Happy Holidays & Season’s Greetings to you all! I made a little holidayish podcast from my studio in honor of the special winter holidays and to close out 2009 properly. In this installment there are vintage finds and art updates and some other unexpected turns and twists. Not really, but it sounds good when I put it that way. At any rate, happy whatever you celebrate and here’s to a brand new decade!
So I thought I would give a little report and a little show & tell regarding The Capitola Revue that took place Saturday night. Many thanks to all who came out to support us and cheer us on! We all had a blast. And many thanks to Carole and Richard (owners of The Green Lantern Studios) for having us and treating us like kings and queens for the evening.
Also had a really fun week leading up to the show by being asked to hang all the art for the show in Mineral Point. It was really cool to be so involved with it. Mineral Point itself is just a gorgeous little town and has a wonderful energy to it. Plus the drive there from my house I equate to being in the “Wisconsin Mountains” (lots of rock croppings and bluffs due to the glacier activity) The town itself is built on a big hill so you can see all the buildings and lights pretty readily. And with all the Christmas decorations up and snow in the air and luminaries up and down the streets, it really felt like something out of a picture book from the 1940’s.
Saturday night was gallery night in Mineral Point as it is a little haven for artists and artisans, and the town was hustling and bustling and all abuzz. I love that sort of energy! Lots of people came in from the cold to check out what we were doing during the course of the evening and the energy of it all was just pretty exquisite.
I put together a little movie of a couple tunes we did through the course of the evening in-between readers. Mark Miskelly doing a beautiful job on guitar as always. In the last part of the movie, Caleb Mason guest starred with me onstage during the tune “If It Be Your Will” (Leonard Cohen). It was kind of a last minute type of thing, but I’m glad we got to do that together! He read earlier during the evening for the poetry portion, but also has expressed that he would like to do more in the musical realm. The other two tunes you hear here are “Between Daylight And The Dark” (lyrics featured in the Capitola by Mary Gauthier) and “I’ll Never Be Your Maggie May” (Suzanne Vega).
December 5th is Mineral Point’s candlelight Gallery Night, “an evening when Mineral Point sparkles with the light of hundreds of luminaries” and we are super excited to be a part of it.
We have a pretty big show planned, as there will be a variety of readers presenting their work along with Mark Miskelly and I doing a few sets of music in-between. Also on display at the Green Lantern Studios, will be work that is in the current issue of The Capitola and work that has been in past Capitola issues.
Richmond Powers put together a beautiful poster for the event which I included below. Feel free to contact me if you would like to have the Hi-Res version. I would be glad to send it your way.
Hope you can come and check it all out! We’d love to meet you and say hello.
I was inspired to make another one of these windows into my world sooner rather than later. This one concentrates on finishing one of the pieces I have been working on, an introduction to “Patrick” (and what he’s been busy with) and the importance of clean drinking water.
So I cooked up another little podcast from my lair. As some of you know, I have been sick for the past 2 weeks but Im feeling LOTS better thanks to modern medicine and its terrifying – I MEANHELPFUL – steroids. I’m nervous about going off of them because it has proven dicey for me in the past. But I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it. Or jump off it, depending on how the withdrawals hit me.
Like my other podcasts, this one is not exciting. I promise you that, but it does offer a peephole into my nerdy and incredibly exotic world of cutting up moldy paper and writing all over everything with different colored sharpie markers. I often like to use a different color for each tune Im trying to write lyrics for and I’m sure that isn’t special needs at all. But I do. I do this in my journal too. It makes the internal dialogue more interesting or palatable, I guess. A good while back I bought the 24 color sharpie marker set and have never looked back with an ounce of regret since. And these juicy tidbits are not included in the podcast by the way. I offer it here only. And over at Myspace. And Facebook.
Enjoy!
PS: I also talk about the circus freak piece I am doing in the “presentation”, and dug this pic up to offer a little more clarification of when I was first laying it out. After assembling all of my mutant circus freaks, I let them out of their plastic bag briefly to do a dry run of the auditions I have planned for them within this piece.
