Valerie Fairlight

A blue haired woman excitedly embracing a man in a large Sleestak costume.

I finally met the Portland Sleestak. #bff

There is nothing.
Literally nothing.
PREVENTING THEM.
From writing, or drawing.
FOR REAL.

I promise you, it's how WE ALL STARTED.

Thinking about him thinking about a girl bra shopping makes me want to vomit.

Any advice on best way to learn Dutch without being there?

FAM, Snow Crash, Idiocracy are all better than what we actually got.

Me: Invest all my savings in cryptocurrency

Financial Advisor: Do you understand cryptocurrency?

Me (picturing the cryptkeeper's face on all currency): 100%

The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath To commemorate Ozzy Osbourne, we take a deep dive into the obscure sources for the titling designs on Black Sabbath’s early album covers.

I love this.

Fluffy grey cat sitting haloed in sunlight, not a thought in her little head.

This one’s still around.

Wait, what? Link?

Hausu, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (1977)
It was released on this day 48 years ago.

The Fairlight CMI: Australia’s Great Contribution to the Music World Peter Vogel on inventing the ingenious music machine that was used by everyone from Kate Bush to Stevie Wonder.

A brief history of the Fairlight. au.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Listen, some of us have never had a Hulk cover AT ALL.

a group of people are playing instruments on a stage and one of them is wearing a british flag shirt Alt: a group of people are playing instruments on a stage and one of them is wearing a british flag shirt. It is the band Def Leppard.

I do not like your joke, but I must acknowledge it.

Not gonna lie, I’m torn between holding on to the knowledge I’ve obtained like grim death or spreading it far and wide. I’m not a natural gatekeeper, but I really had to figure this shit out for myself and it’s so rare to have an unusual skill.

Me, Valerie Fairlight, standing over a table with light pads and brushes preparing to teach my first class.

I taught my first glass painting class yesterday and it went well. Word of it has gotten around glass instagram and a lot of people are asking to sign up for the next one. Could this be a thing?

But on these days when all I’ve got is my thoughts in the darkness, it’s pretty unavoidable. And the stress is immense.

And still I’m way more fortunate than most other humans. What a garbage time this is.

I told you! #BUMMERPATROL

Fighting or escaping fascism after covid has had its way with my body is not how I wanted to spend my twilight years.

I hate even posting this. Bummer patrol.

I don’t think I’ve ever said this out loud before.

The idea of moving to a new country with chronic fatigue is fucking terrifying.

Eh. Niet alleen post het officiële account v/h Amerikaanse veiligheidsministerie hier een bekend wit-nationalistisch schilderij waarop Inheemse Amerikanen worden verjaagd. De tekst erbij is bovendien in het 14/88-format van neonazi's: 14 woorden en nadruk op 8e letter v/h alfabet ('Heil Hitler').

Hook me up! I’d love to talk to them. It’s looking more and more likely for us.

A short dress embellished with sequins, jewels, and electronic junk.

Schiaparelli 2024 couture.

Sure is hard to go to the back yard without missing that little baby cat. Was her favorite place to be and would hassle you all day to take her out there.

The whole story of how we moved to The Netherlands So you can decide if we're brave renegades or privileged assholes because those are the only two options

This is speaking my language right now. I think this move might really be happening. Maybe.
janellehanchett.substack.com/p/the-whole-...

Tough but fair I GUESS.

I love Sabbath but this is Duran Duran erasure.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: For @vanityfair.com,
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk writes about what she experienced & witnessed inside an ICE women’s prison

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

Mooncookie is gone and my heart is in a million pieces.

This made me actually laugh.

Ashes of Time Original 1994 Hong Kong Movie Poster Original 1994 Hong Kong poster for the film Ashes of Time directed by Kar-Wai Wong with Brigitte Lin / Leslie Cheung / Maggie Cheung / Tony Chiu Wai Leung.

This stupid rare double sized Ashes of Time poster from the UC Theatre! posteritati.com/poster/1952/...
Going to try another poster guy who may be able to remove it. I'd be happy with a Chinese Ghost Story or Chungking Express poster to replace it, but it's just another relic of a time that's gone.