cocorosie _ noah's ark

I love this band.

A rose is by any other name would smell just a sweet.

Photograph from the The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens webpage.

The world's largest and apparently "fragrant" flower is blooming at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. This spectacle of blossom glory is known as the Titan Arum and according to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden webpage it "produces a monstrous four- to seven-foot-tall flower head, which releases a monstrous stench of putrefaction at peak bloom." It's also affectionatly known as the corpse flower.

This rare and unusual event of the bloom revealing its vulgar odor to the world is sometimes confused with warming garbage from the stinking heat in near by New York and confused with the unfortunate victims of god knows what floating down the East River. Is it death or the corpse flower, pondering residents inquire. Wonder not, but fromn the ofactatory safety of your home, you can check out the webcam to see its progress.

I wonder if these would grow in Vancouver?? It would be perfect for the yard.

Girl takes pic of herself every day for three years

like them apples

Fresh picked apples from Casa Millerarri or Casa Gaspiller, whichever you prefer.

Mona Lisa decending

Take a look at this 2-dimensional clay animation "melding and merging the work of 35 famous artists". It's visually a mind bogling trip down Art History 101. Thanks to Sparkle for the link

please don't restore the factory settings on life

I've had a minor meltdown with my Ipod and have had to "restore factory settings". This upsets me to no end. Not only did I have to go backwards to the beginning of my Ipod and literally wipe it clean of any scandalous memories and make it feel like we'd never travelled down the road of music download, but I also had to make it believe that we had never ventured down the dark seedy alley of iTune libary sharing or what I like to lovingly call the "can I rape your Itunes?" conversation.

That's what has happened.

The journey down that steamy little alley one night in Edmonton when I pilfered all the great Tunes and boosted my song amount from 123 to 256 all from Vince and Mitch's incredible collection are now gone. Gone are the Madonna dance tracks that made my forays into physical activity more enjoyable. Gone are the obscure Allan Ginsberg poetry readings that would come on between Wolfmother and Ani DeFranco like a little pebble tossed in front of my path by a homeless bum that startled me into remembering life is also on shuffle. Gone, last but not least, are the trebles and clefts of my visit with my dear friends Vince and Mitch.

If you're reading this.. take pitty on me and my soundwaves and burn me a CD!

b never too busy too be beautiful

b never too busy too be beautiful, originally uploaded by smoooch.

Individual lipstick and eyeshadow pots from B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful.

driving on french fry grease

driving on french fry grease, originally uploaded by smoooch.

Racing around the world for a better home, the Earthrace boat came to Vancouver and made a spash across the local papers. The boat which is running on biodeisel is the brainchild of an ex-oil man, Pete Bethune. Not only is he captain but also CEO. I didn't know a boat could have a CEO, but OK. I guess this just isn't any other boat.

Clearly not. When I heard that this thing had docked down at Granville Island, I suggested to Michael that we go down and take a look. There we are getting coffee, me with camera in hand, casually wondering where it could be when out of no where this monlithic creature of the sea smoothly glides into view. I think 'hideaous monstrocity' was the phrase Michael used.

While it's a lovely idea to race around the world trying to raise awareness for alternative fuel sources, it's even more interesting to do it in a boat that looks like something out of a comic book replete with tribal designs.

I can't imagine what I like more that Cat Power's ability to take a song and turn it into something completely different. I wish I had her version of the Stone's 'I Can't Get No (satisfaction)'.

Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall (thanks Sparkle!). More info and some interesting tidbits can be found on her Wikipedia page. A list of interesting trivia notes that in 1999 she was spoked at "numerous Bob Dylan concerts".

Odd.

lined up

lined up, originally uploaded by smoooch.

lantern labor rewards

lantern labor rewards, originally uploaded by smoooch.

light my fire

Cancel your plans, say no to that dinner date and make your way to Trout Lake for the annual Illuminaires Festival AKA. the lantern fest, tomorrow night at dusk.

And if you want a one of a kind, hand crafted, gauranteed original lantern you'll head to the North end of the park and look for the string of masterpieces for sale. Each one is strung with vintage ribbon and ready for you and your trip through the festival. Remember..be a participant, not a spectator.

finished, originally uploaded by smoooch.

this spud is for you

I never knew grocery shopping could be so easy. Thanks to a certain Jane I know, I have discovered another aspect to the wonderfully entertaining concept of online shopping. This shit's addictive!

Now, instead of Elsewares- "where they shop the hard way so you won't have to", and books called No one cares what you had for lunch-100 IDEAS FOR YOUR BLOG I have found the ultimate in interactive internetting and by telling you I may break the cardinal rule of the book that very well may be in the post to me right now..I'll tell you what I had for lunch, or plan to have for lunch.

Or rather the fascinating aspect of ordering groceries on line. I log onto Spud, pick out my fruits, veggies, and every other kind of grocery item I can think of and a few days later its waiting for me when I get home. The prices are the same if I walked all the way to the local organic grocer but this way I don't have to walk, carry and transport groceries 2km in searing heat.

If you live in the Vancouver, Calgary, Victoria or Seattle area and want to try it out, I can give you a code which will entitle you to $25 off over your first 4 deliveries. Internet with me and I'll hook you up.

the epitome of my childhood

Or most of it. This kind of sums it up. This and the actual farm in my life rounds out the whole picture and makes me the prairie girl that I am. Thank god for the Friendly Giant, the little chairs, and the Rusty the giraffe.

reminder

reminder, originally uploaded by smoooch.

Curious, the sin has now been washed away. The city maybe?

many hours of fun

What would you do if someone gave you 100 dildos for Christmas? It seems it has happened to someone and they are asking the internet.. what would you do. All answers must be non destructive and involve all 100. This is what I suggested..

1.Donate them to a women's shelter.

2.Plant them in your vegetable garden to mark the rows.

3.Leave them on bus seats, coffee shop chairs and other random places with a note attached that reads "take me home and give love". Kind of like those public random art projects.

4.Make an art installation about sex. Plant them all in a park, build a fence around it and call it the Get Off Garden.

What would you do?

TITLER

Not for the meek but funny.

I could have been a rock and roll photographer

Him: "Would I like to shot the cover for the Ramones first album?"

Me: "Yes, yes, yes"

Him: "They need to do it this afternoon"

This guy takes a bunch of photos at a Patti Smith gig at CBCB's and ends up with an offer to shoot a Ramones album. Unfortunatly for him (but a lucky turn of event for the coat check girl with a left behind camera), the photo gig interferes with the instruction of Hebrew and his presence as the teacher.

I can imagine his gripping dilemma back in the 70's. Etching out a career for himself. Maybe trying to denounce his adolescent ways. Saying, NO! I must be an adult and uphold my responsibilities, and he says um, I can't I have plans.

See, this is what life is. A series of options and choices. They may pull you into darkness or they may pull you into light. they may also pull you in to dark, seedy bars and raw bizarre punk shoots which threaten to destroy your credibility as an upstanding citizen or they shoot you through the muck and into infamy, stardom and a lifetime of more unusual choices and options.

Makes me wonder if I should've moved to NY when what's his face asked me to and I said to myself, "No, I can't. What about my Christmas bonus?"

Incidentally, CBGB's is getting ready to finally close its doors as the quintessential and historic punk rock slash rock and roll mecca.

downtime

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ahhh...that..feels...good...

hot pants

More wittisims from my favorite website.

Queer: And, futhermore, we all know that the Devil does not wear Prada. He wears flame-retardant knock-offs from Target.


--Chelsea