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thistlelurid

~ The Virtues of Raw Oysters ~

Jul 16, 2007 10:06

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yhancik July 16 2007, 18:54:05 UTC

Sounds... interesting !
I've listened to a few samples on the website, but it's kinda hard to understand for a non-native speaker :p

thistlelurid July 17 2007, 04:23:04 UTC

I cannot wait to get the CD!

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thistlelurid July 17 2007, 04:23:50 UTC

aaaahhhhh THANK YOU! I felt like such a heel for not remembering. It was driving me crazy!

urgent_alchemy July 16 2007, 19:37:24 UTC

Victorian SMUT!!!!!!!!!

Alex is so MASSIVELY talented.
I top-favorited him on myspace,
and peek back into his page and
work time and time again.

thistlelurid July 17 2007, 04:25:32 UTC

I think Ive posted his work before, ages ago. Youre right....you can just keep rediscovering him! His tennis girl is so adorable!!

urgent_alchemy July 17 2007, 18:21:46 UTC

He's been around for a while.
Very talented. I've only just
gotten to speak to him in the
last year though, so for me
he still feels new. That and
his artbook came out semi-recently.
I still need to pick that up.

jermynsavile July 16 2007, 22:31:16 UTC

Wonderful voices. To be able to see the world through their eyes, if only for a minute or two would be a marvellous thing.

Like the playing cards. If you remember the name then I'd love to see more.

thistlelurid July 17 2007, 04:34:25 UTC

"a 19th-century potty mouth, with jokes to scald 21st-century ears."

I love that...so brilliant!

Alex Gross is the artist(thanks to the girls above)!

jermynsavile July 17 2007, 07:18:41 UTC

I still remember some of the songs that date back from WWI and they were fruity (if not quite as rude as the ones on the CD). I assume that they were variations on old Music Hall songs of the time. Things like "Dan, Dan the Sanitary Man" and "'Twas Christmas Day in the Workhouse." Much later on of course there was the incomparible Max Miller of whom Mr W is, very sensibly, a fan. While it was generations later the world he inhabited was not that far removed, in terms of social limits, to the one recorded above.

It's amazing how quickly any innovation gets co-opted by, for the want of a better word, smut! I suppose one shouldn't be surprised by the Taschen books when one sees that photography was producing hard-core porn within, seemingly, moments of its invention, especially after one sees how quickly the internet was swamped with the same kind of material.

tanks for the link wrayb July 17 2007, 03:28:52 UTC

groovy. some i've heard from the 20s/30s were so direct that if you aren't shocked by the content they aren't entertaining at all. So others are clever and evocative.

Re: tanks for the link thistlelurid July 17 2007, 04:36:57 UTC

yes yes!