Warhol — who hobnobbed with both the marginal and the 1 percent — crossed paths with Donald Trump and his then wife, Ivana, in 1981 at a party for the infamous power broker Roy Cohn. Later, Andy discussed with Trump the possibility of doing paintings of Trump Tower. "I don't know why I did so many, I did eight," Andy noted in his diary on August 5. "In black and grey and silver which I thought would be so chic for the lobby. But it was a mistake to do so many, I think it confused them." He addressed another possibility further down the entry: "I think Trump's sort of cheap."
The deal fell through, but a few years later Warhol was invited to judge a cheerleading audition in the newly opened building. "I was supposed to be there at 12:00 but I took my time and went to church and finally moseyed over there around 2:00. This is because I still hate the Trumps because they never bought the paintings I did of the Trump Tower."
It's unlikely Trump has ever read the diaries, because he uncharacteristically never took offense. In fact, he quoted Warhol in two of his books (or his ghostwriters did), repeating the same aphorism in both: "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art." What Trump will never understand is that while art was once Warhol's business, now, through his legacy, generous philanthropy has become his business.
byggyz is still a thing.
Let me make sure I understand: you didn't like the restaurant?
dead-silent Guggenheim room / Doug Wheeler
just watched the recent release netflix original louis ck 2017. great and a big improvement over the last live show i caught.
RIcklesP
hippie food from the '70's. its back.
someone asked me a ways back what was the best way to track tv shows. this is my goto -- sidereel.
of interest to me in april:
the return of veep, the leftovers, fargo & better call saul
of slightly less interest returning:
idiotsitter, archer, fortitude
new shows i will check out:
american gods, the white princess, the handmaidens tale, guerrilla
Grand Cru/CREW......doesnt get better than this
Woman singer is the best Jerry every had (she was with Zappa for a bit)!!
The Federal Bureau of Investigation cannot tell us what we need to know about Donald Trump’s contacts with Russia. Why? Because doing so would jeopardize a long-running, ultra-sensitive operation targeting mobsters tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin — and to Trump.
you are what you eat (whole film 1968)
looks like wylie bailed on that fidi restaurant. opening a donut shop in williamsburg.
An effort to describe the diversity of birds led to one of the first modern color systems. Published by Smithsonian ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1886, A Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists categorizes 186 colors alongside diagrams of birds. In 1912, Ridgway self-published an expanded version for a broader audience — Color Standards and Color Nomenclature — that included 1,115 colors. Some referenced birds, like “Warbler Green” and “Jay Blue,” while others corresponded to other elements of nature, as in “Bone Brown” and “Storm Gray.”
central park pop spots
anything to this? good for music storage?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/
i give it thumbs up, not great, but thumbs up
On Tuesday, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a federally funded facility outside San Francisco that focuses on nuclear research, released 63 rare, restored and declassified nuclear-test films.
The films, uploaded to the lab’s YouTube account, are part of a trove of some 10,000 that have been in storage since they were originally shot between 1945 and 1962, and had been held in secure vaults since then.
