I have to rant this. It really shits me when professional adult artists have bio statements like:
‘has been making art/drawing since s/he was a child’. Like that proves how gifted s/he is.
My question is…who the frack hasn’t? Don’t all kids do craft and finger painting and stuff?
*huff huff* I just had to say that out loud.
This is something I’ve been working on for quite a few weeks! It’s finally finished and up on YouTube.
It’s for all those people who’ve ever stopped to wonder who would win in a showdown between the unbearably perky and the fatally political.
Hooray! Recession is here and I can now go into to full on cheap scape mode without actually feeling cheap.
I love to scrimp. Its in my blood. Its fun! It uses all that intelligence, imagination and creativity that normally just gets wasted making money.
I read this article about a woman who survived on £1 a day for a year (after she payed her rent and presumably energy bills council tax, tampons, drugs, stylist….) So I thought WOW! Bugger that for a joke.
But tonight I found myself in Tescos, shopping for the evening meal and I started to feel…the challenge. Could I do it?
Nope! Not in central London. But I did buy mushrooms off the REDUCED cart without feeling dirty. They were 38p instead of 78p. At this rate I can see the mountains of cash piling up before my very eyes.
But all sarcasm aside. I have a large vegetable bake in the oven which will provide dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow for me and my sqeaze. Buttenut pumpkin, Spanish onion, artichoke, garlic, cheap mushrooms, eggs, cheese, bread crumbs on top. Mmmm. Anyway, all up with a bottle of cheap Spanish wine? £9.
So four meals and plonky donk for 9 squid. Alright!
And the recession even nudged me to dry fry the seeds I scooped out of the pumkin (squish them out of the pulp so you have mostly just seeds the pulp that sticks to them will coat them. I put in a few drops of oil toward the end) and we are having them now as an awesome pre dinner snack. Served with a very expensive imported beer that Brett bought yesterday. Hey that doesn’t count!
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride. - Sutta Nipata
Betcha can’t guess who this is. Hint: she’s famous.
OK. Times up. It’s Marilyn Monroe!
I just need to warn you. ‘Pi the Movie’ by Darren Aronofsky is total and utter crap. It is purile in the extreme. Its basic message is that numbers make your head hurt and blow up your computer. Ooo best not to mess with them!
It would appear Aronofsky avoided any reseach more taxing than maybe half an hour on Google. So I reckon his head feels just dandy and his puter is in top shape.
You’ve been warned.
We saw the Gilbert and George exhibit at the Tate Modern last week. It was awesome.
I also got addicted to this flash game where you make pictures of yourself and friends in the South Park style.
http://www.sp-studio.de/
So I did an homage to Gilbert and George. I call it Life and Death. I do crack myself up sometimes.
Will the US go to war with Iran? This is how I envisage it will start…
Ahmadinejad: Cor blimey it’s tough being the boss.
George W Bush: Tell me about it.
Ahmadinejad: My people hate you guys. They just love me when I rattle my sabre at you.
George W Bush: I know, I know, and my investors love me when I talk tough. - I don’t actually care what my ‘people’ think.
Ahmadinejad: We really should give them a little show.
George W Bush: Ok how’s Tuesday? Is Tuesday good for you? Yo Blair, stop eating all the smoked salmon canapes.
Ahmadinejad: Ooh do they have wasabi in them?
We had a great party last night. These two lovelys were amongst the last to stay standing!
Even Brett had a hangover. His lawyers will be calling Satan on Monday.
Bing bam boom.
The day goes zoom.
The week flies past.
A month doesn’t last.
Time is a bullet
wound in the head.
