Morning musings
I tried, against my better judgment, to watch some of the Emmy awards last night.
I think the person who picked the "played" Gary Shandling to host this love fest of the Cumbaya Crowd is the same person who thought it a good idea to put the Bengals on against the Dolphins last night. The fact is, for the most part, TV is so bad, it doesn't deserve an awards show. Anybody catch the irony of Hollywood bemoaning the lack of shows for real actors and then having Trump and Simon on stage to give an award? The fact is, the free market is at work in Hollywood. Give the people quality product that they want and they will watch it. Or give them crap that plays to the lowest common denominator, and they will slop it up at the trough.
While eating breakfast in Silver Lake this morning I picked up one of those "alternate" (i.e. free) newspapers. There was an ad it in for an art show.
One of the pieces of 'art' was a recreation of the hoisting of the flag on Iwo Jima, only instead of the flag, the US Marines who were some of the fortunate ones not to get slaughterd there, were hoisting a McDonalds sign. Made me yearn for the days of less offensive 'art'. . .say. . "Piss Christ".
Look out Renoir, stiff competition is gaining on you.
Nice "fessing up" Dan. But as to ever watching you on TV again? I'd "RAthER" not.
I think the person who picked the "played" Gary Shandling to host this love fest of the Cumbaya Crowd is the same person who thought it a good idea to put the Bengals on against the Dolphins last night. The fact is, for the most part, TV is so bad, it doesn't deserve an awards show. Anybody catch the irony of Hollywood bemoaning the lack of shows for real actors and then having Trump and Simon on stage to give an award? The fact is, the free market is at work in Hollywood. Give the people quality product that they want and they will watch it. Or give them crap that plays to the lowest common denominator, and they will slop it up at the trough.
While eating breakfast in Silver Lake this morning I picked up one of those "alternate" (i.e. free) newspapers. There was an ad it in for an art show.
One of the pieces of 'art' was a recreation of the hoisting of the flag on Iwo Jima, only instead of the flag, the US Marines who were some of the fortunate ones not to get slaughterd there, were hoisting a McDonalds sign. Made me yearn for the days of less offensive 'art'. . .say. . "Piss Christ".
Look out Renoir, stiff competition is gaining on you.
Nice "fessing up" Dan. But as to ever watching you on TV again? I'd "RAthER" not.
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"One of the pieces of 'art' was a recreation of the hoisting of the flag on Iwo Jima, only instead of the flag, the US Marines who were some of the fortunate ones not to get slaughterd there, were hoisting a McDonalds sign."
-- "So, like, I wanted to, like, um, represent, how, like, the American military was, like, an imperialist tool forcing, like, global corporatism on the world, and so I got a sudden inspiration to use, like, the McDonald's arches in place of the flag in that picture where the, ummm . . . army guys are, like, raising the flag after some battle in the, um, . . . first World War, and then my friends were all, "Dude, that is, like, SO brilliant!"
I am utterly sick of this "let's play dissident" mentality. Have these adolescents ever stopped to consider even the simplest hypothetical: what would have become of their art (and I use the term very loosely) if the Nazis and Imperial Japan had not been defeated? Of course, the answer is NOT that they would have become REAL dissidents, risking their lives for the sake of truth and their art -- no, that kind of dissent is practiced only by artists who really have something to say. The person who created this work obviously thinks in fashionable slogans, and it's clear that were he living under Imperial Japan or the Third Reich, he would be painting fawning, sycophantic portraits of the Fuhrer and the Emperor ascending into Heaven to a chorus of "Dude, that is, like, so brilliant!" from his friends.
Wow, Kate Marie. Where is the open mindedness? Where is the tolerance? The multiculturalacceptedness?
"We shall overcome your non Cumbaya ways some day".
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