Banksy may or may not be a man; he may or may not be a collective; but he definitely IS my dream man (when you’re a communist, it doesn’t count as an orgy, it counts as “sharing”). Hey, it’s my dream, I can have what I want in it.
Not only did he give me my best-performing post ever, but he also just unveiled this:
Yes, he put the “MPs” into “Chimps.” But without Boris Johnson in the house, there’s a sad shortage of Bonobos to bring teh sex-ay.
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Now we await the disapproving screams of the anally retentive right. How dare Banksy vandalise other people’s property.
Two things; firstly, when was the last time a member of the right produced anything of artistic value and secondly, property is theft!
AND:
“This is the first show I’ve ever done where taxpayers’ money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off.” Banksy
Cue:
1) Art fans complaining that Banksy’s been co-opted.
2) Banksy’s next project: Something big involving dogs playing poker.
Actually, he could have done that one. It was originally a satire on the moral practices of the upper classes.
I presume your stats are lagging. When does the irrational flamewar start? =)
Well, you and Metro are both here. Why do you think I put up with you two?
He was commissioned to do this? A sellout!
…Because, um, we’re, like, cool and stuff, and we type in complete sentences when we want to? I dunno. Why?
outRAGEous
We see the usual anti-Soviet suspects arriving … and we know where these Bloggeristas sehr distingués BLOGGE
AND HARRRUMPHissimus
Mr Banksie is so specie-ist
… to suggest that we have a Parliament of Chimps is DEFAMATORY of Chimps, who are far too sensible and honourable to have produced the current shambles
NEXT
he’ll be upsetting the Pigs by portraying them taking over Parliament in order to compose poetically and fantastically inflated Expense Claims
Ooh, you should send that one to Guido. Never mind, I will.
Oh, man. The heavyweights are showing up. Tensions are mounting… stress is building. (‘Scuse me, I gotta go take a banksy.)
I can’t wait till we hear from the chimps and their lawyers.
Wow, Banksy finally did something I’m not really all that impressed with. I suppose it had to happen some time. At least the first one I didn’t like was a new piece rather than something that he went back and “fixed.” #hanshotfirst
this picture take me back with “planet of the apes”.. hi there, i’m indonesian blogger.. i’m waiting you to visit my blog. thx..
Esq Eagle G, Sir, Attend and take note.
I created Chimpanzees to rule the world, not you poorly created (unfortunately I have been known to commit errors of judgment for I Am YOUR God and prone to YOUR foibles) humans. You will notice several things about this Parliament. There are no waving arms and shouting across the Chamber. Secondly there are no females in the Chamber. This is how the world should be run. You may not notice it but there is also none of this silly welfare talk going on. Taxation is theft, as is property. Survival is for the fittest only. I’m all right Jack, screw you!
Bunk Strutts, I Am YOUR God and you shall complete your sentence.
I saw the exhibition on TV last night, and my view is that Banksy should be sought out and KNIGHTED!! After all, other artists have been honoured, whose work doesn’t make you stop, have another look and think half as much.
I used to go to school with Banksy. Have not seen him for a while but good to see he has not forgotten his Bristol roots.
I’m a little disappointed by this, it seems a bit stale, obvious even. I feel like a teacher when I say ‘he can do better’.
@IamYG– I’ll complete my sentence if I’m ever convicted; so far I haven’t been indicted yet. (BTW, which God are you: The Hairy Thunderer, or Cosmic Muffin?)
It’s not his best work, but God there has a point, which we should all remember from our days watching old movies, right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vb9fyyzxI4
Except for that bit about the females. His eyes are obviously going; unsurprising, at his age.
HE has got a website, and HE answers all questions, and HE sometimes doesn’t pay attention, but it’s all good.
http://www.titane.ca/concordia/dfar251/igod/main.html
HIS punctuation is teh suck.
Interesting article on the exhibition (with important context) here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/13/banksy-bristol-city-museum
Also, the best line in all of Banksy Crit: The fact that his targets are obvious does not mean they are not worth shooting at.
Talk about some serious monkey business.
Jeepers . . .
~m
Two drums and a cymbal fall down a cliff
http://instantrimshot.com
You meant “…fall down a Klavin?”
