Following Shash’s lead, I’ve decided to put together a little recap of my favorites during 2007.

***Movies - I found these either interesting or twisted or enriching***

• How to Cook Your Life
• The Dinner Game
• The Bothersome Man (Den Brysomme Mannen)
• 2 Days in Paris
• Margot at the Wedding
• Miss Potter
• Romance & Cigarettes

***Music – I couldn’t have lived without***

• Andrew Bird
• Beth Orton
• The Decemberists
• Eleni Mandell
• Feist
• The Mendoza Line
• The Weepies

***Books – that I had a hard time putting down***

• Middlesex by Eugenides Jeffrey
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
• No one belongs here more than you do. Stories by Miranda July
• Grab on to Me Tightly as If I Knew the Way by Bryan Charles

…Tonight, it’s time to close a good, good year.

Wishing you all a very happy new year. I’m looking forward to seeing what 2008 will bring. 

Resolution 4.

Snips and snails, and puppy dogs tails
That’s what little boys are made of!

Put more boys in my drawings.

Music to encourage the appearance of masculinity (in various forms),

Grinderman 

Peter Gabriel

David Bowie

Resolution 3. 

Hug a tree.

Get outdoors more often and explore the natural wonders of Oregon.

Good soundtrack for a stomp in the woods? Iron & Wine

Resolution 2.

Mind your language! 

Reduction of blah, blah, blah in both its forms: output and input.

The music to help me would be Einstürzende Neubauten because they nearly always leave me speechless.

ps.

You might find this illustration familiar. She is the second part to a pair. Find her counterpart here.

Resolution 1.

Don’t be a silly goose.

Expect the unexpected and that is all, nothing more and nothing less.

And listen to Cocteau Twins more often.

Merry, merry, merry to you!

Another sketchbook find. This is a woman with very big hair. Whenever I come across someone with bit hair.

First, my jaw drops. Then I stare….

…in pure wonderment of the creation.

It’s true.

I lived in Texas. Maybe this has something to do with my big hair fascination.

While going through my old sketchbooks, I found this little spaghetti mama. Thought I would share her with you.

I think that I sketched her while dreaming of making a silly cookbook one day.

Who knows, it could happen?!…Anybody out there who wants to collaborate?…

Wonderful food blog, Orangette

Translates to something like, “I have a soft hum in my ear.”

(song lyric by Tocotronic)

I suspect that I might have something like that when I get these urges to photograph power lines…

Self-portrait photography to delight and amaze you – Levi Van Veluw

Sometimes one must wonder if the pole is holding the wires or the wires holding the pole?

I was so excited to discover this detail in the photograph – a little wire wiggling free.

I could spend all day looking at photos by Riitta Päiväläinen.

But then again, I would also want to leave some to look at the photos by Elina Brotherus.
The work of both photographers can be found here.