law of falling bodies

Califone at the Hideout this Sunday - Jan 27th

If I lived in Chicago, this is where I'd be Sunday night.  If you happen to be there this weekend - go and make me jealous.
link to califone at myspaces

Sunday, January 27th at the Hideout (Chicago)

Published  by hq January 21st, 2008 in shows

Sunday, January 27th Hideout show:

Jim Becker/Scott Tuma/Joe Adamik/Emmett Kelly will be playing sleep induced instrumental and vocal songs at 10:30 PM. Via Tania will be playing music at 9:30p.m.

Our household lost a sweet tomcat.

Goodbye little Crow.  God, I love this cat.

We buried him at my sister's place in NJ, thankful that adrenalin burst led to being able to dig a grave in the frozen soil.  We set a lantern on the mound, lit the chiminea for warmth and kept incense burning on the site while throwing back whiskey, anointing Crow's marker with it.  Don't fix your male cat.  We learned, this fucking  way, that fixing them gives them a good chance of eventual renal failure.  He was seven, his body fought with its youth and strength to live through the verdict nature had already made, and it was an ugly painful way to die.  I was there for his birth.  I cut him out of the birth sack, I held him and cleared his throat of gunk so he could breathe.  Monday, I watched him die, and I miss him.

destroying work & updating the charcoll.com site

I just put these last works in progress back a bit after a series of really bad decisions today.  I'm stepping away from the easel for a few hours.  Nothing good.  I'll post the works on paper i plan to work on this afternoon if for no other reason than to keep myself from further messing up the five paintings I've got going by picking up a brush again.   I will at least wait until sunset to see if the change in light helps my decision making.

I have, however, finally started chipping away at the wages of time on the woefully out of date site for the Chicago artists' collective, charcoll.com.

drawings to follow

work in progress - a dancer named Nadine that I know

work in progess - the doctor's wife

The character of the doctor's wife recurs in Jose Saramago's Blindness and Seeing.

Work in progress - a woman waking

Guy in London augmenting outdoor ads with images of decapitation

Link here for the flickr site with the artist's body of work (ha - body.)
Untitled7, originally uploaded by the decapitator.