John's Big Head

1:07AM - John D'Agostino

To all John's family, friends, and loved ones:

Tuesday morning November 21st 2006 began a sad and mournful day for the entire D'Agostino family. My brother John in route to visit his family in New Jersey, his home town, passed away in a terrible accident. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers, and for being a part of his life.

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061122/NEWS/611220331
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/nyregion/22train.html
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-5/116417398927240.xml&coll=1

1:34PM - Why Does the Doctor have No Face

A Little Taste

Two things have been running through my head in the last 24 hours plaguing my waking hours and my sleep. The first being, what would I sing at karaoke tonight and the second of no less importance have been ponderings about the recent wave of bombings in Turkey. But, before I go to karaoke tonight I ought to finish the sculpture that I am working on. It's a little piece, the figure of a man made from found objects; a block of wood, pieces of a worn out mop handle, an old paint brush, a bolt, and a few other bits of this and that. It's painted red, white, and blue. The bolt protrudes disproportionately large from the lower torso and is painted purple, something resembling a whopper of a throbbing erection. I need to find a small cylinder to add to the sculpture. I'll paint it to look like an oil drum. Someplace on the base of the piece I'll scribble the title, "Bush got a Purple Knob".

Mick Jaeger asks three questions in his song, "Sister Morphine". One is, "How long have I been lying here?", then "What am I doing in this place?" and the other, "Why does the doctor have no face?" I've been practicing the words to this song although it is not on the karaoke playlist. They have "Honky Tonk Woman", maybe I'll do that.

2:08AM - Big Wow for Eccentric Outsider Artist the John Dog

I get obsessive sometimes about my web sites.  I always want to keep them interesting.  Put new things on them, add pictures, and links. I check my stats not too frequently to see if people are visiting them.  I also check my page ranking for some of my key words, outsider artist, eccentric art, etc.. John Dog is one of my key words and one day I was checking yahoo search and found  "What would John Dog do?" posted on Molly Goatwax's Blog. Mrs. Molly Goatwax is an artist, poet, and  pub owner of Molly's Public House in Baltimore.  Here is the item below.

July 13, 2005

What would John Dog do?

I have been invited by the education co-ordinator at the musuem to conduct a hands-on seminar in small collage for twenty people at a (winter) Holiday event. I have mixed feelings about this, because while it is an honor and a chance for "face time", there is no stipend and the offer has been extended to several artists in an effort to provide hands-on activities for the fund raising event. If my seminar is well recieved, it may lead to a more featured, paid attraction. It looks as if there might actually be some considerable outlay for materials. I've got a few days to think about it.</i>

I had no idea why Molly used the name John Dog. I thought maybe it was a "Baltimore" expression, slang term for genius or something.  Before I became a full time eccentric outsider artist I had many jobs in the real world.  One of these jobs was as an education coordinator for a museum in Miami.  I did this for 7 years. Time to make the Twilight Zone - do - do -do - do -do - do noise.  Here she is sending out a question in cyber space to the John Dog - little did she know that she would soon get a reply from a John Dog with 7 years experience in museum education programming.  Pretty much I told her that normally museums have
budgets for these things so they can pay visiting artist or lecturers. I didn't post my reply on the blog but e-mailed it to her.  I thought maybe I would get an e-mail back saying, thanks blah, blah, blah. But I never got one and forgot about it.

Just the other day I was doing a John Dog search and checking my results and found another blog entry by Mrs. Goatwax.  Here is the post below.

July 19, 2005

Big Wow

My post the other day about the quandry with doing a workshop at the museum was titled "What would John Dog do?", because when I fed the term "eccentric artist" into the search engine, there he was. I have never met nor communicated with Mr. DAgostino, aka John Dog so you can imagine how absolutely floored I was to find an e-mail from him in my in-box this morning. And rather than take umbrage with me for having invoked his name in vain, he gave me some good advice! I quote his missive, in summary: "John Dog says Do It on the condition that the education director (maybe with your help) creates a program and a budget for future workshops. I'm sure your artist friends will appreciate being included if they are justly compensated. It is a win-win situation for the museum, the artists, and the public." And, in viewing some of the links and threads from the sites that I went back and actually looked at (rather than just pluck his name from the search), I find a philosophy from which much more can be learned...besides that, he seems like a nice guy.Thank you, Mr. Dog

Thank you Molly.  When I am in that wonderfully funky city of Baltimore I'll have to stop in for a cold one.  Also thanks for introducing me to Beer Church (a link I saw on your site).  Although I am already a self-ordained minister in The Church of The Only True God getting official credentials as a minister in Beer Church would be pretty cool.

