ANDY WARHOL ON WRESTLING:«IT'S EXCITEMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC»

Photo: joncutler.com

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: BEST EVER

Nov 29 2007

«Gee, I really love cosmetics stuff. How can we ever get enough of it? Went to the drugstore and there was this new skin care product for «all ages and all ethnic groups». So there was this old lady at the counter telling me this was the best product ever because it could be used by black, asian, white and latino women. But then some japanese artsy looking girl came and said asian was not an ethnic group but a racial one and asked if they were going to launch a new line for japanese skin, vietnamese skin, chinese skin, korean skin and so on. Then the old lady got mad and left..Oh, I don't understand it. Should I buy a face cream for «white american guy», «white american gay guy», or «white catholic guy»? They say Obama is gaining on Hillary now. Maybe she should have an Hillary Guy rooting for her on YOU TUBE.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG:DEPRESSED ABOUT YOUR LOOK? HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSION LINES WHEN JUMPING FROM THE 30 TH FLOOR!

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»-ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Fame might be the best aphrodisiac but I wasn't famous enough to excite anyone except the rare individual. Where I was younger and less celebrated I had more success. Youth boosts the appeal of even quite mediocre fame. In any event it's women who are more susceptible to the lure of power and money. Men like youth and beauty. Straight men might envy or compete with male sucesss but gay men seek out trophy boys».

-Edmund White

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT;EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»-ANDY WARHOL

Photo:www.maleperfection.net

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: HULK HOGAN

27 nov 2007

Gee, everyone is talking about Hulk Hogan's wife filing for divorce. The paper says she's obsessed about getting new houses all the time. I like all those stories of divorce about the rich & famous. But I don't understand it. So I was very happy when that Dallas billionaire explained it to me the other day. He said basically everybody pretend to get married for love but it's always all fake. Women marry men because they got money & power and men marry women because they got a 22 year body and a tight pussy. But over time the problems are sure to happen because he gets MORE AND MORE of what she married him for and she gets LESS & LESS of what he married her for. So you always have those stories where they say the guy cheated on his wife while she's the one who actually broke the rule of the contract by getting older. He's right.

THE HOLLYWOOD FASCINATION

ON ANDY WARHOL AND ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

«They shared their background in Catholicism their sense of replacing biological families with an art circle that became a family. They shared the commercial side, meaning how do you create as much as possible».

-Jack Fritscher
Ex Mapplethorpe lover.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«My girlfriend always laughs during sex-no matter what she's reading»

-Steve Jobs
Apple computer founder.

ADVERTISING GOOGLE FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

ANDY WOULD BE HAPPY

«Of more than 30 global art experts surveyed by the prestigious American magazine ARTnews to celebrate its 105 birthday not a single one picked (Damien) Hirst as an artist who would remain famous in the next century...Andy Warhol is the clear winner. Robert Storr the dean of the Yale School of Art who curated this year's Venice Bienale-where Emin represented Britain-said Warhol and John Cage «upset the applecart of certainties and beliefs that had driven art for a hundred years. Warhol took the mediating qualities of television, film and so on and examined how they filter out the intensity from content»

-THE INDEPENDANT
Nov 24 2007

COOL WATERMELON HELMET FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

DON'T TOUCH ME!

«Andy was very shy. He didn't like to be touched. He liked to say he was completely asexual although I don't think that was true. He liked to be among people but found it difficult. He said the reason he made his first film Sleep, about a person who was asleep was so that he didn't have to talk or interact with him, it was his way or working with an inanimate object because the actor was genuinely sleeping».

-Filmmaker David Cronenberg.

B-BOY BATTLE FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

GORE VIDAL ON ANDY WARHOL

«Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with a I.Q of 60».

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:WOMAN MAG:HOW TO CLOSE YOUR EYES AND PICTURE LUXURY GOODS BY (AD SPACE) & (AD SPACE) TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD FOR SEX!

