Related to the current SCOTUS hearings.

 Watching GOP senators throw tantrums, have melt downs, giving biased policy based speeches, and actually dismissing the importance of judges to hear cases and impose criminal sentences based on rationality (instead of emotionally driven excess?)

I am well reminded of the difference between us and them.  

And while I am on it, Judge Jackson is an exemplar of competence and patience.  I think Cruz got close to getting to her. I don't want to make this a black thing, but at one point I got the vibe I recognize as the son of a black momma, that . . .  she had enough of that nonsense.  I will leave it there.

Loury, McWhorter, and Heather-Karen

 Ok.  So some time after my last post, I tried to watch some of the latest "Black Guys of Blogging Heads," vid.  I watched just the first cut, which had to do with people slamming the new movie version of West Side Story.  I agreed with them negros, to a point.  I agreed that dismissing things that were made by white people just because they were made by white people, is stupid.  I repeat.  I am a Priest of the Theatre.  Crossover of the arts is my jam.

And I agreed with John, who had watched it, that it is smarter movie.  And that the updating of the script to show the Bouricas as more fully as people, was a good thing.  And I agree with him (he teaches a music appreciation class, and has some musical talent himself) that the Bernstein score is complicated. There are lots and lots of tricky things going on there.

But shit just had to go sideways.  Loury had to start quoting Heather-Karen in sum, but not directly.  He went off on a tangent about how she has been, in a small series of more shit digital farts at cityjournal, decrying the way arts curation is changing the way she likes her shit; the same old way.  (Conservatives are so fucking tiresome!)  

As an aside, and reference to my previous post.  A lot of the old timers of the Met Opera audience reliably and predictably lose their shit when a Zeffirelli production gets retired and replaced.  Bitches please! Performing art, particularly, is dynamic.  Bu even if all art is derivative?  The disciplines of the arts are dynamic forces.  We do not have a rule that says we have to do the same fucking shit, the same fucking way, over and over. Praise Goddess for that!  Prais Jah too while we are at it!  And the Orsihas, and the orders of gods for the Egyptians, and Greeks, and Romans, and Nortmen!  There is this old Chinese line I first learned over 40 years ago.  Praise all gods, curse all devils!

And to anyone who does not get that that is at least possible?  We do not have to do the same fucking shit, the same fucking way, over and over?  I say  to them, "Go see a psychiatrist!  They have pills for that now!"

Even when we are talking about art in fixed medium.  You don't have to show the pieces in the same fucking way every fucking time. For a moment let me channel my favorite TV Historian, Lucy Worsley.  She says, "The story of our past is open to interpretation."  Likewise, the arts.  And even more reliably, open to reinterpretation.    

Now Heather-Karen has, to my mind, a lot of delusional if not plain assed wrong ideas in her head.  But her belligerent and wrong instance that we never change shit is just fucking delusional.

And speaking of delusions.  Glenn and John.  You should not obsess so much over the people who want to make all art theory and practice about race.  They are a minority, within a minority, within yet another minority.  Or as the character Borachio in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," says:  "The fashion is the fashion!"

And as I say, fashions change,  and shit.  As a Priest of the Theatre, I can say, fashions in Theatre change.  And I am very glad some of the experimental shit that popped up in the 60s and 70s fell out of fashion.  Oh. And I wonder if I can find an easy to copy past list of the "isms."

I did!  Very nice!  And I am willing to end on that list.  But hey!  Fucking conservatives!  Get the fuck over what you think is the right way to do shit.  More people disagree with your static tastes than do!  So fuck off!