1:46PM - Don't Make Me Mad

I'm a Mean SOB, So Listen Up
by John DAgostino, Eccentric Outsider Artist, a.k.a. The John Dog

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in her first speech before the General Assembly, called on the 191 nations to try harder to appease the wishes of the US.

Defying the view that one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, Rice said, "No cause, no movement, and no grievance can justify the intentional killing of eccentric outsider art makers, innocent civilians and noncombatants."

She added, "This is unacceptable by any moral standard except for the promotion of democracy and the free market system."

In her speech, which drew modest applause, Rice called on rich countries to help poor ones with development assistance loans at interest rates that ensure their dependence on the US. And developing countries, she said, "have responsibility to govern justly, to advance economic liberty, and to invest in their people, especially the eccentric outsider artist."

"For this institution to become an engine of change in the 21st century it must now change itself," Rice said. "The United Nations must launch a lasting revolution of reform. If not the US will use all its military strength to do it ourselves."

She said, "Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts" by the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency." She added, "Nations must realize that only the US has the right to have nuclear arms."

She ended her speech with a challenge, "The time to reform the United Nations is now," she said. "And we must seize this opportunity together."
 

2:07PM - dining with a dirty old eccentric outsider artist

3:44PM - dirty old outsider artist blog

Dear Readers,
September and October could be slow months for posting. Who knows, sometimes I get inspired. But I have some other projects in the works that I need to attend to. Hope you have enjoyed August posts on my great new outsider artist blog – notes of a dirty old outsider artist, which is based on the title of Charles Bukowski's book – notes of a dirty old man, so is the design of the site. I wrote some brief descriptions of all my August blogs.
Click on a link in the description to go to an August blog page

Here are a list of August posts on the blog

Blogs Inspired by the Buk

Go Easy on the Beaver – Chapter One of a wild ride thru the mind of the John Dog, an awesome eccentric outsider artist. Buk enters my brain and things get insane. Please, tell him to stop it.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_811.html –
Aug 11

Mo' Ramblin' – The party and it is outrageous, outsider artist John Dog, the Dude, the Buk, and some Russian girls get sloppy drunk and have an orgy. Find out what going on in the closet.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_812.html –
Aug 12

Cleanliness Is next to... – How does he do it? I don't know. Besides being a consistently good outsider artist the John Dog is a high powered chick magnet.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_813.html –
Aug 13

Thrown for A Loop – There he goes again that crazy eccentric outsider artist is always getting into trouble with the women. Will the John Dog ever learn?http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_814.html –
Aug 14

Bowling and Balling – Big Ern enters into my world and hell breaks loose. Get the bare facts about bare naked ladies from the most creative outsider artist, John Dog
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_820.html –
Aug 20

Jesus Cops an Attitude – Nobody fucks wid da Jesus, as that wild outsider artist John Dog and the rest of the gang found out. Chapter 6 of Bukish blogging.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_821.html–
Aug 21

Bear Epilogue – A wonderful ending to a story from a wonderful outsider artist who tells how two bad guys get it in the end. http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_829.html -
Aug. 29

Blogs Inspired by God and Satan

Sharing the Wealth – Generous outsider artist makes great art and shares the wealth. Lovely ladies from around the world.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_831.html –
Aug 31

95 degrees in the shade – blissful outsider artist reaches nirvana
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_830.html -
Aug 30

Deception Point – When he is not making great outsider art, John Dog is doing book reviews and plugging his brother's super blog 1, super blog 2, super blog 3, super blog 4
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_828.html –
Aug 28

Tell Me Lies – The best dirty old outsider artist in the world brings you fibs and fables from the internet.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_827.html –
Aug 27

Trying to Be Good – John Dog likes to cuss, but today this exciting outsider artist ain't gonna cuss – I swear it.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_826.html –
Aug 26

