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Art and Art .
2 min read
I have been thinking about art and the relationship it has with the artist .
The recent Michael Jackson controversy is a perfect example .
Can we separate the art from the artist or are they so entwined that this is impossible ?
My argument is we can , as long as the art is not exploitative of
a situation that is unpalatable.
But then again this raises more conundrums.
Some of the most striking art is propaganda art.
Acknowledging the expertise of a recruiting poster does not necessarily mean we are pro - war
or indulge in a cultural revolution.
There has been recent discussion in Australia about the relationships that Picasso had with his
many female paramours and that basically because he was a chauvinist pig
his work should be restricted in it's showing.
Where does it end ? Can't read Hemingway because he might cause self harm ?
Wow couldn't listen to any music , read any books , watch T.V , view any art
unless the artist met a certain moral code.
Good Bye Bukowski , Burroughs , Ginsberg , Ozzy , The Rolling Stones , Lemmy
and just about every major visual artist in history.
This weird correctness man .
Everybody knows what is right and wrong.
Michaelangelo's David is not violent pornography.
I don't care if the Sistine Chapel interior decorator shot up heroin
his art is good.I don't care if he was an arsehole to his family.
We are are always limited to the work in question.
In the era of The Kardashians the cult of personality and celebrity
eclipses any art. The life of the artist is only a byline .It may give insight but
it really is only a notice at the bottom of the picture in a gallery.
The artist stands behind the work not in front of it.
Next time '' Billie Jean '' comes on the radio I will tap my toes regardless
of it's sad , sick , creator.
Anyhow time to watch the Rugby League on T.V. and have a beer
plenty of time to read poetry or look at decadent art later .Cheers !!!
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Thinking and THINKING
3 min read
I have been thinking about thinking.Now this is not an original thought .
Everybody has thought about this.I think.I am gonna have to watch this train of thought
or I am going to end up wrapped up in my own words better than a food item in the supermarket !!!
A bloke called Descartes once reckoned that '' I think therefore I am ''. Cogito Ergo Sum if I remember.
But how many of us overthink things ?How many of us don't think properly when we need to ?
I know it is very hard to not get overwhelmed.All the shit that comes at you is enough
to make you become one of those hermits that live in a cave.The problem is of course that
then all you would have to do is think !!!!
After a couple of days of thinking I would want to go
and have a couple of beers, a nice big pasta (penne bosciaola and some freshly toasted garlic bread
with the butter dripping down the sides ) watch a movie from the Eighties , listen to some loud rock
and have a big snooze on the lounge ...
The key is balance.Think when you have to and give your brain a break when you can and just feel things.
Just BE.Just stop.Just '' just ''.
Obviously when a pilot is flying the plane I am on or a surgeon is operating on me
I do not want them drifting off amongst the dandelions
- time to focus boys !!!!!
Likewise I am sure we can see examples every day of sheer bloody stupidity.The daily news has examples
endlessly of human idiocy.The main thing is not to become one of the ''FUCKING IDIOTS''.
Just a little bit of thinking of others other than yourself ( indulging in penne bosciaola aside ! ) can make
all the difference.There is a time for thinking especially when we get around ,when we do and when we interact.
Why we end up with people like Kim Jong and Donald Trump with their fingers on buttons has really got
me stumped?I know the answer of course.Somebody or a lot of somebodies didn't think.
Now that has really got me thinking.
Somehow this is where hope comes in.
Hope is another topic ....seems I have let my thoughts wander.
Time for coffee and a walk in garden and who knows
maybe later a trip to the shops to get some Heineken and Barilla !!!
Everybody has thought about this.I think.I am gonna have to watch this train of thought
or I am going to end up wrapped up in my own words better than a food item in the supermarket !!!
A bloke called Descartes once reckoned that '' I think therefore I am ''. Cogito Ergo Sum if I remember.
But how many of us overthink things ?How many of us don't think properly when we need to ?
I know it is very hard to not get overwhelmed.All the shit that comes at you is enough
to make you become one of those hermits that live in a cave.The problem is of course that
then all you would have to do is think !!!!
After a couple of days of thinking I would want to go
and have a couple of beers, a nice big pasta (penne bosciaola and some freshly toasted garlic bread
with the butter dripping down the sides ) watch a movie from the Eighties , listen to some loud rock
and have a big snooze on the lounge ...
The key is balance.Think when you have to and give your brain a break when you can and just feel things.
Just BE.Just stop.Just '' just ''.
Obviously when a pilot is flying the plane I am on or a surgeon is operating on me
I do not want them drifting off amongst the dandelions
- time to focus boys !!!!!
Likewise I am sure we can see examples every day of sheer bloody stupidity.The daily news has examples
endlessly of human idiocy.The main thing is not to become one of the ''FUCKING IDIOTS''.
Just a little bit of thinking of others other than yourself ( indulging in penne bosciaola aside ! ) can make
all the difference.There is a time for thinking especially when we get around ,when we do and when we interact.
