AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

This is our time, right now. I can feel it when I read a great book or manage to write something I think is good.

Tonight as I peruse "What A Long Strange Trip It's Been (Twenty Years of Rolling Stone)", after having just finished Murakami's KAFKA ON THE SHORE, I am moved by the weight of recent history, reading interviews with John Lennon from 1971, Pete Townshend as he is creating Tommy, Michael Jackson in 1983. This is what I feel. The time is now.

This moment is a fulcrum, tipping what was/has been into what will be. As I sign off here I am going to sit and stretch out in the now. Within this space I will strive to create a drawing
or two.

This is an announcement for all LA folk, on behalf of old friend, Matthew Buzzell (Director of Jimmy Scott- If You Only Knew). He's screening his newest this Friday.

Tell Me Do You Miss Me, will receive its Los Angeles premiere with a weekend run on Friday and Saturday June 16th and 17th at The American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre. It will screen nightly at 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm on both evenings. The American Cinematheque is located at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard.

Fresh from its world premiere at The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, Tell Me Do You Miss Me is a portrait of the four members of the celebrated NYC-based indie rock band Luna as they confront the ceiling of their ambition, the harsh realities of their modest success, and their conflicted feelings about each other as they embark on their final world tour and uncertain futures.

This, my first Blog entry here at AMP is long overdue.

Waiting until I have time is out of the question, so I'm just going to write as long as I can get away with it.

I have some recent news to report with other Amp members. A couple of weekends ago I attended an opening that my old pal and fellow comics artist (as well as madman dollmaker and filmmaker) Marcel deJure held for an exhibition of his dolls and art. I brought some friends with me that I hadn't seen in a while...Nelson, Lil and Randall. Nelson had a hankering for some of the art but wanted it even for cheaper that it was going for (which was already a steal) and I think Marcel did the right thing to hold his ground.