In and Out of It – Soon to be famous outsider artist , buy my work now, tells a story of a very strange day in the life of an eccentric outsider art maker.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_824.html –
Aug 24

Titties and Beer – How do you fight a demon or devil that has crawled up your ass and is vexing your soul. The ever curious eccentric outsider artist John Dog explores the subject. http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_823.html –
Aug 23

Cheap Flights to Amsterdam – Welcome to the Hotel Amsterdam, you can check out any time you like but you can never leave as this eccentric outsider artist found out.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_822.html –
Aug 22

The Blues Is Killing Me – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly sides of life as told by that outsider artist who everyone loves to hate, John Dog. I'm fighting back, damn it.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_819.html –
Aug 19

Where Is My Hat – Massively popular eccentric outsider artist John Dog tells tales of how every time he meets a big celebrity he some how looses his hat – very weird
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_818.html –
Aug 18

Disco Fever – Have you ever had cheap nasty zombie sex? Learn all about the latest fetish craze fromthe almighty and powerful eccentric outsider artist,
John Dog
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_817.html –
Aug 17

Tripe – Is not meaningless crap. It makes a damn good bowl of soup. The John Dog knows good soup and good art because he isa great eccentric outsider artist.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_816.html –
Aug 16

Ready For the Gulag – The terrific outsider artist John Dog draws the attention of the CIA. Bush finally figured out where Saddam hid his weapons of mass destruction – CHINA. John Dog exposes the lies of the Bush administration and more.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_815.html –
Aug 15

FYI – Adult Content Advisory – My first nasty sci-fi story. Men watch out. The future brings with it the horrors of wanton women out to kidnap your sperm by any means possible.
The best eccentric outsider artist, the John Dog says beware.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_810.html –
Aug 10

It's Not True – A CIA conspiracy against eccentric outsider artist John Dog is blown. And they thought that I wouldn't find out. Don't believe a word of it. Bush sucks.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_809.html –
Aug 09

Love Stinks – John Dog is a romantic eccentric outsider artist and his heart has been stomped on too many times. He bares all with this story. Share his pain. Share his anger.
http://www.notes.outsider-artist.info/notes_outsider_artist_806.html –
Aug 06

8:56PM - Conspiracy Against Eccentric Outsider Artists

It's Not True
by JohnDAgostino, Eccentric Outsider Artist

I have been taking a lot of heat lately from the U.S. government. I am in exile in Turkey because of my out spoken stance against the war in Iraq. Now the CIA and the U.S. government is waging a disinformation campaign about little ol' eccentric outsider artist me. A friend of mine found this on an art blog on the web.

What The John Dog Doesn't Want You to Know

In order to understand how Eccentric Outsider Artists are being used to corrupt the masses you need to realize that everything is controlled by a The Bad Artist Network (www.badartist.net) made up of outsiders with help from eccentric artists and liberal politicians.

The conspiracy first started after the death of Picasso. They have been responsible for many events throughout history, including the film noir movement.

Today, members of the conspiracy are everywhere. They can be identified by their chain-smoking, drinking, and paint stained fingers..

They want to destroy all CIA sponsored network television, conservative Republican war mongers, and imprison resisters in Neverland using 16 wheelers to get them there.

In order to prevent this, we all must go to the streets and protest. Since the print media is controlled by the ACLU we should get our information only from the White House, George W. Bush or network television. And most of all
DO NOT LOOK AT THESE WEB PAGES
http://www.art.funkydogmeat.com/art17.htm
http://www.art.funkydogmeat.com/art33.htm
http://www.art.funkydogmeat.com/art36.htm
http://www.art.funkydogmeat.com/art37.htm
http://www.art.funkydogmeat.com/art34.htm
http://www.art.funkydogmeat.com/art35.htm
http://www.revjohndog.johnsbighead.com/johndog9.htm
http://www.revjohndog.johnsbighead.com/johndog20.htm
http://www.revjohndog.johnsbighead.com/johndog21.htm
http://www.revjohndog.johnsbighead.com/johndog32.htm

Who would have thought it would come to this?
The John Dog

Current mood: crappy

12:15PM - LOVE STINKS

I can't say that I have ever met a gentle woman. Outward appearances are terribly deceiving. There is not a mother in the world who is gentle. Mother Theresa was a kind and compassion woman, but I'm sure she didn't accomplish what she accomplished by being gentle. What pains women inside so, that they can be so vicious, so cruel? Why do women want your soul? Is it the devil inside? Is it the devil who wants your soul?