Quite so.
I didn’t post this, but thought you’d like it:
http://www.amyoops.com/2009/06/totally-mine.html
YOU CALLED HER SITE BETTER THAN MINE!
That’s probably just because it’s a Metro-free zone, tho.
Sorry Rain. I’m a guest poster there, so I had to say that at least once. Your site is better again now.
Thank you. See why I like you? You’re so smart. How did you end up a Republican?
And yes, I love that piece. I posted it to Gawker.
Gawd I’m such a suck up. Now Amy’s pissed.
You have no idea how difficult it is to keep five women (you, Amy Oops, Mrs. Strutts & my daughters) happy at the same time. You all somehow get synchronized. ;)
I’m probably more of a Libertarian politically, but I became a conservative once I became self-employed for a while in the 1980’s and started paying attention to where my confiscated earnings were going. But you already know that.
Oh yeah… regarding the 5W – not necessarily in that order. Phew. Safe.
That’s what you think. Trust me, I paid my dues in Viggo Mortensen fan forums. If you want an army to terrify your enemies, use women. Unpredictable, tenacious, crafty and lethal.
Thanksy for the heads up. I was already familiar with the UTCL code, having grown up with sisters. I keep the Clavin notes in my wallet.
Someone metion my name?
IayG “…. Esq Eagle G, Sir, Attend and take note. I created Chimpanzees to rule the world, not you poorly created (…. ) humans ….”
I flatter myself that I agree with God on so many things (eg Leviathans are indeed Mighty Beasts of the Sea, Badgers are not a mighty folk and a good wife [especially Mrs Eagle] is indeed worth more than rubies) …. and indeed my Comments generally make more sense, if read backwards
BUT I wonder about Chimps ruling the World
* they are quite charming when drinking tea and eating bananas … and tragically-funny the morning-after consuming fermented-figs
but
* they can be very unkind to any baby Colobus Monkeys that they can get their hands on
and
* of course it is those wRetched Homo pSeudo Sapiens (especially Americans) who have the Guns
AND BTW
It is not only RacCcooons who can be upset about being falsely accused of being HUMAN and instructed to complete sentences – this is not easy for the talonted & clawed amongst her Grace’s many animal visitors
Chimps rules.
Obviously, there’s the proof.
I don’t know what.I do not read well English.I just want to fill my time.
To me,a anarchist is passionate,have sense of humour and is violent too.Or are they intellectuals laughing below the power of authority which is based on official law?There is no fight?How distant they are from the institucionalized and the politics?Are they heading for something or is it just the appeal of words like Proudhon,Bakunin,and,sure,Anarchy? What means ” Anarchy” ?
The nature of men have various facets,you can approach an individual in a physicological way,in a sociological,in an economical,in a teological,in a philosophical way.We are all fruits of these cultural and natural built where we live semi-consciously confined.The world is very plural.
Science and its derivation – technology – are artificial;beyond what it is blind and can captivate us to blind alleys.
indeed. And what did you think of the pretty picture? As far as I know, it is yet unlabelled.
Well,simply it is very representative of your country,and it will not change.
Which country, specifically, do you imagine that to be?
Extremely materialist,a actually decadent realm, raised based on military power.
You know,average people wants not much more than money,and ,being U.S.A. the richest country , they get their approvement around the world,including the massive propaganda.
Everyday there’s bullshit movies on the TV,they all seems the same,I can swear to you the level is low.
I knew an american woman who visited my town,she was always with a mediocre smile on her face…why??Because to she everything around was poor.That was his merit,his superiority…
I do not think a nationalist north-american can be a reasonable person.
The spatial race…billions spent,so now we have the cellular phone and the live transmission on TV.
(How many black men are dismembered at month by pick ups in Texas??)
(Now confess you got that S.O.D. album on mind…Speak English Or Die)
Children there thinks we sleep on trees…oh,what a fu****** ignorance!!!
Everyone knows that in U.S.A. there is too much RACISM!!That’s depressing!!
The petulance that comes from a nation which is, more than anything,rich,is a sign of niilism.
Well,I thought Bristol was in U.S.A. I hated that expression ” banana-country” .
Think first, post after.
