Busy Body
Sometimes when you take life in stride you don’t necessarily catalogue everything you do at once. Blogs can be a great fact checker for the self in this regard. So, outside of being read and commented upon, we chart our doings, meetings, creative and daily happenstance. I’m listening to some old Talking Heads, no, I mean the stuff they recorded for ‘77. It hit me that this record is now 30 years old, imagine? Time flies.
This past weekend while at the Savoy for Harvest’s birthday I met Sam and Eugenia Pardue. Sam was donning a fine striped shirt in blues and greens that looked like something currently on my studio wall and Eugenia was equipped with some sort of crazy funky felt bag that emulated a rastafarian hairstyle. Paul and I got to sit with SWI’s parents and sister. They are all charming, and school teachers, and the eclectic conversation ranged from reality TV to Beemers to Dostoevsky. Then it was over to the Galaxy for karaoke. After a superlong wait, the birthday girl gave it her best shot with Benatar. In this smoked-filled room I then performed Alicia Bridges’ one-hit-wonder ditty I Love the Nightlife (Disco ‘Round) to a satisfied audience that included Harvest’s midwest mom (who did an apropos version of the lovely ‘Summertime‘) and other 1/2 siblings as well as a group of friends, frumps and frats. Even Richard Speer was in the house, danced and joined us. Scott did a mostly low-key on the register, but high on life version of Billy Idol’s ‘White Wedding‘.
This weekend while at NAAU, I also met Prudence Roberts (who reads this blog!) and Terry Toedtemeier. They were returning from Jim Lommasson’s talk at PAM. I talked with Ruth Ann Brown about some upcoming events including the high probability of my going to Miami in December for the first time. It’s exciting to see how many Northwest galleries are participating in Aqua this year! I was asked by a NY gallery to consider coming this year, so perhaps there may be something of mine in one of these things after all. For such affairs I met up with Annette Thurston just yesterday, she is designing an exquisite new biz card for me to carry here and there. It’s coming along nicely as we discuss typography, images, and subtle excentricities.
I am working on a website design, slowly proceeding on the aforementioned podcast and finishing up a September batch of music reviews. For my earlier efforts I have had correspondence with both Colin Newman and Genesis Breyer P. Orridge (with whom I may be doing an upcoming interview), two seminal giants in the underground music scene. I guess I do all this for a reason.
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