today's list....

here's a new list of civilized things:

1 The rapas served by street vendors on Sunday morning in fromt of Our Lady of Guadalupe on 14th St between 8th and 9th Avenues. you can smell the corn a block away. wrapped in banana leaf is a marvelous pancake of cornmeal with a nice plop of intricately spiced, fiery roast chicken or pork. The cornmeal pancake is the key as it has enough flavor to act as a counterweight to the meat, not just as rice might functino in Thai food. awesome. cheapo at 2.50 each. great rice in hot milk too.

2. plenty more Melvins: got The Bootlicker and Hostile Ambient Takeover this weekend in brushing up for my big Melvins trip to LA. ALBUM COVERS SHOW!! gorgeous, confusing, disciplined, and towering records.

3. The fact that Roger Federer played a great match to steamroll in the Austrailian Open and that it was in the rear of the New York Times Sports Section.. Federer is so fucking good that his triumph is relegated to behind yet another pre-super-bowl dealie.. everyone should watch him. David Foster Wallace does.

4. Appellation St. Emilion Grand Cru


more later today...

three (the wire)

back from Cincinnati, and I finally started to watch The Wire Season 4. gorgeous. the opening shot of Snoop in playground is just fucking hainting.

my show at the Weston in cincinnati ohio is up until march 20. check it at http://www.cincinnatiarts.org/weston//westonartgallery.htm
and they treat you well as an artist ambassador in the midwest. four stars all the way.
now I am back and working, preparing for the Year of Many Shows. detaisl to follow.

Tonight I will draw and watch The Wire. the best way to live.

Clay Davis takes all: "Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit!"

another(2)

so this is the second post.
and the form of the second post will be principally lists of cool items. It might well behave like the charcter Cash in William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" -which is a pretty civilized, great book-and appear as successive things

1. "Shaky Dog" "Kilo" and "The Champ" by Ghostface Killah aka tony Starks, played in succession.
2. writing on your own studio wall
3. A fresh Mission fig, a smear of marscapone cheese, some reisling vinegar, and salt.
4. the fact that there is a dish available for purchase in New York City entitled "Ghostface Keller"
5. THE WIRE(more on the to follow, ut for now, just THE WIRE, knowing people who watch THE WIRE, talking about THE WIRE, and just generally being in the universe of THE WIRE

okay, next time: PICTURES!

numberer one.

well, let's see if this works. writing things down is always a problem, so we are trying the netterweb to keep track of cool items. And, in honor of the song i am going to mention, "Civiliized Worm" by the Melvins, this thing will be called "civilized items" and contain items culinary, artful ,musical, and otherwise to keep life interested.

This first post will mention THE MELVINS, and the record (A) Senile Animal, out now. It is pure sonic bliss. get it. okay, more later