Isn't This Lovely?
Hand me my shank, some artist-type is fucking with our Crackie of Camden. Nobody fucks with Wino, but us! We're the only ones allowed to make fun of her ass! Can you believe this shit right here? Artist Marco Perego created of a statue of Wino, dead in a pool of blood. There's a statue of William Burroughs near her, carrying a gun. It is selling for $100,000. Good fucking luck selling that mess.
The hos at NYC's Half Gallery said Marco made it as a tribute to Wino and Burroughs. They explained this shit: "In September of 1951, William Burroughs, playing a dangerous game of William Tell, shot his wife Joan Vollmer in the head and killed her. This sculpture is a re-creation of that event which is conflating timelines and literary history to create something that's fantasy but is totally lifelike."
Lifelike?! Wino hasn't looked like that for years. The sculpture is too clean, too fat and Wino wouldn't be caught dead (pardon the pun) with nails that shiny and new looking! She doesn't leave the house unless her fingers are covered in crack dirt and ciggie smoke. And what the hell kind of GD outfit is that?! Is that Wino or a soccer mom? And I'm going to pretend I'm not looking at that Minnie Mouse mask. That shit should've been a box of ice pops instead.
There's no need to get my shank. This obviously isn't our Wino!
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amy's nails do NOT look like that.
Should have track marks, a needle on the floor and some powder in the nostrils.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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This "artwork" is disturbing. Jarring even.
Schandenfraude
this is not art. I hope it doesn't sell. great Burroughs reference though.
Submitted by Mrs.Kravitz on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:29pm.
Here's Burroughssssss'ssss obituary
Feh, why do I even bother? You ingrates won't read it. I give and I give and I give and what do I get back?
BUPKES!!!!!
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he certainly lived a life chock full of experiences. i admire that.
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over the top! she's addicted. addiction is a disease. the artist is a complete asshole.
Professional art critique:
1. It looks like vom not blood
2. The crackhive is too clean
3. Wino's not showing enough skin
4. Wino is wearing loose-fit jeans
Obviously the sculpture is not going for realism.
In summation: FAIL.
That said, "Naked Lunch" (with the William Burroughs gun scene) was a powerful movie.
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"Michael Phelps - No. The body is sexy, but the face didn't get the memo."--MK
A more realistic ending for Crackhouse would be face down in a puddle of vomit.
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Sweet barbecued Jesus with a side of cole slaw, I'm this close to just rolling down the subway stairs and out onto the third rail. - Jan_In_The_Pan
Thanks for posting his obit Mrs. K, that was really interesting, I've always loved Burroughs and read most of his books. Im surprised they didnt mention his small part in Drugstore Cowboy w/Matt Dillon, his voice was mesmerizing, I loved it.
"there's a junk gesture that marks the junkie like the limp wrist marks the fag. The hand swings half from the elbow, stiff fingered, palm up." Hate to love this guy.
Submitted by putsomestankonit
From the obit MrsK posted:
''Just because he sleeps with boys, takes drugs and smokes dope doesn't mean that he tolerates or supports the majority of junkies, homosexuals or potheads...Bill simply doesn't like most people.''
Cheesus he'd have LOVED Winehouse though, they have all the same interests and no tolerance for fuckery. What's not to love.
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Guess what. I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
Mrs K, Alec's voice is in the new Madagascar 2 movie. But I am going to wait for it on DVD.
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Submitted by Mrs.Kravitz on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:55pm.
hee hee hee
I am such a manipulative bitch, but that doesn't mean I don't love you all more than life itself!!!
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You are quite the playa there, Mrs. LOL!!
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Thanks MTC, you should read it. Its short and addictive. Ha ha ha. I felt like his words were covered in sweat and filth, it just has a quality of dirtiness about it. Plus he doesn't seem to think much of himself or anyone else in it either.
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Submitted by putsomestankonit on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 5:04pm.
Mrs. K, I already have enough Catholic guilt so I don't need any Jewish mom guilt added to it.
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OK.
