hieronymus bosch - 'el bosco'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxmqyI44WcM (hieronymus - the clouds)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch

http://au.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oGkmIJlSFPPHkAcIcL5gt.?p=hieronymous&fr=ush-globalnews&fr2=piv-web


not much is known about the dutch painter hieronymus bosch -- known as 'el bosco' in spain... most of his best paintings are found in the prado museum in madrid, not far from the atocha train bombings of 3/11/03

his relationship to the italian renaissance is unclear to this untutored student of art history however he was a dutch man and had probably nothing to do with italy... his art is most definitely worthy of your attention....... hieronymus paints hellish images of human vice and depicts their victimization through the use of animals -- notably birds and rats which devour the lusty people...

his home town is as anonymous as the man and you can find it today in holland easily enough... the dutch recently banned foreigners from their coffeeshops in amsterdam however it's not clear if the smaller towns like 'sertogenbosch where bosch is from still sell pot to aliens....


it does seem bosch, the latter englishman william blake and michelangelo (alone of all the renaissance artists) were the forerunners to today's modern artists and surrealists..... bosch is a completely unique phenomenon in this respect and outstrips all surrealists by centuries.... the three artists deal with hellish aspects and hellish imagery.... when looking at some of michelangelo's paintings, you have to wonder about his mental state to paint such things, donatello, leonardo and rafael and boticelli never painted such things that we can now recall..... likewise, can you imagine what kind of a psyche bosch had when painting his hellish depictions? did he perhaps have gruesome disturbing images flash into his consciousness while on the verge of sleep?

well this sunday at 830pm there's gonna be some kind of televisual feast, if we weren't just hallucinating it all: u.s. marines in afghanistan being interviewed by some intrepid ossie journalists..... that should be a good watch -- what a war! something for war historians to mull over in coming decades -- how about those afghanis? undefeated in war for centuries.... all mountainous like that

nadal is through to the finals of the australian open

wifey asked about if there are good beaches to stay at in vietnam... thought quickly and synaptic connection was made: YES THERE are becoz we recall a book by some u.s. 'esquire' magazine journalist who posted to vietnam and wrote about marines on a beach during r&r and two of them were actually butt-fucking on the sand.... how about that? he paints quite a picture this guy, smoking pot and watching the marines war in vietnam - at one point they even gave him a machine gun and he fired off rounds like a real soldier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEbEqYPDD3k&feature=related (the clouds - fear the moon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvdgBVXmEX8 (NWA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPxL5guYmWw (silverchair - tomorrow)

this last song -- you often see the benji enjoys bashing the english ossies, the same way you hate smelling cat piss in your home.... however we never bash them in matters of music - the divynils - the radiators - none of their musical efforts are bashed by the benji ---- here we have silverchair -- this is a funny case for us, as the benji went to a different city to finish his last year of high school -- newcastle -- about 3 hours north of sydney -- otherwise benji has only ever lived in sydney in australia --- the newcastle detour took a year -- it was that year, 1994, that my fellow classmates in their freshman or sophomore year struck gold by winning some SBS videoclip competition with this good song which has been struck down as mimicking Seattle sound rock but is sound musically and original rock

in fact, interestingly, my friend fernando in spain, grandson of one of the very same generalisimo franco's top level air force commanders, expressed surprise when i told him so, he was a silverchair fan in 1996... also in spain that year, our classmate heidi (who) ended up marrying the massively famous latino artist alejandro sanz.... so if you want to marry a super-famous pop star -- make like obama: 'yes we can!'

in spain, 'la plata' (the silver) is the english 'golly gosh' (dosh): money

in other news: ryan seacrest is massively lame - we will pray for him not to be lame

now listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baLaHiBPuR4 (NOHA - tu cafe)