Pete Glover : Online Journal

its gonna be cold, its gonna be gray, and its going to last you the rest of your life

2010-02-19T12:11:00.001-08:00

meanwhile...

2010-02-12T11:43:00.000-08:00

dang.it

2010-02-08T19:13:00.000-08:00

The.other.morning.I.spilled.a.little.bit.of.coffee.on.my.keyboard.

and.now.the.space.bar.no.longer.works.

phoney photographs

2010-01-23T17:03:00.000-08:00

My new phone can take some pretty good pictures. All these pictures were taken through either the Lo-Mob or ShakeIt photo apps. If they ever create a decent app for uploading and posting photos direct to the blog, I'd probably update a lot more frequently. Maybe I'll get a Flicker account or something.

rub on and on

2009-12-09T13:50:00.000-08:00

New work available through Art-In-A-Box:

Just some more Letraset on reused paper things. These two were actually given more thought and care than it might first appear. I really hope whoever gets them likes them. The one on the bottom of the two (they don't have titles) is my favorite of all my works in this style thus far.

And here is a detail image of one that was part of November's AIAB program:

All these images were taken by Matt and Lena Reynoso, whom run AIAB, and are hosted on their site. Hopefully they'll keep them online.

In the meanwhile, I'm doing my best to go into artistic-production mode. I don't like saying it, but right now I really don't need any inspiration or new ideas, I just need to get busy and make more finished pieces. I know I'll eat those words as soon as the next dry spell comes along.

Wilderness

2009-11-27T07:52:00.000-08:00

I made this one a while ago but forgot to post it...

keeping up with myself

2009-11-23T06:37:00.000-08:00

Just some stuff...

Our pick-up baseball league season (which I joined in August) had our "championship game" this past Saturday. The teams are the Bad News Beers vs. the Loaded Bases (although we pick new teams every game). Playing ball has been the highlight of my week but it is getting dark, cold, and the soccer players who play in the outfield are getting pretty obnoxious.

There are no winners or losers (my teams lost the big game, 25-17) when everybody has as much fun as we do. The championship game was pretty much all offense, with one good on-field collision, a lot of grounder home-runs, and one ball hit into the trash can in the tennis courts. Then we all grilled some food, drank cans of PBR, admired the trophy I cobbled together, and sang a rousing chorus of "Take Me Out To the Ballgame". I can't wait for spring.

We are currently scrounging for free baseball gear for the 2010 season: catcher's gear, extra gloves (especially left-handed), bases, balls, decent wood bats or anything else, so let me know if you can help me score any items. Everybody is always welcome to play (no skills necessary), so come March, it's on again!

Here is a picture of the Mind stencil I cut for the posters in the previous post.

The studio at night.

I was Han Solo for Halloween this year. We didn't go anywhere or anything, so I was just dressed like this while sitting at the gallery or (as seen here) eating a sandwich.

Out the side window of our home. Sunset of 40th.

Rock N Bowl 3

2009-11-18T13:01:00.000-08:00

Turn Off - Tune Out - Drop In

On November 7th we had it up at Rock N Bowl part 3. All other parties can't hold a snuffbox to this one and it was just what I needed to snap me out of the funk I had been feeling lately. There was a plethora of good food (ok, hamburgers and hotdogs), plenty of drink, an epic skate jam (culminated with Matt Butler's in the dark blunt-to-axle ender), live music, an audio-visual psychedelic image show, lots of friends and friends-of-friends-of-friends, and even the cops were cool. The clean-up was pretty reasonable, the weather held-up, and the hangover was manageable.

Other than occasional trips to the grill or the keg, I pretty much stuck it out behind the projectors for most of the evening, so the photos are a bit limited in quantity.

