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should i do a painting of bob dylan fucking a robot?

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ethan P23 (6:46 PM): i'd like to do bob dylan actually but people will just think i actually like his music
ethan P23 (6:47 PM): he's interesting but it's too rolling stone
TomFT26 (6:47 PM): yeah you cant get away with just bob dylan on his own these days
ethan P23 (6:47 PM): maybe he should be fucking something
TomFT26 (6:47 PM): a robot!¬
ethan P23 (6:48 PM): every great art proposition of the last twenty years has begun with the exchange 'you can't just get away with x on it's own these days...maybe x should be fucking something!'
TomFT26 (6:48 PM): this is why the art of the last 20 years has been the peak of human civilisation

― ethan, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

yes.

― di, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

do it do it do it do it do it

― mark s, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i wanna see it when its done.

― di, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Should the robot fuck him?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

it is started, i'll try to scan it when it's done but the thing is like three feet tall and i doubt the fascists at the library will approve of me scanning it anyway.

― ethan, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A LIBRARY??

― Tom, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

where else am i going to scan it!?

― ethan, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

take a digital photo

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

why not use the libertarian library instead?

librarian: "shhh! or, like, shout louder!"

― mark s, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yes. In the ass.

― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

rumpy-pumpy!

― di, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

oh it's in the ass alright.

― ethan, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Zappa already did this (see "Sy Borg").

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

you're next, pun-boy.

― ethan, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Huh Huh. What would you call it? "Self Pork-treat"? huh huh.

― Brian MacDonald, Sunday, 6 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hershey Highway 61 Revisited, haw haw.

― Arthur, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

PERVERTS.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

GONDOLA BOB I HOPE YOU GOOGLE YOUR NAME AGAIN AND FIND THIS GODDAMN THREAD

― Silly Dylan, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Actually, I hope that too. Very much.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

will it be early bob aka time they are or later bob aka love sick?

― geoff, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

['bzzt why, why was nobody programmed to feel any pain tonight bzzztttt ??']

― Dare, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ethan: If you do that painting, I want you to know, even though I do not know you, I would consider you a deep, relevant confidant. On many levels.

― Gage-o, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Sorry, but what exactly is deep or interesting about a painting of Bob Dylan fucking a robot? It's not like he hasn't been parodied and self-parodied for the past 30 yrs anyway. Doesn't seem interesting, daring, shocking or anything. walking into a first year art student's hovel, I would not be surprised in anyway to find a painting of bob dylan fucking a robot. There's nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't send the mind reeling.

― fritz, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

maybe fritz has a point, perhaps Bob should fuck a lizard instead

― gareth, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

now you're talking my language!

― fritz, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

oh the inevitable backlash!

― ethan, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Why not have him being fucked by a robot. I'd find that surprising for sure ( and so would Bob probably).

― Billy Dods, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Why not have him being fucked by a robot."

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

Bob fucking a robot makes more thematic sense to me. It could be perceived as a sardonic indictment of his transition from accoustic folk to electricity-driven rock.

― Trevor, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ethan: if the inevitable backlash = my one critical comment after 20- odd overwhelmingly supportive comments, then cry me a river. I think you'd be onto something more interesting if the idea had actually outraged anyone.

― fritz, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Steady on, fritz. I think ethan was only joking.

― N., Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

didn't mean to sound so harsh, sorry. and I do want to see the finished product if Ethan can scan it.

― fritz, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i planned to sell the painting at my yard sale on thursday but i talked to my cousin last night and he's so in love with the very concept that he wants to buy it from me, i'm happier with this because it goes to someone i know (it was hard to part with in the first place) and so i'll have it for another two weeks or so, i'll try to take a photo of it in that time and post it here.

― ethan, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I am offended by your cliched view of librarians! Slip me a bundle of cash money and you can scan what you like, but if the library manager sees what you are doing, I know nothing.

― james, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I love the fact that someone said "what is so shocking about Bob Dylan fucking a robot?". That, in itself, has made life much better. Bob Dylan should be dressed as, or being prodded on by, a pirate.

― Gage-o, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

no, what I said was there is nothing shocking about a painting of bob dylan fucking a robot.

bob dylan actually fucking a robot = a different story.

