LONG GONE JOHNAnd His Long Gone Home
I love waking up every day and being hit with sensory overload. I treasure everything—art, artifacts, junk—it's all the same. I go out every weekend to swap meets looking for more stuff to bring home. That's what I work for and what makes me happy.
As a child, I collected matchbook covers and discarded bus tickets I found on the ground, but I've been seriously collecting and acquiring since I was about 17. My first apartment was decorated with stuff from people's trash.
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| I was in Japan one time and saw these statues in a store window in Shinjuku. I was in awe. I've collected figures of anime girls for years, so these were the Holy Grail. I took photos of them, and when I got back home it took over a year to finally get them. |
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| When I moved in, the fireplace was a big, flat, nasty beige slab with no mantel. It was very modern. A friend and I designed the mantel and I had it carved, then I changed the opening and put in Italian marble. |
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The big yellow guy is Eugene the Jeep. He was created by E.C. Segar, the guy who made Popeye and Betty Boop. He's my favorite cartoon character of all time. He is a good little guy with a happy-go-lucky demeanor. He lives on a diet consisting entirely of orchids, and he has the power to disappear and re-appear in a different location. That makes him one of the earlier comic-strip advocates of teleportation. My version of him was made in 1951. It was based on a toy from the 30s made for the president of Colorforms, and it stood in their showroom window until he retired and took it home with him. I guess he finally died and it ended up at an antique toy show. I paid a fortune for it and have never regretted it.
That painting is by Mark Ryden. He's my best friend and coincidentally my favorite artist. The painting is six feet by eight feet and called Snow White.
Long Gone John is the man behind the Sympathy for the Record Industry label.
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COMMENTS
Subject: Still about love
Date: Feb 02 2007 05:15:12 AM
Author: Sasha
Awww... this makes me so happy still... so pretty, whimsical and fun... I wanna touch everything (very lightly, no worries)... I want coffee and I want to sit on this couch where there's the leopard print pillow (I would bring candies)... I want to pet black cat and orange cat... All of this is pure joy and beauty... *happy*. Hope you're enjoying yourself John. Sending all my love and good vibes your way... Sasha.
Sasha@SashaMess.com
Subject: sorry ladies...
Date: Jan 10 2007 06:03:21 PM
Author: someone you don\'t know
....lgj is taken....
Subject: collecting and turning into
Date: Jan 07 2007 07:32:19 PM
Author: soopaj
i collect baggage claim tags and weekly supermarket ads from other countries...
i hope my collecting turns into this when i grow up.
*swoon*
Subject: you dumb fucks
Date: Mar 17 2006 09:50:02 PM
Author: frederick and cellophane phases
You imbeciles are fucked in the skull. You're obviously uneducated and lack knowledge in what GREAT ART is. You'll work your entire life and not be able to afford the so-called "junk" he has. And to the guy who "hates people like this"-
what makes you think LGJ hasn't worked hard for his money? He obviously has and what he chooses to do with his money is his business.
Subject: I LOVE this man's house.
Date: Sep 21 2005 07:15:16 AM
Author: Katy
I'll probably have a house like that by the time I'm 30, the rate I'm going.
I'd fall in love with a guy with a house like that. Nothing but weird trippy shit, music memorabilia, toys, cats and CDs? BRING ME OVER. You will get lucky.
Subject: my penis
Date: Jul 25 2005 06:23:24 AM
Author: spoiled fuck ass
sweet jumping jesus on a pogo stick, this dude has a lot of money wrapped up in this stuff.
i think he has a real robert williams paining on his wall, i work really hard for the things i own, i fucking hate people like this
show off!
adam
Subject: stuff and shit
Date: Jul 17 2005 02:16:03 AM
Author: Eden Bee
Egad! That man really likes....stuff.
Subject: hi
Date: Jun 29 2005 01:22:55 AM
Author: Nicole
sorry, Ryden, not ryeden... i am drinking wine.
Subject: hi
Date: Jun 29 2005 01:18:09 AM
Author: Nicole
Oh, that O in sn0w is a zero.
Subject: hi
Date: Jun 29 2005 12:58:20 AM
Author: Nicole
hello my name is Nicole, and i look identical to the girl in the Mark Ryeden painting.
I am prepaired to take on whatever this may entail.
write me if you are interested at:
(and strangely enough this has been my adress for years)
sn0w_white_@hotmail.com
p.s- i should meet Ryden
Subject: bric and or brac
Date: Jun 24 2005 04:46:12 PM
Author: charity
Long Gone John also has the best tattoo of all time, a big scribbly Rocket from the Crypt logo with KILLY KILL written underneath.
