if anyone wants me to send them a drawing, please leave me a note and I will mail you one.

-How cold the house is. Very. All of a sudden.

-How weird/ok school was yesterday. First day.

-How good I will feel after getting my bangs trimmed at 2:30 today.

-How much I like this picture and how I’m not sure if it’s Christie or Heather, but that it was taken in Palm Springs, where I used to sell organic cheese at the farmer’s market every week, and that someone from Facebook was getting married that weekend so almost everyone in the pool was from Facebook, and that on Facebook I tagged Christie, but maybe it was Heather?

Here is a link for a video recording from last month’s reading, taken by the steady-ish hand of Sati Faulks. Enjoy.

Hi everyone, here are some pictures from last Friday’s reading / show at Halmoni Vintage. It was a real swell time, and a special night. Thanks to everyone for coming and being the best. Sati’s photos will be up all December, so please! Check them out! Also–stay tuned, because I think I will be posting a video of the reading soon. We’ll see!

Photos courtesy of Natasha Harden. Much thanks!

if you think there’s even the slightest of all chances that I might be thankful for you, the answer is yes.

Yours,

Jordan

Diane Keaton - Annie Leibovitz

“Keaton’s a challenge. She’s meticulous and she works hard at communicating that she can’t communicate. She’s like mystery. The first time we worked together, in 1984, she told me she disliked having her picture taken. I’d gone to her apartment. It was all white, with white furniture, and a white cat. I asked her to put on everything white that she owned and took her picture in all that white, with a white turtle neck pulled up over her face. Even her cat’s looking away.”

–Annie Leibovitz, from Photographs 1970 – 1990

And another thing. This just in (sort of). Angie baby d’Avignon has been asked to continue her monthly guest-blogging post at Wandering Bears Collective (a mighty fine British art blog), which she began in October as apart of W.B.’s USA month. A writer & photographer in her own right, Angella’s Q&As engage with some pretty fantastic young photographers, and I for one am very glad to see this series continue. Look for her interviews on the USA Month link, among with some other talented patriots, including Morgan Tepsic. These people are doing good work, which is the stuff of life!

Happy Sunday. It’s raining and I just had waffles and bacon, which I like. About to work on coffee number three. Check out my girl Lindsay’s site, because I couldn’t be more proud/awed/etc. at what she’s been up to over in cold, cold Michigan (where she studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art). Also, you can go to her blog from the site, and you should do this, too. I know I just told you to do the same thing in my last post, but why don’t you just trust me already?

Sati & I are having a show in our neighborhood, at Halmoni Vintage (1601 2nd Ave) on Friday, December 2nd. We’re awfully glad to be working together, and with our dear pals, Natasha & Kortney at Halmoni, which is as close to the Max (or Peach Pit if you were more of a 90210 kind of young person) as you’ll find in Lake Merritt. Also, be sure to check out Halmoni’s blog (which you can get to from the main site) because it’s dope and because I just “found” it myself, and I’m obsessed. Hit me up when you get to the Korean hot dog. And the Blasians. Also, “You Ain’t Had That Baby Yet?” If you live in the Bay & haven’t checked out their store yet, you obviously should. Where do you think I get ALL MY CLOTHES? (You think I’m kidding.)

Also, listen to this song because I cannot stop jamming.

Cocteau Twins – Cherry-Coloured Funk