tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post116524394734614156..comments2023-10-30T06:13:31.296-04:00Comments on PaintersNYC: Bettina SellmannPainterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05087735650298480553noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1166068317921734962006-12-13T22:51:00.000-05:002006-12-13T22:51:00.000-05:00Greetings Von Klepterhaaven! Signor reevadurchee ...Greetings Von Klepterhaaven! Signor reevadurchee monsieur!<BR/>Achnit!<BR/>Plebe, what time is my hairstylist, por-favor?<BR/>Gratzi--begone now, to the scullery! Where is my coach!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165467295148480942006-12-06T23:54:00.000-05:002006-12-06T23:54:00.000-05:00Les Mis Fan Fiction. For you, I write anything..Les Mis Fan Fiction. For you, I write anything..zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165466530179128492006-12-06T23:42:00.000-05:002006-12-06T23:42:00.000-05:00.333333333333 cents a word man. I can pad pad pad.....333333333333 cents a word man. I can pad pad pad.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165466228245221372006-12-06T23:37:00.000-05:002006-12-06T23:37:00.000-05:00hey look--there's ads on painternyc! hmmmmhey look--there's ads on painternyc! hmmmmyouth--lesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766715817815803423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165464599112051212006-12-06T23:09:00.000-05:002006-12-06T23:09:00.000-05:00Hangman hangman - hold it a little while Think I ...Hangman hangman - hold it a little while <BR/> Think I see my friends coming - riding many a mile <BR/> Friends, did you get some silver <BR/> Did you get a little gold? <BR/> What did you bring me, my dear friends, to keep me from the gallows pole? <BR/> What did you bring me to keep me from the gallows pole? <BR/><BR/>I couldn't get no silver - I couldn't get no gold <BR/> You know that we're too damn poor to keep you from the gallows pole <BR/> Hangman hangman - hold it a little while <BR/> I think I see my brother coming - riding many a mile <BR/> Brother, did you get me some silver <BR/> Did you get a little gold? <BR/> What did you bring me, my brother, to keep me from the gallows pole? <BR/><BR/>Brother, I brought you some silver <BR/> I brought a little gold - I brought a little of everything <BR/> To keep you from the gallows pole <BR/> Yes, I brought you to keep you from the gallows pole <BR/><BR/>Hangman hangman - turn your head awhile <BR/> I think I see my sister coming - riding many a mile mile mile <BR/> Sister, I implore you - take him by the hand <BR/> Take him to some shady bower - save me from the wrath of this man <BR/> Please take him - save me from the wrath of this man <BR/><BR/>Hangman, hangman - upon your face a smile <BR/> Pray tell me that I'm free to ride <BR/> Ride for many a mile mile mile <BR/><BR/>Oh yes, you got a fine sister - she warmed my blood from cold <BR/> Brought my blood to boiling hot to keep you from the gallows pole <BR/> Your brother brought me silver - your sister warmed my soul <BR/> But now I laugh and pull so hard and see you swingin' on the gallows pole <BR/><BR/>Swingin' on the gallows polezipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165463004462699462006-12-06T22:43:00.000-05:002006-12-06T22:43:00.000-05:00Chomsky: The film opens with Galadriel speaking. "...Chomsky: The film opens with Galadriel speaking. "The world has changed," she tells us, "I can feel it in the water." She's actually stealing a line from the non-human Treebeard. He says this to Merry and Pippin in The Two Towers, the novel. Already we can see who is going to be privileged by this narrative and who is not. <BR/><BR/>Zinn: Of course. "The world has changed." I would argue that the main thing one learns when one watches this film is that the world hasn't changed. Not at all. <BR/><BR/>Chomsky: We should examine carefully what's being established here in the prologue. For one, the point is clearly made that the "master ring," the so-called "one ring to rule them all," is actually a rather elaborate justification for preemptive war on Mordor. <BR/><BR/>Zinn: I think that's correct. Tolkien makes no attempt to hide the fact that rings are wielded by every other ethnic enclave in Middle Earth. The Dwarves have seven rings, the Elves have three. The race of Man has nine rings, for God's sake. There are at least 19 rings floating around out there in Middle Earth, and yet Sauron's ring is supposedly so terrible that no one can be allowed to wield it. Why? <BR/><BR/>Chomsky: Notice too that