emancipated dissonance from the desk of renee ann

emancipated dissonance

Friday, April 28, 2006

everyone's invited! (this means you, oh beloved reader, and anyone else you know)

tonight come at 6:30 to the bryant lake bowl for dinner and then the lagoon for a movie at 10:00.

be there or be square. there may be bowling or the independent in between.

UNRELATED:
this morning my ipod played the following songs in this order
1.) so what - miles davis - kind of blue - 9:26
2.) "beethoven classical piano" (acc to the track tag...) - beethoven - 9:43
3.) happy segovia - the f&%*ing champs - v - 2:18

if you know the champs, you will find that incredibly amusing.

posted by renee 9:31 AM

Thursday, April 27, 2006

today they took away my extra chair, my file cabinet, and everything i like about my job.

but last night i had a gin & tonic, an amaretto sour, a rousing game of darts and a LOT of popcorn. that makes it a little better, but i still kind of want to cry.

posted by renee 2:50 PM

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

i think some things are very serious
i think other things aren't very serious at all

i wonder if I am serious.

p.s. boys are nuts. i like some of them, dislike some of them, am confused about some of them and confuse the rest of them. i guess that means i'm nuts, too.

posted by renee 3:39 PM

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

i have changed

i think i may be learning to listen better.
i realize more than ever that i have a lot to learn.
i know that i've gotten tired of trying to be convincing.
i am getting better at deciding what i think is important.

but i am not smaller in passion or conviction or intellect.

and i still dream of painting in a pool of sunshine in my loft apartment and setting down my brush to take a bite of stir-fried broccoli with chopsticks. i'm not sure if that's from my imagination or the movies.

posted by renee 10:34 AM

Sunday, April 23, 2006

friday night, and i am not kidding, two people i know from another country accompanied me to st johns college in the middle of nowhere.

beer there was one dollar and was served in a paper pepsi cup.
but it was not served at a bar, because there aren't any bars in the middle of nowhere.
because of television and the internet, kids there looked just like kids everywhere else.
and lyndsey was in her element and allan and i loved it.
and lots of keys were locked in the things to which they would normally enable entrance.
but because we were in the middle of nowhere, people helped for free.

and lyndsey said "excuse me sir, we're not from these parts" in a british accent...

and we LAUGHED and LAUGHED and LISTENED to this band and somebody else that i can't remember the name.

i am totally not kidding. it was awesome.

posted by renee 11:45 AM

Friday, April 21, 2006

lyndsey scrounged up some $20 last minute tickets to the death cab/franz ferdinand show at northrup last night.

observations:
1.) death cab, after nearly a decade of traipsing around the country, has now begun using elaborate sets, including two warped cardboard "houses" from which a light show is released. i am used to seeing them just play some music at first ave.

2.) franz ferdinand is the kind of band that you see with thousands of people. although i must admit that i haven't followed them for long enough to have any clue where those thousands of people all came from and what kind of people they are. this is the confusion of going to see two bands at once. it's hard to tell who's there for who. franz ferdinand tours with a giant curtain emblazoned with twenty-foot 3/4 profiles of each band member in black and white. they wear very very tight pants and sometimes three people play the drums at the same time. this is the only time i have seen them.

3.) and somehow this was reminiscent of the faint/bright eyes tour of '05. the faint comes out, rocks your fricking face off and then you sit there wondering what conor's going to pull to top it. and what he pulls is a bunch of weird showy antics and it sort of works, but comes off strangely when in your mind, he belongs in sokol.

4.) last night, during death cab, the seventeen year old girls in front of us hugged, screamed, and sang all the words to every post-transatlanticism song and they sat down for everything older. i will make no editorial comment about that situation.

5.) i AM becoming more spontaneous! (and i walked 13,729 steps yesterday)

posted by renee 9:11 AM

Thursday, April 20, 2006

last night i put a piece of paper on the floor that said:

CHEESECAKE!

to remind myself to bring it to the potluck at work today. this morning i walked past it and it said

DON'T TAKE
CHEESECAKE!

it almost worked. sorry sammy.

