three adrift

2012-02-07T18:22:00.002+01:00

2012-01-25T17:17:00.009+01:00

-details of al's installation at a gallery in the essex street market / some punk kid messed with mac today / broke his watch / fixed that situation / ..............grrr / my sweet sweet kid

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2011-12-28T18:38:00.002+01:00

2011-12-27T03:16:00.000+01:00

-happy holidays everyone / make it a good one

2011-12-21T20:08:00.001+01:00

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2011-11-18T15:50:00.001+01:00

-book sleeves / details / opening party in europe is next month

2011-11-08T19:52:00.002+01:00

-5'x5'

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2011-10-16T04:10:00.002+02:00

2011-10-12T22:18:00.013+02:00

-met up with nathaniel again in brooklyn / one of the people overlapped with out in the residency this summer / strange in a good way to meet up in a different context

2011-10-10T02:46:00.006+02:00

2011-10-08T08:28:00.005+02:00

q: getting back on your feet.................financially speaking / three months is a long time to be without a job
a: yes and yes / also...............if you were never down / how would you know when you were up

q: how are things between you and your son
a: well......missed him a whole lot this summer / think it was good timing once i got back to have a week with him while al was out of town / honestly...........think the highlight of his week was going to a friends birthday party / that's alright though / glad to see him happy and interacting with kids his age

q: how are things with you and al
a: you should have reversed the order of these questions as far as things being the most important / get a few days just with her this weekend / mac's hanging out with bruce and robby in the city / here's a question back at you..........does everybody win in this situation / ? / answer / yes

2011-10-05T19:11:00.003+02:00

-three facts from yesterday / walked around / got my job back / stared at the sky ...............no / not when it was raining

2011-10-01T02:13:00.001+02:00

2011-09-30T01:56:00.006+02:00

2011-09-25T03:56:00.003+02:00

-end of a day / got to spend lots of time around friends / family / mostly all of it involved with talking / walking / seeing lots of shows / bouncing around / manhattan / queens / brooklyn
-al's last night out here / installation show down in houston starts tomorrow / mac / myself / bachelors for the week

2011-09-23T16:16:00.004+02:00

-got back to brooklyn last night / last piece finished at the bemis center (had to paint it over and clean the studio for the last few days) / out

2011-09-14T19:03:00.009+02:00

-got included in [this book] / opening party for the release is in berlin / london / paris / late october / see if i can get out there
-not trying to do a sales pitch here / but / if interested / [check here] / good stuff
-top photo / first quick painting made out here (ink / spray paint / oil / etc. / on paper) /
-other two / bits of the studio wall / .....it's getting there

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-[anne] / normally work and draw inspiration from what's around me / however / go through stages out here where i'm at a loss / this city / this part of the world / this culture / jacked the cube grid loosely from one of your azulejos posts / hope that's alright / anyway.....give credit where credit's due / take care

2011-09-13T09:48:00.012+02:00

-wandering / tramp weed / prison tats / s.o.b. (south omaha boy) / drunk singing / open containers in alleys / etc.
-run into these guys quite a bit and others while roaming around town / almost hopped a train with them yesterday / haven't done that since seventeen / tempted / then again / how exactly would i explain the situation to the residency if my absence was noticed

2011-09-11T20:19:00.002+02:00

-bits of yesterday / watched a dumpster fire burn and go out / stared at walls / stared at birds circling overhead / longest conversation through the day was with some homeless drifters outside the residency
-in [this show] back in ny / can't be there / but the opening is today / theme seems appropriate for the date

2011-09-10T06:19:00.006+02:00

-my bad / first purchase made in july / open casket with a grill attached / weather's taken a turn for the better lately / good day for a bike ride / etc.

2011-09-05T19:06:00.001+02:00

2011-09-01T19:15:00.002+02:00

-giving an artist talk later on in the day (part of the program agreement) / started working directly on this studio wall yesterday / loosely using the small ink drawings as plans / etc.

