fyi, two parts on two nights.... should be interesting.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters ... hol_a.html

Thanks for the heads-up, Dana!
PBS is my cable (I got none cabül).
I'll be watching.
That American Masters series is pretty excellent, too.

damn. i have to go to the stupid drive-by truckers show with stacey tonight.

I just set a reminder for it. Thanks Dana.

son of a bitch, its 2 hours and so will encroach on project runway time. i think i might have to download this instead.

Agreed. Though i'll be DVR'ing this because of the aforementioned project runway.

Thanks for the heads up.

Project Runway is not new tonight... it's a repeat from last season.

WHAT FUCK. makes sense now. awesome.

8-9 i'm gonna watch this new Jericho show.

aka The NEW American Masters.


Will this be your first time seeing them ayah?

If so, I expect to hear your thoughts.

first time.
you'll hear about it.
i need my ass dragged out tonight and stacey's just the girl to do it.

get a swig off that jug they pass around onstage.

hey, don't hijack my Warhol thread with frivolous DBT talk... pffft.

dana, thanks so much for the heads up on this. when i got home last night my pbs station was repeating the episode. i missed the first 20 minutes and the last half hour-it was 2:30 and i crashed.

really looking forward to tonight's second half. i would have hated missing this.

I missed it.

I tivo'd it and watched maybe 20 minutes of it this morning while hoovering half a bagel. A lot of his history I was already familiar with, as I've read a lot of biographies about Andy, so I'll be interested to see what happens in the rest of the episode and tonight's ep.

As one of my artist friends told me, he always felt like Andy's art was deceptively simple and yet he got famous for it. And then he had a friend point out the "simplicity" of his own artwork, and it made him stop and think again.

I watched most of it...very interesting...I didn't know about his obsession with Capote.

yeah, this was news to me also. those early photos of capote were...interesting. makes me want to read a bio on him but he was such a bitch i don't know if i could finish it.

Bob Colacello's book Holy Terror is an interesting read on Andy's history and life during the 54 years when he worked at Interview. He outlined his obsessions, particularly with Truman.

my favorite andy conversation (it went something like this, not sure of the exact words)

interviewer: wo you are not interested in quality, just quantity?
andy: right
interviewer: so you want your work to be on as many walls as possible
andy: no . . . i'd rahter they put them in their closets.

I didnt realize what an insanely talented and in-demand commercial artist he was in the 50's. I totally appreciate that being rejected by the art world for being in that line of work.

My fine art friends in college called it "graphic disease", but I only know of one of them who has a job involving art now.

Also I thought it was great overall. I can watch shit like this anytime.