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2006 YEAR IN REVIEW LOOKING AHEAD AT 2007
I've learned one thing through my 31 haphazardly lived years on Earth - you always need to keep moving. As depressing, hard and seemingly worthless all your efforts seem sometimes, you can never stop what you do. Here's some of the things I'm going to try real hard to make happen in 2007, to rebound from the demoralizing months
of 2006:
ART Plenty of shows are on the horizon. A.I.P.P. PROJECT I'll hold this quick show sometime in the first couple months, tying up ideas I've had floating around in my head for a couple years now. It should be a funny show, although I've been warned I could end up being run out of town on a rail for my transgressions I make in this show. SOLO PAINTING SHOW I'll have a new body of work finished and sparkling just in time for a big solo show in June, which will dovetail into
what may become my proudest achievement all year, the... GROUP SHOW FEATURING IAN SHULTS, DAN MORRISON AND MICHAEL SCHLIEFKE This is the show people will remember all year. Ian's painting career is taking off, and recently painted a knockout series of paintings that was one of the biggest hits at their unveiling at the Blue Genie Art Bazaar. Ian and I coaxed Dan out of a fifteen year self imposed exile from the land of painting and got him to agree to pick up his brushes and make a go of things again. The man is an
artistic genius, and with my work serving as a space filler, this show should be amazing. THE R.O.Y.F. PROJECT People close to me have already heard the rumblings, and in 2007 a new lucrative and amusing side project will make its way into the collective consciousness on a slightly under the radar fashion. Split personalities be damned! CODENAME: LILITH'S TEARS I've only mentioned this project to five folks, who responses ranged from excitement to bewilderment to a restrained yawn. While its completely under
the wraps right now, but with any amount of good fortune and focus, this may be the most worthwhile and long awaited artistic endeavor of my life.
TRAVEL I'd like to make it a point to be able to travel again, and a summertime escape from Austin sounds right - perhaps to upstate New York to visit my old stomping grounds. I've talked about it for ages as well, but 2007 may finally be the year I'll make it to Colorado as well. I'd love to find a way to escape from Austin for a couple months during the summer. I'm a fan of heat and sweating, but to deal with the oppressive heat and humidity for nearly seven months out of the year is
outrageous. Europe seems like its a pipe dream, but how I'd love to toil in Slovenia for a good few weeks.
MISC. In the next year, I want to be able to make rent on time or early every month. Seeing a dentist sounds like a sublime idea. And getting a new pair of glasses, mine are now six years old. In June, after the two big shows, I'm going to take some time off and figure out just what the hell is going on with my life. It'd be my dream to run off to Utah, live on Mars for awhile, and recharge my batteries. Most importantly, I need to find a way to make painting a viable career. During the
EAST tour, an old lady gave me a lecture about how I was 31 and it was time to settle down and worry about my nest egg. I don't particularly care about that stuff too much, and her bitchy tone removed all need to listen to her, but all I want to do is to be able to afford to buy my friends a beer every once in a while.
LOOKING AHEAD: I've looked up to and admired Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips for well over a decade. And as the new year dawns on all of us, fond and aching memories of 2006 set in our brains, I'll leave you with these two videos, from Wayne's speech at what would've been his high school alma mater had he not dropped out of school to sell pot:
