the blandness appealed to me
Grayson] Perry has been cross-dressing since he was a teenager, he said, but has always been heterosexual. He has gone through various looks—dowdy housewife, lady-who-lunches, corsets and high heels—but settled on Claire's Raggedy-Ann dresses and little-girl shoes because they reflect his current emotional needs.
Pottery presented itself unexpectedly ... when Mr. Perry tagged along with a housemate in London to an evening pottery class. The medium electrified him, in part because it seemed to represent the opposite of what was happening in British art at the time. If his contemporaries were pushing the limits, "making art out of anything and everything," Mr. Perry said, he was rebelling in the other direction, "finding the naffest"—nerdiest—"thing you could do."
"Pottery seemed like a very dark choice," he said. "It's sort of like, it's O.K. to put a shark in a tank—but pottery?"
"Also," he said, "the blandness appealed to me. I could be as brash and noisy as I wanted without really causing much fuss. You're never going to get arrested for a pottery exhibit."
Mr. Perry's first piece, a plate, depicted Jesus on the cross with the words "kinky sex" written across the bottom ... The pieces all look pretty and classical, until you get close. In "The Plight of the Sensitive Child," young girls are shown smoking crack. "We've Found the Body of Your Child" is about the frenzied, rabid hunt for a pedophile in a Bruegelian landscape. The pot is printed with phrases Mr. Perry said he remembers his mother using when he was young, including "Never have kids" and "All men are bastards."
Mr. Perry is inspired by artists like Bosch, Van Eyck and Bruegel as well as by the work of Henry Darger, the Chicago outsider artist who lived on the outskirts of sanity and whose art included lurid and shocking scenes.
- SARAH LYALL, "A Trendy Tranny Potter's New Purse," new york times May 2, 2004
posted May 03, 2004 in art, printaudiences largely of his own generation
[Matt] Haimovitz found that by stripping away any vestige of stuffy concert hall packaging, he could get the music to speak to listeners who knew nothing about its history or the prescribed etiquette for receiving its rewards. What's more, for the first time in his career, he began playing to audiences largely of his own generation ... it requires so little of the glittery packaging that can often pass for the concert experience itself.
- JEREMY EICHLER, "The Pizza Parlor Prodigy," new york times May 2, 2004
posted May 03, 2004 in music, performance, printpiss on someone who appreciates it
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Subject: TRIPLE XXX @ HOLE TONIGHT!!! Survivor's Handbook 125
From: Homocorps
Date: Sun, May 2, 2004 11:10 am
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TRIPLE XXX @ THE HOLE TONIGHT SUN 5/2!
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liberation of male sexuality. Needless to say, it's a popular party and space is limited. Here are some helpful suggestions for avoiding the long lines at 1.)the door, 2.)coat check and 3.)bathroom:
1. Arrive early (before 11:30pm) or later (after 12:30am) to skip peak hours at the door
2. Wear as few layers as possible and leave your jacket in the car. Pass the time by having sex with the person in the coat-check line behind you. Condoms and lube are freely provided thoughout the club.
3.) Piss on the floor. You're at The Hole. Better yet, piss on someone who appreciates it.
open bar 10-11pm
cover $20/$15 before 11pm
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See you tonight!!!!
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- homocorps, "TRIPLE XXX @ HOLE TONIGHT!!! Survivor's Handbook," may 2, 2004
posted May 03, 2004 in print, sexfocus on the "vixen" part
Howard KURTZ: You are a "foul-mouthed, inaccurate, opinionated little vixen," so says Washington Post gossip columnist Richard Leiby.
Ana Marie COX: He has a crush on me, doesn't he?
KURTZ: But you put it on your Web site.
COX: I'm flattered. Of course.
KURTZ: You like when people say bad things about you?
COX: Is that bad?
KURTZ: Foul-mouthed, inaccurate?
COX: I guess I always focus on the "vixen" part.
- "Coverage of John Kerry's Anti-War Protests; Interview With Wonkette," CNN RELIABLE SOURCES May 2, 2004
posted May 03, 2004 in politics, speech