I was feeling crappy over the weekend, and again like I want to drop out of school and become an artist. (This happens about once a year. I’m starting to think that I’ll probably actually attempt something like that when I actually graduate. But now I only have a year left until that happens, so I’ll just power through.) Anyway, my mom sympathized and told me she’d buy me some art supplies. So I went to A.C. Moore (I know, not exactly classy…) and purchased some excellent and pretty markers. Below:

And then I doodled some doodles with them:

The big shadows in those photos are shadows of me taking the photos. Anyway, my main problem with creating art (which, by the way, I haven’t done besides doodling constantly in years, but for years I took art classes every day), is that I can never think of anything to draw/paint/whatever.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Ideas of things to draw with my new pretty markers? You will be making me very happy.

I also bought some books.

Oh! That reminds me. I changed my summer reading list page so that I have more flexibility. Now I just have to read 10 books, but it doesn’t matter which ones. Which is a better idea for me because I keep changing my mind about what books I want to read.

Anyway, the books I bought are as follows:

Okay so, in order: a modern-day Japanese-y mystery, a Japanese-y sci-fi thriller-y thing that somehow I’ve never seen the movie of so don’t give it away!, a Japanese-y mystery set in the 11th century, and the first Lord of the Rings book. Okay so that last one is kinda random, in context. But I feel like I ought to read that series, because I would probably like it, and I’ve never read it. (Well, I tried, but I was like 9, so that doesn’t count.)

Anyway, I’m excited to start in on all that.

And randomly, if you’re looking for a very pretty animated show to watch that was created in the 70s, watch Galaxy Express 999, it is just so gorgeously drawn. All the episodes are here.

And in the exciting world of Newspaper Intern Land!

My workload has started to get pretty intense, but I enjoy being busy. Unfortunately, though, it means I’ve been neglecting ye olde blog a little. Sorry guys!

So here’s what I’m working on right now/what’s coming up for me:

1. a preview of the Warped Tour
2. an interview
3. concert reviews Friday & Saturday night
4. Harry Potter primer chart feature
5. Harry Potter 6 film review
6. cover story on Infringement Festival
7. Warped Tour review
8. a book review (or possibly two)
9. a bunch of other smaller things
10. review of Video Games Live

Yes, it is a lot of articles to write, especially considering most of them (all but three or four) are due in the next week. But! I’m excited to work on nearly all of them. Here’s what I did today:

I interviewed Lights (who is really into video games & comic books & tattoos, so that was a fun conversation) and a band from around here called Settings for my Warped Tour piece. Then I worked on that story for awhile, took lunch & read Harry Potter, worked more, wrote a small preview for the weekend, then went to interview Kevin Jerome Everson, a film-maker who is working on a film in Buffalo.

So today was an adventure of talking to lots of different people, which is always fun. Whenever I have to interview someone, I always get nervous, even though I’ve done it a gazillion times now, but it almost always turns out to be really fun-slash-interesting.