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May 31, 2008 Recently the JSHNYC site was hacked - we're not sure how - by someone or something that put a bunch of goofy text and spam links hidden in our source code. Since they didn't actually show up when viewing the page, we didn't think much about it, deleted the crap, and moved on. But I just happened to Google "JSHNYC" and lo and behold, I see that it got crawled by Google, so now our Google listing looks like this:
So, if you came here expecting men outdoors naked, I hate to disappoint. (Contact me and maybe we can work something out, though.) Posted by: JSH
May 8, 2008
Jeffrey Scott Holland's new book Weird Kentucky is now officially out, and
appearing on store shelves worldwide! JSHNYC recommends Strand Books
as your best bet for purchasing it, either online or in-store. Their
50 percent discount price of $9.97 beats all competition when you compare prices.
Strand's main store is located at the corner of 12th Street and Broadway, and boasts 18 miles of used and new books!
Posted by: Andrea M.
May 4, 2008
Congrats to those who took us up on the Eggs That Are Forsaken offer,
which is now over and brings the whole Project Egg trilogy to a close.
Now I never want to hear the word egg again. Don't say that word. Don't say that word, "egg".
Posted by: JSH
April 15, 2008
My microscopic record label, Creeps Records, had an mp3 blog called The Black Smokehouse
which ran for several months before it went on hiatus. Well, it's back now, and bringing you a new daily mp3 for random and lowbrow tastes. Check it out!
Posted by: JSH
April 9, 2008
Here's JSHNYC's very own Terry Wunderlich taking a drink break in between art modeling sessions for a recent
Dr. Sketchy's event.
Posted by: JSH
April 6, 2008
JSHNYC proudly supports Million Trees NYC Month! Please take just a little time
and get involved in some way, any way. Did you know you can request a FREE tree from the city? The Parks Department plants street trees on sidewalks in
front of homes, apartment buildings, and businesses in all five boroughs. Or if you don't want to wait, you can call the New York Tree Trust at
(212) 360-TREE and obtain and plant your own trees!
Posted by: JSH
March 19, 2008 We're announcing one last opportunity to get ahold of one of the plastic easter eggs intended for Project Egg Phase Three. A new sort-of reverse-mail-art
installation called Eggs That Are Forsaken starts April 1st, and for thirty days anyone who writes us will get
a FREE egg, simple as that! You have to ask for your egg via snail-mail though, no email requests will be honored. (We just want your address so we can send you
even MORE free stuff later down the road, we're sneaky that way!) The rest of the eggs get poured into a chipper shredder this summer, and the pieces will become part of JSH's
paintings in the future.
Posted by: Andrea M.
March 13, 2008 I don't concern myself too much with terrestrial politics, but I do have some concerns about what's gone on with Governor Spitzer.
If you watch The Wire and agree with its premise that everything in government is the result of some sort
of shady back-room dealings, then viewing these recent events make a lot more sense.
Spitzer was one of those rare, Bobby Kennedy-like politicians who actually DID something besides sit around practicing his golf swing in his office. He came down
hard on radio payola, He exposed corrupt police, and he cracked down on those deceptive "crisis pregnancy center" ads that turn out to be some religious group trying to
talk women out of abortion. He championed musicians who weren't getting their proper royalties from major record labels. He made actual and substantial organized crime busts, something
his predecessors couldn't be bothered with. He launched massive investigations into insurance companies, securities firms, and the computer industry. And, most tellingly, he had scathing
criticism for "President" Bush, declaring him to be, among other things, deliberately and illegally complicit in a conspiracy with predatory lenders.
So, needless to say, the guy pissed off just about every powerful interest in sight, including some from his own party's agenda. Not surprising, then,
that some old arteriosclerotic guy must have said to another one in the lodge hall that this Spitzer guy's gotta be dealt with. Since liberals tend to be
horny little devils, it's always easy to find a sex scandal if you look hard enough for one.
