My apologies to anyone who has visited the TooLooseart Blog for Bahamas Art and Music and found nothing new in quite awhile.


I've been real busy in the non virtual world.


Let me explain: I found myself with a blog before I knew what a blog was and how to maintain one. Some very well meaning friends offered to help get TooLooseart up and out there to the world. I, myself am an old world kind of guy…a pen and inkman turned acrylicist. A Living room Acoustic singer/guitarist turned Plugged in Performer.

Mr. Plugged In Performer on stage at a wedding in Nassau, Bahamas. Tooloose not only played and sang for the wedding guests, he also painted the lively scene for the couple so they could remember their Bahamian wedding.


I once had a computer but it was stolen and being a believer in the Church of Everything Happens for Reasons I Might Not Comprehend at the Time, I let it go. (Just like when the Ocean City Police confiscated my airbrush thinking it was sophisticated paraphernalia and I never airbrushed again…but alas, I digress).


So for a guy who lived on Surfer’s Beach Eleuthera, without electricity and LOVED it and didn’t own a TV till one was given to him a few years back, I have been dragged into the 21st century by my teenage sons and their computer that they let me use…sometimes.


Yesterday, I broke down and ordered a laptop over the Internet specifically for maintaining this blog. Wouldn’t you know, Dude, I’m getting a Dell! Hours later I was informed of the Great Exploding Dell Battery Recall of 06.


Oh Lord, is it time to go back to my church? I think not.


So, in two weeks time I’ll be all set to go at this with wild abandon. I’ve got an Army of Artwork, a Pace of Prints, a Sea of Swell Stories (w/Jimmy Buffett) and a Swell of Sea Stories (Swimming w/Sharks), a Bellowing of Books, a Siege of Songs, a Murder of Music (not counting crows), a Cete of Cds and Videos and a Gaggle of Gutter Rhymes all awaiting my Directorial attention.

Detail from a larger work Tooloose did for a wedding that took place in Nassau. Junkanoo band livened up the guests.


AND…I’ll try not to lose it all like I just did with the previous writings that I spent hours humorously crafting for your reading pleasure and less than a split second To Loose it in Cyber Space!


God, I hate when that happens.


So, Please bear with me or Come tooda Bahamas, loose your pajamas…and bare with me….dares dem gutta rhymes again, boiy!


TooLoosely,

SMHolden

Ode to an Intro (with a shout out to my virtual sponsor...Mr. Bahamasblog, himself, my friend, Mr. Intro Joe).


Welcome World and all my friends, to the TooLoose Blog that never ends. Well, now all I gotta do is get started.


Hey, Who farted?


Gotta start with a stupid bodily function joke. So greetings from the Sunny Bahamas. Relax and have an Anejo and Coke.

Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a renaissance man from de island
I'm quick with a story and I'm in my glory, singin a song or painting a picture that will keep you all smilin'.


My real name is Steve Holden, the artist formally known as TooLoose

If I develope a cult, It's not my fault and I'm sticking to that excuse.


For all those who've dreamed of breaking away and moving to a tropical island in the sea. If you think it's a joke, just read Herman Wouk's "Don't Stop the Carnival" and take it from me.


I had the privilege of playing Mr. Paperman in the Jimmy Buffett Musical Play. And unlike the hero that returned to the city. I decided to stay.


For me it's been a quater century of living in the Bahamas. Playing my music and creating my art and sleeping with out pajamas.


If you ever get down to Nassau and want that ol time island feel
Toes in the Sand, come see my Band...The Graham Holden Deal

I'll try to be civil but enough of this drivel, cause I aint no Dr. Zues
Please come back and see me... I will try to just be me... in the Wonderful World of TooLoose....art that is.