Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

July 19, 2012

The Story of Mary Molly the Guacamole, And Other Nonsense Poems

"I loved a guacamole named Mary Molly,  
She went on adventures all over the city.  
She was clever as Kissinger & cute as a kitty,  
And as guacamoles go, she was tasty as gee golly."
Proudly announcing the self-publishing of our illustrated poetry book The Story of Mary Molly the Guacamole, And Other Nonsense Poems on the Amazon marketplace. You can read it on any Kindle app, and members of Amazon Prime can check it out for free from the Kindle Lending Library.
“The Story of Mary Molly the Guacamole And Other Nonsense Poems” is a beautiful illustrated book of strange, rhyming nonsense verse in the vein of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. The stories herein are sure to delight and appall readers of all ages. Romance! Adventure! Cross-Species Love Affairs! This collection contains “The Story of Mary Molly the Guacamole,” “The Story of Omega’s Rampage,” “The Story of the Long Distance Relationship,” “The Story of Barbara Ann and Barbara Allen,” “The Story of the Lizard Wizard of North Northumberland,” and “The Story of Meghan & the Mini Megatherium.” With more than thirty original full-color illustrations by Grainne Proinseas and Maymo Mary.

August 27, 2011

New Illustrated Songs from The Manna Sustains: First Vision of St Olaf, and The Wind & Snow

The Manna Sustains will eventually be an illuminated songbook, but I'm putting out individual illustrated songs while I work on it. Original art by Grainne Proinseas! Here's First Vision of St Olaf:
First Vision of St Olaf, from The Manna Sustains - Illustrated Sheet Music
Feel free to download, print, & play around with as you wish. This song was posted earlier here with a rehearsal youtube video:


NEXT: First Interlude: The Wind & Snow.

The Wind & Snow, First Interlude from The Manna Sustains - Illustrated Sheet Music
And we have a new video for this song, too:


The audio for that video can be downloaded as a free mp3 here if you wish:



Thank you so much. Stay tuned for more illustrated sheet music & demo videos from The Manna Sustains. Please "like" The Manna Tease on Facebooks! & also Grainne Proineas' artist page.

August 17, 2011

Illuminated Sheet Music - What Mary Noticed from The Manna Stains illustrated digital songbook!

Another addition to our burgeoning genre of illuminated digital sheet music - "What Mary Noticed" from The Manna Sustains, an Epic Murder-Ballad Song-Cycle by The Manna Tease. This will eventually be a whole illustrated songbook illuminated by Grainne Proinseas, & we'll be dropping samples of individual songs as Scribd documents over the next few weeks.

What Mary Mary Noticed, from The Manna Sustains - Illuminated Sheet Music
Please download, print, and play around with as you wish. The Manna Tease singing a somewhat rough-around-the-edges rehearsal of this song into the youtubes:

Stay tuned for more illustrated songs! & more from The Manna Sustains. Lyrics to "What Mary Noticed" originally posted here. Please "like" The Manna Tease on facebooks here, & Grainne Proinseas here.

August 15, 2011

Introducing: Illuminated Sheet Music - Young Manasseh's Stains from The Manna Stains illustrated digital songbook!

And now, Grainne Proinseas & I are spearheading an initiative to spearhead the genre of illuminated songbooks. The Manna Tease's Epic Murder Ballad Song Cycle, The Manna Sustains, will be a fully illuminated songbook illustrated by Grainne Proinseas, and I'll release little excerpts of individual songs as we create them, practice the project, et cetera.
Young Manassehs Stains, from The Manna Sustains - Illuminated Sheet Music
Please download, print, and play around with as you wish. I'm deliberately keeping the score pretty vague, just the melody and chord progression, with the occasional instrumental melody. Additional verses can differ slightly in melody & syncopation, &c. Here's us singing "Young Manasseh's Stains" live:

Stay tuned for more illustrated songs! & more from The Manna Sustains. Lyrics to "Young Manasseh's Stains" originally posted here. Please "like" The Manna Tease on facebooks here, & Grainne Proinseas here.


