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sometimes you just have to listen to enya in the bath
Last fall, my friend Ursula organized us into a Neo Boys cover band for Halloween, and this summer, we played at the release party for the reissue of Crumbling Myths WITH PAT BAUM ON THE DRUMS
Based on this photo you might not be able to guess that mere moments before it was taken I ate an entire container of chicken salad with my hands because I forgot to have lunch on the way home from playing a show in Olympia
If you too would like to experience cake as well as some of the most beautiful music ever performed, come to Turn! Turn! Turn! TONITE
In honor of Sir Paul’s birthday please enjoy this drawing of him, the idea for which appeared to me in a dream
Oh my GOD can’t believe I didn’t post my Enya birthday cake, so sorry for the delay!
Good morning happy May Day happy full moon in Scorpio! An art show I had the pleasure of curating is opening TONIGHT at Souvenir on Alberta! Come see the most talented painters of our generation and eat a cake I made!
Complicated salad (fennel bulb, watercress, cucumber, radishes, mustard greens, blood orange, salt, pecorino, mustard vinaigrette, three poached eggs) and Nordic sport bread
Medicinal brisket to restore my strength after almost a week as one of the only pedestrians in the entire city of Houston, TX
in very belated honor of women’s history month I would like to present this unintentionally extremely funny plaque from the “walk of heroines” on the campus where I work, which is phrased in such a way that it implies that someone named Carol Stam Hampton is the ur-woman from whom we all descend
speaking of my purpose in life, here's the next benefit gig I have booked:
Anyway in case you also got mad as hell about the news that the city is SITTING ON NINE MILLION DOLLARS that could make an existential difference to our cherished small arts orgs, maybe come to this benefit show I am throwing!
The secret to surviving the winter is spending all the money you earned reading tarot at your friend’s shop on operatically huge bouquets of roses for your bedroom
ANYWAY. I’m having a solo show of relatively recent works on paper at the Fresh Pot on Hawthorne that opens tomorrow night. Notably it includes a series of four drawings of the Beach Boys at their most furious, rendered on pink paper I spritzed with patchouli spray and left on a windowsill to fade.
If you see Michael in the wild please congratulate him on not only curating and promoting a beautiful show but also running sound for the entire thing and still managing to perform some of his own songs too
My friend I’m not joining a cult with hosted a really wonderful songwriter showcase last night; @katesattler.bsky.social was a real highlight!
Oh another important point is that the company that makes salmon cannons is called WHOOSHH Innovations
Portland art lovers and fans of unusual fish transportation MUST go see Sasha Fishman’s SHAD MODE at ILY2, there is a functional salmon cannon in the gallery with realistic weight hot pink rubber salmon you can chuck into it
So glad I got to spend International Vulture Day in the company of an actual vulture
I dreamed that people were making fun of me for writing an elaborate zine about Hell and was delighted to find when I woke up that the perforated marginalia idea I’d dreamed actually worked and looked cool in waking life