welcome to art nerds united.

i wrote this yesterday, but my internet went out in the process, so i’m publishing it today. sO THERE!  Happy Halloween!  we had trick or treaters at Kinko’s today.  they were so cute.  i ate a lot of candy and had to go get more from osco, though… here’s the yester day blog:

Hello faithful readers!  I am here to tell you about my excellent
weekend, that involved a little bit of Halloweening.  Here’s a breakdown,
because I’m too exhausted to write a narrative:
Friday: Tiffany and I went to the MCA to see
the Dan Flavin exhibit
exhibit, which is in its last weekend.  We also saw the amazing new
Brazillian exhibit, where I found myself gawking at two large (caged) parrots,
completely oblivious that Tiffany is deathly afraid of birds.  What was I
thinking?  I felt like a jerk (since she had told me several times before
she doesn’t like birds and, besides, I have one of her paintings of birds with
targets all over them hanging in my kitchen!), so I swore to her I would
protect her from any other birds the rest ofthe day.  That took care of
that… The Flavin show was amazing!  i hadn’t seen him in person, and
really, if you have any doubts about him from photographs, you really should
check him out live.  Also, the Brazil
exhibit was really nice to stumble on.  One installation gave a whole
new meaning to the word ‘music box’.  Tiffany and I enjoyed playing DJ in
the front hall of the museum, while some old people watched us and enjoyed our
enthuseasm for the piece.  We loved them for it.  They were so
cute.  Tiffany liked the "doodle-doodle-doo" sound and I liked
the "ssssst-stttt-ssssssssst" backwards like sound.  There were
other sounds, that when you opened the door of these little music boxes mounted
on the wall together, you would get a while band playing together.  Or you
could choose which part (drums, synth, bongos, horns, etc) you wanted to
play.  If my description is too confusing (which i’m sure it is), just go
to the MCA and try it out!  open-close-open-close-open-close…
Friday afternoon:  I met Bruce Boucher, curator of European Decorative
Arts and my former Museum Studies professor, at the Art Institute.  We had
a nice two hour conversation, in which I learned he is from Birmingham
Alabama!  This is an incredible piece of information if you know him,
because he seems to be from Oxford, England.  He just lived there
for-like-ever (30 years) since he was 21 and apparently acquired a helluva
accent and a typically british demeanor.  Adam McCoy and Tiffany couldn’t
believe it either.
Saturday Morning: Tiffany and I went to see Nosferatu!  With a live
organist!  it was so awesome.  Then in the afternoon we took a walk
in Graceland Cemetery, the most beautiful one of them all.  Daniel Burnham
is buried there.  There are also a lot of cool statues and creepy
mausolea, which I loved.  Ah, the stench of death and my heart goes
a-flutter.  No, really, I want to have a supernatural encounter one of
these days.  Ghosts are really amazing.
Saturda Afternoon:  After parting ways with Tiffany, I met with my friend
Evita.  After searching for two hours, we couldn’t find any Halloween
costumes.  We figured we could use the money for something else *a-hem..
food!* so we ditched shopping and went to her place.  I help set up for
her brothers’ halloween party.  She and I hung out pretty much the whole
time.  We left the party early this morning for pancakes at IHOP, and came
back to my place for tea.  I had a really fun time!!!!

OK, this is ceasing to be interesting.  That means I shall stop.
I woke up at evita’s place twenty minutes before work, and I had to rush
there.  I was so bored and tired at work, and now I’m happy to finally be
home and in my bed with some tea!  Now I have to play catch up because I
missed out on doing some work… but it was worth it!  I had a great
weekend!  Now I must be a responsible student and GET TO IT… maybe
tomorrow, after I rest 

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