AND: I AM OBSESSED WITH

how women look and what they think about it
beautiful women who don't think they are
beautiful women who know full well that they are
ugly women who wish they weren't and try to change it
ugly women who don't care
women who don't eat at all because they hope it will make them beautiful
women who don't eat at all because they hope it will make them ugly
women who eat too much because they hope it will make them happy
eating food that is good for me
eating food that tastes good
cooking food that is good for me
cooking food that tastes good
cooking food that looks good
knitting scarves that look good
(sometimes during) america's next top model
understanding people who watch television all day instead of wanting a job
understanding people who keep trying to have a job and failing
understanding people who go to jail because it's easier than having a job
making it work for people who did those things and now want to get a job
making it work for their kids if they never come around
helping their girl kids understand and take care of and love their bodies


all these things go together. can that obsession make me money?

posted by renee 1:16 PM

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

i guess i never learned how to take eyeliner off.

yesterday i walked, worked, cooked, trimmed, glazed, played music and attempted to get myself asked on a date. i think it might have worked.

do you ever say something and even as it's coming out of your mouth, you wish you weren't saying it? i am not very gracious. i need to work on that.

so far this morning, one (1) person has showed up to her appointment and seven (7) people have not. if zero (0) people show up in the next six (6) minutes, that will make a total of nine (9) no-shows. and it's not even eleven (11).

if i had $250 i would buy a painting from becca

it looks like this:


posted by renee 10:21 AM

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

i can't explain how crucial music is to my feeling connected to the world around me and to myself. without it, life would be a total drag.

since i can't explain it in flat text, come to the nomad tonight at 9:30 and let me show you.

this is a song in poem form:

translucent and unattainable
you could reach right through me
sometimes i am reticent
sometimes i speak

my mind is oh so far from here
my spirit bold and bright
i wake up speaking other languages
i dance with unfamiliar men
and unfamiliar confidence

this is someone else’s house i have the key to
this is someone else’s body i’ve been walking around in
these are someone else’s covers i’ve been sleeping under
this is someone else’s life i’ve been living

my eyes are so much deeper here
because their source is elsewhere
my bookcase is full of familiar spines
but i have never read them
and i am spineless

this is someone else’s house i have the key to
this is someone else’s body i’ve been walking around in
these are someone else’s covers i’ve been sleeping under
this is someone else’s life i’ve been living

and i am bald under this mask of hair
and my lashes are not so black
and my cheeks are not so rosy
and i was born naked, just like you
just like you

translucent and unattainable
you could reach right through me
often i will be reticent
but sometimes i will speak

this is someone else’s house i have the key to
this is someone else’s body i’ve been walking around in
these are someone else’s covers i’ve been sleeping under
this is someone else’s life i’ve been living

posted by renee 10:32 AM

Monday, April 17, 2006

it's really about time i got over it.

i'm going to listen to outkast all day.

recently, i've been relatively responsible.

however, history shows that can change on a dime.

(do they say that because dimes are very thin?)

umm... that eminem track called "puke"

which is a recording of someone

doing just that, puking,

is disgusting.

ARROWED!

posted by renee 9:06 AM

Sunday, April 16, 2006

red
orange
yellow
green
blue
indigo
violet

everybody dies
friends are very important
and family is even more important
family of friends are very nice on holidays
but really, in the end, it's likely
that everyone will die

and i believe that it is a fact
that there was a man
and he was also God
and he died
just like everyone else
but unlike everyone else
he didn't stay dead

and there is much historical documentation to back this up
more documentation of that than of many other things that people take for granted

and if it is the truth
it is something very important to think about

posted by renee 10:41 PM

Thursday, April 13, 2006

and - i sent an email to the nomad complaining about them not having our show on their website yet (since it's in 6 days...)

they sent me one back that says "yep. we'll get it on there"

i doubt it.

posted by renee 9:01 AM

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michial, you big jerk. look what you made me do.

