monday gael

it's an irish monday morning here in my office. lots of wonderful irish music, stories and thoughts. im working on a painting that has a lot to do with ireland, familes and christianity, so this is all influential in a wonderful way today.

all in all it was a very fun and outstanding weekend. lots of relaxing and lots of artistic and personal inspiration. I have been reading lots of works from a book i picked up a couple of weeks ago. The Vintage Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction has a ton of different short stories and exceprts from works by Irish authors all writtten since the early 1960's. lots of good good stuff

on saturday night olsen and i went and saw the final film starring Richard Harris, the late irish actor well known lately for his roles in 'gladiator' and the 'harry potter' movies. 'my kingdom', losely based on shakespear's 'king lear', is based in modern day liverpool and revolves around the downfall of hariss' family and drug kingdom. playing on one screen for one week only in america so as to be eligable for oscar contention, this film is amazing. i believe that it will be playing through this coming thursday and i HIGHLY recommend that you see it. its playing at the cecchi gori art theater on wilshire and tickets can only be purchased at the door. for directions and more information check out this link. tickets are $9 and the do not offer student discount. this however is a nine dollars well spent. to check out the LA Times review of my kingdom.

on sunday, after church, I checked out 'baseball as america' at the natural history museum here in LA. for more information on this awesome display of baseball artifacts check out this link

what did you do this weekend?----->