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About Me

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"Do you really know where you are going? Do you have a plan-of-action to take the kinks out of your road to the future? ...you can reach and find happiness. You can reach for that plain peace-of-mind which you desire. All you have to do is turn the key and open the door."

i'm an artist.

and life is way better than i think it is.

My Interests

art
drawing
painting
comics
good music
movies
photography
interior design
elephants
scandinavia
english, irish, and australian accents
dancin like a monkey
thinking i'm cool

|3:
mean people
bad music
people who think they're better than others
extreme heat/cold
snobby folk
prejudice
disrespect
being ignored
stupid fights
chemical imbalances

I'd like to meet:

someone real.

Music:

listened to recently:

i have seen these guys live:

ben folds
rufus wainwright
badly drawn boy
brendan benson
david broza
ben lee
the beach boys
sufjan stevens
my brightest diamond
jesse harris
ani difranco andrew bird
the occidental brothers
dosh
viva voce
the shinsss
apostle of hustle
andrew bird ... again
mccarthy trenching
oakley hall
bright eyes (oh god so many emo kids...)

Movies:

i'm a movie freak so... here we go.
old movies
brokeback mountain
amelie
fight club
napoleon dynamite
waking life
nine dead gay guys
box of moonlight
beetlejuice
meeting people is easy
american splendor
boys don't cry
pay it forward
the iron giant
matchstick men
being john malkovich
scotland, pa
unstrung heroes
punch-drunk love
the royal tenenbaums
big fish
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
steal this movie
forrest gump
high fidelity
sideways
the life aquatic with steve zissou
pulp fiction
sling blade
off the map
american beauty
o brother, where art thou?
about a boy
me without you
lost in translation
i heart huckabees
adaptation
garden state
red
everything is illuminated
art school confidential
closer
the new world
thumbsucker
little miss sunshine
but i'm a cheerleader
the squid and the whale
the party
happy accidents
the birdcage
to wong foo
THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP
y tu mamÃ¡ tambiÃ©n
running with scissors
la mala educaciÃ³n
a love song for bobby long
kinky boots
a prairie home companion
another gay movie ... oh god, not for the weak!
touch of pink - soo cute.
strangers with candy
back to the future trilogy. that's right.
k-pax
the guru
solder's girl
man on the moon
saving face
mysterious skin
billy's dad is a fudge-packer (hehe...)
sleeper
latter days
rushmore
bottle rocket
for your consideration
el crimen del padre amaro

Television:

six feet under
the L word
queer as folk
dead like me
huff
house
venture bros.
futurama
monk
random documentaries
scrubs
FLCL
30 rock
the office
some stuff on adult swim
kids in the hall
mr. show

Books:

the kite runner
brokeback mountain
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
sophie's world
catcher in the rye
the things they carried
einstein's dreams
blankets (graphic novel)
goodbye chunky rice (graphic novel)
oryx & crake
never let me go

Heroes:

aaron jasinski
kurt halsey frederiksen
vera brosgol
craig thompson
justin cherry
jeff soto
brendan monroe
audrey kawasaki
jason sho green
jen wang
clio chiang
hope larson
bryan lee o'malley
kate craig
derek kirk kim
carson ellis
susie ghahremani
caroline hwang
natalia pierandrei
aysha shehim
joe ciummo
plus a ton of other artists you don't know/i forgot about.

oh, and my art teachers...
kreg yingst
kurt webb
amie elliot
vil bounmy/gingerich.
they're wonderful people.

My Blog

art update.

i've been getting some ideas lately. haven't put most of these into motion yet, but it's on my mind. i started a photographic series of self portraits without using my face. i've mostly used my fe...
Posted by nikki on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:22:00 PST

joyful girl.

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world i do it because it's the least i can do i do it because i learned it ...
Posted by nikki on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:37:00 PST

repose (restart).

oh horoscopes... Nikki, You are experiencing a wave of excitement now, but you might be relaxed rather than on edge. You know something is ready to change, but you can't quite figure it all out. If...
Posted by nikki on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:38:00 PST

repost (repose).

huh. my own blog title has given me a drawing idea. i'm in a shit-tastic mood. or rather, i have been in one for about a week now. so here, have some stuff about gay marriage that i've already pos...
Posted by nikki on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:20:00 PST

summer art update

so graduation was last week, and summer's here. i've just been being lazy since i got out of school, but now i feel like i need to really be productive. so hopefully i will have some new art...
Posted by nikki on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:27:00 PST

expression, mood, creation, and loneliness...

i've been trying to think of new ways to express myself. lately i've felt like i'm stuck. my time of elation has ended... and thus creativity is low. when my... imbalance... kicks in, things get real...
Posted by nikki on Sun, 14 May 2006 10:52:00 PST

response and reconciliation: part I ...again

posting this again because i love it so much. Response and Reconciliation By Octavio Paz I. Ah life! Does no one answer? His words rolled, bolts of lightning etched in years that were boulders and...
Posted by nikki on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 07:57:00 PST

a place in displacement

i should stop thinking so defensively. not everyone is out to get me, like i always seem to think they are... notes to self: think positively, nikki! don't be so paranoid... don't be so dependent on ...
Posted by nikki on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:50:00 PST

i'm oh so forgetful.

oh yeah. i got accepted into the school of the art institute of chicago. found out saturday. that's all. ...
Posted by nikki on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:43:00 PST

built to spill and bonnaroo '06

alright guys. there are two concert events i would really like to go to. if anyone would like to join me, speak up! Built to Spill - Friday and Saturday, April 14-15 - 8:00 pm - Metro - Chicago, IL ...
Posted by nikki on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:32:00 PST