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24.8.06 Urban Pirate Girl

"Adam is more slapstick comedy than anything else, but it's slapstick involving Picasso paintings, Wagner, and Freud. The kids aren't meant to notice, because we never say HEY THIS IS PICASSO AND YOU KNOW HE WAS A REALLY IMPORTANT ARTIST, we just go, look! funny painting of blue guy. Oh, he's blue because he's under water. Check out his swimming trunks under his coat! The book is basically me and Luigi di Giammarino making really lowbrow humour and visual jokes about things we love a whole lot. Like Cy Twombly. And Hiroshige. And Basquiat. But we don't stop to explain, or even say who made the images, because the kids are smart enough to go search out this information for themselves if they like it. [...] If I get remembered for one book, it will be Adam. Such a simple concept, so much to be done with it, so elegantly. More.

New interview with me at Newsarama! I'm taking questions there, so if there's anything you've always wanted to ask me, here's your opportunity.

New photo of me on my site!*

Same old Alex! Zooming around London today on my cherry-red mountain bike, from set to pitch meeting to checking out a Soho rooftop location and back again, dressed like Tank Girl's mom, with a bandage on my wrist and a videocamera in my messenger bag, Operation Ivy on the iPod... and I had one of those moments where I thought, yeah, this is what it's about. I may be broke, single, and exhausted, but I'm nailing around Soho at unsafe speeds listening to finest ska-punk and doing exactly what I've always wanted to do. (Complete my life: send money, and men of easy virtue.) One of these days I probably should grow up, but... I really don't see the point.

*How wrecked do I look? That was a still from some stuff on set after I had no sleep in... days. Speaking of which, it's 11pm and I haven't even started the edit I need to do tonight.

( 9:43 PM )

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