Not that I consider spending time in the company of a beautiful and high-class escort to be scandalous. You know, there once was a time when such things were not only considered nobody's business,
they were also considered perfectly normal for a red-blooded American male. I would have loved to have seen Spitzer come out and say "Yeah, I had sex with her. So what? Fuck you", but alas, he took the mealy-mouthed diplomatic way out,
and mouthed a bunch of platitudes that no one, including himself, really believes is sincere. Sigh.
Lastly, I find it chilling that what allegedly got Spitzer busted was a so-called "suspicious financial transaction" that consisted of nothing more than moving a few grand from one of his accounts to another. Hell, I do that all the time,
since when is THAT a fucking red flag signifying anything? Clearly, someone was on a fishing expedition here, trying to find something, anything, that might lead to something they could use against Spitzer. Politics in America, now more than ever, consists of a handful of
impotent secret-agent-wannabes trying to wage war on the not-so-impotent ones. It was so in J.Edgar Hoover's day and it's so now. It's like being on a goddamn Klingon ship around here, or the evil-Spock mirror universe where you never know which redshirt's trying to plot your demise.
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February 22, 2008 JSH's Catclaw Theatre Company will be performing a play about Toulouse-Lautrec entitled Toulouse-inations at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in August 2008, and will be bringing it to NYC shortly thereafter. The play deals with the painter's obsession with absinthe.
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February 19, 2008 World domination creeps ever closer! Now there's a JSH branch office in Los Angeles, manned by Mark Givens, editor of Mungbeing Magazine! There's a rudimentary "coming soon" website up now, and supposedly will fully launch before the month is over.
Posted by: Andrea M.
January 21, 2008 It's on! The Catclaw Theatre Company has a website up now, and are holding their first meeting next weekend. Expect the company to start bringing their productions to NYC later this year!
Posted by: Andrea M.
January 9, 2008
A cool site called Ecorazzi has a great article about Phase Three of Project Egg being voluntarily withdrawn
to help save the world's oceans from plastic contamination. Click the image to read.
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January 8, 2008
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January 1, 2008
Happy New Year from all of us to all of you! Thanks for your support in 2007 and we look forward to new and exciting adventures in 2008!
Posted by: JSH
November 29, 2007
I'm excited to announce that in 2008, I'll be focusing additional energy to the world of theatre. I've
already been working in theatre for quite some time, and have now formed my own company. It's called the Catclaw
Theatre Company, and you'll be hearing a lot more about it very soon.
My own influences and tastes in theatre are as inclusively idiosyncratic as those in my art. I like most things that
Peter Brook would classify as "rough theater". I like Antonin Artaud, Jean Cocteau, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, even though their
own philosophies contradict each other in some ways. I like surrealist, dadaist, and avant-garde plays. And yet on the other hand, I also love the classic old-school Broadway-style
musical and regard it as probably one of the greatest artistic forms of the last century.
I will be very interested in putting on productions that draw from these two disparate extremes.
Auditions and calls for cast and crew will begin shortly in several U.S. cities, including NYC, Washington, D.C., and Louisville. If you have any
interest in working with us, don't hesitate to contact me!
Posted by: JSH
November 23, 2007
I think this is my new favorite JSH painting (but then again I'm prejudiced - because I was the model!):
Posted by: Andrea M.
November 22, 2007
The Keyscratchings series of guerilla art-exhibits in unconventional venues marches on!
Recently prints of some of JSH's black and white works were displayed in Central Park for curious and bemused passersby. Other shows in other cities are on the way,
including some in alleyways of JSH's hometown of Louisville.
Posted by: RJ
November 7, 2007
Another lost SPUNT painting has turned up! A music teacher in
Toronto, Canada is currently in possession of 1999's Portrait of Cole Porter. Interestingly, unlike most
SPUNT owners, she is not the original buyer - she obtained the piece from an antique mall in Canada.
Three months ago, three other SPUNT paintings were found to be in the private art collection of Michael Monello, co-producer
of The Blair Witch Project.
Posted by: RJ
October 30, 2007
It pleases me to announce that the new album by Grillo the Clown, entitled
Grillo Sings the Hits of the 90's, is now on sale from Superfrothco as
either a compact disc, a USB Flash Drive, or online mp3 download. The original source tape was a cassette Grillo created for his
infamous Glue and Gum art exhibition in 2004, and then my friend JLK and I remastered the recording and produced it as an album
for release on Creeps Records.
