Saturday, 24 January 2026

I'd like to be a gallery, put you all inside my show

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.]

13 comments:

  1. Andy Warhol looks a scream
    He'll think about paint and he'll think about glue
    What a jolly boring thing to do

    Yeah well the truth hurts !

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    1. The funniest twist is that David Bowie ended up playing Andy Warhol in the film Basquiat! Jx

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  2. Another cool event for you. Two new pence to have a go.

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    1. Rather 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

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    2. PS As you can tell, the Blogger commenting problem is sorted now...

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  3. I'm scared to go to my own blog now...

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    1. No sooner had I posted this, but it all got resolved. Yet another tiresome Blogger "glitch"... Jx

      PS You needn't have worried, Dinah, you haven't set your comment box to "Embedded" anyhow, so your comments do not "thread" anyway.

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  4. Ugh. Blogger gnomes. I'm glad I made my blogging return today, now.

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    1. Well-timed, dear Mr DeVice! Saying that, there's something wrong with comment notifications now - I had no emails alerting me to any comments today and yet, here you and Dinah are... Jx

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    2. PS I only got the email with your comment when I replied to it. Sigh.

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    3. If it's not one thing, it's another. Sigh, indeed.

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  5. I don't have time to arse about with all that nonsense - I just click on your(and other favourite sites) when I open my "toy box." But the tinkering drives me nuts!

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    1. Blogger settings aren't all that daunting, but everyone does things differently - that's its "infinite variety". Jx

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