If you haven’t heard about Marina Abramovic’s performance piece accompanying the MoMA’s “The Artist is Present” retrospective, the gist is this: Abramovic sits in a chair. A museumgoer sits in a chair opposite. They stare at each other for as long as the visitor wishes to stay, from eight seconds to eight hours. The visitor [...]
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The Hasty Smear of My Smile
May 02, 2010
3:59 pm
Filed under:beatnik shit, buddy bradley, city lights, conspiracy a-go-go, conspiracy theory, cult of poignancy, HATE, hippie shit, johnnie walker, kool-aid, peter bagge, robert anton wilson, rock sucks, slacker
Peter Bagge is a kind of patron saint to me. I read his brilliant HATE comic once or twice during the Nineties — not really “read”, but stumbled-upon in some random context, paged-through, and chuckled-over. All his characters were Looney Tune-inspired wonders made of taffy — or whatever the gunk was they filled Stretch Armstrong [...]
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