Click on the titles to view an archive and possible review for each piece of media! Featured media is most recently consumed.
Books:
[Currently Reading] In Cold Blood (Truman Capote, 1965)
Movies:
Jackass: Best and Last (2026, dir. Jeff Tremaine)
Musics:
Warning - Watching from a Distance (2006)
*HELLO. It turns out updating a website is hard when the weather is nice and you're playing outside. My update for you is that I wrote a little ditty about Jac Mac and Rad Boy Go!. Written in June, posted in July, located in Blog World. Thanks to those who check in, and special thank you to the folks who ask when I'm going to update my site next whenever I see them in person (you know who you are, and I love you for asking). See you later!
*Click on the image to the right to view RADAR: "Meanderings and Links for you to ponder." Still in-progress, but it'll lead you to corners beyond this site.
Last updated 7/3/26
Hi! I'm Aki! I'm a seamster and artist living in Chicago, USA.
I love little tchotchkes, ephemera, products/marketing of the past - it's a lot of what I'll be writing about as the months go on. I spent the last five years as a self-employed artist, but am now a full-time seamster. Now that I don't have to hustle every waking moment of my life, I'm exploring art for fun and what it means to me. I feel like this website may act as a document for that.
It's important to note that this site looks best on the computer, but it's also simple enough to where you can figure it out on your phone.
E
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Aki, what a fun site and nice update. V curious about your ability to control your dreams (or not).
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Dear E,
Thank you for the kind comment. Here is my recipe for trying to dream about someone (results not guaranteed!):
1. Preheat your bed to 75F (23.8C)
2. Eat some sugar (for me, Pillsbury chocolate chip cookies work just fine).
3. Brush your teeth.
4. Hop into bed and get cozy.
5. Read something they've written, watch/listen to something they're speaking in.
6. When you're feeling sleepy, close your eyes and try not to think about anything at all.
Last week, I went to see Beavis and Butthead Do America on 35mm at the Music Box Theatre, presented by The Chicago Film Society. Beavis and Butthead Do America is a movie I've seen plenty of times, and I'm not sure what I can tell you that you don't already know. Lucky for you, though, I came to this document with the intention of talking about the short that played before the feature: Wes Archer's Jac Mac and Rad Boy Go! (1985).This 16mm short was gifted? Loaned? to CFS and was presented before the feature as one of Mike Judge's early inspirations. And that you can certainly see. I'd say Jac Mac and Rad Boy are a slightly slicker duo compared to our beloved Beavis and Butthead, with a competence that shows that they are evil to their core, or, like our beloved, blinded in stupidity by something cool - in this case, it's going to a party.
1. Eat Your Paisley (1986)
2. Bucky Fellini (1987)
3. Not Richard, But Dick (1993)
4. The King In Yellow (2011)
5. Big Lizard in my Backyard (1985)
6. Quaker City Quiet Pills (2023)
7. Soul Rotation (1992)
8. Beelzebubba (1988)
9. Pretty Music for Pretty People (2014)
10. Metaphysical Graffiti (1990)
11. Stoney's Extra Stout (Pig) (1995)