Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Meet @MeeMawBellefleu

Ain’t you the girl with that poor man’s business for a picture???

Name:

Caroline Bellefleur

Birthdate:

Now, I don’t think that’s any of your business. *grumbles* Damn Yankee.

What brought a fine upstanding Bon Temps citizen, such as yourself, to Twitter?:

Fine and upstanding. *smiles* Well I kept hearin’ my grand kids @TerryB_Fleur, @PortaBellefle and @AndyBellefleur talkin’ about Meemaw, on that Twitter site, and folks kept askin’ where I was, so I came to Twitter to keep any eye on all you crazy folks! Ya know, BonTemps never, ever use to have all this crazy goin’ on. Ever since those Vampers came out of the coffin, I ain’t seen such a mess! And your friend Bill Compton, at least I heard, built some kind of meat tree on his girlfriend @SookieBonTemp’s property. Ain’t that crazy? Folks runnin’ naked down the street, half dressed. *shakes head*

How did you choose your @ name?:

Well, like I said. *rolls eyes* My family calls me meemaw, so that makes sense, dont’cha think?

Why is Bill your Vamp?:

*screams* Vamp?!? Bill? Bill who? Compton? I am sure he is quite a gentleman, but he ain’t “my Vamp”. I don’t know why you folks wish to put me together with those Vamper Fanger women.  To answer your question, Caroline Bellefleur does not have a “Vamp”. Hmph!

Now his Uncle, Jesse Compton, oh, for the love of all things Southern, that is my man! Poor Jesse, I wonder if he had those Fangs on his side of the family, or if it came from the Bellefleurs…..??? I surely don’t have any fangs. *pulls out dentures and double checks*

I’m so sorry, Mrs.B, my mistake. Do you have a favorite moment you recall with “Jesse”?:

Oh, I do. Like the time we was down by the bajou, and we had a picnic, then we started kissin’ and then we had a, uh, we had dessert and went home. Home to the Coach house, and we tore that house up, I tell ya, cause we broke the be…yeah, we broke the uh, the window. And there was this time in the barn, we went horseback ridin’ then came and washed down the horses, and I took the hose, and wet Jesse down. You know, all sweaty and wet Jesse, *daydreams* drippin’ wet, nice long sideburns and thick head of wet hair, just drippin. *droolin’*  He had a nice Pitchfork.

How about a favorite picture of “Jesse”?:

Oh my, do I have to pick just one? Let me attach a couple. After all, *bats eyelashes* Why should a lady only pick one?

This photo of Jesse sittin’ at the table? That was taken by me in the Coach house. I don’t want to tease ya’ll and tell ya what happened when I put that camera down. *grabbin’ chest* That one makes my hip replacement ache.

You seem to spend a lot of time with your friend Stanislaus (@VampireStan). Can you tell us how you two met?:

*giggles* Stan? Well, many, many years ago, his family had business here in BonTemps. I’d seen him in town, and Stan came courtin’, and we had fun, and I did love him. But he broke my heart, he left without sayin’ a word, then came back around 70 years later. Said it was family issues. I bout had a heart attack (again). How do you know about Stan? Is True Blood Gossip talkin’ again?

Does it ever make you wonder why he is never around in the daylight and doesn’t really eat anything?:

Well, if it is any of your business, he has that virus that you can’t go out in the sun, or you’re skin burns off.  It’s bad enough folks are tellin’ me @VampireStan is a Vamp, I think I would know a Vampire. I mean, they do wear black capes, a big jeweled necklace and their hair slicked back, right? He never tries to eat me. Don’t those Zombies eat folks? *shrugs* And they have no heart beat, and can’t eat. I can assure you, Stanislaus has a throbbing, uh, beating heart. He is the King of Texas, you know? He’s royalty, just what a Bellefleur woman deserves. *raises nose into the air*

And as a matter of fact, I am answering the questions from Stanislaus’ private plane, on my way to Dallas for the Holidays. Vamps don’t celebrate Christmas. See? Vampires don’t have planes. *laughs* Silly Yankee!

Who are your Favorite Twitter people?:

I love @VampireBill Vote for Jesse! And I like that @EricNorthman Erin, although he is awful cold. I gave him an afghan a while back. Poor boy. Cold as ice. I’m thinkin’ he has the same virus that Stanislaus does. And that @KitchenBitch, although he puts his makeup on better than half of the girls in town. Course I love my family dearly. @AndyBellefleur, @PortiaBellefle and @TerryB_Fleur.

