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Thank you and have an IVH night.
Tonight's guests are scheduled to be Carla Gugino and Dennis Lehane. (oooh, another writer!)
Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.
-- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 143
I've never quite known what to make of Andy Warhol or his art.
So was he serious, or was everything he said or did a giant joke, or was he somehow managing to be both serious and poking holes in pretentiousness, while still on some level being pretentious himself? Or was he simply whatever it was that you thought he was?
Perhaps he said it the best:
On another personal note, I will stop making IVH posts here after this week. It was fun at first, but it has become less and less so as the weeks have gone by. The IVH is supposed to be a fun place, so I'll just drop back to being a spectator who only occasionally participates in the conversation. Thanks for the kind attention you've paid; you've all been more indulgent than I deserve.
Here's Craig putting the show's director through the paces:
Now, how about some humbuggery: