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So I made a dumb little comic as a tribute to Steve Albini. I cannibalized a Kelly comic (the one where Sean Connery is at the gates of heaven and getting drilled by St. Peter about wearing a skirt and not being a real Bond like Roger Moore who's back in heaven with a bunch of ladies). Anyway so I cropped it and repeated it for the first two panels and I stuck a picture of Steve's head on top of Sean. I made their conversation go like this:
St. Peter: "I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan." Did you say this?
Steve: Yes
St. Peter: And did you ever stop shitting on Steely Dan?
Steve: No
And then the last panel is some picture of the gates of heaven opening and it says "WELCOME". Okay, dumb and I'm sure reading a description is tedious but it amused me! I was also cracking up at the fact that Sean Connery is wearing a kilt for the joke in the original panel so Steve is randomly wearing a kilt here for no reason. Oh, and I forgot to say that I made his shirt declaim (in Kelly fashion) "STEVE ALBINI (ENGINEER)". Okay, enough of that!
In the evening Mary Beth and I went up to an art opening at Sheet Cake Gallery (I think it's a new or newish gallery in The Edge district) for an exhibit by Kong Wee Pang and Erin Harmon. We had just seen Kong Wee's works in The Dixon's flower show and were pretty blown away by it. As it was an opening, it was pretty packed. Saw quite a few people I know. While we were looking at a big wall of paintings, Kong Wee even came up to us and just started talking to us (never met her before or anything) and she was nice. We ended up buying two of her paintings! All the smaller ones together on the wall were at least kind of in our price range and we hadn't done it in a good while and they were all very impressive. The two we got had a similar color palate and felt like they went together. They called: Habitat Driftwood Nest and Habitat Gourd Bird. There were some of (stylized/abstracted) cats and dogs and ALL of them were already bought...would not be surprised if all those had gone at the very first (because people love cats and dogs...me too! I also love all the birds and all the other stuff, her style is pretty great). Anyway, now I feel like we're Big-Time art collectors getting something by a Big-Time local artist anyway! It was fun.
Afterwards we hung out on the back deck enjoying the cooler weather we happened to have. Peanut came and joined us which was nice as we hadn't seen her in a while and got some good cuddles together. At one point we even went around to the front and I asked Peanut to follow us, she was a little hesitant at first, but she did follow us! We watched some Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. We tried to go see the freak occasion of Memphis getting the fuckin' Aurora Borealis but it didn't work at all being in the city. People who went out of the city and away from the lights got to see it. Oh well.
St. Peter: "I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan." Did you say this?
Steve: Yes
St. Peter: And did you ever stop shitting on Steely Dan?
Steve: No
And then the last panel is some picture of the gates of heaven opening and it says "WELCOME". Okay, dumb and I'm sure reading a description is tedious but it amused me! I was also cracking up at the fact that Sean Connery is wearing a kilt for the joke in the original panel so Steve is randomly wearing a kilt here for no reason. Oh, and I forgot to say that I made his shirt declaim (in Kelly fashion) "STEVE ALBINI (ENGINEER)". Okay, enough of that!
In the evening Mary Beth and I went up to an art opening at Sheet Cake Gallery (I think it's a new or newish gallery in The Edge district) for an exhibit by Kong Wee Pang and Erin Harmon. We had just seen Kong Wee's works in The Dixon's flower show and were pretty blown away by it. As it was an opening, it was pretty packed. Saw quite a few people I know. While we were looking at a big wall of paintings, Kong Wee even came up to us and just started talking to us (never met her before or anything) and she was nice. We ended up buying two of her paintings! All the smaller ones together on the wall were at least kind of in our price range and we hadn't done it in a good while and they were all very impressive. The two we got had a similar color palate and felt like they went together. They called: Habitat Driftwood Nest and Habitat Gourd Bird. There were some of (stylized/abstracted) cats and dogs and ALL of them were already bought...would not be surprised if all those had gone at the very first (because people love cats and dogs...me too! I also love all the birds and all the other stuff, her style is pretty great). Anyway, now I feel like we're Big-Time art collectors getting something by a Big-Time local artist anyway! It was fun.
Afterwards we hung out on the back deck enjoying the cooler weather we happened to have. Peanut came and joined us which was nice as we hadn't seen her in a while and got some good cuddles together. At one point we even went around to the front and I asked Peanut to follow us, she was a little hesitant at first, but she did follow us! We watched some Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. We tried to go see the freak occasion of Memphis getting the fuckin' Aurora Borealis but it didn't work at all being in the city. People who went out of the city and away from the lights got to see it. Oh well.
