I was born and spent the first 10 years of my life in the Bacliff/Galveston Bay area of Texas and if I was to make an album of my childhood this would be it.

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#	Title	Artist
1	Blue Bayou	Linda Ronstadt
2	Maggie May	Rod Stewart
3	Forever Young	Rod Stewart
4	Cracklin’ Rosie	Neil Diamond
5	Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)	The Hollies
6	Crazy Love	Poco
7	I Love a Rainy Night	Eddie Rabbitt
8	Lookin’ for Love	Johnny Lee
9	Drivin’ My Life Away	Eddie Rabbitt
10	Lost in Love	Air Supply
11	Bang a Gong (Get It On)	T. Rex
12	Smoky Mountain Rain	Ronnie Milsap
13	Open Arms	Journey
14	Luchenback, Texas	Johnny Russell
15	You and I	Crystal Gayle & Eddie Rabbitt
16	Let Your Love Flow	Bellamy Brothers
17	Jet Airliner	Steve Miller Band
18	Just Remember I Love You	Firefall
19	Kiss on My List	Daryl Hall & John Oates
20	You’re in My Heart	Rod Stewart
21	Lay Down Sally	Eric Clapton
22	Bette Davis Eyes	Kim Carnes
23	You Might Think	The Cars
24	Carry On Wayward Son	Kansas
Bonus Track      Fallen Angles           by Bacliff Punx

After a year of wanting to finish a small video of last years Madhatter’s Ball in Chicago and many starts & stops I figured just to cut it where I left off and just post it. I didnt have alot of useable photos anyway so in celebration of last years Ball and this years coming one (which I cant make) here is the 2005 Madhatters Ball Revue. Just click the image to the left to start the show.

Here’s hoping everyone has a good time this year even without the art…..

Now you can share what you have learned here with others when you return home to the trailer park.

~Frist Art Center Docent after giving a lecture on two african ceremonial headpeices

I wouldn’t use quotes if there was a symbol at my disposal that expressed the idea of not exactly quoting word for word but really close, minus a pronoun or slightly shifted. When you hear something you didn’t expect everything just kind of grinds to a stop like a wrench in the teeth of gears. So with humility and 20/25 vision I relate what to many could be a serious issue in a social institution but to me is another day in the arts.

The quick and the dirty of the story is that I and a friend went to the Frist Gallery (I thought of changing the names to protect the innocent but honestly that’s annoying) on a Sunday afternoon since we were in the Nashville area due to a old friends wedding. Having a free day we decided to see the many attractions there (Built-to-Scale Parthenon, Old Family Cemetery, Vanderbilt Art Gallery & Jack-in-the-Box since there are none in Chicago).

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Back in 2003 I had a series of paintings put to video with music. After going through the archives I thought this also would be interesting to post agian and get feedback.The idea behind the series is a celebration of the people in our life, both good and bad. How they bring light and energy to our lives in much the same way as a dim and old film on a black wall. We have them and the dancing light they give off even if only for a second at a time then the rest of it we wait in the dark eager for the next sequence. Think of the people that give you hope, enjoyment, change. The people that even if they dont do everything you would want, when they are gone you want them back. Everything changes, life and moments are fleeting and always in flux. So remeber those who make your life brighter both pro and con. Even if its in the abstract cherish what you have and look forward to what’s to come.

For everyone I made this for it was different, never one to write it down cause I kept tweaking and there lies the fun. So in honesty this isn’t the recipe for the Catholic Schoolgirl but the tribute to the recipe that never really existed.

Ingredients:
1 oz Amaretto
1 oz Goldschlogger
1 oz Sweet & Sour

3 oz Thick Orange Juice

Splash of Cherry Juice
1 Cherry with Stem

Mixing instructions:
Mix in the order above: Amaretto, Goldschlogger, Sweet & Sour, & lastly Orange Juice. Then Shake and pour over ice and drizzle the Cherry Juice over the top and drop in the Stemmed Cherry. Enjoy.

Born out of the depths of a late night joke session in college. The Catholic Schoolgirl was less a pursuit or idea and more a running gag that lasted 2 years. Someone wanted a drink that she could get anywhere that tasted nothing like a mixed drink but packed a spiked punch. Everyone threw out their favorite mix but none of us could really figure out what could pass for covert punch. Someone said that

“it was like looking for bigfoot, cant present it but people swear they saw it once, but if you did find one it should be called a Catholic Schoolgirl. Looks one way on the outside but its made up of hard stuff down below.”

We laughed and anytime there after if something needed mixing anywhere and they didn’t know what they wanted or the ingredients involved then we would just make up what eventually would eventually become this recipe. Tell them it was called a Catholic Schoolgirl and everyone (most of all the person wanting the mix) would have a laugh. Something over the top, simple and stupid that kept the problems from getting to be to much. To bad there are not many more things like that in the world.