I found my way to this after spending a considerable amount of time on Jamie Stewart’s Xiu-Xiu blog, the connection being is that both projects overlapped on Kill Rock Stars label. Meanwhile, I did also trade voice mails with Madigan Shive, of Bonfire Madigan. I left her a voice mail because was trying overly hard to help the intern at Meridian Gallery, who said she played cello. Then I also had a fleeting fantasy that Madigan would back me for some kind of Beat Hotel Rm. 32 project; maybe it was imagining reading Wallace Stegner “The Chink” while she improvised on cello, with a recording device rolling. There is some kind of a continuum from imagining ridiculous and trite things, to mentioning them on even an obscure blog, to actual shows, projects, good ideas and superlative utterances. There is also that line by Howard Gossage about the inverse ratio of how good an idea is as a function of how many people are in the room when they first come up with it — I also lost another part hour of my life spying on my old colleagues from the ad realm. Like the characters in “Melancholia” trying to extract a “tagline” — I saw an old friend at the De Young and he gave me his card. I just learned now I missed the 25 year anniversary party of one of my one-time employers — which was open to anyone whoever worked with them. I also read a blurb in New York Times about a tv commercial for a Detroit Museum with a show about Christ.

More real, I’d like to hear Mia Levin (Mia Simmans) busk some day soon. Also, progress with The Pueblo Girls.

Two notable facts about this link: one, the video is 38 minutes long; two, the poster lists 1,677 total posts, ZEBU1212.