Somehow it was too sweet a day to stay at home and compute, so I organized a pic-nic beneath the bridge and a visit to Tom’s for wine and song. We liberated the wine from Blanc et Rouge where it had been on display since the auntumn of 2001. Seemed the wine would be past peak soon, so any excuse for a Sideways warm bubbly romp…and Tom had just been to a Pinot Noir tasting the night before where they had a lot of Champagne… “They leave out the skins,” Tom announced by way of describing how it stays white with a pinot grape.
“They taught you well,” I mocked his didacticism.
Tom has decided he likes expensive wine the best. The idea of the tasting was to compare tenish dollar bottles to hundredish dollar bottles. “More expensive is more better,” said tom in Mardi Gras authority.
Anyway, I left some Vin De Terror empties at the store for them to display… so have a peek when in dumbo… those are the bottles from a case of French Merlot that I painted while watching Anthrax news, etc.
Tom was playing me some new songs from his band (with Steve Lewis). They are wokring up to a big Summerstage show and yours truly may be doing a video for them. They’re supposed to open for the Blind Boys of Alabama… nerves, nerves, nerves.
Major Tom shows off his post vacation interior driving skills…Four! Ah but can he play through a cemetary?
Now this painting of the Dada faction at the Café Voltaire in Zürich circa 1914 (dressed in semi-Fasnacht Klique outfits) seems to come from the Verona sketch book drawings of eating too much and drinking too much I did during all that family burial business. It makes a direct line to the large Orson Welles painting I did for Suni and also the Willoughby Sandwich feast in progress.
Now my brother is leaving for Switzerland and Italy tomorrow. He’s taking my two nephews and it should be an interesting trip. Hopefully he’ll be posting some photographs for all to see, but one thing is for sure, they’ll all be eating and drinking too much! What is vactation for? Me?, I’m gargling salt to try and kill my sore throat.
