5IFTY 2WO

This is my 2025 energy. 

Here is my 2025 Energy Altar. 

Energy Altars are a thing now. 

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. 

Thank you for the Cookie Mueller book, Kelly McD!

10 January 2025

Earlier today at work, I was presented with an early birthday present… A beautiful print of Robert Smith from The Cure by a senior named Alex. I taught Alex last year and this year he is working with one of my colleagues. He knows I’m a lifelong Cure fan and he’s a fan as well. He and I each saw the 2023 Cure tour days apart (he went with his Dad). Music is one of the things over which we bonded when he was in my painting class and he mentioned this in the note he attached to this beautiful artwork. When I was his age I did a large pastel drawing of Robert Smith in my high school art class. I’m turning 52 on Sunday and Robert Smith has just reappeared in the high school art room I work in. Time is indeed a flat circle. Thank you Alex!

My Mom is a straight up SAVAGE.

5IFTY 2WO

Another KILLER cake from my friend Steve

with a very shady message on top. 

I'm figuring out whether or not I want to keep or delete

Instagram and Facebook given certain changes 

that their CEO has instituted. BlueSky seems to be a 

nice alternative and this platform is also setting up

a photo sharing app called Flashes, which will start

beta testing soon. Here is a link to my BlueSky 

page if you would like to follow me...

CHRISTIAN MONTONE AT BLUE SKY

More to follow. CHEERS! XO - CDM

May I? Yes I May.

Everything In Bloom

Arrow To The Sky

It's Poppin'

Tear it up. Lay it down. 

Celebrating Dad’s 75th Birthday with my parents and my adopted brother Steve (who is, of course, my parents’ favorite child). Question… Is this cake gay enough? Many thanks to our friends at Cafe Figaro for taking such great care of us time and time again. We love you guys.

Vibe Check

Drop It Like It's Hot

35 Years Ago • 2 May 1989

The Cure released Disintegration and nothing 

would ever be quite the same. Happy Birthday 

to one of my favorite albums of all time.

Dua Lipa • Radical Optimism (2024)

This transparent blue vinyl beauty was waiting at my door when I 

returned home from a walk in the park. It got loud that night.

Pet Shop Boys • Nonetheless (2024)

Double white vinyl, cassette and double CD just arrived. Forty years after the Bobby Orlando version of West End Girls hit the clubs (the canonical version produced by Stephen Hague would feature on their debut album a year later) their newest collection of songs is thoroughly winning. The deluxe edition includes a four track EP called Furthermore which includes new re-recordings of some of their earlier works. Available wherever you hear music.

May we all move swiftly and safely into June