February 05, 2004

• Oops - NSFW! While you're there, check out my favorite picture of the lot, one of Marilyn Manson in the portraits section.
• Verry pretty. Ol' Dave is certainly a busy guy-- he shot everybody!
• We heart Dave Chappelle, comedian too.
• Gosh but I love some of his stuff. The Billy Corgan, Tori Amos, and Robert Downey, Jr. portraits, for instance. But then, he does stuff like this,and this and I hate to play the feminism card, but Jeezy Creezy...
• Perhaps someone better informed than I am can tell me why the photo on the end of the first link in Dr Zira's second paragraph is actually a witty and playful critique of the infantile male fantasy of the phallic mother. Rather than, say, an embarrassing fetishistic mess.
• Couldn't it easily be both? We see what we want to see and that's all that there is to see. I'm going to pretend that's a quote from oh let's say Freud. He was big on the whole mother fetish thing right?
• Does anyone actually read Freud any more? It is, in many ways, a salutary exercise.
• I really, really hope it's both becuase I'm very much wanting to see a witty and playful critique of the infantile male fantasty of the phallic mother, yet all I seem to be seeing is an embarrassing fetishistic mess. Actually, what I'm really seeing is one female in a really demeaning position underneath the foot of another woman, whose shoes apparently require some sort of prescription medication. Ah! I see! It's not at all an infantile male fantasy of the phallic mother; It's an infantile male fantasy of hot chicks gettin' it on.
• Infantile (chronologically, that is) males do not fantasise about hot chicks getting it on. They live in terror of losing their penis after they've seen that their mother or their sister doesn't have one. So, you know, they invent substitutes like distended pointy shoes which also ejaculate. Or other shiny engorged things, of which we've all seen plenty.
• Sorry, a bit loose there. Second para refers to grown-up infantile boys. Eek!
• Wolof, have you read the man's biography? The bit where he gets revenge on his father for making love to his mother by peeing on the bed and masturbating in the shoes. Yeah, I haven't actually read anything else by him. I mean too, but he's sorta been discredited or at least shoved to one side by other newer theories.
• Ah. Thank you, Wolof. I shall now consult you on all matters Freudian. So would lesbian imagery terrify infantile males as garlic would terrify a vampire? And did Freud really masturbate in his father's shoes? Ew!
• Yeah, I haven't actually read anything else by him. Reason I say it's instructive is that it's not only interesting in its own right, but in the end you can actually distinguish between what he said and what other people claim he said. I am in no way saying that the man had no faults