July 19, 2011

¡Art! ¡Cuidado! Liam Golden & Grace Marlier Art Pages

Ennui, ecstasy, immortality, & antipathy... that's right, gentlemen, art is on display on the internet.

First, Liam Golden Does Things, the blog on his website liamgolden.com, has been rapidly putting up art in the last twenty-four hours. These are websites you should occasionally peruse. Here's one of the posts, called "Bird! Stone! Water!"

Working on an illustration
for an article on Rock! Paper! Scissors!




or as I know it from childhood, Ro! Sham! Bo!

(or Rochambeau, not to be confused with the French vicomte and soldier who shares my two christian names (Joseph, Mary)).

Also known as Bird! Stone! Water! and Wrap! Cut! Crush!

Interesting that Olaf Mary shares my newfound love for Comic Sans, great minds thinking alikely.

Next I invite you to "like" Grainne Proinseas' new facebook artist page, Grace Marlier. It has FASHION! SKETCHES! DRAWINGS! PAINTINGS! ART!


That one, from the album G.F. Marlier; some fashion illustrations, is captioned "want to make this for [Minnie Molly Mary]," of The Manna Tease. Exciting. And, finally here's a sketch of Mr Quill & me in Bulgaria, from the album Beautiful To Forget, More Beautiful Still To Be Forgotten, a collection of drawings from our Eastern European vacation:

April 18, 2011

Girlfriend Doggerel: II. Dolly the Doll


Dolly the Doll

My girlfriend Dolly was a doll,
I dated her on & off for a decade.
She wasn’t petite, but she was small,
She was in season in the late fall
When color from the aspens starts to fade.

She wouldn’t blow mine, but I could sure blow hers.
She was as temperamental as the temperature.
She was especially slippery in the showers:
I could lather her up for hours,
And she would wash away with soapy water.

My girlfriend Dolly was chaste as a box of crayons,
And she was as queenly as a royal mustard.
As arm candy, I would take her to St Johns,
Where the vicar told me she looked like Beyoncé.
Afterward, she let me lick her all over covered in custard.

She wouldn’t show me on a map where she was born,
So I never told her my real first name.
We had a relationship of trust & scorn,
She came as early as songbirds in the morn,
And she could flee as fleetingly as celebrity’s fame.

My girlfriend Dolly was a duck in the pond:
She could be monogamous but was also a bit wet on the bottom.
The roots of her hair were sometimes blond,
But her split-ends stretched to the great beyond.
She was all-in-one a John, a whore & a madam.

She wouldn’t blow me, but I could blow her up.
She was as temperamental as chocolate’s temper.
Like an overproduced musical, she flopped,
And last month when I poked her, she popped,
And they don’t make them anymore like her.


Art by Olaf Mary from www.liamgolden.com

April 14, 2011

Girlfriend Doggerel: I. Fontelyn Brotemy



Fontelyn Brotemy

A girl called Fontelyn Brotemy was my lover in 2010,
She had legs that went all the way down to the floor,
She was easy to please, but she was also easy to bore,
And she knew me as well as she had known plenty men.

I would rather have Fontelyn Brotemy than none at all.
I once asked her if she dreamt in color when she dozed,
And she told me she couldn’t see anything with her eyes closed,
And then she tied me down & did naughty things with a snake's rattle.

I took Fontelyn Brotemy to Ohio to meet my parents.
They asked her why she had dropped out of nursing school,
And she told them she believed in the golden rule,
And since no one had ever nursed her, she couldn't be bothered to care for patients.

I would rather have Fontelyn Brotemy than an open flesh-wound.
She brushed her teeth five times a day to fight off plaque,
And she had curves like an ATV race track.
She liked to role-play as Ahab & Moby Dick, & be repeatedly harpooned.

