CMOMUNACATOIN BRAEKDWON


ALL MY TECHNOLOGY IS FAILING ME (SCANNER ARRIVED LIKE A STILLBORN BABY AND MY IPOD IS KIND OF FUCKED UP) BUT MY PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED...
AND NOPE, NO THE CITY STILL SMELLS LIKE BUTTHOLES AND ROTTEN VEGETABLES BUT MY ROOMMATES ARE GONE AND I HAVE THE FLAT TO MYSELF.

THIS LAST COUPLE WEEKS SAW ME TURN INTO A COUCH CRASHING ROAD DAWG AGAIN AND I'M BACK HOME IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND TO BE HONEST, A LITTLE BIT GLAD. WITH ROOMMATES GONE THAT MEANS THAT UNTIL I HAVE NEW ONES, THERE WILL BE NO MORE UNSPOKEN BATTLES TO GET HOME FROM DOING WORK FIRST AND LAY CLAIM TO THE REMOTE ALL NIGHT, FLIPPING BETWEEN BAD TELEVISION SHOWS AND HOPING "WORLDS WILDEST POLICE CHASES" WILL BE ONE OF THEM.
THERE WILL BE NO MORE OF ME SAYING "WHERE DID ALL THE ORANGES I JUST BOUGHT GO?" OR "I CAN STILL HEAR YOU HAVING VIOLENT SEX IN THE SAUNA EVEN THOUGH YOU TURNED UP THE MUSIC REALLY LOUD" AND NO MORE OF THEM BEING LIKE "I'M GOING TO WORK ON MY R&B ALBUM OR SING THE NOT-GOOD-R.KELLY SONGS AT 5 AM"

FOR REAL THOUGH, OUTSIDE OF A COUPLE THINGS THEY WERE SOME LONDON HOMIES I GOT ALONG WITH WHO WERE PRETTY COOL. THEY JUST COULDNT SING OR MAKE MUSIC OR BUY ORANGES OR HAVE INTERCOURSE QUIETLY. EVERYONE HAS THEIR FLAWS. NO JUDGMENTS PASSED.

the apocalypse finally started!
it's basically cold and gray all day... the sun tries to come through the sky pretty unsuccesfully most days and then it snows and the small little bits of available light are all gone by about 3:30 or 4 and it looks like midnight until 9 am the next morning.
i knew that this would be happening, but truly have to say that it really seriously does fuck with your body. especially when youre born and raised in california and your beaner ass is used to getting some god rays aka seratonin aka natural energy.

no amount of vitamin D has kept me awake, thankfully theres copious amounts of coffee which allows me to focus on all the difficult tasks at hand and do what i do here (walking in circles, listening to songs on repeat for 5 hours, scrutinizing my past behavior, reading susan sontag and hating her for acknowleging everything bad about art photography and challenging me from her grave to make something substantial, and checking my online bank account over and over to make sure i didn't completely destroy my credit buying and processing all that film in helsinki)

ALSO - IN WORLD NEWS...MY MOM CAME COMPLETELY ON HER OWN WITHOUT MY DAD. THAT MEANS THE POPULATION OF BROWN PEOPLE IN SCANDINAVIA JUMPED BY 100% BRINGING THE TOTAL TO TWO. MY MOM WHO HAS NEVER LEFT THE COUNTRY DECIDED NOW THAT SHE HAD A SON OVER IN THE BALTIC REGION IT WAS TIME TO GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA AND SEE EUROPE.
i went to helsinki and crashed couches for a while.... hungout with my homie kaarle and talked photography, met a bunch of rad dudes in helsinki from countries that all start with the letter z and celebrated obama the day he won the election, and then met my mom at the airport the day she arrived bringing my lifes blood (peanut butter and tapatio) plus a lot of good mom vibes.
went out to some real dinners, went on a boat to stockholm, hungout in stockholm, and then took her to the north to see the one, true santa claus in the arctic circle (she cried a little, i think thats the real reason she came all the way here).


SOME PICTURES




IT STARTED SNOWING

VIEW FROM CRASHED COUCH, REAL SWEET TIMES

SPEAKING OF ANSWERED PRAYERS... THEY EVEN REPPED HIM HERE.

NICE TRY. SHIT WASNT EVEN BREADED WHO DO YOU THINK YOURE TALKING TO.

ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE PICTURES I COULDNT HAVE MADE WITHOUT MY BFA. DO YOU GET IT? I SHOT THE WINDOW BUT FROM THE INSIDE, SO ITS BACKWARDS. THIS IS A REALLY GOOD REGGAE BAR IN HELSINKI. SITE OF HANG TIME WITH ZANZIBARIANS, ZIMBABWEANS, ZAMBIANS, ETC

AS A FRIEND OF MINE WOULD SAY, "I GOT PROBLEMS"

HEY IT'S ME IN 10 YEARS. I SNUCK THIS PHOTO OF THE TYPICAL FINNISH MAN ON SATURDAY MORN IN THE TRAIN STATION. KNUCKLEHEAD.

