re: upcoming art show.

hello lovers,

how are you? i hope you are well. i mean it. like, super well. awesome in fact. haha.

i am, there's all sorts of chaos around us, it's epic, but all we can do is soldier on, keep moving forward, because what's the alternative? thumbs receding, eye's closening, teeth getting longer, hunches in our backs!?!?! hahaha.

so, i've been listening to the new "Queens of the Stone Age," quite a lot and really dig it.

why?

because, it's fresh and new, and unlike a lot of the shit out there these days, but how long have we been saying that? forever. probably since mozart, beetlejuice and rammstein.

anyways, it's a great, dark, brooding, sexy at times album.

i read interviews or some shit like that where the ginger-haired singer Josh Homme (french for "dude." how perfect?) said most of it was written after he flatlined on the old operating table for a knee operation. sounds serious and whack!? and overkill.

now, i'm not a doctor, but that should/could have been local anesthesia? or like played by the spirit of cliff burton?

haha, kidding. poor taste joke for a musician i love. cliff burton. not josh "man."

cha-ch.

well, back to the review. great album. dark as fuck. but has some great shagging moments. as every Queens of the Stone Age album should.

shagworthy vote? 7.5 out of 12.

why 12? coz fuck you that's why.

ass.

re: new art.......happy holidays!

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers.......

here's a new artwork i did, actually, i worked on a couple over the last few days, but didn't post them......

the one above is about a beautiful 72 buick i loved and lost..........

the below image is about a lot of things i won't even bother to explain.......except tell you the burlesque dancer was a still i took from some 1930's film i found at a wicked cool site called:

www.archive.org

and i've been wanting to use it for some time............

in the meantime, i'm packing up my place and getting ready to head to kelowna, bc, and it's kinda sad, to once again be packing stuff, throwing it into storage, and moving on.......but this is a really positive move, and a smart one..........

http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/kelownacapitalnews/entertainment/112394814.html

ha ha i picked a bad time to stop smoking tobacco! as i pack stuff up, i am flooded with memories of time i spent with my kids at my place, some fun dinner parties i had, it sucks giving up the place, but it has been an albatross around my neck since i've had it! very expensive, and i've never really been around much to enjoy it a whole lot! i was gone about three weeks every month, so it felt like i was paying a grand a month for a week long stint at my house........

though, it was nice to give my kids some stability, a place they always knew would be there.......

as for now, i once find myself at chapter's in kamloops, as i have done so often, writing and reflecting.....i think this place is comforting to me, in a world where i have always been on the road, or traveling or on the move, there are few constants for me......this is one place i have, and it's anonymous, and loaded with decent books on art and design.......

even though, as a published author, i've staunchly refused to read at them! ha ha! weird?!

hoping you've had a great holiday season, mine was surreal as usual, not because of anything i ingested, but more because of the fact i've realized i'm not really close to my family, not really close to anyone but my children......and that can make for lonely holidays when they're not around........so i've made a pledge to have a great holiday season next year, with loads of friends and family around for a big solstice feast and giveaway!!!

well, that's about enough navel gazing, here's to the end of a great year, and the start of a fabulous new one!!!

much love and thanks for dropping by the past year, or two!?


cb

re: the buick i love.......

hot rods, i dig'em!

that's a beauty of a buick......a mean machine.......

 cb