WMME: issue 2 Paul Westerberg +

Issue 2, that's right.  No need to be impressed, like I pulled this shit together in the few weeks since issue 1.  There's a lot of stuff sorta simmering in my low burner of a brain.  Sometimes it takes FOREVER for me to figure things out.  Sometimes I have Jedi like instant understanding.  Anyway, I am pretty fascinated with what happens to capture my attention.  If my brain is stuck on something, I just sort of trust it to help me figure things out eventually. 

So, dreamy Paul Westerberg.  Yes, it was a big big crush.  So seriously, how cool that I met him, right?  That's what this issue is all about.  But I think there's this other thing it's about too.  I wrote about a longing to have people do bold, awesome stuff just for me, but really, that happens all the fucking time.  I am damned lucky.  My friends, they are awesome and then they say and do the most awesome mind-blowing stuff for me.  And then if I hardly know someone but have a thought I wanna know them - I tend to make that happen and it tends to work out well.  And if I'm working at a job where there are not a lot of people into the same things I'm into - I still manage to find the people I would want to find.  And on the shittier side of things, sometimes you have to deal with an idiot or someone you have no respect for, and it can be pretty stressful and annoying, but that shit usually works out beautifully too.  So am I lucky?  or smart?  or a good judge of character?  or have good character and attract the right people?  Or maybe because I like stories, or was an english major, I just know how to tell myself the story I want to hear?  I don't know!  But I'm kinda lovin' all of it. 

MARIA FIGUEROA + L. VU #2 and #3

Ya know, I don't know what I am doing.  Is that true?  Honestly, I can't be sure.  Maybe I know, maybe I don't.  I'm all right with it though.  I guess this is what I think. For some reason I saved a bunch of these bags, probably because I noticed the names and thought about the people making them.  The reason also has something to do with me always collecting free paper and stuff that I notice, that happens to pass through my hands.  And also that my first job involved working in a factory.  There was a stockpile.  Ideas have been bounced around. I always liked writing dialogue.  For some reason yesterday I wrote an interview with Brenda Nieves, from the bag.  And I left it somewhere.  Hhhmm.  I do know that I like:  paper, reusing stuff, doing stuff on found stuff, writing, people, writing dialogue, my markers, leaving stuff, telling stories (other stuff too of course, but this is about this non-thing I made).  Well, there ya go.  Last night I was eating Ellio's pizza, on china (thanks to tk for introducing the using of the china) and listening to records and writing interviews extemporaneously and passing them to my husband.  Then we watched some tv.

BRENDA NIEVES #1

Remember bucks?  Well I do.  This is gonna be kinda like that.  I don't think anyone will ask me for my thoughts or drawings on bag bottoms, so I suspect I will just litter this shit arounds town.  Yup.  It's a new plan.  I expect there will be interspersed making, still and too.  Oh, I guess I don't remember bucks so well after all since in those posts I told you about where I left bucks or who gut um.  All rightey.  I'm gonna think on that.  Plans always changing, gots to keep moving right?  I don't really know.  I'm starting something here and I'll letcha know how it goes.  Or you be the judge. 

#1 BRENDA NIEVES Jul 07 11 EL 40-A B:  an impromptu interview with Brenda Nieves.  It's a little clumsy.  Totally my fault!  People make bags.  I noticed.