I’ve been sick for 3 days, finally I gave in to my condition and stayed home from work today. Usaually on these kind of days I find myself digging through my CD collection, and I found a gem. Though ratings have never been good from the ‘Powers of Be’ on this album, Nick Cave’s ‘No More Shall We Part’ is one of his greatest albums. It’s part love song/part Christian/part pychosis, but he makes fun of all 3 by praising them, huh? Here’s a review:

Well, he’s at it again, goth balladeer Nick Cave, with his taste for literature and history, for music as text-delivery system and for settling in behind the piano like an undead John Cale and belting out his peculiarly sentimental fantasies of terror, madness and feminine redemption. The best of these twelve new tracks are simple, lush torch songs, such as the title tune and the ravishing “Love Letter”; or they hearken back to Cave’s dark-troubadour heyday, as on the horror story “Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow.” For better or worse, Cave fears no musical, lyrical or emotional excess, whether refashioning white gospel as an erotic paean (“Oh My Lord,” indeed) or snarling at self-righteousness in “God Is in the House.” And, as the ballad “Sweetheart Come” shows, he can still weave bolts of colloquial clarity into the velvet tapestry that take your breath away. (RS 868 — May 10, 2001)
ARION BERGER

16 x 20″ – Mixed media on Canvas – $150 – Unframed

I did thes two right in a row. Don’t know if they will get printed.

Have you seen the Rounds commercials? That man has NO shame!

I had this one in the Argus today, kinda wished they would of paid me if I knew they were going to use it for the front page, but that’s OK, I wouldn’t want to get sued by the PopEye people, or punched for that matter.

I’m hungry for a hamburger.

The Argus printed a letter I wrote w/a corresponding cartoon I also did. Looked pretty cool. Maybe I can get those SculptureWalk elitists to Annie up.

 Am I the only one that finds it suspicious that SculptureWalk’s judges/jurors must remain secret? What is SculptureWalk trying to hide?

Could it be some of the jurors have direct conflicts of interest with the city and the sculpture placements?

I think the director, Jim Clark should make the names known, since it receives approximately 25% of it’s funding from the public. It is common place for public and even private galleries to make jurors names known to submitting artists and the public. Is Sioux Falls any different?

Is any of this really surprising from a director who claims to be the ‘Founder’ of an idea that was completely lifted from Grand Junction, Colorado?

Great art like great government comes from transparency. Maybe in Sioux Falls we appreciate neither.

Scott L. Ehrisman
FOUNDER – SFAPR (Sioux Falls Artists for Public Responsibility)

Waits is at #9, kinda disappointing, but still in the top 10.

In my opinion, Album of the year. He has some new stuff with a lot of tear-jerkers from the past that he digs up and revamps them including ‘Fannin Street’ and ‘2:19’

Don’t be a cheap bastard, pick it up.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6557143

Yeah right. The only thing Sodapop thinks about is food and bitches!

I thought I would post this picture after reading the SculptureWalk story in the Argus Leader last week. Where the Director of SculptureWalk (or as I like to call him ‘The Fueher’) claims he was the founder too. Seems convenient since the ‘actual’ founder was caught with kiddie-porn while working for the city of Sioux Falls, and like he is going to protest!

Nice work Pinnochio.

The title of the piece is ‘American Farmer’ It has always made me laugh, because it is modeled after Rodin’s ‘Great Thinker’. I grew up on a farm in SD, and I can tell you one thing, farmers have been called a lot of things, but never ‘great thinkers’.