Picasso's Plays

"It says nothing of human destiny or of the human condition," ........"This in itself is a considerable achievement." .... huh?
 
His other play is "a plotless stream-of-consciousness piece".....
 
Is there a GPS for plays like these?

Even a Plotless Play is more entertaining than the drek that has been coming out of Hollywood for the last twenty-five years .......

To have been at the first reading would have been beyond belief. What a cast and Camus as director? Absurd. In a world reeling from too much realism in 1944, the production value of monkeys eating carrots would have been escapism enough but talking feet "say" it all or nothing in an existentialist sort of way. Picasso remains a tormented soul with this beautiful streak and when I wear my J Peterman Picasso blue and white striped shirt I am inspired to get out my Crayolas and go to town. Maybe next time I shall don it to work on my 2013 Brooklyn Art Museum Sketchbook Project. I have 5 pages done. It too is a farce-Literally Artistically Philosophically-

Oh Tommy, Mr. Grant would have called you "spunky." Like SF and IVAN the phrase "plotless stream of consciousness" stuck with me. oh goody.

Yoko Ono has a new display of John Lennon's drawings in a NYC Gallery this week in honor of his 72nd birthday. I think I will don one of my Peterman caftans for the vernissage...

You are correct, he was a tormented soul, but through this maze of confusion comes a brilliant release of the soul and all that needs to be expressed through it. Genius somehow seems to stream through madness quite nicely.  TommyT, I will picture you in YOUR J PETERMAN PICASSO BLUE AND WHITE STRIPED SHIRT WITH YOUR CRAYOLAS SKETCHNG AWAY!!  A fine columbus day to you all!!  

ChefDeb, I think Mr Peterman maybe poking fun at us...haha...
I'm envious at what you are doing today!

Tommy T, you sound too cool! But I have a feeling I am going to swim clueless today....

"A plotless stream of consciousness" ...... Oy vey. I think I'll pass and go with Chef Deb to see Lennon's drawings.

Hey, does anyone have a BUCKET LIST?? I think I want to go to a farm on the weekends, I LOVE FARMS and barn owls and horses and the smell of wet dirt after a rain.

SpringF - I am with you...  Swimming clueless today.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Spring- The GPS for stream of conscienciousness is callled sobriety.

No Deb, he's not poking fun at us.  This is type of thing that young (as applying for grad school or just graduated) New Yorkers love.   The audience will be so well dreessed that no one will notice, that behind the sunglasses and premature botox, they are extremely confused.  Its just another hipversion of the Emperor's New Clothes.

No Deb, he's not poking fun at us.  This is type of thing that young (as applying for grad school or just graduated) New Yorkers love.   The audience will be so well dreessed that no one will notice, that behind the sunglasses and premature botox, they are extremely confused.  Its just another hipversion of the Emperor's New Clothes.

Its a shame there was no "You Tube"  back in the day when Camus was directing. 

It ain't necessarily so
That work by Picasso is good.
So he had a go to put on a show
That nobody understood.

Morning girls...I wish we could all tag along with Chefdeb and Andy! 

BTW, I'm sure most of you know, but I just learnt that the Americas are not called "Columbusia" after him; it's named after the lesser known navigator, explorer , and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed there in 1499 and again in 1502, later than Columbus's 1492. Vespucci got the naming honour because he mapped it (RY, my last post yesterday was right!). Columbus was obviously in need of a GPS,  but, all's well that ends well  Happy Columbus Day to all!

GM, Spring, Julia, Hazel, Andy, MagicAngel, Mbailey, ChefDeb, TT, Jalopkin!!!

SPRING!!! Please be advised, I volunteer to be your wingman swiming clueless anytime...lol.

Bankruptcy courts are littered with the corpses of limited partnerships (rich dentists) who think professional success is easily transferable to running gourmet restaurants. The lure of the dream of their names in marquee lights is seductive. Same rule applies to Picasso. Circumstantial evidence: trophy wife two generations younger, and child who easily could/should be great granddaughter. Vanity is seductive, deadliest of deadly sins.....

Chilbains, My Chilbains Our fearful trip is done. A play in six acts. I know I'd prefer a five course dinner at Chef Debs.  Whilst in the company of Albert, Simone and Jean Paul a reading of any kind would seem rather dull, unless they were reading tea leaves, palms or 50 Shades of Grey. I used the word whilst intentionally and, with apologies to our English speaking friends, it just sounds more dull, if not duller.  Holy Cow!

'No ,Pablo, no..... Keep your day job. Now go paint a house or something when you get a stupido idea like this!'

