RSOE Review on Gapers Block

There is a very detailed write-up of my Ritualistic School of Errors CD/DVD/Book set on the Chicago-centric blog Gaper's Block.

A Couple New LLG Videos

Here are a couple new videos of my band's performance the other week at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.


Lovely Little Girls - Half-Used Vlva!


Lovely Little Girls - Wretched Substitute

We have a couple shows coming up this month in Chicago:

August 14th at The Double Door
1572 N. Milwaukee
with The Conformists & Magic Lantern (Mark Shippy from US Maple's new band!)

August 23 at Enemy
1550 North Milwaukee 3rd floor
with Fat Worm of Error, Youth of the Beast, Animal Law

Hope to see you there!

New Paintings

Here are a couple new paintings:


Flesh Flora Heap


Flapping Folds Adhered to Face and Neck

Lovely Little Girls - CD Release Show at Empty Bottle July 24

Lovely Little Girls CD Release Show at Empty Bottle - July 24th
1035 N. Western, Chicago - 9:30 - w/ Electric Set & Mark Solotroff

We will be playing a suite of our extra-fancy new material with special guests Melissa Colbert of Jitney on backup vocals and Alan from The Bitter Tears on trumpet and bass clarinet. We guar·an·tee absolute entertainment and a one of a kind show featuring smothering convulsions such as:

Wide Mouth Penetrated Makeshift Mustache Man!

Half-Used Vulva!

Faint Pungency!

Pale Pink Pancake Punching Bag!

Wretched Substitute!

Lovely Little Girls website

The photo above was taken by Adam Hoff from one of our shows.

Some New Work

Here are three of the five new pieces I recently finished...


Strangled Dehydrated Apricot Head With Pastry Attached


Fermenting Head and Torso Aggregation


Festive Shit-Pile

Thinkspace Opening

The Art Dorks LA show at Thinkspace Gallery opened on Friday. I was not there, but it looked like a blast.

Artists featured are: Shawn Barber, Robert Hardgrave, Travis Louie, Brendan Danielsson, Chris Ryniak, Meagan Ridley, Kate Ridley, Dave Chung, Anthony Pontius, Kim Scott, Jeremy Pruitt, Gregory Jacobsen, Chris Mostyn, Matthew Pasquarello, Justin DeGarmo, Joseph Daniel Fiedler, Mark Elliott, Heiko Mueller, Jason Murphy, Johnny Yanok, Colin Johnson, Kristian Olson, John Casey, and Jad Fair.

Thinkspace is located at: 4210 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. The show runs through July 6th. Go to the website for more info.

Opening night photos can be found here, here, and here.

My Ramshackle Studio

A gallery I am showing at asked for some studio pictures to be included on their website. So here you get to see my tiny little studio. It's actually just an extra bedroom in my apartment. It's really all I need as I have been working a bit smaller lately....which I actually hate because all I do is sit cross-legged in that hard chair twiddling away at the painting on my lap. Good thing I'm still young and verile or else I would have an ass full of hemorrhoids and legs full of vericose veins...but I'm sure that's all on the way very shortly.



The third picture is of the only window in the room. Yet another light shaft in a shitty Chicago apartment for the pigeons to squat and shit in. The summer months are coming, but I don't dare to open that fucking window.

Ritualistic School Of Errors - Edinburg Castle - San Francisco 2006

Here is a performance I did last year in San Francisco...reviving my old performance/noise group Ritualistic School Of Errors. Loach Fillet, Drew Zeigler, Sharkiface and Froth Fingers lent their talents to the night's jubilee. Video by Brutallo.



The show was a part of the Resipscent Records release party. There was a little write up in the SF Weekly by Mike Rowell ...

When Chicago-based performance group the Ritualistic School of Errors made its West Coast debut at Edinburgh Castle recently, it was quite the spectacle. Fronted by artist Gregory Jacobsen, the troupe of strangely clad, masked freaks careened through a circus of off-kilter music, spasmodic dancing, and bizarre behavior, with one member liberally smearing his face with spaghetti.

