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[wickedflea]

This is what I did in outpatient rehab tonight.





Don't ask me; I don't know. Would you believe I had to EXPLAIN that shit?

explanation copied from IM:

frackinfrickin: I said that I picked things that caught my eye
frackinfrickin: and that the random and the grotesque always caught my eye
frackinfrickin: so I picked the chicken wrestler mask cuz it freaked me out and was scary
frackinfrickin: and the melancholy caveman cuz I felt like that sometimes
frackinfrickin: the rednecks in the pickup cuz it reminded me of home
frackinfrickin: the tin woodman and the jew cuz I liked the dynamic of their staredown
frackinfrickin: the snake cuz it's snakes all up in it
frackinfrickin: bert and ernie as the yin and yang--the duality of human experience
frackinfrickin: cuz ernie is wholly good and bert is unspeakably evil
frackinfrickin: marion barry cuz he's america's most famous crackhead
frackinfrickin: homegirl with the pink hair cuz her breastises all hangin' out
frackinfrickin: the fat guy getting his belly rubbed cuz who doesn't like getting his belly rubbed?
frackinfrickin: the guy with the barbecue gone all to shit cuz it all goes to shit for everyone from time to time
frackinfrickin: and the woman puking up lace because it also freaked me out, and that's art
frackinfrickin: everyone else had all this stuff relating to their drug experiences or whatever, and I'm there talking about bert and ernie

I couldn't help it! They sat us down with paste, magazines, and scissors and told us to go to it. Go to WHAT, they didn't say, so that's what I came up with.

Comments

[lemmons.livejournal.com]

OMG is that Uncle Jesse's pick-up truck at the top with Cooter raising hell in the bed??

Dude I totally think it is!

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I think so too! I shudder to think who Cooter is raising hell in the bed with. :\

[lemmons.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna put my money on Bo, cause he's a man whore. Want to take Luke?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hell no, I don't wanna take Luke? What kind of man do I look like?

Don't answer that.

[dangerpest.livejournal.com]

THe vomit's the best.

[seeds-of-peace.livejournal.com]

totally!

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Vomit is ALWAYS the best. Comedy gold.

[motherevol.livejournal.com]

What the hell does the Tin Man have to do with rehab?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Fuck if I know!!! They just sat us down with paste, magazines, and scissors, and told us to go at it, so that's what I came up with!

I hope we do fingerpainting next week.

[acadiabaird.livejournal.com]

i want the explanation!

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Edited the post just for you. :)

[ginamoog.livejournal.com]

I think that's TOTALLY self explanatory.






:)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Art is supposed to be inscrutable, silly girl. :P

[ginamoog.livejournal.com]

Also that reminds me I need to bust out & scan my art therapy 'paintings' I did when I was a teen.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Awwwyeah!

[ssaiscps.livejournal.com]

I didn't recognize Barry not wearing a dashiki.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Heh--yep, he seems to be going for a different look these days!

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who used to do her paper journal entries with collages like that. It was fascinating.

I am not going to anal-yze you.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

It was fun, though I'm not sure what the point was. Inner-child stuff, I suppose. It was better than a lot of the stuff that goes on there.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

And what'd you say about my anal eyes?

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

I'd need a high powered telescope to see Uranus.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

It's times like these that I'm glad you're on my friends list (even more so than usual). :D Hey, isn't that woman puking from some telekinesis book? I remember some picture like that in an old Amok catalog.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hehe! I'm not sure where the woman comes from. I think I clipped her from the New Yorker or the Smithsonian magazine. I dig her the most.

to the tune of "sometimes i feel like a motherless child"

[elmcityqueen.livejournal.com]

sometimes i feel like a melancholy caveman...

omg that's priceless, i'm going to write it and record it

tomorrow

wow.

Re: to the tune of "sometimes i feel like a motherless child"

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I got a million of 'em. We can be a songwriting team!

[anima.livejournal.com]

That's impressive. When I did something similar, well, oh

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

It's all in the quality of the magazines. Next week I'm gonna grab the National Geographics.

[anima.livejournal.com]

No really I like yours. When I did one it wasn't nearly as interesting.

[saying-things.livejournal.com]

That is excellent. And I love that it's called "rehabcollage". That's almost better than the actual thing.

One time in high school photography class we had to make our own pinhole cameras out of oatmeal cans and decorate them to reflect our "inner selves" and everyone was all angsty or sparkly and mine was decorated with a collage consisting of old people and potatoes. Like I found one photo of an old man holding a 2x4 and I cut it out and stuck a giant potato in there instead. Another old man was sitting by a car and I put potatoes in his headlights. Mother Theresa was all slouched over and wrinkled holding a giant potato out to some wretched peasants. I didn't think it mattered but the teacher made us get up and explain it so I made up this crock of shit about how people get old and die and are put into the earth and make the earth fertile for potatoes to grow which in turn feed new people or some shit. It was awesome. I was all serious and my teacher was eating it up and my friend Heather was turning purple and peeing on herself in the back of the room.

Don't you hate when you post a story that's funny and some poser has to come back and tell one of their own in a comment? I know I do.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

STOP TRYING TO STEAL MY THUNDER GOSH

That story does rule, though. ;) We should go shooting potato guns one day.

[saying-things.livejournal.com]

Yes! When we're old. Then we'll be Old People and Potatoes. Another great name for a band, courtesy of me.

I have to shoot a Barbie out of a potato gun at some point, like Dave Barry did.

[opened---once.livejournal.com]

Hahah...that was the funniest explanation of a collage I've ever seen. You're the best. Hope all is well! :)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yep, things are pretty nifty right now. :)

[lastcallforcorn.livejournal.com]

i think it's brilliant.

(that whole "explain yourself" thing is exactly why i quit art school. "hm. don't wanna. and you can't make me." well, that and that i'm not at all creative.)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Why, thanks!

I know what you mean. Now, if we do this again, my creative process is going to be blocked because I'm going to go into it trying to give it meaning. Damn that.