We had overhead projections (here featuring a Ryohei Tanaka killer cut stencil), 16mm movies (with and without sound), and the Junk Pirate psychedelic slide show.
This party's just gettin started.
JD made a guest appearance to keep his streak of hurting himself in the Pond alive.
The CCA Boys were present (of course) and set the bar pretty high in the bowl. Here is a cast-armed Alex nose-bluntsliding the notch to pop-in.
When not rocking the guitar or making out with his girlfriend, Duncan was laying back boardslide re-entries. Sick.
Dirt Flood got This Mob fired-up with his own brand of country blues acoustics.
A little vid of Dirt playing the blues. He wrote this song.

"Mama Tried"
Free Dirt!
Then Mind stepped up and kept their rep up. I was too busy running the light-show and banging my head to take photos. Rest assured, Mind fucking ruled.

A final encore of "Smokestack Lightning" featuring Dirt Flood on vocals and Elliot Flood on harmonica.

It was a great, great party and I feel like we got away with something, so I'm thinking like I should quit while I'm ahead. Maybe next year we won't promote it so much.
Also, scanning the blog I see I never posted the photos of Mind from last year's Rock N Bowl 2 (and they are pretty good pictures), so here they are:

To coin the term "Frankensteined"

2009-10-11T09:09:00.000-07:00

Speaking of Art-In-A-Box (see previous post, which is directly below this one), here are some images they took of the work I have available through them for October:

A whole bunch of spirit transfer prints (aka Dittos) sewn together, featuring the poem "You Are Old, Father William" from Lewis Carroll.

A portrait of my new sewing machine. You will note the little Braile touches here and there.
A "Frankensteined" version of my new Time Wasting Machine print, made from the four artist's proofs I had left over from the edition of 100.

to Frankenstein - verb - to sew (or otherwise compile and attach) a bunch of components together to make a whole.

I also want to just point out that Frankenstein technically isn't the name of the greenish monster made from reanimated corpse parts, made popular by Boris Karloff. Technically that is "Frankenstein's Monster", who doesn't have a name. Frankenstein is the doctor. That book is so good. It was written by a teenage girl almost 200 years ago!

So, anyways, I'm trying to keep busy in the studio while still having a good time all the time, everywhere. My beginner piano self-lessons are coming along slowly (Every Good Boy Does Fine), we're playing baseball every Thursday evening and our defense is actually really improving, my leg is slowly getting back its strength, and I generally love October anyhow, so I say things are all right. And we all know everything lasts forever so I'm all set.

letrasetitoff

2009-10-09T15:39:00.000-07:00

I've been having myself a good old time with the classic transfer lettering and some reuse papers. These are each about 4x6 inches.

Most of these will likely be available in the coming months, framed, through the Art-In-A-Box program, of which I am both an artist and a subscriber. Get into it or get left behind.

onward

2009-10-02T12:38:00.000-07:00

Installation 5 in Los Angeles

2009-09-24T09:32:00.000-07:00

This upcoming Saturday, September 26th, is the private closing reception for the traveling Scion Installation 5: Self-Portraits art tour. As I've mentioned several times here, my collaborative film with David Choe, 23 Short Films, was part of the tour. The tour has been great and I've been very fortunate to have attended the show in both Miami and San Jose, and the good folks at Scion are flying me down to LA for the weekend to bask in the end of my glorious sponsored artist career. I'm still hoping they pick me up on my own for some other projects, but we all know who the marquee name on this film is.

Anyways, if you are in the area and would like to attend this high-rolling event, I can probably sneak you in so give me a call.

The highlight of the evening will be the closing of the charity auction for all the art, which is already online. You can bid on my project here (no takers thus far). The thing is, $65 minimum for a DVD seems a little steep. But, if you read the fine print, you will find that Dave Choe and I collaborated on a custom painted DVD cover, and Dave even did a custom drawing for the disc. Put an image of that up and let the bidding begin!

Update: Looks like somebody is getting an original David Choe painting, drawings, and DVD for $175! Congrats.

Fortunately, I took a few scans and pictures of the artwork before submitting it to Scion so here is your chance to bask in the fading glory of my collaboration with a famous friend.

