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    Image of Products Will Save Me Products Will Save Me
    12/09/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    This has to be some of the lamest shit I've ever heard.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/04/09

    In reply to Giant Penis On Building Apparently Part of German Newspaper Dispute
    Why can't we have buildings like this?
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    12/04/09

    In reply to Giant Penis On Building Apparently Part of German Newspaper Dispute
    Between the 2nd and 3rd floors looks like a panel from Kreepie Kats!!!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    12/04/09

    In reply to Giant Penis On Building Apparently Part of German Newspaper Dispute
    Talk about a staff project . . .
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    Image of Volsciana Volsciana
    12/04/09

    In reply to Giant Penis On Building Apparently Part of German Newspaper Dispute
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    m4ximusprim3 promoted this comment Edited by Volsciana at 12/04/09 2:48 PM Volsciana was starred Volsciana was unstarred
    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    12/04/09

    @Volsciana: aww, where'd the london penis comment go? I liked that one.

    Don't be bashful with your giant phallic images.
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    Image of Volsciana Volsciana
    12/04/09

    @m4ximusprim3: I tried to edit my appalling grammar and it disappeared the picture, apparently you can’t add images to edited comments. Second attempt:

    Purrr-leeease! London sees your pitiful long thin schlong and raises you a 180 meter giant dong. That Germany, is how it’s done.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    12/04/09

    @Volsciana: much better! my freudian urges are sated.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to Giant Penis On Building Apparently Part of German Newspaper Dispute
    another option is to commission a second sculpture of Phol performing the world's longest act of fellatio.

    It would at least cover the offending member, wouldn't it?
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/04/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    What's fun is how he thinks after all of the send-up his foray into daytime television that there was a disruption of suspension of disbelief.
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    Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall
    12/04/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    Likewise, when I wear green makeup and fly across a rooftop in "Spider-Man 3," I'm working as an actor, but were I to do the same thing on the subway platform, a host of possibilities would open up

    By "host of possibilities" I'm assuming he means 1) try to fly, get cape stuck, land on third rail, die, hold up trains or 2) get mobbed by teenage girls, flee, land on third rail, die, hold up trains, or 3) just hold up trains.
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    Image of lucciolina lucciolina
    12/04/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    After seeing El Franco around at various Columbia art events, let me just say that I totally saw this coming. It's an interesting concept, but you, Mr. Franco, are not the one to pull it off. And just because you're buddies with Marina Abramovic doesn't mean you are anywhere near her skill level.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    12/04/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    Most film actors are attractive sacks of self-involved idiocy incapable of uttering an intelligent sentence that wasn't written by someone else.
    So James Franco gets a (very) small pass for setting himself up as a New Wave Harold Bloom -- among his co-workers, he is.
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    12/04/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    I've graded undergraduate art history papers and this shit would not get anywhere near the mighty peaks of an 'A.'

    There is a creeping willingness to accept weak, watery, silly prose as adequate to discuss art and it chaps my hide, I'll tell you what. I hope his professors sock it to him over this.
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    Image of marin79 marin79
    12/04/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    I sent this article over to Brian last night when I first saw it - great commentary, Adrian!

    My favorite part is where Franco writes "no matter how far I got into the character, I was going to be perceived as something that doesn't belong in the incredibly stylized world of soap operas."

    I don't know if anyone else has been watching, but Franco couldn't even get through a scene where a picture fell the other day without almost laughing. I felt like I was watching one of those horrible old SNL skits that Jimmy Fallon laughed through. The only thing that felt out of place with Franco being in that scene was that Franco - whom I think is very talented - was out-performed by the guy who plays Sonny. (Must watch video here: [www.movieline.com]).

    Also, there is another Franco-related article in the WSJ blog with that guy, Carter, who is Franco's enabler for all this "performance art." I get the sense from different interviews that Carter (no last name) is a bit of an attention whore who has opportunistically hitching his wagon to Franco for the notoriety.

    There is also a video in this one of Franco eating some gold-wrapped ball of almonds with Marina Abramović. Enjoy: [blogs.wsj.com]
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    12/04/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    "What is art?"
    "Uh, paintings and stuff?"
    "...... Okay."
    - The State
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/04/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    The idea of performance art is strange to me. Possibly because I spent my life studying books and philosophy. Performance art basically performs the function of disruption. It's something like the embodied form of the post-structuralist philosophy that shook up the intellectual world in the mid century. That primary thing has also become the hallmark of modern art. How many countless times have you seen the phrase "this is supposed to make us QUESION [x]".James Franco posits this in his essay, because he's a terribly young arts student. Still at the stage where you think a good hokey prank is equivalent to good art.

    After the questioning is supposed to come a reification, a reconstruction. Something to pose a fully realized alternative. Which Franco should know as an actor who's worked in theatre. Simply acting in performace spaces to "disrupt" is fine. But what comes after? One can't simply deconstruct endlessly.
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    Image of cowboytwopointoh cowboytwopointoh
    12/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I would like to commission Franco to write an Op-Ed about how 'Jersey Shore' is a post-structuralist examination of hedonism within ethnic enclaves in America.

    Maybe then, I'll be able to justify all my pot-smoking (which I don't engage in currently, but am about the cultivate seriously in future)
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    Pope John Peeps II promoted this comment Edited by cowboytwopointoh at 12/04/09 7:20 AM cowboytwopointoh was starred cowboytwopointoh was unstarred
    Image of marin79 marin79
    12/04/09

    @cowboytwopointoh: I had read this article last night before Shore & made the same comment to Brian after he said something about a "meta moment" on the show! I'm hoping Franco's analysis will be in Monday's New Yorker.
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    12/04/09

    In reply to James Franco's General Hospital Appearance Was Subversive Performance Art
    If soap operas were like circuses James Franco would be their art carnie.
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