Okay, it is slightly better now than it was when this photo was taken, right after we moved in. There's now a plant hanging above the director's chair, and the tv (which doesn't get any channels - literally, not a single one - and is therefore completely decorative) lives on a stand. Still, one can't help but think, as my friend Andrea said when she saw this picture, "maybe the living room needs some more... it just needs some more."The thing is, the living room is not entirely mine to do with as I will - any improvements will need to be agreeable to K. as well. So that rules out the most obvious and simple solution, which would be to just hang up the posters I had in my room at Smith. (These included posters for Rushmore, Gigantic, and the New Pornographers - none of which are K's thing.) My next choice would be a nice picture of the Brooklyn Bridge or a Magritte poster, so that my apartment would look like my parents' house. K. and I have also, perhaps not entirely in jest, talked about hanging a bunch of nudes, since we both really like drawing nudes. This would be an interesting statement. (Is it pretentious to hang your own art in your house? (Luke: "If it's not pretentious it's not worth doing!"))
Kari and the Werewolf also have a big red velvet couch which I envy tremendously and little magnetic canisters for spices which stick to the fridge. (I am so copying this idea. Craft project! Our current methodology of keeping the spices, which I buy in bulk at the health food store, in little plastic baggies is driving me crazy.)
I recently came into a windfall because I was ridiculously overpaid for drawing some comics about logic. As a result, my purse strings are a bit loose at the moment. I am a notorious cheapskate, but yesterday I bought $7 jeans and a sweater on sale at Old Navy, a $4 chess board from Target, and a Tsingtao and an order of Gong Bao chicken at the Chow Bar. I would not be at all surprised if I spent this entire windfall on frivolities instead of, for instance, rent. (I can, of course, pay my rent on my stipend alone. I'm not that out of control.)
Changes need to be made. Suggestions?
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Anything on the walls would be an improvement, but it would be best if what you put up is framed. Plan B might be your Wittgenstein drawing-- but you would probably also want something with some red in it also if you did that.
Oh, and some sort of couch is in order.
I couldn't agree more- buy a couch. wall hangings would be good, and it would indeed be amusant to have your own artwork in your apartment, esp. if you and K. can agree on it.
The "if it's not pretentious, then it's not worth doing!" line is quite funny, not least because for a while, that was my life philosophy.
Yes, a couch is needed. Have you and K discussed it? Is she just anti-couch or is there more to it? It would not only help from an aesthetic point but would be more comfortable for entertaining. On another note,how nice that you and the werewolf are getting to be better friends! And with Halloween approaching no less! Um...maybe that part is a bit more troubling. Also, maybe you should hang some drawing or other on the otherwise unused tv screen.
A rug. Some cheap Persian-style acrylic knock-off. Colourful and practical.
I can't put a rug on top of carpeting, that's gross.
Lots of rugs, then: it's practically Islamic!
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