Music Video for Massive Vulva Cantaloupe

Here is the music video I made for my band Lovely Little Girls. It's our 'hit' Massive Vulva Cantaloupe...Magma as channeled through Kool Keith, maybe? Joe Jackson meets The Contortions? There is much face flapping, awesome horn arrangements and plenty of cantaloupe abuse here.

camera: V. Montgomery, Pauline Sauer, Gregory Jacobsen / edit: Gregory Jacobsen, Pauline Sauer

We have a new record out on Skin Graft records.

Lovely Little Girls - Cleaning the Filth From a Delicate Frame Video Promo

Here is a promo I shot and edited for Lovely Little Girls' forthcoming record 'Cleaning the Filth From a Delicate Frame' out on Skin Graft Records October 9th.

Lovely Little Girls - Undulate/Buttocks of Gloss

Here is a video from our show the other night at the Burlington in Chicago. Thanks to everyone who came out.

Here are some photos from our recent shows:


Gregory Jacobsen


Jim Cooper and Carmen Armillas


Cory Bengsten


Jim Cooper


Sacha Mullin and Gregory Jacobsen


Gregory Jacobsen and Alex Perkolup

Lovely Little Girls - Poor Fitted Boys/Pressed Face Downwards/I'm So Good Looking!

Here is a video of our performance at the Empty Bottle on Friday- a two camera shoot of a suite of songs: Poor-Fitted Boys/Pressed Face Downwards/You Fuck Me Anyway. I am very excited about this fantastic lineup that features guitarist Jim Cooper (Detholz!), keyboardist Jon Beavo (Hot Garbage), drummer Charlie Werber (Guzzlemug, Murmur), saxophonist Cory Bengtsen, and backup singers Carmen Armillas (Cheer-Accident) and Sacha Mullin. Our next show is at Cobra Lounge with Arriver on January 13th.

Fatty Jubbo & Friends - I'm So Good Looking

Here is some footage of our show the other night at Club Sashay. Expect more musical excitement soon!

Cheer-Accident at the Bottom Lounge

Pauline Sauer and I edited more footage of last year's Cheer-Accident show at the Bottom Lounge. Here is their odd take on the Theme to Shaft:



and here is an exercise in failure, tediousness, patience and COMEDY:

Guitar

This is one of the most beautiful things I have seen in a while. This is what my dreams are usually like.

Brilliant Pebbles

crop of a photo by Adam Hoff

The lady friend and I shot and edited a live video for local Chicago band Brilliant Pebbles. Fronted by Monika Bukowska, a "hyperactive immigrant from Poland", she roars and chirps through a hyper-emotional and theatrical mix of new wave, prog and disco while clad in day-glo and encrusted in cheap party jewelry. It's a mixture made even more unique by the video game sounding keyboards of Samuel Ng, "a classically trained alien from Hong Kong".



This was their last show with their fantastic rhythm section that included Philip Montoro, formerly of Lozenge. I wanted to capture the great dynamic that the group built for themselves over their couple years of playing together. The new line-up will be more beat and sample orientated.

Brilliant Pebbles has a new self-released EP out now. Go to their (unfortunately massively cluttered) Myspace page for more info and songs.

Muscular Sac Structures/Wide Mouth Penetrated Makeshift Mustache Man

Here is a video from my band's performance last week at the Empty Bottle.

Sonovachicken & Angels

Recently, a couple videos that I was involved in years ago have popped up on YouTube. The first is Sonovachicken by Piotr Tokarski.



This was filmed in an abandoned house that my roommate found somewhere around the corner from where we lived in Humboldt Park. For mysterious and unknown reasons, the inside of this house had a four-foot deep carpet of junk that spread over every room. Amazing junk! Typewriters! Sewing Machines! Film Projectors! Reel-to-reel tapes! Books! It was as if someone took an entire pawn shop and dumped it in this house for storage. Judging by the calanders, clothes and pornography that was strewn around, I would guess that all this crap was discarded around 1979. Aside from a couple syringes on the back deck, the place surprisingly had not become a junkie hideout. The only occupant was an old sick dog who would meekly raise his sad eyes up at us and walk away, hobbling over the piles of garbage. The building must have been heavily fortified for years and the only reason why my roommate found it was because they had started to tear down the surrounding wood fence for the building's demolition.

My roommate, who was a compulsive junk collector, made daily treks to the house, hauling home many treasures. He would often stay there until morning, digging through the depths of garbage. I only visited the place a couple times because honestly, in addition to it being in a real shitty neighborhood, the place was spooky. The basement seemed to have suffered a fire at one time, the plaster walls were peeled and cracking and every surface was covered in filth. There were still remnants of past occupants such as a suit hanging in the closet, dishes in the cupboards, and a kitchen table set up with chairs.

Another derelict building stood beside the junk house but it was inpenetrable. My roommate was determined to break in but could not find a way. He eventually laid a long plank out the window, connecting the two buildings. According to him, the sight inside the second building was more beguiling than the first- old clothes packed every room, a sea of moldy fabric almost as high as the ceiling. Unfortunately, no junk treasures, just clothes and mold spores.

This video is a funny little homage to the house, I suppose. I come home, beat the hell out of a chicken and hug the wife. We shot it in a couple hours...Piotr directed, I did the organ music and Wheat edited the sound and visuals.

The garbage paradise only lasted a couple weeks and soon the house of piles was bulldozed into a pile of rubble. Aside from a couple rolls of lost film and this video, we unfortunately did not document this peculiar dump.

Next up is a music video for Angels by Bobby Conn directed by Usama Alshaibi.



This video features plenty of mugging and facial cortortions by me. I can't really say I like narrative in music video so much, but this is such a ridiculous parody of early 80s videos that I can forgive it. And I look pretty good before I became all fat and bloated.

I was excited to take part in a Bobby Conn project as he has been a big inspiration to me since I moved to Chicago years ago. I first saw him perform with an ad hoc group opening for The Make-Up. With the band's mutant funk and Bobby's psychotic caterwauling, they blew the kitschy and derivative Make-Up off the stage. Bobby's music and aesthetic has changed over the years, going from no-wave/prog clang and clamor to David Bowie sweet balladry but he has always managed to bring his demented take to the table.

I had worked on a couple videos and films with Usama before (such as Fairyland). Usama and his wife Kristie used to run a small film festival called Z Film Fest that would focus on sexually deviant experimental shorts...something you don't get much of in the conservative Midwest. Usama recently finished up the documentary Nice Bombs about his travels back to his home country of Iraq amidst the turmoil of occupation.

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!

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!

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