this is fantastic up close. i'd forgotten we saw this koons piece at versailles. i was reminded of it just now, whilst finding myself gazing, slack-jawed, upon the man's gold plated coffin, via bbc2.
we went to see the banksy show today, and surrounded by commandeered ice cream vans and terrorist rats, look what else we saw:-
it's not good. it was surrounded by those nasty electronic candles and some silk flowers, for god's sake. i'm not sure which image is more distasteful- this, in all its' terrible execution, hastily wheeled out in some confused attempt at 'faux' timely reverence; or that coffin being wheeled out just now to jive with the all-too-fresh bad taste in the mouth left by joe jackson hawking his blu-rays out front- but this one was certainly hardest to explain to my son, for more reasons than immediately apparent. so yeah, thanks for that, banksy.
although rudy did enjoy the animatronic chicken mcnuggets. yes, i did just type that.
ooh, blanket is there. yay blanket.
r.i.p.
p.s. edited to add that paris ripped my heart right out, and i'm not judging prince for chewing gum throughout either.
ma-ma-sa
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great post
RIP :-(
i'd have it as my password for *everything* if only i could spell it the same way twice...
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(did you cry? i cried. i know.)
I was surpised but yes, I cried, very much so, and not all at once but intermittently since he died and they've been playing his songs on the radio. Manchild, yes, but there's something...good...in there, I think, or maybe that's just an illusion, but that's what I intuit. And Paris, g-d, what a heartbreaker.
ReplyDeleteyeah, i'll hold my hands up to the fact that i am one of those long time big fans that has been keeping their mouth shut since the whole arvizo debacle, albeit with a thriller ringtone, and i've been wiping away sporadic tears since the end of june. more memories than i thought are tied up with him. when those ripples of rumour that jordan chandler was admitting that he lied did the rounds, i was over the moon. but then they went away again, and we're left with j-5 medleys, the oddly touching pictures of his stagewear, the bewildering collection of jehovah's witness type art, the macabre objectivity, and surprising amounts of anger from all pov's. there *is* something good, and something more tragically complicated than anyone can possibly know.
ReplyDeletei was impressed with paris before she even spoke; her self possession, awareness and, as my mother said, straight up elegance were evident even from her seat. she seems extraordinary. cynically, i imagine karl lagerfeld is already planning his a/w 2015 campaign around her (did you notice her purse?).. to see them was surreal and somewhat worrying, i can't have been the only one that felt a pang of anxious protectiveness. whatever mj was doing, he was doing something right. but i worry for them. i hope we don't see them again for a long time.
the whole thing is just so sad.
did you see the 'ghost' on cnn? ...ever the showman, huh?