{"id":136,"date":"2004-05-05T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T05:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/05\/with_friends_like_these.html"},"modified":"2004-05-05T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T05:46:09","slug":"with_friends_like_these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/05\/with_friends_like_these.html","title":{"rendered":"With friends like these&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aimee and I attended Mark&#8217;s one man show at <a title=\"casali.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.casaligroup.com\/casali.html\">The Casali Group<\/a> in Davis Square, between <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.saccosbowlhaven.com\/\">Sacco&#8217;s Bowl Haven<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bedandbreakfast.com\/ppf\/inn\/628252\/Listing.aspx\">Meacham Road<\/A> in Davis Square.  I had no idea he painted, much less that he painted really interesting, intriguing interior scenes, devoid of people but full of light that is beautifully rendered.  Aimee and I vowed to buy one of his paintings sometime in the next year; perhaps we could commission one if all of the nice ones are sold, which they were well on their way to being.  I finally got to meet Mark&#8217;s friend and fellow artist <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.askart.com\/artist\/L\/peter_lyons.asp?ID=125472\">Peter<\/A>, with whom I chatted about digital photos and cult movies on dvd &#8211; a nice guy to talk to at a party.<\/p>\n<p>The event was a little on the incredible swanky side, with a martini bar, waiters with all sorts of lamb\/hummus\/feta pizza and organic potato popovers and things, plus a massive table of sushi, and a room full of bread and dips (plus <I>Dont Look Back<\/I> and <I>The Last Waltz<\/I> on a huge flatscreen tv).  The reception\/gallery space is occupied by an architecture firm by day, so even the bathrooms were strikingly designed, with a massive trapezoidal mirror extending eight feet up to the ceiling in a triangular-shaped room.  Everyone from work made it there to support Mark, though he certainly didn&#8217;t need our help &#8211; the place was packed, and we were proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aimee and I attended Mark&#8217;s one man show at The Casali Group in Davis Square, between Sacco&#8217;s Bowl Haven and Meacham Road in Davis Square. I had no idea he painted, much less that he painted really interesting, intriguing interior scenes, devoid of people but full of light that is beautifully rendered. Aimee and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}