Got bestiality? Some great paintings by Karel Appel.
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35 Pet Hates:
1. Shoulder-padded women's jackets.
2. Shorts.
3. T-shirts.
4. Football.
5. Children wearing football shirts.
6. Purely derivative art.
7. Computer games.
8. The absence of half my favourite words from modern dictionaries (and, by inference, the presence instead of risable contemporary ones).
9. Most piercings, but especially nipple ones. It's a damn shame.
10. My dad's beer belly.
11. T.V.
12. Phones.
13. Modern houses.
14. Money.
15. Middle grounds.
16. Naive modern translations of the bible.
17. Make-up.
18. Dust-jackets on non-fabric-bound books.
19. Extremely plucked eyebrows.
20. The radio.
21. Books with end-notes instead of foot-notes.
22. The smell that comes off newspapers when they've been sitting in the sun indoors
23. Indiscriminate car-horn peepers (twats).
24. Most noises, especially man-made ones. I've been known to fly into (hopefully cute) 10-second rages if the phone rings more than once in the space of a day. And God help you if you make a noise when I'm trying to sleep. God help you I say. Especially if it's early morning, and I've got a stiffy
25. Litter.
26. Contemporary trendy British male high-street fashion and haircuts.
27. Bestsellers.
28. News programmes and papers.
29. Cluttered rooms.
30. Fantasy novels that use anything from folk tales for their own pretentious ends.
31. When people try to talk to me when I'm typing/writing, painting/drawing, reading, or when I'm watching something on the box.
32. Fake boobs.
33. Fakeness in general.
34. Pedantic art.
35. Clocks.
35 Pet Loves:
1. Hyphens/hyphenated words.
2. Old-fashioned, high-waisted trousers with lots of leg-room.
3. Felt.
4. Wool.
5. Woolen clothes.
6. Wood.
7. Things carved from wood.
8. Women in long, pleated skirts made from thick fabric.
9. Hand tattoos.
10. Pencils.
11. Helium balloons (they go up all by themselves!!)
12. Women with really long hair.
13. Sneezing.
14. Old-style bricks.
15. Paper.
16. Old-fashioned earrings, especially gold hoops.
17. Being wrapped-up warm on cold days.
18. Freckles.
19. My Grandma's anecdotes (more than a pet love, really).
20. Being nosey.
21. All things bawdy and ribald.
22. Train journeys.
23. Attractive women with sideburns.
24. Brushing my teeth.
25. Puns.
26. This joke: "Woman walks into a bar. Asks the barman for a double entendre. So he gives her one".
27. Clay chimney pots in the orange light of the setting sun.
28. Buttons (on clothes).
29. Tools of all kinds.
30. Being greeted by strangers when out walking.
31. Cardboard boxes (preferably brown).
32. Penknives.
33. Noticing the moon suddenly.
34. Russian dolls (Matroyoshka).
35. Double things (twins, diptychs, stereotype photographs, double phrases, boobs....).
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35 Pet Hates:
1. Shoulder-padded women's jackets.
2. Shorts.
3. T-shirts.
4. Football.
5. Children wearing football shirts.
6. Purely derivative art.
7. Computer games.
8. The absence of half my favourite words from modern dictionaries (and, by inference, the presence instead of risable contemporary ones).
9. Most piercings, but especially nipple ones. It's a damn shame.
10. My dad's beer belly.
11. T.V.
12. Phones.
13. Modern houses.
14. Money.
15. Middle grounds.
16. Naive modern translations of the bible.
17. Make-up.
18. Dust-jackets on non-fabric-bound books.
19. Extremely plucked eyebrows.
20. The radio.
21. Books with end-notes instead of foot-notes.
22. The smell that comes off newspapers when they've been sitting in the sun indoors
23. Indiscriminate car-horn peepers (twats).
24. Most noises, especially man-made ones. I've been known to fly into (hopefully cute) 10-second rages if the phone rings more than once in the space of a day. And God help you if you make a noise when I'm trying to sleep. God help you I say. Especially if it's early morning, and I've got a stiffy
25. Litter.
26. Contemporary trendy British male high-street fashion and haircuts.
27. Bestsellers.
28. News programmes and papers.
29. Cluttered rooms.
30. Fantasy novels that use anything from folk tales for their own pretentious ends.
31. When people try to talk to me when I'm typing/writing, painting/drawing, reading, or when I'm watching something on the box.
