So I read a Daniel Clowes interview that had this bit I really liked:

Clowes: It's not even about being clean or tidy. It just has to have a certain visual look to it. The most depressing thing to me is when somebody has nothing in their house, like they have a really antiseptic look. Nowadays you see a lot of artists who have their iPad and little drawing tablet, and they have no books or records or anything like that, and to me, that's truly like, put a shotgun in your mouth if you have to live like that. I need to have this visual stimulation that's perfectly arranged at all times [laughs]. It's complicated. 

Farr: I get it. I'm very particular about how my bookshelf is arranged. 

Clowes: That's the main thing. You have to walk into somebody's house and get an immediate impression about whether they're people you could talk to. Often you walk in, and you instantly look at their bookshelf, and they don't have a single book you would ever want to read. 

Farr: Blank walls also freak me out. 

Clowes: Blank walls always seem like the people are just living there until they kill the victim in the basement, and then they're leaving. it seems non-committal. 

Farr: Exactly. Only murderers live without art.

Obviously the main takeaway there is the "only murderers live without art" line, but the idea that really stuck with me was wanting to be able to tell if you could talk to someone based on their decorations. When I'm decorating, my goal is to make it clear to visitors what an incredibly compelling person I am. Oh you like my couch? I made it. ARE YOU NOT IMPRESSED!? Fair warning, if you ever come to my house, I'm pretty much constantly screaming that. Which,

By the way, I bought a house.

I had commented to a friend of mine that I didn't think I was really all that excited about the owning of the house. Building equity and whatthefuckever. I don't know. What excited me was having a big thing I could work on. It's not that the house is a fixer upper, just that there are more things you can do when you own instead of rent. Sometimes you just want to drill holes in walls.

Anyway, I've got some projects planned and since my old blog no longer really fit, I figured start fresh.