Well, I never got around to reporting this months ago, but I am sharing a studio with two other artists at the Millennium Arts Center now. It's been a bit rocky, I've never enough time to go over there and I am still not really all the way moved in which makes it hard to work. I have taken slides-thought I still need to edit and dupe them. Taking this space was a huge step, but it's criminal the way time flies.

I feel a victim of myself, I have kind of let all my blogs slide, I update the calendar on groupiegirldc, then don't write anything, because I am lucky to get to one show a month for lack of money or time. There are a number of new bands and new to me bands I would like to go see, yet my energy wanes. The other groupiegirls and myself all see the correlation as when you stop going to shows and energy does wane and it puts us in foul moods and them we have to battle back at ourselves and hit the music. If only I hope things turn around soon, I miss the night and the clubs and the new people and NEW MUSIC!

Likewise with The Big Eye Blog, it gets hits, especially in the Summer when the press release came out that Steinhilber got Directions and again now that the show is open. I would love to be able to write something insightful about it. I'm quite pleased with the art banter and the shows of the last few months, I want those that have put in a lot of hard work to know they should keep it up. I've made a point to keep up with many of the shows that Steinhilber has been in DC. I missed my chance to meet him at the Transparent opening, having thrown my back out pretty bad that week (post 6 flags, doih), but can you just see it...Me, the Ducksauce Detractor, crawling into the slickee clean Numark like Quasimodo, being like, "Hi, Dan. I know I wrote this crappy little screed about a few of your pieces but I only did it because I care. I think your work is really sublime-I just think there were some bad choices made in showing certain pieces-it could have been a curators/gallery owners fault, but rarely does the blame fall to them."

Anyway, the other thin I don't want to forget about is the similarly crappy City Paper feature on why Fugazi is to blame for DC being uninteresting-I can't find an archive link though it was a feature in October '03. His observations on going to a club in DC and the denizens and dilettantes in them was right on the bobbing-no-dancing and strict grunge prep thing, etc. etc., but what that has to do with Fugazi is a long shot. If your talking to me, it all fits into the book idea - the 60's & 70's f'd this town & the people in it up.