Corsage #6 & #7

Corsage #6


Corsage #7

These highly detailed black and white drawings are incredibly hard to reproduce on the screen. Click for larger versions...although even they are not entirely representative of the originals. Waaa!

Muscular Sac Structures/Wide Mouth Penetrated Makeshift Mustache Man

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

Two Interviews

gregory jacobsen / photo: helene palser

Here are two online interviews I did recently.
VICE / Glubdub

Stuck & Squirt

Stuck & Squirt

Chicago Grotesque: Bitter Tears, Lovely Little Girls, Pussy Pirates

My band, Lovely Little Girls, will be playing a free show at the Empty Bottle on Monday November 17th. We will have a five piece brass section playing with us. Horn tooters include Mike Hagedorn on trombone, Rob Pleshar on Tuba, Thymme Jones and Jeff Liebershire on trumpets and our own Doug Abram on sax. Also joining us will be singer Right Eye Rita as well as our new bassist Kevin Cribbin. We are honored to have these weird and fine folks playing with us. It is sure to be a fantastic show!



The night is something I put together of "Grotesque Music"...a loose definition for bands that mutate familiar styles into disconcerting forms through lyrics, performance and odd and innovative arrangements.


Headliners The Bitter Tears are purveyors of country swagger and formal waltzes with the ghost of Herb Alpert haunting the brass section. Pretty melodies are betrayed by absurd and surreal stories of the futility of life. Their creepy theatrical stage presence adds another level of dementia to the proceedings.


The Pussy Pirates, a Chicago/Ann Arbor group, take a punk template and twist it with unconventional arrangements and strange horn arrangements. They create an ecstatic and jittery dance music celebrating the body in all its icky and sexy charms of blood, guts and copulation. BE ON TIME! Make sure not to miss this amazing band!

IT'S FREE!

Flapping Rear / Corsage #5

Two new drawings:


Flapping Rear


Corsage #5

Cake & Polka Parade Podcast

CAKE & POLKA​ PARAD​E WEEKLY PODCA​ST ON WFMU!​


Your simme​ring pimpl​y-​faced​ blob of a host,​ Fatty​ Jubbo​ (​Grego​ry Jacob​sen)​,​ prese​nts a class​y progr​am of child​ren'​s recor​ds,​ no-​wave,​ noise​,​ prog,​ 20th centu​ry class​ical avant​-​garde​ chora​l piece​s,​ concr​ete sound​ poetr​y,​ weird​ forei​gn pop and audio​ debri​s.​ Crack​pots,​ incom​peten​ts,​ geniu​ses.​.​.​ and they speak​ the gibbe​rish too!

To subsc​ribe,​ head over to the WFMU Podca​st page or click​ here to subsc​ribe via itune​s.​


Playl​ist for Cake & Polka​ Parad​e Podca​st 001

Rober​t Norma​ndeau​ - "​Puzzl​e"​ - Puzzl​es
Zardo​z!​ - "The Gun is Good!​ The Penis​ is Bad!​"​ - film clip
Jon Rose - "The Gift"​ - Violi​n Music​ in the Age of Shopp​ing
Picky​ Picni​c - "​Happi​ness"​ - Haha Tarch​ine
The Mora Arria​ga Famil​y - "​Brasi​l"​ - Cool and Stran​ge Music​ Magaz​ine Thrif​t Shop Compi​latio​n
Dion McGre​gor - "​Dumb Fart"​ - Dion McGre​gor Dream​s Again​
Lars Hollm​er - "Ung Haral​d"​ - XII Sibir​iska Cykla​r

edit 11/6/8: jesus...I just realized I had bad links for the show! I had cut and pasted this from a myspace thing and they automatically change their links to direct to an anti-phishing page.

Some New Drawings

I haven't posted in a while because I'm busy painting pretty pictures. I have finally switched to oil and am very happy with the results. I could kick myself for grappling and wrestling with fucking acrylics all these years. But I can't complain- the severe limitations of acrylics taught me a lot and forced me to develope clever ways of working around the roadblocks.

Anyway, I recently bought a drawing table. In the past I would hunch over in my chair working on smaller pieces, causing my spine to crumble into a mush. Hence, drawing has been scarce...but not anymore!


Corsage #4


Ugly Man


Squirt Nose


Stout Man

Lovely Little Girls @ APOP Records in St. Louis

Douglas Garfield shot some stunning pics of our show at Apop Records in St. Louis. The rest of the set are posted on his Flickr page.