The occasion was the release party for the Ritualistic School of Errors CD/DVD on Resipiscent; packaged with a book of Jacobsen's unsettling art, it's one of seven new releases on the label. Others include CDs by local noise outfits Earwicker, Tarantism, and Critical Monkey, all of which turned in mind-melting sets that evening.



Resipiscent (meaning returning to one's senses) was founded last year by Austin transplant James Decker and longtime local Thomas Day, lead member of Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet. The indie has spurt forth 19 unusual-sounding, innovatively designed recordings thus far. First release Quarry Tones by Oakland trumpeter Liz Allbee features exquisite compositions and comes in a variety of containers handmade by the artist. Quaak Muttar from Bay Area stalwart Bran (...) Pos is encased in a fully functional miniature pinball game, and features 50 bewildering tracks, most of which are only a few seconds in length.

Other Resipiscent offerings include the electronic-blizzard solo work of Comets on Fire Echoplex-meister Noel Von Harmonson and a 3-inch CD of mesmerizing clangor pounded out on bongs and bent silverware by the Pacific Northwest's mysterious At Jennie Richie. Seven East and West Coast noisemakers collaborate as duos on Mutual Hallucinations Vol. 1, with the kaleidoscopic first track being a sort of sonic exquisite corpse as each musician takes a two-minute turn. The entire album's a heady trip, and a convenient introduction to both the label and several members of its roster.

But the best place to start an exploration of Resipiscent's offerings is the double-disc String of Artifacts compilation (co-released with Oakland's Fish Pies label), which features 35 artists and serves as a good state-of-the-noise primer. Hearing it, one realizes how dynamic the genre is these days, and not just a wall of din.



The first self-titled Ritualistic School Of Errors CD/DVD/Book set is still available from Resipiscent. It chronicles five or six years of my early crap-tastic performances as well as a few film collaborations. Order it HERE!

I am slowly working on a new Ritualistic school Of Errors CD. It's taking a long time- especially with the ridiculous painting deadlines I have. Here is a portion of a recent piece...

Ritualistic School Of Errors - Heaps (excerpt)

Lovely Little Girls - Glamorous Piles & Puffy Saddlebags CD Out Now!

An epic six song journey of grotesque proportions. The CD also contains a ten minute video of an opulent live show featuring a gaggle of girls gagging on spagetti. Crotch sandwich cover painting by Gregory Jacobsen!

You can order the CD through APOP records for $10. Go to their Myspace page if that's easier for you.

Listen to Creeping Things Dig Slowly



A review from Z-Gun.com

To look at one of Gregory Jacobsen’s paintings is to view a world of oozing fluid, hilarious meat, and demented animals. Set that vision to music and you get Lovely Little Girls, the band Jacobsen fronts. LLG walks a path of which the foundation is dada, psychedelics, and Beefheart, one that has been trod by Butthole Surfers, Tragic Mulatto, and Idiot Flesh. Swirling sickness of songs are propelled by Eleanor Balson, a drummer whose style creates more than a beat while maintaining a beat. There is an insight that female drummers seem to have (think Katherina Ex or Mary Duchess of Saigon) that leads them to a place where the drum steps outside of 1-2-3-4 but not into Mathland. Also a standout is Alex Perkolup, who plays a guitar that razors noise into piercing fragments, a crack horn section, and Gregory J., singing lines like “Pork chop sloshed tight in the pants/bottom smack chest chop soft port pants” in a style that could be called Jack Brewer directed by Roger Corman. At twenty-minutes Glamorous Piles… is as exactly as long as it should be. Those who can slither into this filth and feel at home will be very much rewarded. --SS


A video from a show at the Empty Bottle last year-more of this video is featured on the CD

...and here's a nice review from Tom Smith of To Live & Shave In LA regarding the show we played together last week...

