Mat I live in a working class neighborhood, aka POOR people. There are so many misunderstandings of the poor that the picture people have of the poor in their heads is a tragicomic puppet show compared to the reality. Most poor people have aspirations that involve finding the opportunity to get ahead. Almost every motherfucker I …
Early Downtown L.A. performance art pioneer Cynthia Toronto is comfortable in hospice care but is sadly headed to the finish line. If you have any memories of Cynthia or just want to share your love with her, get hold of her on FaceBook soon, it would really brighten her mood. Cynthia performed at many a …
Banksy revealed a 10,000 square foot Dismaland today. It is a giant art work that mimics a theme park but gives us intense deconstructive takes on the escapist sensibility that supports places like Disneyland. I’ve posited two critiques of Banksy. The first is that his manipulation of the media is the same fundamental hypocrisy that …
Heard stories of people ubering their kids to and from school. If i had kids that would be me. Well it is me now with my parents. Neither can drive long distances any more and I trained my mom how to use uber on her phone but she lost her phone. Tried to download uber …
What if the record company had balked and told Bob Dylan to make Blonde on Blonde two albums instead of a double album. The actual album has two distinct sounds to it. One is a heavy blues sound that occasionally veers off into a cacaphony. If the color of those songs are “blue” then the …
I don’t know when the story starts, how long it was there, the name ATOMIC CAFE whispers the dreams of a bygone era that became loathed for its relationship to conformity and aggression. It was not the atomic age when I walked in the door – young and eager and knowing it was the place …
I do one of these seminars every year. Make a New Year’s Resolution early to make 2015 the year you begin navigating your art career. If you aspire to be a successful, exhibiting artist in Los Angeles, perhaps it is time to get serious about that goal. It is time for you to understand the …
I have seen Leonard Cohen in concert three times. 1. “LIKE A BIRD ON A WIRE, LIKE A DURNK IN A MIDNIGHT CHOIR, I HAVE TRIED, IN MY WAY, TO BE FREE” I drank a lot Jack Daniel’s and Coke on the afternoon of what would be my first time seeing Leonard Cohen – it …
I got scolded a lot during the early years of Coagula Art Journal. Scolded by artists and collectors and art dealers and just random people at galleries with no specific status. They wagged their fingers in my face. They threw drinks in my face. They stared me straight in the face. They would say they …
A dog has been chained to a mobile home for TEN DAYS in the 2500 Block of E 55th street, 2nd parking spot east of Pacific Blvd, north side of the street. The City of Huntington Park police have ignored repeated calls to address this situation. No response from Parking Control, form Animal Control, from …
Okay this is a fun one. You select “number of plays” in your iTunes Library and find the song you have listened to the most times. That will be the first song on your list. Next on the list will be the song with second most plays – but it has to be by a …
My grandmother died on Easter Sunday, 1983. They gave her mouth to mouth and spat the chocolate out in between huffs and puffs of desperate effort. There was a party at her place. She was obese and 72 years old – a bad combo. The family went to shit after that. They fought over the …