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Middle Age Bulge: August 2015
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Sunday, August 30, 2015. It's Sunday morning and time to sit down and write before heading into the studio to start another commission. Sunday is slow, peaceful, exploratory. The music I choose has to fit that vibe. I've chosen Tokyo Adagio by the late Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, recorded in 2005 but released earlier this year. "Unhurried resonance" described one reviewer. Unhurried is a great way to describe Sunday morning. My Top 10 iTunes selections. 8 Mike Allen - this saxophonist from the l...
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Middle Age Bulge: The cross I bear
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. The cross I bear. I suffer from paruresis. One of the most common anxiety disorders, yet the least talked about. Paruresis, according to Wikipedia, is a type of phobia in which the sufferer is unable to urinate in the real or imaginary presence of others, such as in a public washroom. This weekend, we spent many hours in the car driving from Fort McMurray to Calgary and from Calgary to Premier Lake in the Kootenays. The days were hot and we drank lots of water to stay hydra...
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Middle Age Bulge: August 2014
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Sunday, August 31, 2014. Heather's Surgery Adventures, Part 4. There is a word that describes what I felt earlier today that I'm trying to remember but can't. I was driving back to the hospital after spending some time with former Councillor Dave Kirschner who now lives in a care facility in south Edmonton. He was diagnosed with MSA (Multiple Systems Atrophy) about three years ago, a day I'll never forget as we were attending a convention down in Calgary together. Back at the U of A, Heather's time of ha...
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Middle Age Bulge: April 2015
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. The Odd Couple Romp, Part 11. Two weeks from today we open. Yikes! We are at the point where we are mostly running the show from beginning to end, only stopping to fix small things. Sharon was able to join us for the first time since the opening read through and see how the movement of the play affects the costume choices, hair, make-up and accessories choices. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. It is almost time to pick a side in this provincial election. Candidates are scurrying a...
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Middle Age Bulge: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. 2014 Wild Colour Collection. Could I ever have guessed that 2014 would result in the wild colour collection that has been growing with each passing week since I began in June? Never in a million years. I'm trying to pinpoint the catalyst, the point when there was no turning back. Not satiated yet, I grabbed a piece of pine that I had laying around the shop and revisited Miles Davis, a subject I had painted in the late 1990's. Taken together, the paintings that followed in th...
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Middle Age Bulge: September 2014
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Sunday, September 28, 2014. In the days long before personal computers, cell phones, digital cameras and instant capturing and sharing of data, photographs and other bits and bites of information, I was a young kid growing up in a small town called Kamsack in east-central Saskatchewan, just a short distance from the Manitoba border. In my mind, this may have been one of Bruno's spots, though we never ran into him. I had made the leap that he had substance abuse issues, but in reflection, that conclus...
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Middle Age Bulge: January 2015
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. A municipal by-election is now officially set for March 30 to fill the seat left vacant by Guy Boutilier. A machine is now in motion behind the scenes to organize this contest, with the taxpayer's meter running. Elections are an expensive business, but never more so when you're trying to fill a single seat. But, these things happen, and it is the price we pay for democracy. Why can't we all just get along? I've said time and time again that having people disagree with one's st...
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Middle Age Bulge: October 2014
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Friday, October 31, 2014. Christmas Carol Chronicles, Part VIII. There are a number of spots in the play where director Jacqueline Russell has promised that "magical things will be inserted", whether that be during the entrance of one of the ghosts or one of the hallucination-like transitions from one location to another. Last night, we began to piece a few of those moments together. The success of a production like A Christmas Carol. I personally love when we get to the detailed scene work stuff. Th...
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Middle Age Bulge: Something from nothing
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Thursday, July 30, 2015. I was listening to CBC Radio this weekend, a show about the power of art making. I found myself really relating to the prison inmate talking about discovering painting and being asked by his incarcerated colleagues to do portraits of girlfriends, wives and children. I get to make something out of nothing," he said. "And that something is always going to be there.". A client asked me to interpret the movie poster for Blow. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Let your life sing.