The full artwork: back, spine, and front.
Dave done drew the stickers for the disc

And here is the final package.You may be able to watch the entire video online for free, or just ask me for a DVD and I'll hook you up, but a custom David Choe painting has got to be worth something. And it's for charity, so get busy bidding or get busy dying.
And make sure to check the previous post [below] for another awesome show from Crab Shak alumni happening in San Jose.

Certified Participants

2009-09-23T19:50:00.000-07:00

Opening this upcoming Friday, Sept. 25th, will be Certified Participants, a group show at Empire Seven Studios in San Jose. I'll be showing new work along with such favorites as Mitsy Avila Ovalles, Roan Victor, Joe To, Fernando Amaro Jr., Wel Went, Stuart Mahoney, and Sean Boyles (who curated the exhibition). I'm too lazy to post links to all those wonderful artists, but I do recommend checking them all out.

I'll be showing some new telepole stencil panels. Kind of an continuation of the paper telepole stencils I printed for the Giant Robot NY print show. Take a look see:

Each of these panels is about 16 x 24 inches and 1.5 inches deep. I also resurrected on of my favorite multi-layer stencils for a fifth panel:

Because of my gimpy leg (that's another story) I wasn't able to make it down to San Jose for the install, but Sean did an excellent job customizing the wall to the artwork and snapped a quick pick for us:

Thanks, Sean. And then here is a quick video of the rest of the participants straight-up certifying.

Show runs to October 31st.

You Buy Now

2009-09-19T10:16:00.000-07:00

At last I announce my new print edition. Offered exclusively through Rowan Morrison Gallery. It is the official Time-Wasting Machine.

Each print is screenprinted by master craftsman Nat Swope over at Bloom Screen Print Co. Two colors (white and black) on reused paper bag paper. The nature of the print is a bit loose and experimental, so each print is a little different. The papers are of different tones, textures, and thickness - the image is often printed over whatever printing was already on the bag, with different levels of opacity - the registration wavers slightly - and I even rotated each print as I signed and numbered them, so their orientation varies. The final trim (which I did by hand) is 10" x 10". It is an edition of 100.

We're trying to keep the retail cost down without getting completely washed on it so you can own this print for only $15, plus shipping if you order it online. It is shipped flat. If you come by the gallery or my studio, you can browse through the stack and custom pick yours. If you want a particular style or rotation, just email me or the good folks at Rowan Morrison (also me) and let us know what you want.

You can get more info and obtain yours right here at the Rowan Morrison online print shop.

We also just released a new screenprint from Los Angeles artist Travis Millard.

New Print Coming Soon

2009-09-01T06:18:00.000-07:00

I'm so excited. And I just can't hide it.

New Pete Glover print edition, sold exclusively through Rowan Morrison Gallery, will be available online very soon. Screenprinted on used paper bag paper. Edition of 100. More details and images coming soon.

If you just cannot wait to get your fix of my crudtacular© art projects, stroll on by Subrosa Coffee at 40th and Webster in Oakland and you can gander two new drawings I haven't posted on the blog or my website yet. Subrosa is brand new and has good coffee made one cup at a time so get hyped. Here is a picture John Casey took of the drawings for his blog:

Maybe I'll get some quality images of these up soon. I took pictures of 'em before I framed them, but still haven't processed them for the web yet. I am also now an artist contributing to the Art-In-A-Box program run by Matt and Lena at The Compound. For the first round I contributed 5 sets of prints, which are each really 3 older linocut prints sewn together, looking not unlike this:

I'll have at least 3 new pieces available next month, and if you join and are in the Bay Area you can even pick your piece in person at Compound for one night only on Sept. 8th. More info here. The art show is open to non-subscribers as well.

There is a lot going on in September. In addition for Subrosa, Art-In-A-Box, and my new print release, I will be in group shows in Los Angeles and San Jose! I'll post it all up when once I catch my breath. These netflix aren't going to watch themselves, you know.