my trait snapshot is: "expressive, open, self revealing, loves large parties, loud, social, outgoing, does not like social isolation, assertive, social chameleon, positive, always busy, likes to fit in, likes to stand out, enjoys leadership, brutally honest, trusting, optimistic, desires attention, dominant, aggressive, attachment prone, wants to be understood, realistic"

my favorite is "likes to fit in, likes to stand out" right next to each other. i want to be just like everyone else, but a little more like them than they are so they notice me.... what?

these tests always come out to say that i'm unstable. i guess i'm okay with that, but it seems like i should probably work on it...

posted by renee 8:51 AM

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

my pottery teacher is coming to our show next tuesday. are you? c'mon. be irresponsible. stay up late on a random weeknight. DO IT.

also:
there are two local phone numbers that have been showing up on my caller ID on my cell phone multiple times a day for close to a week now. i have no idea who they belong to and neither ever leaves a message. i can't call them back from my cell or work phones - i get the disconnected message... WHAT IN THE WORLD?!

posted by renee 2:19 PM

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

to be perfectly honest, i'm feeling torn about the immigration reform bill. i know what i'm supposed to think about it. i know that there does need to be reform. but i'm just not ready to commit to this being the right way to go about it.

sometimes it seems like the economy rests so delicately on a thousand different things and could tumble if we, as a society, got healthier overall.

i.e. americans spend $26 billion on beauty products every year. if we all just suddenly started feeling okay about our naked faces, this would mean tremendous loss of jobs, a minor stock market crisis and who knows about the long term consequences. luckily, there is a -19.7% chance of this happening, in my rough estimate.

so we've got all these undocumented workers and we have two problems:
1.) we don't want to reward people for breaking the law, especially because this particular bill seems as if it would reward people who broke the law the BEST, since others who faltered or who couldn't figure out how to fake it as well have already been deported.
2.) our economy is dependent on having a large workforce that is willing to earn low wages. we could not easily sustain losing the illegal immigrant portion of that workforce. "cracking down" harder on undocumented workers has many potential negative results.

also: there was a decidedly liberal spin on the cover story in the pioneer press today about it. i only know this because it is being delivered for free to my front porch every morning. i do not know why.

posted by renee 9:08 AM

Monday, April 10, 2006

my hair is very long
but as long as i
occasionally
happen to see
a girl
with hair that's longer
i will long
to keep my own
growing
longer
longer

posted by renee 3:50 PM

Friday, April 07, 2006

pet peeve: towns that are completely inside another town. that doesn't make any sense.

medicine lake is silly. hilltop is silly. centerville is silly. waconia, conogne, and rogers are silly. lesotho might be the silliest. (because it's a COUNTRY inside another country!)

posted by renee 3:45 PM


ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha


well, i should feel a little silly, but she deserves it. you can't go around saying things like that and expect people to all know you're playing a practical joke.

i actually think i'm a little disappointed.

posted by renee 10:39 AM

when it rains, it pours.

but sometimes, you go back and forth so quickly from cowering under an overhang to dancing around in it, it's hard to tell whether or not you care.

i'm an ENF/TJ. on the extrovert (vs. introvert) and intuitive (vs. sensing) measures, i was 100% on each... meaning that i'm not even a little bit introverted and not even a little bit sensing. i think and feel almost equally (which i think is a good thing) and i come to conclusions quickly and sometimes without all the information (which i'm trying to improve on, but it makes me, in general, a good leader). ah, staff retreats. the best part is that they help you to realize that you really like the people you work with (at least most of the time). plus, you get free lunch.

apparently i'm feeling paranthetical.

posted by renee 9:11 AM

Thursday, April 06, 2006

at 1:00 am

i said "rosie thomas, come here."
she did.
i said "i've been hearing rumors about you."
she said "oh no! do you think they're true? i hope not!" and ran away

when i cornered her again
i said "i know it's true, but i want to hear it from your own mouth."
she said "i'm not ready!! email me! will you email me?"
i laughed

that's going to be the most freak talented kid of all time.

posted by renee 7:45 AM

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

ENOUGH.

i want
1) someone to take care of me
2) someone to take care of

ideally, that could be wrapped up into one person. i don't care so much about it when everything else is going right, but when it isn't, it looms in front of me mocking how worthless everything seems.

the problem is that it takes a long time to get to the point with anyone where you let them really take care of you or they let you take care of them. i wish i could just skip the whole beginning part. my roommate's mom pointed out that what she really wants is to be one person with someone else - no friction or difficulty or unknowns. unfortunately, it takes 30 years of being married to even have a chance at that.

i don't think the three decade mark is really what i'm hungry for... but it's definitely something.

