I'd have a billy bass movie up by now but I've been struggling with the digitizing software in my laptop all day, trying to get it to read my critter and the little shit refuses to do its job, giving me error signs. I must have added some software with conflicting somethings since last time i used it and now it is all screwed up....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
For those of you who haven't been here in a couple of days, I added a gallery 9, which has most of my work from the past 6 months. You can see it HERE.Now I'm going to get a drink and forget about it for awhile, maybe paint on something.
posted by Eddie 8/18/2000 11:27:04 AM
For the first time ever, a patron came to my house the other day to pick up a piece of art. I peered out an upstairs window when I heard the knock and didn't see a Jesus fish on his car. That was a relief! I then looked at my surveillance monitor, and it didn't appear he was armed, but I kept my hand firmly on my glock anyway as i opened the door.
Adam kind of blinked at me, not sure if he should come in, but he brought his pal Kevin, so, like a couple of kids daring each other into a haunted house, they both stumbled over the threshold.
I could see they seemed a little apprehensive so I offered them my gun, told them to shoot me if things got too heavy, kissed them both, and offered them Wild Turkey. It was around 1 pm before we killed the bottle. By that time those guys were full of ideas that I was trying to write down, but when I woke up at about 7 pm, the writing didn't make any sense. The only thing I kind of remember was they said I should breen up the big mouth billy bass my wife gave me as a joke gift. So here it is!
You can see it on EBAYHERE THIS IS A MECHANICAL FISH THAT MOVES AND SINGS STANZAS OF 'TAKE ME TO THE RIVER' and 'DON"T WORRY, BE HAPPY'. Adam suggested I hack the song, but not knowing how to do that, the song remains the same! I will try to make a quick time movie of the fish in action today, and post it here later. I'll alert the Eddie list once this has been accomplished. I recycled a fish theme from one of my early paintings for this, but this came out even better in my opinion. I neglected to take a picture of the original, but there are lots of unaltered billy basses for sale on Ebay, and you can see oneHERE.
posted by Eddie 8/18/2000 07:47:56 AM
The winner of "Why Mrs. Breen should Let Eddie Hang His Art in His
Own House" has FINALLY been decided by Mrs. Breen. The winner is Kay, whose advice was to "Buy Ann beautiful, fresh cut flowers on a regular, on-going basis and do whatever the hell you want!" She will receive a free t-shirt as soon as she emails me her address.
This advice held far more persuasive power than the other arguments of the 'since you love him you must love his art' variety, which to her was like saying, since you love him you must love his dirty socks and toenail clippings which he insists on leaving in a little pile on her pillow as a not very funny joke!
Unfortunately, no one else will get a free T-shirt, but for the record, her runner up choice was Wendy, who wrote that Mrs. Breen should allow Eddie's paintings to be hung, "Because he is a pompous asshole and I (Mrs.Breen) love him!" Although Mrs. Breen fervrently believes this statement, she does not necessarily think that it should follow that this is a good reason to hang or not hang art. It simply, more or less, describes the difficult central issue and pain of her life, the albatross she must wear around her neck on a daily basis! And of course, she doesn't get any flowers with this one!
My favorite was from Cat Boy, who said Ann should let me hang the art because,"...you let her have cats!" I envision catboy living in an apartment festooned with lounging mewling cats, slamming the ktichen table with his fist while cats scatter, yelling at no one in particular, "the injustice! he lets her have cats and THIS IS HOW HE IS TREATED!"
Catboy, you're good people!
Thanks, to everybody who participated, and if you didn't win, don't worry, you can still get a free Eddie shirt. When I post my next painting, I am going to include a contest to find Eddie's butt. I am going to place a thumbnail shot of my butt(in longjohns or Ann won't take the picture) somewhere on my site. The first person to find the butt and email the jpeg back to me will win - and no previous winners will be elegible!
Also, a special thanks is due to Mrs. Breen, who really isn't as bitchy as I make her out to be, who is in fact a wonderful, loving, beautiful caring woman, a great mother, a good sport, and I love her dearly. Especially since she agreed to let me hang a painting!
posted by Eddie 8/14/2000 07:44:21 AM