And, most importantly, Narangkar's big solo exhibition, "It's Gonna Be Awesome", is going to have the opening reception to end all opening reception of Saturday, September 12th.

monster carrots

2009-08-30T18:09:00.000-07:00

Look at these awesomely huge carrots we grew in our veggie garden!

Wow.

Now let's look at them from a different perspective:

Wa-waaaaa.

The one on the right there is decent, and there are still some big boys in the dirt, but the next crop is going to need to be thinned out a bit. Still, I'm not complaining. We've been knee deep in tomatoes all summer. Throw in a jalapeno, a cucumber or two, a bit of basil, and maybe even some green onions and it has been a good summer.

"Is that Freedom Rock, man?"

2009-08-16T16:44:00.000-07:00

Being that today is the 40th Anniversary of the weekend of the Woodstock Music Festival (technically Sha Na Na and Hendrix played on a Monday morning) and that, coincidentally, I have spent the last few night rocking out to the Blu-Ray extended directors cut (with 18 extra musical performances), I figured I would continue this over-the-top nostalgia we collectively have going this weekend.

Why not start it off with easily the greatest performance of the whole festival (at least of the film): Santana's Soul Sacrifice. Great version of this song, and even greater when you throw in the context that, at the time, Santana was an unknown SF band that hadn't even recorded their first album. Bill Graham pulled some string to get them on the bill. 19-year-old drummer Michael Shrieve's drum solo is just mind blowing. Then factor in the admission that the whole band was very high on acid during this performance. Turn it up, Man!

Not in the Woodstock film, but finally available in the new Blu-Ray release is the performance of heavy rockers Mountain. This was just their 3rd gig, and they were clearly the heaviest band in the place. The sound in this clip isn't the best, but the distorted bass is just killer.

I also thought it would be a good time to celebrate the Woodstock of my generation. No, I'm not talking about Woodstock 94 and I'm especially not talking about Woodstock 99, I'm talking about those awesome commercials for Freedom Rock!

Even after all these years I still intuitively know where each song snippet cuts into another and their order. To this day I still expect to hear The Byrds "Turn Turn Turn" mash into Skynyrd's "If I leave hear tomorrow..." whenever I hear it. I didn't actually listen to any of these songs into I really started rocking in my twenties (I was just 9 or 10 when Freedom Rock first dropped in 1987).

I recently scored a scratched up copy of the 2nd disc of Freedom Rock form the Junk Store and I have to say it really isn't a very good compilation at all. Zager & Evans? James Taylor? Malanie? These people don't rock. The commercial is much, much better than the actual product.

Anyhow, I have fallen in love with heavy 60s and 70s rock (and even some of the lighter stuff) and am currently working on a 4-disc, 5 hour custom super Freedom Rock Platinum Edition with all kinds of rarities to go with the hits. It is going to be amazing (maybe I'll post the track listing) and I can burn you a copy for just $24.95 plus $3 shipping and handling.

In the meanwhile, let's all throw up the peace fingers and have a skinny dip in honor of all the smart bands that, because the couldn't get paid enough or didn't want to deal with the hassle of getting there, declined playing at Woodstock:

The Doors (Morrison was paranoid that he would be assassinated at a large outdoor venue).
Led Zeppelin (didn't want to be "just another band" in the show).
Jethro Tull (didn't want "to spend their weekend in a field of unwashed hippies). I actually sympathize with this one a bit.
Bob Dylan (not enough money, hated his fans).
The Byrds (angry about their hit song constantly being associated with Lynyrd Skynyrd).
Moody Blues (despite being on the original poster, decided to play Paris instead).
Iron Butterfly (got lost on the way).
Joni Mitchell (was afraid the traffic would make her late for her appearance on the Dick Cavett Show).
Procal Harum (didn't want to play on a hog farm).
Moby Grape (wasn't invited).
Cream (band had already broken up).
Mind (no member of the band had been born yet).

and so on...

2009-08-11T08:55:00.000-07:00

Five recent pictures and the mind-numbingly dull stories that go with them:

The new look at Rowan Morrison Gallery. We re-sized the desk and moved it into the gallery, painted the face wall, added three shelved for books, and removed the book island. We also had to drill a hole in the wall to get the phone line into the gallery for the credit card machine. So, nowadays we are curating the selection of books on display in the gallery. The artwork in this picture is by Carl Auge.
Messing with the camera at night in the studio. I'm still mesmerized by the way the door numbers reversed on the glass spell "SEE".
I'm a bit late to the party at this new skate spot in north Berkeley. It is in the parking lot at the new soccer field complex west of the highway on Gilman. Frankly, the ground is gritty and these kind of bank spots take a lot of energy to skate. I'll stick with Oak Tech, thank you very much.

I told you I would post more pictures of the veggies harvested from our garden box. It is going to be a gazpacho and salsa August.

Get Busy

2009-08-08T13:11:00.000-07:00

I tell myself that I'm going to clock in massive hours in the studio on a daily (or nightly) basis and just crank out the work. Good or bad, just make art constantly. The good ones will rise to the top from the volume. Narangkar is racking up literally hundreds of hours on some amazing things for her upcoming solo exhibition. Time for Pete to get with the program.

It goes without saying that I'm falling way short of my goals for both time in the studio and time working on actual artworks while in the studio, but I've still managed to get a few pieces out of my brain and through my hands. Nothing great, but hopefully when I get through enough of these it'll be something. And I've really enjoyed the process, which it supposed to be what it is all about.

This drawing took way to long and, in retrospect, isn't that pleasing aesthetically. I just haven't found a happy way to use the vertical format without centering the image. This piece is even more claustrophobic framed. It is about 15 inches tall.

On the other hand, this piece just flowed out real smooth and easy. The arched form and lines on the right bring to mind a lot of the uninspired "rainbow art" that is floating around the scene these days (link chosen at random from many, many easy to find choices). That bothers me a little, but I still like this drawing a bunch and it felt good and loose during creation. It is about 10" tall.
I've got about four or five more pieces all done and trimmed and framed. No pictures for you yet, though. I often feel like just the processing of everything - scanning or photographing, file prepping, uploading, blogging, spellcheck, and on - can really interfere with art creation and often isn't worth the effort. Sure, it is important to document your work (there are certainly things I wish I had better records of), and these peripheral things are part of the professional art practice, but sometimes the digital side of things gets way to distracting and time consuming.
On another note, I need a general catch-all phrase for these building drawings. The machine ones are "time-wasting machines" (pretty clever, eh?), and I've been titling some of these as "wilderness" drawings (also pretty clever, no?), but it isn't sticking. Lil' help, people.

Ditto

2009-07-29T08:39:00.000-07:00

A while back I was able to score myself an authentic Ditto brand copy machine from the Junk Store. Technically, a Ditto isn't a Mimeograph. Ditto is a brand of spirit duplicator copy machines. All I knew is that they are non-electrical machines that somehow made the awesome blue tinted copies I used to get in grade school before toner photocopies became the norm.

The copier came with some methanol "duplicating fluid" to make copies, and with a little research I figured out that basically the methanol transfers the image from a carbon-paper like master to the paper. But would any carbon-paper do? I had no idea until about two weeks ago when a box of Ditto brand masters came into the Junk Store!

It looks like it is carbon-paper that then transfers the carbon-ink image onto a waxy paper, and then that is what gets soaked in methanol and transfers that image onto paper. I'm actually pretty surprised there isn't more info about these things online. And every teacher I mention it to just suggests I used a Xerox machine.

After an afternoon a tinkering around I finally got the paper running through the machine decently and even got it to pump some of the fluid. Remember, all the mechanics are driven by the single hand crank. I did a little drawing on a master and wrote some text along the left side (where most of the fluid was flowing) and managed to get it all drummed up.

