All This Is That

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Painting: Acrylic Vortex

By Jack Brummet

[acrylic and pencil on 18"x24" stretched and primed canvas]

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I am reading a fascinating book about the NYC music scene from 1972-1977--Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever. I arrived in NYC in '77. The book details the emergence of hip hop and rap, the loft jazz scene, salsa, punk, the new serious music a/k/a/ classical of Steven Reich and Phillip Glass, and the new wave.

It was pretty cool to be there and catch the tail end of it. Anyhow, this reminded me of one night in 1977 when Kev Francis Aloysius Curran and I went to the opening of Hilly Crystal's new club in the East Village, CBGB 2nd Avenue, in an old Yiddish theater on 2nd Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. On the bill that night: The Talking Heads, The Ramones, Television, and Blondie. The Hell's Angels, who lived across 3rd street from my future brother in law Colin, were out front of the theatre selling acid and nickel bags. The theater was almost 2,000 seats...way bigger than CBGBs proper. Looking at who was playing, it's just stunning that it wasn't a sell out. OK, rambling now.

One of the most interesting facts in the book I'm reading is that the Talking Heads lived three doors up from our loft at 181 Chrystie Street in the East Village. Keelin and I sublet a place there for three or four months. I never saw any signs of the Heads, but we saw a lot of other weird stuff. I still often listen to the Heads, Ramones, Blondie, and other bands from back then, but tonight I went back and listened to a couple of my Television CDs. I'd forgotten just how good these guys were. . .

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Faces No. 315 - "Please take a number and wait your turn"

By Jack Brummet

[pencil and Sharpie on surplus 2'x2' muslin autoclave cloth]

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Friday, September 28, 2012

"If history has taught us anything..."

Tom: It would be like trying to kill the President; there's no way we can get to him.
Michael: Tom, you know you surprise me. If anything in this life is certain - if history has taught us anything - it's that you can kill anybody..

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Search.xxx debuts today—the first dedicated pornography search engine

By Mona Goldwater,

Social Mores Editor

Porn fans, as of today, have their own search engine on the Internet. And there is nothing anyone can really do about it. In fact, however, Google, Bing, Yahoo, and the other search engines already execute millions of searches for porn every day.

ICM Registry, which runs .xxx, launched its own search engine — Search.xxx — today. “There’s enough porn for anyone who wants to find it,” said Stuart Lawley, ICM’s chief executive and president. “If people hate porn, they can keep away from it.”

Sure, there's that.

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The botched Ecce Homo restoration now on trash and trinkets

By Jack Brummet, Art Editor

The disastrous Ecce Homo painting restoration, also known as “Potato Jesus”, refers to the botched restoration of a century-old Spanish devotional fresco. An elderly woman named Cecilia Jiménez, acted as the amateur art restorer. The result of the botched restoration spawned a highly viral internet meme, where the trashed painting was edited in to other famous works of art, movie scenes and probably into a bunch of cat and FAIL images.

Jiménez wanted to restore a damaged fresco created by Spanish painter Elías García Martínez named Ecce Homo (“Behold the Man”), in the Santuario de Misericordia Church in the Spanish town Borja. According to the church, Jiménez restored the painting without permission.

The original, and Jiménez's "fixed" version:

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Vote (and register to vote!!

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Shots from the Seattle Furthur show at the WaMu Theater

Shots from the Furthur show at WaMu Theater (a decidedly strange venue) and pre-func tailgater in the shadow of the Pinoeer Square sports stadiums. It was a good show, with the band playing for 3+ hours. . .