I am climbing some outdoor steps to the balcony of a building, drawn by the rhythmic pulsation of amplified music. Feminine voices, sweet and insistent, are singing about how bad the news sucks. Arriving on the balcony, I find the door is open. Looking inside, I see Lysa and Olivia are the singers I have been hearing. They are performing as usual for a small audience of regulars. I don’t go in, but sit down on the balcony, listening and grooving. The song is about how the news sucks so bad that it’s hard to find personal space anymore, to have your own weekend. I realize they are HOT, and could probably find a much bigger audience if they knew how. Two younger men emerge from the room, and are leaning on the railing animatedly discussing the performance. I am thinking that I like the kind of people that this act attracts.
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
athena stopped by on her way south. We discussed the state of my lungs, which is a huge motivating factor in my decision to move away from these tiny rooms, and my current means of making money. Doing woodwork and remodeling homes is honest work and pays decently, but I have eaten too much of too many kinds of toxic dust in these situations. Lungs were not designed to be a garbage can. We are talking decades of abuse here, including smoking, which I quit 20 years ago. I got a serious bronchitis in Tuscany, and am still recovering 6 weeks later. It is time to go for the dream, and trust that it will somehow pay for itself.
We ate crab and asparagus, drank crysanthemum tea, and she eventually took off on another midnight ride.
Seeing artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo in the original is a pilgrimage which I believe every person who identifies as an Artist should make. The sensation was a visceral tug at my old Figurative Art ambitions. I realized I would need to move into a larger place, and set up the old studio. Sitting in front of a Mac, even a Mac as awesome as my G5 Dual 2.7 with 30″ Apple Cinema Display, just can’t supply that kind of kick. It is time to get physical again!