Why we end up with people like Kim Jong and Donald Trump with their fingers on buttons has really got
me stumped?I know the answer of course.Somebody or a lot of somebodies didn't think.
Now that has really got me thinking.
Somehow this is where hope comes in.
Hope is another topic ....seems I have let my thoughts wander.
Time for coffee and a walk in garden and who knows
maybe later a trip to the shops to get some Heineken and Barilla !!!
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Hurt and Hurt
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I have been thinking about pain.Look out I might get dark here.Johnny Cash understood pain long before he did Nine Inch Nails 's song Hurt.Pain can be a terrible thing - no not a burnt finger
or a sprained ankle or even a punch in the face ( and I have had plenty and given plenty ) - punches and burns though I have never had a sprained ankle though people tell me it is painful and I am gonna take their word for it.
The pain I am talking about is that gutwrenching emotional pain.Trouble type pain.Jimi Hendrix type song about it.I found out an old fiancé of mine died .I don't know the circumstances but hey I ain't 92 so I guess it weren't " natural causes " though the way she lived her life you don't need to be psychic .........
Kinda made me feel sick ......queasy ..... like when you had too many chillies or that curry didn't agree with you.Emotional pain can cause physical reactions ( no shit Sherlock !).
She had had a very tough life .Beautiful .Tragic. When we parted ways we left mutually , not working out - just I don't have time to ...go into it.I had always wished she met some rich , kind guy and lived happily ever afterward.Yeah right like that is the way.Ha !
Okay so what about us......
How is it gonna end ?
Dribbling on yourself in a nursing home ?
Alone and crazy with worry about the bills ?
Sick , unloved and lonely ?
Relatives like carrion birds waiting to descend ?
It doesn't worry me .
Other people and their pain concerns me more.
The people you love and the people you have loved
defines us better anyway.
Well at least in my case.
Told you.!
or a sprained ankle or even a punch in the face ( and I have had plenty and given plenty ) - punches and burns though I have never had a sprained ankle though people tell me it is painful and I am gonna take their word for it.
The pain I am talking about is that gutwrenching emotional pain.Trouble type pain.Jimi Hendrix type song about it.I found out an old fiancé of mine died .I don't know the circumstances but hey I ain't 92 so I guess it weren't " natural causes " though the way she lived her life you don't need to be psychic .........
Kinda made me feel sick ......queasy ..... like when you had too many chillies or that curry didn't agree with you.Emotional pain can cause physical reactions ( no shit Sherlock !).
She had had a very tough life .Beautiful .Tragic. When we parted ways we left mutually , not working out - just I don't have time to ...go into it.I had always wished she met some rich , kind guy and lived happily ever afterward.Yeah right like that is the way.Ha !
Okay so what about us......
How is it gonna end ?
Dribbling on yourself in a nursing home ?
Alone and crazy with worry about the bills ?
Sick , unloved and lonely ?
Relatives like carrion birds waiting to descend ?
It doesn't worry me .
Other people and their pain concerns me more.
The people you love and the people you have loved
defines us better anyway.
Well at least in my case.
Told you.!
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Nothing and Nothing
3 min read
I have been thinking about nothing today.
Well not exactly nothing ( I can see I am gonna bind myself up in knots with this )
or is that '' nots '' see it's happening already !!!
No , not the nothing of a blank stare of a boss who has just been asked for a pay-rise
or the nothing look of a police officer when you come up with some idiot reason about
why you did something you shouldn't have done.
I am thinking about the joy of doing nothing.
The Italians have a phrase for it :
''Il Dolce far Niente ''.
The Australians also have a phrase for it.
Sweet Fuck All or S.F.A . as it is commonly abbreviated.
I am on holidays at the moment and I am enjoying doing absolutely bugger all.
Sleeping in.Drinking beer.Eating lots of food.Pottering around in the garden.
Drinking tea.Planting beetroot seeds.Super gluing broken ornaments
( a resin dragon leg on a completely tasteless skull , the kind
you buy in cheap gift shops - hey I'm no connoisseur of fine art ).
I washed out two glass jars and took the paper labels off them and
then thought what am I going to do with them?
That kept me entertained until I realized it was going to rain so I ran and took a photo of the sky.
Other important things like reading a 1972 book by Arthur C. Clarke
called Profiles of The Future where he predicts the inventions of the future
so far he is off target but it is interesting in that he is so optimistic !!!!
Nothing ,of course , is best enjoyed by those who spend a lot of their time running around
like a headless chook.My normal working life is where I don't have time to scratch myself.
Being sick.Unemployed.In prison. These are not good '' nothings ''.
There is nothing sweet about any of these situations.
The joy of doing nothing is best reserved for people like myself who unlike many of my co - workers
who tell me how beautiful the Adriatic Sea is this time of year, or how fantastic Phuket is and tell me all
the wonderful places they went -when they ask me '' What did I do on my holidays ? ''
and I reply '' Nothing worth talking about .''
I can see the blank stares.That nothing look will come on their faces.
I know,the poor wretches
they could never understand the bliss of doing sweet nothing.
