Shiny and new

It's a new dawn

It's a new day

It's a new life

For me

And I'm feeling good.

And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me

And I'm feeling good.

-- Nina Simone, "Feeling Good"

Self portrait 2-28-13

I have been "spring cleaning" my life a little bit recently ... dragging some pretty heavy and ripe personal garbage to the curb. Definitely necessary. Very definitely difficult. But the lightness I'm feeling is too good to want to go back. And now that it's out there, I definitely don't want to drag that shit back up the psychological and emotional driveway. No way. Not when I'm feeling so shiny and new. I'm even sleeping better! And nothing burns off the cold depressing fog of a bleak February morning like a good night's sleep.

Also, I got a new latex rubber D.A. wig. I mean, why wouldn't I be feeling good?

Dreidl, dreidl, dreidl, I made it out of clay

OK, it's not really a dreidl.
It's another face.
But I did make it out of clay.
And jiggle eyes.
And false eyelashes.

Polymer clay face with jiggle eyes and false eyelashes 2-27-13

Paperface

Self portrait 2-26-13

Paperface
Paperface
I never heard of paperface
Until I moves to the West Coast
Where I found that to be smooth
I had to wear a paperface

That's alright
There's just one thing
How am I supposed to sing
With this thing in my way
With this thing...
In my face
Paperface
Paperface

Only hope to see
See what's underneath
Only hope to be
The me that's underneath.

-- Weezer, "Paperface" 

Insomni-aaaaack!

In a real dark night of the soul, 

it is always three o'clock in the morning, 

day after day.  

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

... after day, after day, after day.

Self portrait 2-25-13

 

 

 

 

 

Aaaaand, just when I thought I was getting a handle on my insomnia .... it's baaaaack.
Wide eyed and wide awake since 3 a.m.
Gonna be a long, long day.

Self portrait 2-25-13

Keeping it real

Nothing fancy.
No tricks, bells or whistles.
Simply me.

Self portrait 2-24-13

Respect the 'stache

 “Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, 

instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. 

I offered them politely to my friends: 'Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?' 

Nobody dared to touch them. 

This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”

-- Salvador Dali, Dali's Mustache 

I made another clay face.
Here he is, rocking the 'stache.
The 'stache is everything.

Polymer clay face with jiggle eyes and string 2-23-13

 And here he is wearing a little hat!

Polymer clay face with jiggle eyes, string and a hat 2-23-13

Night mares

“When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, 

brush her hair with his hands, collect her tears in thimbles for her to drink the next morning 

(The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it, he said), and more than that: 

once her eyes closed and she fell back asleep, he was left to bear the insomnia. 

There was a complete transfer, like a speeding billiard ball colliding with a resting one." 

-- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

 

Night mares 2-22-13