I'm a romantic guy, a lover, not a fighter. I would never claim to be a gentleman, although I am a gentle man. I've loved many women in my life, but most of the time they've just fucked me. Hey, not to be rude but I gotta call it as I see it.

Scientists have mapped all the genes in the DNA strands. I am not sure if they have found the gene that makes women so aggressive – that extra large fear gene. Remove that gene and maybe women will learn to truly love. We've all heard it before - Women are nest builders, protectors of little babies, ensuring the survival of our species, the most dangerous animal in the world is a lioness protecting her cubs. No doubt they truly love their babies, but do they truly love their men.

My heart is filled with love. I am a generous person. I feed stray kittens. I make people laugh. Dogs sense my goodness, sit by me and wag their tails. I am an easy mark. I'll give someone the shirt off my back. I'll buy 'em a beer and listen to their hard luck stories. But a woman, a woman wants everything, wants your soul. Thank you I'll keep mine.
It's not for sale or trade. It cannot be bought or bartered for for any amount of sucking or fucking.

At times I've fallen and I've fallen hard. Sometimes a man will kick you when you're down, but a woman will do it every time. You fall in love and watch out for the punches. The "if you love me" slaps to the face, the "if you want to make me happy" kicks to the groin, the "scowls", and the "dirty looks".

And why the attack? What did I do wrong? Well, damn it you stupid idiot, didn't you know that when you fall in love with a woman and she "proclaims" to love you back that you must give her your soul. You must spend every waking moment thinking of only her and what you can do to please her. There is NO MORE you. There is only US and US means I.

It is "I" because "I" woman have won. "I" have made you fall in love with me. "You" have given me your heart. Fooled by lust when you thought it was love. "You" have lost, "I" have no respect for losers "I" hold you in contempt, now you are just a little part of me, part of my nest. You are a twig. Your soul is now mine.

How can one love someone for whom they have no respect. When a woman battles for a man's heart there is no love involved. It is all fear. Although you are just a twig you are a necessary part of the nest.(for the moment). A woman fears not having her twig when she needs it.. She will feint love to get it and hold it. She's afraid but she knows how to handle it. She will play with a man's little head until his big head can reason no more.

It all starts with that damn fear gene. Is there any hope for a man and a woman to grow, to love and respect each other, when the passion has gone. Hate is not the opposite of love - fear is. Hate is a secondary emotion that arises when people realize what their relationship has become; a relationship that began in fear. A woman begins to hate her fear, hate her twig for being so weak, hate herself for doing what she "had" to do. The man hates the woman for what she has done and himself for what he has let happen.

Is there a solution? It's not an easy task. Not one that many people are up to as the rate of divorce, substance abuse, murder, and suicide attest to.
Ponder this: The nature of empathic love, the love of life. Later try to imagine love without fear. Be brave, love works.

Current mood: hopeful

5:16PM - Pycho - Cup O' Joe by Eccentric Ousider Artist John Dog

PsychO Cup O Joe

Almost cup my hair the other day.
It's getting kind of espresso long.
I could of said it wasn't my way.
Woke cup this morning with a ma-shine gun in my head.
Heart attack and dis-vine surely soon be dead.

Have another cup o' joe, open one eye.
Peal back the lid, shot blood red.
No innocent victims, gonna smoke em till I die.
Fara Zahar, nothing sweet, light a Lucky ghost.
Rid the bitter stench and smell the beans roast.


Smoke gets in my eyes, doggy moms and their cuppies.
Cup all night in a blue-purple haze, distant memories.
Sirens brew an early dawn, burning out tired young yuppies.
Sip a little whiskey, it help what come out the coffee urn.
Good coffee, cup o' joe, might, might not get me what I earn.

Can't know where you going if you don't know where you been.
Speed too fast pain in my chest,java junkie, call me John Dog.
Caffeine makes my heart beat, have women just for sin.
What's the story? Where's the beef? Why ask if I lie?
Cup o Joe dreams,illusions and cigs maintain us till we cry.

