A new plan emerges, a few new doors have opened. If I can somehow get my hands on a better car, this road could be sweet. Even if I don't, this road will be sweet:
- Can go back to New Orleans after my exhibition here in August. Can go home to live for a little while. No strings, no bs drama, just a lil trailer in a lush backyard so I can be at home to get my head together.
- Can go up to northern Michigan and live in a cabin on a lake, with fireplaces and everything, through the winter.
- And can keep on applying applying applying for these residencies I'm on fire for.
I'm so turned on by the fierce energy coming out of New Orleans right now. My friends are just tearing it up, everyone's just tearing it up right now. Music, art, homes, babies, weddings. I'm so there.
I only wish, now more than ever, this is a wish I've had for a long time, that the Jazz Fest organizers would give everyone an opportunity to enjoy the experience: provide half price or free tickets on a certain day to kids, seniors, locals. They've always had the capacity to do this, now more than ever, what with the major underwriting & superstars playing for peanuts. Just some grassroots efforts to bring the people who really are the ones who "need it most" into the fold. Provide shuttles for folks trapped out here, or free satellite broadcasts for evacuees to watch. All it would take is a little imagination and savvy money management.
There's a job for you.
So are you freaking out?
Posted by: MIV | 22/04/2006 at 11:04
Cheap/free tickets for kids/seniors/locals? Imagine. GENIUS!
(&SAVANT to boot)
Good luck with the New Orleans piece, I know it will be amazing.
Posted by: hilary | 22/04/2006 at 19:27
your faith in me, s'mazing. Must mean I'm doing alright.
Posted by: eau | 23/04/2006 at 03:51