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04.07.05   /   Comments.01   /   Filed Under: "art" + Pop
  1. How can George Lucas not direct anything for 22 years (unless you count Paula Abdul’s “Rush, Rush” video), then put out two movies that are absolute poop and still have people lining up months in advance to see his next movie? Yes, I’m going to see it too. How does he have this power over me?
  2. Why does shopping for a mortgage require an advanced degree in math?
  3. In “A Something Else Manifesto,” (PDF download / 843 KB) Dick Higgins says, “When asked what one is doing, one can only explain it as ‘something else.’ Now one does something big, now one does something small, now another big thing, now another little thing. Always it is something else.” He goes on to say, “We can talk about a thing, but we cannot talk a thing. It is always something else.”
    1. Talking and doing are two different things.
    2. I often try to look at art in two ways: what the art is about and what the art actually is. Talking about art as a thing while considering it as a thing about a thing is like focusing simultaneously on a distant mountain and the bug at the end of your nose.
    3. What the art is about does not alter what the work is. A painting of a pipe n’est pas une pipe, but is a painting.
    4. Translating the medium alters the content.
      1. How would the Cremaster series work as a Clash of the Titans style claymation? As a church produced roadshow? As an elderly woman living in a nursing home? Oh, the possibilities.
  4. Why is Josh so funny and why doesn’t Joe post more?
  5. Most social and economic systems can really only be successful on small scales.
    1. Capitalism’s sphere is too big for its own good.
    2. Maria and I will be forming the Independent Commonwealth of Newbraska and secede from the Union. Citizenship is attainable by invitation only.
      1. The Independent Commonwealth of Newbraska has no geographic location.
      2. The Independent Commonwealth of Newbraska will have a theme song. It will sound like the Magnum P.I. theme song.
  6. The newscasters in Terre Haute need a big hug and a jolt of self esteem. Watching the news is like watching high school A/V geeks read the announcements at a pep rally.
  7. What should the next incarnation of FWiC look like?
    1. FWiC is not dead, but merely sleeps.
    2. The old incarnation of FWiC outlived its interest and outside participation.
    3. The new FWiC will be interview based.
    4. Who should Team FWiC interview? How much clout does a no-name website have? Could we get Mr. T?
  8. The world should buy more Blobbies.

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Kate
no. 1 / posted 05.01.05 / 3:39 PM 
                    <p>Now, why I strongly agree and laugh vigorously at many things in the above entry, I am too obsessed with something to concentrate on that sense of enjoyment I might otherwise HAD YOU NOT DISSOLVED ALL OF MY FWIC STOCK!!!!  I was the ONLY stock holder (I suppose they were holding some shares for whoever claimed it as the owner..) but I was, before I got a notice saying it was GONE, GONE AWAY the sole blosgshares stockholder.  Mind you, I don't know anything about REAL stock (even though I own a little - for the last five or six years it's just seemed like an imaginary entity and festive game that we've watched it go UP and go DOWN and go DOWN in little charts and graphs and such - I tend to forget that actual cash was involved in the first place) but I was enjoying my faux stock.</p><p>That's okay, I still have a portfolio.  Perhaps I should get a life instead...Though my attempt to get a job, recently, may be foiled by the fact that I said the word (I kid you NOT) "verklempt" two or three times during an interview with West Valley City Public Works.</p>
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