i'm going home tomorrow bbs

THERE WILL BE NO CONCLUSIVE POST.

who knows, i may even continue this while i'm in shreveport. LOS ANGELES IS A STATE OF MIND Y'ALL.

jk

i don't know maybe later i'll post the pictures i haven't developed yet or something.

cya

fshn blg xoxo

just trying to show off this skirt made by amy scott but instead it's overexposed and just blends into the wall. oops.

just take my word for it y'all, it's rad.

lizzie's guide to driving in LA~~

hey all y'all, some of y'all may know that LA has its own set of driving rules. it takes quite a bit of time to get used to, but now i'm practically an expert. here are some tips:

1. the maximum amount of cars to turn left on red is TWO. if more than two cars go, that just ruins the whole intersection for the entire next light cycle.

2. if there is a green arrow provided for you to turn left, TURNING LEFT ON RED IS UNNECESSARY. this completely defeats the purpose of the green arrow!

3. DO NOT SWITCH LANES IN AN INTERSECTION. duh.

4. if you're heading east in the right lane of fountain at the la brea intersection, TURN RIGHT ON LA BREA PLZ. or else you'll be cutting tons of cars off when the lane ends and everyone will h8 u 4ever

5. if you're happily driving along and there is a green light (indicating "go") you still shouldn't go if there are cars backed up in the upcoming lanes. if you do, you'll be sitting in the middle of the intersection when the light turns red and cars will honk at you for the entire light as if you didn't already know you were stopped in the middle of an intersection.

here is a SPECIAL DRIVING VLOG for y'all:

lizzie drives down laurel canyon FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE, but neglects to capture the lovely steep downhill slope of the road or the spectacular views in the distance, but instead captures the sound of her car practically shattering into thousands of pieces each time she goes over a bump.

a few short lists*

in honor of me seeing the national play a REALLY GR8 show at the hollywood bowl last weekend, here is an important list of 3 movies that have the national songs playing during the end credits:

1. win win

2. peter and vandy

3. warrior

and

places that won't let you bring a backpack in, even though i'm using it IN PLACE OF a purse and not IN ADDITION TO. and it's very stylish and DENIM. and it's just a preferable style of purse that distributes the weight evenly across your shoulders and back~*~ AND WHY, security guards, DO YOU DISCRIMINATE AGAINST MY CHOSEN STYLE OF PURSE.

1. fyf fest

2. the bill maher taping

nothing

it's just that i've been trying to upload a video for the past ENTIRE HOUR and it's taking 4444444444ever~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~~**~*~~~~~

trashion blog

all these clothes are from the flea market

107 degree weather by mother nature

KEWL ATTITUDE by me

lizzie recites hippos go berserk from memory for your listening pleasure

clearly the best use of my time

4got 2 show u guyz these pix

these are from the CALAMITOUS lubitel workshop that i did

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the first 17 pictures were ruined by this huge yellow circle/the most unfortunate light leak. THANKS FOR TELLING ME THAT I NEEDED TO COVER UP THE TINY HOLE IN THE BACK Y'ALL. this was such an expensive mistake.

the last 3 were acceptable.

this last one is the best i guess. i did this by accident, even though i've tried to do this similar effect zillions of times on purpose and it's never come out right. oh, life.

here's what i've been ^ 2:

just created a beautiful dining table centerpiece of things ppl have sent me this summer. GETTING MAIL HAS BEEN MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT LIVING AWAY FROM HOME. although it's NOT my favorite thing about living in LOS ANGELES. i have millions of other favorite things about that.

i hope you guys can see the quarters taped to a notecard that my mom sent me. these are intended for the use of the washer and dryer. i guess she assumes i do laundry very frequently (which i don’t), so now i have a notecard and a very large piece of cardboard with rows of quarters taped to them. thanks mom.

i wish lil cody’s letter was legible from this photograph but instead you’ll just have to take my word for it that it’s a gr8 letter.

other notable inclusions: the best photo album EVER that amy made me, a leonard cohen poetry book, mix cds and tapes from james, postcardssss, regular cards, magazines containing bon iver articles, EVERYTHING I LOVE SO MUCH

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one night last week i went to paleyfest for cbs and saw the cast of criminal minds IN REAL LIFE.

