lazy tuesday

i must admit. i didn't do much of anything today that could ever be confused for work, well ok so i did lay out a few utensils to get something done later tonight here at home. had lunch with one of my collectors, cleaned the house and talked some business on the phone. everything went haywire here. internet was down most of the day. phone ran out of power, landline went down. doorbell stopped working. animals all over the place. crazy.

monday's playlist

today it was rapoon -library of the dead.

all day long. sometimes kinda creepy and sometime rather beautiful.

MONSOON

the monsoon, which blew into phoenix last night, rolled in with force. this is our pals house. not fun. the lightening is awesome to watch, and i do like it when it rains, but, this kind of mess is in no way amusing to have to deal with. all and all it lasted about 20 minutes.

thursday's playlist

today i let the ipod run wild. it was all over the place. some of the things that stick out in my simple mind were yuseff lateef, dark captain light captain, say hi, muse, miles davis, spent poets, tom waits, the beatles, nancy wilson, prince, depeche mode, johnny hates jazz, dan fogelberg, marilyn manson, hall & oates,chet baker, ramones, paul weston, yes, various non-descript 45 crate digger dirty ass funk cuts, the decemberists, neon neon...... as you can see "shuffle" is a mo fo' with my ipod. you never know what's going to happen. i like it that way. i'm just as god made m

this is an update

it was another productive day at the studio. i got a lot of new work in progress and should finish them up by next week. had lunch with my friend peter today, got coffee ( lux of course ) and the rest of the day was spent at the studio painting and listening to loud music no one was around in the other spaces. this picture of top cat that has nothing to do with anything. i just had it handy and i like top cat. carry on.

today. she was a good day

this day was an oh so productive one at the studio. made much progress on several pieces that i have had on the back burner for some time. got there a bit later then i wanted to , but stayed till the natural light had all but burned out. all and all a very productive day. i'm feel pretty good about myself right now.

from my daughter

it's an evil trash can with a pitch fork.

enough said.

dark captain light captain

well sometimes you stumble across something that moves you. such is the case with this band. dark captain light captain. amazing. i know not much about them , except that their music a really freekin' cool. i was looking at itunes and the "other listeners also purchased these" link got me. i checked out one song, then got everything on itunes that i could. it's great. they are from london and bad ass. i love this kind of thing indeed. check them out folks !!!

artist rendition

my pal christina did this of me spinning tunes at lux sunday morning.

she's really nailed me.

colors are pretty to me. i like them.

having stated that about color. i think my next series of paintings are going to be black and white. i live in a constant state of confusion. anyway......for the past few days i have been having fun shooting pix through out the greater phoenix area with my iphone. take 'em home, tweak 'em in photoshop and post them all over the web. sure this is nothing new, but i do like the results that i've been getting with these snap shots of our beautiful town. i'm inspired..... next week... a trip on the light rail from end to end....GASP !!!!!