How about some chicken soup? You want some chicken soup, bubbeleh?
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Come on baby, do a slow float you're a good looking riverboat
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I finks you is vwery brainsy and shit. I love it when books have a foreword that explains the background or whatever that is relevant to understanding the text. It helps to put things in perspective and you get a much better understaing of the motives of the author. I will read Junkie one day. Just haven't got around to it (but I have an old copy without said missing chapter, dammit)
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Guess what. I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
Mrs. K, I already have enough Catholic guilt so I don't need any Jewish mom guilt added to it.
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Submitted by zomay on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 5:00pm.
Good lordy, are you sure you are not a mom.
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no kids, but all of my pets have severe guilt complexes.
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Mrs.Kravitz on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:29pm.
Feh, why do I even bother? You ingrates won't read it. I give and I give and I give and what do I get back?
BUPKES!!!!!
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Good lordy, are you sure you are not a mom.
Why yes this is brilliant, "rockstars are the ...dumbfuckshit" these are exactly the two morons i want to share my money with :eye roll:
Anyfuckinghacksters, Burrough's voice has a really strange quality to it, creepy yet...I like listening to Ah Pook The Destroyer.
Key life lesson: if your mate suggests a game of William Tell--nay, any game involving live ammo--best to say No.
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"Instead of following my heart and doing something that made me really happy, I just did it [marriage] for the idea of everything." (Britney)
That shit is all kinds of wrong.
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President Obama - Get used to it! :)
hee hee hee
I am such a manipulative bitch, but that doesn't mean I don't love you all more than life itself!!!
I do, I do.
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Come on baby, do a slow float you're a good looking riverboat
Glad you joined us for a bit FatMartha!! Come back sooooon!!!!
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Take that dick off your shoulder and put it in your mouf. Drink the evidence and hide the dick behind your head! The police is comin!
. - Decoder ring, lol!
Well Clarisse, Okie, et. all, I must be toodling off now. I shall try to lurk less and post moar. Much love to all of you. xoxox
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I'm trippin' ballz, man.
Yeah, way too clean to be Wino. Doesn't even look like her anyay. meh
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Submitted by MyTwoCents on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:38pm.
No Junky wasn't censored a certain chapter was left out so Burroughs worked with a English professor who helped put them back in. He became with him. The restored edition of Junky just gives a little background history of what was going on in his life at the time and why that one chapter was left out. That's all really, but helps you gain insight before reading.
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horrible & stupid...modern art is sometimes such a joke...i am not really picking up on his vision, he needs to add more bullshit to the explanation to make it saleable...something about how her husband is killing her too & the "shot" in the head is symbolic of how blake is going to kill her by shooting her up with drugs...thats probably too literal, but i am not a bullshit artist, so i am not good at this stuff, but then again neither is he...
@ MrsK
Gah!! I always read your posts! I have them copied, printed and wallpaper my bedroom with them. Well not really. I made a shrine of them. No seriously. That obit was inneresting.
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Guess what. I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
Thanks for the link Mrs. K but some of his obit had conflicting info. I read that he and his wife were only common law hubby and wife. And this was from the restored text of Junky and that after her death he went in search of Yage which makes up the bulk of "Queer".
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Mrs.Kravitz on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:29pm
You fancy link makin' giver!
Here, I am giving you part of my Snickers.
"Going gray is like ejaculating. You know it can happen prematurely, but when it actually does, it's a total shock." MAH BOO!!!
Submitted by rotten_egg on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:04pm.
I hate modern "art" and I use that name loosely. It's all about shock value, not talent.
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spot on! nothing can touch the Renaissance
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Like there's actually a need for Greenland.you can get ice at 7-Eleven!
Mrs.Kravitz,
I read everything you link.
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Submitted by putsomestankonit on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:25pm.
Submitted by MyTwoCents on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:20pm.
I was told many years ago never to read "The Naked Lunch" cause I wouldn't understand. The bitch who said that to me was implying I was stoopid and unedumacated. I think "Queer" was reissued this month with the restored text.
