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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
Artists Alicia Bailey and Melinda Laz from their 2008 Next Gallery exhibit "A Catalog of Lovely Things"
The City of Denver has been highlighting local artists in the jury selection waiting room at the City and County Building for a while now and I was looking forward to catching artist Rodney Wallace's installation there earlier this summer, but unfortunately his work had been taken down only a few days before my number was up and I had opportunity to serve. The use of the waiting room as an exhibition space continues and currently is playing host to artistic collaborators Melinda Laz and Alicia Bailey whose latest installation will be on display throughout November. The jury selection room is on the forth floor of the City and County Building at 14th and Bannock across from Civic Center Park. - KLH
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
Public artwork in the lobby of the new Greenwood Village "Palazzo Verdi" office space
photo by Jason A. Knowles
The down economy is sure to put a damper on all the construction cranes in the metro area, but the fruits of the last boom continue to ripen accompanied by a variety of public artwork. Down in the DTC, the 15 story "Palazzo Verdi" (I always think Italy when I'm driving I-25 through the DTC...) is a new LEED certified "Class AA" speculative office building designed by Colorado architect Curt Fentress that will feature opulent new work by a trio of artists including Roger Leitner, Todd Siler and Museum of Outdoor Art creative director Lonnie Hanzon.
Hanzon has designed a dramatic 13 foot wide, 40 foot high mixed media "Chandelier Chardin" composed of steel, elements from an antique Italian chandelier and pieces of fabricated glass. Underneath the chandelier is Roger Leitner's 42 foot diameter "Chartres Labyrinth," a recreation of a 13th century maze at Chartres Cathedral in France composed of 4800 square feet of stone and pieced together via a laser cut process that enables a precision fit without grouting. Alongside the epic ceiling and floor works is a 55 foot high mural "Ascension" by Todd Siler.
The Palazzo Verdi is located at 6401 South Fiddler's Green Circle in Greenwood Village with the public artworks officially on display come November 11th 2008. - KLH
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008 |
The Denver Art Museum's "Untitled" series might not have drawn the crowds of First Friday on Santa Fe, but the events—held on the last Friday of the month for the past year—were well thought out and filled with DJs, theatre (courtesy of the folks from Buntport) and of course art. While the series is on hiatus until next April, the museum will still be open until 10:00 pm on Fridays, but unfortunately due to budget cuts, only the Hamilton building will be available, no Ponti (aka "the North building") browsing for you. Be sure to stop in and check out the outstanding Daniel Richter show
currently on display and beat the inevitable crowds that will swamp the exhibit come Saturday's Colorado resident free day. - KLH
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
Katie Taft with filmmaker Scott Banning - photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
Local artist Katie Taft had a steady Tuesday evening gig presenting artist talks at Double Daughters back in 06/07 but took a well deserved rest from the weekly grind to focus on other projects. Taft is back with a new series of artist talks, again on Tuesday evenings but this time around the frequency is monthly and the venue has been ad hoc. October's Action Figure was local filmmaker and musician Scott Banning who presented current work to an SRO crowd at Abecedarian Gallery on Santa Fe Drive (where he also has a series of still images from his films on display as part of the "Modest in Scale" exhibit currently on display.)
Banning is an old school film addict who spent years collecting obsolete 16mm films and projectors from library and school auctions, and professes to have somewhere between 400 and 500 pounds of various footage in his stash. In addition to 16mm, Banning has also spent time with Super 8 and admited to an affinity for old Tri-x film stock which has a distinctive patina of shifting grain. And while 3 of the films certainly exhibited that Tri-x look—swimming patterns of dots in a high contrast black and white world—the final work "Princess (Phagocytosis)" featured luscious abstract textures created by spraying his found footage with chemical solvents resulting in visual music akin to the Stan Brakhage songbook. Banning created "Princess" by aiming 2 projectors onto a single screen and then capturing the composite image with a digital video camera; unfortunately the toxic brew used to modify the stock footage caused it to disintegrate which is a shame as it would have been a real joy to see actual film on the big screen.
