Happy Thanksgiving

With special thanks to creator Dan Mertzluft, and James Corden, Kristin Chenoweth, Josh Gad, Patti LuPone, Josh Groban and Audra McDonald.

My creation

Or at least my version of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" from the Sistine Chapel.

 

I leave it to you which is God. Lost in the mist of time is whether the reference was intentional.

 

 

 

 

And then there's this one:

 

Be like that

Saw this last night on A Late Show and it had me smiling & had me smiling. Hope it does the same for you. Mr. Brown just won the American Music Award for Favorite Male Artist - Country. Don't know that it sounds country to moi.

"Be Like That"
(feat. Swae Lee & Khalid)

I might be better on my own
I hate you blowing up my phone
I wish I never met yo' ass
Sometimes it be like that
But I'm not myself the nights you're gone
There ain't no way I'm moving on
I'm not afraid to need you bad
Sometimes it be like that

We both wanna love
We both wanna slide
We both wanna argue until we're both right
And you want a hug
I kiss you goodnight
Maybe we're both just out of our mind

You throw tantrums while I'm twisting up
No medicine is fixing us
Can't tell you why but tell you what
You got me thinking

I might be better on my own
I hate you blowing up my phone
I wish I never met yo' ass
Sometimes it be like that
But I'm not myself the nights you're gone
There ain't no way I'm moving on
I'm not afraid to need you bad
Sometimes it be like that

I cross the seas witchu'
Wasn't even supposed to be witchu'
Yeah, and it gets crazy in the night
I cannot sleep with you
And I could keep you nice and warm
Won't do no thinking, I'm in love
If I was to give you the world
That's anything that you can think of

Got too much going to be upset
I swear I'd rather be your friend
I said I'm gonna be right back
It hurts sometimes it be like that

I might be better on my own
I hate you blowing up my phone
I wish I never met yo' ass
Sometimes it be like that
But I'm not myself the nights you're gone
There ain't no way I'm moving on
I'm not afraid to need you bad
Sometimes it be like that

Sometimes when you thought you found the love of your life
Now you're thinking I'm just one of those guys leading on
I can't help when you read it wrong

Don't know why I trip on us
You put me down, I pick you up
Can't tell you why, but tell you what
You got me thinking

I might be better on my own
I hate you blowing up my phone
I wish I never met yo' ass
Sometimes it be like that
But I'm not myself the nights you're gone
There ain't no way I'm moving on
I'm not afraid to need you bad
Sometimes it be like that

Sometimes when you're falling off track
Baby, don't you leave me like that
Don't cry
'Cause we're both just out of our mind

 

Dance the blues away

 Given my extended family's history with Parkinson's - mom, her brother, an uncle by marriage - I want to share this;

Magic

 I wasn't sure about this when she started this song on Colbert last night, but by the end she'd totally sold me and I was dancing like I haven't in ages. Kylie Minogue, ladies and gentlemen, from her album, Disco.

If this doesn't help her break into the U.S. market, I don't know what will.

Ever happen to you?

 

Indoor landscape

I was doing some stretches in the guest room yesterday and was mesmerized by the shadows cast on the rug by the angle of the sun. I've long loved the texture of the rug and think the sun at this time of year highlights the interest and its landscape qualities.

Richard Serra, Rikrit Tiravanija, et al. Sculpture and Architecture in Contemporary Art

 19.Oct.2020 the Guggenheim zoomed a presentation on the above. Here are some screenshots I took.

Basquiat: Writing the future

 27.Sept. and 04.Nov.2020 the MFA zoomed an exploration of their exhibition on Basquiat and his contemporaries. Here are some screenshots I took.

I used to think I liked the idea of Basquiat more than the fact of him, but seeing this presentation put him in context of what else was going on at the time. It was weird, since I lived in NYC in the '80s to hear it spoken of as history.

The last two images is of the MFA's Murals Project.  Though they mention a book with a map, I couldn't find any references. The last one took my breath away after I stumbled upon it on the way home from an MD appt. a while ago.