what i've been seeing while i haven't been updating this blog.
hello friends,
i apologize for being so out of touch. here are some drawings i've made of the things i've been seeing. they go backwards in time, so the first one is the most recent.
right now we are in montreal. it's a really beautiful city. we are staying with some nice ladies we found on couchsurfing.com. last night they were telling us about how everything in their house, except the fold-out couch and the record player, came from scavenging in the garbage on the curbs of montreal. they know a self-proclaimed "pirate-scavenger" who showed them the tricks of the trade. in a nutshell: first you look at the bag. if it looks "unusual" then you kick the bag. if it sounds "promising" THEN you open the bag. their apartment is old and beautiful. you wouldn't believe the stuff people throw away! soft velvet upholstered chairs, a red glass star lamp that hangs, old maps of the world, dark wood tables and matching chairs.
on wednesday we will head back to vermont to play at least one show, hopefully more will work out.
more soon!
morgan.
Yesterday getting through the border to Montreal was quite the ordeal. They searched the entire truck, asked us tons of questions and said in order for them to let us into Canada they needed proof that we really would leave after 3 days. We had to show them a Facebook event for a show we are playing in Hardwick, Vermont on the 25th before they'd believe us. It was stressful, even though I knew we had nothing to hide and they were just doing their jobs. After, when they'd let us through, I saw this great black bird of prey sitting in a dead corn field with it's wings outstretched facing the sun.
stranger(s) on the train back from coney island. the original woman i was drawing got off the train before i was done...so i just kept going, adding on with the features of the next lady who sat down.
more strangers on the trains in n.y.c.
i really like drawing strangers. most people are very absorbed in their own thoughts/ music/iphone/newspaper/experience and do not notice when i draw them. sometimes people catch me and i feel bad; it's an invasion of privacy. i keep doing it though because i notice that after a while of drawing strangers i start to look at people differently in general. i feel less superficially judgmental and more interested in the shapes and lines their bodies make. everyone starts to look very beautiful and i feel more tender towards them. i feel like i recognize them. i know this is a one-sided feeling.
lots of kinds of windows as seen on the above-ground train to coney island
maren at st. dymphnas in the east village. conor oberst wrote a song about this bar on his last record "ruminations" and we just happened to be walking by so we stopped in.
gravestone melange at the historic hughenot burying grounds in new palts, n.y.
more graves at hughenot.