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Over PLIA I realized that I didn’t own every single MUSE song ever created. So, naturally, I did some digging and got some new MUSE. And I am very very excited about one of my finds:

MUSE GOT HEART! 

Yes indeed - I think Matt Bellamy’s little Italian romance has finally sunken into his music.

And no, I’m not talking about the songs “Falling Away With You” or even “Invincible” - both of those songs still show a lot of Muse’s harder rock.

I found this song (the song of the week!): UNINTENDED.  Not once does the music show MUSE’s regular style of anger, fustration or even his the-end-of-the-world-is-near urgency. Dear Matt must be helplessly whipped to crank out this song… haha! I’m not complaining, it’s a good song - not the best Muse has done, but good.

(CLICK HERE FOR THE LYRICS) 

Anyways I had a good weekend.

First the fun stuff: Amanda, Jason, Stephen and I hung out watching what was supposed to be a scary movie. It ended up to be a corny and rather humorous movie instead, but it was good fun having something fun happen this weekend.

Here is Amanda and Jason preparing to be slightly disappointed by our cheesy movie:

Uh… shoot. Is that the only fun thing I did this weekend? Oh yeah - I did have a date with Laura. We went and got DQ blizzards because we have both been craving them for a few weeks now. It was wonderful:

Besides that, I’ve been major gung-ho on my artwork.

My plaster “GRIP” piece is on the edge of finished (it’s currently on display in the art department art gallery)

and my “Gravity and Grace” assigment finally got it’s second firing, and it looks wonderful (This one is also on display in the art department art gallery… go check it out!):

I also started experimenting with Oil paints. Van Geest was a little worried about how me and oil paint would like each other, but so far only good things have come from my experiments:

first is a color study - something I’m now becoming comfortable with making:

and then a figure study - something I haven’t had much experience with, but hope to do a lot more of in the future (THIS ONE ISN’T FINISHED!):

I also have been fixing older paintings - now that I’ve improved I’ve been going back and improving my old work.

I didn’t take any pictures of the changes, but here is what my work space now looks like that I brought in all my old stuff:

Now the thing that took the bulk of my weekend:

On saturday I worked from 9:15am to around 5:45pm - no eating, bathroom breaks, or even any kind of break in there at all.

I was in the Bean (my college’s coffee shop), using yarn to create a ceiling sculpture:

My goodness was it exhausting - and these pictures don’t really capture the feel it gives the bean. I like the results though:

Hm… it’s kind of hard to see in these pictures.

And my favorite part - what I call my yarn chandelier:

Go visit the Bean and tell me what you think afterwards. I did enjoy doing this, and I love to get feedback - good and bad. I can still change some of it.

Last, but not least, my sister, Rachel, had fun glazing a mug for me. It’s now my favorite mug I own, and it makes me smile. Not only that, but it seems to hold about 2.5 cups of coffee - hooray! I love it! (Thanks Rachel!)

Ok I think that covers all the important stuff. I’ll post again in a week! Have a wonderful week, everybody!

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Deedles