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: TOM CRUISE

Nov 23 2007

Gee, Eric Clapton said yesterday in the paper he didn't have sex sober before he was in his 30's. I don't understand. What's the difference between sober and non sober sex? Does it mean better sex if you don't remember it the day after but do remember it a month later or better sex when you don't remember it the day AND the month after? And oh, they say a new book will definitely prove Tom Cruise is not gay. They say it will stop all the rumors about him. Do they really needed a book for that? I mean how many fairies talk about Scientology and fall for someone with a girl next door look instead of one looking like a bitchy vamp? I guess Perez Hilton will continue to draw cocks around his mouth anyway.

One kid told me he used to stop at McDonald's all the time but now he goes at Burger King because they have those huge sculptures of burger and fries on the wall. He said it's artsy à la Claes Oldenberg. I guess he just want to impress some girl with that.

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE AN AMERICAN MAGAZINE WILL PUBLISH:«10 HOTTEST IRAQ WAR AMPUTEES»

PARTY TIME

«I was editor of Warhol's Interview magazine and wrote a party column on the side. How carefree we were back then. A generation of affluent baby boomers with Vietnam and Nixon behind us the fear of sexually transmitted disease and unwanted pregnancies banished by penicillin and the Pill. And so partied every night, all night».

-Bob Colacello.

ANDY WARHOL'S MONEY

THE ALL AMERICAN QUESTION

«People have come up to me and said« You must be the most American artist» and I've read others who think i'm «un-american»


-Andy Warhol
America

SOMETHING ANDY WARHOL WOULD HAVE LIKED

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: BRITNEY GOT A NEW MAN!

Nov 21 2007

Gee, Life & Style magazine says Britney got a new man. It's not going to last. He's a waiter and he doesn't look pussy whipped enough. She needs to continue to be a train wreck and that serial dating thing. She's too good for the economy now. And oh everybody is worrried about the art market. They say it will be the next thing to be affected after the subprime crisis. But I don't understand why they worry so much. I mean they just have to keep the competition between jewish men as strong as it is so the market won't crash if new Chinese and Indian investors stop buying. Watched that Australian Justin Timberlake interview on YOU TUBE. And when the guy asked him why does he use the Internet for Justin said jockingly: «porn». I guess all the celebrity magazines are fighting each other right now to see who's going to come up with the best future cover. They should really invent some good fake storyline. Like: «Jessica mad at Justin Internet porn habits». It would sell like hot cakes with teenage girls. Some french art critic came to the office. He said he really liked my «fast food art». What does it mean?

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A WOMAN MAG WILL WRITE: HAVE YOUR BRAIN REMOVED AND WEIGH FIVE POUNDS LESS THIS SUMMER!

UNDERWEAR MODELING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

«Some of the biggest actors in Hollywood are to support striking writers in a serie of Internet downloads due to debut today. ...to accentuate the effect of the strike which has seen film and TV writers picketing studios for almost three weeks, the campaign has taken its lead from one of the great communicator the artist and occasional filmmaker Andy Warhol....Titled «Speechless» the short spots echoe Warhol's famous Screen Test which featured iconic figures of the late 60's films in black and white simply doing nothing».

-The Guardian
Nov 22 2007

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships»

-Sharon Stone.

WARHOL & THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

PREDICTING THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY

«Now it seems like nobody has big hopes for the future. We all seem to think that it's going to be like it is now, only worse. But who's to say that this idea is any more realistic than dreaming about robots?»

-Andy Warhol
America.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE THE IDEA OF MARRYING FOR LOVE WILL BE INCOMPREHENSIBLE FOR 99% OF THE POPULATION

ANDY WARHOL ON WRESTLING:«IT'S EXCITEMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC»

IN HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL THE SMART BUSINESSMAN

«The strange thing about my utter lack of education in management was it didn't seem to matter. As a principal and founding partner of a consulting firm that eventually grew to 600 employees, I interviewed, hired and worked alongside hundreds of business schools graduates and the impression I formed of the MBA experience was that it involved taking two years out of your life and going deeply into debt all for the sake of learning how to keep a straight face while using phrases like «out of the box thinking», «win-win situation» and core competencies. When it come to picking teammmates I generally held out higher hopes for those individuals who had used their university years to learn about something other than business administration»


-Matthew Stewart
The Atlantic Monthly June 2006

TIMBALAND: GREAT BEAT FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: OBAMA