The evening was an even balance of film and music, as Banning—through his musical project Itchy-O—composed and performed all of the soundtracks for the four films presented. Itchy-O will be at the Hi-Dive in January '09 and seeing that Banning admitted he can never perform without having film/video as part of the act, you can be sure that you'll get a chance to see some of his visual creations.
The next Action Figure artist talk on Tuesday December 16th will feature Nathan Abels and will be held at "The Shoppe" on East Colfax. Click here for a snippet on Abels show at Sliding Door Gallery earlier this year, and look out for his next show at Rule Gallery opening in November. - KLH
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Saturday, 04 October 2008 |
Damien Hirst - "St Sebastian, Exquisite Pain" detail
I have been following the news of Damien Hirst's massive sculpture "St Sebastian, Exquisite Pain" which features a black calf suspended in formaldehyde and pierced by arrows and will be on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver beginning October 7th alongside 3 other works by the controversial artist. When I saw in the press release that the piece weighs over 15,000 pounds, my first thought was, how are they going to get it into the building (and will the floor collapse under the stress)?
Well, the Dallas based Goss-Michael Foundation—from where the work is on loan for this exhibit—has a nice blog post with a variety of photos showing the installation process.
Another website focusing on the Texas art scene glasstire.com, has an interesting interview with British art collector Kenny Goss of the Goss-Michael Foundation, the "Michael" being pop star and Goss' boyfriend George Michael, who bought St. Sebastian for $7 million US: Goss-Michael Foundation: Yes-Saying and Saying Yes in Dallas. From the interview:
Goss and Michael have announced the establishment of the Goss-Michael Foundation of Dallas, an omnibus art institution with the goal of teaching Americans about contemporary British art. The effort includes the gallery, an art collection, a philanthropic organization, offices for art consultation, an artist lecture series and an artist residency.
Kyle MacMillan of the Denver Post: The shock factor of Damien Hirst
Mary Voelz Chandler of the RMN: Hirst MCA work lives up to hype
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
I posted a while back when Ikea opened up in SLC, and my gut was that Denver was just too far from any potential distribution point, especially in an era of $4 plus Diesel fuel. Well, as a dedicated Ikea fanatic, there's nothing better than being proved wrong and Ikea has announced plans to open a Denver store in Centennial. Expect to see the Ikea touch in galleries and artists' studios throughout the metro area within weeks of the grand opening, which is still TBD. - KLH
Denver Post: How Swede it is: Locals like the idea that IKEA is coming
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
Jeanne-Claude and Christo lecture at the Buell Theatre - photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
In the pantheon of artists who are American household names, there are few: Warhol, Pollock... and of course Christo, who—along with his partner and artistic collaborator Jeanne-Claude—is known as the artist that wraps things: Pont Neuf over Paris' River Seine, Berlin's Reichstag, trees in Switzerland, islands off Key Biscayne, the list goes on. As part of the Center for Visual Art's current exhibit highlighting the environmental artists' sublime installations (Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Prints and Objects - on display until November 1st), the world renown duo gave a public lecture to an audience of hundreds at the Buell Theater on September 18th covering their career from when the artists met in Paris back in 1958 to their present day projects.
The perfunctory technical difficulties that seem to reliably mar public lectures accompanied by slides brought out the wit of Jeanne-Claude, who worked the crowd and killed time until the presentation was ready, and made no secret of her disdain for the cliche that the artists' work is limited to wrapping objects. Jeanne-Claude rolled off the many projects that did not involve wrapping (such as California's Running Fence and Rifle, Colorado's Valley Curtain) yet the duo's excellent and thorough website at http://www.christojeanneclaude.net has no shortage of "wrapped" productions ("Wrapped Fountain and Tower," "Wrapped Kunsthalle," "Wrapped Monuments," "Wrapped Roman Wall," the list goes on...) Jeanne-Claude also went on to mention there are three things she never does: 1) Never flies together with Christo; 2) Never assists in the preparatory works of art Christo hand crafts for the various installations and 3) Never allows Christo "the joy and pleasure of working with our tax accountant."
