"i cannot follow you, my love, you cannot follow me. i am the distance you put between all of the moments that we will be."
— leonard cohen
Nowhere Boy (2009)
i’ve been at this for months and still am not convinced how pretty boy, angus thongs and perfect snogging, owen stephens, nearly famous, aaron johnson gets to play rusty voice, sarcastic, dry, off the wall humour, we’re bigger than jesus, john lennon.
though johnson sure looks fine. and the script was written by matt greenhalg (guy who wrote joy division’s ‘control’) so that should be promising.
Let’s play hopscotch in malls. Let’s drive fast with the top down. Let’s turn up the music as loud as it’ll go. Let’s put a couch on an island in the middle of the freeway and wave at everyone on their way to work. Let’s hug strangers in parking lots. Let’s hand out secret messages at traffic lights. Let’s make lists of all the things that make us smile and tick them off, one at a time. The world will carry on without you and me when we’re gone. Let it carry on without us, today. — please find this
On Feb. 28, 1974, Shafrazi took a can of red spray paint into New York’s Museum of Modern Art and scrawled the message KILL LIES ALL in foot-high letters across Pablo Picasso’s 25-by-11 foot antiwar masterpiece Guernica. When a guard finally grabbed him, Shafrazi shouted, “Call the curator. I am an artist.” Instead, the police came to take him away.
‘I wanted to bring the art absolutely up to date, to retrieve it from art history and give it life. Maybe that’s why the Guernica action remains so difficult to deal with. I tried to trespass beyond that invisible barrier that no one is allowed to cross; I wanted to dwell within the act of the painting’s creation, get involved with the making of the work, put my hand within it and by that act encourage the individual viewer to challenge it, deal with it and thus see it in its dynamic raw state as it was being made, not as a piece of history.’
