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yes

We care a lot
We care a lot
We care a lot about disasters, fires, floods and killer bees
about Los Angeles falling in the sea
about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought
about disease, baby, Rock Hudson, Rock
Yeah!

We care a lot
We care a lot
We care a lot about the gamblers and the pushers and the freaks
about the people who live off the street
about the welfare of all the boys and girls
about you people cause we’re out to save the world

Yeah!

[chorus] And it’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it!

We care a lot about the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines
about the NY, SF, and LAPD
about you people, about your guns
about the wars you’re fighting
gee, that looks like fun

We care a lot about the Cabbage Patch, The Smurfs, and DMC
about Madonna and we cop for Mr.T
about the little things, the bigger things we top
about you people, yeah, you bet we care a lot

[chorus] And it’s a dirty job but someone’s gotta do it….

2. The Jungle

Well, just follow your heart
Man oh man
Try and see, if you can
Ha Ha
Jungle sounds great
Lots of scary noise
Don’t deter us from our journey onward

Hey man, let your spirit go
To the full extent of the meaning

He said, “And follow me to the deepest part of the jungle.
Where it is always dark and wet and warm
To the sacred part.”

Well, just follow your heart
Man oh man
Try and see, if you can
Ha Ha
Jungle sounds great
Lots of scary noises
Don’t deter us from our journey onward

We pushed and followed
Only our deepest, hidden senses, senses
And exposed to the elements
That lie within

3. Mark Bowen

Love…it’s a beginning
A justifiable means to an end
And happiness, that triumphant feeling
Only comes from within
But …you’ll…never make the grade
No you’ll never, ever reach that plateau

41 x 31 cm, ink on paper

I will be working at np3, an exhibition space in groningen.
Follow me on these webcams: CAM1 & CAM2

I made a new book, called Big Long Now, published by Atomic Activities. 120 pages of doors, based on my piece www.biglongnow.com

JJ: Yeah, I think I still have it.
Glossy white with a black menorah and the word ‘thanks’ on it.
RR: Wow you remember that!

JJ: Yeah
RR: Thanks so much for doing this interview, you must be a very busy man.

JJ: It’s ok, I try to stay not too busy. I try to keep a lot of blank time.
RR: Blank time?

JJ: Well, I just don’t want to be a professional at anything, so I need time to do things that don’t really have a point. That’s why I like doing things like this.
RR: Ha ha yeah there’s no point talking to me.

JJ: You know what I mean. So let’s start the interview…
Are you really into cartoons?
RR: Totally, I watch them all the time. There is something very pleasurable about watching cartoons, a really warm, comfortable feeling.

JJ: Any preferences?
RR: My taste is quite broad, but most of all I like American cartoons. Early Disney, Betty Boop, Roadrunner, Ren & Stimpy, South Park. Sometimes I’ll watch Pokemon or bad 80s cartoons.
There’s this one about a team of teenage super models that travel the globe for photo shoots
and then they also do secret missions to save the world.

JJ: That sounds good.
RR: Yeah its awesome, the animation is really cheap, a lot of times the image is frozen except for the mouths talking.

JJ: Like in South Park?
RR: Kind of, it looks more like Scooby Doo, or it wants to look like that but they didn’t succeed.
Scooby Doo is great though.

JJ: Did you watch the Scooby Doo feature film?
RR: Oh no I hate those live action versions of animated cartoons.
It ruins everything, the whole point of cartoons is to get away from photographs.
I mean it would be stupid to say that cartoons are better than photographs but its true.

JJ: Is watching cartoons a form of nostalgia for you?
RR: Nostalgia for the old days?
JJ: I mean nostalgia for your youth, remembering watching cartoons as a child.
RR: No, I wouldn’t call it nostalgia, since I never stopped watching them.
I think you can only be nostalgic for something you’ve lost.

JJ: Did you just watch cartoons?
RR: Actually there weren’t that many cartoons on Dutch tv when I was little.
Children’s tv was supposed to be educational so it was mostly horrible theater actors trying to be funny. My mother told me that I would always flip the channels for commercials, they were the most cartoony thing around.

JJ: Did you ever think of making an animated series yourself?
RR: No, not at all, I’m not interested in stories.
Stories are interesting but I don’t think my head works that way.

JJ: What do you mean?
RR: Well I remember at age 10 I dreamt of making animated cartoons as loops,
something you could just project on your wall and look at from time to time.

JJ: Like a painting?
RR: Kind of, something to stare at, something that’s always there.
I read this article that animators in the 1930s distinguished themselves by the way their character walks. Just that. That was the thing, the rest was extra, it was just about the walk. So that’s what I imagined at the time, a film projector projecting my character walking forever.

JJ: And stories don’t have a place there?
RR: Well I think there’s a story, but in a different way, maybe there’s a story when you look at all my work together. But it’s not a ‘once upon a time’ kind of thing.

JJ: How do cartoons influence you now?
RR: So many ways… there’s so much happening in cartoons, it’s a very rich source. I especially like the old cartoons, the way they’re constructed. Like disney’s silly symphonies, it seems like the story happens because of the animation, not the other way around. They were playing around and if you see it now it’s all about movement, not pictures illustrating words.
I like that cartoons are now not only animated drawings, they are a way of doing something:
‘That song sounds very cartoony’, or ‘He has a cartoon face’. Like the word ‘poetic’, which usually means something different than a poem.
But most of all cartoons are comforting, that’s the real reason I need them.

JJ: How do they comfort you?
RR: I honestly don’t know.