December 5, 2019 – davidbruceblog #2

Info: “Yama Niyama Dasa Brahmachari is insignificant servant of devotees of Lord. Our humble mission: to remind everyone that human life is meant for the spiritual pursuit. Other pursuit is simply for the animal. Oh, and we are all going to die even though soul is eternal, so no point in trying to so-called ‘enjoy’ this world. YNDB came from very low-class background which he does not like to discuss.”

Some Lyrics:

Have a brahmachari Christmas
Keep your program very austere
Sleep six hours and take cold showers
Simply chant and hear

Have a brahmachari Christmas
Go for chanting on the street
Say Haribol to all fallen soul
As they go for eating meat

Price: $1.08 for song; $5.08 (USD) for 14-track album

Genre: Comedy, Christmas Music

https://yamaniyamadasabrahmachari.bandcamp.com

https://yamaniyamadasabrahmachari.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-is-not-on-vaishnava-calendar

Music Recommendation — Beach Brats — “Merry Christmas, Baby”

BRUCE’S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC\

Song: “Merry Christmas, Baby” from the album MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY / HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Artist: Beach Brats

Artist Location: Melbourne, Australia

Info: “A fun little project playing Beach Boys hits with a Ramones vibe.”

“’Tis the season to get silly!

“We recorded a fun little cover of The Beach Boys’ ‘Merry Christmas, baby’ along with a track inspired by The Simpsons as the B-side.”

Lee-Lee Wilson – Vocals, Backing vocals

Tommy Wilson – Guitars, Bass, Drum programming, Backing vocals

Mattias Westlund – Sleigh bells (via Sonatina Orchestra Module)

Recorded and Mixed in December 2018 completely D.I.Y.

Track 1 – Music and lyrics (c) The Beach Boys
Track 2 – Inspired by this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC5XcyYFuqc

Price: Name Your Price (Includes FREE)

Genre: Pop Punk, Christmas Music

https://beachbrats.bandcamp.com/album/merry-christmas-baby-happy-birthday

David Bruce: The Coolest People in the Arts — Art

Art

• Johnny Brewton is the creator behind the zine X-Ray, each issue of which consists of 226 copies, each one at least slightly different. It was definitely an artistic project, and lifetime subscribers included the J. Paul Getty Museum, the rare book department of S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, and the University of Wisconsin. One contributor was Hunter S. Thompson, who helped create the cover of X-Ray#4 by putting on lipstick and kissing a few copies and by shooting a bullet through every copy. (The cover was a photograph of Marilyn Chambers holding a box of Ivory Snow.) Another contributor to X-Raywas Charles Bukowski, who impressed Mr. Brewton with his work ethic: Mr. Brewton wrote Mr. Bukowski on a Monday requesting some poems, and by that Saturday—not even a week later—he received an envelope containing some poems. Mr. Brewton says about Mr. Bukowski, “I was amazed at how generous he was—he really gave backa lot and supported small presses; he taught me a lot about professionalism and deadlines. He was always on time.” Yet another contributor was Timothy Leary. Mr. Leary’s publicist, however, in a phone conversation told Mr. Brewton, “Mr. Leary has to charge one dollar per word for articles and stories. Are you sure you want to do this?” Because the zine made basically zero money, Mr. Brewton sarcastically replied, “That fits my budget perfectly! I’ll buy one word.” The publicist asked, “Which word do you want?” Mr. Brewton replied, “I don’t know. Have Mr. Leary decide.” The publicist spoke to Mr. Leary, and Mr. Brewton overheard Mr. Leary say, “That’s great! Yes! I pick the word ‘Chaos’—that’s my piece!” Mr. Brewton titled the work “A One Word Dosage from Dr. Timothy Leary” and put a card saying “Chaos” inside a pill envelope—each of the 226 copies of the issue contained the one-word contribution.

• Pablo Picasso was a true artist. Another artist, photographer Yousuf Karsh, once took Picasso’s portrait. At first, Karsh was going to take the portrait at Picasso’s home, but Picasso’s children were boisterous and did such things as ride bicycles throughout the rooms; therefore, Picasso suggested that they meet at his ceramics gallery in Valluris and have the photo shoot there. When Karsh showed up at the gallery with 200 pounds of photography equipment, the gallery owner told him, “He will never be here. He says the same thing to every photographer.” Fortunately, Picasso did show up for the photo shoot. Karsh remembers, “He could partially view himself in my large format lens and intuitively moved to complete the composition.”

• When Andy Warhola was a senior at Carnegie Institute of Technology (its name now is Carnegie Mellon University), he submitted a self-portrait to the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual Exhibition—the painting was titled The Broad Gave Me My Face, but I Can Pick My Own Nose. Perhaps this particular title was a mistake, but Mr. Warhola liked mistakes. The very first time an illustration of his appeared in Glamourmagazine, his name was misspelled “Warhol.” From that time on, he decided to be Andy Warhol instead of Andy Warhola.

• When Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti was painting his Last Judgmenton the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, a man named Biagio da Cesena criticized it because of its nude figures. Michelangelo got his revenge by putting Biagio da Cesena into the painting. In the lowest level of hell, he appears as a horned beast.

• Impressionist painter Claude Monet often painted outside. If you look closely at his 1870 painting titled The Beach at Trouville, you can see grains of sand that the wind blew onto the wet paint.

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