seaside scurvy ladies.

family photos.

















the twin and i.


















sisters howe, up to no good.

i have three rolls of film to develop.. mostly of nonsense and beach related goodness.

wish for this..

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home sweet home.

i don't know why i'm up this early.. i didn't go to bed til 2am. i'm home, our cat woke me up with his weird meow/cry and i'm sipping some tea looking at the rain outside. i came upon this photo of me on our family computer. i think i'm at sea world. notice those (now corrected) gaps in my teeth... ahh the power of braces.

bye.

see y'all next week.

the mind it wanders.

in the middle of nowhere we are nothing.

i want to go...

CAMPING!!!!













it's warm outside. i'm stuck inside.

took my chevy to the levy.

i saw a chevy suburban that looked very similar to the one below on the way to work. i was imagining myself behind the wheel driving over sand dunes listening to the beach boys and wished it were true.

not all angels live in heaven.

hells angels shot by bill ray for life magazine.

homeward bound.

i'll be going home soon.. next friday. home is vancouver, washington which is about 15 minutes north or portland, oregon (for those of you who think there is only vancouver, b.c.). i'm very excited about this because a. i'm homesick b. i need a break from los angeles and c. we're going to the beach. i think we're going to seaside and i'm looking forward to going to the antique stores, eating pizza, hot-tubbing, and watching bad movies on cable (i.e. tremors {which is actually not a bad movie at all but more of a culty flick that's always on at the beach there}). hopefully i come back feeling rejuvenated and supremely loved.. on a side note, on the way to the beach we have to pass astoria which is the home of many movies. i know off hand that kindergarten cop and the goonies were filmed there and that's also where the goonies house is. you can actually go up to the goonies house and all the other memorable locations (museum, county jail, etc). here are some goonie-type images to tickle your fancy:

on the way up to the goonies house

goonies house!

mikey holds up the coin that will lead them to the treasure. the holes in the coin line up with haystack rock at canon beach.

haystack rock

seaside is really cool though.. i think it's my favorite beach along the washington/oregon coast. i'm bringing my camera so hopefully i get some good photos to post up here. here's an idea of what seaside is like:


















the aquarium along the promenade














surrey rentals











tilt a whirl!


















beach house


















and what's a small town without a strip club.. yowza!

i might disappear tomorrow

don't know why i'm thinking about marc bolan today.. but i am. i should watch born to boogie.

keeeerlies!!

all i want to do..

is sleep.

what's old is new.

picked these up from goodwill this weekend. some i'm very psyched for and some i'm less psyched over, but all in all i made out like a bandit (in my opinion). i felt bad because j only found one album and i don't even remember what it was.

electric avenue.

this is a photo of my dad circa the 80's that my sister sent me. he worked for montgomery wards at the time in the electronics department, aptly named 'electric avenue'... like the eddy grant song. he even brought home a casette tape of that song so we could rock out to it.. and rock out we did.

golden skate.

hamburger in my heart.

today i was really craving a hamburger for dinner but then i ate a salad instead. damn.

a creepy half burger, half man

a burger made of babies, brought to you by a&w

g.i. joe cooks up a mean burger

pose. flash.

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bitches get stitches.

i find all of these amazing things all of the time that inspire me (i.e. cross stitch and embroidery) and i just need to get some stuff and do it. i love this shit.

cross stitch in erin wasson's house

click the photo for the full effect

my favorite xstitch group is the royal tenenbaums

minipop cross stitch by kristen / rubykhan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubykhan/

embroidered loveliness by jenny hart

http://flickr.com/photos/jenny_hart/