Madness

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

Perhaps to be too practical is madness
To surrender dreams – this may be madness.
To seek treasure where there is only trash.
Too much sanity may be madness.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as is should be.

-- Miguel de Cervantes

Baaaaaaaa

Oh yeah, I shaved all my hair off.

Here I am shorn and cold (note: nipple-tasticness!) / performing an impromptu-Marty Feldman (how the fuck can there be no pictures of him on the Wikipedia page???) impression / demonstrating how one side of my face is paralysed and I can no longer smile properly / or without scaring children.

In the background you can see The Golfer, one of my favourite-ever paintings of mine that I have done ever, even though I look at it now and all I can see are the things that are wrong with it.

I've got some drawings in a group drawing show at ROAR!. The opening is on Thursday night; there's more detail here. The drawings are 'excerpts' from this series which is known as Storyboard for the Movie of the Making of Heroic Cocks Nos. 1 - 3.

get ready for the future, it is murder

The Stumps played the other night.

(photo by Robyn; there're more here.)

We played with The Aesthetics, who do and did rule hard. They are fronted by Matt Middleton (the also-amazing Crude); Matt recently posted a review of the show on his blog:

the Stumps performance was ideal for the headline act, and even more so - they were mind-blowing...a whirlwind. Loosely their sound is Heavy psyche - with that crazed amphetaminized guitar sheen,,with that unpredictable improv shock, like Eye they were vortex music but with a chunky post-rock approach. 'Twas evokation music. 'Don't mess with shit you don't understand man..' ..Visuals played a very strong part : behind them was the film 'God Damn Religion' by Sun City Girls' Sir Richard Bishop : a flick-thru/slide-gallery/fast-paced compendium of static full colour images gleaned from the dusty annals of ancient religion, both east and west - hells, devils, demons, hindu hells, tibetan hells, torment, christ's torment: a real bias t'wards the dark side methinks. All up a mad soiree.. I am now a Stumps fan.

We hardly ever get reviewed, so to get a review like this is fucking terrific.