You Have Done Something To Your Hair!

Had a silly time at the Vortex show last night... Arrrggg. Pirates bewares... yer ships run a fowl and yer booty has been a' stolen.




Enough of the scurvy savages at the bar... what was happening at the show. Well Big Mike was decked out in a grass skirt and jungle gear. There was a tiny little witch doctor running around casting his magic on all the evil drunkards. Really funny stuff. The Dames did several routines... all were sexy sexy sexy. Those Dames.. yikes. Of course my favorite was Luna's 'Krispy Kreme Donut' act. Red sparkel pasties.. ohh lordy lordy.

Leave Me Alone... Ouch! That Hurts... Don't Do It Again

Kanka and I are headed to get drinks. I have to withdraw my last statement. Kanka is not a Fuckin' Asshole... no no no, thta was totally incorect and uncalled for... he is now the Ultimate Pussy. Bwaha ha ha ha!!!!
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HAMPSTER WEAR
' When It's Hampster Wear... You Can Put It Anywhere'
Kanka and I have a new clothing fashion. It's called Hampster Wear. It's the underwaer that come with a live hampster inside.
Happy People will love them.
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Kanka has done the worst thing he could have ever done up until this moment. The bastard took the orange striped tights picture of me, blown it up, printed it and taped it to his fridge. Asshole! You fuckin' asshole! Ohh well.. I'm sitting over at his place having a glass of scotch. Delicious scotch... it's good. We're just sitting around shooting the shit.
Earlier this afternoon I worked on some different types of correspondences for all sorts of people. Got a few different emails from Barker. Check out his killer street lamp cover collection —


Kanka and I are gonna head over to the Vortex on Peachtree this evening. Mr. Geier is playing there with his smooth stylists. There is some other stuff going on too and the DA'f will be in full swing tonight as well. Ohh la la la. Kanka is yelling at me.. he says "I know what you're talking about you fuck'n pork'r." What that all about man... what a weirdo.

Support Your Local (insert noun)

5:00PM
I have it... Korea. I'm going to do a split layer dress with the top half representing North Korea and the bottom South Korea. I need to call and make sure that someone hasn't taken this country yet. I'll have to somehow develop this concept into a political statement regarding the climate in those regions. I'll also throw in some of the ideas that were discussed during the six-party talks with China, Japan, Russia, North Korea, South Korea, and the United States to resolve the stalemate over Norths nuclear programs. There will definitely be references to the nuclear. I'd like to try to figure out a way to use the midriff region (belly) of the model to serve as a transitional border point between the 2 regions.

The dress or maybe more appropriately outfit... will consist of a 2 part strategy. The upper half of the dress (NORTH) will be a very conservative military style cut. Very angular and rigid in it's construction. It should allow no real personality to show thru. It should make the upper half of the body fit into a communist like profile. The bottom half of the dress (SOUTH) will have a more free and organic structure. It will allow the models individual form to show through the dress. It will allow for free movement and imply the ideals of a democratic republic.

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12:08PM
Friday has come... and eventually Friday will go and I seriously doubt that I will have made a decision on the country that I want to use for the paper show. I lumped all my efforts into the Japan concept, but at this point-in-time I really don't like anything else that I've looked into. It's such an annoying feeling... you'd think it would be a simple thing, picking a country, but it isn't. Japan was so perfect... the difference between the ancient and modern cultures was fascinating. Some of the latest ideas I've had have been less than brilliant. A UK theme dress that's based on punk rock and the british underground movement. I wonder what would happen if I tried to incorporate something from The Who's Tommy or even Pink Floyd's The Wall. That could be interesting... and it could also be very very cliche'. This is just a difficult situation... hopefully I'll figure out which country to choose. Once I pick one I have a week to develop the concept and develop preliminary drawings. This is turning into a bad situation.
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 19, 2005
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LUDWIG - KISS no.2 (postcard)

Say Are You Really One Of The Richest Girls In This Here Territory

11:06PM
Still struggling to choose a new country for the paper dress show. I'm going to have to dive deeper into the culture, mythology & history of some different countries. It's the only way I'm going to find a clever path to follow with this work. I have a few different paths in mind, but we'll see how clever they really are... hmmm & grrr.

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1:30PM
Nothing too interesting to report today. Last night I worked on a number of different correspondences for people. Everything from postcards to stuffed envelopes. I should be ramping up mailing transferrals next week, at least 5-6 mailings a day for a while.
On the new home front, the house has been completly drywalled and is probably having trim installed as I type this. I'll be swinging by there again this weekend to show it off to some folks and to do more measurements for the entertainment center I'm building for the living room and to measure certain walls for paintings. I also have to measure all the windows so I can order blinds. Now the builders said they would be complete by the end of August... ha ha. I'm thinking more like the middle or end of September. Things are gonna move really fast in that house now. After they get all the trim installed and everything is painted they will lay the wood floors and install the cabinets and appliances and then it's just a bunch of little things. Getting down to the wire... finally!! Can't wait to get out of the hole.
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 18, 2005
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LUDWIG - KISS no.1 (postcard)

Thank You For Holding... Please Hold.

Here's a picture from that strange party I went to with Monkey Lulu a few weeks back... isn't she the sweetest lookin' thang. Thank the lord the person who shot this didn't get my legs. Yikes in stripes!!


He's another photo from before the party. This photo has been edited for elicit content that is not suitable for women under the age of 17.


Here's a rockstar for ya.

The Children Will Be So Thrilled. Wait... Weren't You A Blonde When I Came In?

You Are In A Trance Now... I Will Bring You Out Of It Shortly

Witnessed a terrible car crash in front of my house today. It happened seconds after I got on the street directly behind me. I wouldn't have noticed if I didn't here a large slash sound... then I turned around and found that a car crossing the street got broad-sided. Nasty stuff... didn't stick around long enough to see if anyone was hurt. I was running late and had places to be. There are too many accidents in the ATL to worry about any of them. Besides nobody stopped to see if I was ok after I wrecked. I guess the feeling is mutual.
On the Drive-Invasion front I've learned some good and bad news. First the bad — they are only playing 2 nights of movies v. the 3 they've done in the past. Now the good news — my hero Jack Hill will be there to give a talk. They are playing 4 of his films on Sat night — The Big Bird Cage, Spider Baby, Foxy Brown, and the classic Blood Bath (also known as Track of the Vampire). I'm really excited to meet Jack. I'm going to try and get him to autograph my Sorceress poster, but I'm not sure he'll do it. That was his last film and Roger Corman pulled his name from the film and put Brian Stuart as director instead (the first names of Corman's 2 sons). Hopefully Jack will be a good sport and sign it anyways. Sid Haig is also going to be there (Spider Baby - Blood Bath - Foxy Brown)... but I really want to meet Jack. This is the drive-in lineup i've been waiting for... too bad they aren't playing Swinging Cheerleaders or Switchblade Sisters though. They play both a few years back so...
In other unfortunate news I need to select another country for the Paper Fashion Show. Someone has already taken Japan. Bastards!! I know they are going to do something stereotypical and utterly pointless with that dress... what a disappointment (mine would have been much better). I'm going to consult with Steph tonight and discuss a few different options. She had some really good ideas for other dresses last time we discussed the project. I'll have to pick her brain some more. It's important to get her opinion considering she will have to wear the dress.
Since Spin & Gin is finally over, I can get back to the bulk of my solo work again. I can also get back into the postcard habit and get some new correspondences out to my peps. Until I get an approval on the country I choose for my dress, I'm not going to worry to much about it.
I am going to jump head-first into the process and planning of the '100 Small Works' series again. I've had a nice break from those works and feel refreshed and reinvigorated with the concept behind the works. Also going to continue production of the secondary materials I have for the 2004 Fluoride Series. As soon as the house is completed I'll have ample studio space and I'll be able to get a better scope of all the works in progress. It's very hard right now to see the full picture/status of all the current works. I have everything listed out in spreadsheets and process forms, and that is great when you are getting technical, working on the time management and asset management of the works, but nothing can compare to looking at all the work in one glance. At this time most of the work is filed away because of space issues... as well as being packed up for the moving process. I really need to escape this space soon, so I can begin to work under the type of methods and organizational planning I require. Much of the later work I am going to be producing is larger in both physical scale and over-all scope. The processes and methods employed are going to become more complex and will require the larger space to facilitate a workflow that is comfortable and efficient.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 15, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 37 (postcard)

Sundays Are For Sleepin' In Even Later

Here are some pictures from the SPIN show. Thanks Kanka... the man always has some sort of camera on him.