Sun come cup night get down, Super Holy It, stains and ashes.
We are all to blame, bear the shame, accidents don't happen.
Violence on the t.v., living like this decades pass us.
Shot of tequilla, drink some mud, eggs, bacon and a side of toast.
Coffee brewing, music to my ears, Cup O' Joe what I love most.

Current mood: energetic

10:20AM - From Rev. John Dog - An eccentric artist Merry Christmas to YOU

Merry Christmas from eccentric artist John Dagostino aka John Dog aka Rev. John Dog. A good friend of mine just sent me an e-mail and urged me to pray for the end to the war in Iraq. Damn, I'm not one for praying but there seems to be no other way since the wise folk back in America re-elected G.W.ar Bush. (think I'll remain a refugee over-seas) See what The Rev. Sez @
http://www.revjohndog.johnsbighead.com/johndog32.htm
http://www.revjohndog.johnsbighead.com/johndog21.htm
http://www.revjohndog.johnsbighead.com/johndog20.htm

Check out John DAgostino eccentric American artist's views too cause Bush ain't the only problem @
http://www.art.funkydogmeat.com/art34.htm

and while your surfing go to
http://www.theonlytruegod.johnsbighead.com/down-with-santa.htm

GOOD CHEER LOVE, PEACE, AND POSITIVE ENERGY TO EVERYONE
John DAgostino, eccentric artist, aka John Dog, aka Rev. John Dog, aka Max Dogmeat, aka The Clock Man
p.s. Relax and Have a cup o joe or cup o' joe or cup-o-joe or cup a joe, or cup 'o joe or whatever you call it @
www.cup-o-joe.com

Current mood: artistic

6:27PM - More Bio from John's Big Head aka John Dog Eccentric Artist

I'm a blogging. been a webbing before, but never a blogging so I will post some bio stuff -
Here Goes:
It's a long way to Transylvania, but you can't to there from here. Born in the USA on the Jersey Shore John DAgostino, Eccentric Artist began his journey as an artist at a young age. Traveling and living in many parts of the U.S.- New York, Miami, and the Mid-West he absorbed influences from art "high" and "low". But his greatest inspiration were the words of Licio Isolani, a New York performance artist who he worked with in the 80's. Licio was considered pretty eccentric. He taught me that an artist is always an artist weather he has commercial success or is recognized or not. Even if you are surviving by polishing shoes at a golf course, as John once did, you are still an artist. If you take these words to heart and try to live your life by these words, you to will inevitability become eccentric, maybe even deranged. John at one time was known as Clockman and showed at The Gallery of the Eccentric in Coral Gables, Florida.
It's a long way to Transylvania, but you can't to there from here. Born in the USA on the Jersey Shore John DAgostino, Eccentric Artist began his journey as an artist at a young age. Traveling and living in many parts of the U.S.- New York, Miami, and the Mid-West he absorbed influences from art "high" and "low". But his greatest inspiration were the words of Licio Isolani, a New York performance artist who he worked with in the 80's. Licio was considered pretty eccentric. He taught me that an artist is always an artist weather he has commercial success or is recognized or not. Even if you are surviving by polishing shoes at a golf course, as John once did, you are still an artist. If you take these words to heart and try to live your life by these words, you to will inevitability become eccentric, maybe even deranged. John at one time was known as Clockman and showed at The Gallery of the Eccentric in Coral Gables, Florida, lived in a house boat on the Miami River, and managed a 6000 sq.ft. warehouse for artists and writers and musicians. He made child-like paintings on wood scraps and made them into clocks. Besides the word of Isolani, his travels to Africa were great influences. He soaked up the sun and colors of West African textile while living in Togo for 2 1/2 years and he has visited many African countries. Before moving to Transylvania he lived in Istanbul where he continued to paint, do mixed-media pieces and sculpt in clay. He also got into making web sites - because making paintings on wood and sculpting is crazy if you need to travel light. No more leaving hordes of art in foreign countries. Go to the web and see his work past and present at http://www.johnsbighead.com/jbh-artindex.htm.

Current mood: drunk