Luteplayers carousing with young women

[imomus]

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.

Comments

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

Well, that's good to hear.

[niddrie-edge.livejournal.com]

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

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

It's like an alternative universe where Momus has invited a young Buddy Holly and Lily Allen over for a pajama party

[eclectiktronik.livejournal.com]

ROFL!

[count-vronsky.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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

[count-vronsky.livejournal.com]

Vegans!

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

Ta for the link

[la-terrasse.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

...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

Re: Ta for the link

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Clogs is pretty much what those plastic Birkenstocks are, and the "dress" is a muslim robe thingy -- a thoub (http://modestycatalog.com/images/Picture%20089r.jpg) like this, in fact -- but that's fine!

His Majesty

[(Anonymous)]

Hello,

Bits of the Glasgow show:

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