Gregory Jacobsen's group Lovely Little Girls were superb, by the way. Their crazed crossbreeding of Brechtian narrative menace and Zappa/zuehl theatrics was a bracing rejoinder to just about anything you'd care to name...

Thanks Tom!

Lovely Little Girls Website - Lovely Little Girls Myspace

Art Dorks Relauched

The Art Dorks Collective site is back up with a spiffy new design by web-design genius and master of scraggly hair and flappy flesh painter Brendan Danielsson.

Many fantastic works are to be found here by Shawn Barber, Mike Burnett, David Chung, Brendan Danielsson, Justin DeGarmo, Mark Elliott, Jad Fair, Joseph Daniel Fiedler, Robert Hardgrave, Travis Louie, Chris Mostyn, Heiko Müller, Jason Murphy, Matt Pasquarello, Anthony Pontius, Jeremy Pruitt, Katie Ridley, Meagen Ridley, Chris Ryniak, Kim Scott, Johnny Yanok and myself.

Complicated Horse Emergency

If you're in Chicago this weekend- make sure to go to Bridgeport to see the grand unvieling of COMPLICATED HORSE EMERGENCY...a performance and installation by my good friend/collaborator Drew Ziegler along with Randal Cristopher Bailey. Unfortunately I'm not going to be there!



Complicated Horse Emergency Presents “Time Never Stops”, an installation / performance / musical play written and directed by Gary Gluey (Drew Ziegler) and Buckthorn Gaylord (Randal Bailey). The story takes place in the alternate universe of Squeem Valley which is reached by traveling through the Sparkly Protectoid. Upon entering the players will find themselves at the border of the villages of “Whispery Trickles” and “Florb”. On the chosen day, at a time deemed suitable by someone, interdimensional travelers may, should they choose to do so, attend the Mr. Most Smartest Awards of 2035, an annual celebratory competition held between the two villages where delinquent girls, mutants, lunatics, Phil Collins, Phil Collins, Phil Collins, Phil Collins, retards, demons, Phil Collins and various royalty all converge in musical play fashion in order to determine which residents of said villages are the most bestest at stuff.


This is a video of a performance Drew put on last year called Egg Baloney Pardon Me Calypso Germ Food Booth Mumu. That is me flopping around in the diaper.

The performance will be on Saturday night at 32nd Place & Morgan - 9 o'clock...$10 Donation. The night also includes the Nina Hagen influenced Brilliant Pebbles.

And hey! My band Lovely Little Girls will be playing tonight! At the same place!

Plin-Tub Zeke Bazaar

Belgian publisher/serigraph house Plin-Tub ran three black and white images in their beautiful new collection Zeke Bazaar. It's a double issue packed full of fantastic artists such as Craoman, Gnot Guedin, Mike Diana, Benjamin Marra, Elzo...along with many others.



Follow the links above for ordering, yadda yadda yadda. Look forward to a Plin-Tub collaboration in the coming months.

A Face Of Flapping Folds!

To Live and Shave in L.A. - Les Tricoteuses - CD Cover

The new CD from To Live and Shave in LA with my cover art is now out on the fantastic French record label, Savage Land. I had a good time working with Tom Smith conceptualizing the cover...it was a perfect match- Tom's lyrics bulge with hilariously grotesque images and ideas.



To Live and Shave in LA is a long-running noise band founded by Tom Smith and Rat Bastard. Over the years, TLASILA's roster has included such liminaries as Don Flemming, Thurston Moore, Weasel Walter, Andrew WK, Ben Wolcott and Nandor Nevai. Their sound is a thick mesh of noise and oscillations minutely recombined into stuttering epics narrated by Tom Smith's tortured warble.

Les Tricoteuses is a release that has been gathering dust in the vaults for some time. Here is a bit about it from the Savage Land website...

