Sympathy for the devil
Jun 28, 2013 22:49:57 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2013 22:49:57 GMT -5
Good morning! I trust that all is well with you all this weekend! The London 'Times' leads today with some editorial comment that it's only rock and roll! Mick Jagger has revealed that he fell into his career as a hip-shaking rock star only because he missed his true vocation, that of a teacher. To judge, though, from the things he has said over the past half century, the nation’s children may have had a lucky escape.
The newly qualified teacher Mr Jagger was quickly taken off religious studies after he expressed sympathy for the devil. His biology lessons were not much better, strangely dominated as they were by wild horses, little red roosters and the spider and the fly. Chemistry lessons were a disaster after Mr Jagger repeated kleines c's explosive cocktail technique. 'The Thunderer' concludes that judging by what he said, Mick Jagger would not have made a great teacher.
YouTube - The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil - A First - 1968
I suppose that the YouTube link above begs the questions: do I actually like 'The Stones' and/or their music, and do I have much sympathy for the devil? I should perhaps confess that I have never been a Stones' fan', although I appreciate their attraction! As for the devil, I appreciate that he gets something of a raw deal in the Bible, for example, although his character does seem to change a lot between the Books of Genesis and Revelation!
Due to unprecedented demand from around the world, therefore, everyone reading 'The Third' is cordially invited to breakfast with kleines c and the gang, lunch with the FT (Prabowo Subianto) or sup with the devil. If you cannot make breakfast at ten, I suggest a full English breakfast idea of English art – rich, meaty, abundant and gloriously greasy with the social fry-up – that makes Grayson Perry’s work and the hard-worked craftiness with which he serves it up so irresistible. But though the result has a kind of pub-happy breeziness, it is, in fact, the result of Perry being so anchored in the long art tradition he loves and which nourishes him.
The Vanity tapestries draw on, inter alia, Giovanni Bellini, Crivelli, Masaccio, and Gainsborough but in a considered not a grab-bag way. At a college degree show he found himself dismayed by the emptiness of some of the work, the “half-arsed references”, the “snatching at the shadow of now”. Simon Schama concludes thus:
FT - Simon Schama meets Grayson Perry
Upon reflection, let's stick with the Stones, Sydney Grew, vintage 1968 rather than 2013. Cheers (whatever you are drinking)!
BBC - Glastonbury 2013 Live
The newly qualified teacher Mr Jagger was quickly taken off religious studies after he expressed sympathy for the devil. His biology lessons were not much better, strangely dominated as they were by wild horses, little red roosters and the spider and the fly. Chemistry lessons were a disaster after Mr Jagger repeated kleines c's explosive cocktail technique. 'The Thunderer' concludes that judging by what he said, Mick Jagger would not have made a great teacher.
YouTube - The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil - A First - 1968
I suppose that the YouTube link above begs the questions: do I actually like 'The Stones' and/or their music, and do I have much sympathy for the devil? I should perhaps confess that I have never been a Stones' fan', although I appreciate their attraction! As for the devil, I appreciate that he gets something of a raw deal in the Bible, for example, although his character does seem to change a lot between the Books of Genesis and Revelation!
Due to unprecedented demand from around the world, therefore, everyone reading 'The Third' is cordially invited to breakfast with kleines c and the gang, lunch with the FT (Prabowo Subianto) or sup with the devil. If you cannot make breakfast at ten, I suggest a full English breakfast idea of English art – rich, meaty, abundant and gloriously greasy with the social fry-up – that makes Grayson Perry’s work and the hard-worked craftiness with which he serves it up so irresistible. But though the result has a kind of pub-happy breeziness, it is, in fact, the result of Perry being so anchored in the long art tradition he loves and which nourishes him.
The Vanity tapestries draw on, inter alia, Giovanni Bellini, Crivelli, Masaccio, and Gainsborough but in a considered not a grab-bag way. At a college degree show he found himself dismayed by the emptiness of some of the work, the “half-arsed references”, the “snatching at the shadow of now”. Simon Schama concludes thus:
"He [Grayson Perry] worries that vast amounts of money, uninformed by looking at the long tradition and cynically advised to snap up the Famous Brands, are just inviting the explosion of an evermore bloated inventory of vacuous dreck. But, then, perhaps all Perry needs to do by way of correction is to continue to dish up his complicated, teasing, brilliantly fashioned riffs on the human comedy, and the best of the students will see just how much it takes to make strong, enduring, contemporary art."
FT - Simon Schama meets Grayson Perry
Upon reflection, let's stick with the Stones, Sydney Grew, vintage 1968 rather than 2013. Cheers (whatever you are drinking)!
BBC - Glastonbury 2013 Live