I had serious car shenanigans today. I'm on my way to my in-law's for dinner, both midgets in the car, and I was creeping up to a red light. All of the sudden, my car makes this terrible, nasty noise like screaming metal, and the weight shifts drastically on the passenger's side. The shock only lasts a second because this has happened many, many times before; I had a flat. Ok, get the car off the road. Luckily, there was a Cole Muffler, literally, right next to me.
So I go to pull into their lot – already pissed because flat tires are no fun and I know we won't have the money for a new tire for a few weeks – and the steering wheel is having almost no effect. At the same time as I'm getting the car to kinda move towards the parking lot, this ugly dragging/grinding sound is following me and I'm thinking That's way more than the rim from the flat...
There I am, a moderate walk with two small kids away from my in-law's, with a majorly fucked up car. A Cole Muffler guy comes out and I asked him if I could leave the car while I went to my in-law's to figure out what to do with it. He asked if I could pull into a parking space, and I told him I could barely pull it into the lot. That's when he looked under the car and said, “Yup you lost a ball joint.”
To skip to the end, the car is now at the lot of my father-in-law's mechanic, where it will sit for at least the next month, until we can get it fixed. If we're lucky, it'll only be around $100 for ball joint, tire, and labor. If we're not lucky, it'll be more like $300-400. Bleh.
All this means for you my reader, is an abbreviated Artist You Should Know. I'm intending Tuesday's posts to be a more in depth spotlight on a particular artist, but with the above shenanigans, I'm afraid all I've got is a list of 5 spectacular artists you should take some time to get acquainted with.
http://www.jasondaquino.com/home.html Jason D'Aquino
This guy does incredible things with graphite! I didn't even know you could draw on a spoon. Definitely check out his Hunter S. Thompson portraits.
Shame on you if you don't know who Ron English is! Start with the billboards and watch Read Between the Lies.
Everyone who knows me knows about my fangirl love for Audrey Kawasaki's artwork. Well executed, sexy girls with depth...what's not to love?
More sultry ladies, but with a decidedly different quality.
And of course, no list would be complete without:
Um, hello, The Dinner Party! Never heard of it? You ought to be slapped. Just get out of my sight until you're more well-versed.
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