Subject: i do.
Date: Mar 17 2005 12:22:51 PM
Author: mary
i want to marry this guy. mmm, expensive junk.
Subject: wow...
Date: Mar 16 2005 09:04:34 PM
Author: mobboss
just going over the photos and seeing such a great collection of art and bric a brac is stunning..i recently saw a mark ryden show in pasadena and a good portion of the show was from long gone johns personal collection. if you look beyond the baby dolls you will see gary baseman, tim biskup and frank kozik limited edition figurines, paintings by niagra and rockin jellybean...his place is a modern pop haven and should be preserved as a shrine of modern culture. say what you want, the things on his walls willbe the wharhols of tomorrow
the mobboss
Subject: Hahaha
Date: Mar 15 2005 08:41:45 PM
Author: Raked
Do you suppose this guy ever gets laid??
Subject: yikes
Date: Mar 14 2005 05:33:31 PM
Author: bananarama
this is just scary. why do you have so much STUFF? and it's all creepy weird dolls and shit. If some dude ever brought me back to his pad and it looked like this i'd run screaming for the animated hills. ever considered travel?!
Subject: Fine Art On The Wall
Date: Feb 22 2005 08:02:36 PM
Author: dwvr
Ha! Anyone notice the full-sized Robert Williams painting in the bedroom in the corner? Wonder if our friend paid for an original.
Williams' paintings may be schizophrenically cluttered and very lowbrow, but they are not cheap. He once answered critics of his work by saying, "If my paintings aren't art, then why are people paying so much money for them?"
Back in the day, Williams made his name as a contibutor to Zap... right alongside (and courtesy of) Sophie Crumb's dad.
Yeah, his painting fits right in.
Subject: Wondertoonel
Date: Feb 07 2005 09:50:23 AM
Author: L.Cohen
I'd love to own a painting by MarK RydeN. I recently asked how much one of those bad boys would run me....HOLY SHIT! So fuckin' '$pensive? No doubt the guy is AWESOME - but an original would run between 30,000 to 500,000 USD. I’ve decided to nail a bunch of bill$ to the spot on the wall I had hoped to hang a painting. It will remind me that Art…no matter how stunning/beautiful/moving is always about $$$$.
Subject: This Room
Date: Feb 04 2005 03:43:26 AM
Author: Weird World
Incredible SO!!
Subject: cats
Date: Feb 03 2005 01:04:19 PM
Author: Jay
What's even more amazing than his collection is that his cats apparently don't knock all that shit over.
Subject: artiste
Date: Jan 31 2005 11:44:39 AM
Author: Andre Niemeyer
Hi, I like VERY much Mark Ryden's work. I'm a painter myself. I'm coming to NY tomorow. I live in Paris. Would like to visit your house and if possible meet the artist.
my mail is andreniemeyer@hotmail.com
thank you very much
Your house is great !
Subject: walls
Date: Jan 31 2005 07:14:58 AM
Author: pantomima
I loved the idea of purple walls. I should try it in my bedroom. Actually I hated purple till now. this room has burnt my palace of conception:) It is so..psychodelic:) Yeh, I am also interested in dusting... ^_^
Subject: Jealousy
Date: Jan 29 2005 07:40:31 PM
Author: WTF
The haters on this board obviously never went to Johnny Ramone's house or saw pictures.
Johnny's friend Nick Cage is also an obsessive collector (he even collected the King's daughter).
How much of your own cheesy crap came from Urban Outfitters or Hot Topic?
Subject: uh
Date: Jan 29 2005 07:27:59 PM
Author: koko
uh....do you guys want to come take pictures of my pad? i'll charge three dollars admissions and let you sniff my old panties
Subject: LGJ!
Date: Jan 27 2005 09:30:26 PM
Author: I <3 LGJ
ah! I love love LOVE Long Gone John and have since Alright This Time Just The Gir;s came out. Oh, if only I could decorate my apartment with <Mark Ryden paintings...
Subject: Purple Walls
Date: Jan 27 2005 09:17:47 PM
Author: Haterade
Fuck that is a huge room, and that couch is dope. I bet the room smells like old books and shit though.
Subject: Thats bad ass
Date: Jan 27 2005 01:52:07 AM
Author: Christopher
I would do shit like that if I had the money
Subject: Admission
Date: Jan 26 2005 10:38:28 PM
Author: D10
Did I read that second photo correctly? Does this rich prick actually charge $16 admission to see his house filled with toys? I don't know about that...
Subject: Fag?