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of the artists' work is that their very complex and expensive projects are totally funded by Christo's beautiful and detailed preparatory studies, pencil and collage artworks built up from maps and sketches, some small, and others quite epic in scale. Christo accepts no sponsorships in order to maintain complete control over the final work and the installation process; In fact, it's the process of getting permits that is the most difficult part of each work, but nonetheless is as integral to the artistic process as the ephemeral final presentation of the work itself.
The artists' also discussed their upcoming Colorado encore "Over the River," a series of fabric panels to be suspended over the Arkansas River, and discussed the process of designing the work which includes building scale models of the rigging that will eventually be used as part of the ultimate installation. The current ETA: July 2012 "at the earliest."
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
MCA Denver Executive Director Cydney Payton with David Adjaye - Photo by Dean Kaufman
The news that MCA Denver executive director and lead curator Cydney Payton was stepping down just one year into her tenure at the helm of the new David Adjaye designed building was a bit of a shock, and as part of finding a replacement, the museum announced last week that a search committee has been formed, chaired by MCA board president Mark Falcone, along with former board pres Karl Kister and trustees Alan Becker, Mardi Cannon, Mike Fries, Amy Harmon, and Scott Miller. Interested in applying? Well, the board will be assisted by an executive search firm focused on just this type of gig, so get your resume over to "Management Consultants for the Arts" before Payton's last day with the MCA on October 30th. - KLH
Click here for the job description
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
Interior of Redline - Photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
I had first posted about Redline back in 2007 after seeing Mary Chandler's RMN article on the new space, and while the article was indeed intriguing, I hadn't given it much thought until the grand opening last week. But without doubt, Redline is the most exciting development in the Denver arts scene this year, featuring not only a series of homey artists studios, but a capacious shared gallery filled to the brim with works by the Redline member artists including (and I'm obliged to list everyone as it's an incredible group of perennial local favorites) Linda Campbell, Sterling Crispin, Travis Egedy, Ian Fisher, Virginia
Folkestad, Tom Guiton, Alexi High, Caroline Hinkley, Rori Knudston, Bob
Koons, Viviane Le Courtois, Laura Merage, Margaret Newman, Alicia
Ordal, Jeff Page, Bruce Price, Steven Read, Clark Richert and Jonathan
Saiz.
The current show in the shared gallery is titled Spatial Investigations and even without the novelty of the works being surrounded by the artists' studios, the show is an excellent look at contemporary art in Denver and certainly a must see before it shifts in early October. - KLH
Redline is located at 2350 Arapahoe St. in Denver, more info at http://www.redlineart.org.
Click here for some photos from the Redline opening
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Monday, 08 September 2008 |
Artist Meagan Svendsen and FMAT host Eric Matelski - photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
September's First Monday Art Talk featured artist Meagan Svendsen whose current body of work features gleaming white porcelain subjects, alternating between the mundane (egg cartons and coffee cup holders) and bizarre (human torso festering with mice.) In addition to Svendsen's works on display throughout Dazzle (until the end of September,) the evening featured 2 of Denver's top poets and FMAT regulars, Ken Arkind and Lenny Chernila. If you can't make it down to Dazzle to see the exhibit, be sure to stop by Next Gallery for Svendsen's upcoming November 14 - 30 exhibit.
October 2008's FMAT will feature Abecedarian gallery director and artist Alicia Bailey.
Click here for pix from the evening...
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Monday, 08 September 2008 |
Artists Maya Hayuk and Kay Tuttle - photo from Juxtapoz website
Among the dozens of DNC events last month, Andenken gallery was host to "Manifest Hope," an exhibit focusing on all things Obama with an emphasis of course on "hope" and "change." While I was unable to check the exhibit out first hand, Denver's own Kay Tuttle was part of the show and was featured on Juxtapoz magazine's web coverage of the event.
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
Dialog:City's Liz Newton and Seth Goldenberg with Minsuk Cho's Air Forest - photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (DOCA) coordinated and sponsored a variety of arts events as part of the DNC under the Dialog:City banner and I was able to visit Minsuk Cho's Air Forest at City Park during daylight and sunset to get some pix. The installation was reminiscent of a futuristic amusement park bouncy castle, only without the jumping.
