Thursday, January 31, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Aero Theater, Santa Monica, Calif.
A Mel Brooks double-feature, the classic "Young Frankenstein" followed by the amusing but less-than-stellar "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (1995).
A Mel Brooks double-feature, the classic "Young Frankenstein" followed by the amusing but less-than-stellar "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" (1995).
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Centered on the Center 2008
Huntington Beach, Calif., through February 17
I have conflicting ideas for paintings: I would like to do figurative work that is not exactly surrealist but that incorporates elements of the irrational; yet I am also still fascinated by maps. So the new (old) idea is to paint cities from above, based on how they are mapped, in an abstract manner devoid of spontaneity. Mixed media and encaustic may be involved. The title will be the name of the city.
Tonight was "Centered on the Center" at the Huntington Beach Art Center. It was crowded as usual and I left quickly, but there was one piece somewhat in the mode of my planned future abstractions, a primitive country scene by Alexa Alexander that engaged me with its naivete, and an oil painting by Joel Woodard that I might like to buy. I will have to return when things have quieted down.
I have conflicting ideas for paintings: I would like to do figurative work that is not exactly surrealist but that incorporates elements of the irrational; yet I am also still fascinated by maps. So the new (old) idea is to paint cities from above, based on how they are mapped, in an abstract manner devoid of spontaneity. Mixed media and encaustic may be involved. The title will be the name of the city.
Tonight was "Centered on the Center" at the Huntington Beach Art Center. It was crowded as usual and I left quickly, but there was one piece somewhat in the mode of my planned future abstractions, a primitive country scene by Alexa Alexander that engaged me with its naivete, and an oil painting by Joel Woodard that I might like to buy. I will have to return when things have quieted down.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Talk Show Hosts
Tonight the talk shows are back on-air, despite a WGA strike. Letterman has his writers and a beard; the others don’t. I was interested at first, but the results are predictable: David Letterman is funny, Jay Leno is not. Ahead of tomorrow’s Iowa caucus, Leno had an interview with sinister Republican candidate Mike Huckabee.
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