Date: Jan 24 2005 05:35:31 PM
Author: EYE
I couldn't help but notice all the dudes posting here with lines like "This guy is a fag" and "He never gets laid" ,etc.., but it seems every post from a girl (Or who I presume to be female) is like "What a champ, I'd love to wake up in this pad". Time to to re-think the fag biz, ponys.
Subject:
Date: Jan 21 2005 10:51:52 PM
Author:
do you realize how huge that room is with the purple walls?
Subject: mmmm
Date: Jan 21 2005 09:16:20 PM
Author: bodelicious
is this guy taken?
Subject: Holy Crap.
Date: Jan 20 2005 04:55:40 PM
Author: Haterade
Haha @ everyone trying to out-clever each other with the hating responses. I can't figure out if all these wannabe artfags want to be in Vice or they genuinely despise it. Either way none of them are funny. I'd like to see something in the mag about that Ryden guy, his shit looks interesting.
Subject: nice crap and stuff, but...
Date: Jan 19 2005 10:38:25 PM
Author: sammy
I was sitting here, looking at all this guy's crap, and I realized I'd seen it all in Juxtapoz a few years ago. And i wondered then what I'm wondering now...who dusts all your frigging dolls? Plus, Mark Ryden's art reminds me of Humbert Humbert. Yuck.
Subject: mess
Date: Jan 17 2005 01:40:07 AM
Author: mimi
Just because i spent an obscene amount of $$$ on stupid crap that u collect doesn't make u a fukin hero.
U own some toys and cds and other crap. WOW who gives a shit and who really pays to come to your house.
U live in a fukin mess of garbage collectables.
Hey!!! Is that u crazy uncle joe?
Subject: shit!
Date: Jan 16 2005 02:33:58 PM
Author: Carlos
what happends if he moves?
Subject: nji
Date: Jan 13 2005 04:02:18 PM
Author: ijn
The best part is fine print on the admissions sign.
"No food allowed. Drugs and alcohol okay."
Subject: y
Date: Jan 13 2005 02:58:32 PM
Author: oven
that guy never gets laid.
Subject: wierd
Date: Jan 12 2005 02:11:41 PM
Author: jeremy
thats his personal weird happy place whenever he enters his house(looks ugly, life size anime,leopard sheets), but its better then the tacky trinket shit old italian woman keep in thier houses
Subject: wow
Date: Jan 12 2005 01:54:36 PM
Author: Jill
this apartment rules. case closed. for all you assholes saying he wont get chicks that way, thats why he has the Mark Ryden painting and the sailor moon mannequins. works like a charm.
Subject: Some dudes buy muscle cars...
Date: Jan 11 2005 05:06:50 PM
Author: Right this second
Nice penis. Sara
Subject: I love it
Date: Jan 10 2005 09:14:37 PM
Author: Andrea
That place is hot. I'd love the sensory overload of waking up to that every day.
Subject: lots of crapole
Date: Jan 10 2005 04:24:38 PM
Author: fak
fak.
Subject: ..
Date: Jan 10 2005 10:17:33 AM
Author: bs
mark ryden doesn't fuck around.
check out the fresh nazi piece he did:
http://www.grandcentralartcenter.com/gcacImages/mainGall
ery/ryden/LGRydenNaziColor.jpg
Subject: hmm
Date: Jan 07 2005 02:37:44 PM
Author: vj
No way he's getting laid there. Imagine bringing some girl over. She'd look around at all the shit, then get concerned, then run out.
Subject: my request, Mark's response
Date: Jan 07 2005 01:52:53 AM
Author: badgerbrian
Jeez Mark (if it's really you),
Sorry I blew up, and thanks for lumping me in with all of the hostile posts.
I guess the old adage rings true here-"love the art, not the artist," or something along those lines...
Illo, thanks for the ID on Astro Boy.
BB
Subject: mark ryden
Date: Jan 06 2005 07:37:04 PM
Author: zippy
I jerked off to jessica rabit when I was twelve, I even watched three minutes of sailor moon after school in my room. When I started having sex I, like most people realized that cartoon vaginas just don't satisfy. I mean c'mon. You know I'm right.
Subject: painting
Date: Jan 06 2005 02:34:58 PM
Author: mark ryden
Im not painting shit for any of you assholes!
always, Mark Ryden
Subject: haha
Date: Jan 06 2005 09:58:33 AM
Author: hmmm
i guessed wrong. for a minute there i expected this was boyd rice's house and we'd see the partridge family shrine.
Subject: Charging admission
Date: Jan 06 2005 05:07:56 AM
Author: The Arbiter
You could turn it into a museum for the tragically ludicrous-the ludicrously tragic but patrons would totally steal stuff. I bet he says good night and good morning to every figurine.
