Hey motherf★ckers - happy June, happy PRIDE - we are feeling vivacious… and… enraptured (!) over here at SplashLand cause we have a PACKED month of events that you should come to:
NOW: Issue 1 is out and AVAILABLE for purchase <333 buy HERE
JUNE 8th: Issue 1 Launch Party RSVP and info HERE (free!!!!)
JUNE 21st: Rascal Records: Summer Solstice Concert and Art Fair (we are tabling!! And reading!!) Buy tickets HERE
Hope to see you all month long <33 luv you !
xoxoxo,
your friend, your comrade, your personal sleep demon, your dream girl,
Sydnie
Enjoy reading the below piece by our ever beloved Art Director, Sarah Knight:
Stuff (An Excerpt)
By: Sarah Knight
My faith in stuff might be too much. I’m Stuff-fearing, afraid that the universes these items contain will weigh me down. I hear Erykah Badu warning me that I’m going to miss my bus: “You can't hurry up / 'cause you got too much stuff!”
That’s why I’m keen on throwing it away. There’s stress that accompanies collecting things that would be lovely to sink in resin or press between sheets of notebook paper. Stuff is noisy. It demands consideration and contemplation, and I’m bad at saying no. So I throw it away in hopes it will die, or at least go bother someone else.
Sometimes I regret it, particularly with those weak attempts at diaries from elementary school, or all of the photo booth strips I swear I had multiples of. My grandmother’s lime jello salad recipe collection - four strong - some calling for marshmallows, some not. The shirt that would have gone perfectly with the pants that I have on. Mostly I miss the stuff that I suspect could take me back to someplace I miss. Of course, the pain of missing accounts for the discarding in the first place.
Someone once told me that if I study for my test with the same pencil that I use to take the test, I will ace said test. I can see a world in which a particularly distinctive writing utensil unlocks the part of your brain where you stash French verbs and differential equations. The mechanical pencil with the red clip can take-you-there. Stuff can take-you-there.
Maybe I should be less precious with my stuff. Or more. Both, I guess.
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What's happening in our W.E.R.L.D. <3
What Sydnie is:
Wearing: My hair curly
Eating: Allergy meds
Reading: My emails
Listening to: “Lunch” by: Billie Eilish
Doing: Driving my car all around
What Sarah is:
Wearing: Fuck ass bob
Eating: Dates
Reading: My Brilliant Friend by: Elena Ferrante
Listening to: “Devil’s Paradise” off of The Idol soundtrack
Doing: Watching the episode of Criminal Minds with Amber Heard
What Clara is:
Wearing: Plunging necklines
Eating: Thin mints and strawberries
Reading: SplashLand Magazine - Issue One
Listening to: “State I’m In” by: Sarah Gross
Doing: Digging up the backyard
What Veda is:
Wearing: Yellow shoes
Eating: Items from the long beach food co-op
Reading: Graphic novels
Listening to: I Saw the TV Glow soundtrack
Doing: Drawing sharks
What Rylee is:
Wearing: Cropped button-up shirts
Eating: Hotdogs
Reading: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by: John Berendt
Listening to: My friends singing Chappell Roan
Doing: Crossword puzzles
THANK YOU FOR READING!
xoxo
SplashLand