― fritz, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

degrading pop-cult sacred cows is a dead end in art, cause the cows aren't so sacred and pop-cult is degradation in itself.

dylan fucking a robot is just a hipster version of one of those edward hopper-ripoff prints of james dean, marilyn monroe & humphrey bogart together in a diner.

― fritz, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

nobody ever said i was trying to shock anyone and i in fact did it for the exact purpose of DELIGHTING everyone, which it has with the exception of bitter been- there-done-that art school bastards scrambling to reveal a simple novelty object as, gasp, a novelty object!

― ethan, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You asked people to comment on your idea, Ethan. If everybody else is delighted by it, who gives a fuck what I think?

I was interested in discussing it as a real piece of art without downgrading it to "novelty object" status (and it doesn't seem much different than a lot of current "fine art") - my mistake.

― fritz, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

fine art? it started as a joke with tom on aim! ('but all great art started as a joke blah blah blah')

― ethan, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

seriously it doesn't seem that far off from some current fine art stuff: paul mccarthy, mike kelly, etc.

― fritz, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

No.

― the pinefox, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

FITE

― DG, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three years pass...
I still want to see this.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago) link

i think ethan works on the portobello road

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago) link

ihttp://www.nighthawkcomics.com/comics/magnus2.jpg

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago) link

(I'm sorry, I am becoming obsessed with that picture.)

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago) link

I have discovered the ultimate threadkillah! hurrah!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.brandonbird.com/lazysunday.html

― Drake Beardo (cprek), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/kenjuggle2/bobpunk.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago) link

lock universe

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

I have discovered the ultimate threadkillah! hurrah!

I think its the shorts. 70's era short-shorts on men will sap anyone's desire to live, even in comic book form.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago) link

But, but, they're from the 50s! They were even gayer then because gay hadn't been invented in the 50s!

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

had robots been invented yet in the 50s?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

Robots were invented by the German Expressionists back in the 20s!

What do you think Metropolis was all about? Number one robot of all time, according to that programme that was on the telly over Christmas.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago) link

ken c is one talented cutie!

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago) link

I did a cartoon once with a side-by-side comparison of Bob Dylan and a monkey.

The impetus was the song "Buckets of Rain" from Blood on the Tracks, which includes the lyric "Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain't no monkey but I know what I like."

So I drew a picture of a monkey, and then a picture of Bob Dylan, with little arrows describing various points of difference: has a tail, is a folk singer; likes bananas, plays the harmonica.

Maybe he should have been fucking the monkey. I dunno.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

It had been invented, it's just that no one was allowed to ever talk about it in any way shape or form...ever.

Isn't it interesting that throughout time, and extending even to this day, every artist's conception of "the future" involved a lot more:

1. tight shiny clothing
2. partial nudity
3. patent leather

than we see currently?

To avoid getting completely off topic, Ken C: I suppose if you were going to reference a Dylan song in a Dylan/Robot copulation painting, it would have to be Just Like a Woman, so well done. But since I love that song so much I'll suggest changing the lyric to:

"and I would not feel so all alone, EVERYBODY must fuck robots!"

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

Goddammit, why did my boss have to come back to have this meeting right as we started talking about the inherent gayness of robotfucking in the future?

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago) link

ken c is one talented cutie!

haha you're just testing me aren't you?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago) link

xpost Every Robot Must Get Boned, surely

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

mmmmmmmm.... robot love.....
http://www.lems.brown.edu/vision/people/leymarie/Images/cunningham_bjork_all_is_ful.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

xpost Every Robot Must Get Boned, surely

That's much better. Well done again.

When masonic comes back from her meeting we can discuss flash gordon as support for her theory of an inherently gay future. Tight clothing everywhere. Brian Blessed in ill-advised steel briefs and a biker beard. Music by Queen.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago) link

where does the Hoff man come (pardon me) into this?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

The last time I was in Betty Robbins' Costume Shop, the woman kept trying to sell me the actual shoulder pads from the Flash Gordon movie. They were kinda heavy.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

ken, no!
I'm totally admiring your pictar up there.

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

aw i know :)

it's awesome!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

I need some bloody cheering up now. Found out in my meeting that basically my job will be over at the end of the month. :-(

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago) link

is that guy fritz still around? he seemed awesome.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

my work is recruiting kate! ;)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

Are they really? Do they need a terminally depressed paranoid android of a database admin/data analysist? (Maybe I should start practising data psychoanalysis on paranoid androids.)