Attendees of my Clowns in Love show at the sadly now-defunct Jigsaw Gallery (by Tompkins Square Park) will no doubt remember - and regret - Grillo's attendance.
Useless factoid: I took the cover photo of Grillo in 2005, when I still had a studio in Richmond, KY. The pegboard you see in the background is the one that later became the In Revenge And In Love painting,
which was in turn used as the promotional postcard for the Louisville Retrocognition show.
Posted by: JSH
October 25, 2007
JSH's indie label Creeps Records has announced its intention to release the complete recorded works of
Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infection (RV&OI) and Cheeseburger and Fries for free to the world on archive.org's Open Source Audio project.
Both acts are street-busking duos who churned out a multitude of low-budget, low-fidelity cassettes in the 1980s and 90s. RV&OI were usually masked and tended towards ultra-minimalist improvisational silliness (think Daniel Johnston or Wesley Willis) while
Cheeseburger & Fries (JSH himself was "Cheeseburger" on guitar and J.T.Dockery on drums was "Fries") played a deep repertoire of retro roots music. Cheeseburger & Fries haven't performed or recorded in years but talk of a reunion has been in the wind lately. RV&OI,
meanwhile, continue to warble on street corners and leave a trail of homemade cassettes behind them like a slug's residue.
RV&OI's back catalogue consists of literally tens of thousands of archival recordings, so the task of putting them on the web will be a long and herculean one. You can periodically search the archive.org site for username "RVandOI" to see what's been added lately.
Here's a couple of examples:
http://www.archive.org/details/FatlikeTonySoprano
http://www.archive.org/details/Megaliquor
Posted by: RJ
October 22, 2007
On Thursday, October 25, I'll be attending the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction site of
Museum Plaza in Louisville, Kentucky. This incredible skyscraper, dedicated largely to
the arts, will revolutionize downtown Louisville with its avant-garde architecture and innovations (thanks to the wonderful folks at
REX NY over at 160 Varick in Manhattan).
The Museum Plaza will be the future home of the JSH Louisville studio/office.
Construction is scheduled to be completed by late 2010.
Posted by: JSH
October 17, 2007
A thousand things I need to be doing today, and yet I've spent all morning giving out free sketches to the world on Sketch Swap and
tinkering with my new mp3-ripping turntable. For years, I've been hoarding 78rpm homemade Recordio Disc acetates that I've found at yard sales and thrift shops, and I decided to finally actually play one and digitize it. This
particular record is really whipped, but through the static you can hear that it's apparently a 1930's radio broadcast of Wallace Kiser and his Orchestra doing "Bumble
Boogie" in the Blue Room of the Downing House, Lexington, KY. (I'm arbitrarily guessing the spelling is Kiser, but it could be Kaiser or Kyser. A Google search surprisingly brings up absolutely nothing for any of these spellings of the artist, nor for the venue. It's
like this record came from an alternate universe or something. Anyone have a clue?)
Click to download: bumbleboogie.mp3
Other than pitch-correction, I've done absolutely nothing to this
track yet, but with noise reduction and editing tools, I think I can restore it into something
marginally listenable. I have enough of these kinds of records to make an entire website out of it all,
and I probably will this winter.
Posted by: JSH
October 10, 2007
Over a year in the making, JSH's new book Weird Kentucky is
now completed and slated for release next Spring! Related in part
to his famous Unusual Kentucky website and his forthcoming Invisible Topography multimedia event, it's a compendium of strange people, places and things in Kentucky that you won't
hear about from any official Kentucky tourism guide or historical society! Click here to pre-order on Amazon!
Posted by: Andrea M.
October 5, 2007
Two ongoing series of events are on slate for the autumn:
Firstly, JSH's Keyscratchings series of exhibitions in unorthodox venues
(alleys, gas stations, public restrooms, vacant lots) goes into overdrive soon with multiple dates to be announced.
