Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Black Tights



I guess if you had to choose....you'd take Andy Warhol over Charles Manson. Obviously you'd look better...and, honestly, isn't that enough?



Also, with Andy the body count was lower and, as with his art...it's not clear who's hands were actually getting dirty...no conviction.


In 1965, Andy Warhol met Edie Sedgwick at a party. Captivated at first sight, Warhol claims to have felt something like love for her. We know it weren't lust. My guess is that it was covetousness...an overwhelming desire to possess Edie's identity. Sedgwick's blood was a Founding shade of blue. Regal by nature with an effortless charm, she was everything the awkward, pocked, Andy Warhola was not.

Andy took her on as an avatar.




That's a dangerous position to be in with a narcissistic psychopath...so it ended badly. Of course, that's not all Andy's fault. She was a grown woman with her own capacity for destruction. She wasn't kidnapped and she benefitted from the associations..at least for a little while.

Still, of all the people in the world for her to have lighted on...he was the one almost guaranteed to knock at least ten years off her life.



"It's easier to go down"...Who is that moron?


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    1. My natural instinct, as a man I guess...is to want to blame somebody...Andy, her Daddy...but, you listen to her talk and it's obvious that she wasn't being pushed around by anybody. She was sharp and said her self that she was a perfect candidate for the dope...she loved it.
      Still, Andy has to bear some burden. I love his work but he's the kinda person that after a certain age you recognize...because you've had to deal with them. The kind of people that can't live without you until you're of no use to them. Think about Basquiat...even ole sour face that tried to kill him.

      It's a damn shame that's all.

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    2. What what why? What's to love about it?

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    3. What what why? What's to love about it?

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    4. That is a good question. Give me a minute or two and I'll post about it. I was kinda headed that way anyhow...because it is the question with him.

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  2. I found the After Hours video incredibly moving

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    1. Have you ever seen Ciao Manhattan? She's probably high most of the time but, she tells her own story...eye to eye...in this bizarre cinematic setting. She was in and out of the clinics while filming and she died before it was released.

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    2. Nope - not sure I'd want to witness that

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    3. It is and isn't as bad as it sounds. There's something really compelling about her willingness to be straight about everything.
      She must have been really sharp.

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  3. Ms. Sedgwick was utterly, stunningly beautiful. Such a sad tale. Andy Warhol? Interesting but I am always reminded of a bloodsucker.
    BTW, I've started a new project in the hope of adding more light than dark: http://warpdrivedufflebuttons.blogspot.co.uk/
    Please come over. More links to be added soon.

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    1. You know I'll be there big man.

      I think vampire is probably fitting.

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