hegemony, media, power structures & punk

This is my life right now & I love it.

But it doesn't leave much time for crafting.

does it bother you that I don't fucking care?

& here's the result of yesterdays + today's renewed love for Nasum. Now I feel inspired to massproduce patches again, just have to figure out bands with logos that would work well as x-stitch patterns. Naked Aggression & Infect are good candidates...

he takes all manner of pills / and piles up analyst bills / in the country / oh, its like an animal farm / thats the rural charm / in the country

This is the result of four days away from the big city. Don't know what to do with it though.

but they took our ideas to their marketing stars / & now I'm spending all my days at girlpower.com / trying to buy back a little piece of me

I made a bookmark for my favourite librarian.

It went very well with the book I'm reading right now, The Popular Music Studies Reader. I mean, who could resist academic texts on topics like: Understanding hipness: 'subcultural capital' as feminist tool; Rules of rebellion: slamdancing, moshing and the american alternative scene; Voices from the margins: rap music and contemporary cultural production or Smells like teen spirit: riot grrrls, revolution and women in independent rock? It's really heaven for a sucker for subcultural nerdyness with a twist of academics like me. & I get to write about it & get credit for it! Makes me wanna start off every day with a song. Or some d-beat.

Anyhow, here's some close ups & since I'm off to the island for Easter vacation tomorrow (crafting! thrift stores! food! candy!) I'll leave you with a feminist anthem for the 21 century.

sometimes they come back (for more crafting)

Hi kids, I know I've been a bad blogger this last month. It's just been the usual lack of inspiration & time when it comes to the crafting, thus no posts here. But today I gathered some friend in my home for an all day craft session with good food, good music & good conversation. & a camera!

That's all you get for know, but me & Nadja are planning a street art/activist campaing that hopefully will be realized in the near future. I'll keep you updated. & as always, I'll try to do better with the blogging.

Oh, almost forgot: I reacently re-configurated the hard drive of my laptop & it was a true moment of happiness for me - no more blue screens of death, no more annoying pop ups, no more hassel. But unfortunately I lost most of my bookmarks in the process, so if anyone of you out there got som good crafty/diy links to share, feel free to leave a comment.

warm hands, cold heart

So I finished my first pair of knitted hand/wrist warmers today. Small step for humankind, but a huge leap for me. Tried to do something with a pattern this time & what could be better than to start off with the classic venus/feminist symbol?

It might not be the most neat knitting in the world, but I'm still learning... I found the pattern for the symbol at Subversive Knitting & then just sort of made the rest up. It was pretty easy & fast, good for a newbie like me. If i could, I would give you the pattern here but I actually don't know how to write out knitting patterns... They start with six rows knit 2, purl 2 (bottom) & end with four rows of the same, otherwise it's just plain knitting with two different colors & then sewing the two sides together & leaving a whole for the thumb. When you put them on it looks something like this (yes, it is very tricky to photograph your own hands):

just trash, me & you/it's in everything we do

First: a hasty birthday gift for a friend, featuring his favorite quote from Tom Waits' Tango till they're sore. No, you don't get any close ups since I finished it while being absurdly hung over, which made the stitches not so neat...

Second: my friend Victor (who might actually be the smartest guy i know) is now a contributor at Everydaytrash, a blog about... well, trash. What is it? What do we do with it? How can we use/reuse all the stuff we throw away on a daily basis? & what happens to the trash that we do throw away? Check it out.