Subject: Cool Painting
Date: Jan 06 2005 02:41:23 AM
Author: Blair
I like the stuff but my favorite is definitely the painting, it is really beautiful but really interesting at the same time. I love it. How can I get one?
chanticleer813@hotmail.com
Subject: awesome
Date: Jan 05 2005 12:04:53 PM
Author: bigdaddy-o
this guy run the best record label on earth !
Subject: it's about love
Date: Jan 05 2005 09:34:16 AM
Author: Sasha Mess
Wow... Hi... what's your name? John? So many feelings rushing through... I love your appartment, I really do... such beautiful atmosphere, so warm, so fun... I can tell your vibing off the gong... loving boy with a amazing sense of what matters... I wish I knew you... I too come with a black cat and fun toys... *smiles*... are you in Montreal?
Sasha.
Sasha@SashaMess.com
Subject: House
Date: Jan 04 2005 08:38:53 PM
Author: Jack
Ornate designs meets overpriced action figures meets some asshole who really should spend his time and money doing something more significant.
More significant!!??!
Subject: 'long gone' is the right descriptor..
Date: Jan 04 2005 07:22:01 PM
Author: Nemo
You can tell this guy doesn't date because chicks always steal a man's cool stuff or worse, they have them throw it away...
I doubt he's gay though- he's got way too much taste...
Subject: not THE long gone John?
Date: Jan 04 2005 12:23:10 PM
Author: Joe
A million crappy Mummies singles buys a lot of anime figures. Cool fireplace though.
Subject: trashing shit
Date: Jan 02 2005 10:24:59 PM
Author: pudfluff
my hobby is trashing shit.
I'd really like to getin that house and just freak out. If dude has a system for where stuff goes that'd be even better...fucking kick and punch and smash all the shit...god yes
Subject: shkrk
Date: Jan 02 2005 04:27:05 PM
Author: jh
sometimes collecting becomes pathologic.
its like waving around your dick in public.
Subject: stuff
Date: Jan 02 2005 12:40:08 PM
Author: faith_salon
a couple things...
fags don't like being called fags...that painting is incredible and I would like an Alice in Wonderland version done for me please...lets just think for a minute how his place would smell...I have been in a house like his - not as intense - but this lady had fake alien fetuses in bottles and those weird praying/crying children that stand in the corner- if you turn them around they have no face and are incredibly eerie...she also had one room full of old perfume bottles, coolest shit to see for a girly girl like me...japanimation still scares the shit out of me...and the RCA dog is the coolest thing I've ever seen..it reminds me of my papa- who had a small one and he would treat it like it was alive and kicking...anyway the whole house is surprisenly neat since nothing is worse than a cluttered mess.. but imagine actually living there- i bet those sailor moon statues come to life at night...*shivers*
Subject: so...
Date: Jan 01 2005 02:25:59 PM
Author: jojo
i remember reading that he sold the mummymobile. that iggy jacket is awesome. doesn't he also have a manson family jacket?
Subject: whatever.
Date: Jan 01 2005 12:21:05 AM
Author: yo mumma
.. that guys place just looks like a bad melrose ave hype-shop, from the 90's even. big deal, you're a moronic collector who pays too much for crap.
blah. clean up your room, you consumerican homo! get rid of all the roaches!
Subject: fags
Date: Dec 31 2004 06:12:40 PM
Author: illo
I just said he is a fag, I didn't offer further commentary. And that's Astro Boy in the middle, of course, Badgerbrain.
Subject: Anime Girls
Date: Dec 31 2004 04:54:32 PM
Author: MikeSnake
I would drill holes in those anime girl manekins and fuck 'em silly!
Subject: It's me again
Date: Dec 30 2004 06:14:02 PM
Author: Hermanasatana
Why are so many of the readers so anti-fag? I don't know if I like this world anymore.
Subject: two questions
Date: Dec 30 2004 02:25:11 PM
Author: badgerbrian
I really dig yer pad, and I have two questions for you, LGJ:
Where can I find Ryder's work for sale, and is the doll (action figure, whatever) in the middle of the last photo Prince Planet?
PP was a b&w cartoon that I used to watch as a kid some 30 years ago, and I haven't seen or heard from him since...thanks for yer time.
BB
Subject: pirate
Date: Dec 30 2004 02:24:47 PM
Author: rock-o
now i know what he does with all that money he makes off dead rocker's re-releases.