I took Fontelyn Brotemy to Rome to meet the Pope.
He asked her if she always met the leaders of world religions wearing a bikini,
And she told the Pope, I wanted you to fully see me.
She left Rome with a decent tan & a purse full of the hotel’s complementary soap.

I would rather have Fontelyn Brotemy than a bottle of Fernet.
When she left me for a Republican Congressman from Utah,
I asked her if she had used me for my oom-pah-pah,
And she told me keep my tuba in tune: I hadn’t heard the last of her yet.



Art by Olaf Mary from www.liamgolden.com

April 04, 2011

An tEach Uisce and Irish Pictures



An tEach Uisce and Irish Pictures

March 11, 2011

drawrings

what the hell have I been doing instead of posting things to this blog? the answer would take days, pages, years, tomes! but one of the things I have been doing is drawing! here's some drawings!




March 08, 2011

Apologies: We're back, baby.

After years of living in the computer stone age... my barely crawling 11-yr-old computer has been retired, and I've been upgraded to a refurbished 7-yr-old computer! Anyway, my poor old dying beast could no longer handle basic tasks, so this blog should be more bloggable now that I have a functioning almost-modern tool. Golden showers!


January 18, 2011

Jesus Christ is a big fat man

Next, an original song called "Jesus Christ is a big fat man." We don't court controversy, but it is our cross to bear to be the carriers of truth-bearing crosses. And Necessity, that fickle goddess. Also, this song was inspired by the Fat, Happy Buddha, who is not the Bodhisattva but a future, fatter, happier Buddha. I thought, Christianity needs one of those:


Please "like" our hot new band The Manna Tease on the facebook fan page here. Artwork for the single "Jesus Christ is a big fat man" (not yet recorded) by Grainne Proinseas, and there's more in this photo album. T-shirts coming soon!?
Here are the lyrics & chords:


Jesus Christ is a big fat man

D f#min A
Jesus Christ was resurrected,
D f#min A
Died & came back, as was expected.
G A
When you rise from hell, you know what you want?
G emin A
You head straight for the first restaurant.

G bmin A f#min

Jesus Christ is a big fat man,

G bmin A f#min

He eats as much as he possibly can.

G bmin A f#min

Eats like he knows the world can’t last.

G emin A

You can follow him - he’s not going fast.


Jesus Christ walked into a bar
With a ninja & a rabbi & a Bollywood star.
A guy in the corner called them a bunch of fairies.
But Christ forgave him, & ordered a round of Bloody Marys.

Jesus Christ would feed the hungry,
But he also would feed his big rumbly belly.
He could feed the multitudes with loaves & fishes,
But he also knew dozens of other delicious dishes.


Additional verse by Minnie Molly Mary:

Jesus Christ got his own cooking show,
Where he would make his world famous cookie dough,
His speciality sauces, and complex fondues.
Challenge him to a cook-off, and you’re bound to lose.
© The Manna Tease 2011

UPDATE: Jesus Christ is a big fat man SPECIAL B-SIDE SINGLE now out:


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December 31, 2010


HAPPY NEW YEAR YA'ALL!
soooo.....this brings fashion illustration of the every third day to a close, at least for the time being. I've put 'em all into a scribd book (link below) for perusal.... the department of fashion will be bringing in 2011 with a series of fashion illustrations of dictators, monarchs, and other political figures, beginning with Salou Djibo, president of Niger. Slainte!




G.F Marlier; Fashion Illustrations 2010

December 25, 2010

Fashion illustration of the every 3rd day/ #36




merry christmas, ya'all. I am celebrating by reading the christmas mass to myself from st. Joseph's continuous sunday missal, in bed. self-imposed total isolation (after fam time this morning) in preparation for the chaos that will be Cole Coffee tomorrow....

December 22, 2010

December 19, 2010

Fashion illustration of the every 3rd day/ #34





in honor of the massive amounts of rain currently coming down hard on Berkeley, California......