Kanka snapped this picture of the lady who bought 'Dance-Dance-Dance'. He said he thinks he spooked her out when he asked to snap a pic of her in the parking lot. I'm sure he did too... my buddie had a lot to drink that night.

Here is me and Steph getting our portrait done. It took so long we weren't able to get over to see Geier finish playing at the top of the Hilton — Nikolai's Roof. But we did get over there in enough time for us to all hang out. Yeah, I was still in costume... people must have been weirded out a little. I wasn't though. All I wanted was a cheesburger and a nap... and to my suprise everyone I asked about these things, gave me directions to both.


ELVIS v. KINGSIZED

The Kingsized Elvis show was just amazing. There had to be at least 800+ people packed into the Variety Playhouse. It was intense. I saw Fredrick from Degenerate Press and we discussed the sad news about the Starlight Drive-In and those jerk-offs at New Line Cinema. If you don't know what's happening check out what The Degenerate Press says — Degenerate Press: Live Journal
Fredrick said he should put together a 4th of July Event there... I'll hold him to that. Kanka showed up after I told him that if he was smart he'd come to the show. So he smart'ned up. We had some drinks and some chuckles. Tee Hee!!

Met with Luna Luxx after the show... check out the lashes on her. Ohh baby!!

Had 3:00AM breakfast at the Majestic. Me — Western omlette, coffee, and hashbrowns with cheese. Miss. Luxxy — 2 eggs over-easy, hashbrowns and wheat toast. Delicious... thank you Mr. Mike for the meal again. What a hell-of-a guy.

Saturdays Are For Sleepin' In

WATCH OUT BRITNEY... HERE COMES VERONICA!


The show last night was a big success for Spin. They had almost 100 items up for auction. Everything from art - sculpture - glassware - jewlery - certificates and lots more. All of my works were bought in the beginning of the show and by the end all had multiple bids on them. Which is very good — The person who bought 'Dance - Dance - Dance' is going to be putting it in their office building. Thats pretty cool. I'll have to go and see it there for real sometime.
A lot of people were really wild about the 4 drawings I submitted. Which was strange, as I figured people would hate them. But I was asked by quite a few people - what they were about - how i did the transfers - etc. I ended up giving away 20 or more website cards... so I guess we may get a few more viewers to the blog.
Got several pictures taken of me and the angry & always late (she was shopping) Veronica. However I don't have any of them right now. However we did get this strange portrait of us done. Those French artists are drinking to much absinth I think.



Got to do some karoke myself last night too. I did 3 songs — Clash: Rock the Cassba — B-52's: Love Shack — Iggy Pop: The Passenger — . I rocked the stage and didn't fall to my doom once. The DJ was same guy as the year before... he asked if I was that guy from last year and I winked. I did my brithsh accented grunting Clash - My best Fred with fly moves - The Iggy Pop dance. What a fun evening. Lots of my friends showed up which was great great great.
I'd have to say though, that my favorite part of the show was talking to people and catching them with strange looks as I talk to them in costume. I think it bothered some folks to talk to somebody all costumed up. It's reminded me of what Ray Johnson once said when he was asked about his work — 'By acting I mean I am putting you on, by acting I mean I'm performing here, but I'm also playing the role of an artist who is talking about what he does, but I'm playing with you both by talking to you, I'm just haveing fun by talking about this, but I do this... I have a Deadpan Club. I do this with a dead pan expression, like I'm really very serious, but underneath it all it's a Dada joke."

Headed to the Kingsized Elvis Show tonight... It's gonna be a' gimmer ana gammer


MAILING TRANSFERRAL
August 13, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 36 (postcard)

Show Night — SPIN & GIN V: Caberat

TONIGHT
SPIN & GIN V — Caberat!
914 Howell Mill Road, Suite 200
Atlanta, Georgia 30318

6:00 - 10:00PM
$25 Donation at the door

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2:15PM
Got home from my morning of community work. Hot and tired boxed food all morning. Getting cleaned up and putting together the last 4 works for the show. 4 hours till the party'n starts... yeee-haw.

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8:35AM
VIVA LAS VEGAS

Geier is the man... check out the King chattin' on FOX 5.


The Late King


Luna Luxx does her stuff

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7:52AM
Went to Stephs last night to finish up final production of my costume for the show and to check out hers. That girl is just too damn fast on a sewing machine. A lot faster than me.... wow!! The costume is finished as well as a major change in my appearance, I don't really notice it though. Again, major points to Steph for helping me with all this into the late late hours last night.

We both woke up really really early this morning... I have to donate some time to some community service for work and Steph is going to be on 'Good Morning Atlanta' FOX 5 to promote the Kingsized Elvis Show tomm. night. Geier is supposed to rock the TV set this morning. We are sleeping in tomm. Neither of us has had much sleep this week, way to many thing going on. Ahhhh!!! Paper Fashion Show is coming soon... AHHHH!!! Need sleep.

Show tonight... I'll update later.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 12, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermitted Jughead 35 (postcard)

Countdowns Are Time Killers

Well it's finally done and hung. Went to Spin last night and hung 'Dance - Dance - Dance'. It looks amazing. I decided also to donate 4 small transfer drawings to the show as well, just so the Spin folks have more work to hang. I'll have to run to the art store tomm. and pick up a few frames for the works. I'll hang them just before the show.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 11, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermitted Jughead 34 (postcard)

Come On Give Me A Drink For Heavens Sake — Why Don't You Cut It Short — Give Me Another Drink

8:27PM
Dance-Dance-Dance is complete. After waiting 2 hours at the customer pick-up counter, the Fader has finally reached my home and has been installed. All I can say right now is that this painting is so fucking good it makes me have to take a step back. I have tons of shit to work on tonight (all nighter) I'll write more later. But again... this painting is FUCKING amazing!!!! If you weren't planning on coming to this show you are going tom miss the best work there... so get your ass to the show! I'm damn serious too!!

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12:02AM
Just shut off 'Dance-Dance-Dance'. Before I finished though, I hooked each colors (red/white) electrical plug into 2 different power strips. Then I flipped the switches on the strips back and forth to see how the strobe effect would look. After only a few seconds of watching the pulsing red then white lights I marveled at how great it looked, but also how uneasy and sick I felt — PERFECT!!! The slightly slower strobe effect I'm going to deploy is going to rock this show so so hard.
The pulsating lights make it look like a street side advertisement for some sleazy establishment. There are no letters or numerals on the entire work, so instead, we communicate with a set of select symbols all in the the form of Jughead. The Jughead's' various gestures and paced actions placed in a plenary void, combined with the lighting scheme, advertise a place that contains infinte possibilities within it. The title 'Dance-Dance-Dance' refers to the way we should act in such a free and open environment. Have fun with life... create every moment of it in your own image and enjoy the labors of this action at all times.
The lights do some very interesting things with the paint as I had suspected and then purposefully planned for. The red and white lights reveal and conceal certain aspects of the red and white enamel paint on blue background. Colors cancel out and others are enhancened, but at no time can we see the entire picture, unless we were to place it in direct white light. So, you have to fill in the void of missing information in your mind. Just as we do in everyday life, the plenary void forces us to create environments and situations to involve ourselves in.