Mistook Britain for Canada that he thought was in the U.S.? Dang. I’ll bet he’s from Oakland.
Phrases to posterity
” Think first,post after”
Witchs to Judge–
As a law abiding citizen of the USA, I’m honestly curious. What country are you from? Who taught you to hate us? What exactly has my country done that you so despise? Honest question.
Hi,I must tell you that I am before a lunatic than a cult man.
I am from Brasil.
The USA gave money for preparatory military schools,which teached some people to make serial militar dictatures on the Latin America.(More or less).I read it in the paper O Estado de São Paulo.
I am too young to know about these past period which won’t be back to rest of my life,in a way that I can forget without hating.
But I know that,in these period when the world was divided in two blocks,one pro-soviets and another pro-USA,you could be beaten and arrested for having a book like: “What is comunism?” on your own house in Brasil.
I do not like Thomas Pynchon and Harold Bloom (two eminents north-americans)talking loud over my room.Thomas Pynchon is worse,he is a Phisician,when he talks to another he tries his best to be respected and in fact he is well-received – so most of people here “clap their hands” ,because ” I talked to a New Yorker!!”,and being a New Yorker, he must be and admirable specie of human being.
You see,my idols when I was a teenage are like californian Metal Bands,people from Metallica,Exodus ,Megadeth ,Slayer.
Lunacy to me is like talking to unconscious of people,talking with dead past men,but overall,talking at distance (” talking alone”)
To me,the world changed in this point.Before,you could think bad about an friend,and then,when you suddenly see him again,explode in affect.
When I am thinking,the people at who I am thinking appears and talk.There is everytime someone to interrupt and to start talking.
(I AM NEVER ALONE!AND MOST OF PEOPLE WHICH SEARCH ME AND TALKS IN MY MIND PERSECUTE ME,SAY VERY STUPID THINGS AND INSULTS, AND TRY TO CHANGE MY PERSONALITY!!)
I swear that is not me saying ” I did not meant it” – What I want to say is very probably I had post stupid things on the raincoaster blog,because I am really a sociopath.My two elbows are very ugly,my arms are like tortuos,and why?Black-outs. Hitting the walls of my room.
I do not know the divisory between real and unreal.
You see,I am writing a text…,it is now a little bore because I discussed with raincoaster,maybe I was the first saying the apes are the american-parlamentars or what,but I (I swear!)saw,at example,Thomas Pynchon acomplished with people of american government in 1963 literary throwing dices,after what Pynchon says,coldly-smiling ” how about some militar dictatures?” And then happens.
How I was saying,I am writing a text,so I can concentrate and the voices are not talking,but only wait it ends.
There is no control.It involves me.Sure I do not believe today that Thomas Pynchon did that thing in 63,but there is a talk like ” the Gods”,” they control the wholle World” ,what the fuck!!!It involves me!!There is always something new!!
I am not belligerant.I am on anty-psychotics since 86 or 87,I do not remeber.I have serious difficult to make friends.
I do not know the USA!! I knew through media disgusting american citizens! One example: an american musician in the airport in São Paulo responsing in the interview – “there,in America”…it is an big insult!!!
I do not know why I have a negative reaction to money.The people in USA,as long I know,if have very money,they enter the delirium.There is people dying hungry.I have, on democracy,as I already wrote,a left-tendencie,in the sense that the leftists invest on poor,while the right-wing concentrate money.There is a lot of things to be resolved in my mind.
Mr. Witches–
We have a language barrier here, and I suspect that Google Translate is involved.
The USA contributes more money for charitable purposes to help the poor around the globe than all other countries combined, yet that is not enough. You’ve apparently been taught to hate “the Rich” yet you ignore the fact that it is “the Rich” who hire and pay for services from those who are willing to work.
Am I rich? Compared to someone who makes more than I do, no. Compared to someone who makes less? Probably. Even in a free society there will always be people on the lower rungs of the ladder, but rarely do they stay there.
Thomas Pynchon? Megadeth? I honestly pity you.
Brazil has an incredible amount of resources, and should be awash in wealth. Because it isn’t is not the fault of my country or any other. Try blaming your ex-President Mazzilli for your country’s economic woes instead.
