Sunday, January 18, 2009

the best of 2008


"I am a fascist pig" 1985, pencil on paper. Artist GB Jones
Here's a list of some of my favorite things of late.

1. Moving back to US after 8 years living in Brazil and London (and missing the entire Bush presidency)
2. Discovering the good in Miami (Wynwood gallery district and parallel Art Basel events, community center Sweat Records in Little Haiti, 90.5 FM, biking and tennis all year)
3. Alice O'Malleys photos of artists and performers from the Lower East Side in the 1980s and 1990s, published in the book Community of Elswheres by Isis Gallery, http://www.isisgallery.org/artists/alice_omalley.html
4. G.B. Jones's film The Lollipop Generation premeiring in Toronto, 15 years in the making. I can't wait to see it. And her artwork.
5. Writing again
6. Family, friends (including ones from decades ago) and feeling like life does really come full circle, sometimes and in small ways
7. Working for a Nuclear Free City's Businessmen & Ghosts release- released in 2007, but new to me
8. Milk and the new lgbt activism after Proposition 8 passed
9. Learning to deep sea dive in Colombia and saying good-bye to Brazil at my favorite out-of-the-way beach town
10. No more Bush.

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