01 30 05 10:17 |No comments yet The night wears a sombrero!
Spent the week remixing some of my own stuff. I'll have a new CD finished and ready for mailing on Monday. Send me an emial if you would like one. I'll be posting the links to the labels I'm sending it to. Attended some good lectures on Friday. Warren Seelig and Bob Phannebecker spoke about the relationship between a collector and the collected. They had a showing of some of Bob's craft/fiber collection. It was very interesting. Bob started ou tby paying the artists in $50 monthly installments for their work. There is an amazing collection of correspondence between Bob and some artists about the checks being late, or thanking him fir the checks, or how they are using the checks to buy new clothes or whatever. A nice show altogether. Interesting mix of objects. I'll write more about the second show, as I have some new opinions to digest after having had dinner last night with Rowland and Chinami Ricketts, and Jenn and Scott Topper. We had a wonderful meal of indian food and equally nutritious conversation. More later...
01 20 05 12:25 |No comments yet Back to Brrrrrr.
Returned to Detroit on Sunday. Cold! Really enjoyed the auto show. There's a new Subaru SUV that looks crazy. Audi has a new allroad that was really good looking, and Jaguar released the X-type wagon. Yummy. Working in the studio a little. Started some piano flute miniatures. Very sad sounding. Not sure why. Hope to finish up Anwar's mixes this week. I posted a new link over there ---> Japanese writer and illustrator. Interesting. Threre's a new version of Kyma that I have to dig into. New filters! Ahoy! I also did surgery on an Echinocereus cacti in an attempt to save it. We rescued it from a dark corner of Cranbrook. It was flowering at one point. Hope it worked. We'll know in the spring. Boom-Chik-Boom-Boom-Chik.
01 14 05 12:41 |No comments yet Films
Back in Philadelphia this week cutting more songs with Connie. Going very well. Saw two films : The house of Flying Daggers, and Million Dollar Baby. Both fine films. Both have killer soundtracks. Whooo wee. In 'Daggers' there is a scene of intense fighting and blodshed, but the music is so evocative I found myself welling up. Very interesting. Henry Rollins said : People should shut the fuck up and let art be art. I'm reading a great book on the influence of Steiglitz and cubism on the poetry of William Carlos Williams. "Using words for their inherant quality, rather than their given meaning" - was said about the writing of Gertrude Stein. "Where is music going?" asked Pascal, "To the bank." "Art never pays well" answered Matt. As Brandon Reish said "If I'm going to be a starving artist, I'm going to have to make a hell of a lot of money." I also tried a TENS unit on my back pain. It's a little box with electrodes that emits little shocks to stimulate pain-fighting. Whoo. Weird.
01 09 05 5:38 |No comments yet Back on track(s)!
After a very nice holiday vacation, great sessions with Connie McKendrick, and a good Cactus and Succulent Society meeting, I'm back in the studio. Restored and refreshed! Stay tuned.....
01 03 05 09:51 |No comments yet Two thousand five
Met with Rana Sigel and got my cover art for the Threads EP. It looks great. It'll be at the presses in a week or so.Recording with Connie McKendrick this week before returning to Detroit. Long list of to dos for my return. Itamar Meiri is back in Israel. Safe and sound. He's missed already.
