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museletter #13
it's my birthday, time to stick candles in dessert and reflect on my childhood
Sam Nelson
October 07, 2024
hello! today I am twenty four. this number feels factually incorrect, but luckily I have the rest of the year to come to terms with it. my tummy hurts right now because I ate too much lemon tart (my birthday dessert of choice).
this week decided to write down as many early childhood memories as I could locate inside my brain, from before the age of five. then I arranged these fragments into rhyming couplets and here is the result.
fragments
line up for the monkey bars,
green dots, gold stars,
ice cream in a clown cone,
lip gloss from a flip phone,
nappy heads, armband prayers,
stepstools, high chairs,
toss a beanbag through a hole,
dad cuts potatoes in a bowl,
glue strips of newspaper to a balloon,
mum mashes milk and rice with a spoon,
crayon carousel, round and round,
too many smells, ants on the ground,
sandpit, grazed knees,
tigers swing their tails to bee gees,
seaweed sways on a red rubber dot,
touch the lamp, ow it's hot,
sit on the big stone lion's paw,
vcr sighs like a square dinosaur,
9/11 reenactment on the hotel tv,
hair in a scrunchie in the taxi,
batman walks on the bus windowsill,
naughty little pee on my parents' treadmill,
four, so impatient to turn five,
don't want to dance the alien jive,
billy goat boogie, alligator king,
pointed toes at the height of the swing.
I painted me on a swing with my dad in the background. I do not much like this painting! I used a photo reference and focused too much on making it look like the photo instead of actually making it look good. at first it was a watercolour, but then I attacked it with crayons which made me dislike it a bit less.
bonus art: my parents took me pottery painting today for my birthday and here is the mug I painted (the colours will be darker after firing)
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in other news,
 for autumn christmas (sep 25, add it to your calendars) I baked christmas trees into my sourdough  I went for crepes but forgot to take a photo before I ate it all so here is an artists impression of my mushroom crepe  after the crepes (to continue the french theme) I went to a french music concert. it was fine. the french(!) horn player took long breaks between every movement to clean the spit out of his instrument, to the point where the intermissions were longer than the movements.  this pothos was trailing really long! |  my mum let me loose in the bookstore for my birthday and I bought these ten books  birthday present haul: tomato, pens, scissors, sponge, kombucha  this is one egg! I stretched it across two toasts! wow! I am an egg bender  I didn’t buy this fish container because it was $200 but if it were about $185 cheaper I would have obtained it  my desk as I was painting me on the swing. I was drinking lemonade. |
books I read
I am reading the mortal instruments series. I’m not sure why exactly I am choosing to spend my limited time on this earth reading a six-volume young adult fantasy series from 2007. there is also a prequel trilogy (the infernal devices) that I read and enjoyed as a tweenager. so far I hold a higher opinion of the prequels, but this may only be because I had lower standards for literature at age 13.
city of bones - cassandra clare
★★★☆☆
really good for a young adult fantasy book, but ultimately still a young adult fantasy book.
city of ashes - cassandra clare
★★☆☆☆
quite a lot of gore, not the light reading I was expecting. the writing is pretty good but the characters are not very dimensional and are getting annoying. not sure if I will make it to book six.
music I liked a lot
image - magdalena bay
a synthy banger with really unique next-level production!ragdoll - dora jar
this song contains maybe the most stunning guitar riff ever written!bread believer - porches
I believe in bread!
a concise recipe
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what’s on my left hand
flowers!
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