covetousness

Man, just check these out. I am floored. They are just beautiful. Were I a little richer...

the stack next to my bed

Next to my bed is an assortment of books and comix that I occasionally read before dozing off. I saw a list that Gary Panter did with roughly the same idea and felt inspired to share my current list with you.

• The Stacks by Marc Bell
• Lady Pep by Julie Doucet
• Raisin Pie #2 by Rick Altergott and Ariel Bourdeaux
• Themes and Movements: Surrealism by MaryAnn Caws
• Revenge of the Sith: Encyclopedia of Vehicles
• Tony Oursler: Drawings by Tony Oursler
• Bighead by Jeffrey Brown
• Satiro-plastic by Gary Panter, a facsimile sketchbook 1999-2001
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• Raymond Pettibon: A Reader ed. by Ghez and Temkin
• Worn Tuff Elbow by Marc Bell
• Kramer's Ergot #4 ed. by Sammy Harkham

Looking at that list now, I guess it's really mostly comix. But they are smart comix
and I'd certainly aspire to do the kind of work those people are doing.

What's next to your bed, or on your bedside table?

JCI Mail Order Brides

Claire and I saw two Eastern European mail-order brides pull into James Coney Island in their new Mercedes today. They've obviously acclimated well as they ordered with confidence and with cheese. One of them wore a white dress that was so sheer, you could see her light blue thong rather plainly. Are men really that hard-pressed to find eligible women? Maybe I've got it all wrong, but if this is the brave new world, I don't think I want to be part of it.

Gentrify me!

Gentrify me!
Originally uploaded by trickhips.

Someone in the Montrose has been hitting up the signal boxes on the corners for about a year now. I pass at least two good ones on my way to work. This one reads, "Gentrify me!" I'm curious about the artist, because your eveyday street kid doesn't know the word "gentrify." Is this a Ricer gone bad? I believe the xeroxed image in this collage is a young Jesse James, if memory of those old Time-Life commercials for the Old West books serves me correctly. Maybe they've been reading Upski? I know I have, even though I look and sound totally white-bread.

gas pump ghosts

gas pump ghosts
Originally uploaded by trickhips.

The Chevron station at West Alabama and Montrose has been closed for at least a year now. Some crafty street artist has begun to use the boxes covering the old pumps as a blank canvas for flyposting. We may not have WK Interact or Banksy in Houston, but we've got our own bit of street-level discourse. There are at least two of these ghosts, each on a pump box facing Montrose Boulevard. I think they've been silkscreened onto kraft paper and then wheat-pasted onto the box. I can't get close enough to tell.

Menil fetish

This morning, as I walked from the building to the bookstore, I saw a young woman posing provocatively in front of the museum's foyer windows. This isn't the first time this has happened. Katy and I have watched on two other separate occasions when scantily-clad ladies gyrated and posed in front of, or near, the museum . What's going on here? Are people trying to look "arty" in their soft-core porn by posing near a museum? I'm curious to know on which website these pictures will appear.

garagestudio

garagestudio
Originally uploaded by trickhips.

he view from the garage door area towards the only wallboard in the garage. Claire spent all week cleaning up and organizing things from my previous studio. the shelves in the left foreground hold tools and paintings on the opposite side. the tables were moved to the center of the space to open up more room on the walls. i plan on building a wooden grid system to mount on the cinder block wall on the right. this grid will have peg holes for hanging paintings in progress. the small opening on the right wall will house a small A/C unit.

thank you so much, sweet Claire! i love you!