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Google says Junkie, Queer and The Yage Letters are relatively straightforward 'linear narratives', written in and about Burrough's time in Mexico City and South America.
I would really love to HEAR Burroughs read his stories or tell them straight out. He had a fascinating style of speaking that makes me want to curl up at his feet and listen.
Why restored? Did they censor the orig?
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Guess what. I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
I agree that it's waaay too clean to be wino.
Rich and famous people suck.
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So is someone going to buy that, blood and all, Then when they want to sweep around or under it, just pick it up.. And re-apply blood?? WTf?
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Take that dick off your shoulder and put it in your mouf. Drink the evidence and hide the dick behind your head! The police is comin!
Submitted by MyTwoCents on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:29pm.
The one that also had Sophie Dahl in it. Last Night On Earth. It just goes to show that Bono is the biggest douchebag on earth.
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Here's Burroughssssss'ssss obituary
Feh, why do I even bother? You ingrates won't read it. I give and I give and I give and what do I get back?
BUPKES!!!!!
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Come on baby, do a slow float you're a good looking riverboat
Submitted by putsomestankonit on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:12pm.
Submitted by MyTwoCents on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:03pm.
Burrough's wifey had a daughter too by her first husband. She was sent to live with her maternal grandparents. His son was sent to live with his parents in Florida while he lived around the world and did as he pleased. He died early from damaging his liver. He was also an alkie like daddy and a writer as well. They didn't get on very well.
Also never understood why Bono of all people had him in a U2 in a video. Since Bono is opposed to violence and murderers.
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Which vid was that? That is a very odd choice for U2 to make. I thought they were all about social justice and human rights and stuff.
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Guess what. I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
Submitted by MyTwoCents on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:20pm.
I was told many years ago never to read "The Naked Lunch" cause I wouldn't understand. The bitch who said that to me was implying I was stoopid and unedumacated. I think "Queer" was reissued this month with the restored text.
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HE did get it all wrong, Wino would NEVER dress that conservatively unless she was on speed or some straighten-you-up OCD drug. It's cutoffs and a fishnet shirt over a dirty bra or NOTHING but ballet slippers (ew I threw up a little in mouth!)...
Your face!
BRILLIANT!!!!!! Funniest shit I have seen in years!! Up there with the MJ and bubbles statue.
(in Ethel Merman voice)There's No Wino, Like our Wino, Like no Wino I know!
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Sitting it out, spinning the dial
Thinking about the chump I've been
I have to smile,didn't I know Easy Come, Easy Go!
Submitted by MyTwoCents on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:03pm.
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William Burroughs was as a gay as an Easter bonnet but only came out of the closet in the late 50s...
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I read that. You can't watch naked lunch (havn't read the book) and miss the obsession with the peen. I hated that film, but I'd read the book.
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Guess what. I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.
FatMartha.. sorry to hear that about your BF.. But sounds like you got somethin else yummy lined up! that's Nice!!! LMAO @ Your Siggie line! And way to go about your GPA! *crowns you Queen for the day*
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Take that dick off your shoulder and put it in your mouf. Drink the evidence and hide the dick behind your head! The police is comin!
Not life-like. She looks too healthy.
Submitted by devilgirl on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:13pm.
I have a degree in art history and I say this is SHIT!
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-And, I echo your summation. Thank you. I've been an 'artist' since I was young and my art isn't anything genius but you can tell wtf it is without needing a hidden message decoder ring to figure it the fuck out.
Submitted by oklahoma on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 4:01pm.
Okieeee darling. *covers in kisses*
Ohhh sigh. No, I shall not be seeing "my" man anytime soon. He and I had a bit of a ... falling out. Meh. Good riddance to bad rubbish or however that saying goes. I've got my eye on a friend from London though, and he totally wants me (lawl) so I'm milkin' it for all it's worth (ooer) and I am gonna get me some delicious British man meat in June. Mmm-mm!
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I'm trippin' ballz, man.