Zeke Bazaare Collective Exposition

at GALERIE PLIN TUB’ // 13 rue des ursulines - 1000 brussels
3 July 2008 to 25 July 2008
opening : 3 July 2008 // à partir de 18.00 + Concert de WOODY SINATRA & ZE METAL ASS IN FIRE

I have a few drawings in an exposition organized by Plin Tub in Belgium. Go HERE for more info.

Lovely Little Girls / Panicsville Eastbound Tour

My band Lovely Little Girls will be heading east next week with noise elite Panicsville for a little jaunt of the east. Some dates are still pending (egads!), check back for updates.

June 17 Lansing MI @ Basement 414 w/ Panicsville, Dino Felipe, Ken Rei, Drug Abuse @ Basement 414
June 18 Columbus OH @ Skylab - 57 East Gay St. 5th Floor w/ Panicsville, Peasant Graves, Mike Shiflet
June 19 Pittsburgh PA @ Gooski's - 3117 Brereton St w/ Panicsville, Casual Approach to Death, Fuck Telecorps, Lord Bird Golden Cobra
June 20 Brooklyn @ Dead Herring House - 141 S. 5th st. w/ Panicsville, Child Abuse, Made In Mexico, Curse of the Birthmark
June 21 Providence RI - TBA
June 23 Baltimore MD @ The Bank
June 24 Philadelphia PA @ DangerDanger Gallery - 5013 BALTIMORE AVE w/ Panicsville, Make A Rising, Daniel Francis Doyle
June 25 Washington DC @ La Casa - 3166 Mt. Pleasant St. NW. w/ Panicsville, Pastures
June 27 St. Louis MO @ APOP - 2831 Cherokee St. w/Ghost Ice, Skarekrau Radio, Dust Bunny



We will be selling copies of our new CD Dilapidated Head & Torso Aggregations. Here are a couple preview tracks:

Lovely Little Girls - Wide Mouth Penetrated Makeshift Mustache Man
Lovely Little Girls - Poor Old George in His Little Ditch

Lovely Little Girls T-Shirt

Lovely Little Girls T-Shirt with art by Gregory Jacobsen
2 color screenprint on 100% cotton shirt
S/M/L/XL ... regular cut ... $15 ppd!
email fatty_jubbo *at spam sucks * yahoo *dor* com for info.

Grilled Sour Dough Skin

Elzo Durt of Belgian publishing/serigraph house Plin Tub has compiled a fantastic book of my black and white work. It features a 4 color screenprinted cover/2 color inside cover and 34 pages of black and white drawings. Comics of sorts, I guess you would call them...although there's no discernable narrative aside from a fascination with gooey stuff and piles.





If your in Europe you can order this from Plin Tub. If you are over here you can get a copy directly from me...$14! Send me a message for PayPal info, etc etc. fatty_jubbo *at spam sucks* yahoo *dot* com. If you are in Chicago, pick up a copy from Quimby's. Limited to 200 copies.

Fatty Jubbo WFMU.ORG Playlist for 4/30/8

Playlist for Fatty Jubbo (Gregory Jacobsen) - April 30, 2008
WFMU 91.1fm 90.1fm wfmu.org

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Sam Fuller's Naked Kiss - "Little Child" - clip from film
Dianne Labrosse - "Humilte"
Arnold Schwarzenegger - "Arnold Goes Bezerk!" - Youtube clip
Martin Walker - "Rod Land" - Commodore 64 Music
Quifus - "That Girl's Alright"
Locus Solus - "Getting Curly" - s/t
Yann Tomita - "Time Machine" - Music for Astro Age
Giancinto Scelsi - "Quattro Pezzi per Orchestra P4" - Quattro Pezzi per Orchestra
American Wind Symphony - "Pickle" - Pickle Suite
Ptose - "Eat Your Fish" - IL
Arnold Schwarzenegger - "Cumming and Bodybuilding" - Youtube clip
John Schnall - "Nice Night for a Walk" - Midnight Matinee
Peter Liepa - "Boulder Dash" - Commodore 64 Music


Sam Fuller's Naked Kiss

Diatric Puds & the Blobettes - "Mutant Dinner Music" - Diatric Puds/Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet split 10"
Mauricio Kagel - "Ragtime Waltz" - Solowerke for Accordian
Bloodsucking Freaks - "Zardu Monologue" - clip from film
Now Sounds of Today - "The Red Skidoo" - Record Robot Blog
Nicola Piovani - "Un Tranvetto d'Allegria" - Concha Bonita
Gyorgy Ligeti - "Etudes, Book II" - Complete Piano Music
Jad Fair - "Spinning Pins" - Sensationnel #5
Etron Fou le Loublan - "Solo Brigida" - Batelanges
Molly Picon - "Oy Sis Git" - Best of Molly Picon


