Mr noodle

Is an awesome food place. Lovely cool sushi and warm noodles. The ultimate in food when you have a cold.

It gets 4/5* on the mike scale.











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Pain au hedgehog

I ate this prickly little swine and he liked it.



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Art is for suckers I'm off to become a spy.

To help blend in to my disguise I am giving up smoking because I've got a cough that I don't like and I don't want to be coughing all the time while I'm being a spy. I'm trying nicotine patches so I don't get too crabby.

I listened to some records today which was nice.

These pills fell out into my hand smiling. Normally I wouldn't post stuff like this but I thought it was quite a nice image. They are anti histamines for dust and a bit of paracetamol. Nothing 'exciting'.









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Minoche in cartoon form

I've got a cold.

Wanted to work on paintings today but am bed ridden.

Someone learn the violin and come and play it to me please.




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Egg mcmuffin 6am

They turned on the lights. And I ate.

I worked on two paintings today. One nice and positive and one bleak and terrible. So we'll see what happens. I'm a geographical nightmare.




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Painting is like a whipping from geoff capes

I was painting was going well. Colour, imagination, nonsensical. Great.

Insert negative

Then put it aside a painted a grisly black white a red painting.

Shit shit shit.

Water isn't blue

There is far too much disillusionment around at the moment. I can't seem to paint. I rearranged my studio today and drew dust piggies. still currently no news on the 2nd book of dp's. There is no Market for it, nor can I find anyone to write a foreword. I have enough material for a third and moving towards a fourth.

I might try to paint a story instead of writing it. I mean to paint in a non linear way. Those paintings always seem to come out weird and dark. Which doesn't inspire me. The illustrations for the story I wrote are now at 22 finished and 3 in the process, but again I don't feel that enthralled at the prospect. It feels like a chore now. I prefer the ones that are totally abstract marks that are like ink blot tests. Although that's not totally true.

I feel like I'm adrift.






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I had a very nice weekend

I rescued this little chap from the toilet. Dropped my new razor blades in so that was however a slight issue. Never mind he is alive and well.

Had a very tasty picnic on the beach.

Jessy made a seaweed beard which will be all the rage next summer. Watch this space.

Tried to take a picture of a castle but the national trust use a magic shroud to stop photos so you must by postcards*.

*the legal department informs me that this is technically conjecture and I am obligated to point out that this might not be true.

There was some grisly sewage froth at the water line.

And it was very flat and a bit surreal, considering the story i've been writing.

We also walked around this beautiful church and garden and saw a flower a bit like jess.







































































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Elvis and Peter

I feel a bit like elvis. But not talented at singing or dancing. I ate a cheese burger and felt sad. Somehow I felt closer to the elvis I imagine.

I'm writing a story called Peter the goat. It's only 2000 words so far and isn't very good, because I'm using the cut up method for which there is a proper name. I almost can't be bothered to create the equilibrium of the story. Which does have to be done. And I don't like to edit too much anyway. Keep it to the real text.



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Chowder

The spiders broke the treaty.











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Mike's new blog "mike complains about things ad nauseam"

Today I went into a certain big chain of computer shops. I asked the retard on the mac counter if he was mac trained and he said yes. I however did not believe this to be true and it wasn't. Idiot. So he tells me that I can run codmw2 on boot camp on my mac. Fine. And I can return the game if it doesn't work. I check this at the checkout and the guy says ask the manager. He says no way can I return the game once it is open. Brilliant service dickheads.

Secondly the new iPhone software is completely shit. 1. Camera takes an age to load. 2. It saves and corrects misspellings of words but won't save swearwords which is complete shot. There is an example. Complete Shit.

And thirdly the Weather is awful. Who do I talk to about that? The Devon tourism board?




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They are all fixing off of abscessed udders (2010)

Spanish pistachios

The last of the delicious Spanish fresh pistachios. And I've already eaten two bits of toast with a marmot spread over it.






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me moaning about crap and then moving into a moan about microsoft and apple.

did a new painting and worked on the illustrations for the book, which has slackened in momentum enough that i feel like i probably won't bother finishing it. at this point in time i feel like this, but that is obviously subject to change. I can't be bothered to take a picture of the new painting. partly because i don't feel like putting anything remotely worthwhile on my blog. which seems pretty redundant and stupid. but there we go. my computer has apparently reverted to steam power which is really really annoying. i don't know what has happened to apple. they seem to have dropped further to the microsoft standard of "lets make some more money quickly with inferior products and software and then we'll update it later to make it ok". well once there is a tried and tested alternative i'm switching, because no amount of pretentious design and smugness is going to win back this customer.

This was a different day

It's been grey all day. So I thought I'd remember the sun shines some times.



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Made two new cubes

The big one was meant to be small. Terrifyingly confusing. Need to construct more. Probably do it after the weekend so that they don't dry out before they are cleaned up. 3 days of rigorous routine. Fell asleep in the lounge. Not very hungry at the moment. Despite being deftly disillusioned I started painting again today. It's nice to learn to paint again. Going to complete a large board then maybe do some smaller canvas pieces. But probably continue on board for a bit because I'm a bit scratchy at the moment and don't want to waste canvas.

The bottom photo is of mildew or mould or whatever growing on clay.









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Painting more cubes

And if one more person refers to them as 'boxes' (can't be boxes because they don't have lids) or says "they aren't really cubes, cubes are square" then I'll start calling them rectoids again.

Was so lovely to paint cubes again. The clay, the slip, the process. Awesome.












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still illustrating the book. and not much else

i don't really believe in being blocked. like writers block etc. i'm just not really in a very motivated state at the moment. it happens every now and then i guess. i've got ideas i just don't have the motivation to do them. so i'm just plodding along with the illustrations for the story book.

this is one of them. i'm not posting all of them on the blog/website otherwise it'll make the book relatively pointless, except for the materialism of the actual book. and it's out of context. so i don't know how much that effects it. the process has been slightly hampered by my shitty mood. i feel pretty flat the majority of the time currently. and if i don't feel flat i feel sick. so its like sitting and roundabouts.

i want to start another story, for another book. but once i start that then this one will drop to the sideline and i'll never finish it. i don't return to the scene very much. and if i do it is usually a pretty drastic option. but i'm talking about painting really now, rather than project wise. which is how i'm approaching it.

Mowch

I am carrying on with illustrations. They are coming on. I've got about 5. I'm not sure how many I need. There must be a certain ratio for a book of this nature regarding pages of text and illustrations. Buggered if I know it.


















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thought for today

there really isn't any point in catering to the lowest common denominator, because they don't get it anyway and then you fail to challenge yourself and fail to interest an audience that might actually like what you do.

urgh