rust and ruin

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Journal entries

prep sketches for paintings over the last few years

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Some time spent on Galiano Island recently:

"A Langston Hughes Poem"

"12-Time Pro Bowl Player Junior" 

"The Hallucinogenic Torreador" 

"Native of Leipzig" 

"Pitcher Reynolds Yankees" 

"Gettysburg General under Lee" 

"Sartre Play Set in Hell" 

"Miramax Owner" 

Characters in Chekhov's 'Three Sisters'"

Back at work this week, but it's Saturday, one son is at a friend's, and the other is napping....with his Mom! Sweet manna from heaven. Got two stacks in today.

The first I call:

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The second is titled:

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Today's stack. I call it:

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Well, I am trying to up the difficulty and the aesthetic of the stacks by throwing smaller rocks in between larger ones, instead of the usual biggest up to smallest. Here is my first attempt. I call it:

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Today's balance...I call it:

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After what took longer than I thought it should have (?), I have responded to the challenge of compiling the ten best songs of all time, and what you should be doing while listening to them (aside from seeing them performed live)


TOP TEN SONGS OF ALL TIME:
(In no particular order)

LA Woman - The Doors (Comes on loud throughout the room as you wake, you scratch yourself in the nether-regions, slide on the leather pants, hop on the old Triumph, and head out on the highway)

More Than A Feeling - Boston (It's dark, there's a pipe and an air guitar involved, the rest is up to you)

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (It's semi-dark and dizzy with a serious mosh and simultaneous peaking occurring)

Carry On My Wayward Sun - Kansas (Driving off in a real-life denouement, the protagonist victorious, in a convertible)

Enter Sandman - Metallica ( iPod - during anything requiring tremendous physical strength, stamina, excluding sex)

Do It Again - Steely Dan (On a moped, with your honey, heading out for a night, somewhere in the Carribean)

Joshua Tree (All) - U2 (On a couch in a dusty record store- vinyl - chillaxin with a fatty, talking music)

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (Lying in a field, tall grass, sky ablaze, slight wind shifting cloud formations)

The Messenger - Daniel Lanois (When you've messed up with your partner and simply must make amends)

The Grace - Neverending White Lights (Upon realizing that you are simply energy and that you can float away from yourself)

Managed time for two stacks today in the backyard...

Today's stack...


Working on a series of three paintings, not-so-originally titled, "Red, White, and Blue." Each is composed of an iconic image related to the myth of America (meat, milk, and cotton candy, respectively) and accompanied by background text that works in opposition to the myth. Below is the first of the series, Milk.

The associated text reads: black, lumpy, infected, terrorists, filter, monopoly, vinegar, muslim, additives, error, oil spill, brown, blood, pickled, cayanne, subsidies, Somalia, rap, acid, speed, corrosive, blue, peasant, Arab, red, heavy, Japan, organic, French.

...and a TOP TEN list, in a effort to begin posting regularly.



TOP TEN THINGS I REALIZED LATER IN LIFE THAN I SHOULD HAVE:

1) Toilet paper perforated squares do not have to be used individually.

2) Fire doors should be kept closed, but you can still use them.

3) The cotton doesn't need to be stuffed back into the pill jar.

4) A pickle used to be a cucumber.

5) Chocolate truffles don't actually have mushrooms in them.

6) Islands aren't floating.

7) There are more than three types of people in the world.

8) We ARE stardust.

9) Your attitude, focus, and the types of questions you ask yourself on a daily basis DETERMINE your reality.

10) Our sight really consists of an hypothesis - an interpretation of the data we see.