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Soon I will be painting Emily's guitar, fireplace, and friend picture and I will share some Work In Progress (WIP) photos. I'm thinking about going more abstract impressionism and less realism with this one. To invoke a mood rather than depict a scene. My goal is to get enough paintings for a small show someday soon, Fall? Paying the bank to own this home has turned this yahoo into a starving artist.
Yesterday I thought how lucky we are to live in a time when you can listen to any piece of music at any time even if you don't have it in your possession. I can bring up iTunes and hear anything in a couple of minutes if it so pleases this yahoo. Back in the day, way back in the day, you either had to go see someone else play music or make it yourself with your brothers and sisters and mom and pop. Which led me to think that if I'd been born a couple of hundred years ago, I'd have been a better musician because I'd spend every day working at it, just to hear some music. But now I can hear so many musicians play it better than I ever could, so why bother? I think I'd have learned the pipe organ and played a Bach Tocatta and Fugue over and over till my fingers bled, back in 1669. That would have got me some religion too. Not many pipe organs outside of churches. Which leads me to this week's music pick of the week: Songs and Poems for Solo Cello, Wendy Sutter cello, Philip Glass composer. Rocks!