You're not on any sites you fucken fool (and no one reads your Facebook page)
Ten thousand, four hundred and ninety-six people read me - and are terrified of crossing me in any way, so they refrain from dancing with me where possible.
You, on the other hand, are just another guttersnipe, shooting blanks and incapable of a worthy hard-on.
Too much cheap beer, cheap hash, and even cheaper sluts.
It's a gas to see how jealous you really are of me, innit.
I know you wish you had my coverage, but face it Jimmy - you never will.
Your specialist subjects are old hat, boring, repetitive, of little interest to anyone bar your Ma with the massive hanging testicles of death covered in grey pubes.
If you could you'd have your face buried in his crotch and your hands tucked into his sweaty armpits, wouldn't you?
You're literally the reason kids (brats) are barred from pubs, and other adult spaces
I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, but for what it's worth, the parents of any kids who got to watch me at work always came to me to ask how come I'm not working with kids full time, I have such a way with them. I make learning fun. I include them in what I'm doing and I love to put on a show. That's really what I'm being hired for, not just my artistic angles but my ability to charm even the most hostile fuckers with my simple approach to life and art and music.
I loved working those contracts, and not just because of the money and freebies, but because I love to mosh with new people, draw them into what I'm doing and let them know that the management are paying me not just for artwork, but for the performances I can invent out of thin air that captures everyone's attention and has them offering me drinks and anything else I want.I always refuse, I have never taken a drink while at work even in the hardest of Louis' bars like The Finches, or the Palmerstown House, where he keeps his offices.
Louis and I have only ever had a handful of conversations in all the decades I worked for him. He was the only person I told I was quitting back in 2015 and that I wouldn't be available in the same manner I used to be, but that I did have a surrogate (studied) NCAD artist already lined up for him and she's also great with people, I used her many times to do the filling in after I laid out the graphics and legged it to the next pub/restaurant on the list. She shows up just as I'm finishing, I give her the colour chart and show her where she needs to work freehand (in reverse) to complete the pieces.
Then I'm gone. Next pub, next performance, next three dozen people asking me to come to their homes and do the kid's rooms and rumpus rooms.
Please stay and have dinner, the kids love you, they've loads of questions for you? Can you stay another hour? We'll pay you for it.
So I stay a while and inspire the kids with stories about how art breaks all barriers and languages, as does music, which is my first love. My one true love I married and promised never to leave. And how happy it makes me to be doing what I love to do and not just getting paid for it, but being invited into people's lives while I'm splishing and splashing around their houses. On one bizarre occasion, I had the entire patronage of a lovely little spot called An Sibin out in Dunshaughlin stop what they were doing to gather around and watch how I handled their kids: I sat them all (around eleven or twelve of them) on high stools and set about creating any character they asked me to from the pictures in their phones. On the spot, I dreamt up ways of including things they asked perfectly into the overall piece I was being paid to design. The lady I was seeing at the time stood by in amazement, she knew I'm good with people, but she didn't know I was also great with kids. The parents were absolutely delighted that their kids got a free lesson in art, in how to live, in how to turn dreams into realities. And not one of them commented on the fact that I'm covered from head to toe in paint splashes and rumpled clothing from the second hand shops.
The only people who ever passed comment on my appearance was my Mam, who asked why I couldn't just buy some work clothes and change into them for the work, then take them off when I'm finished. Poor Mammy, she was of that generation who believed presentation was vital in improving one's lot in life. But over time I made her see that it's the very wealthy who truly don't give a shit what way they're dressed when they're about doing their business. Besides, what artists shows up all clean and sparkling? I show up like an explosion in a paint shop, and I bring the party with me. That's why I didn't even have to let Louis know when I was around. I could simply walk into any of his hotels, restaurants, pubs, multiplexes, and even his own family spread out in the sticks.
I make art out of nothing.
I use chaos as a medium.
I employ simple skills but get big results.
I love what I'm doing and could do it in my sleep, but I don't want to miss a moment.
Yeah, the money matters - but only for my life up here - never there.
I don't need to buy anything bar bus tickets and paints and inks.
Everything else is free: food, drinks, phones, taxis, you name it.
So yeah, I miss the action, maybe the money, not that I need it, but I did enjoy doing the final tally at the end of a successful run with few hours wasted.
But I have no regrets, only a litany of bizarre experiences that I'd never otherwise have had were I to do what I do any other way.
So I don't really care whether you get it or not, Jimmy.
You're only an arsehole with a fat mouth and no balls, so I don't take you seriously anyway.
I just enjoy wrecking your head, wrecking your day, bursting your stupid bubbles.
You're a spitball target, another yap in a long line of yaps.
But you'll never match how I've lived such a life as I have.
You'll never actually 'get it' because it's not accessible to you.
You have no skills whatsoever, not at work and not with people either.
You're a loser, one of life's drags.
But I like having you around - you remind me of all that I left behind.
And I'm still laughing.