SNEAK PEEK

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 10, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 33 (postcard)

Using A Rounded Yellow Sponge They Capture The Flow Of Blood From The Holes

9:08PM
The painting is 95% complete. The electrical system is installed and is functional. The work has been running without incedent on my wall for the past 2 hours. I'm going to let it run a while longer to be sure that nothing shorts, becomes too hot or heck... falls off. I think everything is going to be just fine though. I will pick up the Fader Controller tomorrow. I have to install and mount it and drill the final hole for the electrical output plug. Then I have a few minor cosmetic touch-ups and it is ready to go. I'll drop it off at Spin Creative this Thursday evening. I need to put in a call to Sheri to let her know of it's delivery so she can reserve space on a good wall near an electrical outlet. I have pleanty of other things to complete throughout the rest of this week before fridays show. Lots of people coming to the show, so I need pleanty of things to give away. Shows without freebies are just so boring.

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12:15PM
I like to walk around with a bum leg all day... it's the best. Because of my little accident last night I didn't get to complete the wiring for the piece, but the sealent has had all night to set so this evening I will complete the instalation and test it out. unfortunately I'm still trying to get the Fader Controller out of UPS limbo some how. I'm still working this out.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 9, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 32 (postcard)

They Are Drilling Tiny Holes In My Skull

10:48
Blood — Blood — Blood. It just wants to keep flowing.... delicious.

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10:32PM
Just shaved all the hair off the back of my thigh and cleaned the wound with alcohol and benzadine. Applied a butterfly sutcher to the huge gap I created. YUMMY!! The bleeding has slown a bit... I probably need stitches, but I'll leave the turnakit on a while longer. My dressing will heal it just as well as stitches tonight. Would rather have the cool scar anyways. A strange feeling, shaving ones thigh... well, at least for a man that has never done such a task before. Poor women... such a horribly lengthy process to please men... I must admit though... there is nothing like a long smooth thigh to run ones hand up.

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10:12PM
DAMN & OUCHH... I didn't think I was making any other works of art tonight until I found an X-acto knife lodged into my left thigh with blood squirting out across the room (YES there is blood everywhere in my living room). I'm sitting at that blood stained couch right now wearing a turnakit on my left thigh as I write to you. I know for sure I cut something really really deep and really really bad, but I ain't about to go drive to some emergency room. All hail the Boy Scouts of America!@!!


Before I dressed my leg in a tornakit I followed my typical Retroconsumeristic ideals and created a self-generated chaotic blot drawing — 4 of them.

Fuck... I'm still bleeding really bad (laff).. umm well. Anyways, enjoy the few pics of the fun. I tried a few times, but decided it best to reapply the turnakit to my leg, since I couldn't capture the blood spurts on my cell phone camera emanating from my leg. Enjoy... OUCH!!

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8:46PM
Went to the hardware store today and it was a total success. I found the receptacle cap pieces I needed for the lights and well below the price I had limited myself to — 0¢ - 30¢ each. CAMPAK RGD 3/4" - 1/2" Steel Reducing Washers. These are just the most incredible and most practical, as well as classy cap pieces, for only 15¢ each. It's the same cap you would use on a large lighted sign, so I makes the work look even more vintage than it really is. It's so perfect.

Sealed the caps to/over the 1" openings with clear silicone sealant. Had to wait 2 hours for it to set (24 to cure) and I've began to string the final wiring. I was thinking that I might have to use silicone sealant to mount the receptacles into the frame but instead I've decided to use 1/8" fiber insulated staples. I wasn't sure if they would keep the receptacles in place, but once you screw the bulbs in, the tension/width of the bulb to recepticale to washer, forces the lightbulb to remain perfectly aligned.

This piece is going to be so damn good looking. There isn't a single portion of this work that feels out of place or cheap. There just isn't. I would say this work is mechanically the finest piece I've excecuted to date and a definitly pivotal point in my entire body of works electrical maturity.
On a bad note the stupid company I ordered the lights from decided it made more sense to send the Fader Controller I'm waiting for to the billing address v. the shipping address... Hmmmm — They originally shipped everything but the Fader to the shipping address so of course it makes perfect sence to mail the missing part to another place. Now I have to contact 'my' stupid company because they will not leave an overnight package at my door without a signature. GRRRR... this angers me so. I'll jump thru those hoops tomm., but in the meantime not even that can anger me. This work is looking more classical than anything I've ever done.

SATURDAY NIGHT: Attended the strangest of birthday parties. The theme was Surreal Circus. The entire loft was full of huge balloons... I mean it was waist deep and above with large balloons when Steph and I arrived. The entire loft was jam packed simply unreal. Now as for costumes... I didn't bring anything over to Stephs' and she frowned on me. Of course now, Steph the all too clever clothing designer herself, had a large amount of silly things to wear (silly if your a man). I wore (to her fall-on-the-floor-marriage-proposal-laughter) a pair of orange and black striped tights with a blue & gold one piece ensconced in sequins (chest hair in full view). The entire outfit rode my crotch and rode my crotch hard (someone called me Superman later in the evening), but it was so damn funnny looking that I 'had' to wear it out. She topped my costume off with a red bowed black cape and red 'Robin' mask. I looked.... well... 'indescribable'. Steph decided to step into her other persona of Monkey Lulu. Lulu wore a pair of hand made silver hot pants and a Wonder Woman sequined top with matching red calf-high leather boots. Gorgeous little monkey... ohh yeah she had the black lip liner, croaked pony-tails and monkey mask going too. Prettiest symbian I ever dun seen.
We arrived at the location (Mattress Factory Lofts) and couldn't get in right off. I suggested we walk to the other door and there we saw the party thru a window. Monkey Lulu instinctively rushed to an adjacent garden ledge and danced around and thru a fish at the window to get the groups attention. When everyone turned to look Monkey Lulu became scared and jumped straight up into my open arms. That Monkey Lulu is just too cute. The party rocked and there were still too many balloons left behind. What a great night!!

PICTURES COMING SOON

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 8, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 31 (postcard)

My Goodness Me... It's A Great Big World

LATE
Ohh... the unknown beauty of the woman who sleeps silently... sigh — She knows not what mine eyes speak

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7:42PM
Drive-In tonight... Big Bebowski & Team America. Unfortunately, at this moment, the city of Atlanta has decided to follow it's daily routine of rain and then more rain. So if this keeps up Steph and I might just watch theses films from somewhere else.

Strung the lighting sytem this afternoon — have reralized I need another component to finfish off the work. Some sort of cap or blacker washer to cover the light socket hole and make the hole more finished. Will try and hit hardware store after work tomm.

This Is Strictly A Holy Matter

Well I don't know if the electrical system is still going to work out... but at least my painting has 50 holes in it now. Headed out to make costumes at Stephs this afternoon. Will worry about the mounting of the lights after I perform some minor cosmetic surgery on the painting. A few touch-ups around the holes.



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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 6, 2005
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BARKER - Pretemitted Jughead 30 (postcard)

A Person Working In The Service Of A Toothed Wheel That Engages Another Person Who Records Sound By Scratching Continuous Grooves Into Their Flesh

My light bulbs are here!!!! They are finally here!!! One hundred of the most beautiful ceramic light bulbs I've ever seen. This changes everything as far as the painting is concerned. I can not believe how absolutly absolute these match the red and white enamel painted figures. I haven't even had a chance to put them side-by-side and I know that they are spot on. My heart is beating pretty fast... I'm really really ecstatic. This is so so amazing!!

I can't wait to get home and work on this painting!!! The only bad thing is that the company left the Fader out of my shipment... they will be overnighting it to me though. Good folks at the All American Christmas Co.

Hung out at a Linton birthday party last night at Canoe (it was a gas — Kelly was funny as hell) and then Steph and I went over to Mary's to check out a really fun Drag performance. Some really great songs, sung on the bar itself (that's class if you ask me), with a good Siouxsie and The Banshees closer. Good croud there, even though it was raining. The DJ was kickin' the Eagles of Death Metal and the video screens were pulsing electric sex and retro-vitriol.

Photo: DOVER

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 5, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 29 (postcard)

To Take Property Belonging To Someone Else In Reflex Response To Sudden Desires For Heterosexual Intimacy On Inlaid Furniture

3:20PM
Wow... I actually got my first guess for the title of this post. If you've noticed the past few posts have strange definitions in the title. These are definitions that I've taken from several other words to create ideas for things that do not exist. However, today we have a guess for the term I was describing.
SNATCH
Hmmm.... not exactly the word I was going for, but it could work. Thanks for that, dirty-minded girl.