Secondly, a major
speaking tour is being booked as we speak - if you have booking opportunities for JSH to lecture in your city, contact him! The lectures
may or may not be considered part of the Dark Observatory lecture series, as the new round of appearances will not feature painting performances. The autumn lectures will primarily be tying in
with an upcoming book project about the paranormal, and anomalous views of the prehistory of America.
Posted by: Andrea M.
September 30, 2007
If you're one of the six-hundred-plus people who've filled out the "Get Free Stuff!" form on the main Jeffrey Scott Holland site this summer,
you're finally about to get your goodies: the home office in Louisville is sending the summer "freestuff" packages starting tomorrow morning and will continue shipping throughout the month of October. In the
future, rather than let requests accue for quarterly mailings, JSH will be sending out freebies on an "as they arrive" basis. Items will be shipped both from the Louisville and the Washington, D.C. offices.
So what's actually in those packages? Request one yourself and find out!
Posted by: Andrea M.
September 21, 2007
I was interviewed recently for an Italian blog by Claudio Parentela entitled The Thermostat and the Green Dragoon, and it hit the web this morning. I think this
is the first time I've ever been asked in an interview what my "favorite tactile sensation" was.
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September 17, 2007
JSH appears in the new documentary Burgoo by Stan Woodward, playing guitar onstage with Sarah Elizabeth. The documentary will air soon on PBS and is also available directly from Woodward himself at:
Woodward Studio Limited
Posted by: Andrea M.
September 14, 2007
Last night I dreamed I was in a church where old friends from high school
were getting married, and I was sent to buy candy for it. Another girl from my high school class handed me
her entire purse for the errand, rather than just giving me her credit card.
Somehow,
I got lost and ended up in a gymnasium next door, where I saw David Duchovny getting dressed
after a workout. He was on the other side of a wall of mostly empty metal shelving. I laid
the purse on a shelf and tried to make some small talk with him through the open shelving. He told me he'd recently
traveled to the Moon as part of a NASA program to send celebrities into space. As I started
to take the purse back off the shelf, he quickly grabbed its strap and attached to a nail sticking
out, which caused me to accidentally rip the purse strap as I pulled it away.
I was furious at him in the dream for some reason and began screaming and berating him with
every insult I could think of, much like the characters rant at each other in Glengarry GlenRoss.
Other men in the gym turned around and started watching. Duchovny kept his usual placid and deadpan
demeanor, despite my best efforts to say every hurtful thing I could think of to him. Finally I remarked
on his lack of facial expression, and he said "When I was on the Moon, I learned not to lose my temper".
I said in a loud and mocking voice, "Ohhhhh-HO! When you were on the MOOOOOON! Look at me, I'm Mister "I went to the fucking MOON!" Let's bring
that up in the conversation every chance we get, why don't we?" This elicited howls of laughter from all the other men in the gym and Duchovny finally began to
look pissed off.
Then I woke up, cursing the gin and chorizo sausage I'd had for a late night dinner.
Posted by: JSH
September 9, 2007
People are asking us, "so where is that new JSH Combo album?" and I can only say that
he's scrapped some tracks and decided to do some more recording in the studio and the release date has been pushed back just a
little. When? We don't know. Soon.
But in the meantime, here's a JSHNYC exclusive! This is a live recording of Jeffrey Scott Holland on guitar with Ben Allen on bass and J. Todd Dockery on drums. The song's a
shoegazing little instrumental called "Night Patrol".
Click to download: jeffreyscotthollandnightpatrol.mp3
Posted by: Andrea M.
August 23, 2007
You don't often see us telling you to spend your hard-earned cash on somebody else's swag here
unless it's someone we really, really, really support, and KISS would be near the top of that list. They're a
longtime favorite of JSH's, and the band graciously hosted a Jeffrey Scott Holland art exhibition called
Fuel to Build a Fire earlier
this year at their amazing KISS Coffeehouse in Myrtle Beach!
