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Published: 2010-10-10 20:30:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1313; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 9
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a friend of mine who makes beads sold me these bizarre disembodied hand beads, made of porcelain. another friend sold me the tan beads--they're twine! she always carries the oddest stuff. i bought the egg shaped lavender stoneware beads from another bead maker i know. it's 16" long and fastens with a brass toggle clasp. the nifty thing about the hands is that they are just as detailed on the palm side as they are on the back of the hands. one could wear it either way! this is just the oddest thing! i didn't think anyone would buy it, but someone did!Related content
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hahahha! me too! i wish i hadn't sold it! oh, bowie albums to check out--aladdin sane (1973), the man who sold the world (1970)and diamond dogs (late '70s). those are my favorites, though there isn't much he did i don't like, except some of the ones he did in the '80s.
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thanks i will check them out
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thanks! i think it's pretty nifty, too. i love it when i make weird stuff!
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Y'know, I would actually wear it, it goes out of the usual
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thanks! yeah it one of a kind! i couldn't make another if i wanted to (but i never like to make more than one of a design) but the components don't exist. that's a neat thing about owning something someone made by hand and i often commission beads and pendants, so i know what i'm making is totally unique!
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Yeah, I have a couple of pendants that are either really rare or made by hand; In my collection I have a whale's tail hand carved from turquoise by a hippie artist and a capsule of mercury...
And that's it, he he...
Still, nobody else has something similar, so it's cool.
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those sound cool, especially the mercury!
i have a lot of stuff like that that i bought or traded for with other etsy jewelry artists. here is a good example:
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Yeah, the mercury catches a lot of interests at school...
And the beetles are so awesome!
Really something that's not easy to find...
I've seen things like dead scorpions on belt buckles, but those don't only look too creepy and big and disgusting, they're
also pretty tacky, but I've seen nothing as cool as that!
Oh, and that's a cool tatoo.
Those are specially the ones my mom goes crazy about.
She doesn't understand art.
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i bet it does!
i amazed by how cool the beetles look. you can see the beautiful iridescent look is so much more exciting in person.
thanks about the tattoo. hahaha! i think moms are way more against tattoos than fathers. but maybe that's just my situation. my mom is a control freak and is constantly feeling embarrassed of the way i look. she tried to force me to look different so she didn't feel ashamed to be in public with me. i no longer have contact with her, thank goodness. she used to go in my closet and throw away my unusual clothes when i wasn't home. if i asked she was like well yes of course i threw them away, they're not appropriate. rage! she didn't see anything wrong with it at all.
my dad on the other hand, was a bit taken aback when i started getting them and has grown to like them. he actually pays for them now! a wonderful thing happened. he was in the navy when he was a young man and he always wanted to have a pepe le pue tattoo but was to inhibited to do it. most of my life i told him how it wasn't too late and he should fulfill his long term dream and finally i presented it to him as such--i told him he was old enough (60 at the time) to do whatever the hell he wanted to and it was so past time to worry about what others think. he was close to retirement (he was a university professor) and i told him how happy it would be so exciting for him to have a tattoo, too. i found a fantastic picture of pepe and told him i would pay for it, take him to my artist and that it was a birthday present. to my great surprise he decided he wanted to go for it. i was proud of him, he was so brave. he didn't even flinch. i think he was really excited to fulfill such a nostalgic and long term dream. it was an incredible bonding experience for us!
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Yeah, photos don't always catch what the eye can...
And you're right, in a way. My father is not crazy about tatoos either, but I think he is a little more relaxed on the issue, he is after all the one who taught me to love rock and metal music, so he probably has seen this coming from a mile away. My mom has not gotten as far as throwing away my clothing, but that's because they're not that "shocking"...
But the day I ripped the sleeves off from an old t-shirt and then was about to wear it to church (I'm not religious, but my parents force me to go anyway, this is kind of embarrasing because it's the only thing i disagree with John, from Brave New World)she went all crazy and forced me to wear a jacket in a 28°C (that's about 88° F)temp. and started saying I looked like a street punk and what not. If my mother ever threw out my clothes I would apply the good old eye for an eye law. That just enrages me about people, they are intolerant, amd in order to get rid of what's "wrong" for them they do something that really is not cool...
But well, my mom is not that crazy, she is more comprehending, but she has a knack for showing that she doesn't like the idea anyway, until a few weeks pass by. She's cool anyway, more than my friends mothers at least.
