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3. What show/YouTube video(s) do you put on in the background when you when you don’t have anything to watch but you want something on?

I zone out often enough that anything I put on ends up being this. I'll play something, anything, and then eat or embroider or play a browser game. But I think the show that best fits this is Community. I've seen it so many times at this point, and I don't have to be in a specific mood to just play it.

10. Do you own any signed books/memorabilia in general?

Oh boy do I! Okay so, my dad has some of the wildest luck in the entire world, because there is this one book of Ursula Le Guin's that most people don't know about. It's her book that she describes as anthropology of the future, and it is titled Always Coming Home. There are not many copies of it. It was published with a cassette tape of the music that the people in the book would have/will/might still listen to, and it's rare to find a copy with the cassette anymore.

My dad once found a copy in a secondhand store with the cassette, signed by her, for less than ten dollars. It's mine now. I have memorized poems from this books. It is truly beautiful.

I also have a signed copy of Alice Isn't Dead and a book of fairy tales by Leigh Bardugo, both of which I found in this bookstore in Michigan.

16. Pick a song lyric to describe your current mood (and drop the name and artist!)

"I'm going down to Liverpool to do nothing..." Going Down To Liverpool, by the Bangles. I wish I had a better answer for this but I can't think of anything witty.

32. Rainbows, stars, or sunset colored clouds?

Stars. Always and forever. When I was a kid, I used to go to this thing called Skill Builders, where I would learn to do rolls and run around and just generally do Active Things. I remember it as taking place at night, but it's unlikely it was actually that late because I was young and because some nights afterwards, my parents would take me out for ice cream. So it couldn't have been that late.

My fondest memory of that time is that sometimes, after getting ice cream, we would drive out to some back road (most roads were back roads there), park the car and get out. I would climb up onto the hood of the car and dad would hand me my ice cream cone and I'd lie back, looking up. That's how I learned the first constellations I ever knew. Out there, in the dark rural fields, eating ice cream during summer.

49. What’s something that you don’t have a picture of that you wish you did?

I've been taking photographs for awhile now. I started young, because I couldn't draw and I wanted to capture how things looked. I still take them, though not quite with the same desperate frequency as I had when I began.

I took classes on it, all through highschool and on into college. I like phototherapy. I wanted to do more. I dare even say that I'm good at it, though I'm reluctant to ever post them here. Too easy to divine a location, too easy to have my art stolen. But I have experience with this, is the point.

Here's the thing about photography. It captures what's there.

That's what it's supposed to do, after all. That's kinda the point. But what that means is that it doesn't show what you see. Our brains edit what we look at constantly, altering the lighting, the coloring, focusing on the thing you're looking at. They frame our view and spruce it up, so looking at something is never the same as a picture. Even a photo edited to look like that isn't the same. We're used to ignoring what are brains do; drawing attention to it ruins the illusion.

I want a picture that looks like what I see. It's why I started photographing in the first place. I don't think it's possible. But I want to try.

#asked #and i wasn't sad #electricshoop

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