Cordially, Bunk
USA number one in charity – must be actual times,or ,probably, false statistics and propaganda.
Have you thought about Marshall Plan??
I know about Bill Gates having problem with the law because charity.Anyway,except these last case,is not free money,which means true charity.
I never be taught to hate the rich.The problems is that sometimes it gets very annoying people calling me ” poor “.
If you read my last post,you will see the mean matter is not money.Yes,but you must be an american one.
What makes money travel around the world are laws of political economy and market.Do not confound borrow money and investments with charity.
What else??I never read about someone called Mazzilli.From where did you get these name?
I agree with you about Megadeth.The first album is incredible,the rest I heard is worthless.I could made an exception to Youthanasia,which have around four or five nice songs.
Thanks.
I do not understand anything. By what I noted here,Portuguese is not a well-known tongue in USA,but I hear
people talking from USA in Portuguese.It is a contradction.I am probably a schizophrene,really.
(I do not care for Sociology,still less for Economy,I do not care for “Bunk Strutts”.)
I like Nietzsche along with religion – not churches – ,what do not came to do an unoriginal thing.
Hope nevermore post anything here,I do not fit with these group.
I think the “preparatory military schools” W2J is talking about could be The School of the Americas.
As far as your comments regarding politically left or right W2J, I would say you are wrong, but only technically. You are mostly correct in that it does turn out that way in reality. Classically, the Left feels that people need to have a lot of structure and rules to dictate that people have to do the good things that they should do. The Right feels that those rules constrain and inhibit free will, and that people would be more willing to do the good things they should be doing if they weren’t forced to do so. However, it does usually come down to the left being altruistic and the right being greedy.
As for your hope: who fits completely with any group?
I never voted in my life.
I do not believe your concept of what is Left and Right is Classical.
I think anyone should say they prefeer the altruist to the greedy,but there is not of the human nature.
Your vote is something to benefit your own life,suposing you depend on politics and economy,and, as a individual act,it comes it is more greedy than altruistic.
Do not think that because I believe in life after death I would be a platonic moralist or something like that.
Nietzsche and his “philosophy of war” intends to develop people’s inner strenght and their attachment to life,but it is not a race for money,like many fools believe when reading the word ” aristhocratic” in his texts.
Alias,Nietzsche never wrote for the plebe,the one which ocuppies his head with economy and politics.So you get the meaning of ” aristocrat” ,which pertences to a higher spiritual level not told in churches.
valarmorghulis–
“However, it does usually come down to the left being altruistic and the right being greedy.”
You may be surprised that the opposite is actually true:
http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v19/i04/04001101.htm
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/11/generosity_inde.html
Aside from that, thanks for stepping in here. W2J is too far gone for me to help.
Yes, I think we can all agree on that at least.
Has anyone had the heart to tell him the painting is of the House of Commons in England?
Yes, I did, but it doesn’t matter. I half-jokingly mentioned Brazil’s 25th President, and he flunked the test. He’s either ignorant, a non-Brazilian troll, or both.
He’s ignorant, a Brazilian troll (so says the IP), AND mentally ill. Haven’t you been reading?
A trifecta!
Quite so. I see in other spots on the blog he may be going for multiple personality disorder too: what’s that, a Full House?
Sybil x 17 liked the J.Geils Band, too.
Let me answer.
No,Umberto and Witches to Judge are the same person,so,anyway,there is just one apologizing.
Excuse me talking about my personality.I always have been peaceful since as a child,I was an excellent student;at 16,I became rebel,my performance at school started to fall.I became a very depressive person;my pleasures were music and soccer,mainly.I did not loose my sense of humour,there was my good hours with my good friends.I put down eight University carrers.I left the longer permanence course (around six or seven months)after three boxes of Lexotan.
(about “Full House” I would say I read just The Crying Of The Lot 49 from Thomas Pynchon,and I never was on LSD,neither once – and fatally never will be.)
Well,in fact I am disturbed,my humour oscilates very much,but I pretend never more insult a participant in your blog.I like quietness…but I must refer that I kicked the sofa ten minutes ago.I was reading Nietzsche on my room,so I came to the computer and I drop a little object from the table;as I laid to pick up the object below the table I heard a voice of a man asking why I was lowing.My agressivity dispaired.The question was irrelevant and stupid,beyond we two do not get along.