thursday tim and i saw band of horses at the wiltern and it was totally worth the 3 hours of sleep i got that night. if you guys have never been to a concert with tim allen smith (and its actually very likely that you have not) YOU’RE MISSING OUT. he sings shouts the often-wrong lyrics the entire time and its just an incomparable experience.

yesterday i went to santa monica and walked around by the ocean and thought about infinity.

today i went to the farmers market and got breakfast at my 2^nd favorite breakfast place and went to boxing class and then walked 28353iu534 miles down Fairfax and to the tar pits.

then just now i made bruschetta and strawberry fig salad and while i was eating i thought “THIS TABLE IS TOO EMPTY LOL” and VOILA the idea for a wonderful centerpiece!

transition complete. END SCENE.

lizzie reads from tree of codes for your listening pleasure

EVERYONE KNOWS that tree of codes is jonathan safran foer's newest "novel" which is actually a "novella" created from another novel called the street of crocodiles.

it is a DIE-CUT book, as if he took the street of crocodiles and only printed it on one-side of the pages and then literally cut out some of the words to make a whole new story!!!!

(i think i'm going to submit this description here to wikipedia because there is no entry for tree of codes yet and this is so eloquently written.)

it's common knowledge that jonathan safran foer is a creative genius.

in fact everything he's ever written is the most beautiful thing i've ever read. maybe. if not, it's at least a tie for first place.

it took me quite a few tries to figure out how to read this book. first i just tried looking at the pages normally and reading through the holes. but then i realized that duh you need to lift up each page and read the words that remain.

please keep this in mind if you watch the video and are like "lizzie you can't even read wtf"

i mean the punctuation is not always obvious ok

i've probably read it about 5 times all the way through. hope you guys like it

cya

cross-processed aka RAD PHOTOZ

~~~~just eavesdropping on people's conversations while i upload these~~~~~

ppl using miles per hour as metaphors for life

ppl talking about going on the jurassic park ride

ppl talking about tennis boring stuff

also i just accidentally learned how to make check marks √√√√√√√√√√√√√√

lizzie's guide to baking things

the entire time i lived at my parent's house, any time i ever tried baking or cooking anything my mom would intercept and be like U R DOING IT ALL WRONG BB

then she'd take over and finish it for me

now that i've been living alone, i have a few words of wisdom regarding baking:

1. don't ever use measuring cups, they're just a superfluous contribution to clutter in your kitchen. GUESTIMATING is a perfectly acceptable way to measure ingredients.

2. always add way more butter than you think you could possibly need

3. always add tons of cinnamon to everything because it makes food taste better. in fact i can't think of any food that exists that wouldn't taste good with cinnamon. just go ahead and unscrew the sprinkle-hole top and dump some out, it's so delicious~*~*~

i guess that's it

lizzie's guide to living on your own

STEP FOUR:

it's perfectly okay to survive for an entire week on only waffles if the waffles are multigrain

*seppie*

YOU GUYS.

sorry for the extra-long hiatus of keeping y'all upd8d on my life.

it's just that i've been doing TOO MANY FUN THINGS which take up a lot of time.

this week iiiiiiiii

1. saw mamma mia outside in a park. the movie, not the play. although the play would've been considerably more noteworthy, but only because i've seen the movie 129384 times. you're probably wondering if it was the sing-along version and yes, it was. plenty of ppl felt the desire to sing the entire movie in full voice, but i didn't sing along for two reasons: because i was too busy being cold, and because i don't like to overpower pierce brosnan's beautiful vocal talents.

2. went to sea world in san diego with my pal from shreveport charles~~~

AND TOUCHED A DOLPHIN. FEELS LIKE RUBBER AND MAGIC

3. saw dawes at the santa monica pier

4. and saw tonsss of bands at fyf fest yesterday. "fyf" stands for "fuck yeah fuck-all-those-other-bands-because-girls-killed-it" do y'all know girls>>>> you should because they're gr8999

also cults was rad. smith westerns. cold war kids. nbd

if you were wondering what other fun things i have planned for the upcoming week, i AM seeing band of horses on thursday and i AM seeing the national on sunday.

also i can never get the internet at my apartment EVER AGAIn because the wireless i sometimes used to "borrow" has a brand new password. rude.

this means i have to use the internet at coffee bean and other places.

i'll try to get here more often bbs

luv u miss u all y'all~