A couch quest and art dreams

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Mark Beldan, Red Studio

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I'm playing a solo show in San Pedro, CA this evening at The Sardine w/ Jennie Cotterill (ex-Bad Cop/Bad Cop) and Brett Ayala Jones. If you're in the Long Beach area, I'd love to see you. Music is 8-11pm, 21+.

I just shelled out what I consider to be an obscene amount of money on a couch. The price was much less that some would invest in such an item but it's the most I've ever spent on a piece of furniture. For the almost two months I've been without one and let me tell you, as far as nesting goes, a couch is key.

My domestic space has become priority number one this summer and there's something particularly depressing about a living room with a lone armchair and no sofa.

It's like comfort food or blankets or houseplants or a really good pillow or something but it's the centerpiece of any house and it feels like a tiny hole in my heart living without one.

But success is finally mine as I've pulled the trigger on ordering a heather grey sofa that's long enough for all six feet of me to lay down and will also hide Lucy's shedding. My first order of business is to watch Love Lies Bleeding with wine, popcorn, and my small dog as soon as it arrives.

My next domestic project is art on the walls, as I've somehow failed miserably in that department. Years of small apartments and a lack of wall space has left me with dated show posters and small art prints that look timid unless hung salon style and even then, I only have so many that are worthy of frames. For reasons I don't entirely understand I'm not really one for hanging my own art in my home, but we may have to change that because... there is so much blank space.

I'll be in my new little desert home for the long haul, so I've been revisiting my list of favorite artists lately, making an aspirational collection of art I would love to hang on my walls if I could spend as much on each piece as I just spent on this couch. Oof.

Put your recent favs in the comments please, I need more suggestions to save up for! What would make your house feel more like you?

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