'77 Lincoln bites the dust: Tony Labat strange performance artist
 

This stuff caught my eye, I never was much for performance art, implying that a 1977 Lincoln Contintental was some metaphor for American imperialist arrogance in its oil baron phase, (maybe I am a philistine, or not PC enough...)

But I never saw a car get destroyed with a giant crane-borne drop hammer like this!!!




http://www.tonylabat.com/mata-crush.html

Seems pretty weird and silly to see some enormous peace sign around Fell or Divisadero Street (streets which I know VERY well) by San Francisco's Golden Gate panhandle. I am another one of those people who never really liked polititically performance art (who remembers feminist Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party", all those plates shaped like, oh never mind)

And he sure seems intrigued with Cuba doesn't he? Who ever heard of Fidel Castro in a wax museum? Who is that other guy?

Those old Russian diesel military trucks in Cuba sure smoked....wow.!

http://www.tonylabat.com/

Is it some kind of American "angst" or something: "paranoia, war, poverty, caffeine rush, religious hallucination". BTSOM!!!

(I saw it in the SF paper today).

Is it too late for me to put on a beret and go to some Cafe in Little Italy in SF, and order a cappucino and sit at some table, smoking Gauloises and looking intensely earnest, and as though I'd just completed a slim volume of verse???!!:rolleyes:

I don't drive around in a pickup truck with a coil of rope in the back, on the one hand, but I am not cut out for comprehending this kind of thing, either, this stuff. I just don't like performance art

I take it you are no Matthew Barney fan.....{sound of distant tile-tapping}....

I perceive there are no Mapplethorpe "books"gracing your shelves either?

Right you are, sir.

John Cage sucked.

"Compositional change" and such concepts may sound fascinating in theory, but when in practice, a concert at the University Of California that consists of a gentleman in a tuxedo, who sits in front of a piano for an hour and does not move his hands from his lap, those of us lacking a higher apprreciation for this kind of "art", feel a vague sense of disquiet and bewilderment, and wonder if "we" have been played.

...and leave the auditorium wondering, if, just maybe.....perhaps...it was

"Shome mistake, shurely???!!"


It may be fascinating to observe pieces of ice suspended from string melt one by one, and "play" a harp as they fall, and hit the strings, but in the end I'd rather read about that in the newspaper, and then go to a movie with lots of car chases, crashes, people blowing $hit up, automatic weapon fights, and gorgeous babes in sexy cocktail dresses running really fast.

Depende en su punte de vista, supongo, compadre.:thinking: <raises eyebrow>

sigh.

what a waste of everything

Damn straight...The only important things in this brief span are plenty of F.U.money,available pussy,good booze,drugs and cars...not necessarily in the order listed.

That sounds like someone with his priorities straight!!! I like that!!

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