pitchers of you

i found a hole in logic

a little man in a box al

ways on the run

in circles around the moon

wherever eagles land

i saw a light outside the

attic window floating try

ing to get in

where its cool  dry and dark

wherever sun has gone

All night googling!

Last week drummer Jason MacKenzie asked if I'd create a deadhead flyer for his world electronic collaborative gigs, and as usual, I go, " Yeah, great!  I'll have it in two days!"

A very, possibly clinically, retarded way to go about deadlining work.  So I stayed up drinking coffee all night and mostly surfing Goggle Image looking for inspiration, cause I'm feeling a bit blocked - it was like being in college again!   I rediscovered I have an affinity for Mayan art though!

I wanted to capture the idea that J Sunray , who plays western kit, tabla, dumbek, sequences and does dishes simultaneously.

So I kinda got two ideas for that...

Below makes me think of these guys , the Burnups, whom I talked to about playing bass for - they dressed up in whiteface with x's over their eyes [because they were supposed to be dead!]

I imagine mayan stationary looked a bit like this...

--wonder why i'm over here?

All this mayan stuff makes me think of Robert Hardgra...er, Farmer Bob's fantastic gouache paintings.  Check him out at http://www.farmerbobsfarm.com - you won't be disappointed.

I also began some work on some shirt designs for OHN and Atash, but haven't scanned that yet. One thing ata time, huh?  What I wouldn't kill for extra arms!

Gerald Scarfe!

Gerald Scarfe [the master behind the art for Pink Floyd's The Wall, and the Rolling Stone's lips n' tongue logo, amoung other things] will be publishing another book of his fantastic stuff.  If you've never seen it, you're missing out!  My first introduction to him was through the satirical cartoons he did for the BBC show 'Yes, Minister"  HE had a field day with Margaret Thatcher and Ronnie, for he is also a great political satirist and cartoonist, unafraid and unapologetic.

The similarities of style to Ralph Steadman and Francis Bacon are great.  They all like meat, just like I do!

Scarfe

BaconSteadman

I'm obviously on a different tack.

Lenahan

BTW, this drawing was made five years ago, but I really love something about it.

I haven't drawn this week.  Too many gigs downtown, and four irritating chairs to upholster.

...save vegas...

A poster for an upcoming OHN gig with my housemate's band Grimy Styles.  We're all badass!

If you're running around, you should come, although we'll have fun without you!  Ha!

...time's like a cockroach, always slipping through cracks.  economy's bad or bad economies, walls of water menacing beaches, your hair turns grey or goes away, wrinkles, pimples.  the earth shakes, great people die, plastic crowned king; if we'd stuck with the gold standard, look where we'd be.  aliens gathering behind clouds of dark matter, god surrounds himself with sardonic laughter...and you're wondering what color flipflops to wear.

...a tear in flesh is worth two on the cheek...

pinned front to back with penny nails

he and she gainst their voodoo rail

and never in twain shall these two be

for love be a trap from which none shall free