- When an artist needs to create and the preferred media isn't at hand, they'll work with anything. Sometimes, they will deliberately seek to work with some kind of obscure/wack material(s) just because you know, they're artists and they're inquisitive. That's the only thing I can think of when I first saw the 'meat dress' a few years back. Just as interesting, and substantially less gross, Artist iRI5 does musician and filmic portraits out of cassette tape.
- From Overheard in The Office - Minneapolis, Minnesota:
Male coworker #1: My wife bought me fuscia underwear last night.
Male coworker #2: Were they men's underwear?
Male coworker #1: Yep, but very fuscia.
Male coworker #3: Are you sure they weren't magenta?
Male coworker #1: What the hell is the difference?
Male coworker #3: Magenta is more manly, it has more blue it in.
- The Coen Brothers are going to re-make 'True Grit' and apparently plan to stick very closely to the novel by Charlie Portis. I'm all for it, 'The Duke' worship be damned. John Wayne hated horses. How can anybody who hates horses be a decent human being, nevermind as 'American icon?'
John Wayne hated horses? My Dad loves him; he'll be crushed. And I think anyone who hates animals in general is suspicious.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Codzilla. You have to be basically mean-spirited to hate any sort of animals. Although I could live without the lizards that run rampant in Florida.
ReplyDeleteI never especially loved that movie. Never really loved John Wayne, I always heard he was a much different sort of person than the good old boys he played. The most interesting thing to me in the movie was the formal way they had of speaking. Of course the big thing when it came out was that John Wayne actually said "son of a b**ch" right there on the screen!
We were so innocent then. Or maybe not innocent so much as we kept it out of public view.
I hate snakes... HATE them, hate, hate, HATE them...
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Sorry Codzilla,
ReplyDeleteI probably should have substantiated that claim and I'll put in a link (I'd found that out quite a few years ago) but here's a link to a book review from the NY Times John Wayne's America: The Politics of Celebrity (http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/25/books/the-making-of-a-myth-who-rode-into-the-sunset.html)
That sucks about your Dad being crushed, I'm sorry, I feel like a heel.
I don't think snakes are animals, Diva. Or lizards either. Reptiles.
ReplyDeleteWe're talking fuzzy animals here.
Thanks, Baho. And don't worry, I'm sure Dad will pull through, LOL.
ReplyDeleteDiva/Syko: I think spiders/snakes/lizards are perfectly acceptable exceptions. Spiders HORRIFY me. As Syko said, we're talking fuzzy critters. And those darling sea mammals. And elephants.
Ooooo, I looooove fuzzy sea elephants!
ReplyDeleteSorry, I'm loaded...vicodin to the rescue this very, very painful night!
Seriously, though, I'm obsessed with elephants! My husband and I have many "funts" (stuffed elephants) and one (her name is Bella) is bright pink and full of character and was a very important guest at our wedding. You can see her watching over us signing our marriage certificate in photos! She's the daughter we never have... I thought we were just incredible dorks until I saw Jack Black on Leno and he told about how his wife and him had THEIR stuffies at their wedding, too, and I felt MUCH better about our sanity. And then I realized I was comparing my sanity to Jack Black and I was worried again.
I really am so loaded. Sorry.