Now the band is putting real teeth back into their longtime fan association, the KISS ARMY, entitling members to
all sorts of goodies - and JSH was
one of the first to get on board with a $50 premium membership since the announcement was made this morning. He urges you to do the same,
and serve the cause to which we are all so devoted. Click here for the official KISS ARMY
registration page. (And then, if you're still feeling shoppy, come back here and buy some of our goodly goods, okay? Okay!)
Posted by: RJ
August 20, 2007
Our new shirt, based on the painting The Card to Bring me Down,
is now available for $17 USD! Here's Terry Wunderlich of the band Alpha Betty showin' the shirt off, as
well as our other new shirt of the There's Always A Duck painting!
Posted by: Andrea M.
August 19, 2007
Another satisfied customer:
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Mr.Holland,
I got my prints today and wanted to let you know. They
D.B.
Posted by: JSH
August 8, 2007
Our next shirt, based on the painting The Card to Bring me Down, is almost ready! Here's a look:
Posted by: Andrea M.
August 4, 2007
Two more "lost" SPUNT paintings have turned up!
Three pieces, Walt Disney's Head in a Jar, Clown Prostitutes, and Portrait of Juan Esquivel turned up
recently in the private art collection of Michael Monello, co-producer of The Blair Witch Project. The paintings are all believed to be circa 1999. Two of the three
appear below. (A photo of the Esquivel piece was already in JSH's archives.)
Telecrylic International is currently attempting to put together a master catalogue of JSH's works, and the vast majority of paintings from the SPUNT years
are uncatalogued and their whereabouts unknown.
Posted by: Andrea M.
August 2, 2007
There's always a duck! A seventeen dollar bill will get you the new JSHNYC duck t-shirt
PLUS a special secret FREE bonus surprise in every package. Send $17.00 check or postal money order to JSHNYC,
242 E. 38th Street #2C, New York, NY 10016. Specify S, M, L, XL or XXL. Shirts are Gildan 100 percent cotton, with
the duck rendered in pale Naples yellow/white on a pine green shirt.
Shown here modeling the duck is our very own JSHNYC intern Rebecca Quartieri.
Posted by: Andrea M.
July 29, 2007
We're now officially starting work on a small coffee-table book of JSH artwork, running the gamut from paintings
to photographs to stencils to stamps to poster graphics to woodcuts. No name yet, but we're looking at approximately 272 pages, full color, full bleed,
and dimensions of 6.6 x 5.2 x 1.3 inches. Targeted release date is this winter, but I'd love to see it get out there before Christmas.
Posted by: Andrea M.
July 26, 2007
Water Towers Look Like Martians, the forthcoming album from JSH's idiosyncratic jazz band The JSH Combo
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Interestingly, although written by JSH, the title track "Water Towers Look Like Martians" was originally recorded in 1997 by Retrovirus & Opportunistic Infection,
and then by transgendered punk band The Crunchies in 2003.
Posted by: RJ
July 22, 2007
Our friends Minnow (pictured here) and Slint were here recently playing a gig at Webster Hall (that's
The Ritz to us oldsters).
Posted by: JSH
July 21, 2007
For immediate release:
Contact:
SUPERFROTHCO BECOMES WORLD'S FIRST RECORD LABEL TO SWITCH TO USB FLASH
DRIVE AS AN ALBUM FORMAT
As of Friday, July 20, independent record label SUPERFROTHCO has now
become the world's first record label to completely switch over to the
USB Flash Drive as our official format of choice for formal album
releases.
Our first USB Flash Drive release will be the debut album from
painter/jazz musician Jeffrey Scott Holland's JSH COMBO, a peculiar
combo that weds experimental modern jazz to dixieland, cabaret and
show tunes, and comes out in a whole new realm of sonic territory in
the process. The album will ship on September 1st, 2007 but we're
already taking pre-orders and sending out review copies to the media.
This album will be available ONLY from Superfrothco and ONLY on the
MP3-player-friendly USB Flash Drive format!
All future Superfrothco releases, such as the long-awaited GRILLO THE
CLOWN album, will be released in this format. Back catalog items like
HASIL ADKINS' final album "Night Life" will be reissued in this format
as well, with bonus material.
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July 20, 2007
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July 15, 2007
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