Gob on you

Ever since I started taking my interest in art seriously, I've been thinking that it might be an interesting exercise for me, and perhaps for some others, if I start to keep a record of my life as it is shaped by art. That sounds a bit corny and maybe it is. I see so much art in galleries and exhibitions, I notice art in the street in the form of statues and sculptures - even grafitti. I read about art in newspapers, magazines and books. I talk to like-minded friends and aquaintances about art. So why not write about what I think about it? And where better to do it than on a lovely free blogsite provided by Google?

In the 1980s, the comedy team that fronted the TV show Not The Nine O'Clock News performed a song called Gob On You. I'm not sure I quite understood the significance of the lyrics at the time (I was about 10 years old) but now I imagine it was a send-up of the apparently empty-headed attitude of your average punk rocker of the day. Lines like: 'Sex is boring pain is fun / I want to cut my fingers off one by one / There ain't no point in staying alive / I want to be dead when I'm twenty-five' seem to have hankered down for good in my depleted grey matter. Other lines from the song somehow retained are 'Gob on you 'cos I hate your guts / Gob on you - kick you in the nuts / Gob on you 'cos you talk about art / Gob on you 'cos you're a boring old fart.' I think the BBC had to bleep or at least mute the f-word. Anyway, that explains the title!

So, just to lay down a few ground rules which are mostly for my benefit. Whenever I get a minute I'll post a picture or something and tell you what I think of what I've seen lately. You can then tell me that I'm wrong and we can have a heated debate. S'easy.