Subject: this dood is so repressed
Date: Dec 30 2004 11:31:34 AM
Author: C.Jung
yeah, this guy is all about fudge packin'...riding the hershey highway...turd burglaring....poop scoopin'....chocolate dipped bishops...downtown charlie brownin'....butt pirating...ass sledding...colon creepin'........look at the purple walls, I SAID PURPLE WALLS! i mean, COME ON!!!
Subject: Decor vs. Bitches
Date: Dec 30 2004 09:30:33 AM
Author: illo
Is Vice mainly aimed at 15 year olds? Girls aren't that hard to come by, kikkos, I think that rich (no matter what he claims) record company owners could probably pull a few hos and still have his house look however he wants it to. Though I get the feeling he's more into dudes.
Subject: FUCKTHATGUY?
Date: Dec 30 2004 12:21:56 AM
Author: 3507321C
WHY? I MEAN...............................C'MON!
Subject: fuck that guy
Date: Dec 29 2004 09:59:43 PM
Author: fuck that guy
fuck that guy
Subject: trust fund
Date: Dec 29 2004 07:13:38 PM
Author: c
man that trust fund must be nice
Subject: s
Date: Dec 29 2004 04:55:20 PM
Author: I just threw up in my mouth
You should sell some of that crap and get some hookers or something. just get laid buddy
Subject: YOUR PAD MUST DIE
Date: Dec 29 2004 04:23:04 PM
Author: JEALOUSY AND SYMPATHY
LONG LIVE LONG GONE
Subject: Weezing over here
Date: Dec 29 2004 02:03:27 PM
Author: Say what?
Goddamn you life size anime girls, do it to me every time.
Subject: yes
Date: Dec 29 2004 11:15:09 AM
Author: kirkness
i wish ryden was my friend. peep the robert willaimses in the background too! he's my favorite artist.. maybe i should start collecting crap and maybe artists will be my friend.
Subject: Mark Rydan is Rad
Date: Dec 29 2004 09:09:45 AM
Author: Homeless Cop
Sweet Fuck!!
That Ryden painting makes me kinda jealous, and it's hard for me to say that.
\kicks dirt and mumbles
Subject: ACID
Date: Dec 29 2004 03:46:31 AM
Author: 3507321C
THAT PLACE IS EVERY BAD ACID TRIP N CHARACTER FROM EVERY BAD ACID TRIP EVER HAD IN ALL TIME. IF YOU WERE TO LIVE THERE YOU WOULDN'T NEED TO DO CID TO BE ON CID CAUSE IT WOULD BE LIKE YOU WERE ON CID 24/7.....................I BET YA THAT GUY DOES A LOT OF
CID.........................................................
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......C'MON
Subject: Where's Coop?
Date: Dec 28 2004 10:46:36 PM
Author: Nick
What The Fuck!!
Long Gone where's the Coop artwork?!!!
He does great art for your label and you give him a nice write up in his book but you state that Ryden's your favorite!!!
Subject: twiddle dumb
Date: Dec 28 2004 08:09:13 PM
Author: bob crane
that house is what i picture Paul Reuben's house to look like, and Michael Jackson's, and many other borderline pedophile mamma's boys who'd rather jürk off to a comic book than say "hello" to any REAL woman. leave the kiddies alone, chester.
Subject: Daamn
Date: Dec 28 2004 06:31:37 PM
Author: Michelle
That music room is a goddamn dream...some day I will have a room that kickass
Subject: that
Date: Dec 28 2004 12:26:39 AM
Author: we all know
dude eats strangers' poo on the carpet in front of that fireplace
fyi...
Subject: This, Motherfuckers.
Date: Dec 27 2004 11:26:18 PM
Author: Rosha Sato
Consumption aside, Genius.
Eugene the Jeep truly is the greatest cartoon character of all time, and anyone who disagrees has no concept of dreams or life or reality or anything. ass.
Subject: uh....
Date: Dec 27 2004 10:23:57 PM
Author: survey
immhmm, okay, hmmm, right, aaaah....woh!
Subject: but where
Date: Dec 27 2004 09:53:23 PM
Author: cody
but where does he keep the iggy pop jacket and mummymobile?
Subject: where
Date: Dec 27 2004 04:00:15 PM
Author: teesamp
where is his house? can i really visit it?
holla, please.
thanks
Subject: this room...
Date: Dec 27 2004 01:02:42 PM
Author: i smell like cheese sometimes.
wow. What a great place to call home. Envy. Im filled with envy..., and crappy beer.
Subject: dust
Date: Dec 27 2004 11:52:30 AM
Author: kak
how do you dust all that stuff? you'd suffocate.
Subject: lg
Date: Dec 27 2004 07:00:37 AM
Author: lg
lg
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