Striving to be what I wish to be thought to be.
The attention just encourages her...
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Journal created:
on 18 March 2002 (#499334)
Updated:
on 16 December 2014
Name:
A woman of dubious and questionable memory
Location:
Circle Pines, Minnesota, United States
Website:
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. --Gustave Flaubert
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. -- Donna Tartt (The Secret History)
I paint, I draw, I read. I sew, knit, run, lift weights and think deep thoughts.
I am obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who and dusty Victorian things. I play the violin and have far too many shoes, corsets and feathered hats. Pity my family and be glad you don't share living space with me.
My online gallery is at www.mnartists.org/Amanda_Downs.
Things I Have Done:
toured England and Scotland, Tae Kwon Do, sword combat, graduated from college, ran away from home, traveled the U.S. and Canada, ate worm cookies, grew my hair to my knees, belly danced, sandblasted grave stones, tightlaced, tried vegetarianism, yoga, painted a mural, slept in the desert, slept in the woods, slept in a cemetery, danced ballet poorly, pierced my navel, got married, had stitches in my face, got a tattoo, poked at jellyfish in Bermuda, played piano and accordion, sang on stage, played soccer on a freeway at 3 a.m., witnessed aurora borealis, ate 18 raw oysters, got abducted by the Borg, rode my bicycle harder than any girl I know, gave birth, drew a comic book
Things I Will Do:
minimize consumerism in my life, be a professional artist, go camping in the snow, ride 100 miles on my bicycle in one sitting, stay married, build a treehouse, illustrate books, play a violin well, paint a ceiling mural in my bathroom, be a great parent, train a bonsai tree, visit Italy, Sweden and India, learn taxidermy, make my own wine, shoot grouse, own a hairless cat, learn stillness, scare my neighbors, woodburn custom paneling for my house, paint brilliant portraits
Visit The Sherlock Holmes Social Network
For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. -- Donna Tartt (The Secret History)
I paint, I draw, I read. I sew, knit, run, lift weights and think deep thoughts.
I am obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who and dusty Victorian things. I play the violin and have far too many shoes, corsets and feathered hats. Pity my family and be glad you don't share living space with me.
My online gallery is at www.mnartists.org/Amanda_Downs.
Things I Have Done:
toured England and Scotland, Tae Kwon Do, sword combat, graduated from college, ran away from home, traveled the U.S. and Canada, ate worm cookies, grew my hair to my knees, belly danced, sandblasted grave stones, tightlaced, tried vegetarianism, yoga, painted a mural, slept in the desert, slept in the woods, slept in a cemetery, danced ballet poorly, pierced my navel, got married, had stitches in my face, got a tattoo, poked at jellyfish in Bermuda, played piano and accordion, sang on stage, played soccer on a freeway at 3 a.m., witnessed aurora borealis, ate 18 raw oysters, got abducted by the Borg, rode my bicycle harder than any girl I know, gave birth, drew a comic book
Things I Will Do:
minimize consumerism in my life, be a professional artist, go camping in the snow, ride 100 miles on my bicycle in one sitting, stay married, build a treehouse, illustrate books, play a violin well, paint a ceiling mural in my bathroom, be a great parent, train a bonsai tree, visit Italy, Sweden and India, learn taxidermy, make my own wine, shoot grouse, own a hairless cat, learn stillness, scare my neighbors, woodburn custom paneling for my house, paint brilliant portraits
Visit The Sherlock Holmes Social Network
alt-j, amanda palmer, bicycling, bones, books, cabaret, corsets, david bowie, drawing, exercise, fashion, fine art, gothic fashion, illustration, museums, music, natural history, nature, norse mythology, oil painting, painting, running, russian art, science fiction, sherlock holmes, shoes, skeletons, skulls, snow, tilda swinton, victorians, violin, wildlife, winter