2011-08-29T18:41:00.003+02:00

-back to basics / made some very small ink drawings over the last week or two (here's some of them)

2011-08-25T17:23:00.005+02:00

-turns out this city doesn't recycle glass / turns out the hallway off this studio makes for a pretty decent bowling alley / last night for several people in the program / things are gonna get more quiet than they already are / nice to make some noise and bust it up

2011-08-24T22:14:00.002+02:00

-so that happened / last night had a late one (again) / this time with a friend in the program / recorded some improve music on the back stairwell of this building after the storm past
-makeshift percussion / falsetto screeching / throat singing / whistling / listening to the playback right now / surprisingly some of it is pretty good / all apologies to the people in the program who thought someone was being tortured last night (word got around)

2011-08-16T04:44:00.013+02:00

-hitched / signed the court house papers as a witness today with lisa / tim & miriam / best /

2011-08-08T18:10:00.002+02:00

-gotten some drawing and painting done out here / also have a closet that is dedicated to failed attempts / salvage them later / more than anything think i've become a recluse out here / some days go by where the only conversations i have (phone excluded) are with the dumpster divers outside of this building / take a lot of walks but usually leave my camera back at the residency

2011-08-07T09:31:00.003+02:00

2011-07-28T20:09:00.002+02:00

-endeavors for never (the last time we spoke you were not here i saw you though) / fell asleep with my headphones in last night / woke up to this song on repeat / communicate / hallucinate / rejuvenate

2011-07-26T20:28:00.002+02:00

-short visit from my favorite woman / back to life without her / snap

2011-07-26T04:06:00.006+02:00

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2011-07-04T23:38:00.003+02:00

exit los angeles / new chapter / life in omaha / night / better get used to this empty bed /...............at least i got gerald / thanks again for the loan gwen

2011-06-30T12:39:00.004+02:00

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2011-06-23T18:19:00.009+02:00

-last new york post till fall / catch a plane out to los angeles tomorrow / spend a week out there with al and mac / then / my ass is off to the middle of the country for a three month residency / think i might turn monk / go mental / or / just get a lot of painting done / whatever happens......................gonna miss my family in a big way

2011-06-22T10:33:00.004+02:00

2011-06-20T19:13:00.006+02:00

-have an ongoing joke with mac / tell him / don't care what you do with your life / just / don't become a bartender (he knows i'm half joking / and if for some reason that's where his travels lead him / then / that's all fine by me / support the kid with whatever)
-finished up my last shift this weekend / out / and / once again / filled with more volumes of useless stories that i can't tell
-maybe someday i'll make a graphic novel loosely related to my life in and out of bars if i ever get some distance from this life style / in the meantime / my mouth is tight lipped / so that's that / got a lot of stuff to take care of before we bounce out / once....................again

2011-06-16T17:25:00.024+02:00

2011-06-14T16:19:00.004+02:00

2011-06-13T17:44:00.005+02:00

-so / common knowledge for some circles i travel through / got the night off work on sat. / was going to be al's date for her museum opening that evening / took care of covering my shift at the bar / got a rental car / hotel / etc.
-al had to teach during the day before we took off / made sure mac got some exercise then dropped him off at his best friends apt. where he would spend the night
-bought a 20's style black drop-waist dress at a swanky place in the west village for al / realized as i was signing the bill / hand was a bit shaky / low blood sugar / forgot to eat breakfast and lunch / decided to go grab a bagel / then grabbed a train out to brooklyn to go pick up al from her job then start the four hour (depending on traffic) trek up to boston
-realized six stops out of manhattan that i was sitting on the train without the dress / yep / left it in the coffee house / my head was in a mad panic / thought i was going to be in the dog house / took another train back to manhattan
-.......................somehow / someway / there was the dress i left in a bag under a table
-al's show was probably the best thing i've seen her pull off / massive / lyrical / dynamic / and just damn right impressive..............also glad she got to look so awesome at the event / because / that's just the way things should go for a classy hard working woman like that / and yes / there are no photos of this event / was being too social / just because / that's the way i was rolling

2011-06-08T00:46:00.003+02:00

-might as well throw these up here / bits and pieces of my yesterday / at the studio right now / painting break

2011-06-06T22:57:00.006+02:00

2011-06-02T02:50:00.007+02:00

-damn the weather / al finished up her installation but can't leave new england because of this tornado business / guess on the news a car got flipped / etc.
-so that's that....... guess i'll pour myself a rye

-scratch that / tornado passed..... guess i'm editing this post
-night / gotta get mac off to school on time / bonus / nice to wake up and see al again

