Happy New Year!
So Christmas happened, which went remarkably well. It was the first time I've ever been able to describe it as "short, busy, but very very good." New Years has also passed, for which everyone I know seems exorbitantly glad. 2005 was such a shitty year for so, so many reasons. So now the holidays are over and normal life has once again regained its Groundhog's Day like existence.
On the job front things are...well, they could be better, but they could be a lot worse. I'm still in talks with the online company, which I'll call...um...hmmm...Noodle for reasons of anonymity (like, say, they *might* possibly own this very website organization...) I had round 8 (yeah, that's right, count 'em on up - EIGHT) of interviews on Wednesday. They told me I would hear by yesterday, which clearly means I won't hear until Tuesday or so. I also interviewed with a pharmaceutical company last night, I'm not all that into them except the pay so damn well and the hours are 9-5. Yeah, that's right 9-5...the American dream!
Friends are the same, Dan is good. I think it's funny that whenever I go a long time without talking to someone their response is always "wait, you're still together? I was sure you'd be single again by now!" Nope, still off the market and Dan is in my extremely good graces after surprising me with flowers last night.
In other news, that is not a life update, check this story:
Performance Artist, 76, Arrested After Attacking Porcelain Urinal With Hammer
PARIS (AP) — A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" — a porcelain urinal — with a hammer, police said.
Duchamp's 1917 piece — an ordinary white, porcelain urinal that's been called one of the most influential works of modern art — was slightly chipped in the attack at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the museum said Thursday. It was removed from the exhibit for repair.
The suspect, a Provence resident whose identity was not released, already vandalized the work in 1993 — urinating into the piece when it was on display in Nimes, in southern France, police said.
During questioning, the man claimed his hammer attack on Wednesday was a work of performance art that might have pleased Dada artists. The early 20th-century avant-garde movement was the focus of the exhibit that ends Monday, police said.
2004 poll of 500 arts figures ranked "Fountain" as the most influential work of modern art — ahead of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and "Guernica," Picasso's depiction of war's devastation.
"Fountain" is estimated at $3.6 million.
Ok, so what makes me laugh about this story is remembering this one time Rene and I were at SFMOMA. They had "The Fountain" on display and yes, I know it's a great work of art and it's revolutionary and very valuable and all that...but at the same time, come the fuck on! It's a fucking urinal! So anyway, Rene and I wanted to touch it and we looked around and there was no sign saying "Don't Touch." Now, I have a very firm philosophy on touching things at museums. If you are not to touch it, there is a sign next to the piece that says "Don't Touch." By the fact that some things have signs that say "Do Not Touch" and some things don't have the signs, I think it's pretty well delineated BY THE MUSEUM that some things are touchable and some things aren't. Not touchable things include any that have a sign instructing not to, anything behind glass, anything in a case, or anything behind ropes. Touchable things include anything else.
So anyway, "The Fountain" is sitting right in the middle of the room on a pedestal. There are no signs, no ropes, no glass, no nada. And, I mean really, it's a fucking urinal. Were it not signed, people would have pissed on it and worse. So we touch it and this security guard runs over to us and yells "Don't touch that!!!" And then proceeds to follow us around (keeping a max distance of about 5 feet) the entire time we're in the museum to make sure we don't touch anything else.
All I'm saying is, maybe this wouldn't have happened if there had been a sign - 'cause maybe the museum sort of brought it on itself.
But I'm glad I saw it when I did.
On the job front things are...well, they could be better, but they could be a lot worse. I'm still in talks with the online company, which I'll call...um...hmmm...Noodle for reasons of anonymity (like, say, they *might* possibly own this very website organization...) I had round 8 (yeah, that's right, count 'em on up - EIGHT) of interviews on Wednesday. They told me I would hear by yesterday, which clearly means I won't hear until Tuesday or so. I also interviewed with a pharmaceutical company last night, I'm not all that into them except the pay so damn well and the hours are 9-5. Yeah, that's right 9-5...the American dream!
Friends are the same, Dan is good. I think it's funny that whenever I go a long time without talking to someone their response is always "wait, you're still together? I was sure you'd be single again by now!" Nope, still off the market and Dan is in my extremely good graces after surprising me with flowers last night.
In other news, that is not a life update, check this story:
Performance Artist, 76, Arrested After Attacking Porcelain Urinal With Hammer
PARIS (AP) — A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" — a porcelain urinal — with a hammer, police said.
Duchamp's 1917 piece — an ordinary white, porcelain urinal that's been called one of the most influential works of modern art — was slightly chipped in the attack at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the museum said Thursday. It was removed from the exhibit for repair.
The suspect, a Provence resident whose identity was not released, already vandalized the work in 1993 — urinating into the piece when it was on display in Nimes, in southern France, police said.
During questioning, the man claimed his hammer attack on Wednesday was a work of performance art that might have pleased Dada artists. The early 20th-century avant-garde movement was the focus of the exhibit that ends Monday, police said.
2004 poll of 500 arts figures ranked "Fountain" as the most influential work of modern art — ahead of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and "Guernica," Picasso's depiction of war's devastation.
"Fountain" is estimated at $3.6 million.
Ok, so what makes me laugh about this story is remembering this one time Rene and I were at SFMOMA. They had "The Fountain" on display and yes, I know it's a great work of art and it's revolutionary and very valuable and all that...but at the same time, come the fuck on! It's a fucking urinal! So anyway, Rene and I wanted to touch it and we looked around and there was no sign saying "Don't Touch." Now, I have a very firm philosophy on touching things at museums. If you are not to touch it, there is a sign next to the piece that says "Don't Touch." By the fact that some things have signs that say "Do Not Touch" and some things don't have the signs, I think it's pretty well delineated BY THE MUSEUM that some things are touchable and some things aren't. Not touchable things include any that have a sign instructing not to, anything behind glass, anything in a case, or anything behind ropes. Touchable things include anything else.
So anyway, "The Fountain" is sitting right in the middle of the room on a pedestal. There are no signs, no ropes, no glass, no nada. And, I mean really, it's a fucking urinal. Were it not signed, people would have pissed on it and worse. So we touch it and this security guard runs over to us and yells "Don't touch that!!!" And then proceeds to follow us around (keeping a max distance of about 5 feet) the entire time we're in the museum to make sure we don't touch anything else.
All I'm saying is, maybe this wouldn't have happened if there had been a sign - 'cause maybe the museum sort of brought it on itself.
But I'm glad I saw it when I did.
posted by La Doña at 4:50 PM
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