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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 |
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LONDON — German-born abstract painter Tomma Abts on Monday became
the first female painter to land the Turner Prize in the 22-year
history of one of the art world’s most controversial awards.
Abts, 38, who has lived in London for 12 years, has said that she
begins every piece — they all measure exactly 18.9 inches by 15 inches
— with no idea what she is about to paint and that they symbolize
nothing at all.
The $49,000 prize was presented by Yoko Ono during a ceremony at London’s Tate Britain gallery.
London artist Rebecca Warren had been the favorite to take the
prize; she specializes in sculptures of large cartoon women with what
the judges called “humongous knobbly breasts and enormous bobbly
buttocks.” [Knox says: be sure to click on the jump to see/read more about Rebecca Warren - he wanted to ridicule her based on this sentence, but did a little research and now he LOVES her.]
This is Marcel Duchamp's sculpture The Fountain, 1917. It is often said, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, duchamp."
The Fountain has "meaning" up the yin-yang. Recently, a cabal of modern curators has advanced the concept of the wall-mounted urinal as the perfect archival medium/repository for the collected works of Yoko Ono.
(More art fun on the flipflop)
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
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On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley,
loaded on several prescription narcotics, paid a visit to President
Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was
initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a
visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a "Federal
Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Nixon, who set the FBI on John Lennon at one point, of course, thought it offered great PR opportunities. And thus the great meeting came to pass.
And then, on August 16, 1977, the King was dead from heart arrest,
brought on by obesity and a monumental drug habit. I was working at the
Record Factory, a record store in Colma, just south of San Francisco,
at the time. The day after the King died, there was a crowd of about
thirty people out in front of the store before we opened.
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Saturday, 29 September 2007 |
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Sunday, 21 October 2007 |
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I've been working on a new website, dedicated solely to my music, both vocal and instrumental, in anticipation of the release of Pop Down The Years. Hence, the paucity of posts here on Sun Pop Blue.
I was doing one of my periodic walks down memory lane on youtube and found a couple of songs from Matt Monro, who was huge in the sixties. He was great. Amazing voice. I swear, I am going to do a cover of From Russia With Love in my live set someday.
I did an a cappella version of Softly As I Leave You in my last show at the DNA, with heavily processed vocals. Big mistake. That was an awful show. The audience didn't want to hear me. They were all there for Halloo, which was a Portishead wannabe band and they played the same song with slightly different lyrics over and over. And there was a table of drunks yelling and I was ready to call them all out. And I had some middle age guy who was drunk and had taken ecstacy for the first time right in front of the stage dancing like an spazz. And I made some serious song choice blunders for the set. It was one of those shows where you learn a whole lot about performing, if you have any desire to ever perform again afterwards.
Below, please enjoy some classic Matt Monro. Here is a website dedicated to this great singer of yesteryear. We need more guys like him today.
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
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