5chw4r7z:: the ethos of downtown Cincinnati

Keith Haring at the CAC

I think the CAC is on to something with streetart, the Keith Haring crowd was the biggest I'd seen at the CAC since Shepard Fairey.

"my 4yr old could do that!" How many times how you heard that and wanted to scream? Sure, maybe, but your 4yr old hasn't been through art school. The value of these retrospectives is seeing the progression as an artist, and if he wasn't a very good artist, he did manage to find a style that resonated and then beat the god out of it.
His texts and diaries were illuminating giving us a small peek into the demons running around in his head.

The NYTimes says; "Keith Haring was not a great artist. He might not even have been a very good one. But he was the right person in the right place at the right time, and he had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of just the right energy: a radiant, joyful enthusiasm that he shared with unflagging vitality first on the streets of New York and then on the world stage."

This is a Jimmy Baker, I like the imagery, the last battle scene of the Matrix series and Aliens all rolled into one.

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Bell's Brewery Beer Tasting @The Lackman

All the cool kids gathered at The Lackman last night for some Bell's beer. Had some high expectations going in, maybe to high. its not that the specialty brews weren't good, they were, I was just expecting a little more. Liked the Deb's Rye, then just went back to the old standby, Hopslam. like I tweeted last night
"the other stuff was ok, not hammer of the gods like i expected, defaulted to hopslam. all is right in the world"

Ryan Gosling at the end of the bar. At least that was the gossip, he wouldn't let me get my picture with him so I guess the world will never know.

the Al & Al show

how much do we love hops?
this much

the brewski's taste better when shared with other knowledgable beer lovers, like JT

The coolest bar in the coolest building in the coolest neighborhood.
a trifecta of awesome

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Hallmark holidays

is what some guys call it, whatever, like what holiday isn't made up? There probably isn't much about Christmas in the bible, its more of a department store holiday than anything.
but all of that is besides the point, if valentines day gives you reason to pause in your busy life, to stop and think about the most important person in your life and make them feel special, whats the harm in that? I can't see a down side.
We don't blow the bank or go out to eat on "amateur" lovebird night.
A couple fillets on the grill, a couple very rich deserts and we're good to go.

oh yeah, it was that intense, everythng sourced from Findlay Market for dinner.

everything except the Flower Power, sourced from Itaca NY.

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Père Lachaise Cemetery

Not the oldest cemetary in Paris, but it is the biggest and most visited. The cemetery takes its name from the confessor to Louis XIV, Père François de la Chaise, who lived in a Jesuit house rebuilt in 1682 on the site of the chapel.
Like seemingly everything else of consequence in Paris, this too was setup by Napoleon. The guy was nothing if not grand, his vision of Paris outlasted him.

The cemetary wasn't vary popular until the remains of Pierre Abélard and Héloïse were relocated there. They had a Romeo and Julliete type story, both bright scholars in the early 1100's, they were seperated when their affair was discovered. Playing the part of a drama queen, Héloïse ran off and joined the convent of Argenteuil. The popular story is that Abélard died first, and when Héloïse died, Abélard's grave was opened so she could be laid with her lover and as she was lowered, his arms opened to embrace her.
In the 15th century 113 love letters in a manuscript were discovered documenting their early affair.
Letters from modern lovers, and would be or hopefull lovers are now left at the grave. It was undergoing some restoration when we were there so we couldn't get very close, bummer.

They love their dancers in Paris they do.
Stars in France die grusome deaths just like their conterparts in America. Duncan died in a freak automobile accident in Nice, France when her large silk scarf, still wrapped around her neck, became entangled in the car's open-spoked wheel, breaking her neck.

Gilbert Morard, father of the modern French metro, I think, or the patron saint of trains. Not much on the internet despite the popularity of his grave site.

The most famous resident, at least to the majority of Americans is one Jim Morrison. Wow, you should have seen the hippy's and people dressed 30yrs out of their age range hanging around. Crazy.

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Cincinnati Auto Expo

I'm sort of out of the car game because I hardly ever see my car, once every couple weeks or so, but I'm still a gearhead at heart so when Cincinnati Profile offered me a couple tickets to the show I grabbed them and ran. We had a tiny 2 hour window Friday night to go and you know what? It was perfect, everyone else was leaving and we practicly had the place to ourselves.
Besides the obvious lust worthy supermodel trailer queen supercars the highlight for me was the Fiat 500, I could see plunking some cash down for that. I won't, but I could see doing it. The new Focus also looked incredible in the flesh.
The Volt, they didn't have one you could sit it, just a display model but it looks way better in person than in pictures.
One thing not looking better in person were the uninspiring dashboards in the high buck stuff, guess all the cash went to the 600HP engines.