Table of Content [Ausblenden]

• 1 Art Eras: Where to Begin?
• 2 A Brief Overview of the Art Periods Timeline
• 3 A Comprehensive Art Movement Timeline
  • 3.1 The Romanesque Period (1000-1300): Sharing Information Through Art
  • 3.2 The Gothic Era (1100-1500): Freedom and Fear Come Together
  • 3.3 The Renaissance Era (1420-1520): The Reawakening of an Art Era That Never Really Existed
  • 3.4 Mannerism (1520-1600): A Window into the Future of Kitsch
  • 3.5 The Baroque Era (1590-1760): The Glorification of Power and the Deception of the Eye
  • 3.6 The Rococo Art Period (1725-1780): Light and Airy, a French Fancy
  • 3.7 Classicism (1770-1840): Throwing It Back to Classic Times
  • 3.8 Romanticism (1790-1850): A Break from the Severity of it All
  • 3.9 Realism (1850-1925): Objectivity over Subjectivity
  • 3.10 Impressionism (1850-1895): Heralding the Era of Modern Art
  • 3.11 Symbolism (1890-1920): There is Always More Than Meets the Eye
  • 3.12 Art Nouveau (1890-1910): The Pure Gold of Gustav Klimt
  • 3.13 Expressionism (1890-1914): Bringing a Political Edge to the Debate
  • 3.14 Cubism (1906-1914): Breaking Things Apart and Putting Them Back Together Again
  • 3.15 Futurism (1909-1945): Artistic Anarchism
  • 3.16 Dadaism (1912-1920): The True Reality That Life is Nonsense
  • 3.17 Surrealism (1920-1930): Things Just Get More Bizzare
  • 3.18 The New Objectivity (1925-1965): Cold and Technical
  • 3.19 Abstract Expressionism (1948-1962): Stepping Away from Europe
  • 3.20 Pop-Art (1955-1969): Art is Everything
  • 3.21 Neo-Expressionism (1980-1989): Modern Art

https://artincontext.org/art-periods/

Kill a Sacred Cow Day, is Everyday. But Today's Treat? Free Speeh Hypocrites.

Firstly, this vid  is on the longer side. You need at least 1/2 hour to kill to get through it in one shot, but it is interesting. This guy, Jonathan Haidt, is very smart and has some interesting insight. Comes the big but . . .

But if he was at all trying to get me to understand, and therefore recognize the humanity in conservatives, he managed the opposite. Well, it's not like I haven't paid attention to the sanctity/degradation angle before. And in short, the things they sanctify (all their stupid bullshit,) and the things they degrade, pretty much convince me their world view is an abomination, and anti human.

Granted, apparently lot of Americans are down with that Old Testament -fueled, bigotry and meanness-enabling, hateful shit.

And that is what I despise about conservatism. Wait. Meanness disguised as religion, or sanctity, is nothing new. It's one of the things I most despise about our species.

There.  I have had my say, but.

Hey.  All you peeps who thought you were sticking up for Free Speech, buying and eating those bigot-funding, phony tasty (as nothing say phony tasty like adding heaps of MSG) chick sandwiches. Hey! Where the fuck were you when they were protesting the building of that Mosque in NYC near the WTC site?

Didja stand up for Free Speech then?

How about when ever and where ever else peeps were protesting the construction of any other Mosques?

 Well?

Have you ever gone over to Al Jazeera on line just to support them against all the bigoted shit that has been thrown their way? Well? Hell, they have won more awards for journalism the Fox has.

 How about cut a tiny check for CAIR or some other Pro Muslim/Arab group? Ya never have? I am Shocked, shocked!

And how about the other side of the story. Do you routinely buy stuff from KKK supporters to promote their Free Speech rights? How about Neo Nazis? Anti Semites? I am not saying you should, but a GENUINE free speecher would have to.

Just saying.

Conservative Blogger Dicked Over by Conservative Group.

I'm not feeling schadenfreude here.  I mean it.  I have been doing gig work on and off since I was like 15.  So I get the wrongfulness of how this con blogger got dicked over by what ever con group is at fault. 

But I am reminded of that old joke where the other animal, after being bitten by the snake, complains.  And the snake says it's the other animal's fault.  "You knew I was a snake."

But still.  I am not blaming the victim.  But I am blaming conservative philosophy.  Fuck the village. It's all about what I can do for me.  I doubt the victim  here will begin to question her politics and associations  primarily based on her conservative activities.

She fucking should, if you ask me.