I would like to convince my dad to get a tatoo, but I would fail, he taught me to be how I am in a way, but he never wanted a tatoo, he was actually kinda nerdy back in his own day...
Weird, huh...
And it's never too late to get a tatoo, right?
I might take my time as well...
Ha ha ha...
And a Pepe le Pue tatoo sounds awesome.
I love Lonney tunes, they're a classic.
But well, even if I can't get my dad to get a tatoo, he always will come with me willingly to the next cool metal concert, that's our father and son quality time.
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i learned to love swing music from my dad. every friday night there was a radio program on that played really good swing music and we would just sit together in silence and listen to. it's very good memory.
he hates most of my favorite music, though. and he'd never go to a rock concert with me. that's a really cool way to bond. i always wish that my parents had been into popular music, my uncle was and has a huge collection of vintage vinyl records. i sooo wished my parent's had that. we had a couple that i treasured--a hard day's night and volunteers (jefferson airplane, but you probably already know that)and maybe a couple of others.
it's never ever too late to get a tattoo! taking your time is hard, but it's a really good thing to do, getting a tattoo is a huge committment!
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yeah, that's priceles...
My father doesn't have vinyls, but he has a large collection of cds I've learned to love...
And I haven't heard about the Jefferson Airplane album...
I've heard about the band, though, but I can't say i know them...
I want to, though, but I do have a lot of bands I've got to try out and that one is not on the immediate list...
And yes, i know the tatoo issue is something serious, so i don't want to do anything too fast...
Actually today I had a discussion with one of my few friends that thinks tatoos are cool and one of my many friends that hates them...
He got drowned out of the conversation and me and my other friend ended up talking about what we sould get...
Poor guy, it's not fun to get dropped out of a conversation, he he...
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haha! that last thing you said is so funny! way to go, i bet they got the point loud and clear!
jefferson airplane was big in the '60s. they were crazy hippies! a lot of their music is social commentary, but it's really rockin' too! after awhile some of the the best people left and they changed their name to jefferson starship and turned to crap!
there is so much good music out there. you'll never run out of things to discover!
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Neither will I, you can never stop to find cool bands...
And yeah, the guy got the point, not because tatoos look bad to him means it's a completely messed up idea...
I still get along quite well with him, he's pretty funny...
And I did hear about Jefferson airplane being a bunch of hippies...
that's the main reason i want to listen to them.
The 60's were awesome, there were some really cool bands playing back there...
If they ever built a time machine I would travel to the very first Woodstock in 1969, it sounded like the coolest thing on earth, too bad they stopped celebrating the festial in '99 qhen people got a little too crazy...
But that wasn't the same anyway, they went from Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to Korn and Metallica (bands that I love a lot, but it's really not the same)
Oh, why was I born in the 90s...
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that's cool that you can see past the things you disagree about with that friend. that's a good quality and it's not always easy.
wow, i can relate! it would be the '70s for me. i love music from the 60's, also but i feel like some of the best music in rock came out in the '70s and like you say, having the opportunity to see a lot of those bands play live is a dream.
i had a friend who was a lot older than me and she had seen and spoken to janis joplin, she'd seen hendrix too. there were others. she had pictures of herself when she was a teenage beaknik. it was really cool to hear about those things for someone first hand!
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Yeah, it's not always easy to put apart differences, still it would be silly to leave a friend for such a reason...
And well, I do also love the 70s, as much or even more than the sixties, with Boston and Deep Purple and Led Zeppelyn...
And also the 80s, that was the cool scene for hard rock, and heavy metal...
I'm really into 80s Ozzy Osbourne and Van Halen, I think those were their best times...
And I'm jealous of that friend...
I was reminded of this jazz concert me and my dad went to and one of the performers at the end of the show started going on about how he used to work with Hendrix and The Grateful Dead and the like before getting into jazz, and I was obviously jealous as hell...
They lived my dream, he he...
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yes. sometimes you have to though. i have a friend i knew for two years before i found out that she was a terrible racist. that was the end of that. i won't tolerate that.
i'm a huge ozzy fan!
yes, we were born at the wrong times!
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Yeah, some people simply don't deserve a second chance...
And I know, Ozzy is the man...
He is pretty screwed up now, though...
If you ever had heard him talk in in any recent interviews or the like you'll know...
