Today Briggs and I are going with some of the people we game with to see Ron Mueck’s sculpture at the Andy Warhol museum. I’m excited about this, as I have been impressed by Mueck’s work since I received my first forwarded email full of attached photos of his bizarrely realistic art:
He makes, like, every individual PORE, and plants each unique hair in the heads and bodies of his sculptures…impressive work.
I do, however, wish that I didn’t have to be up so early to go…seeing as I work at 2pm, an afternoon venture was not quite doable. This morning came a bit early however, as last night Briggs and I ended up watching ‘Moment of Truth’ until about 3am after we got home from game. If you haven’t heard of the show, it is an absolutely abysmal program where they ask a contestant 50 ro so personal and revealing questions about themselves and their relationships under polygraph measurement, and then ask them a certain number of those questions in front of a live studio audience…plus a few close friends/family/their spouse, etc. If they answer the questions truthfully (as deemed by the polygraph) they continue to accrue money, and can stop answering questions and stay with the amount they have at any time…but once a question is posed they have to answer it, and, of course, if they lie at any point, they loose it all.
Some of the questions, of course, are very personal and potentially damaging to family and marital relationships — “Do you think you are the best looking of your group of friends?” “Have you ever made a pass at one of your wife’s friends?” “Have you held off having children because you believe that your wife might not be your life-long partner?” “Have you ever stolen money at work and let someone else take the blame?”
It’s a horrible, hedonistic, dreadful show that is almost an allegory for everything that is wrong with this country. It is also strangely compelling.
I kind of want to be on the show. I’m curious as to what they could ask me that I wouldn’t be willing to answer. Actually, I think that they probably wouldn’t take me at all, ’cause I just don’t have a lot in the way of dirty laundry. And I’m, overall, a pretty open, honest person, I think. Maybe they would prove me wrong. For a butt-load of money it would be fun to find out. 
Anyway, gotta go get dressed.
My golly my glasses are smudgy right now…
I have seen this guy’s work (in photos) before. You are right, they are amazing.
on a non related note, http://lostgarden.com/uploaded_images/AvengingUnicorn-740900.jpg
I think I could do the show too. Mainly because I don’t care about hurting peoples feelings.
Do you think you are the best looking of your group of friends? Are we speaking only of my male friends? Either way the answer is yes.
Have you ever made a pass at one of your wife’s friends?
Not married so no. Even if I was I would be smarter then to choose one of my wifes friends. I would go with some drunk floozie from a bar that I would never see again.
Have you held off having children because you believe that your wife might not be your life-long partner? Sounds like a pretty good reason to me.
Have you ever stolen money at work and let someone else take the blame? Stolen money? I don’t think so… stolen lots of office supplies though. Never heard of anyone being accused of it, but I wouldn’t step up and admit it was me if they had already decided to blame someone else.