4,000 Entries Later

[greygirlbeast]

I made my first entry to LiveJournal on April 15th, 2004. We lived in Atlanta at the time, at the Kirkwood Lofts. The LJ was meant only as a mirror for my journal at Blogger. But after August 31, 2005, I stopped updating at Blogger. And here we are, all these years and millions of words later, at #4,000

Comments

[shanejayell]

Congrats on reaching this milestone. Or something.

[mataar]

Glad to hear that these posts will continue, at least for a few more weeks. Always enjoy the photos you post. Particularly like the juxtaposition of different brick facades here. Thanks for sharing them!

[greygirlbeast]

Particularly like the juxtaposition of different brick facades here.

I'll be going back to get better photos in better light.

[setsuled]

Nice photos (yours). I don't feel as strongly one way or the other about Warhol as you do but at least you can say you saw photos of William S. Burroughs. I remember in the interview between Burroughs and David Bowie they talked about Warhol:

Burroughs: I don't think that there is any person there. It's a very alien thing, completely and totally unemotional. He's really a science fiction character. He's got a strange green colour.

Bowie: That's what struck me. He's the wrong colour, this man is the wrong colour to be a human being. Especially under the stark neon lighting in The Factory. Apparently it is a real experience to behold him in the daylight.

Burroughs: I've seen him in all light and still have no idea as to what is going on, except that it is something quite purposeful. It's not energetic, but quite insidious, completely asexual. His films will be the late-night movies of the future.

[greygirlbeast]

at least you can say you saw photos of William S. Burroughs.

Yes.

And...I'd not read that interview. Hilarious.

[ashlyme]

Good interview. I prefer Andy Warhol the Bowie song to the real thing.

[setsuled]

And...I'd not read that interview. Hilarious.

I love how confident Bowie seems about the prevalence of holograms in the near future.

[martianmooncrab]

most museums have other exhibits you could have seen in lieu of Warhol (I just felt he was a bit over the top, and what he called Art was more of a version of Shock and Awe as it were)

And gift shops, I loves me some museum gift shops..

[humglum]

I mostly wanted to see it, not because it was Warhol, but because of the people and times he captured. I was a bit underwhelmed, though the Burroughs photos made the show for me. His screen tests were playing in another room, which is more of a hallway space you have to go through to get from one part of the museum to the next, and when we walked through, there was Lou Reed up on the screen. That was kind of neat.
And, well, the RISD museum is free on Sundays, so it's not like we had to fork out cash to be underwhelmed.
The main gallery had an exhibit of work from their American artists collection, which spanned 200 years.

[martianmooncrab]

any outing that isnt a waste is a good outing.

I find I can see things that I didnt know were there, and I call it good.

Free is a very good admission price too.

[ashlyme]

I loved "Idyll For A Limbo Dancer" - shades of "We Have Always Lived..." That'll stay with me a good while; thank you.