The event may be interesting just to see who shows up and what they are wearing. But the play doesn't interest me at all.  I'll also go to Chef Debs for the 5 course dinner. Thanks for settting that up, Paolos!  I know we would all be dressed beautifully.  Hazel, perfect!

julia*****I think you hit the nail right on the head with the Emperor's New Clothes!!  I am a docent at the art museum on campus and we get presentations by artists and curators on new exhibits.  With all the head nodding going on and murmurs of 'understanding' circling the group I'm close to laughing.....the latest "The Drop-In/Pop-Up Waiting Room Project" was very close to a grade school Science Fair entry.  And yet, fellow docents were oohing and aahing as if they were viewing the Pieta or the Mona Lisa.  It was audacity, not art.  And not even very audacious!.............now the Vasari exhibit--that was ART!

What??? Picasso confused? Art thou being sacrilegious, oh, Villager? The man who gave us Nude Descending a Stair, his Blue Period, and those oddly, weirdly unintelligible plays (his place/plays--??) I so believe I have to agree with Julia, Carol, Paolos, PL, and the Village consensus today....I'd rather watch paint peel than have to sit through one of those aforementioned "plays."

No appreciation for the ultra extreme abstractionists, absurdists, or inyourface opposite-of-normal kind of "artists." Don't cover my trees with pink muslin, scatter yards of plastic over my city park, or pour urine on my Crucifix or holy book. It galls me to think that our tax money is too often spent to support such "art." The National Endowment for the Arts got off base long ago in my corner of theSepia Train.

However, one of my former students, now Poet Laureate, writes some dang good poetry, and was the subject of full pages of bio in the Sunday paper here yesterday. So glad she is being recognized and lauded. I don't take any cred for her smarts, as she did not learn from me, but from her dad and her trying life. She was an A student in high school, and popular as well. Now, she is a much-praised poet and Emory Univ. professor. Real talent.

Here are some faces of Pablo Picasso for your appraisal....

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=picasso&id=2DCE7AC0EA8E1AF436ADC3D170934EDBB6548C72&FORM=IQFRBA

It seems to be a left-over Yuppie thing, that some poor schnook who can turn out a mean plate of Scrambled Eggs, and Butter'd Toast, without burning either one ... gets the urge to open a Restaurant and cruise around the Dining Area wearing an apron and a scarf around his neck with the knot pull'd jauntily to one side ... and maybe even the Jet-Puff'd Hat, like Chef Boyardee ....... And thats all fine and dandy ... And tho' one may easily learn to cook for large Families of twelve to twenty, and do so quite well ... it is a whole nuther ball game to be cooking for three hundred people ... All successful Restaurateurs begin their culinary lives by asking the same Question; "You Want Fries With That ???"  Any Business/Profession must be learned from the very lowest level of involvement, and keep learning the way Up !!!  Serious Dedication is a Big Help ... but when it comes to Food Service and Hospitality ... regardless of Good Intentions, most of us are simply not cut out for it, and the experiment that leads us to understand that fact, can be an extremely costly one, of both Money and Ego ... Sometimes its hard to tell which one hurts worse ... Regardless of the outcome of the experiment, there is always hope that the Schnook will learn that the word, [Culinary] is pronounced with a long "U", as in, COOlinary, and not Cuelinary or Cullinary ... Like Pulitzer ... a long "U" ... POOlitzer, not Pewlitzer or Pullitzer ...  Well ... one can always hope ... but I'm not holding my breath .......

Am I the only one who thinks it was an amazing accomplishment that Christopher Columbus sailed an unknown route,and landed here,on this previously uncharted continent, just in time for the Columbus Day festivities?

In all fairness, I have not read the plays and it is
presumptuous of me to opine on the subject.

If I can find a copy at the local library, I will write a fool
report and have it on Miss MooseLoop’s desk first thing in the morning, unless the
dog eats it first.

Is it soup yet?  SOOOOOOP?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPze2FJkKKs

SF~re: your last post yesterday; Maps, by those hearty Adventurers, were not because they were lost, it was to show where they had been, so as not to be lost, when they ended up there again.

Completely off topic. 
This is about Clayton Moore.  If
you want to stay on topic, skip it.  If
you view it and can find a way to connect it to the topic, you are a better EyEster
than eye am and I will forever be in your debt until I pay up.

http://stg.do/0N3c

Spring- I wish we knew more about Americgo V.  I'm hopping he's a good guy, as Columbus is very controversial these days.  Many people object to the holiday.   

Road Yacht:  I'm going to get some Italian pasteries and cappucino to celebrate the wrong turn that led my gandparents to Ellis Island.

paolos_ They said  he'd been ill for three days before writing this.  What should we expect?  There are lots of things about Piccasso that I don't understand, like Cubism.  To me it just looks like he was painting cross eyed.

I'd love to be in the North End, little Italy, of Boston or as my In-laws called Easta Bost, which was their section of Boston.
The pastries there can't be beat.
I haven't been there in mega years and don't know anywhere else that has their selection.
Maybe the Sepiatrain could swing by so we could indulge in the cream and rum cakes.

