We are coming back

It's been 5 years. It's high time things started happening again.

Maybe perfectionism doesn't run in your family, but it does in ours. We got it so bad that we spent 5 years trying to create the perfect conditions in which to resurrect Ground Flor. We had those conditions at one time at the Spurgeon Building in the Santa Ana Artists Village, but those days will not return. And now we see what we have to do.

We loved what we had at the Spurgeon: art of all kinds, interesting people aplenty, good music, cheap drinks, awesome party, great job. So this whole time we've been trying to replicate it whole cloth, but now we see it differently.

The thing that made Ground Flor a success was because it was everybody and anybody's party. If you participated in whatever way it was now your party and you wanted it to go off. So if we can't do all the things we did last time all in the same place at the same time, we are going to split them geographically and chronologically.

Ground Flor is still going to be about parties fueled by artists, but the work the artists do may not be at the party since we may have to throw parties where everyone throws parties: bars, clubs. Not to say the place can't be transformed and the event to be unique... it's just certain artwork isn't best seen in that type of place.

So Ground Flor won't just be one big event that happens monthly where anything goes, it will be a bunch of autonomous pieces that are working all the time and then every so often the people behind those projects might want to get together (party).

We have a project that we plan to unveil soon that will incorporate the work of visual artists and others thus far not able to get much involved and once it happens we want to toast to its success.

Things are happening, people are being tapped, interest piqued, ducks put in a row, and this is the place we will tell about it. 2010 is the year... for letting go of perfectionism and shooting for excellence instead with mediocre being a stop along the way probably. We'll see.