^^ otm
― Aimless, Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yes. I wish I was wealthy enough to offer you a book deal LL, I really do. I've said it before and at the risk of tiring you doing so again: you need to get these out there. In whatever shape or form. Spectacular.
― future debts collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 22 January 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Webmailed u!
I really appreciate the support. This thread will be updated with any future developments, of which there is possibly one currently in the works. If that woman ever writes back?!
Do I know anyone in Chicago who would loan me a fog machine?
― La Lechera, Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Webmailed you just now with my email address, because webmail on here doesn't reach me (old address)
― future debts collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 22 January 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
That woman knows you are waiting to hear from her and is going to email you! She said she answers emails on Sunday.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Monday, 23 January 2012 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
Alright then -- taking care of the situation. I have told enough people about this that I would be officially embarrassed if I didn't make it happen, so I will do the necessary legwork and hopefully find a fog machine. The rest is ready to go.
Also
--> I think I will take requests so if you have a romantic situation that you would like to be immortalized using official romance language and images from the marshall cavendish encyclopedia of the human body and mind, let me know. I can fix it up 4 u.
― La Lechera, Monday, 23 January 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
Update:
* I removed the images from view temporarily * I did this because I am about to use them and I want to fix the ones that didn't scan properly* How am I using them? For better or worse, I have entered (don't laugh) a contest that involves a reading and I plan to project the images while I read the text* This takes place in one week* I have been practicing, and I recorded the first half of it (just audio, that's all I'm worried about really)
― La Lechera, Sunday, 5 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
So excited to attend this contest.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Sunday, 5 February 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
That is so cool! I'm sure you'll knock their socks off.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 5 February 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
yaaaaaaay awesome, Amanda! wish i could come.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 5 February 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks guys! I am pretty excited, trying not to get my hopes up and be cool. (This is hard for me since I always get my hopes up and am never cool)
I made another few little ones just for fun and framed them, but I don't really have any purpose for them yet. I guess I'll wait until some birthdays roll around?
Seriously I would have never even considered showing these to anyone unless someone had encouraged me, so thanks for real.
― La Lechera, Sunday, 5 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
My birthday is in November. I am just saying.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Sunday, 5 February 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Wow I seem to have missed a whole lot between the sandbox + now but this is seriously awesome + I'm so excited for you! Crossing fingers, but I know you won't need luck bcuz yr work will blow everyone away. This is great!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Sunday, 5 February 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Did you arrange for a smoke machine? Or for some to video the performance for us ilxors? :)
Excited for this!
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
I have nixed the smoke machine as (1) I couldn't find one and (2) even if I did, it might obscure the images from being projected and (3) it has been suggested that that would be "too much" :(
If someone is going to record it, I would rather not know until it's over. I will say that it sounds better read out loud than I ever expected it to.
― La Lechera, Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
You will be great, you know it. My birthday's a week tomorrrow. Just sayin'. :D
― emil.y, Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
Oh! Really?! I should have been able to figure that out from our birthday conversation the other night, but it's going on the calendar. I hope you like late birthday presents!
― La Lechera, Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
I hope you like late birthday presents!
That should clarify things.
― Aimless, Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
Em -- I sent you a message.
I have been kind of a maniac with these again. I made a couple of little ones and put them in a frame, only one of them is facing the back because it's the thought behind the thought. You could also just reverse them if you want.
This is the outsidehttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6829780917_58935872dd_z.jpg
― La Lechera, Monday, 6 February 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
I also made a Valentine!
― La Lechera, Monday, 6 February 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
Well, the people failed to recognize my genius; if you want to win a contest judged by invisible rules, go with comedy instead of high concept. STILL, there was definitely some competition, and I did well.
Maybe my screen wasn't big enough. Next time!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
Your genius, nevertheless, is fully recognized and intact here at lix. That muscular one is swellerrific!
