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The movie is a must-see.

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"You told me you loved me!"

"I was abusing the word."

I went and saw this, actually. Worth the couple hour drive from Maryland. Then again, I'm a big fan. Anyone, though, ought to be able to enjoy Crumb, the documentary on him and his family. Great film.

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Watch the movie "Crumb". His whole family is crazy. It is a good movie though.

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While not even remotely aware of what's going on in its backyard, Philly's art community is really quick to show underground stuff made by other people in other cities.

Usually the Rosenbach Museum has a few shows a year that champion some unknown pioneer and the Museum of Art has shown Raymond Pettibone stuff. It was weird to see Black Flag's back catalog for sale in their gift shop.

Wow! I'm gonna cornhole my sister...too many drugs, nope never enuff, must be the Republicans.

There I said it.

"Crumb" is one of my favorite documentaries. His brothers are complete nut cases. Crumb was a big influence on the movie Ghost World. (Same director, if think.)

oldandwiser: Watch the movie "Crumb". His whole family is crazy. It is a good movie though.

Amazing to find that Robert could arguably be considered the "normal" one in his family. He has sisters, though, who weren't in the documentary, right?


SockMonkeyHolocaust:

While not even remotely aware of what's going on in its backyard, Philly's art community is really quick to show underground stuff made by other people in other cities.

Usually the Rosenbach Museum has a few shows a year that champion some unknown pioneer and the Museum of Art has shown Raymond Pettibone stuff. It was weird to see Black Flag's back catalog for sale in their gift shop.

Philadelphia has some really great 20th century stuff, too. Very substantial collection of Duchamps at the Museum of Art (the largest anywhere, if I'm not mistaken), and then there's the Barnes Foundation. The Barnes collection may be in between locations, though. I think they finally ironed out all the legal mess surrounding it, but I don't believe the new digs have been completed... or if construction has even begun for that matter. Anybody know what's going on with that?

DrBrownCow:

"Crumb" is one of my favorite documentaries. His brothers are complete nut cases. Crumb was a big influence on the movie Ghost World. (Same director, if think.)


I think I read somewhere that Crumb's daughter did all of Enid's drawings for the movie (Ghost World).

DrBenway: Anybody know what's going on with that?

They broke ground recently so if you haven't seen the Barnes in the place where it was meant to be displayed then get your tickets now.

I think once they get the Barnes Collection installed and they FINALLY make an Eakins or Calder museum in the vein of the Rodan collection home that Philly will kind of really come into its own as a city with an artistic past. The newest part of the Museum of Art is really exciting with a huge space for displaying statues.

SockMonkeyHolocaust: While not even remotely aware of what's going on in its backyard, Philly's art community is really quick to show underground stuff made by other people in other cities.

Art people are joiners. They have to be or their shiat don't get talked about, shown, or seen.

To be part of the art community, you have to turn your back on the underground stuff, and to make underground stuff you have to repudiate the community.

So I doubt Philly is unusual in this respect. Everywhere but NY probably works this way. In NY every stanky-ass underground has a community, often an exceedingly lame one.

The great thing about this guy is that he's a total weirdo pervert, and doesn't even try to pretend hes not a total weirdo pervert. The honesty is refreshing. Also he draws really well, and not just stoned hippies and girls with big legs either:

I was taking a second semester art history class in the 70's when the professor in this huge lecture hall flashed some of Crumb's work up on the screen.

We poor simple students were admiring the stuff until the prof revealed that they there as examples of really horrible form and technique.

So now Crumb is a great "contemporary" artist. What a difference thirty years make...

No Such Agency:

Ass and leg men are the weak men, because they get hot only when the woman turns away. They should limit their attentions to other men, who also have legs and asses and will actually be glad to see these "guys."

Tit men are red blooded Americans, because they go for size and show, can be impressed by fakery, and have unacknowledged maternal issues, yet they RUN TO THE FARKING GUNS. Like MEN.

SockMonkeyHolocaust:

DrBenway: Anybody know what's going on with that?

They broke ground recently so if you haven't seen the Barnes in the place where it was meant to be displayed then get your tickets now.

I think once they get the Barnes Collection installed and they FINALLY make an Eakins or Calder museum in the vein of the Rodan collection home that Philly will kind of really come into its own as a city with an artistic past. The newest part of the Museum of Art is really exciting with a huge space for displaying statues.