Gee, Obama said he got into drinking in the past and experimented with drugs. Why do they always say that to students? They should do it when talking to ex 60's hippies only. Did they asked him if he was wearing boxers or briefs? I guess soon they're going to ask political candidates if they ever had a same sex relationship during college and woman candidates if they swallow or not. I've been asked to do a poster for the democratic party again. I don't know. I never voted since the sixties and I'm selling more to rich bored Republicans ladies than democrats ones so..Watched the «strange I've seen that face before» Grace Jones video on You Tube and it made me feel so nostalgic. Grace could really have been a great star but I guess she was just too weird for mainstream america. Saw her downtown the other day. She still looks good though.

I'M LOVING IT!

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's.


-The philosophy of Andy Warhol.

PONDERING THE AMERICAN DREAM FOR 15 MINUTES OF ART HISTORY FAME

Sculpture by Duane Hanson

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: LINSAY LOHAN VS BRITNEY SPEARS

Nov 20 2007

Read the latest issue of Life & Style Weekly. This is really my favorite magazine now. They say Britney is addicted to plastic surgery. I like the way magazines always write that when a female star is single she has no choice but to become addicted to plastic surgery. And oh all the kids at the office just hate Lindsay Lohan. They say she has no talent. But I don't get it. I mean talent is not that important now. Lohan just doesn't have any gay appeal and Britney has plenty of it. I like Lindsay Lohan though. It's like Eddie Sedgwick in the sixties. Famous for absolutely nothing. That's great. They should really do a sex tape together. All the Louisiana conservatives men blasting Hollywood Liberals would be turned on by that and then all the celebrity magazines could write: Lohan: «Frustrated Britney turned me into a man hating head shaved raging dyke!»

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE» -ANDY WARHOL

IN HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL THE «AVERAGE STUDENT»

«Bill Gates , Larry Ellison, Quentin Tarentino, David Geffen and Thomas Edison among others never gratuated from College. Peter Jennings and John D Rockfeller never finished high school»

-Forbes magazine 18/ 4/ 2006

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«It's only horny people who shoot people. I mean you never feel agressive just after you've gotten laid. Lots of sex for everybody, that's the solution of the world's problems»

-Billionnaire Ted Turner

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: CELEB MAG: BRITNEY'S NEW NIGHTMARE: GROWN-UP BOYS PRACTICING ON OLD «GIMME» POLE DANCE FOR FUTURE CAREER IN GAY BARS!

LOOKING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

LOVE LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

«A drag queen I know is waiting for a real man to fall in love with him/her. I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them».


-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: SCANDAL

Nov 19 2007

They really use the world scandal for everything now. Watched TV yesterday and they were talking about that. There was this girl saying it was a scandal Britney was allowed to drive with her kids. But the best was a cute marketing executive. He looked like a fairy. He said the real scandal about the past Janet Jackson's exposed tit at the Superbowl was not the nudity but the fact there was no advertising on the tit. He's right. Oh, and Chris Daughtry is still really hot. He should have won American Idol. I mean, if this is not a scandal...

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»-ANDY WARHOL

IN HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL THE «AVERAGE STUDENT»

«I was actually classically trained- I was badly classically trained . I never ever practiced piano. I can still hardly read music. I actually failed out of music school when I went to a conservatory»


-Rufus Wainwright
August 2005

PARIS HILTON À LA ANDY WARHOL

BRIDGET BERLIN & THE COCK BOOK

Fall 2005: Brigid Berlin (Andy Warhol's friend) infamous Cock Book is sold to artist Richard Prince for $175 000. The book is a collection of cocks drawed by various famous personnalities such as Dennis Hooper, Richard Avedon, etc.

UNDERWEAR MODELING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: INTERNET WIDOW

Nov 18 2007

Gee, everybody says there are so many Internet widow now because their husband spent too much time watching porn online. But I like it. I mean it's like the sixties once again when any kind of emotional life I had disapeared when I got my first TV set. Or when I fell in love with my tape recorder. What's wrong with that? Oh, I don't understand. Céline Dion was on Ophra the other day and now she's doing all the TV shows in New York to promote her new album. All all french Canadian people thin like her? She once said she was proud to be a «Québécoise». What does that mean?

