Tuesday, December 06, 2011









Been Away Awhile


Time elapses at a speed that can only effectivley be reflected upon. So no need for such apologies, instead I launch a new project entitled "REdBook." It will span the entirety of a sketchbook of 300 pages given to me by my mother 5 years ago. Seeing she is 1, 300 miles away, and the binding is already wasted on this thing, I figured I would post most of it here for her to enjoy, so as to also revive this long too dormant site. There is just as much short story/ abstract word assemblage as there is drawing. In future posts, the most important text will be reprinted here, though for this initial introduction, we will just give you some pages in their raw form. In these first selections, you see the Music Psycho (John Bauer) and I celebrating an anniversary of some sorts, in the secong page we name our "band", and in the third page we coolaborate on a multi media/ collage piece titled "Oh Fortuna". The last page is a precursor study foor a project I was doing on antique sheet music. Mom, and Dad, however long this may take, this is for you both. Thank You.


Sunday, April 17, 2011

Now That Is How You Celebrate Independant Record Store Day


The third saturday in April, if you did not know, is Independant Record Store Day in America. Up until this year, I had never had the oppportunity to celebrate it properly. We decided upon Redscroll Records, in Wallingford, Ct. Arriving an hour after the shop opened, we found ourselve waiting in a line to get in for more than an hour, in blustery, cold conditions. Most people leaving seemed to be clutching various cuts of new release vinyl (& what seemed to be a preponderance of 7''). We headed straight for the used cd section, and the selection was immense. A lot of artists I was not familiar with, though I ended up culling a bunch of "first albums" I did not have. I scored Yes's first album "Yes", the White Stripes "White Stripes", X's "Los Angeles", Mike Gordon's "inside in", John Cale's first album "Vintage Violence". I also grabbed a great Bill Laswell "Sacred System Volume 2", Ween "Quebec", and the Firehose album "FromOhio." ( I did end up skipping out on a couple of new Fred Firth cd's I regret). A great experience, I would highly recommend it.


The work shown (pen/ink/colored pencil/w/c), is from the series "New Grant Street Tarot", it is titled "Death".