Andy Warhol Looks A Scream...
Jan. 15th, 2008 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraMy life is boring right now. There's accounting – and more accounting; there's inventory; there's cleaning. There's revamping the business plan and projecting the 2008 budget.
To feed my imagination, I've been watching a lot of bad movies. Most recently, The Brave One, a Jody Foster vehicle that combines plot elements from Lassie Come Home and the Bronson Death Wish trilogy. Ben found it fascinating, even compelling. I found it fascinating too but mostly from the angle of migawwd, famously Sapphic Foster doing sex scenes with a guy? and will she ever get her damn dog back? Neal Jordan is one of those directors who teeters between high camp and the profound. In this instance he lost his balance and fell towards the left.
Also I've been reading – Holy Terror, Bob Colacello's Andy Warhol bio most recently.
I don't find Warhol particularly interesting in and of himself, but there's no denying that he was the Delphic oracle of the peculiar cultural schism that is 21st century America. And so I read a lot about him, and search for clues: how did that vapid, vacant man come to leave his trademark on an entire culture?
To feed my imagination, I've been watching a lot of bad movies. Most recently, The Brave One, a Jody Foster vehicle that combines plot elements from Lassie Come Home and the Bronson Death Wish trilogy. Ben found it fascinating, even compelling. I found it fascinating too but mostly from the angle of migawwd, famously Sapphic Foster doing sex scenes with a guy? and will she ever get her damn dog back? Neal Jordan is one of those directors who teeters between high camp and the profound. In this instance he lost his balance and fell towards the left.
Also I've been reading – Holy Terror, Bob Colacello's Andy Warhol bio most recently.
I don't find Warhol particularly interesting in and of himself, but there's no denying that he was the Delphic oracle of the peculiar cultural schism that is 21st century America. And so I read a lot about him, and search for clues: how did that vapid, vacant man come to leave his trademark on an entire culture?