THE ART OF INTERVIEW

«Andy taught us how to interview: never have any question ready. Treat it like a cocktail party».


-Victor Bockris

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT;EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»-ANDY WARHOL

IN HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL THE «AVERAGE STUDENT»

«In fact on average the holder of a four year college degree will earn 62% more over their lifetime than a typical high school graduate. And that's just on average. The return on investment for attending one of the nation's 25 or so more selective colleges is far more impressive. Money well spent right? Well not necessarely. Although there is clearly a correlation between earnings and a four year degree a correlation isn't the same thing as a cause. Economists like Robert Reischauer ruffled feathers several years ago by pointing out that talented driven people kids are more likely to go to college in the first place- that they succeed in other words because of their innate abilities not because of their formal education».

- Forbes magazine 18/4/ 2006

ELIZABETH TAYLOR PORTRAIT

«Andy Warhol's turquoise -background Elizabeth Taylor portrait sold for 23.7 million last night at Christie's auction house. The price was below pre-sale estimate of $25 million to $35 million.

-Toronto Star
Nov 14 2007

COOL MOVE FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: BABY NEWS!

Nov 17 2007

Gee, I don't understand why everybody says gossip magazines are all about sex. They're are all about who's dating who and baby news. That's great. I guess we really live in a teenage girl culture now. A kid at the office told me that a 30 year old gay man and a 12 year old girl really think alike. I don't know. Does it mean it's good for the 30 year old gay man or the 12 year old girl? Now stars are really smarter. They sell their baby pictures before the paparazzi took some pictures of their own. But I don't understand why they're not doing even better. I mean they could sell pictures of their baby in the wombs. And then they would go on some talk show and say: I just sold some pictures of my developing fetus and everybody would applaud. Or they would go to some stores with hand signed pics of their six weeks old fetus and they're would be riots of women in Detroit and Cleveland trying to be the first to buy them. That would be a great american invention. Went to the office. Worked on my new Hollywood stars favorite exotic animals serie.

LOVE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

«Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said: «I knew he loved me when he didn't come in my mouth»

-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: MATT DAMON: SEXIEST MAN ALIVE

Nov 15 2007

People magazine just voted Matt Damon the sexiest man alive. Why I am never on that list? This is really good american marketing though. I mean even Playboy has its sexiest female sportscasters list. Maybe they should have a list of the sexiest Sillicon Valley nerds or the sexiest Washington DC Madam. And oh, saw Rupert Murdoch on Fifth avenue today with his much younger asian wife. I don't understand why liberal men and conservatives ones don't get along better. I mean Murdoch is dating like Woody Allen.

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: CAMILLE PAGLIA

Nov 14 2007

Gee, all the kids tell me I should really return Camille Paglia's call because she's such a big fan of me. I don't know. Maybe she would start saying nasty things about me after that. I mean you never know with lesbians. But I don't understand why they always accuse her of being a neo-conservative though. I mean she NEVER actually voted for Bush.

ANDY WARHOL ON WRESTLING:«IT'S EXCITEMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC»

CITY BOY

«I'm a city boy. In the big cities they've set it up so you can go to a park and be in a miniature countryside but in the countryside they don't have any patches of a big city, so I get very homesick».


-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE HOLLYWOOD STARS WILL WEAR BURQA TO CONFUSE PAPARAZZI

«MAKING MONEY IS ART«

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: BRITNEY'S SECRET LIPOSUCTION

Nov 14 2007

Oh, everybody's talking about that secret liposuction Britney Spears had on her ass and thighs in Las Vegas during the weekend. So I guess she will be ready to go on tour with her new album. She should really be an advertising star now though. Like some company would have her dressed as a giant Cheetos and then she would handle out free samples to teenage girls on Times Square. Some kid have me watching some porn with him. And there's was really a great line in the movie. There was this ex female exotic dancer who married a rich guy but she's still having sex with many people because she could only get excited when having a new partner each time. So there was this scene with the voice-over: «although she's wearing Chanel and driving a Jaguar she was still a slut at heart.» That's great. Is this product placement in the 21st century?

