{"id":9605,"date":"2012-01-26T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=9605"},"modified":"2012-01-26T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:39:50","slug":"oh-pooey-its-a-harsh-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/01\/26\/oh-pooey-its-a-harsh-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"~Oh, Pooey! IT’S A HARSH UNIVERSE !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

tell me about it, oops – he did !!
\nexhibit card\/invite signed to NANCY . . . FROM R. CRUMB, Nov., 2000<\/p>\n

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above: front
\nbelow: reverse <\/p>\n

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R. Crumb Restaurant Placemat Drawings
\nNovember 2nd – December 9th, 2000
\nOpening Thursday, November 2nd, 6-8 P.M.
\nPaul Morris Gallery, 465 West 23rd Street, New York City 10011.<\/p>\n

It’s A Harsh Universe<\/em>, 10 by 11-5\/8 inches, copyright R. Crumb<\/strong><\/p>\n

p.s. and yeah, despite the initial euphoria of the new Saturn cycle, the moment is<\/em> harsh, if you realize, just like all the countless generations of ancestors before you did . . . that: well, if you’ve lived to see two Saturn 30 year cycles – good luck on seeing your 3rd, because nobody lives to be 120. that’s harsh . . . heading into the inevitability of death, no matter how you cut it. and that’s what gave Saturn his fearsome rep. Father Time . . . you see the endgame coming round, when he shows up. <\/p>\n

it’s the old yin yang dance. takes 2 rounds of Saturn to achieve wisdom, but you see your endgame in the process. ha. I guess that is a kind of wisdom – all on it’s own. <\/p>\n

ok. thanks for the dark thoughts – nancy !!<\/p>\n

ok. here’s a tweak, positive.<\/p>\n

anybody else notice a lot of “late bloomers” making the scene, lately ? I mean, besides BILL CUNNINGHAM ?
\nboth at the Sundance Film Festival, usually the hot seat of the young and beginning – and, on the current NYC art scene. you can blame it all on Saturn, but it’s a good thing, no doubt about it – when talent – trumps the odds.
\nyou go, eternal hipsters of the heart.<\/p>\n

don’t believe me ? just back flip though all your mainstream arts coverage of the past month !!<\/p>\n

while at SUNDANCE 2012<\/strong>, New York Post film critic – LOU LUMENICK reports that: ‘The hottest new writer-director at this years’ Sundance Film Festival is also the oldest person to have a film in the US dramatic competition here” . . . the 65 year-old BEN LEWIN<\/strong> who made his non-stop acclaim feature, ‘The Surrogate’ for around $1 million. The true story of a severely disabled poet\/journalist who hires a surrogate so he can taste sex before he departs this world – must have a lot going for it – to topple that dreary storyline, is all I can say.
\nand yeah, it is a harsh universe, isn’t it. apparently Ben Lewin himself is a polio survivor who wears a leg brace and walks with crutches. (!!)
\nanyway to make a long story short, his film was a hit at Sundance, “The film was acquired by Fox Searchlight for a reported $6 million, hours<\/em> after it premiered Monday to a standing ovation and rave reviews”.<\/p>\n

and dig this, a little further on in Lou’s post: “A Hollywood Reporter reviewer compared LEWIN to DAVID SEIDLER, the veteran writer of last year’s Oscar winner, ‘The King’s Speech’. “He called himself a late bloomer”<\/strong>, says Lewin of Seidler, stunned by the reception he and ‘The Surrogate’ received on his first<\/strong> trip to Sundance. “Personally I’m really enjoying this late blooming.”<\/p>\n

them be fighting words, dude. right on.<\/p>\n

read: LOU LUMENICK: To ‘Surrogate’ with love – and laughs !!<\/a><\/p>\n

p.s<\/strong>. note to JOSH HARRIS<\/strong>, rumored to be holed up in RED HOOK !! remember when you<\/strong> swept SUNDANCE 2009 – with the Ondi Timoner helmed ‘WE LIVE IN PUBLIC’ ? talk about Father Time – my, how time flies !! only 3 short years ago, and it was you<\/em> they were crowing about !! feels like forever.
\nsay what – about a harsh universe ?<\/p>\n

p.s.s.<\/strong> $10 + artlovers write-up (!!) . . . for the first confirmed JOSH HARRIS – back in Brooklyn !! pic. yo, and try to get a Brooklyn landmark – in the background and we’ll double the cash award – to $20 !!
\nfor real. go ahead – try me !! <\/p>\n

gonna try to hook u up with a ‘Surrogate’ trailer, try back in 5 mins !! sorry no can do, not one up yet. not a wisp of a clip anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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