This Ain't no Tommy Kinkade.
This ain't no 15 minute Warholia Superstar.
This is the infinite sublime of the eternal Fan.
Are you ready for the Rally Rothko?
You may need him before he needs you.
Read up on him, sounds like an Angels fan in midseason form.
You voted for him!
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And...
Occupation: Panther.That could be a misspelling.
scareduck - March 7, 2006
EXACTLY!
And can you believe they spelled Anaheim "Latvia" I mean... c'mon!Rev Halofan - March 8, 2006
Halo Harry
Mark Rothko would not by any chance be the real name of Halo Harry? Halo Harry was an unofficial cheerleader for the California Angels in 1968-69. Harry would wander through the stands leading cheers with a halo over his head. The halo was made with a bent coathanger and had small white Christmas lights attached. Harry's halo was lit up more often than the halo on top of the Big A. I really mean he was "unofficial." I recall reading an article about Halo Harry in which he states he paid for his Angel tickets. Strangely there is no mention of Halo Harry in Ross Newhan's "The Anaheim Angels: The Complete History." How can it be complete without Halo Harry? The suicide of Mark Rothko on 2/25/70 might explain why we never saw Halo Harry at the Big A after 1969.Yetijuice - March 8, 2006
I'm seeing...
A fat swatch of red above a smaller swatch of deep blue... with a little brown blending the two together. The brown is of course a small symbol of a monkey.So in the 7th when they're playing house of pain... the camera frantically zooms in and out of the canvas of color.
proletariat - March 8, 2006
oh yeah...
and once again, we elect someone who commited suicide to be a symbol of our cause.I'm getting concerned here... there's some kind of Freudian guilt over Donnie Moore or something.
proletariat - March 8, 2006
Rothko
I voted for Rothko and I'm glad he won. Imagine seeing the late great JACKSON POLLACK's ugly mug with a Halo's hat sitting atop his bald head. Bringing up that image; I'm quite happy with Rothko winning.Jack Frost - March 8, 2006
I actually voted for Pollock
Not because I know that much about him or anything, but because he's the main source of inspiration for the art of John Squire.LA Seitz - March 8, 2006
The Stone Roses were awesome
John Squire's paintings were notyeswecan - March 8, 2006
How dare you say anything negative...
...about Guitar Jesus?!LA Seitz - March 8, 2006
haha
i prefer Guitar Jesus' "Second Coming" guitar noodlings to any of his Pollock ripoffs. that lick in that "i'm gonna break right into heaven" song is so overblown, but it's tits!the first record is ETERNALLY better, though. Amen.
yeswecan - March 8, 2006
No need to convince me
Their debut is the greatest collection of recorded material I've ever listened to.LA Seitz - March 8, 2006
I prefer
The Soup Dragonscupie - March 8, 2006
...and that's how cupie rolls
yeswecan - March 8, 2006
Nobody can touch
Arthur Lee on Forever Changes...Rev Halofan - March 8, 2006
Does that have "Alone Again, Or" on it?
I can't decide if I like the original version better than "the Damned" version. There's a cool little guitar part in the Damned version that I really like.Eh, if I was picking something second behing the first Stone Roses album, it would probably be "Ocean Rain".
LA Seitz - March 8, 2006
First Track
Alone Again OrWith the trumpet section that ended up in a Miller Beer commercial a few years back subbing as a maricahi track at a backyard BBQ - big time audio doubletake WTF?
Marquee Moon by Television is a good runner up - great guitars.
Rev Halofan - March 8, 2006
I remember that commercial
Until then, I didn't realize that the version by the Damned wasn't the original.The newest in the line of songs that I'm surprised to see in beer commercials is Marc Bolan's the Slider.
LA Seitz - March 8, 2006
Ocean Rain
"The Greatest Album Ever Made" was the marketing campaign for that record. And they were pretty much right.yeswecan - March 9, 2006
Love spreads
one of my all time favseyespy - March 9, 2006
i didn't vote
mainly because my favorite American artist was listed. RC Gorman.and i didn't understand why this site was polling American artists anyway. i was confused.
but now i see the vision - the Rally Rothko, the Seraph from Latvia - good choice.
and there wasn't a lot that could be done with Navajo women and Angels baseball anyways - believe me, cuz i've been pondering it all day.
rbrianc - March 8, 2006
Yeah...
hmmm... mine could be Hopper, Fitschl, Chris Burden (represent UCI) or maybe Koon for the sheer Americaness of it all.I defaulted to Warhol.
proletariat - March 11, 2006
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