January 2010
3 posts
What I don't get about Americans
After last night’s Democrat defeat in Massachusetts and Scott Brown’s vow to vote down health reform, I’ve been wondering what the hell voters are thinking. Am gutted that Coakley couldn’t run an efficient campaign and the Dem. machine wasn’t able to fill the shoes of Ted Kennedy (it’s not like they didn’t have plenty of notice regarding TK’s...
Masculine Feminine
I was going through my office today, tossing paperwork and sifting through files. I found a piece of old notebook paper with purple marker scrawled across… a quote, I think, from Jean Luc Godard’s “Masculine Feminine”, I always loved this:
“I discovered that all the questions I asked conveyed an ideology which corresponded to yesterday’s customs, rather that...
Bauhaus Night
Seven people gathered at the home of artist John Powers last night and discussed the current Bauhaus show at MOMA. We talked about the Futurists, Constructivists and other movements taking place at that time and how they influenced each other and how Modernism was born. Todd Gibson started the talk by asking the group questions - and one of them was “If painters were in charge of the...