To Live and Shave in L.A.’s An Interview with the Mitchell Brothers, the album written, tracked, mixed, and mastered in a day (on a dare from Audible Hiss president Ned Hayden), was nonetheless researched extensively prior to its August 14, 1995 recording. As the World Wide Web was in its consumer nascence, the bulk of composer Tom Smith’s investigations derived from books found in his own library (especially Kenneth Turan’s 1974 history Sinema), and faded, seldom viewed Mitchell Brothers videotapes rented from an adult film warehouse. From these sources, Smith wove a claustrophobic Todesbericht; the music Ben Wolcott, Rat Bastard and he crafted to accompany the libretto was equally obliterative. The resultant album was dimly received, scarcely recognized at all. With its grim, fratricidal narrative, unforgiving sonic crush, and liner note screed (penned by Ugly American editor Greg Chapman and Smith) declaring genre obsolete and noise passé (remember that this was 1995, long before the culture of din had coalesced or its products and personalities had achieved any sort of mainstream recognition), one can only imagine the bewilderment and disquiet M. Bros. engendered.



Smith was ultimately unhappy with the necessarily rushed effort, and in 1997 sought to craft a textual corollary to Mitchell Brothers. In shifting narrative focus from the San Fernando Valley of the 1970s to the gates of the Bastille in 1790s France, he reversed the gender of his voyeuristic antagonists. Les Tricoteuses was not only an expansive, dubwise reassessment of M. Bros., but an obsessively redacted dialogue about its year-long re-enactment. Thus, the titular conceit, and the layers of narrative foreboding ensnarled within meters of yarn and millions of feet of sixteen-millimeter film.



Les Tricoteuses was to have been issued by the long-dead Climax imprint in late 1997. It has languished in the TLASILA archive for nearly a decade.

Savage Land is pleased to at last present To Live and Shave in L.A.’s extraordinarily rigorous meta-narrative (and, like it or not, noise-dub deconstruction), Les Tricoteuses.



You can order the CD from Savage Land. You can also catch To Live and Shave in LA in your town this May! Check the TLASILA Myspace page for tour dates.

Listen to TLASILA's Gash Of The Nomenclature

Artension Magazine

There is a little article and two page spread of my work in the most recent issue of French outsider art magazine Artension. With my three years of near failing grades in high school French, I only have a vague idea of what the article says.

Click here for a gaggle of other reviews and articles of my work over the past years.

Fatty Jubbo WFMU.ORG Playlist for 4/5/7

I occasionally do web shows on wfmu.org. This is the playlist for this month's edition. The RealAudio archive stays up forever, while the 128K MP3 archive remains active for two weeks. All of my other playlists can be accessed HERE.

Playlist for Fatty Jubbo (Gregory Jacobsen) - April 5, 2007
WFMU 91.1fm 90.1fm wfmu.org

April 5, 2007: Dog Biscuits! In My Mouth! Big Pieces!
Listen to this show at http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=22637&archive=34340 (RealAudio)
Listen to this show at http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=22637&archive=34341 (MP3 (128K))

Artist - "Song" - Album [Comments]


Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone - "Rag Nuziale" - Il Trio Infernale
Manny From Belize - "Greatest Belizian Hero"
Women Of The SS - "How Dare You Fuck Me" - Private Edition Cassette
Olivier Messiaen - "Abime des Oiseaux" - Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
Ogden Nash - "Everybody Eats Too Much" - The Fanciful World Of Ogden Nash
Leona Anderson - "Fish" - Ernie Kovac Collection
Olivier Messiaen - "Premi Re Pi Ce En Trio" - Complete Organ Works
Jane Philbrick - "Oh God!" - UBU archives
Mucca Pazza - "Alarm!" - A Little Marching Band
Baadztmaru - "Amoureix Solitaires" - from their myspace page [http://www.myspace.com/baadztmaruuuu]
Dirty Fan Male - "Martin's First Letter" - Dirty Fan Male
John Cage - "Sonata IV" - Prepared Piano Works


