Paul – Page 137

February 19, 2013August 16, 2019

The Moment Is Now

Matt & Kim at Armory in Rochester, New York

You can’t hear Kim, standing on her drums in this photo, but she’s telling the crowd “to have fucking fun,” as if the packed Armory needed any guidance. Our friend Kevin, manages this band and they have become a sensation. It must be so satisfying for a pop music fiend to have an act at the top.

And this band is intense pop. Boiled down to the essentials of drums and melody they deliver their major key, sticky tunes like mini anthems. Kim may be smiling full tilt but she is working her ass off. As a duo their huge, live sound (I wore my Home Depot ear protectors) is quite fragile and that only adds to the excitement.

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February 18, 2013August 16, 2019

Fragment of a Head

The Memorial Art Gallery has a really interesting show to celebrate their Centennial. The staff picked local artists and invited them to reinterpret works from their collection. The new work in “Art Reflected” is for sale and it is scattered throughout the gallery, positioned next to or in front of the work of inspiration. This arrangement encourages you to wander into rooms you normally whizz by. Like an Easter egg hunt the show is full of surprises. It reinvigorates the collection.

My brother, John, has a really nice piece here but as a celebration the show is a bit stuffy. One hundred artists for the one hundred years would have added to the merriment. If they had asked I would have given my reflection of this beautiful Mayan, stucco “Fragment of a Head” from the eighth century.

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February 17, 2013August 16, 2019

Go Bills

NFL burger flippers at Eastview Mall in Rochester, NY

Peggi and I headed out to the mall this weekend. We don’t get out there much but Peggi needed new jeans and our niece told her Old Navy was the best place go for jeans. The corridors to the big box stores are lined with small vendors and once I figured out what this Russian guy was selling I took out my camera to grab a shot. He asked, “What are you doing? I said, I’m taking a photo for my father. I know he would want one of these but I don’t know which team.” What was I supposed to say? “You have a bizarre product line.”

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February 16, 2013August 16, 2019

Don’t Bug Me While I’m Working

I’m just realizing yesterday was the first Friday in Lent. No wonder Captain Jim’s on East Main was so crowded. We had suggested bringing fish frys over to my parents. They weren’t real fish frys, our four orders were baked and came with a baked potato and cold slaw. Mom mom microwaved some broccoli and we each had milk to drink. My parents get their milk from the Pittsford Dairy and it comes in glass bottles just like the one in the picture above.

Popwars was moved to a new server, one with the most recent version of php. The move knocked out my nav bar because I was using full urls in the includes but I was able to update my blog software. Took me a few days to recover. Wouldn’t want to get hacked.

Man, I can’t put “Waging Heavy Peace” down. It is so much fun to read.