Well I guess it's official: I really am somebody now. I have a band named after me. (Not that I play an instrument.)
Gotta love the advertisement that oozed up on Reddit earlier today. How very patriotic. Or should I say pathetic?
Didn't Lil Wayne run into some trouble not long ago for accidentally walking on an American flag?
Hey at least the upside down cross is not soaking in a jar of urine.
Meanwhile Amherst police paid my young friends at 621 East Pleasant Street, aka "Babe Town," a visit around 9:00 PM this evening. I heard Dispatch tell the officers it was for loud music in the back yard, which sounded like a band, and that this was the third or fourth noise complaint in the past week.
Hmm ...
Album cover artwork for my band The Noise Complainants' forthcoming release:
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Stupid way to draw attention to their upcoming plans
ReplyDeleteIs that the actual ad? A photo taken on a mowed lawn and clean driveway area?
ReplyDeleteIf so- It obviously wasn't taken at Babe Town!
Attention Gazette/Bulletin, etc.
ReplyDeletePlease note that when you arrest Larry Kelly and the Hatebloggers, please mention that you are arresting "the band" Larry Kelly and the Hatebloggers to avoid confusion with a headline that reads "Police Arrest Larry Kelly".
That is all.
Thanks. Very good point.
ReplyDeleteOne of the few times I wished the Nitwits had spelled my surname wrong.
Please note that when you arrest Larry Kelly and the Hatebloggers, please mention that you are arresting "the band" Larry Kelly and the Hatebloggers to avoid confusion with a headline that reads "Police Arrest Larry Kelly"
ReplyDeleteThe Gazette now has power of arrest? Only In Amherst....
Of course, the schmucks in question either don't have the intelligence or the, umm, fortitude to really do this right, which would be to advertise FREE BEER at a certain venue due south of an old trolley barn, the location of which we will leave unknown to the unaware.
Ed, will you please let me know if you are the one who commented at 00:47 hours on the AZ firefighters tribute post? I ask (sorry to other readers, last time) because if you were a firefighter my level of respect for you will surely rise from zero to like a six or seven on a scale of 1-10. It sounded like you and you were up commenting at that time, but perhaps it was a firefighter from somewhere else. Really, please let me know.
ReplyDeleteThe American Flag consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red and white. The flag in the Art Ad the boys made has twelve stripes and they are not equal. Therefore not an American Flag.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the time I raised a flag on Iwo Jima...
It is pretty clear that the whole ad has been constructed. As a previous commenter pointed out, it's not an American flag. Also, the flag is not actually laying on actual grass and a person is not actually standing on the flag that is not actually on the grass. The whole ad has been constructed from many separate images manually superimposed on each other.
ReplyDeleteThe Cross of St. Peter or Petrine Cross is an inverted Latin cross traditionally used as a Christian symbol... The origin of the symbol comes from the Catholic tradition that Simon Peter was crucified upside down, as told by Origen of Alexandria... It is believed that Peter requested this form of crucifixion as he felt he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner that Jesus died. As such...Catholics use this cross as a symbol of humility and unworthiness in comparison to Jesus.
ReplyDeleteA Lutheran Church in Finland displaying the inverted or Petrine Cross:
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You boys be briskly backpedaling.
ReplyDelete(Don't fall and hurt yourself.)
why do you think they are back pedalling?
ReplyDeleteI'm still trying to figure out the relevance of the strawberry.
ReplyDeleteLarry, must be a boring news day to spend so much time on this?
ReplyDeleteNot spending much time at all.
ReplyDeleteOriginal post took about five minutes, well below average.
Although I do seem to be getting a fair amount of comments.
I'm the CAN who posted the observations about the flag and the Petrine Cross. It's not the boys who are back pedaling, I'm an adult not associated in any way with the boys.
ReplyDeleteI like the overall ambiguity of the ad:
It's an American flag but it's not an American Flag. It's on the ground being trod upon, but then again it's not.
Does the inverted cross represent reverence or disdain?
"Sobriety High": self explanatory.
Is the man drowning or dead, or did he just fall in or is he going for a dive?
The band pictured is not Larry Kelley nor the kids in the band.
And finally the man holding the sign advertising the event is the man who is most avidly opposes to the event.
All sorts of vague and double meanings! Sort of cool.
Strawberries have been associated with goodness and purity in Christian history. The strawberry was once believed to be a holy symbol of the Virgin Mary. In paintings of Mary, many artists used strawberries in the detail of the picture or as border...
ReplyDeleteAs Freud so famously never said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
ReplyDeleteWe all bring our own perspectives and emotions to artwork we expose ourselves to, and I know I wouldn't like it if someone was making artwork about me like that.
ReplyDeleteIn other news:
http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2013-06-20/Two-Lee-County-School-administrators-placed-on-leave#.UdSRMDvVCSo
I can barely WAIT to reveal his evaluations...
ReplyDeleteOk...so if y'all go back a few pages to Larry's post about the dixielamd band, you will notice a familiar picture. Someone copied the pic from his post and had some photoshop fun. They added Larry holding the CD as well as the person walking on the flag. In addition, they changed the band name and time on the sandwich board. Finally they added the inverted cross within the strawberry. Thats about ten minutes pf photoshop work. I think giving them credit for all the symbolisom and creativity mentioned above is a bit of a stretch...but hey, what do I know?
ReplyDeleteJeff Parr
Yes, it's obvious where they got the images. Symbols have meanings, regardless of whether the full intent of the artist was what I interpreted them to be. They are very simple, explicit symbols. Whether they intended it or not I find the juxtaposition of the symbol of The Virgin Mary with the symbol of St. Peter very interesting, in the same way that artists throughout the twentieth century used images and symbols that they expected us to bring our own interpretations and meanings to.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think the symbols mean?
Their work is rooted in the style and spirit of this image (considered by many to be one of the most provocative images in art history, from nearly 100 years ago):
http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/dada_may06_388.jpg
Let's not lose sight of the fact that these are kids trying to have some fun and be creative.
I think using the hard won sacred right of Free Speech to trample on an American flag is exceedingly disrespectful.
ReplyDelete(Yeah, I'm a pretty simple kind of guy.)
I don't necessarily disagree with you, I've found lots of what gets posted and published on the internet to be disrespectful of all sorts of things. But again, we're talking about kids looking for ways to shock the "parents". They'll probably grow out of it and find more nuanced ways to express their fear of, and dissatisfaction with, moral, artistic, religious and governmental constraints.
ReplyDeleteWould you consider it more "disrespectful" than, say....
ReplyDeleteLying US into War?