pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sun 25 apr 04
wonderings...explores...body modifications...awareness
modifications...and...
(...the second half of Lois's Post's getting subjected to
my response's interspersed
ramble..)
> I think this is just the 21st century version. Pete
Burns, from the band
> "Dead or Alive" has also done extreme plastic surgery as
an art form.
I will have to see if I can find something on
that...otherwise, I am clueless...I know very little of
these matters anyway...but, I am interested.
> Maybe
> sticking a plate in your lip has gone out of vogue,
Do you mean like the 'Ubangi' of the old Western of mid
areas in
Africa?
I think even 'National Geographic' editors look up from
their desk with that mock-patient, puppy-eyed 'you got to be
kidding' wan-smile look when some cub reporter of theirs
comes up full
of enthusiasms about a 'good' story everyone else had
overlooked...although I have seen but the fewest glimpses of
that Magazine now in decades...
Or...yes...one does not tend to see them at all
anymore...nor do I
recall them being particularly emulated or recommended in
Black History Month, or among
our varied ( really hodgepodge of 'aztec-latin' now as is in
the 'lead' in these parts anyway) of
increasingly diverse cultural inclusions and accomidations
of quaint habits of
eachother's ancestors.
Allthough, if
memory serve, they were (Ubangis) sometimes featured, if
fancifully,
in the original
"Betty Boop" ( 'Boop-oop-a-Doop' ) Cartoons as I used to
watch a little
on the tee-vee as a Child...or as I did for a little while
in the Summer of 1957, when I was 3-1/2 , and we lived for a
time in sunny Palmdale, California ( as was my first round
in the
Romance of the
Movaje) as, I did not tend to watch Cartoons before that, or
afterward, finding,
except for the original Betty Boop ( and spareingly at that)
that they depressed me or
disturbed me something aweful. They still do.
I did not 'like' what Cartoons did to my 'head' in a manner
of speaking.
I could not stand them in
fact. So...after that I refused to
watch any Cartoons anymore at all, with almost no exception.
But the Betty Boop ones, the early '30s ones, were the ones
I liked when I did like any at all...and they also had
really great gut-bucket
Jazz background music which I got along with just
fine...I liked that music a lot, and still do...genius
stuff really...wow just remembering that...makes me want to
see some of them
now...been a long while - eeeeesh...but too, like many
things..it is a mood-thing I suppose...
But to justify this digress...there is a connection...and it
is, or it lay, or it lie, in those things or ways we elect,
or to which we
acquiesce, as effect our experience. Or as effect our
awareness of our experience, and,
of how they do so...whether we like it or not that they did
do so, or how, after that, for it's influence, we may
be in or out of some
harmony in some way, or affected or infected...
Anyway...
...sigh...
>...as have giant neck rings
> that make you look like a fabulously decorated giraffe.
Oh...the...uh...oh well, I can't remember their name. But
they may not
remove the Brass 'rings' without they support their Heads
some other way if memory serve. Too, getting an 'earwig' or
some wiggley-thing under them (under the 'rings' I mean, or
either
way,) was
certain to be
annoying I think.
> As far a Michael Jackson goes, well, I just can't explain
>that one.
My imagining...or an extempore of it anyway...
He wanted to 'be' Brook Sheilds...(figuratively as well as
approximately otherwise, in certain ways, but did not per-se
want
to be a Woman.)
Or, it gets 'complicated'...anyway...
> .....Lo
> The mom with the giant tattoo
Of what? or, 'where', or may one ask?
A 'tattoo' too, used to be ( still is?) a kind of
'percussive' or Drum dittie as signalled some imformation or
instruction or other, as well...I do not know if that is
done anymore...
> > I would say it is an art form as much as tattooing &
many
> > other "decorative" body alterations throughout history.
I
> > might categorize Orlan's art differently and call it
> > Mutilation Theatre.
There is certainly a broad band of devotees or sunscribers I
suppose...about like anything...
I just did a little search for my own curiousities on the
Orlan gal...and...found a maybe somewhat
becomeing
image
http://www.orlan.net/
Another, as of Erik Sprauge
http://gmwc.netfirms.com/lizardman/TheLizardman.html
Another, if most ingenuously of all I feel, an old image of
Fakir Musafar from 1962...
http://www.faheykleingallery.com/exhibitions/exhibitions_musafar.htm
Anyway...
On and on...
Phil
el ve
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