ChezDeb is open for business.

IVAN? You talking to me?

After our topic yesterday its kind of funny that we are honoring a man who after 4 trips here still insisted that he was in China.

Paolos-That was a pretty good story.  How does it relate to day's topic?  I think it would make a more entertaining play than what Picasso drummed up.

I've often wondere why We honor Columbus.  He never set foot on North America, and Mr. Americus V may not have either.  How about National Viking Day?  We're sure about those fellows and their families.

I saw something on TV the other night about Columbus Day.  Apparently FDR started it to get support from the Italian/American community back in the 1930's.  Someone is now lobbying to change the holiday from Columbus Day to Explorer's Day to celebrate all who search out into the great unknown.

You know, I bet we all have had moments of "stream of consciousness.  It's 3:00 in the morning and you're lying awake: "Must get that plant in before the frost...Why didn't I tell her that this morning?...I really don't want to go to the dentist tomorrow...why can't I get back to sleep?...should I stop at the market on my way home or ...well, lets see how I fell...he might have to drill..why can't I ge......."   Certainly not play material.  I don't even enjoy my half awake meanderings of mind. 

My coolinary skills (thankyou Ivan) tonight have extended to boiled eggs and wholewheat toast soldiers. I'm sure when we chanted our alphabet in primary school, U says 'uh' so it's cuhlinary, with a silent 'h'. Do not argue or I will swipe you with a damp dishrag. - New word learned from this page! In the UK it's a dishcloth. Or in Welsh, a clwt (pronounced cloot) which is my preferred word for that cloth thing by the kitchen sink. "I'll clout you with my clwt" rolls off the tongue nicely.
America - the North bit - was allegedly 'discovered' by the Welsh. All this 'discovering' ignores the indigenous populations who were, doubtless, not gruntled at our arrival. I would not celebrate Christoper Columbus.
 
 

ChefDeb ~ Since I
got you into this mess and because I now realize there is more to cooking for
300 people (are there 300 of us?) than just tossing on an apron (assuming one
is fully clothed to begin with) and wearing that poofy chef's hat, I pledge my
full and undivided attention to doing the dishes and scrubbing the pots and
pans after the feast.  If you choose to serve your five course meal on
paper plates with plastic utensils and paper napkins, I am good with that and
will even make the trip in my VW microbus to dispose of the half ton of garbage
at the city dump and my offer to scrub the pots and pans is still good as long
as the city dump isn't closed and...well, I believe you now the rest of the
story.

That was Christopher with a silent 'h'!
 

Christopher Columbus, unrepentant man. Never asked for directions.....

The old black magic, thought lost forever by cynics & discounted as mere folklore by newer members, has apparently returned. The choice mix of vintage regulars returns today, trickling in slowly but surely, like the regulars to an English pub at happy hour. Furthermore we have a nice sprinkling of new blood, gently seasoning the mix with focused & coherent thoughts. Magic has somehow been rekindled, please tend to the fire so that it is not extinguished by attrition, apathy, or silly distractions like attention to work & familial responsibilities of the members. Someone, PLEASE place a call to the station....the sepia train's club car needs to be prepared at the quick step for this motley crew for tonight.

How did Paul Harvey squeeze in there?   KNOW the rest of the story, Paul, not now the rest of the story.

Julia.....great minds and all that...I thought the same thing: the emperor's new clothes.

Chef Deb ..... After checking my labels, are you sure we're not in China?

Hazel's using the word gruntled again!  I love it!  Yes, I think the indigenous folks were disgruntled by our arrival and would have been content to never have been discovered.  The idea!

Bert~! are you saying we 'oldies' are unfocused and incoherrent? The page did go a bit flat for a while but that's the way it changes like the shoreline and the sea, to steal another man's line. It is nice to see new faces in the Village. The train is past my bed time - I'm the one snuggled up under a duvet in thr corner seat.

CHEFDEB:  I am using you as an exemplar to prove my point ... that it takes Goblotz above Good Intentions and Money to be successful in Food Service .......
 
ROADYACHT:  Columbus never set foot on North America ... he was overtaken with a relapse into venereal crudation; Syphillis, which he contracted from Isabella ... and he pull'd in to Santo Domingo , Republica Dominican ... where he agonized for two months, until he felt well enough to go on ... they weigh'd anchor again, and three days out, Ol' Chris got mewling-puking sick again, and they did a one-eighty and headed back for Santo Domingo ... where they comforted him as best they could, until he died ... and he is buried right there in Santo Domingo, under the Sidewalk on the SouthEast side of the OLD Baseball Stadium where his Cast Iron Grave Marker is used daily by the LIPs as a Pissoir .......  Go there, and you can see it for yourself(and smell it) ... You can even take a leak, if you want to ... Nobody minds ... History was re-written(again) by the vatican, to protect Isabella and, "Holy Mother Church" in the eyes of Posterity ... Cristobol Colmbo they were not so much worried about ... he was, after all, only a Jew .......

