I Think It's The Ass-Slapping That Got To Me

.....not that I'm into that sort of thing actually. Vitameatavegamin this ain't. Vita, yes. Meata, yes. But vegamin, no. Quite the seductive babe, one might say. This was long before she got that only occasionally appearing weird Charles Gibson brow, and way, way before getting all moved by the chickdudeish Wayne Newton and befuddled by Burton and Taylor on Here's Lucy or The Lucy Show.

GlyphJockey Moved New Site/New RSS

Greetings, one and all (especially all)
Blogger in it's infinite run-by-robots faceless wisdom will no longer support my old GlyphJockey.com as a blog so it's now at http://glyphjockey.blogspot.com - and while a pain in the ass it already seems easier to use. The feed is new (no real way to redirect) so please stop by and resubscribe to my list of inane musings.
Thanks!

Aujourd'hui

Try it, bitches! Ha!



The secrets:
a: give everything a name
b: progress in a trackable fashion, e.g.: corners 2 then center 2 the middle two rows bottom up.

Whoo! Scrapin' the bottom, ain't I?

Coal.

Disgusting, despair inducing slideshow at postcard.

Vegas

Amusing Comeuppance for Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst is known in part for his appropriation of images from other artists. So the coolpublic (newspeak I invented) and a bunch of the art world were nonplussed when he sued a 16 year old artist named Cartrain for using images of his diamond encrusted skull work entitled For the Love of God (shown below) integrated into works in his portfolio.

I can imagine British web 2.0 denizens thinking "Jings, what a tosser!" or perhaps "Stone the crows, he's a bleeding nonce!" after determining that the indescribably wealthy (he sold an entire show at Sotheby's) pot has in fact called the aspiring 16 year old kettle black.

Now a group known as redragtoabull has done a wonderful thing - they have decided to deliberately appropriate the skull image and deliberately use it in a series of compositions in hope of inciting dialogue......or worse/better. Here's a statement from their site:

"All of the works below are for sale and once TWENTY MILLION POUNDS has been raised ALL the proceeds will go to make an exact copy of a sculpture known as "For the Love of God". This will then be sold for FIFTY MILLION POUNDS and the THIRTY MILLION POUND profit will then be used to repay the Street Urchin his 200 quid, help other Street Urchins and also feed starving children in Africa and Sussex."

One of the artists is Jamie Reid who "designed 90% of the Sex Pistols LP and poster imagery" as he so vitriolically and justifiably pointed out in comments to a punk action slideshow post at PCL Link Dump

ha-HA! Striking a blow for fair play and commentary by society at large!! Art Heroes! David slaying Goliath with color and design!

The works are clever, funny, appealing and thought provoking, both message wise and process wise.

Both pix link to redragtoabull...... where one can view them as well as submit.

Oooh! Submit!

I Am So F***ing Buying an Electric Guitar!

One of my fave live bands, Nashville Pussy, teach how to play guitar. Blaine and Ruyter teach all the secrets of the "no brown M&Ms" crowd.





Just to prove they can put their money where their NSFW mouths are:



Let the lessons commence. See you on stage.

A Braw Wee Lassie Plays the Pipes Fer Ye

I dinna ken tha pipes could be played in such a state. It's fookin brilliant, nae? It disnae hafta be lads in kilts after all.......

For Non Partisan Shepard Fairey Fans

Obamiconme: stupid yet deeply participatory and often creative fun, based on the B***** O***** poster done by Shepard Fairey, the now celebrated outsider artist. Here's two of mine, which one will note are completely apolitical thereby not endorsing anything no matter how fair-minded, just or awesome it's worldwide consensus may be.

WD Zantzinger Gets His At Last

Hattie Carroll

NYT Obit
Bob Dylan's song The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll was based on his arrest for murder and conviction of manslaughter. Interesting sad story of racism. Great song.

Hear here:
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

The Past You Say?

I can assure you - I no longer bear any resemblance to this chap..... except that my volatility still scares the squares. Happy New Year - my least favorite holiday.

She's a Poet and She Don't Know It !

Here's a song our own special Donna Lethal penned, or perhaps wrote with a crayon.... it's about Phineas Gage (I once had a pet fish with a Phineas - get it? finny-ass?!! get it?) a guy who blasted an iron bar into his skull and lived for 12 years after the incident. His secret was smoking his last name some said...... the tune that goes with her spectacular lyrics is well structured, and maybe some of you massive-egoed (not me, I can assure you, I'm humble) PCLers should take a whack at it, giving it a versioned life of it's own and assuring PCL's a place known for multiple talented geniuses. Just like Donna.



PS: That's not her on the right or the left.

Fruit Labels

A couple of years ago I was priviliged to view the Art of the Orange gallery at Los Angeles Public Library and got to view pristine examples of label art, with accompanying explanations of how the grade of the fruit was embedded in the imagery on the labels (like the King David above which meant grade "A" fruit)

I found (accidentally again looking for proposal imagery) this wonderful collection of images from Cratelabelsonline which has good sized images, and a large collection of the classic California and West Coast agricultural marketing images.

Check it out - you won't regret it.

I've Gone Slideshow Mad ! Iggy in Miami...

LINK AT PIC



"Miami's a sunny place for shady people! " - Iggy Pop
Interview about life in Miami here

This is Butter

Just screwing around, really. I'd make you go to my site, but screw it - I was really phoning this one in for a laugh, so remember to squint a little. Plus you might not go....so hey.

Song O' the Day: Frankenstein Walk

MP3 File
Gene "Bowlegs" Miller - Frankenstein Walk - Hi Records #2161 - 1969
This Jukebox Mafia chap is rockin' it at least 3.74 ways on his blog. Today's selection is this gem which has an this wonderful candid give-and-take between Frankenstein and his lady friend as a prelude to "gettin' down". For more facts, and unlike so many in the 'sphere, he claims to be lazy about them go to Jukebox Mafia

Digital Meltd0wn.....

....has been working hard to provide rich Hallowe'eny goodness:
Poe read by Rathbone & Price-
Arch Obler's Lights Out-
Psycho and Hellraiser soundtracks-
Roky Erickson's The Evil One-
White Zombie albums-
-and what I like to refer to as ASSLOADS more.

One More to Prevent Me Getting Fired From PCL

Three - three - three posts in one!

Fist listen to the custom edited delightful song below:
Mr Sebastian of the PCL Link Dump
kinda via Round Wonders

Betcha ya didn't know Sebastian's nickname was "Johnny" didja?

Second, view these nice old paintings venerating our namesakes:


Saint Sebastian


Saint Stephen, (or Lex10) of Hungary

Thirdly- Now a joke:
Q: Hey, why are old paintings for jerkoffs?
A: Because they're oil on wood!

I know, I know - meaningless........

Savor The Harlem Nocturne-y Goodness!

Harlem Nocturne in the background:



Pay attention!

That Andy's a got-dang buttinsky!!

Audio: Paternal Flatulence and Child Development

An audio story of Dad's (Lex09) digestive tract antics over at GlyphJockey. Deftly and cleverly produced by my genius lad (Lex11), possibly award winning. Full of cusses. He promises me he will do the rest of the audio in a couple of installments. Even juicier stuff. Make him do it.



....all last names have been "backwardized" to maintain anonymity.
Also, in case you're bad with math, that's me telling the story.