I completed painting the initial composition of 'Dance-Dance-Dance'... now it'll sit for a few days until I figure what else to paint on it (there is more to do still). Reds and whites are done... but I think there will be more whites still. The lights should be here this week.. I'm getting more and more electrified about the work everyday. What a good show this will be.
All of the personal invites for SPIN & GIN went out today. (Boooo!!!!) I think Spin even sent invites to people who attended in the past... Kanka isn't too happy about that.. ohh well, it'll make for a more eventful evening I suppose.
Now back to the invites — I had to stand in front of the lady at the post office and watch her hand-cancel all 50 cards. I initially gave them to her asking that she hand-cancel them and as I was walking away I saw her put them in the out-bin without stamping. So I yelled at her... really really loud. "What part of, 'Could you please hand-cancel these cards for me, it's very important that they are dated', did you not understand!" She tried to give me lip-service-attitude up until the point I walked back up to her, put the rubber stamp in front of her face and said "What was that you just said.. I can't hear you because you're to busy stamping my god-damn postcards!" Yeah.. people were looking at us, but I had the power of the suit on my side. You know what I'm talking' bout Kanka... ohh yeah. The lady needed to learn to follow direction, not slack off and especially not try and talk shit to me in a public place (lazy-ass government employees).
I hate postcards that are not hand-cancelled, as does my postal-lover err... lovers. If it is not hand-cancelled there is no point in mailing it as far as I'm concerned.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 4, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 28 (postcard)
NEWMAN - Woof-Woof (stuffed envelope)
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BARKER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
BLACKMON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
BUTLER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
BUTTREY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
COTEALIA - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
DAVIDSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
DECILLIS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
DURAN - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
ENSLEY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
GEIER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
GRIFFITH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
HARL - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
JACKSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
JENKINS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KANKA - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KIDWELL - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KUTZBACH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KUTZBACH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KUTZBACH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
KUTZBACH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
LAMPREY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
LEAHY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
LICHLYTER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
LUDWIG - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
NEWMAN - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
NEWTON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
PEARSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
REILLY - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
REYNOLDS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
RIVERS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
ROETZER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
ROWE - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SCHAEFER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SCHAEFER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SCHAEFER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SCHRIER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
STATTS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SKOREPA - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SMITH - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
STOUT - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
SYLVESTER - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
TAYLOR - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
THOMAS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
THOMPSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
VINSON - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
WEISS - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
WINDOM - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
WYATT - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)
YORK - SPIN & GIN V Invite (postcard)

A Thin Fragment That Has Been Shaved From A Device That Is Very Useful For Listening To The Sounds Generated Inside The Body

5:15PM
Invites have been layed-out and printed. 50 in all... who are the choosen ones? Check out tomorrows' Mailing Transferral to see if you had what it takes. Ha Ha Ha!!! Suckers...
Packing up to head home. Have lots of painting to do tonight. The lighting components should be here by friday, so I have a lot to accomplish before the weekend gets here. Still have to put together some Super-Secret stuff for the show. Sewing machines' a calling.

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12:00PM
Completed a mini painting to use on my personal invites for Spin & Gin V late last night. They are Brilliant Blue and Boooo! Will mail them all out this Thursday. Also completed painting the red portions of 'Dance-Dance-Dance'. Next phase is the central compostition... that begins tonight.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 3, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 27 (postcard)

Impair The Respiration Of Or Obstruct The Air Passage Of An Equivalence Or Correspondence Among Constituents Of An Entity

5:15PM
OFF TO THE PICTURE SHOW!!!

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4:30PM
Adjusted the schematics for the work — 50 bulbs v. 66 bulbs. The reason being, besides cost savings, is that the Fader can only handle 3 Amps and with the previous setup I was going to need 2.1 Amps x 2 = 4.2 Amps. Now I only require 1.5 Amps x 2 = 3 Amps. The larger amount of bulbs would have fried the Fader.
Placed an order for all the components I wanted. Bulbs - Stringers - Fader. Went thru a different company as well and was able to save myself $30. I'm happy with that. Had everything sent UPS 2nd Day Air so i should begin instalation of these suckers this weekend. Like I said the money is a small stretch, but the work is more important than me right now. I'll be extremely proud to be near it at the show. Now the difficult task of putting it all together begins!

Here is the revised schematic:


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4:00PM
OK — So now that I've figured out how to calculate for Amps... all I can say is.... DAMN YOU AMPS!!! I have to fix my plans... pushing too many Amps currently.

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3:40PM
Calculations for electrical load requirements of 'Dance-Dance-Dance'

Total Number of Bulbs X Bulb Wattage ÷ 110 = Amps Needed

Basic Calculations
(1) x 7 Watts ÷ 110 = 0.0636 Amps
(25) x 7 Watts ÷ 110 = 1.590 Amps

'DANCE-DANCE-DANCE' Lighting needs
(33) x 7 Watts ÷ 110 = 2.1 Amps

TOTAL FOR WORK
(66) x 7 Watts ÷ 110 = 4.2 Amps

The cord I'm using has a max load of 5 Amps... so nothing should overload. The problem is the Fader Controller.. it only can take 3 Amps. DAMNIT...

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3:25PM
LIGHTING - LIGHTING -LIGHTING
Why does this crap cost so much... it just blows my mind that little light bulbs can cost so much. I'm having to bite my tongue and hold my left hand back from punching my nose, as I consider spending a large wad of cash on this lighting system for 'Dance-Dance-Dance'. I haven't hit the PLACE MY ORDER button just yet, but I'm close. But now as I sit here and write this, I wonder... is there that much of a difference when it comes to $70 and $100. Should I just order all the crap I need or give-up and compromise. I never do that with my own work... so I'm wondering why I should start now. Money is always the most annoying of factors when creating art, but sticking to your convictions and struggling financially for a short time is alright. Especially when the work is as you envisioned it. I AM TORN...

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10:30AM
Completed a huge portion of 'Dance-Dance-Dance' last night. As I suspected, the '1 SHOT Letterning Enamel' I picked up was the perfect choice. Amazing stuff. I loved how the figures I painted looked so much, I decided to repeat them in pattern all over the work. They look amazing. So now that the background elements are finished and the work finally appears grounded, I have to figure out a way to re-centralize the composition with the 3 smaller white figures. I believe I'll combine the central figures with other elements by linking them together with silver paint. We'll see how that works itself out.
Have sneak preview passes to The Aristocrates tonight. Gonna go with Steph... should be the most obscene, disgusting, vulgar, and vile film (as well as the funniest) we've ever seen. At least thats how they bill it.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 2, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 26 (postcard)

An Outward Or Token Appearance Or Form That Separates The Limbs From The Body

4:08PM
Just finished creating my electrical schematic for 'Dance-Dance-Dance'.



I finally have real numbers to work with. Here's what I need:

(1) Fader Controller
(3) C9 Light String, 25' Length, 12" Spacing, 5 Amp, White Wire
(50) C9 Opaque (Frosted) White, 7 Watt Replacement Lamps
(50) C9 Opaque (Frosted) Red, 7 Watt Replacement Lamps

There will be a total of 66 bulbs on the work — 25 on each side and 8 top/bottom. They will alternate around the work white/red/white/red. Each color bulb will run on it's own line so a fader can be employeed. The fader allows each color blink on and off in an alternating rhythm with themselves. It can handle up to 300W per channel (2 channels). The bulbs are 7W @ 33 = 231W. This is going to work wonderfully.
There might be a little cost in doing this ($60), but what I want to try and do is not order online because the shipping is murder. I need to find somewhere local that has what I need.

