American Pie 2
July 31, 2003 1:52a.m.

Who'd have thought I'd ever be doing a review of American Pie 2. ...but I have to say that I am, and it's a good one.

One my various recent trips to my parent's house I have access to cable, something I don't have in my apt ...and I take full advantage of it. ....and I saw many a trailer for the new American Pie movie...which looked suprisingly cute. So when I was in the videostore today armed with a handy dandy 99cent coupon I decided to rent things I really didn't feel like pay full price for....so I decided....why the hell not...and rented AP2.

I wanted it this evening with a wonderfully American college student dinner....Kraft mac n cheese....chocolate cookie dough icecream ...and beer.

This movie is surprisingly fun and cute! It was funny, and romantic, and sexy in all the right ways. So unexpected. The pointless grotesque was kept to a minimum. It seems more focused on telling a few stories then just the search for...and preoccupation with sex that was found in the first. And with watching it at the end of my college career it makes me very nostalgic.

I'm actually 'watching' it again. it's playing in the background as I'm typing this and I'm playing on watching it several more times before I take it back. ....and to think I put off watching it for so long on concept..and that B said it sucked.

Return to Representation
July 31, 2003 1:07 a.m.

It all started with my 3rd piece for the Rose show....Invaded, which, after fighting with it for a period time, showed itself as a figure, B specifically. ....And with it I had something pretty heavy to say.

The same goes for the piece I started this evening. ...I have yet apply paint...and nothing has been glued down...but ...in fact the piece revealed itself as figurative even in the preliminary stage.

It's dealing with my broken heart.

I started off just place pieces and trying to make trying to make it look aesthetically pleasing and then I started wanting to convey physically, visually, how I'm feeling about the Jeff situation. I just started using this very sharp, pieces of wood,….and gradually they kept getting bigger….almost as if I were creating a ribcage out of knives. ….when it dawned on me that this was exactly what I was doing. I then looked though my collection of wood pieces and found one that perfectly resembled a real heart (not the cliché heart shape ©), it even and an artery coming out of the top! I then found a small sharp and jagged piece of wood that fits perfectly to impale (lay over the top) of the heart. With the heart in place I decided to layer the rib pieces on the outside edge of the box to enhance the rib-like resemblance. There also seems to be a collarbone, a breast, and a waistline. I am very excited and impressed by the piece already and again, I haven’t even begun to paint! …that will happen tomorrow hopefully since it need to be finished before/by Sat. to be entered in the Swope show.

But again, the most interesting thing is the fact that I have returned to representation. …Last summer in my drawing class I did a lot of abstract drawings,…but aside from that I’ve been working Non-Objectively ever since. My entire BFA show solely consisted of non objective work. …I was worried that I had been working that way because I didn’t have anything “real” to say. I have been using non-objectivity as a means to show a visual of an emotion (non objectivity allows me to explore the emotion without using clichés) and as much as I liked working this way I was starting the wonder if maybe I was kidding myself. ….That maybe I just didn’t have anything to say that was new,….or real…..nothing to say worth doing a piece about …and that was why my pieces lacked an ‘actual’ subject. ….but it seems I have something to say now. Seems dealing with the fear of losing a real loved own…..and my first real romantic loss (it’s a loss until I learn differently) gives me something that I have to say and release though honest, blatant representation.