Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for December 29, 2023
December 27, 2023
January 01, 2024
Transcript:
vincent fever... by richard thompson with the van gogh show opening only 9 months away, eager fans are already in line for tickets outside the national gallery. guy 1: yo vinnie! guy 2: woof woof van gogh curator: as part of our marketing strategy we'll have the usual toto bags, posters, mugs, etc., but we also have a deal with mcdonald's to include a van gogh toy in every happy meal! this one's the van gogh cart. ha ha! a national gallery curator oop: and this time, in the event of a govern-ment shutdown, we'll be hanging the show on little folding screens so we can just move the whole works to montgomery mall. let's paint with van gogh! gogh: first you'll want to put on some old clothes that you won't mind getting dirty. this is im-portant. 1 gogh: now confront the canvas! using formal mastery, create an intense & ecstatic vision of god & man expressed in the flow of nature. 2 gogh: now go for it! yeah! all right! yeah! chrome yellow! i love it! umph grunt oof 3 gogh: there! i call it "self portrait with elmer fudd hat." next time we'll work on pronunciation: van-goh or van gok. 4
Cpeckbourlioux 11 months ago
The G is pronounced like softly clearing your throat. In 1987 I was given permission to record my improvisations in front of the paintings in the Amsterdam Van Gogh museum. Vibraphone and three flutes, recording engineer and assistant director of the museum, on successive Mondays when the museum was closed to the public. The resulting album, “Impressions of Van Gogh” , was used on Dutch tv, is in the museum archives, also a few museums in Tokyo and Kyoto, as part of a trip I took to promote the lp. Playing, improvising to the colors and brush strokes, you can imagine, ranks among the best experiences of my life. Van-sahnt van Ghhoch.
Love the Funnies 11 months ago
https://www.NGA.gov/exhibitions/1998/
I believe this is the exhibition Richard Thompson was referencing. It was a wonderful exhibition! Still have a poster and the catalog.
TurbosDad 11 months ago
Just like they have elephant ear snacks at the fair they could have van Gogh ears…
Sisyphos 11 months ago
We mourn the Genius that is Van Gone from us! The world needs more Richard!
donut reply 11 months ago
Wow! If they only taught painting lie that in art school.