David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Defining the Word Friend

Mona Lisa Lisa
Wacky Advice — But Useful

No left turn unstoned No left turn unstoned
The Cool School

I got this on Netflix instant view. I watched it mostly at Jack’s water polo practice at the Woollett Center. It was a great movie about the history of the Ferus Gallery. Big time beatnik LA art stuff–fun images of Venice, lots of ‘lost it when the money came in’ message [which someone in the…
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

I watched this on instant view on Netflix. It was a fantastic artist biography–which has quickly become my favorite genre. I am not sure what I liked about this movie so much–a lot of it was the honesty, some of it was the art and the struggle, and some of it was the history of…
Bagel, Chili, and Apple
Fried Bagel, Pasta with Lentils
Beautiful Losers

I got this movie from Netflix Instant View. I watched it in bed with Lisa. A fantastic art biography that covers Ed Templeton and the early 1990’s are movement that brought graffitti and skate art together mostly in New York. There is a fantastic sub text on privacy–one of the main characters actually kind of…
Abba Elias

Observe your thoughts, and beware of what you have in your heart and your spirit, knowing that the demons put ideas into you so as to corrupt your soul by making it think of that which is not right, in order to turn your spirit from the consideration of your sins and of God.
CASE 82: Unmon’s: "Voice" and "Color"

Unmon instructed the assembly and said, “‘To realize the way through hearing a voice, to enlighten the mind through seeing color’ — Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara comes with some small change and buys poor rice cakes. If he throws it away, he will get nice manjû cakes instead.”
My Gift Wish List

Dice.