This coming weekend, the Capitola troupe is going to be out and about reading and performing for you. This Saturday, January 30th, we’ll all be at:
The Driftless Market
Saturday, January 30, 2010
1:00pm – 3:30pm
95 West Main St.
Platteville, WI
Mark Miskelly and I will be singing a couple tunes together and many readers will be in attendance to read their pieces. Please come out and check us out. It’s a lot of fun and it’s free! Hope to see you there.
I know. A week in-between blog updates is teetering crazily on not keeping things truly updated at all. But it is better than nothing. Or two weeks or a month in-between, right? And good habits take time to learn. That also means I have to get rid of a bad one in order to adopt a new one. No? Maybe not. I also showed up here with a studio podcast that takes a little time in constructing along with constructing items to actually show “in” a podcast, so I feel I should get some gold stars for that at least. The podcasts keep the artistic motivation going in an odd way which is why I do them at all. Well, and the nice feedback I have gotten about them too. That’s always a strong motivation.
More art and music are planned for this week. A kind Twitterville citizen politely suggested that the last podcast was a little long and took a while to download, which was a good point. In mulling that over, I had an additional idea that by keeping these podcasts a little smaller, I might be able to make them more frequently. It’s a theory anyway.
Last night I had a great Capitola practice with Mark Miskelly and Jenny Green. Unfortunately she won’t be able to join us for quite a while regarding these upcoming shows but hopefully she will come out one of these times. She’s one talented lady. The next Capitola reading is in Platteville, WI at the Driftless Market on January 30th at 1:00pm. Please come out if you can. We all promise to put on a good show for you.
Ok. I’m tired of looking at that Christmas podcast on this blog now that there’s a new year here and I’m sure you are too. Time for an update to say the very least. So happy 2010 everyone! I won’t lie. I was very happy to see 2009 go away. Sure, there were some lovely parts, but there were also some shitastic moments for sure. The whole decade was one in question come to think of it but I’ll focus positively on the new one instead. One of my resolutions is to keep this place more updated in general. Not only with words, but with art, music and podcasts regarding such. And who knows maybe even some animation will show up here in 2010. It’s a goal anyway. Hopefully not a lofty one.
It’s finally cold and snowy here in Wisconsin, and this my friends is a little salvation for me. I am a winter person mostly. Well, and a spring person too. But there is nothing more depressing to me than a 60-70 degree day in December, January or February which the last decade brought plenty of. So far this one has brought plenty of snow and bone chilling cold. Thank you 2010!
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).
