Woo Hoo! Our new Car!

We bought a new car (to us) it is a 2002 Kia Rio Cinco, in Blueberry! I will be taking my lunch to work for the rest of my life. I am so excited, I think we will just drive around all weekend.

The Office

Ok, so Scott and I watched the first season of The Office and you should too. The first and second seasons are out right now, and available at Scarecrow video! This show is brutal genus.

Make sure you aren't taking a drink

when you go Here. I nearly had Diet Coke come out my nose.

This weekend I went to Lisa's house, I'll have pictures soon. So, Watch This Space.

Air America

I want to make sure everyone knows that Air America, the Liberal Talk Radio Network is on the air or at least on line. Which is how I have to listen to it, because it is not on the air in Seattle. Go figure. But make sure you tune in or listen on line, we gotta support this thing. And besides, Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo both have daily shows that are great.

As long as we are on the subject, there are lots of good progressive radio programs in Seattle. the one I listen to most often, (because it is on every day) is Democracy Now! on KBCS FM 91.3. On Saturdays and Sundays at the ungodly hour(s) 6:00 to 9:00am KEXP airs Mind Over Matters.

Phillip Guston

Phillip Guston on Drawing

I have been reading the new biography of Guston by Ross Feld " Guston in Time". At first the pun ( just in time ) sort of bugged me, but as I read it, I realized that the pun was an apt one. Feld uses Guston's letters and his own narration to emphasise Guston's desire to represent time by using space (pictorialism) to look inward, rather than seeing signs and gestures as proof of sincere inwardness, lke the French structurealists, and deconstructualists. I am not saying it very well so I will quote a bit of the book:

Catherine Pickstock is quoted: " ...Because the individual is all there is, and so paradoxically the individual is the universal; to the extent that there is nothing 'beyond' the individual."

" For Guston, however, there was plenty beyond ("...then you move into the next," he writes, " like a strange and new clock, warping time into becoming a frightening new other place, a land in which there is no rock and no 'nothing') -- and in calling forth his strange, funky imagery in order to "re-present" them, he insisted on seeing those things ( and himself) change." ( p. 76, "Guston in time" by Ross Feld)

As usual the Archive has a great mini biography -- scroll to the bottom for image links.

link to the Obstruction to Drawing Group

I can't tell you how much I hate professional sports. Not only was the baseball stadium rammed down our throats, even though we voted against it TWICE, not only do our poor confused children mistake overpaid, over prividleged, steriod popping players for HEROES, not only are millions of tax dollars spent and deferred on luring and keeping sports teams in town, not only do the horrid suburb dwelling, buzz cut wastes of oxygen descend on the city in hordes on game days, BUT EVERY TIME THERE IS A HOME GAME ON TUESDAYS, IT STARTS AT 7:00, EXACTLY THE SAME TIME AS THE DRAWING SESSIONS!!!! (Schedule of the Enemy) so drawing only meets when the hypocritical brainwashed hordes do not.

Life drawing

I have Life drawing sessions in G110 every tuesday, and this tuesday the model didn't show. We all stood around and chatted, and that was fun, but I am finally feeling the disappointment of not drawing this week. I am surprised and pleased that this habit has become ingrained so quickly. I am a lousy drawer, if truth be told, but find it really, well, delightful. So anyway, I really missed drawing this week. And with baseball season, I am thinking of only having it every other tuesday, because "the game" (barf) starts on tuesdays the same time as the drawing session. So parking is impossible, and costs $15 when you can find a place. ( sigh ) I am worried that it will fall off the radar if it is only every other week.....

King County Reusable Building Materials Exchange

King County Reusable Building Materials Exchangeis my newest favoritest site. Need Dirt? come and get it! want some french doors? there here and may be free!! It is sort of like Craigslist without the perverts.

First Thursday

Wow, I had so much fun last night, I went to the opening of one of my undergrad painting professors, Cindy Krieble, and then went out with friends for a beer, something I haven't done for months. I need to get out more and do something besides draw.

What I have seen today

Today my computer was down for most of the morning. So I figured I might as well take a walk. This is a some of the stuff I saw.
Right off the bat, walking out of the lobby of my building, I saw an asian man standing bang in the middle of the lobby, clutching a Fex Ex box to his chest, and saluting the flag in the corner. He was wearing a light blue windbreaker, and a little hat, kind of like the kind the Italian fascists wore. People were walking in and out of the lobby, and the guy held his ground, saluting for at least as long as it took me to get to the door. Maybe he had been a castaway or something

The other thing I saw, was a business-type-guy sitting in a barber chair reading Playboy. The barber was a particularly unhappy looking middle-aged woman, standing behind him driving an electric clipper over his head. These people were smack in the center of a huge picture window.