Paint the monster red so the blood don’t stain the floor.

i have come back everyday to look at this. we need to remember that dali and picasso weren’t always famous. whenever i go to d.c. i go to the art museums usually the first day and spend most of the time there. i have stood for a long time to look at Monet’s stuff. this was in Chicago and D.C. it was like the led zeppelin or steely dan of the art world. i have gone to Chicago and D.C. specifically to see single pieces of art. just because someone isn’t rich or famous or dead doesn’t mean we aren’t in the presence of greatness. i count among my closest friends several people who i consider absolutely touched with genius. SGC56 is a wordsmith. tlc, in addition to making eggs, is an artist extraordinaire and also a wordsmith with a guitar. rich j. is an artist. i am married to a woman who hammers her living on a keyboard. PGC can take boards and tools and build stuff. i guess i’m in that especially forgiving kind of light that shines now and again on me. i’m reading a short story collection by raymond carver who wrote some of it while he lived in iowa city. without books and music and pretty things to look at, i’d have hide behind trees and scare people for fun. peasoutsalome.

Yep…without art, without creation life wouldn’t be much worth living.