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I failed at getting the prom date of my dreams. I spent the last half hour of school crying in the bathroom, and avoiding eye contact with anyone i passed while leaving to go to Physical Therapy. Point proven that prom is not a positive thing and high school is bull shit that makes you feel bad about yourself. Boo Hoo.

In other news, article by Steven Wells was posted on the Philadelphia Weekly website.

Which Is Gayer–a Skinhead Punk Rock Show or a Belle and Sebastian Disco?

This article also serves as proof that twee IS punk. Punk just may not be twee. You get it?

The article rules. You should check it out.

(photographs of me captured in tiny moshpit wearing “twee as fuck” shirt. ha! middle i’m not wearing cardigan!)

(sorry to the photographer who took these, i can’t remember your name and i totally ripped these off your site. sorry! it’s punk not to care.)

Short post today, I’m heading out in five minutes to get some prints for the Upattinas Yearbook. Such a model citizen.

Ever since I was 14 the Rubi Cove has been in existence. I’m not sure when it began, but last night Saturday, May 18th, 2008 marked the official end of the party. The Rubi Cove located in the basement of 258 cross hill rd in Wynnewood, PA, hosted some of the best shows ever. Wynne Records head and music maker, Andrew Benrubi created a incredible alternative for the kids of the main line to do during their weekends. Bands from Pennsylvania, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, etc came to play. Music varied from all types of genre such as Punk, Noise, Rock, Acoustic, and even “rap” music of local Hardmore-dian group, “Space Jamz.” I remember running away with Mother Mallard one night and sleeping in the basement when it was Andrew’s bedroom and hadn’t yet served as a venue. Over the years it’s walls have served as a canvas for friends. After a bunch of stupid crap, Nancy & Family were finally evicted (for real this time.)
Loud music pulsing from the inside and a small yard sale in the side yard, the last basement show took off. The Rubi Cove hosted about 14 bands. (Samurai, Chewing Gum Tree, The Psychodelicates, Meat Rainbow, Tet Offensive, Rasputin’s Secret Police, Rainchild, Space Jamz, Cricket Joe, Rasan Albritton (sp?)) Nancy held down the fort one last night, telling everyone to stay inside the house to keep from disturbing the neighborhood peace and attracting cops. The house was packed with friends & fans, although ironically most of the belongings were packed. What’s left for the alternative & DIY culture of the main line?! R.I.P. Rubi Cove.
(this is perhaps the worst thing I’ve ever written, however I feel obligated to blog about rubi cove because i loved it so damn much. such a vital part of my teenage life!)

Famous Benrubi BBQ:
(photos by Claire Liss)

check out Wynne Records:

This is my collection of Richard Brautigan bath soap.  Hand painted, mod podged, cut, pasted, sparkle sprinkled, little soaps. Featuring The Springhill Mine Disaster, Rommel Drives Deep Into Egypt, In Watermelon Sugar. Photographed by me.

In other news, my kitten named after Amelia Fletcher has just been pronounced a boy. Oop!

top to bottom:

- my anarchy sign in the sand surrounded by various students.
- wood i collected for fire. extremely beautiful.
- dune symmetry electric.
- sunset over campsite.
- rose hula hooping in background of max standing sullen.
- sarah by campfire at dusk.
- richard in the sand.
- “secret” view spot.
- izzy, pat, and tom enjoying first day on beach.
- washed up blow fish in nice light. (on wood)
- emmett, stef, izzy singing on beach.

i love my kitten so much! still in the process of convincing my parents to let me keep her. vaccines are expensive and i’m trying to afford a big wedding trip to colorado at the end of june. i hope i don’t have to sacrifice these upcoming events:

TWEE MARKET on Sunday May 18th at Cakeshop to raise money for NYC Popfest.

NYC POPFEST 2008!! June 12-15th.

TULLYCRAFT in Philadelphia! June 15th!

