How in all hell did I not know Jamie Hewlett did a comic adaptation of Pulp's "Common People"? I was even living in England at the time, heavily obsessed with both Jarvis Cocker and Hewlett's comics, so that was a huge miss on my part. You can see a page from it in the gallery here along with a brief taste of Tank Girl and several pictures from Monkey: Journey to the West, the opera Hewlett designed that also features music by Damon Albarn. Hewlett of course also worked with Albarn to form Gorillaz and created the cartoon members of the band. I have always found his characters dead sexy, snaggle teeth and all, and yes I even dressed up in costume to go see the Tank Girl movie when it came out lo those many years ago.
So 8/8/08 is officially over as I write this. Los Angeles and New York? Got a new iteration of the Boredoms's fucking awesome
BoaDrum performance today. San Francisco? Got
World Hoop Day. Suffice it to say I wish I had been in LA again this weekend.
I also skipped the reception for this year's
Altered Barbie show tonight in favor of hanging with friends and watching
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, but the exhibition will be up until August 17th if you'd like to see Barbie and Ken doing multitudes of things Mattel never intended.
