Above is the cover of Scroobius Pip’s new collection of illustrated poems, entitled ‘Poetry In (e)motion’. It is released in a week or so by Titan books and you should most definitely all buy yourselves a copy.
It features work by yours truly.
Yes, I can finally announce that I was selected alongside several other artists to have my work represent the words of Mr Pip.
This is a massive honour and I am greatly excited about it all (I haven’t seen the finished product yet!). Many, many thanks to Scroob for deeming my doodles appropriate and worthy enough to include in this collection.
1: ‘Jennifer’ : Pig Destroyer (Prowler in the Yard)
2: ‘Cheerleader Corpses’ : Pig Destroyer (Prowler in the Yard)
3: ‘Orange Ball-Peen Hammer’ : Mudhoney (My Brother The Cow)
4: ‘Roadbull’ : Melvins (Stoner Witch)
5: ‘Piss Virus’ : Amen (We Have Come For Your Parents)
6: ‘Waiting For The Turning Point’ : Superjoint Ritual (A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred)
7: ‘I Against I’ : Bad Brains (Banned In DC)
8: ‘L’angoisse du veilleur de nuit d’autoroute les soirs d’alarme à accident’ : Year Of No Light (Nord)
9: ‘Hexagram’ : Deftones (Deftones)
10: ‘Divinations’ : Mastodon (Crack The Skye)
11: ‘Rollin’ And Tumblin’ On Satan’s Rotisserie’ : The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (Danza II: The Electric Boogalo)
12: ‘Scum’ : Napalm Death (Scum)
13: ‘Bury Your Dead’ : The Haunted
14: ‘Reap What You Sow’ : Converge (Axe To Fall)
15: ‘And You Will Live In Terror’ : Necrophagia (Black Blood Vomitorium)
16: ‘Cut Throat’ : Assjack (Assjack)
17: ‘Behold The Face Of Death’ : Arkangel (Dead Man Walking)
18: ‘Blood And Tears’ : Danzig (Danzig II: Lucifuge)
19: ‘Ghost Trail’ : Cult Of Luna (Eternal Kingdom)
20: ‘Last Caress’ : The Nutley Brass (Misfits Meet The Nutley Brass)
I really enjoy looking at other people’s sketchbooks, it can often allow for a really honest insight into someone’s work. I think I just like looking at unfinished pictures sometimes too. I’m working on Mugwump at the moment and am flying through sketchbooks like there’s no tomorrow, so I thought I would post a few drawings from them now and then, finished or not.
None of this is directly related to the upcoming Mugwump comic. These are just doodles. ^_^
This week in Irish politics has been turbulent to say the least. On Wednesday, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan delivered the most severe Budget in living memory, in a bid to slash €4 Billion from public spending. Specifically targeting low income public sector workers (including nurses and care workers, such as my wife) and people on unemployment benefit. You know, exactly the kind of people who should be targeted to repay massive debts built up by the government and banks. Public sector workers were issued with their third deduction this year, following an earlier pay cut and an increased pension levy. Public sector workers earning under €30,000 per annum have to take a cut of 5%, this can total up to a €1,500 loss. Taking into account that Ireland is still in the top 3 most expensive countries in Europe, this is no small sum.
High earners were spared any further taxation due to the fact that, and I paraphrase the esteemed Finance Minister here: ‘They’re already paying loads of tax, so shut your mouth and get back to your lowly paid job, serf.’ Elsewhere in his frighteningly Victorian speech, he basically stated that it was the duty of the common man to pay for the mistakes of those who they elected to lead them. Wow.
With mounting tension growing over the retraction of almost any opposition to the Budget by previously vocal Independent TD’s (The equivalent of MP’s in the UK), it was the turn of Green Party TD Paul Gogarty to face the backbenchers over his ethical u turn. This was his response.
Why isn’t Question Time always like this?
Even though it’s not the weekend yet, I thought I’d help tackle the mid-week bues with, erm, some blues (and other great stuff too!).
This Mix kind of just happened, but where else would you get to hear Jack Kerouac sing? (He may have had a wee drinkie or two before getting up out of the chair for this one)
Alongside Samuel L Jackson and Robert Crumb? You’ll only find those sort of ill advised and slightly neurotic song choices here! There’s an amazing song about Jaques Cousteau by ‘Young Jacques‘, some amazing blues from RL Burnside (featured on this week’s cover), Blind John Davis and Jimmy Witherspoon. Leadbelly is on there of course, did you know that it was William Burroughs who introduced the music of Leadbelly to Kurt Cobain? Well, now you do.
One of my favourite all time songs is on here as well, Eddie Harris’ ‘I Don’t Want Nobody’ Harris went from standard 60-’s Jazz to become one of the most pioneering artists of the 1970’s, in this cut he is singing into an electric saxophone, leaving us with a sound something akin to Sigur Ros, except 25 years previous, before breaking into some sublime bass / trumpet combos.
Sam Cooke is in there because he’s amazing, there’s a bit of Bluegrass and a few surprises.
Greetings! I trust you all had a delightful Halloween? You did? Excellent! Continuing the ‘things that I do when you’re all not looking’ season, I wanted to post an oil painting from a wee while back.
It’s that time of year again. It’s that time of the week again, so I decided that it would be suitable to make this week’s Mixtape Halloween themed. Compiled here are some of the themes and songs from my favourite scary, gory, creepy and unsettling movies. There are some well renowned ones (Edward Scissorhands) and some slightly more obscure ones for you to enjoy (Such as the theme from Nekromantik! – For all you lovers out there, it’s not wrong, our time will come.). This mix can be used as a goth makeout album, a score to your Halloween party or just something to get you in the mood for a weekend of creepy, gore filled debauchery.
This is essentially what I listen to all year round, so the excuse to compile something horror based was a real treat. From the synth heavy sounds of the old Italian horrors of Fulci and Argento, to the jumping strings of Danny Elfman and the otherworldly soundscapes from the universe of David Lynch, I am certain that this will get your Halloween off to a simply wicked beginning…..have a good one folks.
