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stressed eric

joesimpson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:23:25 +0000

I’m stressing out. After eating and drinking my way through the Christmas holidays and not doing much of anything else, I’ve put off a lot of work. Now I’m faced with preparing everything for the exhibition which will launch in about six weeks. There’s so many little jobs like designing the launch night invitations, posters, press packs, music player units – it’s all starting to blur. Everything requires a definitive decision, there’s so many different options for the tiniest of details.

I couldn’t get to sleep last night because I was thinking about it, so I distracted myself by concentrating on things that have absolute no consequence – like trying to make up a plot for an action movie – that sort of thing always works.

I’ve come to the conclusion delegating and calling on favours is the way forward, I’ve just emailed my friend Chris to ask him to think of something nice to write on the invites. My housemate Elliot is sat across the table making a posh flash banner for people to put on Myspace. My mum and grandparents are coming over next week to stuff envelopes, it’s a regular old workhouse at the Simpson residence.

You can head over to the Myspace page to sample three finished songs from the ‘Almost There’ soundtrack.

same old lines

joesimpson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:08:03 +0000

I’ve not been blogging much as late. I’m on my computer most of the day, doing press releases, myspace things etc. - so I’m not really in the mood. But, here’s an awesome song by Rod Thomas that I came across on Myspace - I’ve listened to this song a stupid amount of times. There is also a great remix by James Yuill that I highly recommend.

http://www.myspace.com/rodthomasmusic

I promise some good updates very soon, with a new trailer, new paintings, and exciting stories, (including fearing for my life when confronted by three russians with bottles and a lot of aggression on the tube) stay tuned!

it’s the ground that we’ll be replanted on

joesimpson — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:23:34 +0000

The funding application is off… six weeks till I find out if I get it or not. Obviously the exhibitions will happen regardless, but it will make it a lot easier with a bit of a budget.

I’m back into the studio to work on a couple of large commissions that need to be done by the end of November. It’s strange to be back at it after a month off.

I have a meeting with a big cruise ship company on Sunday, to talk about doing a bunch of paintings for a New York styled bar on board a ship. Should be interesting to see how it goes.

I’m without the internet at the moment, which is killing me.