Some texts to my brother and notes on celebrity and visual arts culture
So, I’ve been pondering artistic direction yet again (more bellyaching about that on another post so as to keep this one on topic). And I was thinking about drawings me and my friends used to do in high school of celebrities and how there kinda was something to that,...
Ch-ch-changes… probably…
So, the flower headers are gone, replaced with some random pics from my rock memorabilia collections. Seems to me when I updated the blog in 2020 and I was painting more, the headers were my art. Then in 2021 I swapped it to my garden as I tried to...
FEE – Hollywood Hates You
Really good points about the decline of Hollywood and ever-spiralling shittiness towards the audience. And he’s right, that used to be an attitude for hacks who ended up in academia, but the cancer has spread. Ditto the concept about antagonizing the audience as a marketing strategy… it ain’t a...
A ramble on Bono, singer’s doubts, blue notes, etc.
Fuck… where do I even start with this… well, how about a screen shot? This came up a couple days ago, I guess. I haven’t heard the actual podcast it’s from yet, but I guess Bono went into some depth about the various doubts he has about the sound...
From Urinating Tree: “Hockey Has A Culture Problem”
Jesus fucking Christ… that Blackhawks sexual abuse thing is shocking. Well, maybe not. I mean, there have been stories about such abuse at the juniors level, but in the NHL? My God. The shit with the injuries, I guess, isn’t as surprising. These guys get hit hard, as hard...
Well, that didn’t go as planned…
This greeted me Saturday morning on Instagram: And despite a lot of heart emojis, mostly from cat ladies, the comments were a sea of puke and shit emojis: Oopsie… they even got rebuked from the left. And you can tell by what I clicked the hearts on what I...
A fun FB post courtesy of U2, plus some rambling about electric vehicles
Ah, Facebook… mostly I hate you, but every so often you serve me up with some lulz that almost make up for the fact that you’re an evil empire in control of thought policing and personal information harvesting masquerading as just a fun place to chat with my sane...
Aspect ratios, bass clarinet, first Lemax of the year, etc.
Where to start this week… Well, the cell phone bullshit extended to Tuesday, and took my brother’s intervention to fix it all. All I can say is I absolutely hate dealing with telecomm bullshit. And my old carrier’s sales team has been calling me every single day, even though...
A couple or three old stories and musings on creative direction for my writing career
So, an hour ago when I was stuck in the line-up for the McDonald’s drive-thru, I had a brilliant idea of how to start this blog, but now it’s all gone. Oh well. Can’t have been all that brilliant, I guess. I think it had something to do with...
A tale of two Instagrams
So… last week, one day my first-thing-in-the-morning habitual checking of Instagram brought me the following comparison (with some names removed to protect the bitter): [Party Band]’s Instagram story that day was 5 year old clips of [Party Band’s singer] with a hair up his ass snarkily lecturing the crowd...