reading about fluxus...

...and these songs keep getting stuck in my head.  Oh Yoko!



If you wait until the last 2 minutes of the 2nd video there's a classic joke re-enacted by John and Yoko, one I remember doing with friends all the way through sophomore year of college, and never knowing it was a John+Yoko reference (I mean, sheesh, how many folks had seen this video before YouTube?).

There are awful comments about Yoko with both these videos.  And, I have to admit, she's hard for me to watch.  But she must have a great sense of humor.  John certainly did.  I wish people hadn't felt the need to take the Beatles so seriously, because they had such a capacity for joviality- to me the most important of qualities.  Help! and Hard Days Night are both great comic films.

I also have always looked forward to encountering Fluxus re-collections. So many of their jokes seem to slip in under the radar.  When I visited the MOMA in Januray there was a whole, lovely, empty wing of Fluxus related detritus. I giggled myself silly reading such bizarre and nihilist poppycock behind the very expensive glass protecting it.  The nicest thing, though, was the lack of people. This photo recreation with the cardboard cutout was by far the best part.  Looking back on it now, maybe this is the way I should do my work.  Do an installation, photograph it, painstakingly document what was in the photograph, and then box it all up and preserve it for history, complete with cardboard cutout.  Hmmm...

oh yo o o ko... oh yo o o ko... my love... will...turn...you...ah-on...