we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

My good friend Kate asked me to make her a new business card since she just started at a new salon. I had a lot of fun with this one...nothing better than silhouettes and helvetica. If you are here in chicago, i would highly recommend getting an appointment with kate, she is ridiculously talented and easily one of the best stylists in the city. i have had one person other than myself cut my hair in the past 7 years, and it was Kate....easily the best haircut i have ever had. all the kids agree.

I spent the evening making homemade mustache wax, and bathing my dandruff stricken dog. The mustache wax either turned out fantastic, or terrible...i can't really tell yet. it is amazing what kind of recipes you can find online.

i have basically spent the last week making a total ass of myself. first this whole online personal thing, then poorly worded myspace messages, and last but not least dancing myself into an asthma attack and then the next night taking part in a dance-off at a bar in which i have never seen anyone dance in preparation for the following day's chili cook-off. now, dancing may seem like an every day sort of ordeal in the hipster bars of chicago...which it is. but personally, i have never once danced in public....EVER. and now after this weekend i have officially danced at least 6 hours, and had about 13 shots of either maker's mark or black label. take that pneumonia!

in somewhat related news, i have been asked to DJ a gallery party. this is all pretty exciting, since i haven't had a thing to do with the world of disc jockeying in years. there has been some excitement in coming up with a stage name, it is currently a toss-up between "DJ Stab", "The Grey Ghost", and "DJ CHITOWNDAZZLE". choices choices choices.

some albums i have rediscovered and been listening to on constant repeat all week:

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Deja Vu
Blanche - If We Can't Trust The Doctors
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - Darkness At Noon