Jelly Loaf

Another new one...click on it for a larger size!


Jelly Loaf
15 ¾” x 15 ¾”
acrylic on panel

Palpitating Remains - Paintings & Works on Paper - Solo Exhibition in Chicago

Palpitating Remains
New Paintings & Works on Paper by Gregory Jacobsen
at Zg Gallery - 300 W. Superior St. in Chicago
November 30, 2007 - January 5, 2008

Opening Reception: Friday, November 30, 5:00-8:00


Descending Shit Pile
36" x 24"
Acrylic on Panel, 2007

preview more images at the Zg Gallery site.

Pancakes Soaked, Started Bucking

Another new painting. As with most of my paintings, you would not believe the tranformations this fucker went through before I pulled it together at the last minute. The legs are the only remnant of the original. Maybe next month I will put together some tedious process posts so you can see my time consuming and retarded way of going about things...oh, but that's why it's so fun. Click on the image for a larger version.


Pancakes Soaked, Started Bucking
15.75” x 15.75”
acrylic on wood, 2007

Lady Bird & Sausage Skins - Two New Paintings

I am finally finishing up the cache of paintings I have been working on for the past six months.


Lady Bird


Sausage Skins Ruffled at the Throat
click on image for larger version

These two paintings will be part of my solo show at Zg Gallery in Chicago which will run from November 30th 2007 - January 5th 2008. I will post more info and new work as the date approaches.

Fatty Jubbo WFMU.ORG Playlist for 9/20/7

Playlist for Fatty Jubbo (Gregory Jacobsen) - September 20, 2007
WFMU 91.1fm - 90.1fm - wfmu.org

Listen to this show at http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=24629&archive=37896 (RealAudio)
Listen to this show at http://wfmu.org/listen.m3u?show=24629&archive=37897 (MP3 - 128K) expires in two weeks


Henri Chopin

Lipps, Inc. - "Funky Town"
George Crumb - "Black Angels" - Kronos Quartet perform Black Angels
Kim Fowley - "Outrageous" - Outrageous
Bela Bartok - "String Quartet #3" - Emerson String Quartet perform Bartok
Goto80 + Acid Terrorist - "Viking Conquistador"
Vincent Bergeron - "Self-Expression" - Philosophie Fantasmagorique
Cos - "Tres Joli" - Hotel Amnesia
George Crumb - "Todas las tardes en Granada" - Ancient Voices of Children
Henri Chopin - "Brisure du Corps" - Ou Review
Margie Meinert - "Camp Town Races" - Crazy Caliope Music
Black Bear Combo - "Medley" - EP
Kim Fowley - "Up" - Outrageous


Brigid Berlin in Andy Warhol's BAD

Brigid Berlin - ""Old Bags Look Bad in Shorts"" - Clip from Andy Warhol's BAD
Margie Meinert - "Guaglione" - Hi-Fi & Mighty!
Lippe Cort - "Solo Tuba Music" - Neuma: New Music Series
Richard Teitelbaum - "First Breath" - Golem
Judy Garland - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow (crying version)"
Alejandro Jodorowsky - "Mexican Curios" - El Topo Soundtrack
Nurse With Wound - "Musical Bovine Spongiform" - A Sucked Orange
Brigid Berlin - "Street Fight!" - Clip from Andy Warhol's BAD
Katra Turana - "Ensuikei Table" - S/T
NoMeansNo - "Body Bag" - Sex Mad
Charlotte Gainsbourg - "Lemon Incest" - Lemon Incest
Kids on Dad's Birthday - "Yankee Doodle Dandee - THANK YOU!" - Found Cassette
? - "Poor Wizard" - Commodore 64 song


Mauricio Kagel

Pierre Henry - "Sequence" - Investigations
Koji Kondi - "Luigi is Rescued" - Yoshi's Island
Kids on Dad's Birthday - "Mom is Yelling at the Kids" - Found Cassette
Brian Ferneyhough - "Etudes Transcendentales - III" - La chute d'Icare, Superscriptio etc.
Dominique Petitgand - "Plein Air" - Le Point De Côté
Aksak Maboul - "Fausto Coppi Arrive !" - Onze Danses pour Combattre la Migraine
??? - "Ultraman Theme"
Trygve Gundersen - "Eat Maniac" - Commodore 64 song
Mauricio Kagel - "Rosalie" - Soloworks for Accordian
Katie Lee - "The Will to Fail!" - Songs for Couch and Consultation
The Fall - "Dog is Life" - I Am Pure As Orange
Ennio Morricone - "Il Trio Inferniale" - Il Trio Inferniale
The Lustful Sex Life - "Except" - The Lustful Sex Life


Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet

Jean Claude Vannier - "Danse de L'enfant et du Roi des Mouches" - L'enfant Assassin des Mouches
Beau Hunks Orchestra - "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" - Original Music from Laurel & Hardy
Dion McGregor - "Food and What To Do With It" - Dion McGregor Dreams Again
Art Bears - "Song of the Monopolists" - The World As It Is Today
Mechanical Musical Treasury - "Barrel Orchestration"
Conlin Nancarrow - "Study for Player Piano #3b" - Studies for Player Piano Volume 1
US Maple - "Home, It's OK" - Sang Phat Editor
The Hamar from South Ethiopia - "Blessing" - BABBLE - Donna's 2001 WFMU Premium
Tommy Miles - "Tea For Two" - The Going Sounds of Tommy Miles
Dick Raaijmakers - "Pianoforte" - Complete Tape Music of Dick Raaijmakers
Hans Grusel's Kranken Kabinet - "Tea Fur Two" - Happy as Pitch
Fulbe Cow Herders - "Demonstration of the Daahl" - BABBLE - Donna's 2001 WFMU Premium
Venom - "LIVE! at City Gardens!" [You're Pretty Fucking Loud, New Jersey!]
Ryo Kawasaki - "Honk!" - Commodore 64 song


Oblong Boys

Dana Brown - "Stalking Creeping Terror" - Jungle Nights & Man Eaters
Mauricio Kagel - "Die Stucke der Windrose" - Phantasiestuck
Gershon Kingsley & Peter Waldron - "The Sound of Bones" - Ghostly Sounds
Sylvie Vartan - "Dansons" - La Plus Belle
Ernst Jandl - "Wanderung" - Vom Vom Zum Zum
Volapuk - "Meldola" - Le Feu du Tigre
Oblong Boys - "A.D.S." - Pizzazarama Universe
? - "Hungry Horace" - Commodore 64 song
Crystal Belle Scrod - "Soup of the Day"
Bill Hybels - "Ritual Satanic Murders!"
Nicola Piovani - "La Rumba dei Marciapiedi" - Concha Bonita
Five Men Singing - "Cappa" - Five Men Singing
Duotron - "Dilo!" - Complete Book of Duotron


Nina Hagen

Oslo Harmoni Kuartett - "Sussebass" - Dr. Super Helga's Female Audio Prazac
??? - "recording of a hedgehog" [found somewhere online]
Spider Compass Good Crime Band - "???" - Organ Winding Sheet Music
Little Issaac - "Mush Mouthed ABCs" - Found Cassette
Felix Kubin - "Schnitzler" - Schmitler 7"
Roscoe Mitchell - "Uptown Strut" - This Dance is for Steve McCall
Nina Hagen - "Hatschi-Waldera" - Amiga Box
Niel Brennan - "Cauldron" - Commodore 64 song
??? - "Polish Wizard of Oz"
Captain Beefheart - "Ella Guru" - Trout Mask Replica
Derek & Clive - "Valerie's Hymen" - Come Again
Thai Shotgun Cassette - "Kuntz"
George Garabadean Players - "Whipped Cream"


Magma

Paul Frees - "You Gatta Have a Crook" - Rocky & His Friends
Henry Mancini - "The Great Race" - The Great Race OST
Jeremy Adler - "Alphabox" - BABBLE - Donna's 2001 WFMU Premium
Magma - "Stoah" - Magma
Judy Garland - "Don't Make a Joke Out of Me Anymore!" - Judy Speaks!
??? - "???" - ???
Bran (...) Pos - "Postre Child" - 3xx3
Math - "Rubber Musique" - Rubber Musique

Fatty Jubbo playlists: http://wfmu.org/playlists/FJ
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Empty Magazine Feature

I am featured in the latest issue of Empty, an arts magazine from Australia. I haven't recieved my copy yet but I hear the magazine is thick with fantastic artists (friends such as Travis Louie and Heiko Mueller!), high quality printing and no ads. You can order your copy from the Design is Kinky store.

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