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Banksy - Exit Through The Gift Shop
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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An unexpected (although scheduled) day off, and so I took the boy to see the new Banksy film - Exit through the Gift Shop.
Which is an informative documentary about graffiti and street art in general. About art in general. And, in a perverse way, about art commenting on life and life imitating art. And there are probably a few more things that it was about as well, but to get into it in any depth would be to diminish the surprise.
And there is a surprise. Indeed, for those not too familiar with the contemporary art scene (I'm not, but if I think you're less so than I might pretend...) the ending will be quite the twist indeed, with some genuine laugh-out-loud OMFG moments.
It's absurdly delightful. I'd happily give it 4 and a half stars....I'd a given it a 5 if Thierry Guetta (later known as Mr. Brainwash) had been a better videographer, but then maybe I'd only have given it a 4....
Further Links: 25 of Banksy's coolest murals (another persons list), banksy.co.uk
a body in the Ascension Islands
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
- Hits: 1855
I'm in the South Pacific somewhere, close to Antarctica, on a tiny island filled with sapphire blue hot-springs .... it looks a bit like the mineral flows in Yellowstone, each terrace deep and filled, small patches of emerald green grass between them...I'm in the hot-springs before shipping back, unwinding, it's beautiful and there's a bigger island somewhere behind me, South Georgia Island or Ascension Island, a name I recall from a whaling book I recently read....
There's a body in the ship, for some reason it's stuffed in a trunk and we have to return it, one of our shipmates who didn't survive the voyage, and in the cabin of the ship, looking in the trunk where he's packed I'm discussing with someone (?? who?) what we should do with the body, we're supposed to return it, but we're discussing burning it, or a burial at sea....we have to pull him out of the trunk first though, and as he's been in there a while it might be messy....
Retablos
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
- Hits: 1974
Retablos are simply a synonym for Ex-Voto, but as I've derived so much enjoyment from the first set I linked to I thought I'd link to some more on eBay.
(Keywords on eBay are very important, so having a variety of synonyms for the item you're looking for can be useful in acquiring a bargain...)
eBay search Retablo (click here).
One my son would appreciate, a woman giving thanks to a Saint for ridding her house of giant spiders....
Big Talker
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
- Hits: 1893
I sit outside to smoke. It's nice, the weather's good, the cat curls protectively at my side. The neighbor to my right, he's about my age, balding, overweight, bad leather jacket, he's always home, his son, twenty-something, is paying the rent, the neighbor, he's at home, sometimes he takes his dog for a walk.
It's a small dog, shit zhu or terrier or some-such.
When his son is working he's outside talking on his cellphone. About condo's and real estate and large deals that are just about to go through with a bit more capital investment....He's loud, loud enough to overhear, loud enough that if I was in the least bit interested I could disclose the most intimate details of his imagined corporate life. But I'm not interested, not even just a little bit, and my indifference just makes him talk even louder.
Big numbers. 25 units, $400,000 a unit...having a problem hiring...everyone's going to do real well out of this...buy now....you'll see...
He's a big talker.
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