Pagan, Eggin, Hand Pegging Easter Party

Tebowing for Christ in the morning...Pagan eggin' in the afternoon.. and a god damn American sugar indulgence all the time...join me as the_immaculatedeception celebrates Eostre. 

 EGGS by Miqual Corley (2004) 

4.5" x 10" / 6" x 13" mounted:  magazine tear outs / typewriter text / press on letters / 

acrylic paint / pencil on cardboard mounted to a broken wooden

David Lynch - Rabbits (2002)

Supposedly this references the 1980 film Mon Oncle d'Amérique by French director Alain Resnais in which he put giant rodent-head masks on the actors at one point.  I know nothing about that.  I do know that this one involves Humanoid Rabbits.  And that the Black Heart Procession's use of the Horse-head mask has much higher-brow references then I knew before too.  

Ivan DeJesus played for several teams in the Majors from 1974-1988.  He is best known not only for his deft play at Shortstop, but for also as being a part of the 1982 trade that brought Ryne Sandberg and Larry Boa to the Cubs, forever cursing my childhood to the sounds of Harry Caray's Budweiser-riddled attempts to slur out the word "Ryno".  I have fond memories of purposely mis-pronouncing his name, and in looking back now, these moments may have been the initial beginnings of the sarcastic wordplay and unrelenting attacks towards the JC that I've spun into the_immaculatedeception concept I now creatively wank-off under.

Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - S/T (1979)

The Post-WWII policies that created the Christian White Suburban Utopias and the safe clean culture within them at the expense of American cities and their residents, can be directly tied to creating the environment that led Hip Hop music and the cultural explosion that's come from it. But they can also be tied to Punk, No Wave, and all the other amazing progressive art, music, and film that came  out of New York in the late 70's to early 80's, due to the burn-out, cheap landscape that made work almost unnecessary, and allowed people like Lydia Lunch and James Chance to immerse themselves into a minimalist, creativity-driven lifestyle that has become the template for generation after generation of artsy,fartsy white youth that have come since then.  Thank you Christian Socialism and Racism!  And you know for damn sure the CIA wasn't supporting Fab Five Freddy like they were Jackson Pollock.  Plus all those 70's crime and action movies wouldn't have looked so damn cool if New York wasn't such a dark, dingy, burnt out shit hole at the time.

Typewriter text by Miqual Corley, (2012)

My parent's were not one's to motivate with incentives, but instead taught me the value of doing a good job for the sake of doing it. That being said, the one time I do remember them dangling the carrot in front of me to get me to do what they wanted was by the use of M & M's to potty train me and entice me to step up to the big-boy way of doing my business.

Jesus Lizard - Puss  (1993)

"Give me something to stop the bleeding!!"  Recorded by Steve Albini and released as split-single with Nirvana featuring their song "Oh, the Guilt!".  Albini and Nirvana would later go onto have the beautiful bro-mance that became knows as the In Utero sessions.   "R.E.M. with a fuzz box" is what Mr. Albooby was quoted as calling them, and then took the gig and the money. But enough about Nirvana. At a Jesus Lizard show in Chicago once, I saw a man who was a dead ringer for Michael McKean of Spinal Tap fame smoke 3 joints in a row and then stand catatonic in one spot the whole show as the Lizard pit swirled around him. A crowd surfer who fell onto the stage ended up face-first in Yow's ass crack as Yow grabbed him and jumped into the crowd with him in a 69-position too. JESUS CHRIST!

As a small child, we had a neighbor who watched me from time to time who had a habit of tossing around the famous shout to JC whenever something would go wrong.  When my mother went into the hospital to give birth to my brother, my Dad took me to McDonald's for a bit to go play in the kid's play area they had.  While we were there I slipped and fell off the rung of a ladder, and in repeating what I had learned from our neighbor, I let rip in my loudest 2 1/2 year voice a "JESUS CHRIST!!" that had all the mothers in the play area glaring at my father with a look saying he was going to hell.  I disagree with them though, as the man is a Saint to keep cheering for the Pittsburgh Pirates the way he does despite year after year of misery.

Eggman Scene from Pink Flamingo's (1972)

Edith Massey in a bra in a playpen in an egg frenzy, indecent exposure with Kielbasa sausages, a contortionist making his asshole pucker to "Bird is the Word, and Devine eating dog-shit.  It must be said again.... JESUS CHRIST!