In this Paste review for the film Died Young, Stayed Pretty, check out the designer Art Charney, says:
What a cool, unexpected kick this film was. Director Eileen Yaghoobian has gone into the dark minds of poster artists asking how they come up with the strange, often times obscene, ideas for their posters that do more than just sell an event or concert. One of my favorites is for The Von Zippers with a collage of wanted-poster style black & white photos of the famous and infamous, each with a zipper over his or her mouth. The artist, Art Charney, disdainfully opines on each photo ranging from Oprah to Charles Manson. “The Dalai Lama, there’s another guy that should shut the fuck up. Here’s Mr. Niceguy, Tom Hanks. I wish he’d shut the fuck up, don’t you?” It may be underground art but the film gives a cultural thumbs up to an art form that deserves more space in the foreground.
Um? What? Seriously?
And speaking of HHDL and, “Um, what?” moments, His Holiness gets namechecked in the new Eminem song, “Must Be the Ganja”:
your dreams of getting the pill, you are literally getting the drill
spitting at will, me and Dre have just finished splitting a pill
you’re submitting to skill, sitting still, I’m admitting, I’m beginning to feel
like I don’t think anyone’s real,
faced with a dilemma, I can be Dali Llama and become a bin gramma a step beyond a Jeffrey Dahmer
…Um — and I listen to plenty of rap, really, but — what?
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May 22nd, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Some people just wanna watch the world burn.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
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May 24th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Your reaction, “Um, what?” pretty much sums it up. What else can you really say, and not be hateful. Sheesh.
As for Eminem…who cares.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Eh, it’s a bone-headed remark but given the unending string of praise I hear about the DL, it doesn’t bother me much. If anything, I’m mostly just curious what he means by that and why he wants him to shut up. The cult-like assumption that the Dalai Lama is somehow above criticism (which is implicit in like 95% of conversations about him in Buddhist circles) bugs me more than some dumbass poster artist.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:49 am
Artists will say or do anything to appear transgressive. Especially if they name themselves after someone in the Honeymooners.
But I have no idea what Eminem was trying to say. I guess it must be the ganja.
May 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
i find humor in the eminem lyrics but would wager its just to rhyme