Everyone is wondering why he hasn't got anything more serious than just speaking weird, that man sure is lucky...
He is still the coolest metal singer in history (along with Dio, 'may he RIP', Hettfield and Dickinson)
And sure we were...
even if I had been born a decade earlier, that would have been cool...
I mean, it's not the sixties or seventies, but I would have lived my youth with Nirvana and Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers without having to deal with...
Lady Gaga and Kesha...
*shudders*
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oh yes, poor ozzy. he seems to be mostly brainless now. when i see his videos and concert footage he seems really confident and dynamic and enthusiastic but on the osbourne's he seems like a complete idiot! i have to wonder if he was acting that on purpose on the tv show, or if he's just really in his element on stage and then he's doing well. hmmmm....
hahaha! i saw the chili peppers in 1988, pretty early on. it was amazing. it was very wild and crazy. fun! i adore nirvana.
how are things going?
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Yeah, he is. He is still pretty awesome on stage, I really hope the complete idiot thing is not how he really is now...
Any other way he is (surprisingly) fine. Me and my friends joke that soon they'll start selling Ozzy Osbourne "immune to everything" vaccines or something. The problem would be that we might end up all speaking like dumb people...
Oh, and you're lucky, then...
They're not that crazy now...
Which is good because usually crazy rockers don't live really good lives afterwards...
Still, crazy rockers is what we need now, most are already gone or retired by now, if this continues we'll be at the mercy of pop and god knows whatever else weird crappy music that is coming our way...
And yeah, Nirvana is cool...
Smells like Teen Spirit and Heart Shaped Box and The Man Who Sold The World are in my list of favorite songs.
And everything's fine now, me and a friend of mine are now in the way of forming a band (we had one, but our drummer moved to a place that's way too inconvenient for us to go for practices) and now we are looking for a drummer, we went to the local musical instrument store where they give all kinds of music classes and asked the instructor to tell anybody that's interested and is good enough to call us. Right now I want to start to write our first song, but my friend argues we should do some covers first. I'm no fan of the idea because I've been playing other people's songs for a long time now, I think i'm ready for anything, but oh well, maybe a few for practice won't hurt anyone...
How are you doing?
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hi! i'm doing well. 
did i say on the comment on your profile that i wrote a blog that featured art that i really like and i put a painting of yours there? well, have a look at my journal!
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Yeah, i play the guitar, it's really cool, actually...
I'm not as good with it as I am drawing, but I like it just as much...
I do want to do vocals, but I'm not that good...
I'mm better than a lot of people though...
As long as I don't try to sing as Axl Rose or something like that, anyway...
And I have to do my best, bandmates have to have a good understanding or else the whole things goes down...
And Really?
Wow, that's awesome!
I'm so grateful, I'm so glad you like my work!
I'll take a look at it, thanks!
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ohhh! playing the guitar is a dream of mine. i really wanna play electric guitar, it seems so bad ass. lol! did you teach yourself to play or were you trained? do you read music? you're ambitious! i hope it works out well and you're really successful.
oh no problem, i really do like it a lot!
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Yeah, playing guitar is a lot like a dream...
Strumming on the acoustic you feel good, nice, energetic, fun, while on the electric...
You feel awesome, as you say, badass.
I was actually taught, by a really good teacher, actually...
And yes, I do read music.
Apart from the number tabs usually used I can also read and play the notes on a chart...
I do have some problems telling dome of the notes apart though...
And thanks a lot, I'll give my best at it.
And...
Thanks again, I really feel honored...
Take care!
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thank you! it's gotten a good response, i'm very pleased!
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its very cool indeed!! Should find more disembodied body parts to put on jewelry very cool idea..
OH thats what i was gonna do i was gonna take a few photos of what i made to show you
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hahaha! i know, that would be fantastic. i ought to figure out how to make beads. somehow some sort of thing, idk, i'll have to ponder that.
yessss! do that!
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that would be cool to learn, you could probably find some crazy beads and at like a $2 shop, dunno if you have them there but... mmm
Okies i'll go do that now
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we do, only they're $1 shops. i have an enormous collection of beads, but i'd like to create them myself.
great!
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$1??!?!?! Wish we had that here
Yeah that would be pretty cool to make them yourself :]
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why thank you! an abstract necklace! i love that. i guess of seen that almost all of what i do is abstract.
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