Sweet dreams in the exotic kingdom of Wales, Hazel. Life is good here, it alwaya was, but I was beginning to think our collective days were numbered (daze?) ....

IVAN Thank you very much Sir!!

PAOLOS get ready for dishpan hands because this 5 course meal is coming on porceline china with sterling flatware. Another time we may do paper when we are outside by thesepialake, but tonight tis formal!!

NO! Does that mean shoes required??

Kemo Sabe aka Paolos~My Liege!!!! Funny! Take me off subject anytime you choose,good sir ! 

IVAN, I believe that syphillis was one of the first exports from Europe to the new world.

You always amaze me with the breadth and depth of your knowledge good friend. I thank you for sharing it. You have the gift of 'straight talk' and I appreciate you not gilding the lilly.........

Be well and peace out

Peter ~ re your most recent post:  Ditto!  Couldn't agree more; Ivan sure does know a lot and he sure is a good, good friend.

ChefDeb ~ I bring orchids for the ladies and Palmolive for the china. Tonight, my tuxedo and hands will be wrinkle free.  

Paolos _ Great post on the Letterman ( and I don't even like him) interview about the Lone Ranger in traffic accident!!! "They will believe me, citizen!" Good one.

No, Columbus did not actually discover North America, and it is still a surprise as to how he got credit for it....As stated, the Vikings were in N. America sooner and are verified. Must be the liberal press or who Isabella paid to publicize the trip!!!

These are the conversations that made this old gin joint what it is. JP's Café Américain" attracting a mixed clientele and providing me a safe place to hide my letters of transit.

Oh, look out, here comes the conductor.....down the aisle of the SepiaTrain, checking credentials, looking for those who are without tickets, and lining up those who have to get off at the next station!!! Hide, hide, quick!! Under the bar!!

CHEFD........................I know you will have the best whores de vores before your feast. for that I am thankful. Now if you can corral MISS BLUE, PARK, JAX, & JANE.......................you would be my ultimate goddess. Wait..............you all ready are!
 
For those who have bleeding hearts and want to sing kumbya over Columbus ( before they knew it was politically incorrect to do so) you can go to Rethinking schools rethinking Columbus site. I've been there & done that. I kind of played out my kumbyas w/ them & it was good as long as I didn't question. By the way I am definitely not making fun of anyone but myself.
 
I think JULIA had the best idea.................pastries & espresso.................mmmmmmmmm..............................
 
IVAN.....................as usual PL speaks the truth..................you rock!

I am pretty sure Columbus discovered Picasso. The question of the day is this, would Tommy Typical turn
up his nose if he were offered the role of the Onion in Desire Caught by the Tail? Is an Onion role
appropriate for a seasoned actor? Mr. Typical, your fans want to know. 

MISS BEBE, ... PETER LAKE:  May You Both Be Outrageously Blessed, for the Extreme Quality of Your Assessment and Judgement .......
 
 
PAOLOS:  For some reason, Your Question makes me think of Richard Dreyfus doing Richard III .......  No doubt Tommy could handle it ... he might not like it, but he could handle it ....... However, I don't think he would even consider doing Truman Capote doing Lady MacBeth ....... ' Out,   Out ... You Little Snot !!! ' .......

Will work for tapas and sangria. I would even peel off a few layers of skin to reveal my true Onion.

You guys and gals (or "Guys and Dolls" in Broadway terms) are a hoot!  I always love reading your badinage!
 
Poor Picasso!  He suffered from what many other celebrities do...a gandiose self-image.  Thinking they can do anything (often because the syncophants around them tell tehm so) they aspire to fame in other areas; always doomed to utter failure.  In this case, Picasso succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.  This "play" is an utter failure.  Persons who seek answers in their dreams ought to be going to a good psychologist.
 
I was once given morphine during an early-on hospital esisode...and hallucianted that my Mom was Queen of the Gypsys.  Does that mean I'm the Princess of Gypsies?  Should I be living in a tinker's wagon and playing the tambourine (green, of course!) whilst dancing madly around a campfire (scaring all the little Cub Scouts in the meantime)?  Should you all call me Your Royal Highness?
 
I think not!
 
Count me in on the pastries. Let's all gather and watch Bucket List and eat pastries until we're sick...then we'll all have dreams that make us write plays and become famous. 

PS---If you want to see tortured souls, volunteer at a women's shelter sometime.

"Celebrity is as celebrity does."  Kinda says it all, doesn't it?