Well, the results were less than stellar. It seems that I can't really get a smooth and even distribution of the spirits onto the felt so that the paper or master is soaked enough to pick up the ink, or maybe something else. I was able to get some cool accidental images, and even a few cool looking prints.

As a few days have gone by I actually sort of dig the inconsistency of these. I'll give it another go soon and hopefully get a little more image to transfer. I really want to make some sort of small-run print edition with this thing. Other than Raymond Pettibon's Psychedelic Translation of Alan Ginsberg's Howl, I don't know of any artist who has used Dittos or Mimeographs for printmaking. Here are some of the many page I made:

Not exactly what I was hoping for but I'm pretty proud just to have gotten any image at all. The images are a little less faint in person. I have a limited supply of duplicating fluid. Once it is in the machine there is no getting it out for storage, and I bet it evaporates pretty quickly. I'll post the results (if there are any).

And, yes, I'm aware of the toxicity of this stuff. As you can see from the first photo in this blog, I'm working outdoors. Honestly, the prints don't nearly reek of solvents as much as I think they should.

UPDATE: Since taking these photos I have managed to get some pretty good prints from this thing during another session. I used the old manuel typewriter, tried printing from the carbon paper instead of the master (lots of purple), and had better results with old newsprint paper. The best images arrived when I really soaked the paper in fluid. I made a pretty big mess, wasted a lot of paper, screamed curses more than once, came out with a few great images (I'll post them soon) and probably shortened my life span by a year or two. I probably have just enough newsprint and duplicating fluid for one more try.

So check back here soon or stop by the studio and see how it's going.

In the meanwhile, here is one of the only good resources on Dittos I could find on the net:

http://theyalwayscomeback.blogspot.com/2008/02/ditto-machine.html

Pen-Opake vs. all other white inks

2009-07-27T07:19:00.000-07:00

Pen-Opake is the best white ink there is. The only problem is that they stopped manufacturing it several years ago and nobody seems to have a stash for sale. Occasionally it is mentioned nostalgicly on some art blog or another, but other than there is little info about it on the net or anywhere.

I've been using up the few crusty bottles I procured from the Junk Store on all those ink-and-white-on-paper-bag drawings I've been doing, so I set out to find a suitable replacement. Some illustrator friends of mine mentioned that FW Acrylic Ink is a very opaque and fluid white, so I procured me some and put it to the test... a test it failed miserably.

So I went through my stash of white inks and gouaches to see who had what it takes.

I tested the FW, Rotring, Talens Ecoline, Pro White, Pen-Opake, and Higgins Super White, all in jars with a brush on a paper bag. I also tried tubes of Talens Plakkaatuerf, Winson & Newton Designers in both Permanent and Zinc White. Some of the thicker ones needed a touch of water to get going.The Pen-Opake was easily the best and brightest. And this was from a jar that is likely 20 years old. The Talens Ecoline was a decent 2nd place, and I suppose the Pro-White will do in a pinch. The Rotring and FW are liquid, which I thought would work well in a japanese water-brush, but I thought wrong. The Higgins was, by far, the worst.All the tubes of gouache looked pretty good. I was hoping to find a suitable replacement for Pen-Opake that is bright and opaque but fluid enough to use in the water-brush. I also ended up learning quite a bit about water-brush technology and the fact that my current white brush only works because it is a cheap imitation without a stopper mechanism to block the overflow of water. Fascinating.So, yeah, if you come across any Pen-Opake in any condition, let me know and I'll buy it from you. Or if you have any other bright ideas about an opaque white, hit me up.
The water-brush jar.

Veggie Boxing

2009-07-24T19:01:00.001-07:00

Last summer we built a raised veggie garden box on top of an old stump we had hacked down. It was basically wasted yard space. Narangkar designed it, of course. It took almost a ton of quality dirt to fill it.

We dug the post holes with a little help from the local tool lending library. That place is great!
Then we covered the area with landscaper's cloth to (hopefully) keep all the yard-weeds out.

Those are quality redwood planks there.

Ta-daaa!