I actually thought the piece was visually striking and fun, but I was extremely disappointed that the Dialog:City website made no mention whatsoever that the piece would be lit in the evening; in fact, the very slick website promoting the event specifically listed the viewing hours as "10:00 AM to 6:00 PM." Luckily during my daylight visit, I was chatting with the docents from Chu's architecture firm MASS Studies who kindly offered that I should "come back and see the piece at night when it is lit" which really was a treat.
While curators and MCA Denver alumnus Seth Goldenberg and Liz Newton did an admirable job of putting together and promoting the Dialog:City events (minus of course the aforementioned oversight regarding Air Forest's evening presentation), the absence of any Denver-based artists was a notable and painful omission given the national spotlight.
Click here for pictures of Air Forest.
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
The Boom Nomadic Gallery - photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
The Boom truck made its debut back in 2006 at the opening of the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building and the Boomers are at it again, trotting out the "Nomadic Gallery" as part of the DNC. Check the Boom schedule at http://boomdenver.com to see the exhibit up close or click here for some pix...
The Boom crew includes Nathan Abels, Kym Bloom, Amy Findeiss, Steve Gordon, Joroko, Emily Kaelin, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Brian Robertson, Melody Sealman, Dave Seiler, Kay Tuttle and Rodney Wallace.
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
Lawrence Argent’s "I See What You Mean" at the Convention Center - Kevin Moloney NY Times
The NY Times Kirk Johnson takes some time out to prep DNC conventioneers on "Denver’s Unconventional Art, Ready for the Convention." From the article:
"The Yearling," by Donald Lipski, comes [...] with a deeply cockeyed vision that Denver has come to call its own in recent years as the art scene here has blossomed with a confidence that the cow town of Colorado’s past never knew. The sculpture, originally created for a New York City school site but acquired by Denver in 1998, is now seen by many residents and visitors as a perfect vision of the New West, or perhaps the Old West turned upside down — more "Big Lebowski" than "Stagecoach”" — because of the pony’s gasp-inducing shift of scale and context. He stands, proud and muscular and fully life-sized, atop a giant straight-back classroom chair: the wild young creature as schoolboy.
I don't know which of the Lebowski's Johnson is talking about, must be Fluxist Maude, but as I see it, the Dude is grimacing as Walter sings the "Branded" theme song while they both drive through tumbleweeds toward Luiz Jimenez' Mustang!
Donald Lipski's "The Yearling" at the DPL - Kevin Moloney NY Times
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
Kim Dingle's "Priss"
Last week the Denver Art Museum floated a press release highlighting some of the big changes on the 3rd and 4th floors of the Hamilton building, and I stopped by to take in the changes and get some pictures.
The 4th floor is totally revamped, in fact there are only 2 pieces unchanged (Richard Serra's 1987 "Basic Maintenance" and Anthony Gormley's 2000 "Quantum XXXIII") no doubt due to the very permanent nature of those massive yet fragile works that obviously would not take well to any type of transit. The new theme of the floor is "Focus: the Figure" with the updated works on display primarily highlighting human forms through sculpture. There are some crowd pleasers back on display for sure, including John DeAndrea's lifelike "Linda" as well as Kim Dingle's "Priss," Pia Stadtbaumer's "Max, Raven and Scissors," and Beverly Semmes hanging "Four Purple Velvet Bathrobes," the latter 3 all last seen back in 2003 as part of the "Retrospectacle" exhibit just before the museum all but went into hibernation prior to construction of the Hamilton building. Semmes work is particularly welcome as it is one of the few examples of art that actually is enhanced by the baroque angled walls of the 4th floor.
Also of note are works by Manuel Neri, Tony Ortega and a simply magnificent pencil self-portrait by Denver artist Bill Amundson ("Nervous Patriot") epic in scale and a worthy addition to the DAM permanent collection. Of course the DAM giveth to Denver's artists and taketh away: Phil Bender's hubcaps are alas no longer on display.
