Rococo Cocoa

On the left, my picture, on the right, Kanye. 

My picture was taken about a year ago.

I had no advance knowledge of his picture, 

• Aaliyah "Aaliyah"
• Arianne Moffatt "Aquanaute"
• Bat for Lashes "Fur and Gold"
• The Bird and the Bee "The Bird and the Bee"
• Bjork "Vespertine"
• Blonde Redhead "Misery is a Valentine" & "23"
  
• Charlotte Church "Tissues and Issues" (shut up)
• Delgados "Hate"
• Feist "The Reminder"
• Final Fantasy "He Poos Clouds"

• Frou Frou "Details"
• Imogen Heap "Speak for Yourself"
• Jason Mraz "Waiting for My Rocket to Come"
• Jem "Finally Woken"
• Kate Havnevik "Melankton"
• Keane "Under the Iron Sea"
• Kenna "New Sacred Cow"
• Kings of Convenience "Riot on an Empty Street"
• Lavender Diamond "Imagine Our Love"
• M83 "Saturdays=Youth"
  
• Madonna "Confessions on a Dance Floor" (hey, gay here, remember)
• Margot and the Nuclear So and So's "The Dust of Retreat"
• Menomena "Friend and Foe"
• Midlake "The Trials of Van Occupanther"
• Ms. John Soda "Notes and the Like"
• Natalie Walker "Urban Angel"
• Peter Bjorn and John "Writer's Block"
• The Postmarks "The Postmarks"

• Radiohead "Kid A"
• Sade "Lovers Rock" and "Stronger than Pride"
• Sara Bareilles "Little Voice"
• Sarah McLachlan "Fumbling Toward Ecstasy" and "Surfacing"
• Scissor Sisters "Music is the Victim"
• Sia "Colour the Small One"
• Sissy "All Under"
• Every Stereolab Album. Literally.
• Telepopmusik "Angel Milk"
• Tori Amos "Scarlet's Walk" And "Little Earthquakes"
• Yelle "Pop Up"
• Zero 7 "When It Falls"
  

*My resident brit and I were having a convo this morning about albums I love from beginning to end, and it got me thinking.

This girl I know did a painting of me in high school. It's pretty awesome, huh?
Once I remember her name (It was Sarah something) I'll link to her website, if it exists.

PS: Merry Christmas Eve All!

The other day I visited my mother and father, who live on Memory Lane- well its not actually called memory lane, but for me it is. Whenever I go there, I do a couple of things: I make sure to I fill up on as many mom-made Haitian goodies as possible (otherwise I'd have to visit way more often....... too catty?) Anyway, she gladly cooks anything I want, as long as it's oily and fattening.

Like I'd ask for anything else.

This time, she made boullion soup, but at other times, I've gotten family sized portions of poule corniques et pois (cornish hen and peas) to Sauteed beef in brown rice to fried plantain (which doesn't sound fancy but its tasty!) She probably wouldnt mind it if I ended up looking like Biggie Smalls' heavier brother. But I resist (as much as I can.)

The other thing I do is go to my old bedroom (or, the memory closet, if you will) to see if theres any crap I can take out of there to add to the mountains of crap I have in my apartment. I was looking through a box and I found this sketchbook from highschool:



It looks like I did all this art around junior year of HS. Not too shabby. I seemed to be really into crosshatching. In this book, however, was a really detailed drawing of Trent from Daria. Which, I mean, was correct in it's movie like foreshadowing. Also in this sketchbook: really awful, and I mean REALLY AWFUL poetry. You'll never see it if I have anything to say about it.

PS. REALLY AWFUL.