Our neighbors helped pitch in for the dirt. It was hard work getting all the bags into the yard. Our first round of plantings consisted of a bunch of lettuces, some swiss chard, some tomato plants, basil, peas, some chile plants, and some leeks. The arugula and chard did really well. The peas, not so much. The thai chiles were ridiculously hot. Like weapons grade hot.

Then a long while went by where I didn't really take many photos of our veggie box. Plants pretty much grow year round, so we've been snacking all winter. Then, this spring we panted more tomatoes, plus new seeds of lettuces, mustard greens, leeks, plus more chard, some green onion, carrots, and some cucumbers. Plus some cosmos flowers for looks.

While we were away on our two week vacation, the tomatoes and cosmos grew like nuts.

The tomatoes are just now starting to ripen (not in this photo, though, which I took two weeks ago) so we are pretty much snacking a few everyday.

Look at the size of those cukes!
I'll post more photos of all our veggies, not to mention the avocado trees, as they get taken. Eat up.

East Coast Tour - Phase 4: Philadelphia

2009-07-18T08:01:00.000-07:00

We finished our tour in the city of brotherly something or other.
We stayed in the Row House of our friends Kris and Tim. They recently got a half-puppy-half shark named Porkchop.

Most of our day in Philly was just me rambling nostalgic to Narangkar about how great it was to skate this city back in the day.
This seemed like a mandatory photo.

Our Philly map, by Tim Gough.

Narangkar sketches Benjamin.

Skulls.
Bobble heads.
Lots of good beer in this town.
Turkey sandwich at the Amish cafe in Redding Station.

Great finds at the Army Surplus store.
Awwwww.
Couldn't leave Philly without stopping by Pat's. One Cheez Whiz wit and a Cherry Coke.
Porkchop.
The view from the upper deck at Citizen Bank park, where the Phillies rocked the Mets 7-2.

Because it was July 4th weekend or something the Mets also wore red caps. It really looked like everybody was wearing the same colors.

Big, big "thanks" for our Philly leg go out to Kris and Tim. They rule! Also Porkchop, Kris and Tim's friends whom I can't remember their names. Also thanks to Siriji and Steven for holding down the fort while we were away.

East Coast Tour - Phase 3: Connecticut

2009-07-17T08:01:00.000-07:00

Birthday breakfast.
Pudge.
Bobo.
Pudge.
Bobo.

Some new paintings by Kathryn Glover.
Train time to Philly.

We got "sushed" a lot.
We stayed in CT with my Mom for a few days. It was a good chance to relax after the hectic pace of New York. We ate that delicious cheap family-style Italian food that is all over the place in the East Coast but nowhere in California and saw Up for my birthday.Big "thanks" for our CT leg go to Kathryn, Pudge, and Bobo.

East Coast Tour - Phase 2: New York

2009-07-16T08:01:00.000-07:00

The Chicken Bus. Boston to NYC in a little over 4 hours for only $15.
New York City. We were there for Narangkar's cousin's wedding. We also saw the Francis Bacon show at the Met.
We stayed at the Off Soho in the Lower East Side. Apparently Rollins stays there, too.

Stormy skies for the harbor cruise. Lightning all around. It was awesome.

I thought this cabin toilet was interesting.
Tuf Nut
Rehearsal dinner.
Brunch at Bread while listening the Michael Jackson.

Ceremony at the Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, complete with choir and organ music.
Then off to Prospect Park in Brooklyn for the reception.
How much did the rainbow cost them?
Wedding polka band, playing all the traditional hits plus Brick House on the accordion. The band had this old sound guy and then this other kid who just stood there with his arms crossed looking angry.
The horah.
Late night drinks at Baby Grand.
Secret downstairs studio and drum kit.

The Sky from The Met.
Big "thanks" on of New York leg to Jared and Ilona, the Lamenzo family, Donut Plant, Pickle Guys, Francis Bacon, Mark and Raylene, and my Mom for picking us up. More to come tomorrow.