Well, it's been another exciting weekend of painting orange things white. Oh, and I washed some clothes. Wild! But we're making headway at getting our house to be tolerable. We're almost all the way to 'hovel' and our eyes are on the prize ('hostel'). It sucks to realize that despite how tiring the constant painting can be, it's the easy part of the job. There's tiling, floor-replacing, electrical and plumbing projects, major structural renovations … It never ends!

It's no wonder I can't get out to shows, there literally is no time to get out and do stuff. This is good, as it saves me money. But all paint and no rock make Jimmy a dull blog (I know, I know). So for the good of us all, I'm going to start getting out on the town more. This will be facilitated by several upcoming happenings. The first of which falls on my birthday: this Thursday Behold … the Arctopus performs at Tonic. I haven't seen them in wayyy too long, they will blow your head off. Sadly, they go on first at like 8PM, but it seems like most of my favorite bands tend to be openers.

I'm also trying to get back with my sister site, Here's YOUR Copy, which lists local upcoming shows I'm planning on going to. There's some good stuff coming up, including THE EX on December 13th!

Chris Wood has issued this update about Broken Angel. He's selling prints of his photos of the building to raise money to help his folks get things straightened out, legally-speaking.

Update Broken Angel 11/13/06 please post

The building Broken Angel is a unique melding of art and architecture designed by my father Arthur Wood, and located in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. The original building was bought at a city auction in 1979, and major construction was completed in 2002. On 10/10/06 a structure at the top of Broken Angel caught fire. Thanks to the quick action of the New York City fire department no one was harmed, and only minimal damage was done to the building. Unfortunately the fire brought the attention of the department of buildings (DOB) who vacated my parents, the owners and guardians of Broken Angel. My family is currently working with the architecture firm, Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture http://www.jpda.net/news.html, to bring the building to code, however we are still being threatened with demolition by the DOB. On Wednesday 11/15/06 the Brooklyn Supreme Court will begin hearings on whether the actions of the DOB are justified. Additionally we will be selling photographs and paintings as a fundraiser at Artez’n (444 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY). These works of art can also be viewed and purchased on line at http://www.artezn.com/product/?product_id=5246 . We are attempting to raise funds to save the building and develop it in a way that will help the community. In selling our art work we are hoping to make Broken Angel a permanent art installation and fixture of Brooklyn. For those who are interested in viewing the building additional photos of Broken Angel can by seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/onebadapple/ . In closing my family would like to say thank you to all of the people who have been so gracious in their offers of help. We deeply appreciate your support.