Enough is enough

I've been stumped more than once lately. Yesterday, I tried to define "enough". It seems simple, and it would be if I knew the Czech word for enough. I consider myself to be pretty adept at conjuring similar words, or, worst-case, acting out what something means through gesticulant pantomime. Enough, however, brought me to a halt.
I try not to talk tootoo much about the difficulties involved in clarifying the vagaries of English grammar. I'm sure it's fascinating to read of my musings about with which verb tenses one can appropriately use "since", but I digress.
I taught my students the expression "keep a stiff upper lip". They asked me what "stiff" means...
I swear to god, all that went through my brain was "...ok, penispenispenis, erection, boner, penis, hard-on, arousalarousal, big boner... penispenispenis..." It was like a fat guy on a flimsy tenspeed slipping gears while going up a steep hill. I settled on telling them that stiff is hard and motionless. About a half-hour later, I blurted out "When you die, your body becomes stiff!" They just looked at me like I was asking for real estate advice from a pod of dolphins. Enough of that...
KJP's arrival is getting closer and closer, and I can't wait. Here's a gallery of Goddesses to give you an idea of how I feel about my gem of a princess...



KJ often quotes that one MNM song from 8mile. Jodie Foster does, too.



I don't know what's up with the Farytale Lady look I'm doing with today's pics, but here are a few more.



OK, one more link of ladies, and I'll have to change the subject. Gil Elvgren is the Norman ROckwell of smutty pin-up calendars.



Now I find myself in a quandary of a crossroads. What sorbet will cleanse my palate? Howzabout suicide notes?



Now, that's just sad...

Championshit

My buddy, Matt, makes the best cup of coffee in the US! I thought that was cool. He's hopping the puddle on his quest to be the best in the world.



Matt's a badass international star barista, and SQUIRM/Zappa mixeyMashups are selling for hundreds on eBay...



Well, the boys are blowing up, and success is in the air. The last two days in old Prague town have been filled with some serious old-school Brothers Grimm-type rainstorms... slamming windows and pounding rain. I don't mind. I've started painting, so I hardly even noticed...



It's not done, and I'm worried that all the colors are running together into brown. I really liked the cover for Vespertine by Bjork. It's by this coolcat, Erez Sabag. His stuff is so gentle in comparison to the conceptual gutwrench of the album work, but I like, I like...



He reminds me of my favorite, Lee Friedlander, in many ways...

selling seashells to a seahorse

Whew! I just got the videodownloader for Mozilla that allows one to grab videos off of YouTube. I plan to spend every free second I have filling my hard drive with Tom Waits and John Hartford video. I haven't really poked around the site so much, because I would have to stream it, as opposed to soaking it up in my natural habitat. Now, it's on...



I don't know if I should bother with an all-out post on TW or JH. I figure that all the FoRTP are already pretty familiar... Maybe another day. In searching for Derek Bailey info, I stumbled across a great performance space that Zorn has started. It's called The Stone. If you read the calendar section, and don't perk up at one name or another, then go to NYC and get educated.



I've seen NY hotspots for the uberhip come and go from my distant third party perspective. The Knitting Factory and Tonic spring to mind. The Stone is so heartily idealistic that I belive/hope it works. I mean, Carla Kihlstedt and Zeena Parkins?



I first stumbled across Kihlstedt's work through my insane search to own a copy of every sound Tom Waits has recorded. He sat in on a Tin Hat Trio song called Helium, from the album of the same name. I was intrigued by Tin Hat. They had three albums out, and each featured a guest vocalist on one track:Mike Patton, Tom Waits, and Willie Nelson. They, apparently, have been reading my diary. The more I found out about CK, the more motivated I was to find more. I'll always remember how blown away I was by her voice on the 2 foot yard album. Listen to anything you can by her. Lots of it is on Tzadik...



Feeling a little half-hearted about today's post. I''l add something when I can think a worthwhile thought.