Those rancid little gnomes at Blogger just cannot leave well alone, can they?
This week's little "surprise"? - yesterday, the function for comments-upon-comments in a thread [aka "embedded", as it's described in the settings menu] stopped working, with the "reply" link greyed-out. Whatever this shit is, it's also hit the setting whereby the reader clicks a photo to embiggen and it opens in "LightBox" (a widget that lets you scroll through posted photos) - photos currently open in a new window/tab instead. Other navigation functions have also been affected. Sigh.
I digress...
This afternoon, Madam Arcati, Hils, John-John and I are off to the wilds of Hackney Wick, to visit the new David Bowie Centre at the V&A's "East Storehouse" - and that's a collection I am champing at the bit to see [despite already having already been overawed by the David Bowie Is... exhibition back in 2013] !
Something appropriate for the occasion is in order:
Like to take a cement* fix
Be a standing cinema
Dress my friends up just for show
See them as they really are
Put a peephole in my brain
Two New Pence to have a go
I'd like to be a gallery
Put you all inside my show
Andy Warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall
Andy Warhol, Silver Screen
Can't tell them apart at all
Andy walking, Andy tired
Andy take a little snooze
Tie him up when he's fast asleep
Send him on a pleasant cruise
When he wakes up on the sea
Be sure to think of me and you
He'll think about paint and he'll think about glue
What a jolly boring thing to do
Andy Warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall
Andy Warhol, Silver Screen
Can't tell them apart at all
Andy Warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall
Andy Warhol, Silver Screen
Can't tell them apart at all
Apparently Mr Warhol was not best pleased. I'm certain David lost no sleep over it.
[*I'm pretty sure that in his original lyrics, this word was not "cement" at all, but "semen"; sanitised for 1970s audiences, no doubt.]
Andy Warhol looks a scream
ReplyDeleteHe'll think about paint and he'll think about glue
What a jolly boring thing to do
Yeah well the truth hurts !
The funniest twist is that David Bowie ended up playing Andy Warhol in the film Basquiat! Jx
DeleteAnother cool event for you. Two new pence to have a go.
ReplyDeleteRather an exclusive affair, as well - tickets to see the David Bowie Centre are exclusively available to we V&A members (and their guests) at the moment..! Jx
DeletePS As you can tell, the Blogger commenting problem is sorted now...
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