the "war" being waged here is, evidently, in the land of Mordor itself — at the very base of Mount Doom. These terrible armies of Sauron, these dreadful demonized Orcs, have not proved very successful at conquering the neighboring realms — if that is even what Sauron was seeking to do. It seems fairly far-fetched. <BR/><BR/>Zinn: And observe the map device here — how the map is itself completely Gondor-centric. Rohan and Gondor are treated as though they are the literal center of Middle Earth. Obviously this is because they have men living there. What of places such as Anfalas and Forlindon or Near Harad? One never really hears anything about places like that. And this so-called map casually reveals other places — the Lost Realm, the Northern Waste (lost to whom? wasted how? I ask) — but tells us nothing about them. It is as though the people who live in these places are despicable, and unworthy of mention. Who is producing this tale? What is their agenda? What are their interests and how are those interests being served by this portrayal? Questions we need to ask repeatedly.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165442102607095722006-12-06T16:55:00.000-05:002006-12-06T16:55:00.000-05:00shave my back and Ill shave yourswork with me here...<A HREF="http://www.studium.iar.unicamp.br/13/retrato/images/arbus_hand_grenade.jpg" REL="nofollow">shave my back and Ill shave yours</A><BR/><BR/>work with me here. Im no little lord fauntleroy.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165441442084289482006-12-06T16:44:00.000-05:002006-12-06T16:44:00.000-05:00govn'r on a fox hunt: Carry a hip flask.<A HREF="http://www.stoutbooks.com/stout/images/items/66312.jpg" REL="nofollow">govn'r</A> on a fox hunt: Carry a hip flask.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165441190074202142006-12-06T16:39:00.000-05:002006-12-06T16:39:00.000-05:00Emily Dickenson rocks my socks.Emily Dickenson rocks my socks.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165440972238678102006-12-06T16:36:00.000-05:002006-12-06T16:36:00.000-05:00THis artist isnt immature, dude. Let alone very.I ...THis artist isnt immature, dude. Let alone very.<BR/><BR/>I think if you take the time to read what Im posting it ahs to do with a lot of salent points, eacha coup, but whos counting? Not you.<BR/><BR/>No, you want a serious critique. If you read the thread, all your points are accounted for. Indeed, you are a rendundant redundancy, swirling and inconsequential in the bath of blather.<BR/><BR/>A lower denominator than what? Less than you, methinks would be a imaginary number.<BR/><BR/>Im not an art historian. I would defer to one in this case as obviously, it matters. <BR/><BR/>WHich is what Im saying, olnly the obverse. Curiouser and curiouser.<BR/><BR/>Off with your head and good riddance.<BR/><BR/>Im not a Marxist, but I play one on TV.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165431826970361542006-12-06T14:03:00.000-05:002006-12-06T14:03:00.000-05:00On merchandising:Ezekiel 28:16 By the multitude o...On merchandising:<BR/><BR/>Ezekiel 28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned... <BR/><BR/>Evildoers:<BR/><BR/>John:8:44: Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. <BR/><BR/>Remember your seven pieces of equipment. All are vital.<BR/>THE BIBLE The Sword of the Spirit. Don't be satified with an imperfect, counterfeit sword.<BR/>Obtain and use the Real Word of God!<BR/> <BR/>TRUTH Loins girt about with Truth<BR/> <BR/>FAITH Above all take the Shield of Faith<BR/> <BR/>SALVATION The helmet of Salvation<BR/> <BR/>OBEDIENCE The Breastplate of Righteousness<BR/> <BR/>PEACE Feet shod with the Gospel of Peace<BR/> <BR/>PRAYER Praying always with all Supplication <BR/><BR/><BR/>Aye the breastplate of sobriety! The sandals of salvation!zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165431293105175092006-12-06T13:54:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:54:00.000-05:00I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and...I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, <BR/>And Mourners to and fro <BR/>Kept treading--treading--till it seemed <BR/>That Sense was breaking through-- <BR/>And when they all were seated, <BR/>A Service, like a Drum-- <BR/>Kept beating--beating--till I thought <BR/>My Mind was going numb--zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165428042074852772006-12-06T13:00:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:00:00.000-05:00recomended for any budding-democracy study-group. ...