BULL RIDING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: THE NEXT BIG ARTIST

Oct 17 2007

Gee, so many people are saying that Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst are not going to last. They say their work won't stand the test of time. But I mean they're saying that about me since 40 years now so I don't really know what it means. But I guess people are right when they say the next big artist won't work factory style and will just hate being a public celebrity. I mean Pop Art became big because Roy, Bob, Jasper and me were the total opposite of what was going on at the time with Abstract Expressionism. Oh I just hated that so much. So I guess the next big artist will be totally fed up with me, Koons and Hirst. (laughs). That's great. Perez Hilton came to the office and I took some good pics for his portrait. He changed his hair color once again.

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE» -ANDY WARHOL

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: SHE CHEATED WITH ANOTHER MAN!

Sept 12 2007

I love it when magazines create all those fake rivalries to sell more copies. It's really like the old days of Joan Crawford versus Betty Davies. They should really get more of their inspiration from the past Clinton-Lewinsky affair though. You would have some actress explaining that she didn't really cheated on her boyfriend when she sucked off her new male co-star because «oral sex doesn't really count as sex». And then you would have pictures of stained dress from various designers with the prices with or without the stain. That would make a great american magazine cover. Went to the office. Worked on my Colbert portrait.

SOMETHING ANDY WARHOL WOULD HAVE LIKED

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: SEXIEST WOMAN

August 10 2007

Gee, I don't understand that sexiest woman thing. Sometimes it's the sexiest woman in the world, then the sexiest woman alive or the sexiest woman ever. Does it means the sexiest woman ever to be alive in the world? And is it better than being the sexiest woman ever not born yet or being the once alive sexiest woman ever ? Oh, this is so complicated. I'm not smart enough for that.

GEE, WHAT A GREAT PICTURE!

Franz Kafka by Andy Warhol

NORMAN MAILER VS ANDY WARHOL

«In fact as an artist Mailer's accomplishment has as much to do with that of Andy Warhol as with his fellow novelists in the sense that a large part of his artwork was his existence in the world. But where Warhol emptied his persona of any human agency achieving a kind of shimmering weightlessness Mailer always revealed the human mechanics that drove him. They were co-inventors of modern fame two sides of a coin».

-New York magazine
Nov 12 2007

SOMETHING ANDY WARHOL WOULD HAVE LIKED

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: LUXURY MAGAZINE AD: HOW TO FLASH YOUR $500 000 (AD SPACE) WATCH WHEN SLEEPING WITH YOUR HOT 19 YEAR OLD MEXICAN GARDENER

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT;EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»-ANDY WARHOL

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: WHY COSMOPOLITAN IS THE BEST MAGAZINE

July 23 2007

Oh, I like Cosmopolitan magazine. Woman's magazines are even better now than when I used to work for them in the fifities. They don't offer about the same thing. They're offering the exact same thing over and over and over again. That's great. I mean everybody is copying Cosmopolitan now. Some kid told me there's even a gay magazine called Instinct which describe itself as a mix of Maxim and Cosmopolitan. Do they give tips about sucking cock without messing up your hair?

SUCCESS FOR A LONG LASTING RELATIONSHIP

«Love affairs gets too involved, and they're not really worth it. But, if for some reason, you feel that they are, you should put in exactly as much time and energy as the other person. In other words, «I'll pay you if you pay me».

-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: BRITNEY & CHEETOS

June 12 2007

American trashy gossip magazines are the best. With porn websites they really show you the future of marketing.
But I don't understand why Britney Spears is not doing some paintings. Instead of Kellog boxes or Del Monte peaches like i did in the sixties she could paint Cheetos and Pepsi bottles and make a fortune. And then she could paint with her ex Justin and Kevin and have some nerdy fat intellectual comparing it to my painting with Clemente and Basquiat in the eighties. She would make a killing in Las Vegas with that. I mean it would introduce Celine Dion to art..

DOING REALITY TV

«I don't eat fast food. I eat food fast».

NIGHTCLUB SUCCESS RECIPY

«It's bisexual. Very bisexual. Very very very bisexual. And that's how we choose the crowd too. In other words we want everybody to be fun and good-looking».

-Steve Rubell describing its Studio 54 in 1978.

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: EVERGON

May 6 2007

Gee, watched TV yesterday and there was a great movie about that artist Evergon. I really like his work. It's like mixing Caravaggio and Georges Platt Lynes together. Maybe I should do his portrait. He really looks like Julian Schnabel.
And oh, Justin Timberlake is getting more and more popular by the minute now. He's really the new king of Pop.

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

Jean Michel Basquiat

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST:PRO WRESTLING

Mars 23 2007

«Oh, pro wrestling is great now. And all the athletes are even bigger than they used to be. How do they do that? They still have great names like «Cryme Tyme» or «The Mexicools» but they should really do something with politics now. Like they would have a would be president guy from Iran threatening to bomb the arena if there's a referee in the ring, and then he would face some bodybuilder from Houston with a «Liberty fries» gimmick or some gay guy with the star of David on his trunks. That would be really great american wrestling. Went to the office. Worked on my «Ophra's favorite things» serie.

MODELING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

THE CELEBRITY PARTY

«The thing is, if you're a celebrity yourself, everybody expects you to know all the great people, and you don't want to let them down. I've met 80% of the people you'd think I've met, and the other 20% I'm dying to meet»


-Andy Warhol
America

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A CELEBRITY MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: BRITNEY TO POLE DANCE AT THE 2008 NEW PRESIDENT SWEARING-IN CEREMONY

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

Keith Haring & Grace Jones

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: METROSEXUAL

Feb 17 2007

Oh, I don't understand all that metrosexual and ubersexual stuff. I guess it's just about looking like Joe Dallensandro but in the 21 st century. Read the paper and somebody said that «Celebrity is killing fame», Oh I'm so jealous. Why didn't I think of that first? Went to the office. Worked on my Victoria & David Beckham portrait.

ASKING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY WILL DIE ONLY FOR 15 MINUTES

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: ART MARKET

Jan 8 2007

Oh, the price for art now is amazing. I guess that's the new definition of trickle down theory in the 21st century; entertaining new Russians billionaires. Isn't like the Renaissance? Gee, I don't know. I guess that's why the left has so much trouble. The rich looks like fun and all the leftists looks like boring old college teachers.

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: TV HIT

Dec 14 2006

So many 60 year old women are dating younger now. They should do a TV show called «Desperate Granny Boomers». It would be a hit. Walked down Madison Avenue and some girl offered me to register for a yoga-rotica class...I was interested for a minute but then she added that it was very popular with «elderpreneur » like me so it ruined the whole thing.

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: HOT NEW TREND

Nov 20 2006

Oh, everyone says vaginal face lift is the new hot trend now. I guess actresss will show their pussy on the red carpet at the next Academy Awards. I mean what's the point of paying that much money for a new body part if you can't flaunt it in public? I'm just waiting to see who will be the first to do some Before & After vagina paintings. It will sell well on 57th street. Went to the office. Worked on my Sponge Bob portrait.

WHITE BOYS

«But what I really don't understand is when white guys have these really dark cocks».

-Andy Warhol

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT;EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»-ANDY WARHOL

SOMETHING ANDY WARHOL WOULD HAVE LIKED

Remember when Elton John and the Pet Shop Boys had to defend Eminem from GLADD? Well it seems a lot happened since then. Namely more and more gay rapper boys and girls taking their place within the larger hip hop community. To get the pulse of that growing scene I asked some questions to the guys involved in the documentary film Pick Up The Mic. From the state of gay hip hop today, gay men's love -hate relationship with the genre to the future of gay Hip Hop porn...



Q- It seems Hip Hop is moving in so many directions now and influences so many other musical genres. Do you see the same trend in gay hip hop as well?

A- «Definitely» say Pick Up The Mic filmmaker Alex Hinton. «The film really showcases a wide array of styles from the roots and soul inspired leanings of Deep Dickollective to the gangsta styles of JenRo and the HIP HOP with pop hooks of God-Des to the raunchy but hilarious styling of Jonny Dangerous. There is something for every Hip Hop fan in this scene".