Varonica Lucan of Our Lady Of The Roses

Ken Dodd & His Diddy Men - "Doddy's Diddy Party"
Gershon Kingsley & Peter Waldron - "Goblin Dance" - Ghostly Sounds
Sun City Girls - "It's Underneath The House" - Horse Cock Phepner
Veronica Lucan & Our Lady Of The Roses - "DOG BISCUITS! IN MY MOUTH! BIG PIECES!" - These Last Days Radio Program
Let My People Come Soundtrack - "Come In My Mouth" - Original Cast Recording
Harry Partch - "We'll Sue For A Million" - Harry Partch Collection Three
Malaria - "Zara" - 1981-1984


Doodles Weaver as The Pied Piper Of Hamelin

Jiminy Cricket & Rica Moore - "The Cannibal Song" - Walt Disney Addition And Subtraction Record
Japanese TV Theme - "???" - ???
Iannis Xenakis - "Les Choephores" - Oresteia
Little Girl Sings - "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" - Found Cassette
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - "Pam In Bone Room" - Soundtrack And Clips
Makigami Koichi - "Mukuge" - Kuchinoha
Doodles Weaver - "Home On The Range" - Feetlebaum Returns!
Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry - "Strette" - Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul
Joe Frank - "Ambulance Driver" - In The Middle Of Nowhere (excerpt)
Expo - "???" - Do The Expo!


Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Unknown Marching Band - "Bubble Bobble"
Lord Love A Duck - "Shopping For Cashmere Sweaters" - clip from the film
Raymond Scott - "Powerhouse" - Reckless Nights & Turkish Twighlights
Klause Kinski - "Temper Tantrum At A Press Conference" - Video Clip
Toru Takemitsu - "2" - Early Japanese Tape Music
Art Bears - "The Dividing Line" - Hopes And Fears
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - "Immmmmmmmm" - Bap-Tizum
Elizabeth Claire Prophet - "Call For Protection" - American Doomsday Cults Volume 14
Conlin Nancarrow - "Study For Player Piano #19" - Studies For Player Piano Volume Four


Klaus Kinski

O5O el rO+O - "???" - from their myspace page... [http://www.myspace.com/osoelroto]
Edith Hillmaman Boxhill & Friends - "People In Your Neighborhood" - You're A Star! Special Music By Special People!
György Ligeti - "Hurray! Hurray! My Wife Is Dead!" - Le Grand Macabre
Locus Solus - "Don't Switch" - Locus Solus
Temple Kazoo Orchestra - "2001 Sprach Kazoostra" - Some Kazoos
Baka Forest People - "Solo Voice" - Heart Of The Forest
Celtic Frost - "Human (intro)" - Morbid Tales
Egyptian Lover - "You're So Fine" - King Of Ectasy
Henri Chopin - "La Fusée Interplanétaire" - OU Review Disc One
16-17 - "Kat" - Hardkore & Buffbunker
Klause Kinski - "Amerika" - UBU Archives
Unknown Bulgarian Chalga - "Darth Vader Luke Skywalker"
Albert Marcoeur - "Tu Tapes Trop Fort" - Albert Marcoeur


David Moss

Larry - "Roman Guitar" - Larry
Marie The Magic Weaver - "Military Man Helps The Baby Bears" - YouTube Clip! [- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW1D94y5u8I]
Alexey Ribnikov - "Vertolet (Shla Sobaka Po Royalu)" - Easy Listening Russia
Jim Cuomo - "Cage Match" - Commodore 64 Awful Game Song
Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - "RKBA 1675/I" - Gruppo di Improvvisazione
Chris Watson - "Hippopotami Emerging From River Mara At Dusk" - Outside the Circle of Fire
Commode Minstrels In Bullface - "???" - Jolly Crodder Gang
Bill Brown & His Brownies - "Hot Lips" - Down In The Basement - Joe Brussard's Treasure Trove Of 78s
Sergey Kuryokhin & David Moss - "Tea For Two" - Tea For Two
1971 Japanese Cast Of Hair - "Donna" - Hair In Japanese [get it at ye' ol' blogge: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/11/hair_in_japanes.html]
Jaap Blonk/Koichi Makigami/Paul Dutton/Phil Minton/David Moss - "Nosing Around" - Five Men Singing
Sofia Gubaidulina - "Musical Toys, XIII The Drummer" - The Complete Piano Music