I do not know why I become so agressive certain times.Yes,anti-social I am really.The years in the clinic also where hell,torture,suicidal.
I have the parameters of never being fake,I try not to fall on contradictions and too never be two-faced.Here I thanks the place to tell that Luis Ignácio Lula da Silva is not ” plebe” , the word I used too say I do not like Politics and Economy.There is another few Politicians which I like,but I am not very familiar.João Goulart,for instance.
I like to tread ideas,not debate,because I get stressed and talk bullshit.
Schizophrene,by what I know,it is like the rupture of the conscience,like when you cannot recognize your own thoughts.(I am not absolutely sure about the man whose made me kick the sofa and these is a great point to resolve on my mind).Generally I heard thoughts of someone which I recognize they are not me,because they are wiser (not about foolish things).But I have mental confusion, I have my ” moons” .
Umberto– You’ve convinced me. Vou parar de brincar com você. Lamento.
Umberto, why don’t you get a blog, which is where long discussions about yourself and your personality are appropriate.
We were talking about Banksy, and the painting at the top of the post. Do try to stay focused.
But Banksy has mental confusion and moons, too.
I’ve got moons.
There’s a full one tonight, in case you didn’t notice. And it ain’t mine. I think that’s Umberto’s.
Olá,alguém fala português??
You know,about july 30,9:42pm…I own so little about notions of Economy,but I believe that will never exist zero unemployed.In profit of the employers which can pay low or just unemploy workers substituting for the excess of contingent,the people who gain nothing to the point they can accept any work.
Sure the things are more complex,there are syndicates and much more,but in these sense could be the Right: no state,wild capitalism accordant with today’s mentality -
and Left – a state in preference not swelling and protecting rights of people which needs more.
There is some capitalists which says they get 50% of the lucre and the rest are basically for payment paper.It is a dirty lie,cause if you compute the numbers,the employed would be living much better.It is just their dirty sport,their ranking of avarice.
P.S.I should blame more the School of Americas by brazilian problems than a man which stayed sixteen days in the presidency.
I was watching TV 5 minutes ago and was noticed that one billion of people in the world suffer from hunger.
That must be ” our cordiality and honesty” …
There is a guy here whose is richest than Dave Mustaine…
hey,Dave?are you able to do another good Megadeth album?The last one have ” Sleepwalkers”,I am not sure…yeah,maybe there is “Washington Is Next!” too…maybe Heavy Metal today is feeding on its past corpse (and I can say I don’t give a damn for Cannibal Corpse!!!)
Monday I’ll search on a Music Shop for some eletronic-beat,no guitars,no Chemical Brothers,no New Order (with respect),I have a good ear for music,a guy told me this music is called ” trance” ,I am not sure.
If Cliff Burton was alive when Metallica released Saint Anger he would offer himself to drive the band bus in Sweden Snow on September.Very drunk.
And how about the deliriums of Lars Ulrich drumming on the last Metallica videos…will he spent the rest of his life doing it?
There is a guy here whose is richest than Lars Ulrich…
The best music of most FM stations today is Black Eyed Peas (“boom,boom”,I do not know the name of the music).
P.S.Sorry the “Norwegian Wood”.I thought the billionary was a jew and I thought the Norway bands are nazi.And I thought “wood” means violence.(Everytime I am thinking in violence I caught myself looking to wood.)And I do not know any of the three neither even care.
Mr. Billionaire,I could exemplify with a family of my city.
Cutrale is responsible for 30% of the production of citrus in the world.The local industry became a multi-national.But when an employed not-specialized start working here he gain on maximum US$530.
(You see,sometime ago the brother of a friend of mine was washing a truck without the securety equipment,felt and died).
So it is a not a world of order,work and money.There is poverty and exploitation,too.
Honestly,Mr. Billionaire,you are limited.You write like a teenage,what I do not know if you are or not.
Cordialy,Umberto.
Mr.Ignorant-Heart (ha!),I wanted to tell you that I was so doped and asleep that I substitute “richer” for ” richest” when talking to Mr.Billionaire.