The Air is Crisp Like an Apple
Donating my life force at Kinko's again. Something I didn't realize I'd do when I moved to New York: stay out because 2.5 hours is not enough time to go home and come back for a later activity. This is something that I never did while in California or Boston or anywhere else I lived. You get used to COMMUTING to do the simplest things like buying groceries o, say, getting ANYTHING DONE. Today, I meet one friend for lunch, only to gage if it's worth it or not to take a half hour to 45 minute subway ride each way to go home and back in order to have dinner with a friend. This is why I believe that New York may be the most high maintenance city in the world.
The air is crisp as an apple and I must say, BREATHTAKING. I LOVE the blue blue sky with the clouds lumbering their way across the sky. Yesterday Graham called me while I was at Wholefoods and he said "The sky is so beautiful that it made me think of you, and so I just HAD to call you!" This is the best thing he's done for me in awhile. Not to say that it's been lacking AT ALL, but when your betrothed spontaneously is MOVED by nature to call you, it's like suddenly the paint is wet again, and I SWOONED.
I've been spending the last couple of mornings listening to David Sedaris on tape and drawing the likes of Banana Yoshimoto and Nikki Giovanni. I only have two more portraits to go and I'm ready for print on the calendar---so thrilling! I NEVER get sick of seeing the calendar all done and assembled. It's such a THRILL to make something real and send it out into this world. You can give it a life elsewhere, so there is room to do MORE STUFF in your crazy CREATIVE CLUTTERED mind. Let there be MORE ROOM!
I'm off to explore the exciting world that is Grand Central Station. My friend Mindy got the idea from her boyfriend, that Grand Central has many undiscovered treasures--including a very cool, out of the way bar that used to be some guy's oversized office. Seems like good material to fertalize my dulling grass. I am very excited!
The air is crisp as an apple and I must say, BREATHTAKING. I LOVE the blue blue sky with the clouds lumbering their way across the sky. Yesterday Graham called me while I was at Wholefoods and he said "The sky is so beautiful that it made me think of you, and so I just HAD to call you!" This is the best thing he's done for me in awhile. Not to say that it's been lacking AT ALL, but when your betrothed spontaneously is MOVED by nature to call you, it's like suddenly the paint is wet again, and I SWOONED.
I've been spending the last couple of mornings listening to David Sedaris on tape and drawing the likes of Banana Yoshimoto and Nikki Giovanni. I only have two more portraits to go and I'm ready for print on the calendar---so thrilling! I NEVER get sick of seeing the calendar all done and assembled. It's such a THRILL to make something real and send it out into this world. You can give it a life elsewhere, so there is room to do MORE STUFF in your crazy CREATIVE CLUTTERED mind. Let there be MORE ROOM!
I'm off to explore the exciting world that is Grand Central Station. My friend Mindy got the idea from her boyfriend, that Grand Central has many undiscovered treasures--including a very cool, out of the way bar that used to be some guy's oversized office. Seems like good material to fertalize my dulling grass. I am very excited!
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3:39 PM
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I realize that meta-comments on the nature of blogging (and general predominance of the internet over most facets of our daily lives) have become a bit trite and fashionable these days, and I may be hard-pressed to say anything clever or original. Nonetheless, excessively self-deprecating and distracting caveat aside, I feel compelled to note that I find this format to be in some ways very bizarre. It seems very bizarre to me that I can freely surf around "Blogger" and have access to expositions of fairly intimate details of all kinds of peoples' lives -- and people whom I might have learned about only through a very indirect fashion. In your case, I ran into your blog solely because your music promoter of one time was a former housemate, many years ago, of someone who I was in love with. It is also true that I am omnivorously curious about music and try to stay up on the Boston scene as time/ money permit, so I may well have heard of you anyways. And while I do not go out of my way to consume artwork, I think your drawings are really excellent.
Meanwhile, I read an article by a career consultant yesterday proposing that many HR departments are impressed if job candidates maintain thought-provoking blogs. Who knows if it is really true, but the idea of capitalizing on personal confession for professional advancement makes it all seem even MORE surreal to me. Finally there is the idea of neo-con minions scouring the web for anti-patriotic indictations.
So, there goes another de riguer (got to look up what that means!) meta-commentary on the nature of blogging. Best wishes, T.G.
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