Found out I actually can cast RetroCrush to my tv and I’m not sure why I thought I couldn’t. My TV has now moved into my bedroom since my roommate acquired one of her own in anticipation of my leaving. While it’s nice to be able to watch it whenever I want I don’t really like having it in here as much as I thought. It was nice having it be separate. There’s just something it does, like casting a small cloud of murkiness over me. That’s something I’ll have to consider when I move back home. But I’m also realizing my body and mind still has a compartment for studio and work that’s still whirring around despite me lounging around… I’m moving soon and the semester is over, I don’t need to use this room to work anymore. I still want to, is the problem.
However, I did work today. The Drawing Party met up on zoom again and it was great, like always. Got to hear some juicy tales from the 80s from my professors and actually do some kind of art even though it was just tiny little composition sketches. I tried to make myself doodle and it’s very hard. I keep wanting to make a recognizable scene so everything ends up kind of flat and disjointed. I love those sprawling drawings of abstracted shapes and patterns but my brain isn’t exactly wired to do that.
The bits and bobs from today’s sesh
I broke out my Fude brush pen for the first time in a while and it’s a real dream to use. I can’t quite focus enough to make anything that looks nice with it but it feels really good to use and I just enjoyed making marks with it. But it inspired me to get brush pens with empty reservoirs so I can fill them with different colored ink. The brush shape would be great for foliage and I have a gift to make before I leave Los Angeles.
I didn’t have much of an appetite today. I’m hesitant to burn through my pasta which is all I want. But I did try out another new mate today. This one is roasted. It’s delicious… but…. it’s a bit too potent for me to drink easily. I barely touched it today. It magically tastes like chocolate, I don’t know how. But not chocolate like a candy bar, but cocoa. It seems to have the flavor profile of really nice, high percentage chocolate. But that makes it a bit sharp, bitter, and somehow heavy. Drinking that is kind of a weird sensation. So, to remedy this I think I’ll definitely mix this one with milk and a sweetener. I’m curious to try lining the bottom of the gourd with condensed milk then filling it with the leaves. I’d hope the sugar could cut through that raw intensity.
Still covered in the sweat from yesterday’s dancing, which has obviously dried onto me. I smell and my hair has returned to its uncooperative state. I’m going to force myself to eat something then hop in the shower. And I’m also going to buckle up and finish Robot Carnival. Now that I know I can cast to the television it might be more of a treat than something that saddens me tonight.