I read through my sketchbook Friday morning. I found this strange list, in my own handwriting, and I have no idea when or why I wrote it.
Sketchbooks
dishes
stainless steel silverware
kids toys
Narrative
Sketchbooks are great for holding onto ideas, but sometimes, I do question myself, when I am writing down things that I cannot remember, later. And when I am writing 2 page love letters to Miller Lite. As a side note, I heard a new Roger Alan Wade song on his myspace page, and he gives a little shoutout to the Miller’s Lite, in the song DRUNK. Yay! Roger Alan Wade and the Miller’s Lite. I am so happy with that shoutout to the Miller’s Lite, that I have decided I will call it Miller’s Lite from now on!
Robert Irwin Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue3, 2006.
I saw this piece in San Diego, after Christmas this year. It was a little knee shakingly inspiring and sort of strangely calm at the same time. I wrote this later that evening.
“The simplicity of conceptual Art is such a deceiving thing. Reflections alone alter the subconscious to such extreme levels the concious mind gets to do a little dance, also.”
This would be the part after I have the sticky thighs, and I think before the part where we drank whiskey and cokes with some of my favorite people on Earth. Thank the gods above and below for Art galleries where depression seems ridiculous and life clicks into place.
Friday, my Japanese fabric that I ordered from Etsy seller, Plumtickledfabrics, arrived. Don’t you just want to live in that print? Go and buy some for yourself!
Carry on! Namaste Satanic Dentists!
April 28th, 2008
There is music that entertains us, music that provokes us, and then there is that one category that transcends our reality, and makes us part of the experience. Jason Webley transcends all that is. Period. I knew the show was going to be amazing, when I saw him mike the floor. Of all the live performances I have ever seen, this one might be the best. Ever. There is no premise. There is no script. There is just an artist, projecting into an audience and an audience, doing their best to keep up.
All musicians should take note, and see that merely performing one night a month, is not enough. Just as artists cannot turn off the urges to create, great musicians make great music and we are humbled to be in their very prescence. Or maybe we might drink one too many Miller Lites and harrass the living daylights out of such a person. Either way, days later, you will think to yourself, did I really SEE that? Wow.
Mr. Webley has set the bar for every single musician I ever see again. And that bar is high. I urge you to purchase his music, all of it, and make it a priority to see him, anytime you can. We are surrounded with pre-fabricated houses, pre-fabricated movies and god-awful pop music that I could mix in my very own basement. This is real, it is talent, and it is damn entertaining. Thanks, Jason Webley, for inspiring and for keeping music alive these days!
Now, off you go, buy some music and see something real for once!
www.jasonwebley.com
Eastern US Tour Dates:
April 27 - Saugatuck, MI - Boathouse
April 28 - Cleveland, OH - Wilbert’s
April 29 - Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
April 30 - Albany, NY - Red Square
May 1 - Boston, MA - Berklee
May 2 - Portland, ME - Geno’s
May 3 - New York, NY - Sullivan Hall
May 5 - Charlottesville, VA - Gravity Lounge
May 6 - Richmond, VA - Capital Ale House
May 7 - Norfolk, VA - Taphouse
April 27th, 2008