Interesting. Thanks for the update. The Barnes Collection has fascinated me ever since I first learned of its existence, so I read everything I could get my hands on about Barnes himself, the Collection, and his strict and quite unconventional teaching theories. Barnes was a piece of work himself from what I've read about him, but that collection, jeez... that's like ground zero for my favorite period, I reckon. Pity about all the legal battles over the years. I would love to make a pilgrimage to the old place before it gets shut down -- I think the last time I was going to be anywhere near it, it was too short of notice to get tickets. And my degraded organizational aptitude has made planning trips a real pain in the ass these days.

Bagelox-99: So I doubt Philly is unusual in this respect.

I would say that Philadelphia in general is a city of joiners.

It's weird, though, because to be known in Philadelphia you have to be outside Philadelphia. All it takes to build a buzz for your movie, art or band is to go anywhere but here and then come back.

Believe me, I have lived here for around seven years and I love it, but anything relevant isn't being done here. Theodore Dreiser even talks about the city in the same terms in his book from the early 20th century The Titan. From investment companies to art galleries it's a closed circle of acquaintances and if you aren't a part of it there is almost no alternative.

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Saw this exhibit when it was in Seattle (Frye Art Museum) a few months back. Not to be missed!

Came here for the Harry Crumb reference...semihero did not disappoint.

/D'jour Deliosh...I don't know, try it with a "D."

My mom's cousin, Peter Poplaski, is a friend and contemporary of R. Crumb. He's never talked much about him in my presence, unfortunately.

Peter likes Zorro. See? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKevr9gaJo)

I gotta say I have the same "thing" for legs. In the movie they were showing these girls showing off for him and the girl with the skirt is on the cover. I still get wood years after having seen the movie. Who was that girl?

I like thick legs and I cannot lie.

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DrBenway: DrBrownCow:

"Crumb" is one of my favorite documentaries. His brothers are complete nut cases. Crumb was a big influence on the movie Ghost World. (Same director, if think.)


I think I read somewhere that Crumb's daughter did all of Enid's drawings for the movie (Ghost World).

The drawings in the movie were furnished by Dan Clowes, the same Dan Clowes that wrote the original comic the movie is based on and the screenplay.

Not much Crumb in Ghost World, lots of Zwigoff.

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DrBenway: DrBrownCow:

"Crumb" is one of my favorite documentaries. His brothers are complete nut cases. Crumb was a big influence on the movie Ghost World. (Same director, if think.)


I think I read somewhere that Crumb's daughter did all of Enid's drawings for the movie (Ghost World).

The drawings in the movie were furnished by Dan Clowes, the same Dan Clowes that wrote the original comic the movie is based on and the screenplay.

Not much Crumb in Ghost World, lots of Zwigoff


I just checked on it, and I found a number of links citing Sophie as having done the drawings for Enid's notebook in the movie.

I can't check as I gave up all my DVDs in the divorce I'm in right now, but I thought the DVD extras had Clowes saying he did them, but concede as you are more likely to care more than I do.

I know he did the Church's chicken memorabilia. The rest... oh I just had a memory flash something to do with Crumb doing the old 78 rpm covers... did he provide those?

DrBenway: John_Rat_Safari:

DrBenway: DrBrownCow:

"Crumb" is one of my favorite documentaries. His brothers are complete nut cases. Crumb was a big influence on the movie Ghost World. (Same director, if think.)


I think I read somewhere that Crumb's daughter did all of Enid's drawings for the movie (Ghost World).

The drawings in the movie were furnished by Dan Clowes, the same Dan Clowes that wrote the original comic the movie is based on and the screenplay.

Not much Crumb in Ghost World, lots of Zwigoff


I just checked on it, and I found a number of links citing Sophie as having done the drawings for Enid's notebook in the movie.

I think Clowes occasionally "sweetened" them, though.

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oldandwiser: Watch the movie "Crumb". His whole family is crazy. It is a good movie though.

I sat through that movie. Went in knowing little-to-nothing about him, came out thinking, "That guy is the most obnoxious dick on Earth." I hated every moment watching that film.

I just finished watching American Splendor, so I'm really... kinda depressed.

Squidgilum: oldandwiser: Watch the movie "Crumb". His whole family is crazy. It is a good movie though.

I sat through that movie. Went in knowing little-to-nothing about him, came out thinking, "That guy is the most obnoxious dick on Earth." I hated every moment watching that film.

Being into 78s will do that to you. I used to collect myself and honestly, I've seen better socialized individuals living in the toilet stalls in Amtrak stations.

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More "modern art" in Crumb than virtually all the crap that's passed around under that name.