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1:40PM
Just got back from PEARL... spent a little more than I wanted to, but it'll be worth it. I found an old paint I used to use a while back that is just perfect for my thick opaque coating, thin line & drip needs. It's 1 Shot Lettering Enamel and boy does this stuff work really well. It's an oil based gloss enamel that's really durable and almost totally fade resistant. The thing I really like about it is how easily it flows from the brush and that it doesn't leave any brush marks. The paint drys in 2 hours and cures within 8... unlike most household enamels. It's really amazing stuff, better than what you'd get at Home Depot and a lot more reliable. So I'll have to skip a meal or two because of this paint... it's a weird lifestyle when you choose paint over food. I'm so ready to get home and get working with this stuff. I bought 3 colors — Pure White - Bright Red - Metallic Silver. I'm not completely sure what I'll be using silver for yet, but I'm sure that it'll reveal itself after I get working.

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11:35AM
Headed out into this big world to buy myself some brushes and paints... YESH!! Gonna go hit PEARL first and then hit the hardware stores on the flip side. I think the hardware store will have paints closer to what I'm looking for... cheaper too. Have to collect these supplies today because I have a long night of work ahead of me. A long night.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
AUGUST 1, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 25 (postcard)

An Authority Who Issues The Gradual Beginning Or Coming Forth Of A Person Resembling A Lion

Slept in late today, but finally got up and began work on 'Dance-Dance-Dance'. Work and more work is what this piece needs. Everytime I look at it I see thousands of small details that need to be taken care of and I get more and more tired of it. I'm down to less than 2 weeks on this and am going to need to really get the main painting done before the weekend. Spend the entire weekend doing the electrical work on it. Then, I'll need to get it over to Spin a few days before the show starts. Going to have to pick up new paints and brushes Monday. Need paint thats gonna drip... lots of drip'n is what the painting really needs right now. A little bit of chaos to help solidify the composition.

So I slept in late today because I didn't get in until 4:30am. Went out to the Fieldhouse in Dacula to see the ohh so bewitching Mike Geier do his warm up performance for this August 13th's 'Elvis Death Day Memorial Spectacular'. Now the show at the Fieldhouse... even though the croud was of an unusual suburban persuation was electric! Geier is just one of the most captivating performers in the Atlanta area. Not only does the guy have the stage presence of a Frank Sinatra x20, but the voice to match. He is just too damn good for his own good. This show and the big one coming up at the Variety Playhouse feature the remarkable ensemble that could only be the 'Kingsized Orchestra', the sultry vocals of the 'Sweet Potato Inspirational Choir' and the flirtatious and ohh so kissable 'Dames Aflame'. The show was a hoot and people were daning all over the place... even to a few Elvis numbers that didn't make much sence to dance to. Ohh well, when people get drinks in them they do nutty things. The Dames were dance'n their asses off and the gentleman there were more than pleased to stare them down. No touching boys! Luna Luxx's little number with the big pink whore hair was out-of-sight... and the boys were really ogling over her when she hit the stage in her hot red Go-Go outfit. I videotaped a good portion of the show with Mike and Shannon's video camera. The batteries ran out early, but not before I got some great footage of Mike jumpin' over the stage railing to overtake the audience with a riviting Elvis ballad. What a fucking performer! The show wrapped up around 12:30 and after I helped Steph pack up the Dames stuff in the back of my trusty silver automobile, we bolted back to the bright lights of the big city.


Mike Geier King'n It Up

A Pear-Shaped Soundbox With Wire Strings From Which Scripture Lessons Are Chanted

5:30PM
Head out tonight. Barker just sent me this interesting email clip:

Fourteen years later I returned to Germany for the Sohm Fluxus Happening show at the Koln Kunstverein, I wanted I wanted to push a piano off a high roof and record the sound of it hitting. This became the "Yoko Ono Piano Drop."
Somehow pushing a piano off a high building seems to me to be Happening/ Event Art.
And recording it and selling tapes would be Fluxus.
Fluxus is like a chicken bone the world art dog cannot cough up. The way we saw it. Fluxus was always an "Open House," like a Saturday Night Fish Fry.
Fluxus is a Virtual Reality system where the glove doesn't work properly and the helmet doesn't fit. Other things happen than what was intended.
Scientists into bio-enginering are trying to put a flounder gene into a tomato to keep it from freezing. Sounds like Fluxus?
- Al Hansen On Fluxus

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1:51PM
PAINTING PAINTING PAINTING

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2:58AM
Suppositions, Slants & Suspicions has gone mobile as of today. Steph and I went and bought ourselves some new children at the Apple store yesterday evening. She was very adamant in stating that hers was bigger than mine too. So it is... umm yeah I can't comment on that. Two inches does make a big difference... especially if you're a woman. But I've always felt that a foot is large enough. Heck it's almost to big for me right now and I wish I was tooling around with something smaller. (grin)
Gonna begin next steps on 'Dance-Dance-Dance' tommorow morning. Hopefully I'll get a lot done. Mr. Mike and the Dames are performing tomm. night, so I'll be there enjoying myself, but away from the work. Afternoon time is crucial this weekend... need to make many big steps in the work a reality.

Mobile 02 — Out.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 30, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 24 (postcard)

A Kind Of Tenon Connecting The Face To A Rotating Device For Regulating The Flow Of A Liquid

2:58PM
So I'm still trying to figure out how 5 Laughing Skull beers and a Santa Fa burger from the Vortex costs me only $11.72. Someone needs to learn better math skills— or maybe they don't need to improve on them at all.
Did more work on 'Dance-Dance-Dance' last night and this afternoon I enlarged the drawings to use them on the work yet again. I'm gonna have to go buy some nice red and white paint now — quality free flowing oil based house paints. I don't need to much so I'll probably get the red custom mixed. Other than that, the only other supplies I will need are few new brushes and a can of silver spray paint. Also I'll need to find 4 different photos of food items and develope four Archie girls heads.
While I was sitting at the Vortex bar last night (listening to some really really drunk people carry on) I worked out a more elaborate composition for the new work. That's why I need some of these new supplies. All in all, the work as it stands right now is very boring looking and needs a lot more added to the composition.
Tonight I'm gonna hang with Steph and help her buy a new laptop... I may do the same if provoked. Would like to have one again to take around town so I can write and not have to be home on my big machine. We shall see.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 29, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 23 (postcard)
LUDWIG - Lux Red (postcard)

"It Wasn't A Date." — "It Twas A Date Lolita!"

3:33PM
Gonna head out of work early today. Nothing going on and everyone is gone at a damn Braves Baseball game. I think I'm gonna head over to Criminal Records and grab a couple magazines and get a beer at the Vortex. Got a lot of painting to do tonight but I kinda want to just hang around the town for a little while before iI go home and put in a late night. Also I want to drive around the 6 Points area a little anyways and see if there is any good grafitti to look at. I'm considering adding some spray painted sections to my 'Dance-Dance-Dance' painting, but I'm not totally sure how or even why. Thats why I want to go to somewhere like the Vortex and do some more sketching out of my ideas before I head home. I always get some pretty good ideas hanging out around that part of town... PLUS I want to wander into the Junkman and see if the have any new cheap plastic shit that I might want to buy. Might have dinner later with Steph if she's not to slammed... will have to see.
Getting back to the painting however, I'm going to begin wiring the work this Sunday. Cost is absolutly a factor. I don't want to spend to much on it especially seeing that I make no money from the work (it's for a good cause though). So far I've only spent $10 on Brilliant blue acrylic paint. I'd like to keep the cost for bulbing & wiring to under $30. We shall see if that is possible. What I really need is 2 types of small christmas like bulbs. There's a store in Atlanta called Atlanta Light Bulbs in Tucker. I'm going to try there first. Here's what I need.


