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2006 YEAR IN REVIEW SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER
Once I got back from California, all of my energies went into full survival mode - all I wanted to do was make it through the rest of the year. With a highly successful EAST tour, I managed to scrape through and prepare for a better year in 2007 with a bunch of new decisions and directions to head.
Southern California was like a dream - warm days, pleasant nights and plenty of sun. My first trip to San Diego bookended two weeks spent in Los Angeles, Orange County and the southern coast,
filled with libations, laughs and a couple Al Sharpton sightings. I got home just in time to catch the last three full weeks of 100+ temperatures and the annual ACL sweat fest. It was there, helping out at the Blue Genie booth, that I saw a man wearing yellow Crocs. That man, it turned out, was none other than Chuck Woolery. After obsessing over him for months, what did I say to him??? I froze up like a little girl and sputtered the phrase, "I've watched you for decades!!!"
with Chuck Woolery
OCTOBER
Usually, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year. This year I was too bogged down with getting work done for EAST and the Blue Genie Art Bazaar to stop and notice. Instead, I plugged away in studio, and missed my chance to dress up as the Greatest American Hero.
as Gringo Verde with Matt
NOVEMBER
The highlight of the month was my favorite art event of the year - the East Austin Studio Tour. It was the largest ever - and my most successful to date. The entire lineup of artists at the Bolm Complex seemed to have pulled out all the stops and spent way too many sleepless nights in the studio preparing for the crowds. None of us anticipated just how big the crowds were, nor how spent our bodies were. Someway, somehow, we all made it through laughing and
returning to work in the studio on Monday.
reflecting on the year
DECEMBER
The last hurdle before 2007 arrived without any fanfare - I was much too busy working on some new drawings, shotglasses and the like for the Blue Genie show to notice much else. Having lived like a hermit the past couple of months, my sleepless nights turned into insomnia ridden quiet nights in the cold recesses of East Austin. Food too was a premium, and hopefully they'll be enough
gas in the tank to make it through the final couple of weeks. Lost, quiet and slightly depressed, it looks like it'll be some quiet holidays coming up.
SOUNDTRACK:
"Young Folks" Peter Bjorn and John
I stumbled across this wistful, rugged, hip little gem on the web in a fit on insomnia as the year was squeaking to an end.
Youthful love throwing the world's cares away for their blossoming romance. Of course, there's no guarantees after the night is through, what the morning holds, but as long as the bass line is rocking the house party, why wouldn't you want to be in love and whistle?
"usually when things have gone this far, people tend to disappear..."
