May 29, 2008
Podcast 5-28-08
James raves about former club kid Michael Tronn's 20-foot-high genitalia on display at an LA gallery. The show, he says, is sold out. We suspect he might be exaggerating about the size of the works and the number of sales. James and Fenton go over highlights from the opening of the "Dial M for Madonna" show at the WOW gallery: the clamor of press and cameras, the benefit of turning off the air conditioning, James' advice to the bartenders to get shit-faced and naked. Chuck Close as a Gap model. Fenton's tearsheets from a book showing fans of certain celebrities: Snoop Dogg, Marilyn Manson, Madonna, Radiohead, Rod Stewart, Willie Nelson. Is Michael Alig responsible for Kim Kardashian's $25,000 fee for taking her photo with your cameraphone? "Celebrity's evolved to a unique level of pointlessness," says Fenton. He and James come to verbal blows over the content of Denise Richards' and Dina Lohan's reality shows. See Blake Run. Those Mayans and the crystal skulls. The years 2012 and 2014. Fenton reports on seeing The Police and Elvis Costello, which turns into a whole thing. "Rock 'n' roll," he says, once a young person's thing, "has become an old person's thing." Then he shocks James with his take on aging men vs aging women. Lydia brings out the "forever" burger from McDonald's, a science experiment she's conducting with Steven Corfe. The burger, bought on March 13 and left out untouched since then, hasn't deteriorated at all. A horrified Fenton says it reminds him of the foreskin of Jesus, which one of the popes "was testing for elasticity." And on that note....
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