― Aimless, Monday, 13 February 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks! Tomorrow I'll post my Valentine. It's a little different, but same general feel.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 13 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
What's more romantic than kissing a corpse? Happy Valentine's Day, ILX! <3 u. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6829783589_40a29fd4e1_b.jpg
First three stanzas (minus the last line) are from the version of "Fair Margaret and Lady William" which had been "communicated to Percy by the Dean of Derry, as written down by memory by his mother, Mrs. Bernard." (From Vol 2 of the 5 volume The English and Scottish Popular Ballads" set, p. 201. I used the last line from the version Shirley Collins sang on The Power of the True Love Knot why because I felt like it)
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
Ah! I knew I knew those words. Would've been the Shirley Collins, yes.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
LL this stuff is so so awesome I wish I could kickstart you an art prize of yr own!
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, it's more than enough that anyone cares.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
These really knock me out. Sorry the judges were a bunch of ninnys.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, it was just a good deadline/excuse to get excited about something/costume opportunity. I'm not quite sure how to proceed, but I think I'll just keep making them and if the opportunity to read them aloud presents itself, I will do it.
I do have 5 volumes of ballads and no shortage of other things to cut up and glue together, that's for sure.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Not exactly related, but I threw this together from an ancient ESL book called Time and Space: A Reader. It's pretty much a goldmine, but it's all b/w. (image sorta nsfw but honestly, it's a drawing and not really very explicit at that)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7204/6873874317_14a4d22934_z.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Do these images still exist anywhere? I knew you were reading at the Whistler, but I had no idea about any of this until just now!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, they're on flickr. I'll email you a link.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Merci.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
They should also be linked above but not to the set.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
Amanda's project + this piece make me feel like i should really be reading romance novels
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Simone de Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex (1949) "[Woman] is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is the incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute — she is the Other."
In romance fiction this formula is reversed, as scholar and former Mills & Boon editor jay Dixon (who spells her name with a lower-case "j") observes in her book The Romantic Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1995. Woman is the Subject, man the Other.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
That is indeed true if the Romance Writer's Phrase Book is any indication!! I remain really disappointed in the overwhelming negativity of the book too. The last line in my "novel" is also the last line in the book -- "her mind was filled with sour thoughts."
I mean, think about that.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
I also had a difficult time getting her to do anything that was not a reaction to what he was doing.
Tangentially, my mom attends a lot of "writer's conferences" at which she sees ALL kinds of weirdos (self-help, self-published romance writers, memoirists, etc) and she said that by far, the most depressing scene was in front of the romance writers' booth. She described it as "grim."
All of this just makes me more interested in it, naturally.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
haha. maria bustillos recommends mills & boon and harlequin joints published between the late '30s and 1980 fwiw
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Ive surely posted this romanticalz novel cover I made once, on here before right?
http://www.memorygongs.com/cover_3redone.jpg
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Thursday, 16 February 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
This sort of reminds me of what La Lech has been up to: http://heroofswitzerland.blogspot.com/2012/01/judo-casebook.html
― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Interesting! Totally. I made a few more. I guess I could put them up here?
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
This one is my favorite of the newer ones that are not part of the original Ch. 1-12. (I have no idea what to call this btw -- I don't speak art language beyond very rudimentary basics -- I know what an installation is. Kind of.) http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7058/6777765246_262502353a_b.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
Yes please! I prefer your stuff, as it's more creative, but I quite like the judo strips... kind of imbues a lot of the trite problem page writing with more pathos, maybe?
xpost
― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Some of those are really odd... are they still from the same book? I don't even know what "foundation-training in the iron game" is meant to mean.
― emil.y, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
I called it "It may also radiate"
The words are from Jean Kent's other phrasebook, this one, The Professional Writer's Phrase Book
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Pk-ZdE9GL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
I wish I could pretend to know how to talk about this stuff, but I really don't. I never took any art classes beyond photography and pottery, which I toooootally bungled.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
And the new phrase book is just like nonstop utter nonsense -- there are these "commercial phrases" used in sales, lots more sex, but a little more graphic and with fewer nipples this time (?) and TONS OF PIZZAZZ! (not really)
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, "banged his walker noisily across the room" <--- where exactly are you going to use this phrase? is that really an all-purpose phrase?
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
also it's a new issue of "story of life" -- i have another one but i don't really like it as much so i am not going to post it. i do like the cover of story of life #41 though
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6923935271_16905b779f_z.jpg
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Monday, 27 February 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
the article is about sun damage to the skin