Sinister: "Johnny takes Metaphorazine..."

[James Gilmer]

    Working with the public is a bit like being nibbled to death by ducks.
My heart goes out to any of my Sinister Siblings in the service fields that
have any contact with the general public. I like people, I like working with
people, but some days...ah, if I get a bit ranty in this post please excuse
me. I'm a little high strung today and in a rush. So as my four heroes with
mop tops once sang, "pardon me it's just my mind that is confusing things"

    Rachel was a dear and noticed my Jeff Noon quote. Go out and read
anything you can by him. He's brilliant  and funny and relevent and has alot
of things to say. Even if you don't like science fiction pick up Vurt and
just ride the language. It's beautiful stuff and without a doubt he sucks
you right in

    "I don't know that I can define pornograpghy, but I know it when I see
it", sayeth a supreme court justice and I must relate this to art, I can't
define it but I know it and my opinion is greatly different from anyone
else's. Or as Dennis Miller says; "95% of art is shit, 4% of art is shit
with an asterick, but that last 1% is what makes us proud to be human". Of
course, we are all going to disagree with what that one percent is.
Personally, the Mona Lisa bores the piss out of me and on the flip side
Christ in a bottle of said piss is even less interesting but that doesn't
mean you should think so too.
    The problem, and I think this might have been more of what tiago was
trying to say, is that the art community just like the literature community
has become the providence on a small group of people with sticks jammed so
very far up their bums they think the world revolves around them. John
Updike pans Tom Wolfe's latest novel and then says, actually says, the only
reason he reviewed it was so he could piss on it. Well, screw John Updike
and all the other members of the New York Literary jack-offs because the
homeless street poet or street painter has as much right to be considered an
artist as anyone. The problem is that there *is* a group who likes to decide
what art is and is not, what literature is and is not, and they are the ones
keeping good , relevent artists down.
    Of course, I don't totally agree with Tiago in that if someone out there
is moved by an unmade bed then screw it, it's art. Maybe eveything is art,
and maybe this discussion is a bit pointless yes? Moving on...

    The subject of breasts has popped up (ignore obvious joke...move along,
move along) and since I have already bored you on the subject of art I'll
give my view of beauty. That crap I spewed about art...just apply it to
beauty. Look, there are very, and I mean very few ugly people in the world.
I really believe that and not just spouting twee boy rubbish. Some people
are more glamorous than others, and that's something different. Some people
may be a bit heavy or such, but that something different. Some people may
have ugly personalities that color how people see them, but that's something
different. So ignore all the crap, you're all pretty, it's just the
perceptions that differ.

    On the subject of beauty, I just watched American Beauty. If you have
the chance see this film. It's brilliant. Prolly the best american film of
the last year, and prolly longer than that. It says all there is to say
about beauty and normalcy and why no one is ordinary.

    There, I have explained the one true theory of art, revealed the secret
of beauty, and now I'll explain the ethical structure of the universe. You
see, all you have to know is...oh, damn. I seem to have run out of time :-)

With the exception of the movie and book recomendations, don't take a spot
of that seriously :-)

Cheers!!

Be Sinister!

Jim

"Johnny takes Metaphorazine...and you know that last, exquisite mathematical
formula rubbed off the blackboard before the long summer holidays begin?
Well, that's him. Speeding language through his veins. Johnny takes
Metaphorazine. He's a real dog"- Jeff Noon, Pixel Juice

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