right now this instant i really want some key lime pie
the real kind
with a graham cracker crust

"Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to go..."
- Led Zeppelin, When the Levee Breaks

Lucien Freud died which just reminds me of how much I admire him.  His work scared me in books... seemed sorta vulgar.  Then I went to see his work at LACMA, the same day I saw a Gehry building for the first time.  The intensity of his work and that exhibit really sticks with me.  Truly a painter's painter...

This is one of the easy ones.

"No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves."
- Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman

“Newspapers are all the same, no matter where you go,” she finally announced. ‘They never tell you what you really want to know.”
- Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow Sleeping Woman

Went to the Texas coast - Galveston - had some absolutely amazing cioppino at Gumbo Bar, caught hermit crabs, read some books, freckled a lot.  Sometimes I think the sea cures everything... for a little while.

Some art:

I keep looking at this guy's work.  When I think of stretching I think of Mark Bradford.
Mark Bradford - http://www.pinocchioisonfire.org/ - mixed media 


Here's a piece by Allison Green.  Oil painting. 


Screen print by Eric and Heather ChanSchatz.


And a creepy but pretty acrylic painting by Hideaki Kawashima

 "I don't have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big." - Charlie Sheen

Someone decided to knit sweaters for a bunch of trees at the Univ of Tx campus.  Didn't see an artist's name.  But it's awesome.



And my latest favorite iPad/iPhone games are Words with Friends and Plunderland (below).  I just bought a new ship, double canons and a loot grabbing mermaid for the front of my ship.  Yay.  :)



Yesterday I was driving on 7th downtown - forgetting completely that SXSW music was kicking off... and in front of Beauty Bar I got trapped in a crowd of screaming teenagers (probably 20 somethings... but they all look the same to me...) anyway they were shrieking and pushing and waving their arms around in the street and a bunch of cops were trying to control them.  So I went home and looked up who was playing and it was some band called the Superhumanoids (who I'd never heard of).  So I downloaded some tunes and I like them!  

 
"Passion makes one think in a circle"
- Oscar Wilde

Got to visit Orange, CA last week and it made me miss California... all the crazy plants and trees... the beach... business office with a ping pong table and big lego replica of the death star... yeeha.

I saw a great book of Patrick Dougherty's work.  His site is here:  www.stickwork.net/
Here's some of his work:

 I am a tree that grows hearts one for each that you take.
-Bjork

I'm liking this Sol Halabi painter. Here's one of her paintings:


And Bill Hundley is showing work at Domy Books in Austin. Bill's a swell guy. His work is cool too:

 "A man that studieth revenge keeps only his own wounds green."
- Francis Bacon

Watched 'Scott Pilgrim vs the World' and loved it. At least the music part.

And I'm really into my new hand blender and making compound butters. Pickled jalapenos plus hot chili powder plus salt plus lime juice is my favorite. GREAT on cornbread and tortillas and pork loin. Nom nom.

A painting by Christoph Schmidberger:


And a drawing by Christoph Schmidberger as well. He makes me want to do nothing but draw.

 "They had the fair, brownish skin of the true Martian, the yellow coin eyes, the soft musical voices. Once they had liked painting pictures with chemical fire, swimming in the canals in the seasons when the wine trees filled them with green liquors, and talking into the dawn together by the blue phosphorous portraits in the speaking room."
- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

I saw an exhibit of Colette Calascione's work many years ago in San Francisco. I still use a postcard of this image as a bookmark.


I also saw paintings by Francesca Sundsten at the same time. And in Seattle as well. Good stuff: