Some August
On August 8, 2022, the FBI raided Mar a Lago--the same day as the Nixon resignation in 1973. On August 11, 1956, Jackson Pollock died when he overturned his Oldsmobile 88 convertible while driving drunk, while on August 11, 1995, Brian Eno was at Jimmy’s Disco: “Possibly one of the most hateful places I’ve ever been. All those rich young people, so chic, and thin as two planks. A vodka? £34. A Heineken? £24. I wanted to throw a grenade in there. Just, one, please”. On August 11, 2022, I wrote (about art): “Real art” is based on our universal sense of what art can be. This was greatly expanded in the 20th century and continues”. On August 12, 1969, The Beatles were in the studio doing final overdubs on Not Guilty , and on August 12, 1997, I wrote, “We should play God because it might be fun to pretend” But the question is: would we really be pretending?”, on August 12, 2017, I take a photograph and title it “inequality”. On August 14, 2017, I was predicting that the future of musi...