Don’t get me started

Don’t get me started and I’m just getting started really are the same thing. It’s the Temu theory of communication, in which everything is fair game. It’s a little more than merely saying, I’ve got a lot on my plate.

I remember there was a 70s funk track, revived in the 90s, with a title that kind of sums up the pandemonium of life: Everything is Everything.

Warhol was confused, or perhaps his mock-contradictions were part of the game he played. Besides wanting to be a machine, he did say that his very being could be found in the surface of his paint.

I think I’ll make a neon sign someday that flashes the word PAINT. And the final T will switch on and off, so that you have to engage with the agony involved in creating something cool and tangible, when the world is falling apart.

When George Lucas sold the Star Wars franchise someone asked him how he felt. He said his feelings were inconsequential, because the point of moving on was to bring up his kid. Not bad, for a man who changed our perception of armed conflict.