<A HREF="http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/" REL="nofollow">recomended</A> for any budding-democracy study-group. Iran.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165427592473242062006-12-06T12:53:00.000-05:002006-12-06T12:53:00.000-05:00Theres a chew and poo somewhere in the universe.In...Theres a chew and poo somewhere in the universe.<BR/><BR/>In Marx's critique of political economy, any labor-product has a value and a use value, and if it is traded as a commodity in markets, it additionally has an exchange value, most often expressed as a money-price.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Money-price. Has a nice ring to it.<BR/>Cha-ching.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165427264226254472006-12-06T12:47:00.000-05:002006-12-06T12:47:00.000-05:00Wait. Im not finished. I have stop errors on my co...Wait. Im not finished. I have stop errors on my computor. Its like an intersection where its red light all ways. THe computer is too stupid to use the left hand rule or whatever. Magnetic charge flows clockwise around the direction of the rurrent. Thumbs up. Or maybe its the right hand of darkness. THe blue screen of going to alaska.<BR/><BR/>Sandra Day O'Connor, ladys and gentlemen!<BR/><BR/>James A. Baker in the house. Licking his gums, but in the house nonetheless!<BR/><BR/>WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — Saying that “the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating,” <BR/><BR/>Freakin' made my day at the library. <BR/><BR/><B>Utilitarianism </B>(from the Latin utilis, useful) is the ethical doctrine that the moral worth of an action is solely determined by its contribution to overall utility. It is thus a form of consequentialism. <BR/><BR/><B>Consequentialism</B> refers to those moral theories that hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action.<BR/><BR/><B>Pragmatism</B>, as a school of philosophy, is a collection of many different ways of thinking. Given the diversity among thinkers and the variety among schools of thought that have adopted this term over the years, the term pragmatism has become all but meaningless in the absence of further qualification....<BR/><BR/>...Some pragmatists disagree with the view that beliefs represent reality, and instead argue that beliefs are dispositions which qualify as true or false depending on how helpful a disposition proves in accomplishing the believer's goals. For this type of pragmatist it is only in the struggle of intelligent organisms with the surrounding environment that theories acquire meaning, and only with a theory's success in this struggle that it becomes true.<BR/><BR/>Yeah I studied the federalist papers in High school - you know, buddign jeffersonian democracies...that sort of thing.<BR/><BR/>Proof is in the pudding, as they say.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165423989449261642006-12-06T11:53:00.000-05:002006-12-06T11:53:00.000-05:00political? This blog does not allow anonymous comm...<A HREF="http://www.laweekly.com/la-vida/la-vida/gentlemens-disagreement/14893/" REL="nofollow"> political?</A><BR/> <BR/><BR/>This blog does not allow anonymous comments.<BR/>Choose an identity<BR/><BR/>Blogger<BR/> <BR/>Username closeuup<BR/> <BR/>Password ******youth--lesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766715817815803423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165389728555530222006-12-06T02:22:00.000-05:002006-12-06T02:22:00.000-05:00this?<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZPVlqlt6Tk" REL="nofollow">this?</A>youth--lesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766715817815803423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165388408471867022006-12-06T02:00:00.000-05:002006-12-06T02:00:00.000-05:00is this sophomoric?<A HREF="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1270024823" REL="nofollow">is this sophomoric?</A>youth--lesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766715817815803423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165379480524846252006-12-05T23:31:00.000-05:002006-12-05T23:31:00.000-05:00ok just got a new box so i am dorking out but inst...ok just got a new box so i am dorking out but install the firefox plug in <A HREF="http://cooliris.com/" REL="nofollow">cooliris</A>and just mouse over a bloggers hot link and see it with out leaving the page... blogg faster better hotter...no-where-manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00420608393276593672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165378921338220662006-12-05T23:22:00.000-05:002006-12-05T23:22:00.000-05:00exchange use -value? What do you mean? and was the...exchange use -value? What do you mean? <BR/>and was there really a chew and poo?heidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05220223053250875103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165378459775785632006-12-05T23:14:00.000-05:002006-12-05T23:14:00.000-05:00Utilitarian pragmatism? Nay!Art is useless!I was r...Utilitarian pragmatism? Nay!