It Doesn’t Matter

So far, Peggi and I have managed to live our whole adult lives with only one automobile. It doesn’t usually present a problem but tomorrow we have a yoga class and I need to be downtown at the same time to drop off the artwork above. We will manage.

WXXI’s Evan Dawson is a real pro. He does his homework before the day’s interviews so he is completely comfortable with his subject and able to both deliver and roll with the punches. I have no idea what this show sounded like but it was a pleasure being there talking about art with some good friends. There is a podcast but I’d rather trust the memory.

For some reason Evan picked up on the sentence in my bio that says I take daily walks in the woods, mentioning it when we were introduced and then working it into the show as we discussed creating. I loved how he got around to the Robert Frost poem and the real point, that one road wasn’t better exactly, that both hold promise.

Evan moved around the table seamlessly weaving the five artists/musicians into the wide ranging conversation. For a moment the whole thing seemed to go off the rails when Jaffe, former member of the Fugs, Monk enthusiast and longtime keyboard player for Colorblind James experience, talked about someone giving him some white powder to drink back in sixties. It was a turning point of sorts for him as he stayed up for two weeks and almost died. Both Evan’s and the engineer’s eyes lit up and their mouths were wide open. It was brilliant live radio.

The tintype portraits at Genesee Libby Photography in the Hungerford Building looks like the ticket for tonight’s First Friday romp.

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