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Friday, October 11, 2002
I always make bread and butter pudding on Fridays. I don't know why, sometimes I want to make something else,
last week I was gonna make bread and butter instead but just at the last minute I felt compelled to make the pudding.
All this bread and butter is dragging me down, I'm not sure it's good for me to eat a whole pudding myself each Friday.
Sometimes I can't get it all down so I give a bit to the dogs but it is two rich for them. After it's gone I always make another,
I end up staying up all night eating and making more of them until dawn. I wish I would set the time aside to make a huge pudding that would last for a year of frydays, then I could do something else for a year and not have to worry.
I keep having dreams about meetin mr rite, in the dreams I'm in the video to Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits. I like the bit where Mark sings
'hey there's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attak' at that point in the dream Mark arrives on a horse and puts me on his back,
we go home to his castle where I show him my paintings and sculptures, he is so impressed that we make love in my art studio for hours,
he is a great lover and he is wearing his headband and playing licks from 'Walk of Life' whilst he is loving me. Then I woke up as someone was licking my toe,
unfortunately it was only my mongrel Neil, I think I must have got some dog food on me before bed, Neil loves food, but I enjoyed him licking me,
maybe if I put a head band on him he would look like Mark?.
posted by user 3:50 AM
Thursday, October 10, 2002
I just got given a great new book, it's called 'Knitting with Dog Hair'
I've got this big mongrel dog called Neil and he's always shedding hair all over me whilst licking my face, sometimes it gets in my food and I end up cooking it, it is real disgusting and on top of this I cannot toilet train him and he's always leaving little messages round the house! When guests are round I
can't get him off of their legs, he is so passionate he wants to make love to them all....

Now I'm putting all his hairs in a bag and knitting it into a skirt for me, when it's done it'll be great because I know I'll always have Neil close to my body.
After the skirt I am making a matching bra and panties out of Neil, it will be so comforting to have his soft fur and his smell touching my most intimate parts.
posted by user 3:19 AM
Winter is a coming and the geese are getting fat,
Time to put a penny in Jan's straw hat,
Winter is a coming and my life is getting flat,
Time to walk the dogs for miles and

I couldn't think of the word to put there after 'and' I know it needs to end in 'at'
but I was trying to evoke a winter's day, me, waking early to firstly feed the dogs and then
take them out onto the crispy crinkled earth of the winter's morn,
Me walking all alone, and all forlorn,
Throwing sticks and being the pawn,
I'm torn,
I'm all out of faith,
This is how I feel,
I'm cold and I am drawn lying naked on the floor,
There is no relief cos I'm already torn.

You may recognize some of the word in the above poem. It's one of my experi -mental
pieces that uses rhyme that is simple and childlike and found footage. There I used the chorus
from Natali Imbruglea's Torn (found footage), i think it fits in perfectly with the tension I wanted to evoke of walking on the cold fields with the dogs.
I also am triking you into thinking the poem is done,
whils I eat this breakfast bun!

posted by user 2:52 AM
Tuesday, October 08, 2002
Last night was my evening class. I'm learning website design and htmn. My friend Rob tells me that I could earn a fortune if I was good with
the internet and he likes my painting so knows I could draw nice websites for people. He said that anyone can internet if they want to.
My teacher Karen is really nice, she says I'm a natural. We looked at Netscayp Navigater which is like a mouse trap and traps websites that you like onto your PC Compaq. I designed a website on paper then I fed the paper onto my computer through the floppy. You may have problems getting all the paper into your floppy and it's best to use a pen to shove and push it right in. Then you turn the monitor on and your website appears. It is very clever, whatever you put in it turms into
the web! I put my glove in there for fun and it made it straight into a website about gloves and sheep! I bet if I could get into the floppy drive it would turn me into the web as well, but I'm quiote happy in the real world for now, thanks.

posted by user 2:57 AM
Monday, October 07, 2002
Today I've been at work, it is very dull. I work for a pest control company in the small pest compartment.
At 07:00 I had to go to an old lady's house in Turnpike Lane, her house was riddled with mice, rats,
fleas, wasps and flies. it was disgusting. There was all manner of rotting food scattered all over the place,
it was no wonder she had pest issues. I got to work hearding all the pests into our pest carrier. To make them move I usually sing
'So Far Away From Me' by Dire Straits.There were so many pests that the carrier was full. Then it was off to the forest to empty them
back to nurture. Then back to her house to herd more pests. Five loads later her house was clean again, but I did a very bad thing
instead of taking all the pests to the forest I've been dumping them on the pavement outside my exhusband's house. Sometimes I
paste them through the lettr box, I try and stop myself from stuffing them through the door but it makes me happy so I just do it.
It's my only way of seeing him, he has so many pests that he's always on the phone asking me to come around and clean him.
I hope that maybe from spending time with him and the pests he may want me back, I hope I'm not being unrealistic.

posted by user 7:58 AM



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