Comments on: Sub-Par in the 90′s (“You and Your Memory”). http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/ Pouring bourbon on the line that separates art from trash. And then? Setting it on fire. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: brd http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-27645 brd Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:44:59 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-27645 <a href="http://elgg.net/betsyd/files/1799/13650/laundry.jpg" rel="nofollow">Sequel.</a> I agree with Prof. Sequel.

I agree with Prof.

]]> By: Liz http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-25825 Liz Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:01:26 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-25825 No way, this is about dirty sexin'! Clinton, priests, laundry rooms... Plus! One New Year's Eve some guy friends of ours painted themselves blue and Willow made out with one of them and ended up with blue fingerprints everywhere. I think you somehow stole that story and incorporated it, too. Genius! No way, this is about dirty sexin’! Clinton, priests, laundry rooms…

Plus! One New Year’s Eve some guy friends of ours painted themselves blue and Willow made out with one of them and ended up with blue fingerprints everywhere. I think you somehow stole that story and incorporated it, too. Genius!

]]> By: La_Pomme_Vert http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-25815 La_Pomme_Vert Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:09:33 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-25815 The stamp are your father, the writing is of you lover. And the grand letters?????? Yes!! The stamp are your father, the writing is of you lover. And the grand letters?????? Yes!!

]]> By: bettybzz http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-25814 bettybzz Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:54:25 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-25814 Oh, and pizza, if Sally is right about the Mazzio's thing. Oh, and pizza, if Sally is right about the Mazzio’s thing.

]]> By: gorjus http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-25811 gorjus Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:43:27 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-25811 Fury? Bettybzz is 1,000x closer than the Fury! Fury? Bettybzz is 1,000x closer than the Fury!

]]> By: The Diplomat http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-25808 The Diplomat Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:35:23 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-25808 fury wins. I knew fury would win. fury wins. I knew fury would win.

]]> By: bettybzz http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-25807 bettybzz Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:20:16 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-25807 The theme is things that are hot: dryers Father Flanagan J. Darnielle The theme is things that are hot:

dryers
Father Flanagan
J. Darnielle

]]> By: Professor Fury http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-25803 Professor Fury Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:04:26 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-25803 I think the key here lies in the dryer's open door. The theme here is escape, but not just the escape from physical confinement--though that's important. No, look at the pattern of those thumbprints--they mark where someone has pushed the door open and grappled with the dryer, but they also extend <em>outside</em> the frame of the photo, as though someone (the artist? or, more likely, the artist's object of desire?) has escaped not only the dryer--a place not only of confinement but of eternal repetition, an endless and monotonous cycle--but in fact has escaped the world of art, of ficton itself, has crawled right out of the realm of representation and into our world. Thus, the <em>binary</em> choice that the <em>original</em>title of the song offers us--"You or Your Memory"--is transformed in this text into "You <em>and</em> Your Memory." That is, the artist no longer has to choose between the real "You," one with all the inevitable flaws and failings of any human, and an ideal, <em>remembered</em> "You," one that's fictional, one without blemish, intact and immaculate. With the memory having stepped out of the frame and into the world, the artist now has access to both the real and the imaginary incarnations of his beloved. This theme is underscored by the 4-cent stamp and the phone numbers: the jagged joining of post and phone, of written communication (which has a sort of permanence) and oral (which is only remembered and whose meaning changes subtly with every new transmission). This piece, then, is about the complications of desire and refusal to abandon romantic idealism to the merely fictional, the longing to join real and ideal together. I think the key here lies in the dryer’s open door. The theme here is escape, but not just the escape from physical confinement—though that’s important. No, look at the pattern of those thumbprints—they mark where someone has pushed the door open and grappled with the dryer, but they also extend outside the frame of the photo, as though someone (the artist? or, more likely, the artist’s object of desire?) has escaped not only the dryer—a place not only of confinement but of eternal repetition, an endless and monotonous cycle—but in fact has escaped the world of art, of ficton itself, has crawled right out of the realm of representation and into our world.

Thus, the binary choice that the originaltitle of the song offers us—”You or Your Memory”—is transformed in this text into “You and Your Memory.” That is, the artist no longer has to choose between the real “You,” one with all the inevitable flaws and failings of any human, and an ideal, remembered “You,” one that’s fictional, one without blemish, intact and immaculate. With the memory having stepped out of the frame and into the world, the artist now has access to both the real and the imaginary incarnations of his beloved. This theme is underscored by the 4-cent stamp and the phone numbers: the jagged joining of post and phone, of written communication (which has a sort of permanence) and oral (which is only remembered and whose meaning changes subtly with every new transmission). This piece, then, is about the complications of desire and refusal to abandon romantic idealism to the merely fictional, the longing to join real and ideal together.

]]> By: The Diplomat http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-25793 The Diplomat Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:17:46 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-25793 In And You stands a young man at a cross-roads, the own county line (in the middle) between paths righteous criminal. "and you," say you, "are the only one who can make this choice." it is a choice between becoming a proper citizen with all due respect, represented by the father who reformed wayward and troubled boys, and the dryer on the right side (which is no mean coincidence), and (leftward) walking to a corner store at night, barefoot and alone, destitute with big dreams, but really going nowhere quick. I say quick because the lyric is in the foreground, easier to reach, the path of least resistence, but to get to the laundromat, to get clean, well, that will require much more perseverence and introspection. dig deep, as they say. In And You stands a young man at a cross-roads, the own county line (in the middle) between paths righteous criminal. “and you,” say you, “are the only one who can make this choice.” it is a choice between becoming a proper citizen with all due respect, represented by the father who reformed wayward and troubled boys, and the dryer on the right side (which is no mean coincidence), and (leftward) walking to a corner store at night, barefoot and alone, destitute with big dreams, but really going nowhere quick. I say quick because the lyric is in the foreground, easier to reach, the path of least resistence, but to get to the laundromat, to get clean, well, that will require much more perseverence and introspection. dig deep, as they say.

]]> By: sally http://prettyfakes.com/2006/11/sub-par-in-the-90s-you-and-your-memory/comment-page-1/#comment-25760 sally Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:46:19 +0000 http://prettyfakes.com/?p=881#comment-25760 Or wait: maybe I was thinking of another photo. Or wait: maybe I was thinking of another photo.

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