<BR/>Art is useless!<BR/><BR/>I was reading however that it does have exchange use-value.<BR/><BR/>Cue NWM.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165377983346922672006-12-05T23:06:00.000-05:002006-12-05T23:06:00.000-05:00hello tpol, in response to:I would love to hear a ...hello tpol, in response to:<BR/>I would love to hear a considered defense of the propagation of the “Victorian thing” o-where-man and “victorianesque figures” heidilolatheayatollah .... Is this simply an example of the convergence of art and fashion?<BR/><BR/>I think artists are essentially autobiographical, the victorian thing taps into the over abundance of wealth vs poverty, our fascination with the nouveau rich and rise (or decline?) of the American Empire. Victorian figures say "elegant goth" but they also may be tapping into a metaphor for our position in the world and everything victorian represents, sterotypically speaking. Let them eat cake, off with their heads and all that.<BR/><BR/>Basically--painting the gotti family would be tacky and boring, dress it up, and paint some ribbons n hats, same thing. <BR/><BR/>It is a nice look for movies, I wonder how it will age in contemporary art...hard to say. Will it look doubly dated? trite? or will it still be as grand as any historical movie today? <BR/><BR/>Guess it depends towards what end the artist is utilizing it for.heidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05220223053250875103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165376989354935602006-12-05T22:49:00.000-05:002006-12-05T22:49:00.000-05:00folk art<A HREF="http://hometown.aol.co.uk/bagendinn1/tolkienweekend2005too.html" REL="nofollow">folk art</A>zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165375435211579612006-12-05T22:23:00.000-05:002006-12-05T22:23:00.000-05:00Like most babies smell like butterHis smell smelle...Like most babies smell like butter<BR/>His smell smelled like no other<BR/>He was born scentless and senseless<BR/>He was born a scentless apprentice<BR/><BR/>Go away - get away, get a-way<BR/><BR/>Every wet nurse refused to feed him<BR/>Electrolytes smell like semen<BR/>I promise not to sell your perfumed secrets<BR/>There are countless formulas for pressing flowers<BR/><BR/>Go away - get away, get a-way<BR/><BR/>I lie in the soil and fertilize mushrooms<BR/>Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume<BR/>You can't fire me because I quit!<BR/>Throw me in the fire and I won't throw a fit<BR/><BR/>Go away - get away, get away, get away, get away, get away, get a-wayzipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710060.post-1165375200620140212006-12-05T22:20:00.000-05:002006-12-05T22:20:00.000-05:00You got your joe coleman...i dunno. Joe coleman al...You got your joe coleman...<BR/>i dunno. Joe coleman allways seems too fussy to me - like hes TRYING to be outsider.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/" REL="nofollow">elfwood</A> has a lot of thre stuff that reminds me of Ted Mineo and 31 GRAND artists as well - if ted is gonna make people really angry, then some of 31 GRAND should make them alternately sucicidal and homocidal. Talk about kitch. <BR/><BR/>Me personally? I dont care. I got a big poster of Gandalf at my parents house - got it when I was in third grade I think. <BR/><BR/>So if you want to talk constructed identities, I think I was pretty self aware at an early age. But then I could never construct an identity I liked.<BR/><BR/>Thats why I post anonymously here - It makes me feel empowered and more real in a way. Like I can just say what I want and if the person on the other end dies, its ok, because I didnt really know them, or even care, because scent is really the only thing that makes me feel anything.<BR/><BR/>The other day I had some clam chowder and the smell was intense. i almost forgot I was in Brooklyn.<BR/>I think I must have looke a bit maudlin because the next thing you know someone has to pipe up loudly about how great the food is. I hate that shit.<BR/><BR/>Let them eat potato skins.zipthwunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761727194113640578noreply@blogger.com