Note To Recent Followers

I only check my new followers maybe once every three months and I will only add you if your username rings a bell.

I don’t mean to be rude but truth is that I simply don’t have the time to check out hundreds of blogs.

So if you feel that I would enjoy your blog and want to be added back, please send me a message and I’ll check it out, yo! 

Dankeschön. 

binnorie asked: Ms. Wurzeltod,

So happy you Tumbled Dan Ouellette's Mewler and the group exhibit I've placed the work in.

Love your work. Hope you're well!

Samantha

You’re most welcome, Samantha. What an amazingly inspired show you’ve put together. I had no idea it was you behind it. That immediately makes it a gazillion times better, of course. 

Good luck for the show! x

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Anonymous asked: is it possible for you to live inspired without having sex with creatives?

No. 

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theredshoes asked: ....do you want a minion? Because after reading your answers to all the other questions I must express my admiration somehow.

Thank you very much for the touching words. No offence but I really don’t believe in co-owned blogs. Especially not here on Tumblr. I’ve tried group blogging about a decade ago but even though I had amazingly clever and talented people helping and writing with me, I was very much startled by the way a clear concept, directive and aesthetic can get diluted and how I started toning my voice down, how I started regurgitating irrelevant news I didn’t feel any passion for just so that I was the first to post it and how I started writing for an audience. I hated that. Never ever write for an audience. It will up your Google ranking and iEgo forsho but it kills all good (blog) writing. Amen.

liquidnight asked: Here is a different version of that photo you recently asked about, with background information:
http://liquidnight.tumblr.com/post/536571329/dissection-room-at-a-medical-school-bordeaux

The book in which I found it is absolutely wonderful, just in case you haven't seen it already. But then again, pretty much anything from The Burns Archive is guaranteed to be a treasure.

Wow.. I should really check my messages more often - I’ve only just discovered this. 

Thank you so much for the background information, it sure is greatly appreciated to finally have a context for that photograph. x

urhajos asked: Hey! I love your stuff and i hope you'll share some fantastic pieces of art in the future too. I'm sad that you stopped posting onto your blog, but it's also ok with this account. Please keep up the good work! Cheers : )

Thanks, mate. I will keep it coming. In my own time though.

I haven’t actually stopped posting on the WurzelEmpire® for good, I just really don’t have any time for the website and the forum at the moment, but if you have an RSS reader, make sure to add both sites to it and you’ll see when they’re up and running again. Apologies for the long absence. 

Anonymous asked: Interspace: you've found new love (r.m.fenner) ?, interspace: you're a gallery owner ? is that all true or just interspace? ... time is running oh my godo :-)

Yes, it seems so. The Fenner is the ultimate proof that my little shrivelled black heart can still be broken with masterful mix CDs and blue-eyed charm. I’m that simple, really.

The gallery project is having its ups and downs and it’s hiccuping its way through floods and major and minor disasters, but yeah, for now, you can stay tuned by subscribing to the newsletter here. 

Anonymous asked: Are you going to the London Tattoo Convention? On Saturday or Sunday, look out for the halo of medical clamps :)

Nah, I hate the tattoo scene even more than the art scene. And that sure means something, lemme tell ya. >_<

A halo of medical clamps, however, sounds very intriguing indeed… do tell me more, please. 

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eyetwitch asked: This time I have a request- can you put more music videos you like up? I have found a couple of new bands that I really liked through your posts.

I appreciate that you found new bands but my taste in music is seriously… unstable… and I just post whatever I feel like and very often, I can only listen to BBC Science & Nature and Steve Reich as the transcendence of music upsets me too much. 

But I kinda started using my Last.fm so maybe you can find something interesting there? Your call. 

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Anonymous asked: 3 years ago you told me that you don't believe in souls --- Remember ? ---Still think you've got no soul ? --- dings

Hey you, dings! Course I remember our smoked-filled early morning conversations on the patio. ^__^

Yes, I still stand by that statement. Souls are bullshit. We have a consciousness, subconsciousness and an unconsciousness with an anima and an animus, but no “soul”. 

Like most religio-ideological concepts, it’s a terribly cute idea of the desperate mind, and definitely deserves some literary credit as it made a lot of great thinkers write great things, but noes, it’s clearly a construct. 

Anonymous asked: Huh, I always thought your accent sounded German (via Ireland).

Bästerd!