Some Pieces I am extremely proud of. Xerox art, collage, playing with symmetry.:

The past couple of days have been really awesome. I spent 3 days camping on the island beach of Assateague with my friends. I came home and Saturday saw the Fucked Up/Hard Skin/Invasion/Retard Strength show. My glasses got punched off my face and I was dressed in a skirt, tights, mary janes, my “twee as fuck” shirt, and a cardigan. It was ridiculous. Couldn’t recover my glasses. Tried to get into a bar that Belle & Sebastian dance party was being held. No dice, big bummer. Katherine and I saw the man that puts on the Belle & Sebastian dance party yearly and he was the ultimately tweest guy ever. We were interviewed by Steven Wells for Philadelphia Weekly about twee, and I was caught on video wearing a “Twee As Fuck” t-shirt and talking about the very un-twee concert I was at earlier that day. Oop! Guy outside of bar gave Katherine and I free tickets to the Cure, we jumped into a taxi and got to the Wachovia Spectrum at 10-something PM in time to see the Cure’s three encores. The tickets were worth a good ammount of money and were in the 11th row! What the heck! Mothers day was nice, I made $55 in tips at work. Today I brought home a kitten and named her Amelia, like Amelia Fletcher from Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, and all the other really good twee-pop bands she was in!

In short:

Hardskin rules!
Try Belle & Sebastian party again next year!
Steven Wells is the COOLEST guy ever!!!!!!!
Robert Smith looks like a monster.
& Kittens rule!

despite the neo-nazi’s zerns is a real enjoyable study of people in their natural habitat.
here’s to you boyertown, pa. the photography booth sells 120 speed film. i found a typewriter for my friend Hannah’s birthday picnic tomorrow. rock the fuck on.

Even long after my death long after your death I want to torture you I want the thought of me to coil around your body like a serpent of fire without burning you. I want to see you lost, asphyxiated, wander in the murky haze woven by my desires. For you, I want long sleepless nights filled by the roaring tom-tom of storms Far away, invisible, unknown. Then I want the nostalgia of my presence to paralyze you. — Maria Martins

I saw the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Philadelpha Musuem of Art today. Despite the awfully crowded exhibit full of middle aged women on pseudo feministic power trips, school students, and various art collectors, “lovers”, and members of the museum I maintained a cool head and was able to zone out into my own thoughts and fully focus on what I was seeing. It was upsetting when I found myself bumping into an older person put unbalance by their self-tour museum headphones, knocking me out of my trance. It wasn’t too bad, personally bearable but like the others I saw the exhibit with I would have liked to view the exhibit alone. So beware! Still crowded on a early weekday morning! The coolest part about the exhibit besides the actual work of Frida Kahlo was the photography exhibit inside. The exhibit showcased tons of photographs of Frida Kahlo, her family, and Diego Rivera which amused me as a photographer and as someone completely fascinated with Kahlo. Head phone oriented self-guided number-by-number tour… not so good. Gave too many opinions on the artwork and analyzed it too much for my liking. Historically helpful though, some good facts in there. There weren’t nearly as many pieces as there was compared to the Salvidor Dali exhibit in 2005, but many substantially strong paintings like “My Nurse and I”, “Las Dos Fridas”, “Henry Ford Hospitals”, “The Broken Column”, “A Few Small Nips,” and others. A colorful, inspiring, heavy, and meaningful exhibit. I  recommend you see it in Philadelphia before it ends on the 18th of May.

I was completely taken by this piece titled, “Sun and Life”:

painted in 1947

Frida Kahlo is really cool because she’s for one a really talented painter, she’s completely inspirational, hot, basically a commie revolutionary, and i had a bunch of other things to add to this but i’ve forgotten this very second.

I saw a quote of Frida’s in the exhibit somewhere that said something like, “Life has killed me” but maybe cooler than that. I can’t remember it or find it anywhere but so cool! Seriously!

( one of my own pieces. )

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