Category Archives: Art

State Your Price

Posted on December 12, 2006 by Sister Wolf

Last night, I was talking about movies with my friend Mark. He mentioned a new romantic comedy with Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black and Kate Winslet. We agreed that it sounded really awful. I asked him if he’d see … Continue reading →

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‘Tis the Season!

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Sister Wolf

Here is a gallery of photos sure to make you smile: little kids reacting to Santa with sheer terror. Once you start clicking on these pictures, they’re like salted peanuts! There’s even a photo with Santa crying, too! Why do … Continue reading →

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Coolest Figure in Rock

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Sister Wolf

   Beth Ditto, a self-described fat lesbian feminist from Arkansas, has just been  named by NME as the coolest person in Rock. She is the lead singer in a band called The Gossip, and her voice has been compared to Janis … Continue reading →

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I Am Thomas Pynchon!

Posted on November 23, 2006 by Sister Wolf

Yes, it’s me. Surprise!   I still value my privacy and I’m going right back into seclusion after I finish this announcement. I don’t mind getting text messages on occasion from J.D. Salinger, but even he can overdo the small talk. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Words | 2 Comments

Perfume The Movie

Posted on November 21, 2006 by Sister Wolf

   If you ‘ve read the novel “Perfume” by Patrick Suskind, you probably agree with me (and Stanley Kubrick) that the book is unfilmable. Period. If you’re a bunch of idiots at Dreamworks, evidently you think otherwise. I was almost … Continue reading →

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The Chicken Car

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Sister Wolf

Whenever I pass this Chicken Car, it never fails to brighten my day. It’s usually parked on 11th Street in Santa Monica, and I don’t know who  owns it now, but it is one enviable Chicken Car, isn’t it?

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Meat Love

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Sister Wolf

Jan Svankmajer is an artist and/or nutcase whose films include an obvious masterpiece called “Meat Love.â€? It is the story of two chunks of meat, who fall in love and come to a bad end. It was made in 1989, … Continue reading →

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Cane Hill

Posted on August 26, 2006 by Sister Wolf

   Once in a while, you stumble upon something online that almost justifies the time you waste there. This happened to me, tonight, when I discovered this photojournal about Cane Hill, an abandoned psychiatric hospital in South London. Built in … Continue reading →

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Obsolete

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Sister Wolf

If pretentiousness were a crime, and it is, a shop in my neighborhood called “Obsolete”? would be guilty with Special Circumstances. You really haven’t experienced the extreme limits of absurdity in art collecting until you visit Obsolete in person, but … Continue reading →

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I Own, Therefore I Am.

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Sister Wolf

Five years ago, a British artist named Michael Landy performed the public destruction of all 7,226 of his belongings in a vacant building in central London. He stood on a platform over a production line of ten “blue-collared operatives”, directing … Continue reading →

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