Performance Art & Why Abba Rules

Marina Abramovic = Love EVERYONE LOOK HER UP!

I doubt anyone else read the NYT's performance art commentary, but it got me thinking about how all forms of art go in a circle. The Guggenheim conference made it sound like all other art forms are stark differences from each other when in reality every form is close to another. Think of it like this: painting is close to drawing which is similar to animation which is similar to film which is similar to photography which is dramatic like theatre theatre which is similar to performance art which is similar to sculpture which is similar to painting since it's the other earliest art form. Performance art is the missing link! The internet is blurring the mediums and some hate it, but to me it's awesome.

Everyone has been ragging on Abba all day long. HOW COULD A DISCO BAND BE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME!?!? BLASPHEMY! Golly gee, kiss my glittery ass. Abba defines great songwriting. No one writes a better structured song than Abba. They write as well as bloody Dylan! Why else would so many hard rock bands that became successful praise them? Pop speaks to the common man: it's repetition, the hooks, the melodies. They seep into our brain making the artists' expressions permanent. Rambling guitar strings do not.


I have very eclectic music taste believe it or not. I dig more than just disco and grunge. Just take a look at my ten favorite albums:

1.) Live Through This- Hole
2.) The Immaculate Collection- Madonna
3.) The Greatest- Cat Power
4.) Siamese Dream- Smashing Pumpkins
5.) Blackout- Britney Spears
6.) Extraordinary Machine- Fiona Apple
7.) Horses- Patti Smith
8.) Medulla- Bjork
9.) Album- Girls
10.) Bitte Orca- Dirty Projectors

There you have it: grunge, disco, electro, folk, piano, experimental, San Fran homeless pop, and Brooklyn's finest pretentious hipsters.

My favorite films list is just as strange:

1.) Sunset Blvd.
2.) Some Like It Hot
3.) Almost Famous
4.) T2: Judgement Day
5.) Me, You, and Everyone We Know
6.) All the classic Disney films
7.) Ed Wood
8.) Y Tu Mambien
9.) Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
10.) X2: X-Men United

Probably the only list with Kung Fu, drag queens, X-Men, performance artists, James Cameron, and Simba.

When thinking about who influences my art, writing, and ideas the most, I also see an odd list. I want to base my career around the ideas of Walt Disney, Andy Warhol, Cinno, Tennessee Williams, Perez, and the punk rockers. I want to work in all fields of art as a commercial storytelling genius who uses the internet and serves as a patron to musicians viva la Cinno meets CBGB. In other words, I've got a punk rock soul wrapped in sequins and bubble wrap rocking that contraposto pose.