(30 count) — 7-5WC7/RED 130V 7W C7 CERAMIC RED 130V 7C7 CANDELABRA BASE 7214 HALCO C7RED5C


(30 count) — 7-5WC7/WHITE 7W C7 CERAMIC WHITE 130V CANDELABRA BASE 7C7

60 total bulbs on the work @ 30¢ each — $18.00 (might even go to 80+ bulbs if I can) The real issue is finding the bulb bases and then wiring it all (but they may have some suggestions at this store). The second challange is building a circuit that makes the bulbs flash on & off in pattern. Linton says he thinks he'll be able to help me wire it all and create the circuit. So we shall see Sunday.
The other interesting component for this work is the musical score that I'm creating for it. I've been composing a few different ideas on paper of the past few days... I'm just working on a techno/dance type groove. It's gonna have a lot of vocal samples in it, a groovy hook and of course a good beat. It's going to be about 3 minutes long. When the work is displayed the music will run off my iPod, but whoever gets the work will get a CD with the music on it and they can then run the attached speaker cord into whatever they want. If I had a lot of money I'd run the music off a iPod Shuffle and leave it in the work, but I'm not spending $100 when I get nothing back. However, I think this will be a great way to do the same type of scenario in some future work. I'm headed out of here.


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1:46AM
Confidence is now, extremely high tonight. The paintings proposition is working out as planned, but because of my apprehension with the production of the work earlier tonight, it has, as the usual with my work, evolved and matured during this evenings fabrication process. It is becoming more and more Pop as my disposition with the work matures. I'm absolutly feverish about the rate in which this work is advancing, in both technique and composition. It will truely be something like I've never done before. How thrilling!!!

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 28, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 22 (postcard)
LUDWIG - Lux Blue (postcard)

Ah! The Thousand Bereavements Of The Poor Soul

Have decided that I will not post any further text pertaining to the Blue Jughead series, as this text is originally intended to be the artists statement for Spin & Gin V. I will post all pertinent text after August 12th, but not before.
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Tonight I will admit that I'm frightened with the direction 'Dance-Dance-Dance' is taking. Nevertheless, I am still going to continue with the original proposition. I have faith that from the weeks of planning, the work will pay off with the final composition I have seen in my head. But as of this moment tonight, I'm leaving the work in the hands of my preparatory ideas. I remember I had the same type of apprehension midway through some of the Richie Rich works. However, in the end, the works delivered — just as I had planned. This is the entire point behind taking the long task of carefully mapping out a works progress before it is even executed. While I am still jittery, I have complete confidence in myself.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 27, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 21 (postcard)
LUDWIG - Lux Orange (postcard)

Good Fortune... Ha! That Bitch Is Cold As Ice.

Jughead: Conjecture and the Christ Figure
(I'll post this text sometime today... ha!)

11:20AM
O.K. Rockin' — Somebody brought donuts into work just now and i was able to get a choice Chocolate Glazed with half Rainbow Jimmies. This makes up for some things so far today. It'll make a nice painting and a reminder of today as well. Shitty day (half Chocolate Glaze) — Good day (half Rainbow Jimmies).
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10:00 AM
Just cranked out a nice little set of 4 postcards to calm my nerves. Haven't made any new postcards for a good bit... these were fast and dirty, but poignant. 4 flavors in all... but you would only put it in your mouth if your said a bad word. It could make you go blind... just like Ralphie.
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8:45AM (03)
ATLANTA TEMPERATURE TODAY: 100 degrees with 79% humidity. Ohh Tuesday... Baby you know I like it hot and sticky. Can't wait to get back to that sauna of an apartment you're hooking me up with. You're aces in my book. What else you got?
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8:32AM (02)
Ahh Tuesday... girl you just like fucking me don't you. On the way into work my cars windshield was warmly greeted by a large stone. They kissed and it left a big impression. Nice big star crack on my new cars driver-side windshield and we all know how these cracks eventually like to go for a walk all over the place. All right Tuesday... you've got my attention. Keep it coming I want to see how long we can keep this little love affair going. I can go all night if you can.
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5:22AM (01)
It's early. I've just woken up. I'm hot, I'm sweating, I'm tired and I'm pissed. The temperature is not a pleasant 72*. Try adding 10* to that and then steadily add 1* every hour for who knows how long. I think to myself, "Gee, this seems too familiar". The AC unit might be fixed outside of my shitty little apartment, but can you tell my why I wake up to hear the vent sucking on water. Hmmm... lets remove the panel and have a look, shall we.



That creamy nougat looking center ain't part of a candy bar. It's an all too familiar 2" thick sheet of ice that has formed over the intake vent on my AC unit. When the AC unit can't suck in air guess what happens to the temperature. This is the same god damn fucking problem I had before. (yeah I'm gonna curse a lot... I'm hot, I'm sweating, I'm tired and I'm pissed.) The piping that goes behind the vent grate is leaking water. This water gets trapped and then frozen. It can't suck air in and the unit outside burns itself out. People think the outside unit is the proplem though. Same old story. Looks like nothing was really fixed at all. What a surprise. I told them the entire interior unit needed to be replaced because it leaked water. How quotidian this all is. How quotidian indeed.
Huhhhhh... well at least I had a pleasant weekend. Who knows how long this place this going to remain a sweltering hell hole again. Gotta go strip the bed and wash. Damnit this is frustrating. This is the last thing I wanted to worry about this morning... I'm supposed to be asleep dreaming right now. Instead, I'm filling todays post full of bullshit I didn't want here at all this week. Something out there is conspiring against me and I don’t know the reason why, but it seems to enjoy making me suffer in hot conditions. FUCK!! Boy, I am not going to be in a good mood today... I can already tell. And I’m a really nice guy too. FUCK!! Maybe I'll get a hotel room.. they stay nice and cool. If something breaks you get a different room.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 26, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 20 (postcard)
LUDWIG - Lux Pink (postcard)

On Mondays, Big Collared Shirts Work Best In The Corporate World

12:22PM
Blue Jugheads: The Anti-Situational Comedy and Tragedy

Situations deal with the conditions or positions in which you find yourself. Comedies deal with humorousness incidents or a series of incidents. Tragedies deal with events resulting in great loss and misfortune.

The Blue Jughead series asks the question — What happens when the environment you inhabit is replaced with a plenary void? How does one act and react when totally immersed in an anti-environment? How does the outside viewer interpret our actions and is it fair to add conjecture to situations that contain no evidence as to their true condition or position? Is it the actions of the individual or the conjecture of the viewer that can allow us to view the situation as a comedy or a tragedy? And finally, can we ever truly understand the conditions and positions of the individual or does this lack of environment and the viewers conjecture open this figures reality to it's entire gambit.
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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." - Werner Heisenberg
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"First they told us the world was flat. Then they told us it was round. Now they are telling us it isn't even there!" - Irving Oyle
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"By the act of observation we have selected a 'real' history out of the many realities, and once someone has seen a tree in our world it stays there even when nobody is looking at it." - John Gribbin
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There is no logical necessity for believing in one universe any more than there is for believing that Earth is the center of existence. Another interpretation of quantum physics is known as the Many Worlds interpretation. This interpretation preserves Einstein's realism with a vengeance.

Recall the experiment attempting to prove that single particles of light pass through only one channel. The result of detecting only one whole unit of energy at detector A or B was consistent with this interpretation. This interpretation was not, however, consistent with the outcome of the experiment with totally reflecting mirrors replacing detectors A and B. The Schrodinger equation depicts waves of some sort passing through both channels, and the experiment with totally reflecting mirrors demonstrates that light, as a wave that splits into two waves, is in both channels. According to the Many Worlds interpretation, there is a simple, but shocking, explanation for the final result. The Schrodinger equation depicts the radiation in both channels as real; the reason we only observe it at one detector or the other is because when a measurement is made, the world splits into two equally real worlds! When the radiation is detected at A, it has also been detected at B. We do not detect it at B because B is an event taking place in another world.

According to this interpretation, all the possibilities delineated by the Schrodinger equation are real. In making an observation of a particular possibility, we are not collapsing a wave packet or creating a reality from a number of possibilities. Rather, like a road with many forks, we are choosing a world to travel on from many possible worlds. All the alternate worlds are paths in hyperspace; they are equally real, but we are forever cut off from them. In every observation we are choosing a branch of reality. If the Copenhagen interpretation implies that nothing is real independent of observation, then the Many Worlds interpretation implies that everything is real. We do not create a universe with an act of observation; we choose a universe that is already there as a possible path.

