Art Show

Tonight I went to an art show here in LJ. The same one I was in last year except I'm not in it this year. Free drinks. I decided to walk there, which was a bit of a gamble seeing as how I was wearing heels and it's about 10 blocks away. But parking really sucks and I didn't want to drink and drive, even though I didn't plan on getting loopy. I was about 3 blocks from my house and ther was a vagrant dude standing in front of the wedding dress store with his rolling suitcase (yes, rolling suitcase) and his three teeth. He looked at me as I walked by and said, "Nice tits!" I kept walking as I flipped him off, and he finished off with "thanks for not wearing a bra!" Jerk. I thought I'd been walking too fast for him to get that good of a look, and I didn't know it was that obvious. For the record, I had every intention of weary a bra, but the one I was going to wear was visible because the shirt was more low cut than I thought and I didn't have anything else that would work.

The show itself was ok. There were a few pieces I really liked. There seemed to be an emphasis on kitsch, which is annoying. There were four little paintings of dogs that were stupid. Stupid because the same artist had four paintings of dogs in last year's show, which were ridiculously out of place when compared with the other work. Seriously, who paints dogs? I don't even think the paintings are that good. The dogs better not be in the show next year. I'm over the little old man and his one hour dog paintings.

I had a conversation with some guy named Ted who was decent looking and not creepy. There were no digits or future meetings discussed, which is fine with me, but the moral is that I'm trying to branch out and work on how charming I am. They're having a party (the art show people, that is) for fundraising and such in a few weeks, and I'm hoping I'll be able to go. It's a Bollywood theme and the dress code is "in costume" or "formal". I'll have to figure out what that means, but I think I can swing it either way. I think my choices are either "the green dress" (but not a real green dress cuz it's cruel) or a beaded skirt (similar to the one I wore to the art show last year--check the other blog if you need to refresh your memory) and a midriff-bearing top of some sort and lots of jewelry. Either way, I think I need to make sure the sit-ups keep coming so I don't look silly. Or so that I look hot. There will be lots of people with money there; maybe at least a couple of them will be cute single men. I'll have to do some research on Bollywood so I'll know what to wear.

Anyway, I guess the lesson here is that art can be complicated. So is finding cute men to talk to at art shows. Plus, I really need to get crackin on my serious art. I'm thinking about a series of self-portraits Warhol style.

Any thoughts?