Life is Beautiful

Driving home from the show, I took this picture of Hollywood. Seemed so....

Here comes the summer

Today is the summer solstice! I hope you did something fun and most importantly stayed cool in this heat! So many pics to upload soon!

Who knows why the love you need will always pass you by

The Fratellis @ The Key Club 6/15/08












Exactly one year since I've seen them, I got to see them again at one of my favorite venues. I just got their new album and it's really good. They played a lot of new songs like "Mistress Mabel", "Acid Jazz Singer", "My Friend John", "Look Out Sunshine", and "Tell Me A Lie". Of course, they played old favorites like "Henrietta", "Whistle for the Choir", "Chelsea Dagger", and more. But I think the highlight for me was when they played "Babydoll". It was beautiful. I absolutely was in love with that song. It was tons of fun dancing and singing along. God knows how much I've needed this as I've been so overwhelmed at work lately and burnt out.

Driving to the show, the streets were really empty, but every bar was packed and purple and gold balloons were everywhere. ;)

'Cause I'm always where I need to be

And I always thought I would end up with you, eventually.

A quick illustration I did because I was itching to draw something new. It's been too long. The crazy busy schedules and plans continue.

I'd say it's too early to smile I haven't done that in a while

Nylon Magazine music issue party presented by Myspace and Rockband last night in Hollywood was fun. This is my first time going out after the tragedy. I kinda needed it. I had fun. Me dancing, Brent spinning. Here are some pictures just to show you the mood and atmosphere. The Newno2 and The Like performed. Awesome.

Are you well in the suffering

I am dealing with the loss of two coworkers who were killed in a terrible hit and run accident. They were hit while walking on the sidewalk right outside work last Friday evening. I can't believe it's been over a week now. Absolutely heartbroken and sad. Doesn't make any sense to me. The shock and sadness have faded, and now I just don't understand anymore. And I'm also very angry. They were both humble hardworking beautiful people who were designers as well, aspiring and working hard to see their time to shine. Don't feel like posting anything, or doing anything creative at the moment. Just dealing.

All I know is that I've got frustration frustration

I had one of the most stressful hard weeks at work this week. It was pretty bad. It got to the point where I wasn't even talking about it. Like I didn't even wanna get into it or explain all the things I had to do, all the responsibilities stressing me out. Wednesday was the worst. Fighting the clock, and trying to get things done in time to ship out for a meeting in NY. Omg, seriously. So Thursday morning, before getting into my daily grind, I checked out losanjealous.com and read a post that Hot Hot Heat was going to play the Grove that evening! I had to contain myself, it was hard. Didn't want to scream in my cubicle. No, wouldn't want that. I was so excited and overjoyed. I felt rewarded for all the hard work I did that week all by myself because my team was in NY. I was so happy to see Hot Hot Heat again. It was a free show to promote Canadian tourism. Thought they would do a short set, but no! It was a full set, about an hour I think. So happy. What an unexpected wonderful surprise. You don't even know how much I love them. **Forgot to add that when I first saw the stage set up, I was like, oh no, the water. I thought I might have to jump in there and yell out "Steve!" (a la Jenny in Forrest Gump at the National Mall scene).
Hot Hot Heat @ The Grove 5.8.08






Last weekend, I did a little cleaning again. These are things I did in my drawing class in high school. I've been holding onto them for a long time, but I decided it's time I let them go. I just don't have room any more. Even if I did, I don't think it means that much to me. So I just threw them away. It was mostly charcoal portraits of classmates, drawing exercise, or color pencil crosshatching.





**In other news, I hope everyone is celebrating Mother's Day! This morning, I hurt my toe. Really bad. Thought it might be broken, but I was able to move it. It immediately started to get swollen. Now it's swollen and purple and painful. Can't really walk on it either. :(

**The Dhamma Brothers. My mom wanted to watch it so I took her to see it yesterday. It's showing for one week only at the Sunset Laemmle. I enjoy watching documentaries. You should watch it. It's about Vipassana Meditation as treatment in prisons. Needless to say, I cried a lot. My mom was like "this girl just started crying in the beginning of the film." Watching the film got me depressed.

sorry guys...

My home computer is sick and at the hospital. It's been over a week now and it's so frustrating! I just hope all my files are safe and it's nothing huge. I've had so many things I wanted to post here, but it'll have to wait!

**In other news, I checked out the Americana. It's okay. I can tell they rushed to open because they are missing a few important details here and there. The worst part is that it was so ridiculously crowded!! You're not missing out on much, I'd wait til all the crazy crowds die down a little. Katsuya looked amazing. Barney's Co-Op is a dream. I love H&M but I didn't like this one. Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters are really small and disappointing. Not as much selection as the Grove or Santa Monica. I saw a really cute thing: Good Humor ice cream truck with the classic ice cream man in uniform and all.

Just because it's real don't mean it's gonna work

*Drew this on Illustrator about a month ago.
Yesterday, for work, we went to the LA Textile Show. I was sad to see how small it became. I blame it on imports and overseas production. Felt so many things yesterday but I'd rather not pour my heart out on a blog. Saw lots of familiar faces that helped me through my early assistant designer days. We also saw Santino hanging out. The bookstore there was having a huge sale. I scored some amazing books for ridiculously cheap prices. Including a book about Edie Sedgewick with so many wonderful pictures in a beautiful hardcover book. I love fashion/art/culture books. They are just too expensive and I am already struggling with space for my magazines. This made me happy. Then we all got smoothies. There's nothing like wearing "buyer" badges, carrying a bag full of new books, tons of new business cards, and walking down the street to the parking lot in the warm California sun.

All you need is me

After being sick all last weekend, and always working so many hours, it's hard to get anything done around here. I'm usually exhausted by Friday. Then I have only two days to run errands and stuff. I woke up early today and got a lot done. It was so hot today that the combination of heat and then indoors full blast AC gave me a major headache. Took a trip to the fabric store, which is always inspiring and overwhelming for me. It sucks to go fabric/trim shopping on a Saturday because my favorite trim store is closed during the weekend. Still didn't get as much done. Tomorrow will be another hectic day.