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Imagine wee Frances (and the word 'nepotism' comes to mind for some reason) being into crazy art (as all teenagers are to a greater or lesser degree). GG Allin (hilarious to hear of him mentioned in the Daily Mail)? Hmmmm. A 'suicide themed' birthday party? I actually feel sorry for the girl, with shite like Cobain and Love for parents. She seems like a genetic car crash waiting to happen. But you hope not, for her sake; not her fault she was born to two fuck-ups.

The GG Allin stuff is very telling:

http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2010/ ... im2010.htm

That's the kind of 17 year old I would have loved to hang out with back in the day. Ah, the folly of growing up in a small town.

I like her Jim Jones sketch. But to clarify anything with Jones greatly fascinates me.

Jones was a bag of worthless cult-cunt shit. And Cobain's work is really generic angsty teen crap, but with promise. I have seen a thousand meaningless illustrations just like those. It's only cos her parents are who they are she is regarded with such interest.

Fiddle Tim is a raw artist in need of honing her above average aptitude for drawing. Fiddle Tim's drawings balance a basic illustration approach with a scruffy (but delicately painted) texture, all aptly composed and not glopped on or glittered like so much trendy low brow attempts at feigning real experience in a cartoon culture. Her themes draw from abject personalities in search of nihilistic power: Jim Jones, infamous punk anti-legend GG Allin, and a recurring specter who makes demands of the viewer with the threat of eating the sun if they are not met.

Another recurring character is an obese nude that seems quite comfortable in his/her own skin, its rolls of flesh drawn with sickly wrinkles are easily the most unique and successful drawings in the show, and simultaneously the ugliest. But with her themes of tortuous anti-heroes pausing in their selfish devastation, it is no stretch to assume that her obese characters are quite -purposefully ugly; one of her Obesities is announcing "I don't give a shit" in a drawing entitled Goat Shit (the goat he/she stands next to is the most delicately drawn character in the entire exhibit); the other Obesity is drooling at the mouth under the phrase "Chocolate from the Bald Man" and sporting a jail cell heart tattoo on his/her shoulder reading "health care".

While the work is far from trendy, it has its roots in the ever-unassailable school of black leather self-hating punk. Fiddle Tim's eight small drawings are ensconced on the walls of the gallery amidst slick day-glo acrylic cartoon popsters. But a kindred art ally is near on an adjoining wall where Alyson Souza's expertly painted snakes and lizards are juxtaposed with bible verses and halos or in other paintings where body organs are separated and highlighted in intricate pictorial detail. One can only wonder if the veteran painter Souza had punk scrawled caricatures filling her late adolescent art school assignments a lá Fiddle Tim. It is a testament to La Luz that the gallery can seamlessly curate at both ends of the "raw" spectrum.

But of course a second review becomes necessary knowing who the artist is. Cobain has placed her portrait of the late GG Allin in the center of this grouping of eight framed drawings. Like her father he was punk singer and heroin addict. Unlike her father he was "pure" in punk rock legend for never becoming famous (beyond punk infamy) or successful. In punk lore, no artist went further in his rejection of all social mores than New Hampshire's Jesus Christ Allin. The daughter of two fucked-up punk rock casualties renders the son of two hippies fucked up enough to name their son "Jesus Christ." That his younger brother could not pronounce his name was how he came to be called GG, and he is pictured by Cobain bloody and brooding, his "Life Sucks" and "Scumfuck" tattoos rendered with more clarity than GG's were in real life. Anyone with a lick of punk street smarts knows that the tender sadness Cobain renders in Allin's tired eyes is also the preparation of creating ever more destructive mayhem with no consideration of the consequences. Cobain's work is at its conceptual harshest when its the rendering is soft and simple. Yikes! Kind of like a Nirvana song.

Cult leader Jim Jones is pictured, sideburns and all, in The Ballad of Jim Jones holding a toothbrush as his victims are sperm cell-like organisms with simple faces of death. Allin and Jones are two sides of the same coin: the power of one's self-hatred as the means to destroy.

If her Obesities discussed above are self-portraits, a working through that late-teen developmental state of hating and loving our own bodies, could the eerie Spector Hector reveal her relationship to her deceased father? A yellowed, fetid head shaped somewhat like Gumby has an asymmetrically disjointed left eye, and its right eye is just a socket. The most delicately colored piece in the show, does it show us a vision of Kurt Cobain rejecting his daughter's love with the admonition (which is painted below the head's purple neck) "Treat me like your mother or I'll eat the sun." Does her fixation on "icons of filth" like Jones and Allin allow Cobain to more easily accept and process the punk rock world of her destructive parents? With restraining orders against her mother and a long-dead father seemingly pictured as rotting and insisting that there can be no redemption with him, is love a luxury that this talented heiress can never afford? If so, at least Frances Bean Cobain will always have her art.

–Mat Gleason

when i hear of jim jones i always think of that brief intro burroughs made at th nova convention. something like, "Dr. Benway is just back from Jonestown and reports that everything is under control."

and there's the last supper record
monte cazazza
and genesis p. orridge released
http://www.discogs.com/Rev-Jim-Jones-Th ... ase/656725

and here's something from a conspiracy writer that may be interesting.
http://viewzone2.com/jonesx.html

Interesting. I like that Benway line in regards to Jones. I have the Jonestown death tape and have listened to it multiple times. Great stuff. I have no use of conspiracy theories without backing, but the simplest explanation for Jone's CIA file being blacked out is that (this is from speaking with an agent very close to me) that they most likely had a man inside the cult reporting on everything.