trouble

To be honest while I am mildly pleased with how this drawing turned out it causes more problems, what the hell do I do with it now?!

I have no idea what to do with these characters, as well. You can't just leave them lying around unfulfilled. Clearly they have lives that need exploring. For instance, why did their parents give them names with umlauts that are clearly not meant to affect pronunciation? Or how cruel is it in the case of Töd and Tööd if they were meant to. Also, the people without names, what's their story? Orphans from a young age you'd have to assume or otherwise still very deprived childhoods extending into adulthood. 

the policeman's ball

Here's anothery, since I have nothing else of great value to discuss atm. The notion here is someone stating that they crashed the policeman's ball disguised as a horse. Between you and me I went one step further into confusion here by making them actually a horse but wearing a horse mask. At least, that is what I was trying to convey. 

The subtleties of perspective have always eluded me - like a lot of things, I think a month's tuition fifty years ago (or some actually useful secondary schooling - fuck!) would have made a big fat difference to my capacities here. You will see at the very back of the room, behind the bar, there is a mirror. If I had genuine ability I might have done more with this but cram in some vague shapes (in fact, although I said 'you will see...' of course you didn't notice it until I told you and still might be having trouble figuring out what I'm talking about). But once I decided to fill in the mirror details - I had always intended it to be a mirror, but only imagined I would add in the bar staff vaguely - I realised that most of the figures I had populated the dance floor with were too short to be seen in the mirror anyway, or perhaps not even too short (though a lot of them are, possibly they are children?), but too low, because for some weird reason the floor kind of tips downward. 

I'm not saying I'm not really pleased with this drawing though, because I am. I particularly like the top part where you can see what I suppose are roof beams (I think I traced the room roughly from a picture of a big restaurant space) and some shabby streamers and a banner which I suppose says 'Balls Out'. For a split-second I was thinking, there should have been something like a DJ in the picture, and a buffet, and probably some other things besides, and then I remembered, when you go to a place, everything in the place is not instantly visible to you if you are facing in one direction, and if it was, you'd think 'this is weird'. Our faces are only made to point one way. This is how we do it. If a fish or a bird had drawn this picture, well, I suppose it would have been two pictures, facing each other, with no depiction of what was directly ahead. 

horses

Hey, I hate these very lame youtube videos that aren't videos but are just static images (of an album cover or whatever) and music but seriously this is my favourite song in the entire world, and has been pretty much since I first heard it 23 years ago, and pretty much all things considered probably will be, and while I don't think it makes me cool to be associated with it in your mind or whatever, I do think it is just a big favour I'm doing for you if you've never heard it, or even if you have heard it many times before, for you to have the opportunity to hear it once again.

(NB this was removed from YouTube sometime in January so replaced with a cover by David Grubbs in March 09)