A million years in the monochrome past when I lived in the arctic hellhole of Aberdeen, Scotland, I fervently frequented a great comics shop called Plan 9. In an otherwise remote and conservative city, Plan 9 was a conduit to counterculture. The owner managed to get imports of all kinds of amazing stuff: Robert Crumb, Al Columbia, Optic Nerve (Adrian Tomine), Daniel Clowes, Juxtapoz, Jim Woodring, all these great things that I still love were introduced to me by scouring the corners of this inspiring place and steadily blowing my student loan.
Now some number of years of hard slog later I’m twatting about NYC with attractive ladies and attending cool art openings and dodging just-about-famous people and the like. How do these things come together?
In my absurd pleasure at being even tangentially associated with Juxtapoz magazine. See if you can spot my fizzer over on their site. Shirt by CULT Clothing of Edinburgh. JUXTAPOZER.
Might as well mention I nearly ran over Ethan Hawke on my street again today on my new Vanguard. He was with some heavily pregnant burd and a tatty looking dog and talking what sounded very much like pretentious bollocks.
13-Jul-08 at 5:02 pm | Permalink
Plan 9 > I knows it. I used to buy comics from there. Not telling which ones.
NYC with highly attractive ladies > Twat.
Caesar > WOW. Wowowow. That stuff is amazing. Reminds me of some stuff that I saw recently by a graduate Glasgow artist whose name I can’t remember. Same surreal, slightly Burtonesque vibe. Love it. Not cheap though, eek.
Vanguard > What’s it like? It’s all pointy. Looks like witchcraft.
13-Jul-08 at 10:28 pm | Permalink
> Twat
Guilty your honour.
Vanguard is lots of fun, pavements and roads just feel like water.
14-Jul-08 at 6:31 pm | Permalink
Vanguard – Niiice! Are those really your legs…
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14-Jul-08 at 6:35 pm | Permalink
Re Hawke. Ah, but who was he talking bollocks TO? Eh? Was it the dog, the burd, or perhaps in some pretentious fatherly way, the foetus…
14-Jul-08 at 10:33 pm | Permalink
I like Plan 9, they have a standee of Garibaldi from Babylon 5, which makes me lauuuugh. Laugh forever.
15-Jul-08 at 12:31 am | Permalink
> Hawke
He was definitely laying it down for the lady.
> standee
Now I know what a ‘standee’ is. Amazing.
I also just remembered that Plan 9 was also the wellspring for William Burroughs and JG Ballard and all kinds of neato subversive literature.