Category: Asheville
July inside of July
It’s been muggy as hell this year. It feels unreal. Still, folks are out trying to make the best of it. “My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.” Rick Bass
Murder by Death with J. Roddy Walston
Thoughts and such from the June 7th, 2024 show at The Grey Eagle in Asheville, NC. What does it take for a musician to make a decent living in this always-streaming, algorithm sucking, Ticketmaster-gutting world we live in? For one, they ask for money. “I don’t have any merch,” Walston says. He’s on stage, alone,…
The West Was Always Queer
I’ll be straight with you, it was a lively scene. For those of you who may not yet know, Orville Peck is a bit of a hero in the LGBTQ community. He plays country western music, takes the stage in leather pants, an undershirt, and his trademark mask under a cowboy hat. The rest of…
The Visceral Romance
I guess I could take a video of this so you can see it and share it. There are a pair of brown rabbits in the rose garden doing that jump-around thing that animals tend to do in the springtime. It rained aggressively last night, so the ground is covered in pink and red petals…
Figure & Life Drawing – Day 1
(posted retroactively on 3/26/2025) From a life drawing session hosted at Blue Spiral gallery in Asheville. I willed myself to go if only to try something different. The results are…results.
Erecting the Seasonal Gravestones
The world was not golds and oranges. No, those were when everything was tinted with the blue light of computer screens focused on greed.