wigs & jigs

Meet Matt.

A hot dancer, awesome friend, and recent recipient of an MFA in painting from RISD, Matt is visiting me from Providence Rhode Island by way of Philadelphia and NYC. He arrived Sunday and so far we’ve been having a blast talking about poems, drinking scotch and going running (not necessarily in that order). But one of the best times I’ve had in Spartanburg so far was when Matt and I went to the wig shop yesterday. We’ve been trying to get outfitted for a photo shoot to stage a scenario for a series of Matt’s paintings. The premise of the series is that we’re in a struggling noise rock band with my best friend (Matt’s girlfriend Meghan) and I manage to wrest control of the group from Matt, our former leader. We tried on a few different styles:

We haven’t found the right look for Matt yet, but settled on a jet-black, Cleopatra style for me:

Weird, right?

Also, there’s been a lot of dancing.

Tonight we’ll be dancing our way into Pisgah National Forest for a camping trip. More details to come later . . .