THANKYOU KATHLEEN FOR SENDING ME THESE AMERICAN GROCERY STORE STYLE COOKIES THAT I CANT GET HERE, DONT WORRY EVERYBODY IM NOT LOSING WEIGHT

EXHIBIT B, FIRST AMERICAN STYLE BREAKFAST IVE HAD IN 3 MONTHS (IN FINLAND THEY EAT FISH HEADS, BABY MEAT, PORRIDGE AND BUTTER CHUNKS ON RYE BREAD)

PRAYIN FOR SUNLIGHT

THIS IS THE INSIDE OF MY BRAIN WITH ALL KINDS OF WEIRD FINNISH WORDS BOUNCING AROUND AND I DONT KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN BUT THEYRE THERE AND THEY KEEP ME FROM SLEEPING AND THEY KNOW ALL MY SECRETS

KATY GRANNAN BEFORE KATY GRANNAN

NICE

THEY DON'T MAKE EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE... REALLY GOOD JAPANESE PHOTO SHOW IN HELSINKI

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN STOCKHOLM!!!! MORE INSPIRATION. NORDIC LANDSCAPES AND STILL LIFES.

YEP

IF YOURE EVER HANGING AROUND HELSINKI FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON AND YOU HAVE SOME MONEY, GO BY THIS STORE. EVERYBODYS COOL THERE AND THEY GOT GOOD STUFF IN IT.

TOYSSY FARTGUPP

HERE'S A PHOTO OF MY OWN MOM EMBARASSED TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH ME ITS OK I GET IT A LOT

WE GOT THE HELL OUT OF FINLAND BY BOAT... LATER LOSERS

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE DUTY FREE SHOP ON THE BOAT



LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN...
SERIOUSLY THOUGH, I GOT TO CHECKOUT PAUL PLAYING A SHOW IN SWEDEN, WHATS UP PAUL THANKYOU FOR THE FREE DRINKS AND THE MEET AND GREET WITH YOUR GROUPIES. BIG UP TO THE UNIVERSE FOR ALLOWING LANGHORN SLIM TO TOUR IN SWEDEN WHEN I WAS TAKING MY MOM THERE.

I WAS PRETTY INTO SEEING THE SHOW, PAUL IS AN INCREDIBLE TALENT AND I MADE VIDEOS OF THEM PLAYING BUT IM PRETTY SURE PAUL HATES VIDEOS SO I WONT POST IT.

GROUPIE


THIS GUY WAS COOL

THEY WERE TOO


REMBRANDT WHATEVER

GOOD PAINTING

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN TELL HERE BUT THE SIGNS HAVE PICTURES OF PEOPLE PENETRATING DOGS. IN SWEDEN, EVERYTHING IS SO NEAR-PERFECT THAT THE KIDS GET ANXIOUS AND THINK TO THEMSELVES, "WHAT CAN WE GET ANGRY ABOUT? NO, WELL THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS PERFECT. YEAH, WE ALL LOOK PRETTY BANGIN TOO. EVERYTHING IS SUPER CLEAN TOO. THE FOOD IS GOOD. OUR GOVERNMENT IS STABLE... WHAT ABOUT THE ECONOMY? NOPE, NO THE ECONOMY IS ALSO PRETTY PERFECT.... HOW ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS? NOPE, NO, EVERYONE IS TREATED EQUALLY. THE ENVIRONMENT? NOPE NO, ALSO PRISTINE. HEALTHCARE? NOPE, NO, FLAWLESS. WELL, I DID HEAR THAT THERES A COUPLE OF FRINGE FREAKS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE WHO HAVE SEX WITH PETS. I GUESS WE COULD ROUND UP ALL THE TROOPS AND TAKE TO STOCKHOLM CITY HALL SCREAMIN AND HOLLERING ABOUT IT"

"GOOD IDEA"

EVEN THE CROWS LOOKIN GOOD IN SWEDEN

YEAH FUCK YOU NEW YORK. REALLY GOOD SHOW AT THE MODERN MUSEUM.

THE BOOK WAS WRAPPED SO I COULDNT SEE BUT IM PRETTY SURE ITS JUST 200 BLANK PAGES

IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE


SUPPOSEDLY, THIS IS THE TRUE SANTA CLAUS IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE. PEOPLE COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO SEE HIM AND PRACTICALLY LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME. HE SMELLED LIKE OLD PEOPLE AND FORGOT TO ASK ME IF I WANTED ANYTHING. LIKE ALL FINNISH PEOPLE HE ASKED "WHERE I WAS FROM" BUT IN A SLIGHTLY LESS ACCUSATORY WAY THEN IM USED TO.

AFTER MY MOM LEFT I TOOK ALL THE MEXICAN INGREDIENTS SHE SMUGGLED INTO FINLAND AND STARTED COOKING... I GOT SO INTO IT THAT I NEGLECTED TO NOTICE THAT MY FABRIC GROCERY BAG HAD TIPPED OVER ONTO A CANDLE, BURSTING INTO FLAMES NEXT TO MY COMPUTER AND SETTING MY WOODEN TABLETOP ON FIRE A LITTLE BIT. THANKFULLY, I WAS WEARING A BREATHE RIGHT STRIP WHICH ALLOWED ME TO SMELL THE SMOKE AND I GRABBED MY BAG AND THREW IT AT THE SINK BEFORE MAKING SURE ALL MY MAGAZINES HAD STOPPED BURNING AND THEN TURNING THE SINK ON JUST IN TIME TO KEEP MY HOME FROM BURNING TO THE GROUND.

BYE BAG

THANKS TO THE PEOPLE AT BREATHE RIGHT

AND TO ALL MY HOMIES - I MISS YOU KNUCKLEHEADS COME VISIT ME IM GOING BONKERS SOMETIMES