eppylover ([info]eppylover) wrote,
@ 2008-04-25 22:05:00
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Happy Last Day of Passover!
Happy Pesach"Quick Pesach Fun" ~
from an Israeli standup comic's blog called What War Zone?

Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
manischewitz and matzos
Sorry, nothing you can do will make the eppylover kosher,
for Passover or anything else. ani rolleyes smiley



In other news...
Maggi Hambling, artist approached to sculpt the Brian Epstein statue


Maggi Hambling Chosen
to create Liverpool statue
of Brian Epstein?


Lots of clickable enlargable thumbnail examples of her previous work. Yikes.
Please tell me if you think I'm an old poop,
but I think I make a few good points...?
 

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[info]clearbell
2008-04-26 04:38 am UTC (link)
I didn't know that there was a Beatles Album (book). I have The Marilyn Album -- same cover design. Must be a series.

Edited at 2008-04-26 04:38 am UTC

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The Marilyn Album
[info]eppylover
2008-04-28 01:08 pm UTC (link)
Yes, I do believe that book was one of a series. Google could probably confirm that for you. I cannot research it, alas, because it was a library book, long since returned.

Strange that you should mention Marilyn in a comment to my "kosher" post. This immediately brings to my depraved mind an anecdote about one of my all-time fave geniuses: Oscar Levant.

Oscar once quipped on his 1958 live TV show ~ upon the occasion of Marilyn's conversion to Judaism due to her marriage to Arthur Miller ~ "Now that Marilyn is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her."

Needless to say, his show was immediately cancelled! XD

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[info]carrotcaper2007
2008-04-26 02:10 pm UTC (link)
The cane sugar Coca-Cola makes me happy.

Manischewitz's wine just grosses me out. I mean, that stuff truly is just quite terrible! :)

As far as the statues are concerned...I find her art beautiful and complex. The first I've ever seen of her work was the link to the Oscar Wilde statue you posted which I absolutely adored...to see that second image of Stephen Fry was really rather haunting in a way. He seems to carry a sublime sadness there, his face partially shrouded in shades of blue. I don't know whether you're familiar with his documentary "The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive", but he studies the disorder and also discusses his struggles with the illness in a way that really lends itself to this sort of portrait being presented to the world; it is unique and it gives us insight into a side of Fry that many people know about, but few people have really seen. I think that to be remarkably beautiful and abstract in a way that touches my soul and is close to my heart.

Having said that, it's probably no way to immortalize someone like Brian Epstein. So many people think of him as dark, mysterious, somehow shrouded from the world. They take that reservation or shyness that they see on film and assume that this (plus pills, homosexual promiscuity and general "creepiness") is what Epstein is all about. As you're well aware, this couldn't be further from the truth.

Fry has the advantage of a pre-existing positive image that the world at large has of him and history will preserve this regardless of a piece of art capturing his more lachrymose character. History has already captured that side of Epstein in various ways.

I would probably adore whatever she does with the statue in the end. But there's more than just that confused, uncertain sadness to Epstein. I'd like to see more comprehensive tribute paid to him.

X-posted to The Fifth Beatle Movie Discussion Forum

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no way to immortalize
[info]eppylover
2008-04-28 01:31 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the support. I'm all for going "way-out" with art, even though it's not my personal "thing" ~ and this faddish type of memorilization could very well be done with Brian AFTER his image has been firmly re-established in a properly conventional manner to be etched in history for the general public.

I basically hate the taste of all wine ~ it gags me ~ it's like I'm trying to consume rotten fruit! Yuck! Rottenness!

However, if I MUST drink wine, the only one I can handle is the BLACKBERRY Manischewitz. Nothing else.

I also cannot tolerate the flavour of any type of whiskey. For some odd reason, burnt dead bodies come to mind. Gag, gag, gag! LOL.

So... where are you able to find cane sugar Coke? Undoubtedly, you must luckily reside in an area where there be Jews. Someday I hope to be as blessed. *sigh* I'm trapped here in a pathetic state of aryan culture stagnation.

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thanks!
(Anonymous)
2008-04-26 03:31 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the link!

Benji
http://www.whatwarzone.com

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Re: thanks!
[info]eppylover
2008-04-28 01:11 pm UTC (link)
Hey, Benji! Thank you for thanking me for the link! ;P

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[info]matisse_ep
2008-04-28 04:32 pm UTC (link)
I had this Beatles Album in my hands today when I was looking for a certain picture...
Sorry for neither commenting nor posting, I don´t know which is worse. This must appear as if I had abandoned this whole place, including you and all the shared moments we had when I first came here...you know how hard reality can be, and I´m under pressure to prepare to find a job in this cold cruel post-sixties-world ;) So I have less than little time.
But you can be sure I read your posts as often as I can, and I still see the parallels and I´m glad you kept me as a friend all that time :) Somehow Brian links the two of us, and whenever I remember him there´s you right next to it.

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[info]eppylover
2008-05-02 12:07 am UTC (link)
Yeah, usually when somebody is gone from the innertubes for awhile, I take it as a good thing ~ like, there are things happening in real life, hopefully good things. :)

Wow, that's the best compliment anyone could give me ~ when you think of Brian you think of me. XD XD XD

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