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Gregory Jacobsen

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About Me


Sad Sourkraut, Sad Cucumber
HIYA! My name is Gregory Jacobsen.
I am a chubby little man, my hands in my pockets. On all fours, I hide in a nearby closet. Found several hairs pasted against a jelly doughnut...punched through rapidly, hot and foamy. Flaccid copulatory attempts decimate a small peephole! Deformation occurs, structure collapse, partially decompose! BOLOGNEY IN A HOLE! BOLOGNEY IN A HOLE!
The will to fail! The will to fail!
I was born in Middlesex, New Jersey. I didn't have too many friends except for a Commodore 64 computer. I eventually befriended some "metal-heads" who would kill chickens and throw crayfish at the windshields of passing motorists. Me and my new friends would hang out in the woods and start fires. Ignited items of note: a pleather couch scribbled with Slayer logos, a headless doll with pentagram and "666" scrawled on chest, feces, an effigy of a disliked classmate composed of milk jug for head.
After being rejected from almost every art school applied to, I made a poor decision of moving to the goddamn midwest to attend the Art Institute of Chicago. Worthless degree in hand, I, much to my irritation, still reside in Chicago, where members of the populace have enormous sticks lodged in their asses.
Links Of Interest!
My website- chock full of paintings from the last five years plus other treats!
gregoryjacobsen.com
I sing and flail around in a dissonant rock & roll band called Lovely Little Girls...No-Wave Opera Theatrical Dada Aktion!
Lovely Little Girls
My MP3 blog Cake & Polka Parade where I post obscure, strange and out of print recordings focusing on avant-garde, found and outsider recordings
cake & polka parade
I do a monthly web-only radio show on WFMU where I play everything from children’s records, no-wave, noise, prog, 20th century classical avant-garde choral pieces, concrete sound poetry and weird foreign pop music.
Fatty Jubbo WFMU Playlists & Archives
I also am a contributor to WFMU’s excellent Beware Of The Blog …a companion blog to the radio station that covers every esoteric topic imaginable.
Fatty Jubbo Beware Of The Blog Posts
I am a member of the Art Dorks collective:
Art Dorks

My Interests



I'd like to meet:

Pretty Ladies, Muscle Men, Social Retards

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Movies:

2001: Space Odyssey
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Barton Fink
Neighbors
Spiderbaby
Visitor Q
Forbidden Zone
Andy Warhol's BAD
Clockwork Orange
Midnight Cowboy
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Little Murders
Night Of The Hunter
Straw Dogs
The Piano Teacher

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiam, Seinfeld, Brass Eye, Jam, Nathan Barley, Sopranos, Tom Baker era Dr. Who

Books:

Tetherballs Of Bougainville - Mark Leyner
Guignol's Band - Louis Ferdinand Celine
Tropic Of Capricorn - Henry Miller
Pop. 1280 - Jim Thompson
Valas - Phillip K. Dick
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Short stories of Gogol

Heroes:

Larry David
Mark E. Smith

My Blog

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 ...
Posted by Gregory Jacobsen on Thu, 29 May 2008 01:38:00 PST

Website Update - Feb 08

I updated my website with new paintings.http://gregoryjacobsen.comIf I had the time, I would rebuild the thing from scratch.
Posted by Gregory Jacobsen on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:03:00 PST

Palpitating Remains - Solo Exhibition at Zg Gallery, Chicago

PALPITATING REMAINSNew Painting & Drawing by Gregory Jacobsenat Zg Gallery - 300 W. Superior St. - Chicago, ILNovember 30th 2007 - January 5th 2008Opening Reception - November 30th 5pm-8:30pmcheck my ...
Posted by Gregory Jacobsen on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:09:00 PST

Ritualistic School Of Errors CD/DVD/BOOK on Resipiscent Records

..RITUALISTIC SCHOOL OF ERRORSCD / DVD on Resipiscent records.From the Resipiscent website:"...a very modern ballet performed on broken legs by little girls, over-weight imbeciles and an orchestra fea...
Posted by Gregory Jacobsen on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:58:00 PST