02010-10-21 | Photos
The Bullitt is still in the shop, and it looked like rain, so I drove my car to have breakfast with Jon.
The clouds created a perfectly round grey lid that covered the town, above a bright turqouise sky, much more dramatic and brilliant than what these photos can reproduce. Or perhaps a giant spaceship out of a puffy non-reflective grey material hovering above Santa Fe.
October > Halloween > Skull-art on the walls of Counter Culture.
I like skulls. They are what will be left of us, at least for a little while, when everything else is gone: the beauty and the ugliness, the bright or dull personality, the silly beliefs, the stupid righteousness, the plastic surgery, the clothes, the attitude, the lifestyle, the fears, the chatter, the hair… I think skulls are cool. Tibetan monks, including the Dalai Lama, frequently meditate on death, and visualize their bodies decomposing. Embrace it or fear it. Attachment is futile.
In the evening, rain turned into hail:
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I posted a simple note to the Diary, which will also be included in the next list mailing. The nicest thing I can say about the CFF woman in charge of the concert, is that she may be inexperienced. The concert could have brought twenty or thirty grand to CFF, but she messed up. We will not work with folks like her again, that is, amateur promoters who don’t seem to have a clue. I will prefer to make a monetary donation to a cause, rather than be made to look like a fool by an idiot calling me a star and blaming me for a cancellation. Here is my statement:
My apologies to those who were looking forward to seeing our performance at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque last month. When my manager found out that the promoter and beneficiary of the benefit concert, CFF, had not even informed the media of the concert two weeks before it was supposed to happen, had not bought any advertising, basically had done none of the things that they had promised and agreed to… she cancelled the show. The only people who had purchased tickets up to that point were people who had found out about the concert through our mailing list or from this Diary.
We are not a cancel-happy group. In over twenty years of touring we have cancelled only three shows.
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My apologies to those who were looking forward to seeing our performance at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque last month. When my manager found out that the promoter and beneficiary of the benefit concert, CFF, had not even informed the media of the concert two weeks before it was supposed to happen, had not bought any advertising, basically had done none of the things that they had promised and agreed to… she cancelled the show. The only people who had purchased tickets up to that point were people who had found out about the concert through our mailing list or from this Diary.
We are not a cancel-happy group. In over twenty years of touring we have cancelled only three shows.
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