Over the years there have been a lot of talk about the place of gay artists in the larger hip hop community. The rapidity of that progress may been seen differently by some but there's clearly a trend towards growing acceptance. «I personally have found that much of the black music industry have given me nothing but respect for the amount of success I have achieved, all without any manager or record label behind me» says British rapper QBOY. «Having said that you have to wonder why I don't have either of those two support frames-it's because the music industry as a whole don't know what to do with me. They believe I don't fit their idea or market for hip hop because I'm gay and I don't fit their gay market because I'm hip hop. However attitudes are changing» he adds. For Alex Hinton some progress cannot be denied: «We did get a 4 page spread about the scene in URB magazine a straight urban music and lifestyle mag. And artists like JenRo and Scream Club are working in the straight hip hop scene guesting on tracks and performing confortably well with straight rappers».



What about the other way around now? People always talk about homophobia in the hip hop community but is there also some prejudice towards hip hop among the mainstream gay community? «Well historically the gay community has had a prejudice to hip hop as the homophobic lyrics of some hip hop songs have been magnified by watchdogs groups like GLAAD. Homophobia exists everywhere in the music industry and musical forms. It just seems that hip hop has been targeted as it can be demonized by some as as the other since it is so often showcased as just a hyper masculinized form of music» says Hinton. «But the film really proves witness that many members of the gay community grew up on hip hop and they don't feel that it is this negative force. They feel that it is their true medium to express themselves. »


Go to most gay bars and it won't be often that some shirtless pumped up guy will be dancing on Hip Hop tracks. For one QBOY has a lot to say about the so called mainstream gay culture:«There is a lot of underlying racism in mainstream gay culture, there has not often been much visible black gay men and lesbians with that scene and now the traditional black culture is creating it's own path within the gay community, the mainstream gay scene is having to adjust not all with ease.» Fortunately personal experience often alter that general impression: «There is also something I call rap-phobia where people's idea of what rap is about is associated with guns, drugs, crime, violence, gangsta culture and somebody shouting in an angry intimidating fashion». add QBOY. «This is because the only conception with rap is the mainstream junk that is so accessible to them. However I have found that many people who have seen me perform parents, grand parents, lesbians and gay men in their fifties none of whom have never identified with rap before all come to me at the end and say: you know I never I liked rap but I like you».


In that world of testosterone-charged young male bravado, Miss Money is for many something of an oddity. A gay christian hip hop artist. And as a female she got a somewhat different opinion about all that male swaggering thing and the so called homophobia of Hip Hop : «I don't think there are prejudices but just reaction to the hate spewed at gay people. You'd be prejudiced too if every man with a mic and knowledge of a few vowels said faggot.....The hip hop males are so ever indulged in testosterone they're the first to hate on gay people but anyone with common sense can see it's their own insecurity . It really has nothing do us gay people».



Before sex was used to sell music . Now music is increasingly used to sell sex. Especially to bring the hip hop community to the adult market. We all know that past Snoop's Doggystyle video and today there's clearly a growing foray of Hip Hop into porn. In the past designer Mark Ecko had his clothes used in some xxx movies and nowadays we hear more and more about rappers tempted to act as MC (if not performing themselves) in some xxx skin flick. Are gay rappers going to follow that trend? Is a move into porn going to be the next ultimate street cred statement? « I don't see why not, I can see Jonny [Dangerous) doing it for sure. He He! In fact both myself and Houston Bernard are on the soundtrack to a sexually charged gay film called OPen Cam» (www.opencammovie.com/music.html/) says QBOY.


What is Jonny Dangerous himself thinking of the idea? Not suprisingly the rapper known for his sexually graphic lyrics is quite enthusiastic about it. «You're talking to the king of dirty gay hip hop. I would definitely rock a porn movie and have my shit played on the background...Cuz when you think of dirty gay sex how can you not think of Johnny Dangerous? Just listening to some of his lyrics easily prove his point:

«Laid up on the couch seductively
Hand up on my knee, whispered how much he wanted me
Bitin' on my lip fantasizing 'bout that dick
that he describe to be eight long and five inches thick"