New Review of Your Silent Face /  by Tim Lane

Dear Potential Reader,

Which band would you rather be in? Musical Youth or English Beat? Tough call.

XOXO,

Stuart.

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If you are on the fence about reading or recommending my 80s coming-of-age novel, Your Silent Face—narrated by 80s New Wave and post punk music-lover, Stuart Page—then this review could clarify everything.

And I mean everything.

Okay, not everything.

Dang.

Find the review here: New Review of Your Silent Face.

And many thanks to the reviewer!

#80s #80smusic #YourSilentFace #YourSilentFacetheNovel #NewWave #PostPunk #GenerationX #GenX #GenXer #Flint #comingofagenovels

Total 80s, baby.

Total 80s, baby.

Adam Ant: Stand & Deliver, the Autobiography /  by Tim Lane

“I remember my illness. I am frightened. I hit myself on the jaw to remind myself.

I want to cry but can’t.

I have a talent. I have a right to portray my art in my way.”
— Adam Ant: Stand & Deliver

I’m about halfway through the Adam Ant autobiography. It’s entertaining, and interesting, and, to be honest, it is comforting. Perhaps I was a very run-of-the-mill young adult after all. The journal entries are insightful. Like young Adam, I should believe that I have talent, have a right to portray my art my way. That’s not the question, really, though, anymore. While I do feel insecure at times, I don’t really doubt that I have talent. That was an insecurity I had more so as a young man. I possessed talent and “became talented” through hard work.

Now, I struggle more with whether making art is worthwhile—a good way to spend my time. I do sometimes still get caught up in comparisons with other artists and feel like my work is inferior to many other artists, but I usually get beyond these moments.

Surprisingly, I had never heard the John Peel sessions. Thank God for Youtube. I am including them below for you.

I recommend the autobiography to fans and anyone who loves early 80s post punk music.

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Mind/Mirror, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art /  by Tim Lane

Mind/Mirror is a Jasper Johns retrospective that is opening this fall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You just might run into me there, haha.

This morning, I purchased the catalog. I’m excited! I sort of collect writings and catalogs on the work of Jasper Johns.

When it comes to my visual work, I have always considered Johns to be one of my biggest influences. I have always been drawn to his work, his methodology and ideas. And I have appreciated his reluctance to go into very much depth about it all. I am looking forward to receiving the book.

Also, I cherish every opportunity I have ever had to experience and study Jasper Johns’ paintings up close in museums in New York and Chicago and D.C.

Scroll down for a poem I wrote about meeting one’s heroes. I have mixed feelings on the subject.

#jasperjohns #targets #mirrors #mind #mindmirror #flags #dreams #shadows #Johns #painting #contemporarypainting #art #contemporaryart #philadelphia #philadelphiamuseumofart

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Nice to Meet You (the Targets, the Numbers, the Flags)


I don’t paint anything like Jasper Johns

but by mentioning his name I have started you

up a tree with many branches, each branch

representing a certain move

as if this were a game of chess—

a painting by Jasper Johns

like Cicada or Between the Clock and the Bed

the canvas filled with crosshatches

each crosshatch representing an idea

a certain gesture of the mind

as if the mind were a hand that could point

in five different directions

at once.

_


I once beat          a woman

in a chess match          in twelve moves

She lost her queen

It could’ve gone on        a lot longer

but she          resigned.

_


There are people & occupations

the person & the occupation

& I’m working on sorting this

out, separating the person from the

occupation, who someone is from

what they do

as if I were a saint—

as if I’m not interested in what one

does, as if I were not interested

in the fact that

Jasper Johns is an artist, as if it were false

that I’m still interested in the targets

the numbers, the flags.

_

With everything

to lose

& nothing

to gain

my friend

Blake

would only

play chess

against me

if

we were

drunk

_


It’s probably a good thing

that it’s highly unlikely

I will ever meet the artist

Jasper Johns

I don’t think I’d have

that much to say

other than

Hi,

nice to meet you.

I’ve always admired

your work.

Still Happily Here in My Car /  by Tim Lane

Gary Numan’s New Wave hit single, Cars, was released in August of 1979. I am not exaggerating when I say that experiencing this song changed my life. This comment copied from Youtube sums it up pretty well:

“The first time I heard this, the DJ played it three times consecutively. He couldn’t wrap his head around it. It was the fall of 1979 and I just entered my senior year of high school. New Wave rock is amazing.”

Does the narrator of my coming-of-age novel, Your Silent Face, which is set in the mid 80s, go on about Cars? Hmmmm…

Your Silent Face is now available as a paperback. You can order it at Amazon. Reviews welcomed.

#yoursilentface #yoursilentfacetimlane #postpunk #newwave #newwavemusic #80smusic #GenX #yoursilentfacethenovel #garynuman #cars #thepleasureprinciple

Upstairs at Eric's in Your Silent Face /  by Tim Lane

Upstairs at Eric’s was released in August in 1982. It contains the song, “Winter Kills,” which gets several mentions in Your Silent Face (as does the album). YSF is now available as a paperback and can be ordered at Amazon. If you live in Lansing, you can nab a copy from Dylan Andrew MacNaughton Rogers of the Robin Theater at their new book shop.

#yoursilentface #yoursilentfacetimlane #upstairsaterics #yazoo #yaz #postpunk #newwave #newwavemusic #winterkills #onlyyou #dontgo #80smusic #GenX #yoursilentfacethenovel

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Flight Mode /  by Tim Lane

Do you suffer from anxiety? Do you feel like you are in flight mode at certain times of the day? Do you struggle with transition and uncertainty? Are you struck by a sudden sense of the Absurdity in all things at times? Do you physically and emotionally understand the phrase, “Waiting for the other shoe to drop…”

Over the years, I have made paintings that try to get at these feelings and sensations.

#anxiety #anxietyissues #flightmode #waitingfortheothershoetodrop #fear #fearandanxiety #mentalhealth #mentalhealthisreal #wellbeing #wellnessandwellbeing #trappedinthemoment #ptsd #trauma

Painting from 2016 BLM Series Now on Sale /  by Tim Lane

Hello! I have added a Feature link to the main navigation page, up at the top with the other main links.

The painting which being featured is 50% off, plus shipping, and I will consider a payment plan. It is from the BLM series. It is mixed media on canvas, 35”x35”. I love this painting, but I don’t have adequate storage for it anymore.

Contact me at inlovewithplaid@comcast.net if you have questions.

Use the link below to jump to the Feature for more information.

 
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One Day I Became Who I Was, in Maine /  by Tim Lane

I enjoy seeing the work in its new home. This piece made its way to Maine. One Day I Became Who I Was, 2018, is part of the Double Universe Topology series.

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One Day I Became Who I Was, 2018acrylic, enamel, house, spray, oil paintstick, crayon & watercolor pencil on roofing paper36”x36”

One Day I Became Who I Was, 2018

acrylic, enamel, house, spray, oil paintstick, crayon & watercolor pencil on roofing paper

36”x36”