Evening Glow & Corner #6

Evening Glow, 36" x 36", oil on canvas, 2005

Corner # 6, 36" x 36", oil on canvas, 2006

Another example of a scene that's like, um, night and day. (Sorry, but it's true.) And once again I'm partial to the evening version. Not entirely sure of the cross street, but this is yet another handsome building that lines Chicago's Michigan Avenue. I tell ya, it's just one beauty after another on that street, man.

Somebody Wants to Love You

Monday's Covered with a Partridge Family tune on the Santa Monica pier feauring the totally bitchin' Redd Kross. 1982. This seems as good a time as any to admit I had the hots for Laurie when I was a lad...

Art Attack!

Sure, it's a silly name. It wasn't my idea. FWIW, my suggestion was shot down: Buy Something--Or Get Out!

Every November the Northrup King Building flings open it's doors and lets the world (re: the greater tri-state area) wander through the 150-ish artist's studios that fill the NKB complex. In addition to their wares, many of the artists will be displaying complexes and neuroses, as well. So if you got nothing better to do this weekend, stop on by. There's a lot of talented people on display. And, well, me...

Directions.

RANDOM TEN
1. "Seven Swans" Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
2. "Strictly Confidential" Roxy Music For Your Pleasure
3. "Good Time Boy" Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield Again
4. "Cast Off Crown" Deerhoof Friend Opportunity
5. "What Is The Light?" The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
6. "The Red Telephone" Love Forever Changes
7. "Decay" Ride Nowhere
8. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
9. "Day And Night" The Jim Carroll Band Catholic Boy
10. "Hail Mary" Shearwater Palo Santo
bonus: "I Was a Stranger" Smog Red Apple Falls

A belated RIP for Jim Carroll--he of the sweet jumpshot, crippling habits, and poet's way with words.

This song is for you my brother...

Facade

30" x 40", oil on canvas, 2006

Every once in a while, I'll make a drastic change to a picture. It's usually a color-based move in an attempt to produce a completely different mood. I think it worked out pretty well in this case. Or am I just rationalizing?

Young at Heart

When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

--William Butler Yeats "When You Are Old"

TILT--BLG's resident poet and all-around mensch--turns 39 today (again). Cheers, Big Ears! Hey everybody, be sure to have some cake and punch.

RANDOM TEN

1. "Trouble" The Jayhawks Sound Of Lies
2. "Marwa Blues" George Harrison Brainwashed
3. "State Trooper" Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
4. "Country Honk" The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed
5. "River Man" Nick Drake Five Leaves Left
6. "All I Want Is Everything" Jellyfish Bellybutton
7. "Golden Hours" Brian Eno Another Green World
8. "Waves" Yeasayer All Hours Cymbals
9. "Shoot You Down" The Stone Roses The Stone Roses
10. "Jet Boy" New York Dolls New York Dolls
bonus: "I Would Hurt a Fly" Built to Spill Perfect From Now On

Number 5 couldn't be a more fitting song for the birthday boy.