I tried to reason with him tried singing he said boy you;ll never listen try it again
So i found out on monday or tuesday morning at work that Hunter S. Thompson killed himself by a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. I was very upset by this news because i think he is(was) one of the coolest guys to ever walk the earth. So as i am telling people at work about this tragedy, no one knows who he is. Not one goddamned person at my whole job(with the exception of mr.bill who was not there that day) knew who he was, no one had even seen or heard of fear and loathing in las vegas(i didnt even mention 'where the buffalo roam' for fear of even more puzzled looks from my fellow workers). I seriously was in shock, i thought at least the people my age there would know him a little. I always end up feeling like im crazy at that place, for example, i have the album cover of the velvet underground and nico on my jean jacket(the bananna). Whenever anyone sees me wearing this, i get "hey nice bananna ashley." or "did you know you have a bananna on your jacket?" Not that people not knowing my favorite band makes me dislike them, but it makes me feel kind of dumb to have no one know about anything i like
I wound up seeing The Gates on wednesday, one of the only nice days in the past few weeks. It was goddamned cold in the city though, walking down some of the streets was like walking through an arctic tundra. It was beautiful though, i loved it. The color of the material looked so amazing against the light blue winter sky. I have a whole roll of pictures of it. Kelton and i also bought a print of one of Christo's sketches which was $55, they had signed and framed versions of ours for like $500, they're going to make an assload of money off this. The sketches are so great, they look exactly like the real thing. It took up so much of the park too, i thought it would just be a small section but we walked around for like 40 minutes and could not see any area that lacked the orange gates. My rating: Spectacular
I think it is important to see, even if you dont particulary like the artists or even know who they are, because it is a part of art history. This was a big deal project that took years to think up, even more years to fund and even more time and effort to get permission to do this in Central Park. This is a piece of history, and everyone living in new york should see it, if only for the reason that it is something so close that would be stupid not to waste the opportunity to see it.
It is over tomorrow though so anyone reading this and thinking it sounds cool probably wont even get to see it, which is a real shame. Oh well, live and let die.
I wound up seeing The Gates on wednesday, one of the only nice days in the past few weeks. It was goddamned cold in the city though, walking down some of the streets was like walking through an arctic tundra. It was beautiful though, i loved it. The color of the material looked so amazing against the light blue winter sky. I have a whole roll of pictures of it. Kelton and i also bought a print of one of Christo's sketches which was $55, they had signed and framed versions of ours for like $500, they're going to make an assload of money off this. The sketches are so great, they look exactly like the real thing. It took up so much of the park too, i thought it would just be a small section but we walked around for like 40 minutes and could not see any area that lacked the orange gates. My rating: Spectacular
I think it is important to see, even if you dont particulary like the artists or even know who they are, because it is a part of art history. This was a big deal project that took years to think up, even more years to fund and even more time and effort to get permission to do this in Central Park. This is a piece of history, and everyone living in new york should see it, if only for the reason that it is something so close that would be stupid not to waste the opportunity to see it.
It is over tomorrow though so anyone reading this and thinking it sounds cool probably wont even get to see it, which is a real shame. Oh well, live and let die.