(and this happens because, as far as items i am responsible for at work, i'm feeling somewhat demoted. my time is valuable. i have good ideas. i'm motivated to improve when, if i accomplish what i have in front of me, i will have time to address new, interesting, and rewarding projects. at the moment, if i'm done with everything, i get to file. not much motivation there...........)

feeling like ice cream and rosie thomas might make it better, at least temporarily.

posted by renee 4:52 PM

so, i'm pretty sure i need to get a minnesota driver's license. so much for my cute picture.

maybe i should be more worried about passing the written test than about my head shot.

i also need to get a car loan, a money market account at a credit union and keep reading the money book i bought that tells me all about what to do and not do in order to ensure that my retirement is enjoyable. yesterday i read a section on how the three-legged stool of retirement (pension, investments and social security) may be becoming a chair (add employment). as opposed to what you may think, this has little to do with money. it has much more to do with getting bored. people used to only live a few years after retirement. now you can expect decades. there's only so much structurelessness a person can handle. plus, working is a lot more fun when it's not required.

posted by renee 10:07 AM

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

it finally happened. the inevitable first time that i would give my telephone number (at work, don't worry) to some guy at a bus stop (because he wanted more information about some things we had somehow started talking about that i have a general political/moral interest in... i.e. helping ex-felons at the business he owns)

and then he called, asked for the information and asked me out.

i actually deflected his offer much more smoothly than i anticipated. he was a little embarrassed, but not offended.... and, more importantly, i'm pretty sure he won't call back.

for a girl who, in all honesty, would enjoy dates, i sure make it impossible for myself to ever actually go on one.

posted by renee 12:30 PM

Monday, April 03, 2006

enya sucks.

posted by renee 3:57 PM

Saturday, April 01, 2006

there is no discomfort or frustration that cannot be melted away by an hour of yoga, a warm shower, and singing in the car at the top of my lungs with the window open to the blue blue sky.

i only make sense to myself. it's time to buck up. going for a bike ride now.

posted by renee 5:18 PM

 

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thomas built the wall
casey on the drums

other friends
joa jean
abby
matthew
colleen
weezy
nate t
nate b
anhie!
moe
the MAN i hate
my ex-neighbor
yiling
samantha
ochuk
brett
laura

some i wish were my friends
bobby
peter

music i listen to
band of horses
zoe keating
rilo kiley
(jenny lewis)
mr 1986
regina spektor
iron & wine
the new pornographers
radio on
the combo
emiliana torrini
bjork
sigur ros
radiohead
nickel creek
trampled by turtles
the hold steady
the decemberists
del the funky homosapien
death cab
tv on the radio
heatbox

the guys that review it
jason (in a kilt)
pitchfork
peter c

and the places to hear it
the fine line
varsity theater
the 400 bar
first avenue
bunkers

etc
found magazine
my pottery teacher
my favorite designer
aesthetic apparatus
threadless.com
the friendly stegosaurus





railroad illusions
we'll go sit on a coal car
bask in the soft light
and dream of a someday
simpler than this one

take a walk with me tonight, my dear
away from complications
away from fluorescent lights

we'll go lay on a rooftop
breathe in the sweet smoke
and talk of a place that’s
so far from this one

take a walk with me tonight, my dear
away from complications
away from conditioned air

we'll get lost under covers
smile at our trite words
and fall for a vision
so far from the truth

take a walk with me tonight, my dear
away from complications
away from the flightless facts


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