Diatric Puds & the Blobettes

Nick Mason - "Can't Get My Motor to Start" - Nick Mason's Fictious Sports
Meadow House - "My Window Cleaning Days are Over" - Tongue Under a Ton of Nine Volters
Delia Derbyshire - "Restless Relays" - Complete Works
Vladimir Volkov, Sergey Kuryokhin, Keshava Maslak - "Dream #1" - Jet Lag
Christian Morgenstirn - "Das Grosse la Lula das Gebet" - Futura: Poesia Sonora
Azita - "#8" - Music for Scattered Brains
Oblong Boys - "Don't Go Bald" - Pizzazarama Universe
Henry Mancini - "The Great Waldo Pepper" - OST: The Great Waldo Pepper
Iranian Exorcism - "Chanting and Screaming" - Youtube clip
Zoltan Pongracz - "Egycisz-Dak Akkord" - Hungarian Electronic Music 68-76
Lake of Dracula - "Greeb Glassed Moves" - Lake of Dracula


Islamic Exorcism!

Rhythm Activism - "The Black Flag" - Les Mysteres Des Voix Vulgaires
Rolf Harris - "Big Dog" - The Best of Rolf Harris
8 Tracks of 69 - "Sex Love Story" - Dinosaur Gardens blog
Mitchen Froom - "Fruito Prohibito" - OST: Cafe Flesh
The Residents - "Constantinople" - Duck Stab
Fanfare Pourpour & Lars Hollmer - "Cirkus II" - Karusell Musik
Tokyo Zawinul Bach - "Sonic Voodoo Union" - Vogue Africa
Yapping Child - "Rock Singing Radio" - Tape Findings Blog
Officer! - "Anagrams" - Ossification
Plastic Zoo - "A Happy Dog" - Plastic Zoo


Rolf Harris

Klaus Wunderlich - "L-O-V-E" - Dream Melodies
MC Kenny - "THANK YOU" - from Loto Ball Show ep
Diane Labrosse - "Fierte" - Petit Traite de Sagesse Prati
Gentle Giant - "Knots" - Octopus
Lars Hollmer - "Humanoid Robot Tango" - Vill du Hora Mer
Purcell - "Funeral Musi for Queen Mary" - va - Funeral Music
Herschell Gordon Lewis - "Blood Feast" - OST: Blood Feast
Christian Anders - "Violence" - Foreign Language Covers
??? - "Quick Draw McGraw" - Hanna-Barbara Cartoon Music
Johnny Trunk & Wisbey - "I am a Gorilla" - Dirty Fan Male
US Maple - "Songs That Have No Making Out" - Sang Phat Editor


Diane Labrosse

Luciano Berio - "Sinfonia 1" - Sinfonia
Fred Katz - "Circus" - Soul Cello
Johnny Trunk & Wisbey - "Dear Sexy Charmaine" - Dirty Fan Male
Carla Bley - "I'm A Mineralist" - Live in Berlin
Nurse With Wound - "Man is the Animal" - A Sucked Orange
Godfried-Willem Raes - "Fuzzy Harmony #8" - Continuo's Godfried-Willem Raes Round-up
Flipper - "Talk is Cheap" - Gone Fishin'
The Beau Hunks - "Sunflower" - Laurel & Hardy Music
Yapping Children - "Talkboy Kids Singing" - Tape Findings Blog
Luciano Berio - "Sinfonia 1" - Sinfonia
Serge Korjanevski - "La Vaise des Poucets" - Trois Lapins
Exorcism - "Fiesty Demon gets Exorcised from Young Lady"
Akira Sakata - "Yarin' Age" - Tenoch Sakana


Flipper

Zzap69 - "St. Arse Fis-Anthem" - Commodore 64 Music
Norma - "Cinema: Terza parte" - L'arpa E L'asino
Angry Girlfriend - "Messin' Wit Mah Man" - Found Audio
Bernie Green - "Ragging the Scale" - Bernie Green Plays More Than You Can Stand!
Krystyna Zachwatowicz - "Oszala' am I Pijana Jestem Dzi" - Piwnica pod Baranami
Elena Katz-Chernin - "Left-Over" - Unceremonious Procession
Space Negroes - "In A Gadda Da Vida" - Dig Archeology
8 Tracks of 69 - "Suck & Screw Orgy" - Dinosaur Gardens blog
Los Beta - "Donkey" - YeYe A GoGo
Fanfare Pourpour & Lars Hollmer - "Experiment" - Karusell Musik
Mieczys Wiecicki - "Ongler Dwusturêki" - Piwnica pod Baranami
Arrigo Barnabé - "Diversões eletrônicas" - Clara Crocodilo


Krystyna Zachwatowisz


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Hi-Fructose Article

I am featured in issue #7 of Hi-Fructose with a four page spread and a nice article written by Nathan Spoor. Hi-Frucose always profiles interesting artists and the layout and printing is consistantly beautiful. It's well distributed here in the US, so if you don't order it online, you can probably find it on your city's finer magazine racks.

