Re: (TV) "MM" mentioned in Greek Mapplethorpe exhibit

[Emilie <emilie.t.hsu@gmail.com>]

Wait what?

I thought someone wrote that he/she wanted to tea-bag TV, how did that
become TV was tea-bagged (he may or may not have been, and it may or
may not be with a male or a female partner)?  Does anyone care?

I had a question about turntables for the group, though - am thinking
of getting a turntable - what's your experience with Rega? Any
recommendation on turntables?

Emilie


On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:15 PM, leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Now in Athens, Greece, where I found a new Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition. His
> cover photograph for "Marquee Moon" was obviously considered so important that
> it has been included in the attached chronology (not the cover itself, but
> it's the same case with any other LP sleeve he was involved with). That
> chronology may, of course, be copied from some other exhibition -- but perhaps
> not, since the people at the Onassis Cultural Centre have curated their own
> Mapplethorpe retrospective, emphasising the similarities between the American
> photographer's nude shots and ancient Greek sculpture art -- therefore, many
> photos of finely chiseled muscular black men (but none of his explicit
> homoerotic pics). Must say that I've never thought of said similarities
> before, but they do make sense if you see the photos and spend time here where
> one is remembered about the Greek history all the time. Two old documentaries
> are also shown, as well as two of his experimental shorts which can be said to
> correspond within the general idea here -- one with powerwoman Lisa Lyon,
> filmed posing in palace-like surroundings, and "Still moving" with Patti Smith
> doing some poetry thing in a room where she's dressed in a pretty revealing
> white toga. About the latter can be said that the Greeks must not only try to
> survive being in the epicentre of the eurozone-crisis, now they also have to
> endure the sight of Patti Smith's *very* hairy legs.
>
> The (by Lloyd, if memory serves) reported xerox-ed distortion of
> Mapplethorpe's "Marquee Moon" cover aside -- didn't Mapplethorpe gave all the
> boys but especially Tom Verlaine kind of a sculptural image on that image? The
> face bones, the veins. In Greek style? Isn't Greek sex slang for sodomy in the
> English language? Did Mapplethorpe shot the pic from a possibly "homoerotic"
> angle? As with so many other photos? If so, is there then a connection with
> the recently unearthed claims of Verlaine's tea-bagging activities? Remember
> that both Verlaine and Patti Smith as well as Mapplethorpe and Smith were
> partners once -- we now the reason for the Mapplethorpe-Smith breakup -- but
> not for the other one. Is this Jutta Koether thing just a cover up? Is this
> too farfetched? Perhaps, perhaps not.
>
> For those who're insterested in reading about the exhibition, here's the
> centre's webpage about it: http://www.sgt.gr/en/programme/event/273
>
> Leif J, Athens
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