Well summer’s in full swing, the 4th of July is tomorrow, my garden is coming along nicely and I continue to procrastinate on my podcast not to mention blog posts, art updates and song updates. Sorry about that, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles in summer. I have a love hate relationship with summer (the sun, heat and humidity can be yucky for me) – but lately the weather has been fantastic and I’ve been taking full advantage of it. My favorite place lately is the riverfront, but I’ve also been pretty obsessive about my garden this year too.
I really can’t convey how much I need to be near water.
It’s been a tad too long in-between my blog posts not to mention my podcasts. My sincere apologies for those of you that come here and enjoy those items from me. I blame this past month’s Mercury in Retrograde which isn’t officially over until May 28th. Supposedly. I don’t care if people think it’s hooey or not, but what I do know is that April and May were a tad dicey for me which coincidentally fell inside Merc’s dates. In amongst holding on for dear life and hoping the cruel nature of retro merc would (will) finally end, I have been busy making things and planting things and rehearsing with my musical peeps so it hasn’t all been for naught.
Tonight, The Capitola is having the spring issue launch party and we’d love to see you there if you can make it out. As always it will be a great evening of poetry, art and music. I am of course greatly looking forward to it. Along with the many readers we have planned for the eveing, Mark Miskelly and I will be performing a couple tunes here and there as well.
I know it’s still March but I’m ready for it to finish up already and let April through. Because we have two shows coming up in April and I’m getting itchy. One for the Capitola on April 24th in Mineral Point, WI and the other will be just Mark Miskelly and I with Aaron Johnson visiting us on bass at the Crossroads Coffeehouse on April 30th in Cross Plains, WI. We’re currently trying to figure out what to call ourselves outside of the Capitola, so stay tuned for that as well.
The Capitola show on April 24th is the spring issue launch so it should be a lot of fun! I myself cannot wait to see the new issue. This one is quite hot so come out and get your copy and see it all in action.
The show on April 30th is something we’re doing outside of the Capitola, but we’re still of course completely dedicated to the Capitola and have plenty of shows coming up for that this spring and summer. So please stay tuned. The thing is that we’re getting the bug to play out more around the area and have Capitola’s blessing to do just that so that’s what we’re starting to do. Pretty exciting all around!
All this being said, here are the dates and times and other important information pertaining to the shows thus far. The info is located in the news section as well so make sure to look for it there when this blog post gets passed up for others in the coming days. Hope to see you there! We’d love to say hello to you!
4/24/2010 Atomic Ice
7:00 PM -10:00 PM
148 High Street
Mineral Point, Wisconsin
53565
4/30/2010 Crossroads Coffeehouse
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
2020 Main Street
Cross Plains, Wisconsin
53528
8/15/2010 Alley Stage
(located at)
Shake Rag Alley Center for Arts & Crafts
18 Shake Rag Street
Mineral Point, WI 53565
608.987.3292
I finished up a few more watercolor ACEO’s this week.
Along with the art cards, I also finished up an acrylic piece I have been nursing entitled “The Secret Lives Of Mermaids”. The text, perhaps too small to discern here on the internet reads:
Fishes make up only a small fraction of the animal life sea which ranges from microscopic protozoa to whales. many forms of marine life are obviously not fishes. some others are fishlike and are a source of confusion.
Rather than go on in written word about these pieces and my time spent down the rabbit hole, I figured an audio and visual show might be more interesting. Enjoy!