So with the fact everything is an observable possibility and that all paths exist, it is only fitting to remove the character from his situations — the act of painting out. Thus, removing the environment allows us to open the composition of the work to the Many Worlds interpretation. The character himself does not necessarily change, he will only appear to change when we add conjecture or observation to what his physical actions seen to relate to in a limitless physical realm. Thus, we create the physical world in our minds, even though the character himself is still within the plenary void of infinite world views. This is the reality we place upon the character and ourselves. This is how the comedy and tragedy of life manifest. This is the foundation of the Blue Jughead. This is the theory behind the Adds series. — Schaefer
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REPLY TO [ tyler curtain ]:
Neck situation is exactly as it sounds — A situation that involves the neck... or in this case necks. Hence the title for this blog posting today.

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THIS WEEK ON SUPPOSITIONS, SLANTS & SUSPICIONS

MONDAY
Blue Jugheads: The Anti-Situational Comedy and Tragedy

TUESDAY
Jughead: Conjecture and the Christ Figure

WEDNESDAY
Brilliant Blue: Rationalism, Relationships to Reality and the Speed of Light

THURSDAY
The Artist: Method, Madness & the Mundane

FRIDAY
Conceptualism v. Realism: An Anti-Stuckist Argument
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Iggy Pop — FUNTIME

Fun - Hey baby we like your lips
Fun - Hey baby we like your pants
All aboard for funtime
Fun - Hey, I feel lucky tonight
Fun - I'm gonna get stoned and run around
All aboard for a funtime
Fun - Last night I was down in the lab
Fun - Talkin' to Dracula and his crew
All aboard for funtime
Fun - I don't need no heavy trips
Fun - I just do what I want to do
All aboard for funtime
Fun - Baby baby we like your lips
Fun - Baby baby we like your pants
All aboard for funtime
Fun - Everybody we want in
We want some we want some
All aboard for funtime
Fun - Baby baby we like your lips
Fun - Baby baby we like your pants
All aboard for funtime

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 25, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 19 (postcard)

So Tell Me A Story

7:18PM
Completed the final clean up to the underpainting of 'Dance-Dance-Dance' this afternoon. I'm also really happy to say I've finished all final edits on the 3 figures for the main section of the compostion. The next step will be transfering the images to the structure and then painting them. I think that instead of painting them fully, as I did the large Richie Rich work, I'll do this with automotive pinstriping paint. I want a nice clean rich thick line for these drawings. I don't want to fill the negative space with color... instead I'll let the backgrounds show through.
Headed over to pick up Steph to go to Mondo Movie night at the drive-in with Kanka and Blackmon. Blaxplotation nite!!! Can't wait, these films are gonna rock. We have the 1970's classic 'Cotton Comes to Harlem' directed by Ossie Davis and 1976's 'J.D.'s Revenge' directed by Arthur Marks. — He came back from the dead to possess a man's soul, make love to his woman, and get the Vengeance he craved! JD is gonna be so good!!! Marks also directed another on of my favorites ' Friday Foster' staring the queen herself, Pam Grier. It's gonna be a really fun night. NO RAIN HA HA!!!!

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1:10PM
Waking up and getting ready for the Drive-In tonight... very excited good moveis with even better people. I'm glad that finally there is no rain in the forcast for once. I'm going to spend a good bit of time this afternoon working on some painting and other various things. Time to paint... more later.

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Que votre intestin vous indique-t-il ? J'ai un sentiment que son
intestin indiquait la même chose. Oui... Je suis pour vrai, je
devrais avoir demandé à la même question de vous. Je sais le votre
pour vrai, tellement si vrai.
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5:13AM
It's late... Went to Trader Vic's earlier in the evening, got there around 8:30pm. The bands and the girls rocked as is their norm. The drinks were good as is the norm. Now... I've just walked in the door and although now I feel like I have a sudden burst of energy for no apparant reason, I know I need to get some Z's. Yeah... it's really late... mother always said never kiss and tell, so I won't. But I will say again that i'm sorry about the neck situation... can't help myself.

Now I Don't Mind... A Blood Bath. When I've Got Oil... On My Breeth

1:00PM
Headed over to Kanka's to hang out and work on my drawings, More later

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3:09AM
This painting is looking great... just great!!!

enamored
adj : marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her" [syn: crazy, dotty, gaga, infatuated, in love, smitten, soft on(p), taken with(p)]

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2:59AM
100% complete under-painting of Spin & Gin Blue Jughead work.... yeah it took a while and now I'm tired.. later.

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1:31AM
(NOTE TO READERS: The following is an email sent recant an emails former remark)

SAL —

Strike the word EMULATE from previous mailing and the record... it's a horrible word and categorically the wrong word.

emulate
v 1: strive to equal or match, especially by imitating; "He is emulating the skating skills of his older sister" 2: imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software 3: compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with; "This artist's drawings cannot emulate his water colors"

I'm not interested in matching or equaling anything other artists have done. The word I really would like to insert in place of it is IMBIBE.

imbibe
v 1: take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words" [syn: absorb, suck, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up] 2: take (gas, light or heat) into a solution [syn: assimilate] 3: take in liquids; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda" [syn: drink] 4: receive into the mind and retain; "Imbibe ethical principle.

Sorry that this is such a strange email, but at this point in my life (and after a few drinks) I have become very particular in the choice of words I use... especially when in relation to other artists and myself. (What a bore this message is and yes I'm a mad man... but I had to correct this).

NITE - Tom

P.S. I must post this to the blog for posterity sake... sorry

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 23, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 19 (postcard)

I'm Takin' Yer Neighbor On A Fuckin' Joy Ride

7:04PM
Just talked with Barker on the phone briefly... his title edit 'Black Betty' and explaination is forcing me to look at that series of cards in a whole different light.

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6:32PM
Just got back to my house and in my mailbox was Barker's edited first draft of our book (his half). I'm anxious to see what kind of edits he has. I began to outline a forward for the book about him a few days ago, he in tern is doing the same for me. It'll be refreshing to see the titles he chose for his works as well as any other comments he has added. I'm sure they will help guide me more in my writing about him. The book itself is still ever growing and will have another 60+ pages being added to it in the next week or so. So I'm gonna sit back with a glass of single-malt and dig in.

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3:45PM
Just got off the phone with Unisourse and have made the decision — Japan. I conclude it to be the best option. On a sad note, Unisourse let some people go and one of them was my contact for the show... I'm sure she'll find something really cool to do though. As for the show, I have a new contact and was assured that it was still on, although it might get pushed a week or two back from the original date (more time to design).
Been sittting at the office all day long translating and reformating a project into French and Spanish... what a joy that is. Sat around all day yesterday translating a killer poster I'm doing into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese. Yikes!
Counting the minutes till I can get home... haven't had a drink all week (was on the verge of a cold) so I'll treat myself tonight to something. Have lots of painting to do and everything else that goes with it.

"There is a thin line separating brilliance from madness. One must unceasingly reacquaint themselves with its' terrain" — Schaefer

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1:40AM
Well just as I predicted I'm at about the 60%-65% point with the first stage of the Spin & Gin V work. Tonight I should have the entire under-painting complete. The next stage will be the delicate transfer of my Jughead dance illustrations, which after looking at for a few days I'm not too happy with them, so I'm gonna have to rework them some more. I plan to transfer then in the same fashion I did the Richie Rich 'Concomitant Pantomime' work... fortunatly for me the drawing I have to transfer aren't as gigantic as those were. Each of the three dancing Jugheads are about 10" tall, so the transfer work will go fast. I'm going to have to hit Pearl Arts again and grab a few new brushes this afternoon to do the fine line work on each of the figures. The next step will be to add the matte and poly-gloss finishes and then it's on to the lighting. As I was sitting tonight painting, I had 'Blue Velvet' playing in the background and as Ben was doing his rendition of Candy Colored Clown, I had the crazy notion that I should put speakers that pump out music inside of this painting as well — but I'm going to have to think about that one. (What song?).
Headed to sleep in my finally nice 73* aboad... even though abode isn't the right word anymore since I'll be out so so soon. Thank god it's friday already... damn what a week. Fortunatly, for the most part, things have been going my way.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 22, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 18 (postcard)

