This is the blog for lookupgospelchoir.com, the art site of Ryan Callis. Here is where I post about influences, and the stories behind my art. To see the art that this blog refers to, visit www.lookupgospelchoir.com.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Beach House: Used To Be

These are for Drew who is coming to stay with us this week. They are for him in as much as he gave me an IPod with these songs on them among a thousand plus others but the video's (sans the pinche "waterfalls" cover) make me nostalgic. Drew and Amanda make me feel full of warmth.

Little Joy - Don't Watch Me Dancing - (UNPLUGGED)

Friday, June 11, 2010


A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

What a great quote. I am only beginning at 31 to wrap my brain around the hilarity and calamity and downright vanity of "ambition". It's a funny impulse that keeps pumping and keeps us going in all sort of directions, usually it seems to the degradation of our true spirit.

Two somewhat new big jams.