Was LAME! I tried to be inspired and open- I was trying to have an artist's date with myself (thank you Julia Cameron) But the whole place seemed empty, soul-less. The art just was not that interesting or new to me. Sure they had some old reliables: Miro, Dali, Picasso, Modigliani, Giacometti..etc. But really it was not till I got to the Broad Art Center, for LACMA is a huge campus with many Galleries, that I was even remotely interested in what was going on. BCAM had a great Basquiat collection among other eighties contemporary artists. Also on the ground floor they had this maze like structure with not fulcrum arches to hold up the giant waves of brown wall swerving about in the large ground floor galleria:
For the reason this picture is right side up on my comp and turned here in typepad- I need the geek squad!
Anyhow. Lacma is lackluster but I might give it a chance again on another day when its not raining and a great opening is occurring.
I am so pissed I missed this! Apparently Charlie was uncharacteristically quiet and patient waiting for Georgie Porgie to answer and Georgie was fairly forthright regarding Iraq. Against his advisors wishes ( he is almost outta here- why bother listening to them any more? A lot of good that did him) He said that he felt that it was important to explain one more time to his liberal listeners why he extended so much money to the surge. One quote I did read was:
“The good news is that sectarian death is down in Baghdad,” he replied.
“The bad news is that spectacular car bombs still go off, in a way that
tends to shake the confidence of the Iraqi people that their government
can protect them.”
My initial reaction is one of winced sarcasm to any thing said by GWB but I felt maybe at this last point he was right only in that we indeed do have to figure out how not to destroy whatever strides have been made in Iraq in order to make up for the mistakes commited against the American people. Yet its complicated- for as many infrastructures "we" have built and put into place- we bombed the shit out of whatever hospitals, government agencies and roadways that they had before. I am glad Sadam is gone- no question. Albeit I do wish he was serving time in San Quinten, not hung like a good texas lynching in baghdad circle. But putting aside the ammount of death occuring- thousands of men and women are returning home missing limbs, mental acuity and in some cases without their families. Why didn't Charlie ask Bushie about our soldiers?
As a side note- t his is a qreat quote regarding Charlie Rose:
Mr. Rose is a Larry King for Mensa members; he is more genteel and
cultivated than his brash CNN rival, but he, too, conducts a
conversation, not an interview. His drawn-out questions come out
pell-mell — sometimes bland, sometimes probing and sometimes even
highly personal, but in no particular order.
I love that they used the term "pell mell" haven't heard that term since I use to have to see all the old flatbush yiddish yentas over Pessach and Chanuka.
pell·mell
ADVERB:
1. In a jumbled, confused manner; helter-skelter. 2. In frantic disorderly haste; headlong: “I went to work pell-mell, blotted several sheets of paper with choice floating thoughts” (Washington Irving).
Or maybe someone's Bubbie Sunny might say, "Your Aunt Minnie put a table out- oy it was all pell mell, I did not know whether to grab the chopped liver, stand and kibbits with the others or make a plate of fish and sit like a person for dinner.
The other day I was reading an article about a largely financed and meticulously planned and executed convention in Iran. The convention was labeled, "A gathering in Iran billed as a conference to “debate” the Nazi annihilation of six million Jews" They said that it was due time they had the Freedom to discuss the subject in a "taboo free" environment. Scores of Arab leaders flooded with glee to support this talk and offer their own olive branch to those feeling crushed by the great George Western Crusade. Somehow Jew hate = Western hate = good. It's really hard to go on because this is a public forum and I simply can not be fair, polite or clean about this. I am hurt. And what's worse I begin to feel maybe unjust feelings towards Arabs, Germans, and White Southerners.
To get you further in my camp:
"Among those representing the United States was the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, whose prepared remarks, issued by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said the gas chambers in which millions perished actually did not exist."
Whenever this subject comes I wonder why it is so ala mode to hate Jews. Why doesn't anyone ever say that any other atrocity committed against any other people is a myth. Why are Jews the only people constantly stuck in the acid regurgitation of facts they must spill in order to reprove the incineration, enslavement, torture and annialation of their people.
I mean for PETE"S SAKE THE F"EN CAMPS ARE STILL AROUND! THE NUMBER TATOOS ON SURVIVORS ARE STILL BURNED INTO THEIR FLESH. THE PHOTOS THE GERMANS METICULOUS KEPT AND THE FREAKING RECORDS OF JOSEPH MENGELE (THE FILMS) MUST BE ENOUGH.
I could go on about the millions of movies, books, poems, paintings, and sculptures all dedicated to the artistic rendering of this so called myth. I was a TA in grad school for a class on the interdiscipline of film and the Holocaust. I watched 32 films on the subject from 20 different countries in 17 different languages. And this was just a drop in the bucket.
Or how about the surviving family members of the six million who died. You can read the article yourself here. I don't know if the linking of this furthers their cause or joins you in my state of total disarray. I come from survivors and I must just sit and boil over this.
I just want to know, what do people feel when they read this? Especially if you are not Jewish. I really need to know?
Its a celebration of the miracle of oil lasting 8 days longer than it should of- in other words is the celebration of supplies miraculously spreading during wartime. I pray for miracles now for our men and women out their in the "shit" I don't believe in this war- but I appreciate that you believe in what you do and that you want to protect me- I pray your supplies last and bring you home.
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