GJ Willis' Art Notes

Imitation of Life - REM (Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe)

Nothing terribly spectacular or earth shattering happened this week. Almost everyday we had overtime at work. Which meant that I painted while half sleepy and worked half sleepy. I’m thinking about buying some more Ginseng to keep awake.

As far as my auctions are going I am sitting on pins and needles hoping more people will look at them. If no one bids on anything that’s ok. In the long run it’s not the bids that count it’s the number of hits. I live for the hits baby!

The only major highlight this week was that I finally picked up my cd’s from the post office that I bought online at cdnow.com My new cd’s are REM’s Reveal and Depeche Mode’s Exciter.

I’m a big fan of Depeche Mode but I can’t seem to get into their new cd. The grooves are too slow. I hope they come up with more upbeat dance music in the future. The whole cd is like a funeral dirge. It does’nt make me wanna dance. It makes me wanna sit back and slowly get stoned. I’m thinking about putting there cd up for auction. It’s not any fun!! I don’t know maybe I should listen to it some more to get used to it. Besides, there coming to my neck of the woods in early July.

I really like the new REM cd. Then again I am biased, I’m an REM fanatic. I’m addicted to them!! I own every REM cd that ever came out. I even have there UP cd. I don’t understand why Up was’nt big. I think it would have been bigger if they had released Lotus as their first single instead of that dreadful Daysleeper song. Also they should have released “Why not Smile”, as a single. I hope that they tour more in the future. I’d hate it if they turned into a studio band. I have’nt seen there latest music video because I can’t afford cable. I had a choice I could either pay for my internet service or cable. I opted for the internet. Maybe one day when I make enough money I can have internet and cable service at the same time.