A very welcome addition is the new "Fuse Box," a forum provided by the DAM Contemporaries which is currently exhibiting video works by Bjorn Melhus whose excellent "Captain" is a must see, as strong and hypnotic as the video work by Omer Fast at the MCA Denver (in fact these pieces would make an excellent double bill.) Melhus fuses old Star Trek sound effects with three brooding, stoic actors on a moonscape more like a Shakespearean stage than a science fiction set. The actors are surrounded by images of inter-galaxial travel and high-definition planets, and speak not in their own voices, but lip-sync looped Star Trek dialog with almost no visible emotion. The power arrives as the unmistakable voice of William Shatner oozes passionately from these empty actor-vessels, looped and disjointed, but easily avoiding any camp via the actors' dispassionate, spooky presence and the haunting, timeless Trekian musical themes floating through the films soundtrack. The video immediately brought to mind the classic 1930s era art film "Rose Hobart" by collagist Joseph Cornell, and where Cornell took silent era star Rose Hobart and edited her "East of Borneo" performance into a new context, Melhus takes even less than Cornell from his core material and creates an end product that thoroughly transforms its root into something fresh and exciting.
Shifting down to the 3rd floor, I was very disappointed to find that 2 large Vance Kirkland works have been mothballed in exchange for a gaudy Gilbert and George larger than life composite poster, and the wall of Robert Motherwell pieces are on ice as well, replaced by several figurative oils including an interesting 2005 portrait by Kehinde Wiley "Passing/Posing (Marriage of the Virgin.)" A surprisingly un-controversial Gottfried Helnwein work is also new to the collection (1998 "Head of a Child V") along with Leipzig artist David Schnell's 2005 "Aussicht" (which has actually been on display for a few months, but it's such a really great piece I want to make special note. And as long as I'm calling out exceptional works, don't miss Karel Appel's 1953 "Camille" which is newly on display in the 3rd floor's Modern wing.)
The fingerprints of super collectors and DAM supporters Vicki and Kent Logan are so prominent one might almost call this current reworking "Radar II" (after the Radar contemporary show which inaugurated the new building) but the press release assures us that new contemporary curator Christoph Heinrich is the mastermind behind the latest rotation. It's unfortunate Phil Anschutz doesn't have a taste for contemporary, preferring to while away his Billions on works such as Thomas Eakin's "Singing Cowboy" which after a few weeks on the 2nd floor is now on the road.
Click here for some pictures of the changes and new works on display.
Kyle MacMillan's Denver Post review: Reintroducing a body of work
Michael Paglia's Westword review: The Denver Art Museum likes its figure
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
Plus Gallery Bringing Down the House Reception and Sale
Saturday August 23, 2008 from 12:00 - 6:00 pm
Plus Gallery will be going into hibernation for a few weeks in preparation for the gallery's move from its current Lawrence St. location to the old "temporary contemporary" space across from the MCA Denver where the gallery will remain until the final, permanent space at 2500 Larmier is complete sometime in 2009.
So be sure to stop by the old gallery space, say goodbye to those brick walls, concrete floors and 7 years of Denver art history, while taking in the Tsehai Johnson and Andy Miller exhibit before it closes.
Plus+Gallery
2350 Lawrence St
Denver, CO 80205
303.296.0927
Wed-Sat: 10:00-6:00 pm
http://plusgallery.com
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
Minsuk Cho's Air Forest
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs recently announced a slate of events for the Democratic National Convention later this month as part of a program branded "Dialog:City." Curatorial and educational outreach duties are being handled by ex-MCA/Denver staffers Seth Goldenberg and Liz Newton and they have put together a program that dwarfs last year's Denver Arts Week; just goes to show what a $370k budget can do for an event. I guess the Mayor's office is getting some much needed practice for Denver's Biennial of the Americas scheduled for summer 2010. - KLH
Dialog:City events are scheduled from Thursday August 20th to Friday the 29th and highlights include (cut and paste from the dialogcity.org website):
Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite
Opening Performance
Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Aug. 24, 7pm
Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite by DJ Spooky, aka Paul Miller. Multimedia performance work will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. The Antarctic Suite transforms Miller's first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Miller's field recordings from a portable studio, set up to capture the acoustic qualities of Antarctic ice forms, reflect a changing and even vanishing environment under duress. Coupled with visual material from Getty Images' vast collection, The Antarctic Suite is a seventy minute performance, creating a unique and powerful moment around man's relationship with nature.
