Greetings from the Café Sancerre
“There is no greater compliment to an artist than to inspire someone to THINK,” Kate wrote me this morning. I’d cooked up a yin a yang of pork chops last night with shitake mushrooms in pan sauce. To die for. Washed it down with a bottle of Sancerre wine that took me back to my favorite Montmartre café: Le Sancerre.
Woke up this morning with a dollars worth of pennies in my mouth, walked wonderfully healing dog outside and found a big stack of stretchers to make Kate’s painting and several more. Brooklyn provides.
Plus I’m back to work on the final act of the screenplay (Super 8 Days…or Film Geeks, deepending on who you talk to). The nice thing is that the internet went out and I was forced to just be me by myself. Sometimes it’s good to get rid of your nervous system. It’s like meditating. Hold on to your Ego.
March 23rd, 2005 at 12:29 am
Kate writes:
it is time for those of us who are told we “think too much” to stop apologizing in order to appease the ambivilent “minions.” the evil truth of the U.S. is that we live in a pseudo democracy where people are continually told they are free (and surrounded by impotent symbols) but we are indoctrinated from birth to self-censor. the level of repression and distraction…it’s the old magicians trick…look at the movie star/sports match/pretty expensive thing in my left hand while my right hand plays sociopathic chess with real people’s lives in the middle east. as far as I am concerned, the neo-conservatives are neo-fascists who have nothing but scorn for democracy and envision themselves as Plato’s philosopher-kings. there is only one nation with the power to smack down the buzzing USA gnat and that is China. lord help us all if Bush Inc. is dumb enough to challenge them. I spent too much time in university studying war game theory and the twisted strategic calculations that involve millions of people. it is extremely dangerous when the nerds take over…they have years of personal affronts to compensate for & they have long since distanced themselves from seeing people as fellow humans instead of “casualties” or “collateral damage” from their explosive toys.
crazy artists unite! actually, my new company name will be “Artists Awake”…now, who do I know who could create a logo….
Lex, I can’t afford much but I do think a painting that includes some of the fabric is in order.  perhaps you ought to spread it around to a number of pieces like bits of donor material…
btw…I think you’ll both appreciate my new discovery…massive amounts of wine actually works better than ambien. I slept a full night.
and yes, we will put comments on your blog.
have a happy day.
K.
March 23rd, 2005 at 12:32 am
You all ready have commented. I’ve been busy putting shallac primer all over your tafeta dress (paging John Roenquist we have a sample). One of them sort of looks like a weird logo.
alex
April 2nd, 2005 at 6:59 pm
I suppose a bottle of the family vin should accompany the piece. Ethel Merman my ass…twas the heritage I was channeling.
blog away, my friend. you’ve found your happy medium…