the best break up songs that won't necessarily make you want to kill yourself

In my recent predicament, here are my top 5 break up songs.

5
Standard.



4
"Shit, they still owe you money fool!" oh Aretha, why are you so fat now?



3 This is when you realise it's ok to break up. I guess.



2
J Giles band saying it like it is.


1 less cliched than 'I Will Survive'

Fight Night

An actual thing. Video to follow soon.

pens

Lauren Socha

Oh my.

Bought

This:

Shiny.

From http://www.stevenbarrett.org/

PIG UPDATE TWO

It now looks less like a duck.

It looks like a wolf.

I am not good at making things look like what they mean to be.

PIG UPDATE

It looks like a sodding duck.

This really has been a "learning while doing" time for me. Here's hoping it turns out to look like a pig.

Big Draw 2010

I didn't salvage any work done from this year's big draw. I did however, end up with about 20 sketchbooks and some unwanted paint pallets... so that's that.

Above is the Guardian's entry from the Battle of the Cartoonists. Who's that stunning hungover looking volunteer on the left holding it?

I shamelessly pinched this image which is probably why blogger won't let me resize it.

In Pig News:

I'm building a pig. I don't know why.

It's probably because I'm not eating bacon at the moment.

Frieze, sucka.

I went to Frieze, it was full of gallery people and Boris Johnson. I hated most of the paintings. Frustrated Expressionist seems to be in. I got told off by David Shrigley's gallery rep for not having emailed the artist to ask for permission before getting one of his doodles on my arm.

Here are some pictures of what I liked.

bit of Shrigley

bit of Pettibon

William Copley

bit more Shrigley

Rob Pruitt

Evan Holloway

Andy Hope- 'Robin Dostoyevsky' and some men

Urs Fischer. Should make use of my crutches come to think of it.

Close up of a Rachel Harrison.

Ermin Wurm

And another

DO THE WURM

Nari Ward, 'Charging Bull' GEDDIT? GEDDIT?

Ernesto Neto

Wall o' Shrig.

And there it is.

I'm not feeling well.

I think I need some oinkment.

I have pigs on the brain.

send help.

What's this?

A dead one of These:

Dis iz wot marsks look like

latex. is. fun.

Bisset Family Portrait

60x36", acrylic on canvas. Bloody glad it's done. Now just have to figure out how to get it down to the seaside without destruction.

Mild Britannia

"I'm Dead", David Shrigley, 2007

I'm still working on the family portrait, but have been side tracked by a trip to the Tate. I went to check out a "Comedy Art Forum" last week hosted by co curator of the Tate's "Rude Britanna" exhibition, Harry Hill (who guest curated the show's "Absurd" room), Sean Lock and Gail Tuesday.

The talk itself was fantastic, I went mainly because humour in British art is what I'm planning on writing my thesis on (which at this point is 7000 words of knock knock jokes). I don't think I learnt anything or gained any insight into the relationship between comedy and art, but it was a laugh all the same. There were faint grumbles from several audience members about how disorganised the talk was and how they hadn't learnt anything. But really, what did they expect? Cedar Lewisohn was stumbling and unprepared, add to that 3 comedians who took glee in running rings around him and in my opinion, you get an entertaining night out.

I did try to ask a question regarding the link between humour and British art, but it was met with blank stares and open mouths. Possibly because I'm not the most articulate person when it comes to public speaking, possibly because it followed a question about whether any of the panel were on Twitter or not.

Yeah, it really wan't a talk dedicated to education.

Luckily, after a wander round the exhibition a couple of days later, I found an answer in the show's catalogue:

"It strikes me that a lot of humour and art is a reaction of laughter or a smile. Some art, to me anyway, seems to be a joke. There is kind of a deliberate gag to it which sometimes artists fight and say that isn't their intention." Harry Hill

So That's that then. (there's more obviously but I'm saving that for the thesis).

Onto the exhibition itself. I feel bad about saying this, I really do, but it was kind of a let down. There were rooms I really enjoyed such as the "Bawdy" room containing several Sarah Lucas pieces; the grotesque pieces in the Satire room, and the huge Cruikshank painting of 'The Worship of Bacchus. Individually, the pieces shone, however the exhibition as a whole felt lack lustre and shambled together. It wasn't really sure what it was trying to do. The history of humour in British art spans over centuries and compacting it into 5 rooms didn't really do it any justice.

Or perhaps I'm just a prude, who can't take a joke.

I'm planning on returning to the exhibition this week, a second viewing may change my mind completely. Despite how dissapointed I was, I'd recommend going to see it. Although it seemed confused as to what it's purpose was as a show, it did get a laugh or two.

Prrrrrogess.

This is how I've gotten on so far. Bless my Dad for being the only person alive willing to pay money for my work (I feel bad about charging him but I have bills to pay. I am aware of how awful a daughter I am).

So that's us looking lovely. It's nowhere near finished yet but should hopefully be done in the next few days. I'm varnishing it too, something I've never done before. I'll most likely cock it up so I'll be sure to take lots of photos of what it looks like before the varnish massacre happens.

The Beginnings of the Bisset Family Portrait

I've never painted my family before. This is all rather exciting.

Very late post regarding self portrait with burgers

And that's what it looked like.

Hooray!

more of that

Self portrait with burgers

I made a film today

and soon I'll stick it on here.

bitter glitter

Currently waiting for latex to dry so I can start wearing some fetching masks I've made. I wanted to see if there was an alternative to painting my face, latex is the way forward. I've convince a couple of guys to wear these next week, possibly along with some granny dresses. Photos and videos to follow.

get the london look.

doodles

been quiet lately. here are some drawings of Joan and Liza.