2011-06-01T03:46:00.007+02:00

-took a seven hour walk with mac the other day / used to do the same thing when he was four and five / only i'd have to carry him most of the time....... think i was a lot stronger then

2011-05-29T17:15:00.010+02:00

2011-05-26T16:47:00.001+02:00

2011-05-23T17:58:00.007+02:00

-darn right proud of myself / got mac to school on time today / al left yesterday (massachucettes show) / my sleeping patterns are slightly off / used to working nights and sleeping in / time to switch gears

2011-05-21T18:23:00.001+02:00

-happy dooms day everyone / back to work / guess i'll have to die on my feet behind a bar
-or not / either way / andrea / happy graduation / and all that proud of you stuff

2011-05-19T18:19:00.004+02:00

-got on the phone with some junk-yard guys the other day / ditched our car / doubled our money from when al tried calling earlier in the week / no idea why / maybe it's because i'm a guy / maybe it's because i called early in the morning and sounded all gruff / or whatever the case may be / starting to feel a little unusual / we all bounce out of new york in a month / also al leaves next week for a ten day installation at a museum just outside of boston / once again / life seems to be in a state of upheaval

2011-05-16T22:19:00.013+02:00

-opened and closed the bar sat. / after work / late / missed all three of my trains getting home / closed my eyes once i caught the last one /exhausted / didn't think i'd fall asleep / just wanted to rest my eyes / ended up crashing out and riding back and fourth across brooklyn till eight in the morning
-still got home with my wallet an everything

2011-05-14T19:41:00.000+02:00

2011-05-12T17:22:00.000+02:00

2011-05-11T15:39:00.005+02:00

-lost the last tier to one side of the family / just got bumped up one step closer to death
-turns out lois didn't want a funeral and only wanted family to be present / no church / no priest / no body present / the twenty-some-odd of us gathered together / talked about impressions and the effect this woman left on us all / or not / some people didn't talk / there was a lot crying / then / we all had a long meal together / according to mac the whole experience was like a party
-back in brooklyn now / didn't really take many pictures out on the west coast / though i was around many decent people

2011-05-02T18:15:00.007+02:00

-going out to los angeles later in the week / funeral / pay my respects there / not on this blog / just leave it at this for now / most of the richest aspects in my life are due to a woman named lois
-as an old friend used to say / that is all

2011-04-30T18:14:00.004+02:00

-this is the time of the week where i start to feel a little unusual / haven't seen al for a few days now / get home late from my job / say hello when she's asleep / but try not to wake her up / walked around a bit and tried to catch some day light today / the cocktail lounge i work at has no windows / and that's that / back to work / bye

2011-04-27T22:43:00.007+02:00

-might as well make an appearance on this blog / hello to who ever checks this

2011-04-25T18:44:00.004+02:00

2011-04-21T21:09:00.000+02:00

-finished this painting / 5' x 5' / mixed media on panel

2011-04-20T20:42:00.001+02:00

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2011-04-15T16:33:00.002+02:00

-slightly disheveled today / got a few hours of sleep (work night) / woke up to mac tapping the back of my neck / all excited about going to school / gets to walk back to the apt. with his best friend afterwards / friend get to spend the night / cute

2011-04-13T19:03:00.002+02:00

-studio visit yesterday / walking around / etc.

2011-04-12T23:08:00.000+02:00

-me & al / 11 years

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2011-04-01T19:29:00.005+02:00

-weather forecast for the day / winter mix / once again / ready to cut into the next season / days like this make me want to hibernate / too bad / work night

2011-03-31T15:14:00.002+02:00

-as it goes / mac picked up an out of tune guitar around the house recently and tuned it perfectly by ear / asked him if he wanted guitar lessons / now he's a few weeks in
-keep telling him / whatever you do in life mac / don't become a bartender / think he'll be alright / kid's got some secret skills / time will tell

2011-03-30T23:15:00.001+02:00

2011-03-29T17:13:00.008+02:00

2011-03-29T03:47:00.004+02:00

-why does windshield glass turn blue when broken / summer plans .......... finally starting to make my head spin a bit (solo three month residency starts in july) / sometimes life just seems like a series of goodbyes

2011-03-25T16:35:00.001+01:00