seanfitz

took a day off work yesterday so I could go trick or treating with my son...took him and one of the neighboors around for a few blocks...it brought back a lot of memories from when I used to do it...how you would skip houses that had no decorations, or the lights were out, but the your average 4 yr old is not a seasoned pro...
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update: looking for a new job (in earnest), thought sometimes i wish i was younger and didn't have as many committments so i could just up an say "fuck this!" and walk out and take any job (or residency or adjunct faculty position or part time teaching job or anything that didn't require insurance and enought money to cover a mortgage)...got a show in the...
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i have to go to the dentist today...i hate the dentist. i have voluntarily put over 40 hours in the chair working on my tattoos, but the dentist makes me nervous...go figure. i also don't like bees.

just finished in the studio...beautiful late summer night, cool, breezy, air conditioning off for the first time in days...you can sense fall approaching, you can feel it in the air, see it in the trees as the green begins to dull...it's getting darker sooner, i'm walking to my car in the parking lot and it's night already...i have a vacation coming up, thank God...not going...
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not much going on...wife and son back from fla...recovering from their absence (i think i went out every night while they were gone)...work blows...


reading: "the things they carried" -tim o'brien
listening to: "the return of jaques de molay"-the templars

sitting here,ston'd,the wife and son in sunny fla.,unable to go because of work,the house to myself for the first time in what seems like mos.,listening to the animals, drinking Orangeboom from trader joes(a very fine dutch lager),listening to thee headcoats,text-ing people,reading harry potter(that's right i said it),loving my new trojan ska cd,wishing that all my paintings looked like thee headcoats version of louie louie(which should...
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sitting at the computer listening to cicadas and lawnmowers, trying to figure out when i can get to minneapolis to get my sleeve finished (my tattooist relocated)...spent the day at the zoo with my wife and son yesterday... highlights: the rhinocerous (those fuckers are huge), the lion, and the desert house with all these weird cats (one was called a carcaral...i can't believe i remembered...
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listening to motorhead, drinking shiraz after being in the studio for a while, working and trying to decide what to donate for an upcoming art auction...now "angels with dirty faces" just came on...(i've the cd changer on random)...new haircut, new sambas, new attitude...i feel like a new man.

quick update: sold some work, went to indiana, curated into a show next year, painting, work still blows, need a new job, seen some shows, bought some records, hung out, opening at the beverly art center friday, going to a show on saturday (fear city, chicago's best oi! band plus flatfoot 56 and riverboat gamblers at the beat kitchen).

reading "Sidhartha" by Herman Hesse
listening...
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my condolences go out to Cat and her family and friends and anyone who was affected by her husband's death. my sister used to live right across the street from the village tap. i had been in there many times with her for burgers and beer...there was a very nice article in today's chicago sun times.

hey people...

just finishing up in the studio. i am working on a flyer for a local band ( i am also going to teach myself serigraphy ie. silkscreening)...it is in it's initial stages, but i have high hopes for it...i realized that being a poster/flyer artist is what i have always wanted to be...i want my work in every bedroom in America...

i know...
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...i miss madison and grad school a lot right now...i know i thought there was a lot of drama then, but it felt like things made more sense...at least i was making work all the time and teaching and living in a cool town...now i am one out of three at best. i miss hanging out on my deck at my old apartment, ston'd, drinking...
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