Austin, Tejas, The United States of North America 3,000 miles into this tour I realize maybe I should be writing something about it. It's more clear now than ever that the North American Southwest is my home, northern New Mexico is a meditating landscape, southern Arizona is bandito territory, west Texas is the thick beginning of the south, etc. And what is travel but a parade of beautiful faces? In no particular order, I should mention that the Central School Project is quite possibly the best performance space south of Tucson, that Spring Winders is the best printer in the goddamn world and her recent show in Flagstaff deserved much critical acclaim, Don McIver of Albuquerque has a new book out called the Noisy Pen and is constantly writing, his better half Mindy is wonderful too. Emily, Tanya and all of Amy Biehl High School are right-on. Gary Mex Glazner is pushing the limits as usual, leading 'hippy love circles' with high schoolers that rock any slam team. Word is that his new book should be out as soon as he finishes it. Paul White is an artist in Santa Fe who has a wonderful house and hospitality and whose portfolio I can't remember the URL for. There I met many wonderfuls. And Liz hooked it up with Lila Downs tickets, Liz and Lila Downs are awesome. Then sleeping in west Texas in the back of my truck...
Rich is not Mexican. He's from Austrailia. He lives in San Anto. Get it right. He has a budding show at the new Ruta Maya and Bonnie smiles, nods, and doesn't let anyone get away with shit. Ft. Worth has an art community that doesn't yet know it. There's many Awesomes there including Tammy (tejana spitfire), Claudia (teatro as ritual) and Ken (musico and thinker, listener & laugher), each of whom is Involved. Meanwhile Suzy is training to fight fires instead of causing them on microphones...
More to come.