Gangbusters - Plane Space - New York

I have a small piece in a massive group show that opens in New York this Saturday. I unfortunately only had time to shoot a shitty photo before sending this off!


Ascending Shit Pile
10" x 10", acrylic on panel, 2008

GANGBUSTERS
@ Plane Space
102 Charles Street
New York, NY 10014

March 29-April 27, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29, 6-8 p.m.

Artists included in the exhibition:

Simon Aldridge, Cortney Andrews, Joshua Aster, Kim Beck, Sonya Blesofsky, Gideon Bok, Matt Bollinger, George Boorujy, Meghan Brady, Courtney Brecht, Bryson Brodie, Tyler Brodie, Ben Butler, Kristin Calabrese, Davide Cantoni, Talia Chetrit, Cynthia Daignault, Suzanne Falk, Christiana Ferroggiaro, Walton Ford, Michael Gellatly, Chad Gerth, Robert Gober, Nathan Gwynne, Hiroyuki Hamada, Van Hanos, Anna Hepler, Gregory Jacobsen, Jason Jägel, Jeff Jank, Peter LaBier, Joan Linder, Sarah Malakoff, Kristine Marx, David McQueen, Kelly McRaven, Zoë Mendelson, Andy Messerschmidt, Andrew Mills, Shiri Mordechay, Robert Olsen, Matt Phillips, Jonathan Podwil, Randall Sellers, Elizabeth Simonson, Erling Sjovold, Gibb Slife, Bryce Speed, Laurel Sucsy, Andrea Sulzer, Taravat Talepasand, Andrew M. K. Warren

Group Show: Molluskkollektiv

I am taking part in a group show in Berlin this month...


Berlin: Molluskkollektiv
Opening Reception: Friday, March 7th 2008, 7 PM
March 8th to April 8th 2008

Bongout Showroom
Torstraße 110, 10119 Berlin, Germany
Opening hours: Tu-Sa, 12 - 7 PM

In addition to screenprinting, design and book publishing, the fine folks at Bongoût have opened a gallery. This will be a show highlighting work featured in the last six issues of their amazing Mollusk magazine.


List of Artists: Seripop, Ehren Tool, Joep Van Liefland, Christina Dallas, Kikifruit, Eugène Kerozen, Antoine Bernhart, Pascal Doury, Felix Weber, Stu Mead, Les Krims, Stéphane Blanquet, Damien Deroubaix, Manuel Ocampo, AW, Eileen Wunderlich, Charles Krafft, Jeremy Profit, Frédéric Fleury, Dan Grezca, Gregory Jacobsen, Arnaud Loumeau, Evol, Carlotta Baily-Borg, Solange Reboul, Moolinex, Miron Zownir, Engelbert Kievernagel, Reinhard Scheibner, Brent Wadden, Mathieu Desjardins & Claudia Ahlering

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Freak Wave & Zeke Bazaar

I have recently been featured in a couple European magazines. The first is the beautiful little French book Freak Wave - La Vague Scélérate, compiled by Anne Van Der Linden and Olivier Allemane.

With a fantastic cover by Mia Makila, this little gem includes visuals and writing by Anne Van der Linden, Jean-Louis Costes, Pascal Doury, Lyzane Potvin, and Chicago friends Public Collectors among many others.

Four of my paintings are paired with the writing of Cristophe Siebert. It is in French and I can only gather a vague sense of what it is about. Fucking corpses and merde. A perfect match.

The book is published by Orbis Pictus and unfortunately the page for the book is devoid of any information. Contact Orbis Pictus for more info.

There will be an accompaning gallery show for the book release. I will post more information as the date approaches...
Galerie Les Singuliers
138 bd Haussmann
Paris 8ème
March 23 to April 5


The second book is Zeke Bazaar- a black and white behemoth with a spectacular screenprinted cover. It is put out by Plin Tub in Belgium and has a very limited print run. Sadly, due to time constraints at the time, I was only able to send in one drawing.

The book contains some of my favorite inkers such as Craoman and Gnot Guedin. It can be ordered here.

Website Update - Feb. 08

I just updated my website with work from my Palpitating Remains show. Detail shots of the paintings are also included. A friend of mine will soon revamp the entire site, updating my antiquated 1998 HTML skills.

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.