long time no sea

i haven't posted since 10, sometimes love does crazy things to you. i was in taiwan for a few weeks. getting my drink on, seeing family, having a relatively good time. a few days after christmas i went to a local english pub in kaohsiung, taiwan after going out to dinner with my parents and some of their friends. i was buzzed, but hadn't spoken english in about 2 weeks and needed to banter. long story short, i pissed off an english fella who thought i was getting a little boisterous, so he tells me to step outside and make in fisiticuffs. i knock him on his old man ass (50-55) and him ask him if "that's that". His wife comes running out of the bar screaming for me to stop.

"stop, don't hit him anymore"

"he threw a punch at me first"

"please stop, i own the bar, he's is my husband."

oh shit. i don't know what to think so i apologize profusely, she apologizes back. she offers to buy me a drink. he apologizes again for her husband being so drunk. i apologize for knocking her husband on his monkey ass.

i don't really feel like going back to the bar in fear of some sort of retribution.

she apologizes and tells one of the bartenders to pour me a drink. i apologize to the old man and offer him my hand. he mutters something and takes my hand. she gives me a shot. i cheers the old man and take the shot. i black out.

i wake up in my bed. thank god. at least i still have my left hook.

besides that i got to visit my uncle who is the director of the national taiwan hospital of psychiatry. it was pretty surreal. i always knew my uncle was a pretty smart dude and was a psychiatrist and all, but this was some next level shit. i got to visit the entire hospital, from the minor crazies, to the crazy as shit crazy, all the while having them see me uncle and bow and say "good morning director". i kept on thinking of how crappy it was that all these crazies were locked up and couldn't go anywhere they wanted at their hearts desire and i told me uncle this and he said that the hospital was mostly voluntary, except for the violent ones and i felt a little better after that. but, my brain got started working again, and i got all paranoid that one of these sons of bitches would try to stab me with a pen, so i kept my wits about me.

happy to say the tour went without incident, except a lot of patients greeting my uncle. when we got to the freudian library, i asked my uncle if he knew that freud was a fan columbian sugar. he looked at me with a frantic concern, and seemed a little bit flustered, but it could just be that it is because he is so adverse to any sort of recreational drug.

after i came back from taiwan to beautiful rainy sf i had a show at goforaloop gallery. it went splendidly and i got to see a lot of beautiful faces. good thing came out of the show and i am happy to announce that i will be doing a two man show with one of the artists, hak lee, coming to you summer of 2011.

as of late i am spending many afternoons of ennui with my beautiful girlfriend, and making sweet sweet love to plenty of canvasses and vice versa. life is good, i am getting grind on and i will or update photos tomorrow, or next week. love love love daniel.