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Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 7, 2011 at 12:03pm

Wow, this is fascinating. The recluse story is the one that seems to stick with Joseph Cornell. I wish there were a record of him meeting w/ Warhol - it seems so incongruous. I can't imagine Cornell playing the Warhol smoke-and-mirrors game as immortalized in the Oliver Stone film "The Doors": Warhol hands Jim Morrison (already very unsteady) a broken and disconnected telephone saying: "It's God. He's asking for you." Jim. unfortunately, took the call. I wonder if Cornell would have...

Comment by MaryAnne on February 7, 2011 at 9:15am

exactly right.  Peter Blake is a great fan too.

Comment by Michael Leigh on February 7, 2011 at 6:18am

In the documentary on BBC they did  some years ago  I think it was  James Rosenquist said that he and Lichtenstein went over to see Cornell and he showed them round his archive and gave them "milk and cookies". Also around that same time he contributed  4 prints based on collages to a portfolio which incuded Rosenquist, Kitaj, Ellsworth kelly and David Hockney . He may not have liked Pop but some of them obvious liked him and saw him as an inspiration .

Comment by MaryAnne on February 6, 2011 at 9:56pm

hi there.  There is nothing wrong with a good ramble in fact It can be quite productive ....

That photo was not of "our" ray johnson, artist but a strange record cover I found on a site somewhere which amused me because it was such a daft period piece and the coincidence of the name made it all the dafter.

Poor old frank ... there are so many bootlegs and other unoficial stuff I'd hate to think how expensive it would be to be a real "must-have-everything" fan..   I havnt come accross any mention of Ray johnson in the books I have on Cornell. He met with warhol and, if I remember rightly, didn't get on with him too well.  I dont think Cornell liked "pop" very much. It was a different world.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 6, 2011 at 9:33pm

Pardon me, you mentioned that - Hot Rats - there is so much FZ stuff that who can keep the chronology straight? Frank was big in Australia and he "discovered" AC/DC. He envisioned making them a sort of comedy punk act because they were so short and he was so tall and he thought it would be hysterical to perform with them, but the deal collapsed. Earlier I wondered if Joseph Cornell knew or was aware of Ray Johnson, They were in close proximity for many years. Then you posted the picture of Ray with hair. That's very rare. In most pics, Ray has no hair. I tend to ramble, so I don't expect you to match me 1-for-1. You've posted some great work, Thank you MA

Comment by MaryAnne on February 6, 2011 at 9:16pm

there we are then.  I gave up on Frank after Hot Rats

Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 6, 2011 at 9:12pm

"Movin to Montana Soon (Gonna be a dental floss tycoon" is on, I think, Overnight Sensation - along with "Dynamo Hum" - pretty much classics in my neck of the woods. Although I still admire things like "We're Only in it for the Money." Kinda liked the Valley Girl daughter too: "Gag me with a spoon.:" And "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" is news that stays news.

Comment by Michael Leigh on February 6, 2011 at 8:42pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e3I0iagWXU

Comment by MaryAnne on February 6, 2011 at 7:12pm

I don't know that Zappa song .... must look it up.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on February 6, 2011 at 4:46pm

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