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

i've been doing quite a lot of those databasey stuff but it's not really the nature of the job (more to do with configuration of an off the shelf computer system). if i say more i might get sacked so i should shuddup! even though this is not a blog, and i don't have a beard like that Waterstones dude.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

Email me about this... but for now, less talking about jobs and more talking about gay robot sex.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

haha yeah i just realised what this thread was about before i talked about jobs!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe if I'm really lucky, I can get a job as a ROBOT FIGHTER. (And to think, he told us all that he was a spy!)

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

I would like to see this painting, but only if the robot in question resembles Robbie from "Forbidden Planet." If it is an R2D2 type robot, you are a corporate sell-out whore.

― Austin (Austin), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

ethan P23 (6:46 PM): i'd like to do bob dylan actually but people will just think i actually like his music
ethan P23 (6:47 PM): he's interesting but it's too rolling stone

i hate rolling stone too... and i don't even like too much bob dylan stuff... but for some reason this statement just really bothers me.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

Ah f*ckit, I'd rather hear a mashup audio file intended to represent Dylan singing (perhaps "Lay Lady Lay"?) while he and the robot f*ck.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

Lay Lady Lay vs Metal Fingers In My Body

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

nice!

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe if I'm really lucky, I can get a job as a ROBOT FIGHTER.

If your name is Kate it seems unlikely, all photographic evidence dictates that those positions are reserved for nubile young men in tight shorts. What else are you qualified for? Rockstar? Televangelist? Goat Wrangler?

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

The Ministry versh of Lay Lady Lay, shurely?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago) link

Well, Dylan's voice has to be somewhere in the mix.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

Actually it is Revolting Cocks, not ministry, haha how appropriate or something. But, yes.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

(BTW, who's supposed to be penetrating who? And where?)

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 20 January 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago) link

If your name is Kate it seems unlikely, all photographic evidence dictates that those positions are reserved for nubile young men in tight shorts.

But... but... if you look at the covers of the other issues... well, if I dyed my hair blonde again and pranced about in skintight blue minidresses, I could qualify to be the Robot Fighter's nympette assistant! (Underwater, as well!)

ihttp://ksacomics.com/mrf/1/4.jpg

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Thursday, 20 January 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

I want a nymphette assistant...

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

Huh, huh, huh...

you should totally 'DO' the painting!

― Austin (Austin), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

Ash, I volunteer unselfishly.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

Luna, if I am going to be working as your hired goon, how can you be my nymphette assistant? There would be all sorts of power dynamic problems.

Still, you would unquestionably make an excellent nymphette assistant. I shall have to give this further thought.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

Since when do hired goons need nymphette assistants?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not *really* a nymphette assistant. I'm secretly a double agent. Ssshhhhh!!! Don't tell anyone.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

Did Ethan's picture ever get completed?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

^^^

― gff, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I want a nymphette assistant...

-- Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:44 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

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Ash, I volunteer unselfishly.

-- luna (luna.c), Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:27 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

I wonder how this worked out?

― omar little, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

ten years pass...

blood on the trax Vs Blonde on blonde.

― calstars, Sunday, 9 September 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link

is this just the albums or if the albums were fucking a robot?

blood either way

― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link

Yeah. Hard to argue with Tangled. But Memphis blues...

― calstars, Sunday, 9 September 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link

How is it I never weighed in on this important question?

The obvious answer to the thread question is: yes, by all means create such a painting, or as many as you like, then douse it (or them) with lighter fluid and (carefully) set it (or them) on fire in the privacy of your home, while never speaking of it (or them) to anyone of its (or their) existence or demise, as being too personal a vendetta to soil by contact with the sane general population.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 10 September 2018 05:05 (six years ago) link

the obvious answer to the thread question is: yes, by all means create such a painting so i can jack off to it

― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 September 2018 08:30 (six years ago) link

You misspelled 'onto'.

― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 September 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link

look you're free to do whatever you like with your dylan-fucking-a-robot canvas but buddy don't ever tell me what to do with mine

― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 September 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link

your right, i forgot this was america

― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 September 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link

MAJOTBDFAR

― Mark G, Monday, 10 September 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link


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