Setting the summer sun on fire (with molotov cocktails)
I can’t even begin to explain how happy I am to be behind the wheel of my own car again. It’s a 94 grand prix. Which means it’s not the cutest body style of a grand prix ever but it’s in great condition and I’m excited to take it lots of fun places. Place 1 being the salt mines with mr. roger losey-face. place two being carbondale a lot to see my boyfriend when he gets shipped back to illinois. place three being minneapolis where it looks like i’ll have to take a new direction to visit friends and see the school. and a whole lot of other places that i’ll think up later. like wisconsin. Anyway. It’s pretty badass. And according to all calculations, it gets pretty excellent gas mileage… so I’m excited about that as well. And it’s comfy. Soon, it will have my cd player in it… which of course I’m unbelievably happy about. Very good stuff!
I told Tyler I’d work in Lawrence tomorrow night instead of Topeka so I 1) get to work at a different store and 2) i get to leave for kansas city on sunday right away from lawrence, which means i get to see kyle a day earlier than I’m used to and I’m excited about that. I’m hoping to drag him out to superbad on sunday so i can nurture my silly crush on Michael Cera. I was very happy to learn today that Michael Cera is 19, though just barely. I’d been half expecting to learn the object of my unrealistic affections was only 17. Which would be devastating.
In celebration of having my new car, Roger and I went to the Kemper today. He rode shotty cos he actually fits in this car. I should’ve made him ride in the back so he’d realize just how much more space he now has… but I didn’t do that. Because I was being nice. My mistake. Anyway. The Kemper is my favorite art museum. Probably not ever. But close because it’s so small the exhibits are always changing and it holds my attention more than a permanent collection. Not that I don’t go to the Nelson like 50 times a year or anything… but I’m just saying. If I were Lady Kemper and my husband bought me the museum just to make me happy and give me something to do… I’d be happy. Today, the big exhibit was called Phantasmania. It featured pretty sweet art which was all a reflection of our existence and globalization and capitalization and other things. Like how you shouldn’t fish for sharks with your penis (I PROMISE YOU CAN SEE IT HAPPEN THERE IT IS WEIRD AND AMAZING). So these were some of my favorite artists.
Dan Attoe makes art like this:
On the art, he has littler pictures which have words like some sort of word map. It’s awesome. An owl told us about how there was a fucking bubble in his fucking brain. I liked it a whole lot. And it was also interesting to hear this pair of older women say over and over again that it reminded them of a waterfall they saw in Colorado (we were looking at a different painting than the one i posted). It was pretty much awesome art. And I think he’s talented… and clever with his wording. It’s sort of bizarre. And we all know i’m into the bizarre.
Also featured is Angela Fraleigh. She makes really awesome huge art that’s these really sensuous paintings with large paint spills on them. And it makes it look dirtier and like there is an aching. She also names paintings like I title poetry… drawn-out and rambly with no capital letters… so i appreciated it.
The above painting, “that i may somehow take on the weight of your sadness” was actually featured in the exhbit. it’s beautiful. and it’s really big in real life. i really liked this stuff a whole lot. but i love paint-spills, don’t i. and i like collage a lot. and this sort of draws on that. it certainly tells a story… but in a different way than most artists.
And THEN there was art by Jonathan Pylypchuk who does this awesome stuffed animal type creation which seems to me like something you’d see at the grassroots art center or somewhere. it’s awesome. and i wanna make things similar to it but of course i have no talent. here’s an example:
They’re cute in their own way. At the museum, his piece is a whole village of people and animals that look a lot like this guy and they have these wooden shanties. it’s supposed to resemble a ghost town or a place after a natural disaster says the plaque next to it. So awesome.
I recommend you all go see it. If only cos it means going to the kemper.
Our date on Tuesday started by us waking up and talking about plans. Luckily, we both basically agreed on the major details: thai food, mccoys, lots of friends for dinner. I wanted to see La Vie En Rose as well, which kyle consented to and knew about before morning, but I doubt it was exactly in his set of plans. Oh well, though, it was still great.
Midtown for the thai noodle house, Lulu’s, that i’ve been meaning to go to for years now. It was completely delicious. I’m not even kidding. It’s pretty fairly priced, especially for Thai food. And the atmosphere is really cute. Picture a Zen Zero which isn’t trying as hard. It’s like a fun little bar with Thai food. And the food was good too. My only complaints are that my food wasn’t spicy which was really a function of the thing I ordered which was absolutely delicious… and that you can’t subsistute for Tofu on the lunch menu unless it already is a vegetarian/tofu meal. So that was a bummer… but it’s only about 27 cents you save on the lunch menu so that wouldn’t be too big of a deal…. of course i ended up ordering something 3 dollars more expensive on the regular food menu. Everyone in Kansas City should eat at Lulu’s. You’ll love it like you love Thai food. I promise.
It’s brewed in house. and they brew it with Ginger and Lemonade, which I think makes it completely fantastic. Especially in the summer. It’s basically the blush wine of beers and even though it seems girly, it’s a good beer so you don’t feel bad drinking it. And did I mention the lemonade in it? Cos if I didn’t… let me stress it. Yum. We had a good time at McCoys for a few drinks before the movie. Kyle had to have a few drinks cos I promised him that he could have some since I was making him read a movie that was in French no less. I don’t think he ended up minding the movie too much… but it prolly helped that he wasn’t dreading it quite as badly.
we had our KC friends over for dinner. Nick and Jessica, Chris and Kristin, Banks and Big Papa, Phil and Rachel. Plus the two of us. It was a good quadruple-date plus Banks and Big Papa. Lol. I made Pad Thai with vermicelli noodles, egg, bean
sprouts and fried tofu plus we had seafood cold spring rolls which were a big hit according to everyone. Kyle grilled asparagus which is our new favorite thing and we tossed some sweet chili garlic sauce on it for a thai-kick since they don’t actually eat asparagus in thailand as far as we know. Yummy. And there was white rice. Of course. But I don’t know how much that matters. Rice is rice. There was a Sheridan’s run at Kristin’s request after dinner and then lots of drinking and poker and All-Star Game watching! Yay!