Mary

i had a very bad weekend. what with my cellphone getting snatched and some verbal meanness directed at me in front of one hundred of my peers. BUT i got a fancy new phone for $0, nimble is back in action, and i've had some good talks about the meanness and why it was out of line.
i am excited about the shows on friday and monday. just a reminder, on friday, the bridge over river qua is playing our last show of all time with make believe from chicago. at kraftbrau. on monday, my solo project, transformation surprise, is playing our first show of all time with japanther from brooklyn. the show is $0, and is at the hater house (312 dutton, between park and rose).
one of my three prospective graduate schools will be starting a program in the fall that makes tuition free for all graduate music students. this is awesome and awful at the same time. it will now be one of the most (if not THE most) competitive graduate music schools in the country. looks like i better find a fourth school. and quick.
one of my new favorite things is drinking coffee and reading in my pajamas on the front stoop. this weather is amazing!
yesterday i bought a fancy lp shaker and i've been having fun recording sounds for transformation surprise. now if only i'd stop dreaming up ideas for t.s. shirts and hats, and actually get my ass in gear for the show!
i told someone that after i'm done with these shows, and the split zine, and the rocket star show, and my senior hearing, i will probably buy a television set and a couch and never have a creative thought again. but that's a joke.
p.s. i still believe in you d.i.y. kalamazoo!
p.p.s derek, emily, dave, miles, chris jackson, amanda mullins, bill. i need yr phone numbers. email me at marypearson@riseup.net please!

some bastard stole my cellphone from my practice room at school. it was probably a music major because we are the only ones with practice room keys.
so friends, please email me yr phone number. my email is marypearson@riseup.net.

i've been thinking that i definitely need some homemade artwork on my walls. and i've been thinking that you used to draw all the time when you were a kid, and you really miss it. and you should just draw. 'cause you don't suck at it. so stop saying that. and i think that you (i'm looking at you, kids i've sent/given zines and letters to) should send me a drawing, and i will you send you one back. and we will have each other's drawings next to our beds. okay?
because i don't have nearly enough projects to work on right now (joke!), i decided to start a solo project. it is called transformation surprise and i will be playing two weeks from today with japanther at the hater house.
i'm going to stop saying things like "i should put air in my tires" and "i've never gotten a speeding ticket" because it just makes me get flat tires and speeding tickets.
( and also this )

my weekend plans fell through, so i got in my car and drove to milwaukee, wi. i was hoping to find a house show, but i'd never been to milwaukee and i didn't have the address. luckily, i found a kid with patches safety-pinned to his jacket who directed me to a record store, where a nice girl directed me to a cafe, where a barista immediately spat out an address at me, which turned out to be just around the corner!
nimble and eugene both got flat tires w/in 48 hours of each other.
kory has come and gone. the leaves were just right for his visit. we did lots of walking. brooklyn showed him all her tricks. i took a lot of photos that could be entitled "cute boy + pretty leaves."
no more flat tires please.

yesterday, i went home about 10 p.m. after being away for 30 hrs or so and i realized my gas stove burner was lit! i am a freakin' moron! how my apartment is still standing i have no idea, but i am extrememly thankful. phew. i'm a dork.
i talked to gab last night, and consequently, i was throwing in "avec" and "mais" into my german conversation today. luckily, my prof is fluent in french and she was understanding. so good to talk to gab though. we both pretty much spent the entire time giggling. and i talked to kevin (pronounced keh-vahn) for awhile too. "kevin" is gab's super awkward alter-ego. he makes me pee my pants a little.
last weekend, i developed obsessions with sudoku and judee sill. so good!
i am playing two orchestra concerts and going to three dress rehearsals this weekend. this means i have to miss the friday night bike ride, the art hop, derek's reception, the UT woodwind quintet concert, both nights of barking tuna fest, and the farmers market. if i get a position in a professional orchestra someday, i will have to kiss weekends goodbye for my entire orchestral career. ah well. i do like playing the bassoon.
i am reading books about science and i have been doing crazy amounts of physical activity and fitness.