Well not exactly nothing ( I can see I am gonna bind myself up in knots with this )
or is that '' nots '' see it's happening already !!!
No , not the nothing of a blank stare of a boss who has just been asked for a pay-rise
or the nothing look of a police officer when you come up with some idiot reason about
why you did something you shouldn't have done.
I am thinking about the joy of doing nothing.
The Italians have a phrase for it :
''Il Dolce far Niente ''.
The Australians also have a phrase for it.
Sweet Fuck All or S.F.A . as it is commonly abbreviated.
I am on holidays at the moment and I am enjoying doing absolutely bugger all.
Sleeping in.Drinking beer.Eating lots of food.Pottering around in the garden.
Drinking tea.Planting beetroot seeds.Super gluing broken ornaments
( a resin dragon leg on a completely tasteless skull , the kind
you buy in cheap gift shops - hey I'm no connoisseur of fine art ).
I washed out two glass jars and took the paper labels off them and
then thought what am I going to do with them?
That kept me entertained until I realized it was going to rain so I ran and took a photo of the sky.
Other important things like reading a 1972 book by Arthur C. Clarke
called Profiles of The Future where he predicts the inventions of the future
so far he is off target but it is interesting in that he is so optimistic !!!!
Nothing ,of course , is best enjoyed by those who spend a lot of their time running around
like a headless chook.My normal working life is where I don't have time to scratch myself.
Being sick.Unemployed.In prison. These are not good '' nothings ''.
There is nothing sweet about any of these situations.
The joy of doing nothing is best reserved for people like myself who unlike many of my co - workers
who tell me how beautiful the Adriatic Sea is this time of year, or how fantastic Phuket is and tell me all
the wonderful places they went -when they ask me '' What did I do on my holidays ? ''
and I reply '' Nothing worth talking about .''
I can see the blank stares.That nothing look will come on their faces.
I know,the poor wretches
they could never understand the bliss of doing sweet nothing.
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second and second
2 min read
I blame Madonna. THE POP star Madonna .
" Don't settle for second best ....." I hear this so many times as part of people's conversational lexicon it kind of annoys me .It presumes that there is always a first choice waiting out there.The perfect girl . the perfect bloke the perfect job the perfect family the perfect life.
Not going to happen. Not even if you are Madonna.Not even if are going to express yourself .I am presuming that whoever is reading this is , is familiar with the Madonna song Express Yourself.I know this is an Eighties flashback but hey the best era for music was the Eighties just because there was so much going on !
In the era of "I " this and "My" that the last thing we need is a presumption that every thing needs to be perfect to be perfect.
Symmetry in the perfect sense is almost unheard of in nature .Look at a daisy, look at a leaf , study an insect and you will find that even though it is not perfectly symmetrical it still looks fantastic.
Look at someone or something you love and cast the cold critical eye and you will be shocked.Look for imperfections and you will find them.Straight lines are rare .Sometimes the faults are why you love them !!!!
The Chinese believed that demons could only travel in straight lines and that is why they have the curves on the rooves in traditional architecture.
I am with them man.No I am far from a nutty hippy but the idea of harmony , yin yang , complementary personalities , sweet and sour appeals to me.
Maybe as a chef I like the idea of different flavours , whoever thought of lemon and fish is a genius! One is a citrus fruit the other swims in the sea ...but a marriage made in heaven ...yum. ( just a simple example I know !).
I don't know that everything we pick is always the best for us. Sometimes providence or making the most of what we have is probably a key to fulfillment.
Second prize or last I really don't care ,as long as I get to run.
" Don't settle for second best ....." I hear this so many times as part of people's conversational lexicon it kind of annoys me .It presumes that there is always a first choice waiting out there.The perfect girl . the perfect bloke the perfect job the perfect family the perfect life.
Not going to happen. Not even if you are Madonna.Not even if are going to express yourself .I am presuming that whoever is reading this is , is familiar with the Madonna song Express Yourself.I know this is an Eighties flashback but hey the best era for music was the Eighties just because there was so much going on !
In the era of "I " this and "My" that the last thing we need is a presumption that every thing needs to be perfect to be perfect.
Symmetry in the perfect sense is almost unheard of in nature .Look at a daisy, look at a leaf , study an insect and you will find that even though it is not perfectly symmetrical it still looks fantastic.
Look at someone or something you love and cast the cold critical eye and you will be shocked.Look for imperfections and you will find them.Straight lines are rare .Sometimes the faults are why you love them !!!!
The Chinese believed that demons could only travel in straight lines and that is why they have the curves on the rooves in traditional architecture.
I am with them man.No I am far from a nutty hippy but the idea of harmony , yin yang , complementary personalities , sweet and sour appeals to me.
Maybe as a chef I like the idea of different flavours , whoever thought of lemon and fish is a genius! One is a citrus fruit the other swims in the sea ...but a marriage made in heaven ...yum. ( just a simple example I know !).
I don't know that everything we pick is always the best for us. Sometimes providence or making the most of what we have is probably a key to fulfillment.
Second prize or last I really don't care ,as long as I get to run.
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