Marking the Legs with Pirana Teeth

8:35PM
Just finished watching an absolutly fascinating film, just facinating. 'Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made'. The film follows one of my favorite directors Sam Fuller, as he and Jim Jarmusch travel into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where about forty years earlier Fuller arrived to concept and scout for a film about tigrero, a jaguar hunter. At one point in the film Fuller shows the original footage he shot of the village to it's current inhabitants. The faces the people wear when they recognize friends and family is utterly compelling. For me the most touching moment in the film is when Fuller guides Jarmusch around the village recanting old memories, as he holds him by the arm, leding him from one area to another. The variance of the two directors was also very striking to me, Fuller, 81, in his losely buttoned kabana shirt, smoking his distinguished huge cigars — Jarmusch, 40, wearing a classic Ramones t-shirt, smoking his archetypal unfiltered Lucky Strikes. While the difference in appearance between the two men is indeed arresting, the friendship and mutual admiration these two exhibit is even more evident. It's a rare thing to find two men so differnet and yet so much the same person. This film is a true gem, especially considering Fuller died four years later.
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I was up into the late hours last night working on the Blue Jughead work for Spin & Gin V. I'd say that I'm about 35% complete and by the end of tonight I'll probably be at least 60% there. The real trick is going to be the lighting mechanism that I plan to install in the work. I'm still torn as to whether I want to create a complex electrical system that allows the lights to flash on and off or if they will remain constantly lite. Time dictating and my modest electrical skills will be put to the test. I'm not sure if I can create a circuit that will do what I want but I'll be referencing my electrical engineering books from the 50's (sticking to basics) and taking my typical trial and error method before I solder together some nightmare of fire and smoke. I'm sure it will work out. In my past 2 attempts at adding light sources to my paintings I failed, but only because the light source was enclosed within the work. The heat would build up and the lights would short. This time the lights encompass the exterior, so finally I have something on my side.
Back to painting... more later.


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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 21, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 17 (postcard)

Art — Malignant Neoplastic Disease

REPLY to Contrite Kid:
Don't worry my friend... I had a ghost writer for most of that overly embellished post anyways. No harm - No foul - No apology necessary. "it was all a blur"... so true.

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BARKER WROTE:
Refined? How do you mean? We may differ on a point, which may be why we get along so differently. How about that. I believe in raw passion and raw emotion. That's why I'm drinking tequila and beer at nearly 2 a.m. and writing this e-mail. I think that one, especially an artist, should't discount the impact of raw emotion and passion over artistic endeavors which ever movement one might be involved in. It's truley been the beacon in the night that's kept me near but away from rocky shores. Ha ... that is certianly apart of Retro-consumerism. Trust me brother. It's the question of "What side of the tracks do you claim to be from?" I don't know about Atl, but the DFW is prime ground for that kind of shit ... more tequila holdasec... all right where were we? Yes, don't discount raw primal emotion. Shit is what kept stupid-crazy-smart-ass Ray Johnson going. Idea wise he never thought for a second. However, he didn't drink as much as we do.

SCHAEFER RESPONCE:
So —refined. What I was trying to impart by that reference is the idea that the work generated (at least for me) has a highly classical method about it. Meaning that the approach and method attached to the production of the work, yes, follows the primal emotion that the true artist has inside, but it's more than that. I'm pulling it all back to the initial logistics of consumer goods we find in the market place and the lengthy drawn-out processes they endure to produce that said product. Most consumer goods take months if not years to move from conception to placement in the market place. Countless people work to refine that product to it's most perfect base.
So with this in mind, if you take the 2004 Fluoride series that I've produced and trace it's steps all the way back to it's inception, to when I actually began production, there is a 6 month period I underwent, that was based on scrupulous reworking of concepts, trial and error, and consumer feedback, until I reached the point where I was ready to produce the product.
But as I stated before, (you are absolutely correct) there is also the refined side where we do deal with the primal emotion and that is evident in the other set of Retro works I've done — the Donuts. These works are not based on any of the clinical methods that the Fluorides are. They rely on raw emotional attachment all at once to the consumer goods, regardless of irregularities and imperfections. They feed on the refined sense of the artists mind to know what he likes and dislikes. The Fluorides are the refined side of the artists mind as the producer of the goods. He must recognize his likes and dislikes, but also consummate the method of production, so that the artists product not only equals, but exceeds the original.
In terms of charming, the work functions in two of charms not so obvious realms. The first and most obvious, the realm of attractiveness through tastefulness and pleasantries. The second and often over-sighted notion of attractiveness through stimulation. This means that the work could be hideous and highly objectionable to the viewer, but in causing this reaction, we create that attractiveness through stimulation. Whether positive or negative, both are charmers.
Finally on quixotic. This has been a word I've been using a lot lately to describe almost my entire body of work, even outside of the Retro works. I find that most of my works in the past 8 - 10 years have had a very lofty romantic perception placed onto them. Even with this highly classical sensibility, they all are quite on purpose "foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals" that dictate the modern bourgeois' perception of art. The work I produce is highly impulsive and ever burgeoning for no apparent reason, other than to produce more work (or product to be, when deemed approved, placed in said market place). It's like a cancer that continues to spread throughout my life. And although most see cancer as a ghastly disease, I often look at it as a highly intimate romantic notion, because after all romance is only relationship between two lovers, and what is it they say about lovers in the heat of passion — two bodies in cadence as one. That's the way I view my work. I've often told people who ask why I don't work in a studio with the simple explanation that my art is about a living experience. My art and my life are the same thing and can not be separated by a studio space 30 or even 5 minutes away from where I live. I have to live with my work and let it talk to me and spread over me like a cancer.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 20, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 16 (postcard)

Il Giallo — Bava Style

11:30PM
Retroconsumerism
The act of the artist as consumer as artist recycling, repurposing and reconnecting consumed goods into carefully controlled systems, in order to generate new consumer goods that are all at once refined, charming and quixotic. —— Schaefer

9:00PM
Sitting at home cranking away at my Blue Jughead triptych... Super 77 is all over my arms OUCH!! Also finshed placing the backing materials on the Blue Jughead 'Dance-Dance-Dance' for Spin & Gin V. Gonna get back at it and write some more later. Also watching the classic Scorsese flic 'Who's That Knocking At My Door'... Keitel is supurb in this film, one of his first and my favorite performance behind 'Mean Streets'.

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1:30AM
—— "God damn Tom... it's late. What the hell could you be doing at this hour?"
—— "Not much, you know... it's really hot here and I can't sleep as usual. Besides, there is always interesting late night email to read."
— "Ohh really?"
— "Most Surely."

So I was also watching some classic Mario Bava films earlier.. umm tonight... err on the recent post (damn this late night stuff is confusing.. yes.. glad you add time codes.. yess, me too) —— anyways and so, I was thinking about the dress again. This damn dress is going to kill me, I thought in my head. And then all of a sudden it hit me like a... ahh... well something big, Anyways, so I say, damn this dress is going to kill me and my brain goes — —BING!

Kill Me = Horror
Horror = Mario Bava
Mario Bava = Italy
Italy = Dress Country Concept
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Dress = Horror

I know that at this hour it doesn't make sence and I don't want to do some stupic dress with blood all over it because it's a totally contrived and third grade idea, also I can't, it's against the rules (paper only with no printing, painting, drawing on it)... but I still know this is a valid equation and can have some merit. Just not sure how right now. Hmmmm.... Well still can't sleep gonna cruise the net and see if I can fill my head with more Bava than I already know.

No No No No No No No... Bava is just all wrong... but something feels right. Grrrrr —— DAMN YOU UNISOURSE!!! YOU ARE HURTING MY HEAD WITH YOUR RULES... TOO SIMPLE!! I'd say I'd sleep on it, but I can't.
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OK so instead of starting with Bava I decided to do some research on the history of Italian fashion... which of course is lengthy... duhh. So in short the following is my new homework for Itailan dress design.

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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
JULY 19, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 15 (postcard)