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[jane]

Shameless. No apologies for this plug.

Just so fuckin' proud of my friend it's not even funny.

Please buy his book and make him a wealthy man. KTHX.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/0124/1232474676472.html

(Please also buy it from your local indie bookshop.)

Review here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0124/1232474677769.html


Okay, I end this post now because I am at serious risk of just gushing to the point of embarrassing even myself.

 

[Lili Marlene]

he didn't spend his time writing that when he could have been posting on thumped did he?

 

[jane]

he didn't spend his time writing that when he could have been posting on thumped did he?

There's a lesson in this for me, isn't there, I is John?

 

[therealjohnny]

Fair play to the guy

hooray for doing stuff

 

[therealjohnny]

Another "friend of Jane" endorsement

(reposted from creativeireland)

Hi all, I've a solo show next month in Monstertruck gallery on Francis. The opening is on 5th February from 6pm till 8pm.

Hope you can make it along.
Cheers
BC

Full blurb below:


Brian Coldrick Exhibition,

"Shrunken Head"

at Monster Truck Gallery & Studio, 73 Francis St, Dublin 8
Thursday 6th February - Tuesday 17th February

Opening night: Thursday 5th February 6-8pm

For Brian Coldrick's first solo show his long standing obsession with
sloths has led him to the world of the shrunken head.

Real human heads were shrunk by tribes of Central America so they
could be carried around as, effectively, good luck charms. Although
fakes were made from animal leather to fool unknowing westerners,
shrunken heads made from sloth heads were the real deal. The sloth
represented the captured soul of the shrinkee just as well as if it
were their own noggin.

This bizarre starting point has led to a series of 'portraits' of various
identities created to represent their original. Be it an alter ego, a
stage name or a personification, it's easier to relate when there's a
handy shrunken head version of the truth.

--

Brian Coldrick has been working as a freelance illustrator and artist
in Dublin since graduating in Visual Communiactions from the National
College of Art and Design in 2003. Influences range from Mike Mignola
to Yoshitomo Nara, and from The Third Man to The Third Policeman. Work
has varied from stuff that ends up on telly, to drawing pictures on a
stage in front of a drunken crowd. Commercial work (like the eye on
dublin series for Totally Dublin magazine) is generally balanced with
some personal projects, be it sloth-themed board games (for the 2006
Fringe Festival's Vending Machine Project) or free magazines (a la The
Tender Trio with Stephen Kelleher and Christian Reeves).

www.briancoldrick.com
www.thetendertrio.net
briancoldrick.blogspot.com
eyeondublin.blogspot.com

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I'll order that buke in so. Better bloody sell.

 

[Reets]

I'll order that buke in so. Better bloody sell.

sweet, it'll save me trawling around borders

 

[jane]

YAAAY!

The hilarious thing is that the Shrunken Head thing and Peter's book release are on the same day, and the same week as our 1st anniversary. Brian made our wedding invites and Peter walked me up the aisle. And the corny thing is that their recognition by others is the best anniversary present we could have because we love those lads to bits.

Peter even did a recon of the aisle at the rehearsal, checking the stone floor for potential heel-hazards. That's the kind of lad he is. And Brian put a monkey on the invites and gave me a tail, and then put us on his website under 'freakshow'.

See? I'm all gushy now. But everything of any value that I know in the world, I learned from being in that writing group.

 

[rettucs]

Wow, fantastic review. I'll pick up a copy next week, or whenever its out. Congrats on the positive mentions jane.

 

[Lili Marlene]

There's a lesson in this for me, isn't there, I is John?

just put all your posts together, call it an anthology and i'll buy it

 

[jane]

just put all your posts together, call it an anthology and i'll buy it

Are you kidding? Do you know how LONG that would be? You'd have to order it off TV in a 20-volume set. It was even too much for Pantone's new Gravybaby label to handle. We had to go with pared down best-ofs and a separate release of 100 Greatest Abortion Fights.

Trufact! On the rare occasion that I do write fiction, it is rather sparing in the word department. It is also rubbish, but at least it's short rubbish.

 

[jane]

Ahem.

Out in the shops now, or at least it's been spotted in Hodges Figgis.

Ahem.

Sayin'.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Can I buy this book and still hate the ever-loving shit out of the vile continuum of cuntdom that is Hot Press?

 

[Hector Grey]

Can I buy this book and still hate the ever-loving shit out of the vile continuum of cuntdom that is Hot Press?

sure, didn't you love the story of o?

peter murphy has long been the twinkling diamond in the manure pile of hp, someone with actual integrity and a ranty streak. plus i love bauhaus, and i felt sorry for him after that bishop casey thing, so give the guy a break.