Something about this-maybe the colors, the way they look tarnished- looks very old to me. The rope is a peyote spiral from a pattern in the Summer '98 issue of Beadwork magazine. The pendant is a Swarovski 4650 stone bezeled in RAW and netting.

TRASHed Art o Recycling

TRASHed Art o Recycling

There are objects that make a house a home: My daddy’s Martin guitar made ours.

When it stood in the corner of the living room, quiet and waiting for my dad to pick it up and make it sing, I would stretch out long on the shag rug before it and study its shiny spruce and rosewood skin, its mahogany neck, its mother of pearl beauty marks. I’d peer into the well that was its voice box and inhale the rich wood smell; I’d pluck the keys and feel the whole thing vibrate itself alive.

My dad gave me a few lessons when I asked him once, but I inherited my Bompa’s tiny hands and they never seemed long enough to stretch across the strings. I was too impatient to believe I could every come up with calluses tough enough to stop the sharp pain that shot through my fingertips when I tried to pin down the metal strings across the frets and try try try to make it sing for me.

But my daddy could make it sing. Still can. His music is my first music, his voice is behind the lullaby I still hum (Hush little baby don’t say a word / Papa’s gonna buy you a mocking bird...), and while his memory of being able to hold the whole of me in the palm of his hand when he returned late from playing the clubs and I was small and fussing and he paced and sang me to sleep is something I only know from his telling me -- even still I feel the deep safety of being held and swayed when ever he picks up his guitar and plays.

holga

Music Shop

Geneva, IL

TRASHed Art o Recycling

Artist: Sticky Shaw

Inheritance

Written by Mike Packer

Directed by Lisa Goldman

Wednesday 3 to Saturday 27 November 2010

A comic, timely family drama for anyone who’s ever been in debt

Harry’s had some bad news from the doctor and he’s worried. Worried that, because of his life-long political convictions, he hasn't got anything to leave to his sons and grandchildren. So, by joining the property owning democracy, Harry thinks he's helping everyone out. Then the economic downturn gets in the way.

This premiere production is the first for Live Theatre from this artistic team: Mike Packer is the writer of the hit comedy The Dysfunckshonalz (soon to be a feature film and set to open shortly in the West End). Lisa Goldman is the former Artistic Director of The Soho Theatre and new writing company The Red Room, which she co-founded.

Featuring the talented cast of David Hargreaves (Pub Quiz is Life, On the Shore of the Wide World and The Changing Room), Matthew Wait (Crocodile Shoes and Casualty), Steven Hillman (Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Casualty)., Melanie Hill (Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Crocodile Shoes and Joe Maddison’s War) and Martina Laird (Arabian Knights, Breath Boom and The White Devil) all making their Live Theatre debuts .

Inheritance

Written by Mike Packer

Directed by Lisa Goldman

Wednesday 3 to Saturday 27 November 2010

A comic, timely family drama for anyone who’s ever been in debt

Harry’s had some bad news from the doctor and he’s worried. Worried that, because of his life-long political convictions, he hasn't got anything to leave to his sons and grandchildren. So, by joining the property owning democracy, Harry thinks he's helping everyone out. Then the economic downturn gets in the way.

This premiere production is the first for Live Theatre from this artistic team: Mike Packer is the writer of the hit comedy The Dysfunckshonalz (soon to be a feature film and set to open shortly in the West End). Lisa Goldman is the former Artistic Director of The Soho Theatre and new writing company The Red Room, which she co-founded.

Featuring the talented cast of David Hargreaves (Pub Quiz is Life, On the Shore of the Wide World and The Changing Room), Matthew Wait (Crocodile Shoes and Casualty), Steven Hillman (Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Casualty)., Melanie Hill (Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Crocodile Shoes and Joe Maddison’s War) and Martina Laird (Arabian Knights, Breath Boom and The White Devil) all making their Live Theatre debuts .

Brandon Sopinsky

My father never bought a car in his life, much to my annoyance. I inherited his rusted old cycle (even though I don't know how to ride one) and an outlook to life that says, 'umm, do I need a freaking car?' Maybe yes, maybe no.