I like watchin’ all you girls go crazy over them Vampers. Ya’ll are goin’ to hell for that, ya know? Forgive me Jesus, for judgin’ other folks. But I watched all you girls gettin’ bit over and over a few weeks ago and was thoroughly disgusted. There’s other ways to give blood.

[Via http://billsbelles.wordpress.com]

Kilford, The Music Painter

KILFORD PAINTING LIVE DURING THE WOODENTOPS1 - pic by Guy Levy

KILFORD PAINTING LIVE DURING THE WOODENTOPS1 - pic by Guy Levy

KILFORD PAINTING LIVE WITH BAABA MAAL - picture credit Guy Levy

KILFORD PAINTING LIVE WITH BAABA MAAL - picture credit Guy Levy

KILFORD PAINTING LIVE WITH ERNEST RANGLIN AT RONNIE SCOTTS - pic credit Guy Levy

KILFORD PAINTING LIVE WITH ERNEST RANGLIN AT RONNIE SCOTTS - pic credit Guy Levy

what is your name?

Kilford, The Music Painter

how would you describe what you do?

I paint music.  I see colours when I hear music so I paint those colours live alongside bands during their gigs, or people ask me to paint single songs for them, or I sketch single songs.  Other than that I do a lot of shoe shopping, googling and drinking a lot of cardamom tea, I smoke a lot, think even more, I get my arse kicked in the gym and eat a lot of peanut butter (it’s a power food apparently)

what are you currently working on?

Painting wise I’m painting a few commissioned pieces inspired by single songs including Halo, Empire State of Mind, Heroes and Bad Romance.  I’m also sorting out my first ‘One Love’ music painting night at The Social in Feb www.thesocial.com I’m proper excited about that, I painted with The Charlatans, Magic Numbers and Saint Etienne at the club for the 10th Anniversay last month…it was rockin.  Plus I’m designing the pilot of our Music Painter Documentary which is fun.  What else, oh yeah launching an online store which focuses on selling top quality art for stupidly low prices all in the name of “Art for Everyone” so anyone can be a collector of great art for the price of two packs of cigarette and a vodka redbull!

what has had the greatest influence on your work?
Music is my number 1 influence. But if you mean influence in terms of what I create etc, then its people, either via commissions or Facebook people, I sketch lots of stuff based on facebook fan requests, so they influence what I create and I dig it, they are fab.

What is the greatest misconception about you or your work?
I don’t think there are any misconceptions, it does what it says on the tin.  The Music Painter, Paints Pictures of Music…it’s not the Cat Painter or the Landscape Painter or the Paints Anything Painter.  The Music Painter, nice and simple.

what do you see as the main strengths and weaknesses of the medium you work in?

I use acrylic.  Main strength is the dry time, it has to dry quickly after a gig, basically in the time it takes to pull the set down. Weakness, is that it doesn’t completely accommodate my colour spectrum, I feel restricted with blues specifically.  I used to use a metallic blue and the manufacturers stopped making it. I suggested they call it Music Painter Blue and re-launch it but it hasn’t happened yet.

how has technology impacted upon the work you do?

it hasn’t impacted on my work, it is at the centre and is critical to all of my work.  Any artist that isn’t interested in using modern technology can stay in the last millennium as far as I am concerned.  The challenge I have, is that we are working on technology that doesn’t exist yet, so trying to get companies to make it is 1) a nightmare 2) bloody expensive.

what’s the greatest piece of advice you would like to pass on?
two things 1) Fuck em, paint what you want to paint and don’t let anyone tell you differently 2) be what you want to become

where can we find you online?

I’m on my facebook site far too much for my own good www.facebook.com/themusicpainter i twitter too much at www.twitter.com/themusicpainter plus if you want to look through my work, there are over 700 pieces online and all of them are free to download in high resolution from www.themusicpainter.com

what are you reading at the moment?
Twitters, no books at the moment…I like reading real lives in real time.

what are you listening to at the moment?
right now, I’m in the studio so I am focused on these Halo, Empire State of Mind, Heroes and Bad Romance.  I have to engulf myself in the song, I have to know every part of it just as you know every part of your lovers body.

anything else we should know?
…I use ear buds twice a day and I shouldn’t, I bite my nails, I like Guinness, I’m addicted to Swarovski and anything that sparkles, I have dents on my thumbs because I use my blackberry too much, I love brown sauce on most things and I don’t like to sleep.

[Via http://intoviews.wordpress.com]