Luteplayers carousing with young women

Luteplayers carousing with young women - click opera

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	Thu, Jul. 31st, 2008 11:27 am

Luteplayers carousing with young women

La Terrasse features a very nice, very well-written live review of Sunday's Momus / Germlin show at Stereo in Glasgow. Joe Howe (Germlin) is now installed with his girlfriend Emma in our living room (they're taking a several-week-long holiday here before relocating to Aberdeen) and I'm in a position to answer the question that came up yesterday, about what stuff they'd glom onto at our place.

Joe got fascinated by a small painting propped on top of a speaker, a reproduction I bought in a local junk shop for €5 of A Luteplayer Carousing with a Young Woman by Hendrick Terbrugghen, painted in Utrecht in the 1580s.

"I like how it's really sort of -- they've tried to be very honest, to make an honest representation of something they liked, but all the weird faults give it its own character " Joe explains.

The woman already has a sort of grotesquely elongated skull and a funny face in the original, but my crude junk store reproduction makes her even odder-looking.

Emma chose a calligraphic painting I'd made of our rabbit. (She's asked me to point out that what she's wearing in the picture is her pajamas.)

"Cos I really like the rabbit, it's as simple as that," says Emma.

electricwitch

For anything, oh! she´ll bust her elastic

	Thu, Jul. 31st, 2008 10:13 am (UTC)

How is your rabbit? I was thinking of it the other day when my friend was telling me about getting her bunny sterilised because she kept humping everything to bits and weeing everywhere.

imomus

	Thu, Jul. 31st, 2008 10:34 am (UTC)

He's extremely naughty at the moment, spraying and humping and licking and biting.

electricwitch

For anything, oh! she´ll bust her elastic

	Thu, Jul. 31st, 2008 10:48 am (UTC)

Well, that's good to hear.

niddrie_edge

raymond

	Thu, Jul. 31st, 2008 12:38 pm (UTC)

It's like the kids have come to visit :-)

(no subject) - (Anonymous)

eclectiktronik

	Thu, Jul. 31st, 2008 09:22 pm (UTC)

ROFL!

count_vronsky
count_vronsky

	Thu, Jul. 31st, 2008 10:01 pm (UTC)

crispy ambulance

Hey Momus, did you hear they crossed a mink with a gorilla?

They got a beautiful coat, but the sleeves were too long.

imomus

	Fri, Aug. 1st, 2008 05:18 am (UTC)

That isn't going to go down too well with Joe and Emma: they're vegans!

count_vronsky
count_vronsky

	Fri, Aug. 1st, 2008 08:58 pm (UTC)

Vegans!

I used to be a vegan. It wasn't that I loved animals so much, but that I really hate plants.

la-terrasse.blogspot.com
la-terrasse.blogspot.com

	Fri, Aug. 1st, 2008 03:47 pm (UTC)

Ta for the link

...and thanks for the show, too! Hope you didn't mind my description of what you were wearing - I'm sure there are more appropriate (Japanese?) terms than 'clogs and a dress'.

Hope the sessions go well.

Chris

imomus

	Fri, Aug. 1st, 2008 04:18 pm (UTC)

Re: Ta for the link

Clogs is pretty much what those plastic Birkenstocks are, and the "dress" is a muslim robe thingy -- a thoub like this, in fact -- but that's fine!

(Anonymous)

	Fri, Aug. 1st, 2008 07:42 pm (UTC)

His Majesty

Hello,

Bits of the Glasgow show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUAreLt_uo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/horsemeatpie/sets/72157606455721596/

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