kory will be here with me in one month. i think about that a lot. i'm excited to show him michigan in the fall.
yesterday kelly and i saw lynda barry at hope college. wow. that woman is so hilarious and cute and witty. and she talked to everyone for a really long time in the hallway. kelly and i are even more in love with her now. kelly has this amazing thing that lets us listen to her ipod through the car radio, and driving with my knees so we could clap along and sing really loudly to rosa as we drove past cornfields and old barns was pretty great.
this wednesday at 7:30 there is a zine-making workshop at the rocketstar. come with zine-making materials (paper, pens, scissors, glue, ideas, friends, etc.)!
also, don't forget about the vegan potluck tonight at 7 o'clock! 800 south st. and then we're riding bikes to see the 9:30 showing of "me and you and everyone we know" at the little theatre.
next friday is critical mass. meet at bronson park at 5.
and as always, bike ride to the farmers market next saturday morning, and moped ride sunday at 9. meet at the rocketstar.
if anyone says there's nothing happening with DIY kalamazoo! i will deck you.

<3
mary.

hey seattle kids.
if you're ever in the vicinty of confounded bks (near bauhaus on pine), check out the window display. brad tells me he put "charmed, i'm sure" #2 in the window display.
punk rock.

"charmed, i'm sure" #2 is finished. there is a copy in the "new" box at the rocketstar. or you can get yr own copy from me. there is a $1 suggested donation (that almost covers the cost of making each zine). if you live in seattle (this is my seattle issue!), confounded books carries #1 and they will be getting #2 sometime next week. they are selling my zines for $1.50, or i can send you a copy if you don't feel like heading over to capitol hill. and what luck, "as per usual" #2 is all done too! check that france-exploring shit out! you will like it!
( check out DVG's lovely artwork on the cover and back, and a sneak preview of #2! )
<3
mary.

my last year of college (undergrad anyway) has begun. i always used to get really freaked out by people in their 8th year of undergrad because i worried i would somehow get sucked into this vortex of college and kalamazoo and never find my way out. how ironic that as i'm entering my last eight months here, i suddenly realize kalamazoo is pretty great and being a student is the nicest occupation ever.
my schedule is cake (vegan cake) this semester. what a novel idea to actually give performance majors free time so they can practice! and maybe i won't get sick 9302985 times this semester either.
exciting things are happening thanks to d.i.y. kalamazoo!, i love my new place, my sister katie is so happy being a mom and wife (and she's really good at both jobs), my sister laura has turned into little miss chicago and she's really cute and she has an article in a forth-coming issue of punk planet!, my brother brian loves rubbing it in that he is done with school for life, and we are going to start bowling together every week, my dad has gotten a lot healthier, my mom has turned into a social butterfly, i love kory and i think he is just right for me, my plants are growing like crazy in the new place, i've been riding bikes and eating pancakes on the front stoop and making arts and crafts with friends, and i had a really amazing summer. everything is really really good right now. it feels like the end of a movie or something. everything (except that boy's proximity to me) has fallen right into place.
can anyone tell me where i can get some free (or cheaper than Kinky-o's) copies? i've got an almost finished zine on my hands and very little money.

phew. i can't believe time can pass so quickly.
i'm so used to being here. always with the manwich. always looking to catch a glimpse of rainier. i like our evenings in. and i like our evenings out. i like seeing friends here. and riding a bicycle by myself. and i know bus route numbers by memory.
today i learned a thing or two about baseball.
and it was fun to step back into that little snowglobe called bellingham. with laura! the novelty of it all!
i'm drawing lots of comics and going to all-vegan stores.thai restaurants.doughnut shops.bakeries.
and my thoughts are on a lovely lady in france/nyc and her manwich/my bff in k-zoo putting on his little house shows.
this.is.a.pretty.great.summertime.

why am i having so many travel mishaps this summer? my flight from quebec city was pushed back an hour yesterday, and then when i got to toronto, i was told my flight to chicago was cancelled. i ended up spending the fourth sleeping in my sleeping bag in the toronto airport until i was able to fly stand-by on a 6.30 flight this morning. i kept waking up with a start because the toronto airport is the "pearson international airport" and i heard my name over the loudspeakers in english and french all night long.
i miss quebec already. when i went through u.s. customs (for the second time in twelve hours), the officer said "welcome home" and i accidentally said "merci."