[No word on the website as to how one obtains tickets, but safe to assume it's sold out to the hoi polloi.]
Air Forest at
City Park,
Aug. 26-29, 10am-6pm
Minsuk Cho's temporary architectural pavilion. This one-of-a-kind
architectural piece is designed as a pneumatic hot air balloon-like
structure that levitates by the compression of air.
Located in City Park, behind the Denver Museum of Nature & Science [with the picture postcard view of Downtown Denver in the background, this should make for the ultimate Dialog:City photo op.]
"O",
Opening Performance
on the 16th Street Mall,
Aug. 25, 10am-2pm
Ann Hamilton launches her collaborative work with Denver-based choirs,
choreographers, and composers celebrating the historic moment through
movements along 16th Street in Downtown Denver. This newly composed
song is drawn from the phrases, pace, and spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson
writings imagining the new American voice. Live Denver choirs and
pre-recording sound will lead this unique movement through several
stages in downtown.
[Note to Ann: watch out for the Mall Shuttle, those buses go fast.]
The full program of events is online at http://dialogcity.org.
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
Eric Matelski with DUNN the Signtologist - photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
Dazzle Jazz and Eric Matelski have a 2 year track record of bringing artists from the Denver scene to a live audience for Q&A as well as poetry (August featuring Lenny Chernila) and dance (break dancing this month from local crew Lordz of Finesse.) August's featured artist was DUNN the Signtologist (aka Dan Ericson) who has been tireless in his passion for street art via hip-hop icons silouhetted on recycled street signs.
Click here for pix from August's FMAT...
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
MCA Denver Executive Director Cydney Payton with David Adjaye - Photo by Dean Kaufman
Click here for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver's public notice of the departure of executive director Cydney Payton from the institution, effective October 2008, coinciding with the anniversary of the new space.
Michael Paglia's Westword article: Cydney Payton Leaves MCA/Denver
Marc Shulgold's RMN article: Museum of Contemporary Art director to step aside
Kyle MacMillan's Denver Post article: Museum director stepping out of the picture
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
Artist Jimmy Descant - Photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
Click here for a little taste of New Orleans mixed with Salida via outer space from this years Cherry Creek Arts Festival courtesy of space-age Constructivist Jimmy Descant. Check him out at DeluxeRocketShips.com.
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Wednesday, 09 July 2008 |
All Together Now by Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt - Photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org
Back in 2007 before the MCA had their fancy new digs, they were housed across the street in the "Temporary Contemporary" and the last exhibit prior to their hiatus pre-grand opening was "The Peace Project" by Miami-based artists Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt. They came back to Denver to install a playful public sculpture "All Together Now" on 14th st near the Curtis Hotel, across from the Denver Performing Arts Center, and that work was recently honored as one of the top 45 public artworks of the past year by the Americans for the Arts as part of their 2008 Public Art Year in Review. And as a kid raised on Yellow Submarine, there's no way I can say "All Together Now" without saying it again, so everyone... Alllll Togeeeether Now (All together now...)
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Tuesday, 08 July 2008 |
A little over a year ago, the city began cracking down on gallery owners who were serving alcohol as part of exhibit openings, but not wanting to kill the goose that laid the golden egg of a vibrant Santa Fe Arts District, the state legislature passed HB1105 effective July 1st: CONCERNING PERMITTING AN ART GALLERY TO SERVE ALCOHOL BEVERAGES
UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS. Basically, the bill allows galleries to pour "complimentary" booze for up to four hours, 15 times a year, to no more than 250 folks at a time for the cost of an annual license.
Click here to download a copy of the bill and get your drink on.
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