{"id":1117,"date":"2008-01-05T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2008\/01\/05\/still-life-with-marx-and-engels\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T09:38:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T14:38:13","slug":"still-life-with-marx-and-engels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/still-life-with-marx-and-engels\/","title":{"rendered":"Still life with Marx and Engels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fredosphere.com\/2008\/01\/hated-it.html\">Fred recently discovered<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komarandmelamid.org\/\">Komar and Melamid<\/a>. I first encountered them half a lifetime ago when they made an appearance at Wichita State. Their schtick then was that they bought and sold souls. They were particularly proud of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komarandmelamid.org\/chrono_pages\/1979.htm\">purchasing Andy Warhol&#8217;s<\/a>. The business wasn&#8217;t as lucrative as they had hoped, though, so by then they only accepted souls on consignment.<\/p>\n<p>They came to Fred&#8217;s attention through their fusion of musicology and statistics. By polling, they attempted to define the characteristics of the &#8220;most wanted&#8221; and &#8220;least wanted&#8221; songs, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/sound\/komar.html\">realize the songs<\/a>. I&#8217;m afraid that I&#8217;m the in the 28% that dislike the wanted song. The unwanted song, however, is an amazing hodgepodge of accordion, bagpipes, tuba, banjo, operatic soprano and obnoxious kids, and it&#8217;s worth 22 minutes of your life. Once will probably be enough.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, Komar and Melamid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komarandmelamid.org\/chronology\/1981_1983\/index.htm\">are painters<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darwincatholic.blogspot.com\/\">Mr. Darwin<\/a> is the son of a planetarium lecturer. He reminisces about the artificial skies <a href=\"http:\/\/darwincatholic.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/my-life-under-dome.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred recently discovered Komar and Melamid. I first encountered them half a lifetime ago when they made an appearance at Wichita State. Their schtick then was that they bought and sold souls. They were particularly proud of purchasing Andy Warhol&#8217;s. The business wasn&#8217;t as lucrative as they had hoped, though, so by then they only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/still-life-with-marx-and-engels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still life with Marx and Engels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[68,71,669,516],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-humor-and-horror","category-music","tag-art","tag-astronomy","tag-music","tag-silliness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-i1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}