Quite a Life

All I want to do / Is have some fun. . .

I've got a feeling / I'm not the only one. . . 

Why are new tattoos so bright?  I don't know anything about them, but I'm wondering, did they come out with a new kind of ink?  All the colors are far too loud.  It reminds me of Oriental rugs after the 1920's when they began to use synthetic rather than vegetable dyes.  Suddenly the rugs looked electric.  Now the value of rugs with synthetic dyes is much below those that used vegetable.  What will be the value of old tattoos?

Bu really, I don't like tats one way or the other.

Whitney Houston died, they say.  My mother reported it at dinner tonight.  I'd seen the news this morning, I said, and I told her I couldn't name a single song she sung.  Oh. . . but my mother could.

"She sang "The Star Spangled Banner" at a game once."

My mother kills me.

A minute later, the woman who rents me my studio space stopped by the table to say hello.  My heart stopped.  Mother still does not know.

I did not leave the house today until four o'clock.  I stayed in and worked on photos all day long.  In my pajamas, of course.  I've decided I will buy some that are made of silk.  Warm in the winter, cool in the summer.  That's what they say.

My mother came to take me to dinner tonight.  Before we left, the woman I was with for many years, the one with the son, stopped by to give me a piece of cake she had just made.  I don't care, but my mother was not nice at all.  Good old mom is quite loyal to her son.

And that is all I have.  That's what happens when you don't go anywhere for days, when you sit in the house and listen to a jazz channel on cable t.v.  But I will be forced outside tomorrow when I go to work.  Then the shit will hit the fan, as they say.  For now, home from dinner, I will sit in the dim light and drink some whiskey and work on images.  And really, it's O.K.  It is quite a life.

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And of course, my mother was right.  Here is a list of the "greatest" Whitney Houston songs.  "Star Spangled" tops the list.  I don't think I've ever heard any of the other songs before.  They are awful.  

Ultimate Whitney Playlist