From: Fred Davidson (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Mar 26 2009 - 12:23:18 PDT
OK JP I'm going to make a special column just for you called
"Christmas Cocks and Cunts on Earth". Actually I kinda like that
title. It's kinda catchy. "Christmas Cocks and Cunts on Earth" Hmm...,
Yeah! Thanks for your vote.
On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:32 PM, JEFFREY PAULL wrote:
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> On Thu 26/03/09 13:49 , ADAM ABRAMS email suppressed sent:
>> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage {
>> font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } we showed the film a bit
>> ago, and it's tremendous. went over a storm here. not a walkout in
>> the bunch. people really dug it. i'm going to propose a fusion of
>> the two titles. christmas on earth:cocks and cunts, or vice versa.
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>> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:49:33 -0400
>> From: email suppressed
>> Subject: NEVER GIVE AN INCH 1
>> To: email suppressed
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>> History remembers Barbara Rubin's, only famous, and to my
>> knowledge, only critically acclaimed, film, as CHRISTMAS ON EARTH.
>> Rubin died of postnatal infection in France at the age of thirty-five
>> in 1980 2 Jack not in 1968 or 1969 as you had formally thought.
>> However, as many of you know, that film originally had quite a
>> different title. Originally it was called COCKS AND CUNTS. No shit. I
>> shit you not. Though I think it is time for us to collectively
>> move beyond Freud, and anyone, notwithstanding Ernie Gehr, who has
>> ever seen Hollis Frampton's Zorn's Lemma is sure to agree with me, 3
>> let's not forget what Freud said. Freud said that man is the only
>> animal that is not offended by the smell of his own shit. I think
>> that
>> is what he said. It was something like that. Are there any Freudian
>> scholars out there in this limited audience of about seven-hundred
>> that know? Do a fella a favor and correct me if I'm wrong. Please.
>> Anyway, it went all the way from COCKS AND CUNTS to CHRISTMAS ON
>> EARTH
>> in one fell swoop. I was wondering if my fellow frameworkers would
>> like to cast their vote for which title they like best. I cast mine
>> unequivocally for COCKS AND CUNTS, as this title is the title that
>> the
>> artist, Barbara Rubin, originally intended. 4 Although I admit I
>> have never actually seen the film, and probably never will,
>> furthermore, notwithstanding the basic tenet that I hold dear that
>> says it is impossible to discuss a film that one has never seen, from
>> the description of the work I've heard, while CHRISTMAS ON EARTH may
>> be the more saleable title and thus appeals to large audiences, I
>> would argue that the original title COCKS AND CUNTS better describes
>> the film and is therefore the more fitting. What is your opinion?
>> Vote
>> your mind! Vote your conscious! But whatever you do. Please. Vote! If
>> I can provide the necessary documents that show that we have an
>> unanimous consensus then maybe I can take this to the Library of
>> Congress or the National Film Board of Canada or whoever it is, Ms.
>> Kate D. Levin perhaps at the mayors office?, that is in charge of
>> such
>> things and make the change official.
>> Fred (Stamper! Stamper! it rhymes with... with... ???. That's right!
>> Right you are! You got it! You got it 'cause round things are boring.
>> O.K. "All together now, one, two, three. Keep your mind on your
>> drivin'..." 5 ) Davidson Boca Raton
>> 1 NEVER GIVE AN INCH, prod. John Foreman, Frank Caffey, Paul Newman,
>> dir. Paul Newman, 1971, 35mm, 113 min.
>> 2 Daniel Belasco, "Barbara Rubin: The Vanished Prodigy", Art Signal
>> Contemporary Art Magazine,
>> http://magazine.art-signal.com/en/barbara-rubin-the-vanished-prodigy/
>> [1] (accessed March 18, 2009)
>> 3 Various Authors, "Zorns Lemma (film)", Wikipedia, The Free
>> Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorns_Lemma_(film) [2]
>> (accessed March 18, 2009)
>> 4 Ms. Holly Smith, "Comments written by registered user
>> purplehayes76", The Internet Movie Database (IMDb),
>> http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1945140/comments [3] (accessed March 18,
>> 2009)
>> 5 "Dee doody doom doom, dee doody doom doom, dee doody doom doom,
>> DOOM."
>> P.S. Jay and/or Joel over there on Bush St. west of Van Ness, And who
>> else? Who else? There is one more name not accounted for. You have
>> twelve names: Paul America, Susan Bottomly, Ann Buchanan, Freddy
>> Herko, Jane Holzer, Dennis Hopper, Billy Name, Nico, Richard Rheem,
>> Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Ingrid Superstar and ... and who is the last
>> one? Would it be Barbara Rubin by any strange twist of fate?
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>> http://magazine.art-signal.com/en/barbara-rubin-the-vanished-prodigy/
>> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorns_Lemma_%28film%29
>> [3] http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1945140/comments
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