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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

response to kenneth anger

they've got masks on, you know. painted like little china dolls dancing around like we care. they've got guns and flowers, kind of like guns n' roses but not the same at all. they were there before guns n' roses, if you want to play the originality game.

there's a little person in a blue forest walking through a fountain and her dress gets wet and the critics say gee, doesn't that fountain look big compared to that little person? and we say, gee, what a beautiful fountain.

warhol was a star-struck little boy but we're supposed to worship him. blasphemy to the art world, maybe, but god we have too many warhols around here. i want to see edie's art, see past the glossy edgy and understand what it is to be the face of a movement. andy's got the name, she's got the face, now all we need is authenticity.

you think you know what's coming but you never do. it's that sweet taste of a reward taken away, the last drop at the bottom of a honey stick. you're supposed to ooh and ahh and appreciate. if it evokes emotion it's working, right? that's what they say at least.

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