32. Fake boobs.
33. Fakeness in general.
34. Pedantic art.
35. Clocks.
35 Pet Loves:
1. Hyphens/hyphenated words.
2. Old-fashioned, high-waisted trousers with lots of leg-room.
3. Felt.
4. Wool.
5. Woolen clothes.
6. Wood.
7. Things carved from wood.
8. Women in long, pleated skirts made from thick fabric.
9. Hand tattoos.
10. Pencils.
11. Helium balloons (they go up all by themselves!!)
12. Women with really long hair.
13. Sneezing.
14. Old-style bricks.
15. Paper.
16. Old-fashioned earrings, especially gold hoops.
17. Being wrapped-up warm on cold days.
18. Freckles.
19. My Grandma's anecdotes (more than a pet love, really).
20. Being nosey.
21. All things bawdy and ribald.
22. Train journeys.
23. Attractive women with sideburns.
24. Brushing my teeth.
25. Puns.
26. This joke: "Woman walks into a bar. Asks the barman for a double entendre. So he gives her one".
27. Clay chimney pots in the orange light of the setting sun.
28. Buttons (on clothes).
29. Tools of all kinds.
30. Being greeted by strangers when out walking.
31. Cardboard boxes (preferably brown).
32. Penknives.
33. Noticing the moon suddenly.
34. Russian dolls (Matroyoshka).
35. Double things (twins, diptychs, stereotype photographs, double phrases, boobs....).
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love the Appel pieces. how proud the parents must be! sarcasm aside, they're very striking, and kinda gleefully rebellious.
Bouville - received some photocopied sketches from Faith the other day (in the post; she's moved to bloody Brighton) and they're looking good so i've asked for the originals to scan. looks like we won't be going live til August, but it's worh it to have Faith involved again.
bestiality and lists - a good combination for any journal entry, i think, especially where listing pet peeves is concerned. i think i might do some listing of such things myself next journal, of course the 'peeves' will be a longer list than the loves list, no matter how hard i may try to make them of equal length - you get grumpier and more cynical as you get older, or at least i have, and think most of the world has gone down the toilet since the early nineties - internet, cheap flights and the ability to download music instead of having to buy albums to for one song you happen to like by a band. . . 'it's not like it used to be,' as i'm often heard chiming.
funnily enough, most of your pet peeves match some of my many. i've alwyas hated phones, laterally in dundee, i got a lot of telemarketers calling me up, to the point that for the last six months or so, i just never plugged my phone in unless i was going to call someone. interruptions of any kind, i have a problem with - phonecalls are part of that, but likewise, i can't stand someone trying to talk to me when i'm writing or painting - i basically have to stop, and generally, glare at the person doing the talking until they go away. sofie basically knew me well enough by a year ago to know that if i'm painting, she has to go be in another room, or out of the flat completely, but yeah. . . i'm one of those people who just can't focus on doing something with people hanging around distracting me.
i stopped listening to the radio - in the uk at least - in about 1992. and at that point, i was only listening to radio 2.
as for middle grounds. . . you would hate people here - no nation on earth loves sitting on the fence more than the swedish do, it's almost like they're incapable of having a clear on concise opinon, as if it's wrong to strongly feel one way or another, they have to be smack bang in the middle so as not to offend anyone. . . that pisses me off, mostly because i respect people with strong opinions most, people who're passionate about what they think, and believe in - and sitting on the fence just shows. . . i don't know, a lack of conviction.
end notes on books - ditto. when i get to the end of a book, i'm done, i don't want to read so dissection of what i've just finished reading.
and fake boobs. . . yeah. there have been a few sets with those gone up lately. sort of cringe-inducing, really. each to their own, but i just think overly enlarged boobs look bloody awful. i'd rather have a girl with no boobs at all - know what i mean?
ah well, enough of my rambling. how'd the skizzenbuch?