ring ring ring ring ring ring ring BANANARCHY!!!

I'm so very depressed that Nothing Nice to Say has been laid to rest. Don't get me wrong, there were duds. There were a ton of duds. But there were also really clever, really funny, bits. They were cruel now and then but more than that they were frank and they were uncensored, unromanticized and unembellished. 

A lot of it was jokes about punks and hipsters and goths and scene kids but it was generally centered around two guys, punks I guess, but not mohawk punks.. more like just two random guys. Other than that bit of normality the comic is sorta ridiculous. Their friends are a bear, a lesbian goth, a feminist pretending to be a lesbian to support the cause, a whiny emo kid, a mohawked vegan, and cthulu, an elder god from a story by the great H.P. Lovecraft.

Untitled, 2008

So at the ICA we were only able to see the main, temporary, exhibit by Tara Donovan. We were lucky, however, because the way out was through their smaller, permanent gallery. As we ran through, still wet feet squeaking with each step, I had to stop and look at a piece by a German artist, Kai Althoff. 
The painting that I saw hanging^^ really reminded me of the movie Mirror Mask. The girl has this distinct style of doodles.. really stylized but well designed and sorta dark. Anyways. They defiantly don't have a strong technique aspect but his work is really strong and straightforward, which I like. I wish there was an online collection, a complete collection, of his work. Grrr.

breaks my heart a bit

(a softer world)

Yum

(from a softer world)

My Mum's birthday is a week from today. 

I wonder what I'll get her. 

Maybe a shiny new cage.