The Hat Trick

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Skynyrd drummer's art rocks

This is the best day ever. THREE blog posts in one day, and this one is sure to feature Morsch drooling over a washed-up pseudo-celebrity.

Michael Cartellone is a class act. The drummer for the legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd for the past 11 years,

This cracks me up. It's not like this guy did the recordings for Free Bird or Sweet Home Alabama or anything. He joined up with them in 1999 - far, far removed from the band's "legendary" years in the mid 70's.

he’s been painting since he was 4 years old. Many of those paintings, a lot of them with a rock theme of course, were on display Sunday at Wentworth Gallery in the King of Prussia mall.

You know those actors who put out music albums? This guy's paintings are of about the same quality. It looks like Cartellone did most of these paintings when he actually was four years old.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Cartellone for a preview story on the event, which appeared in the Ticket entertainment section of Montgomery Newspapers a few weeks ago.

Oh, oh, the plllllleeeeeaaasssssuuurreeee of interviewing him. The absolute ppplllleeaaassuuureee.

Cartellone was just as pleasant and accommodating in person as he was on the phone during the interview.

Well, duh. Would anyone say something like this: "Cartellone was a total son-of-a-bitch bastard on the phone. Nice guy in person, though."

He had a lot of family and friends at the exhibition with him, including his parents, and spent a lot of time talking with fans of his music and art during the three-hour event.

Is anyone else here reminded of the audience at a 9th-grade play? Family, friends, parents. It would also surprise - nay, ASTOUND - me if he didn't talk to fans about his art at, you know, his art exhibition.

One of Cartellone’s pieces, titled “New York,” features a likeness of his father, Joseph. The fan that purchased the piece at Wentworth on Sunday got both the artist and his father to sign the artwork, creating a uniquely one-of-a-kind aspect to the painting.

Did you know that "unique" means "one of a kind"? So Mr. Morsch has bestowed a high compliment on this painting: it is one-of-a-kind-ly one of a kind. He forgot to say that it was interestingly fascinating and awesomely cool.

Wentworth has in the past hosted exhibits by Paul Stanley, lead singer of KISS, and actress Jane Seymour. Gallery director Tom Curley always hosts a nice event for local fans and art aficionados and makes sure they get some face time with the artists when they purchase a piece of art.

Three uses of "art" in the same sentence: beautiful. I hope these "artists" don't think they're actually talented because people want to buy their crappy paintings. You think Michael Cartellone, Paralegal would sell as many paintings as Michael Cartellone, Musician? Hardly.

On that particular Sunday afternoon in June, Cartellone plus Curley equaled . . . cool.

What? Explain that equation to me, please.

Labels: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Michael Cartellone, Mike Morsch, Montgomery Newspapers, Outta Leftfield, Wentworth Gallery

I also want to share this, posted a while ago on Twitter:

Werth is missing pitches that he should be pooping all over. Jeez.
about 17 hours ago via web

I would pay real money for announcers to start using "pooping all over" as a synonym for "hitting well."

It's a hot day in mid-June. Tom McCarthy and Chris Wheeler call a Phils game as Jayson Werth struggles at the plate.
T-Mac: Oh, caught looking at a curveball, and Werth is rung up.
Wheels: And right there was a pitch that Werth should just be pooping all over.
T-Mac: What?
Wheels: Pooping all over. Jayson Werth should just be pulling down his pants and pooping all over that pitch. Jeez!
T-Mac: Well pooping all over those pitches is what hitting coach Milt Thompson has addressed several times with Werth...