Johnny Marr Live in Detroit at the Magic Stick

Friday night I took my son who was turning 15 at the stroke of midnight and his best friend for a surprise concert in Detroit at the Magic Stick. They had no idea who Johnny Marr is (Lead guitarist and co-writer of all the Songs by The Smiths) or how good a performer he is. We get to the show just after is sells out! SHIT! OK now what are our choices? We left and on driving around Detroit I went trying to find something for two 14 year old to do. Well we could of went to see the Michael Jackson Prince Experience at St. Andrews. I don't think that would have made it a good birthday, memorable, not good memories, but is was a show.What do you do?
Back to the Johnny Marr Show I went!
I went in and have begged the doorman with no luck, prowled outside for scalpers. No luck. And then as it always happens to me I met someone from my past, those friends just keep appearing, and I got a little special treatment. 5 minutes later I went out front to the car and told the boys to get out we are going to a show.
The place was packed and the kids were definitely the youngest ones there. I got them up front and Johnny Marr was freaking incredible mixing in The Smiths songs with his own. "Big Mouth Strikes Again" was mind blowing and he ended with "How Soon is Now"
Great gift to my son and his friend which I topped of with tee shirts for both and a signed band poster for his birthday.
I think Johnny has some new fans..........

Johnny Marr - Magic Stick Detroit

Finn Juhl Model 45 Chair 1945 It's amazing what you can find in the garage!

Cleaning out the garage of old items and items not needed in this future life, I cam upon my Finn Juhl Chair. This "Model 45" chair was designed in 1945 and was a historic chair as it separated the seat and from the frame differently from chair of the past. Upside down on top of some other danish chairs, I had forgotten about it and it's purchase from a inner city dimly lit flea market in the 1990's. Water dripping down the walls and buckets catching it in other places, I rescued this chair and three Paul McCobb tables on the ugliest of days. What a find and and the rest of the day I was hopping around like a drugged rabbit.

Finn Juhl Model 45 Chair 1945

Regaining my footage and getting happy again

Ok, I think I am getting happy again. There are people who care and each one at different levels of thoughtfulness and compassion. Coming back sure has not been easy and I wish to thank all my friends for being true, full of compassion and for just being there. Where did they all the notion to contact me when I did not ask for help? I just don’t know how it happened, but I am glad it did.

Lost it all and now I'm back. I have a great warm feeling from my friends who have turned out to be closer than the phrase “extended family”.

I have always seen a light of optimism, but now the light is very bright and most of all I found I did not lose a part of me I was not even worried about, for if I lost it would have been fine, the ability to love. I am not looking for what I was when I was younger, the crazy lust, incredible beauty with the possibility of finding someone on my mental level. Well I took on a first wife which was a complete beauty (model) which was a major project mentally. It did not work and she went off the deep, deep end on drugs, never to come back as the person I married. My second wife and mother of my children is an incredible beauty, wonderful mother and very intelligent. She just wants to go her own way and I respect her for that. She loves me for sure; she is just not “In love with me” the way it takes to have a functional marriage. I understand it, I didn’t want to, but let bygones be bygones and move on. In all relationships I took care of everything (except we jointly raised wonderful children in my second marriage) and now I am done being the slave that I made of myself.

Just knowing I am fine, understanding my pasty relationships with the support of so many has enabled me to move on and give me confidence. I think I am getting happy again this Vintage Man.

MARCEL BREUER LONG CHAIR put away long ago. Early Mid Century Modern

Well moving some items I cam upon this Marcel Breuer "Long Chair" stacked on top of some chrome couches in my storage. It's been years since i brought this out and it looks like I might add this to the items I may sell. The design dates back to 1936 and was first manufactured for Breuer by Isokon Furniture. The one I have could be very early, but let's not estimate things like this when you REALLY don't know! Manufactured in laminated birch ply, angled back-rest and shaped seat of one continuous piece of moulded plywood with a thin cloth original upholstery which I purchased in the mid eighties. I a hard thing to part with, but sooner or later you can't be laid to rest in a chair.

MARCEL BREUER LONG CHAIR
DESIGNED 1936, EXECUTED Most likely 1960's or before
laminated beech and upholstery

Diego Rivera Parchment Paper Book with prints 1940’s

Digging through my items I came across the below Diego Rivera Parchment Paper book with 12 superb prints of Mexican Frescos. It has the original ties and is in excellent condition. Not your ordinary find in a pile of items I purchased years ago and just rediscovered. The prints are wonderful and show the feeling and Diego’s most important frescos over the years from the 1920’s through the 1940’s.  A real treasure which every time I look at it makes my mind travel toward his and emits emotions which are not explainable. En

joy as I do.

Life and the Gorillaz Hong Kong at the Fox Theater in Detroit

Sometime I get very melancholy and drift in my mind of to some other land. I lose my surroundings and replace them with a paradise and a world where troubles melt into the sunset. In these moments deep in my mind I drift off to a very quiet place and then it comes. The sounds of everything around e are amplified so that the sound of just touching a surface or the wind in my hair gently comforts me. In these moments the sound in my head turns to the music implanted in my head and very often it turns to the Gorillaz – Hong Kong. I went to see them with my son who was twelve at the time. The show was at the Fox Theater in Detroit and we ended up against the stage placed there by an unknown elderly security guard who just motioned us down from the 4^th row (outside the orchestra pit so not really the 4^th row). When they played Hong Kong I left the theater in an out of body experience and thank god when it was over I was still standing next to my son.

As this is a part of me, I must post this.

More support and love and caring from a fellow Cancer

Well this will be short, but I just had the best evening out in more than a year. Well there is nothing like some cocktails, conversation and a very supportive friend to give you a much needed shove. This shove opened up my own ambitions to get me to the next level. A friend of a friend who I knew for years casually and we finally hooked up and found we are both Cancers born in July and we are the classic givers going through life without taking anything. LIKE NOTHING. The hundreds of thousands I have given throughout my life and I feel like a dog waiting and waiting to get just one pat on the head.

Someone has given me the key to opening up my raw confidence not just the normal confidence which has gotten me through all the shit that has been thrown at me.

Amazing! I ended the night and the only thing I gave was my open heart and soul and what I received was the others heart and soul. It's been way too long for something like this to happen to me

SMILE