Frank Zappa - "America Drinks" - Absolutely Free
Frank W. Fromy - "Beata Delores" - Quatre Axes Mutants
Frank Sinatra - "World War None" - Trilogy
Frank Comstock - "Out Of This World" - Music From Outer Space
Frank Chickens - "We Are Ninja (Not Giesha)" - We Are Frank Chickens
Frank Wuyts & Geoff Leigh - "Home Sweet Home" - From Here To Drums

Fatty Jubbo playlists: http://wfmu.org/playlists/FJ
RSS feeds for Fatty Jubbo's show:
Playlists RSS: http://wfmu.org/playlistfeed/FJ.xml
Realaudio archives RSS: http://wfmu.org/archivefeed/real/FJ.xml
MP3 archives RSS: http://wfmu.org/archivefeed/mp3/FJ.xml

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Perfect Sound Forever Interview

There is an interview with me in this month's edition of Perfect Sound Forever. I'm honored to be featured in this fantastic long-running online avant-music journal. Read the interview here!

Some other recent interviews:

School Of The Art Institute "F" magazine - har har...my ol' alma mater.
Dusted Magazine - my list and ruminations of my top ten favorite recordings.

Catherine Ringer

Catherine Ringer...one half of the French pop group Les Rita Mitsouko. They had some big new wave hits in the ‘80s. I was unaware of Les Rita until I was trawling around on YouTube for videos of Sparks and came upon a video of a collaboration of the two groups:

Unfortunately the video has been taken down.

My jaw immediately dropped when this Catherine Ringer woman came on the screen. Really unexplainable movements and a look in her eye that was possessed. Jesus- and she’s beautiful. Just look at this video for their song “Marcia Balla”

Look at those serpentine movements!

I did some searching on her and found out she did some pretty amazing porn in the ‘70s along with some avant-garde theatre work. Her porn is pretty stunning in itself- a lot of shots of fucking a broom, shitting in a guy’s mouth…but through it all she exhibits a strange sense of humor that can also be found in the Les Rita Mitsouko work. I would post these pictures but I know they would be hotlinked to shit. But here is another stunning video from the group:

Mollusk Magazine

German/French magazine Mollusk recently ran a great six page spread of my work in their third issue. It feautures a ton of great artists as well- Stéphane Blanquet (one of my favorites), Charles Krafft, Engelbert Kivernagel, Peter Sköld, Merle Allin, Unpop, John Casey, Claudia Ahlering, Larry Carroll, Xavier Robel (Elvis Studio), Solange Reboul, Crosshair, Shoboshobo / Mehdi Hercberg, and M-City. The magazine is put out by the fantastic screenprinters/publishers Bongoût. Follow the Mollusk link for ordering information.



One of the best parts of the magazine is seeing my writing translated into French. I'm very curious how the translation translates.

Upcoming Shows

Group Show @ Zg Gallery
300 W. Superior, Chicago, Il
March 30th - May 19th, 2007

Art Dorks Group Shows:

McCaig-Welles Gallery
129 Roebling Street, Suite B
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Friday, June 15th 2007 through ???

Thinkspace Art Gallery
4210 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90029
June 8, 2007 - July 5th, 2007

Solo Show @ Zg Gallery in November.

Upcoming Lovely Little Girls performances:

May 4th at The Village
3219 S. Morgan
Chicago, Il
with Panicsville & Bird Names

May 9th at Nihilist
2525 S. Michigan
Chicago, IL
with To Live & Shave In LA

Here is a video of one of our shows the other month: