I've been trying to finish more items to list on etsy and so I haven't sat down to put any records into the computer lately. I have been listening to a lot of
Pissed Jeans "King of Jeans." That inspired me to put together a jewelry-working/driving playlist including some
Surgery,
Slug,
Eyehategod and
Drunks With Guns.
On the complete opposite of the spectrum, when I'm walking to and from work or the grocery store I am still listening to
Metric's Fantasies. I pick a song and listen to it for a few days then start feeling another song and so on.
There are times to put on background music and there are times to listen to songs. My mom used to get irritated with my dad's repetition of particular songs. I think she associated it with the irritating way the radio forcefeeds pop songs to the public, and perhaps with the airheaded pop music zombies that
she detested.
I wanted to agree with her about the shallowness of song repetition, but before long I couldn't help myself. Whenever I was home alone I'd have my stack of records ready, waiting for my family to pull out of the driveway so I could queue up my current favorites. The knees of my jeans always became worn out due to kneeling on the floor and scooting around to gather my music. The holes created from doing that were never in the spot where cool people cut their jeans. My holes appeared lower than that, so I could never really play off my holey jeans.
When I am repeating a song that I like - (or even just a part of a song that I like), I am hearing the different parts. I'm memorizing the structure and I am homing in on whatever it is that made an impression on me.
Sometimes I ponder what it means to like a particular band/musician/group/whatever. Am I a fan of ___ or do I just like some of their songs? Sometimes one, sometimes the other, sometimes both.
Well anyway I'm going to go see
Wye Oak this weekend and Eyehategod in a few weeks so you know.. music music I still care about it a little bit.
I made a heat box to cure my resin, since I've finally got some professional grade stuff to work with.
I used it a few times with Easycast anyway, and it made things cure up faster but with more bubbles. I should have known better.
However, it did help harden a piece that I may have mixed poorly or put too much pigment in. It came out of the mold kind of bendy and bad for filing/finishing but it came out of the heat box ready to get sanded up:
I decided to make a Christmas ring:
I'm working on more picture jewelry:
I got a stupid potpurri candle warmer because I think I can use it for creating/duplicating my wax models.
I have some other pieces to finish but I'm basically fixated on my rings.
those are the last three rings that I put on etsy.Labels: jewelry
