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Andy Warhol’s Batman/Dracula (1964)
Since this came out before the Adam West Batman show, did the TV show steal its high “BATMAN!” bit from Andy? That seems like a pretty important bit of pop culture lore that’s been forgotten, although the film itself was lost until a few years ago so it makes sense people wouldn’t know about it. I can never get into Warhol’s film stuff, and the video quality isn’t great, but maybe someone else would like to take a shot at interpreting it? More excerpts are up on youtube, and there’s an unreleased Velvet Underground track in part 2.
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Andy Warhol and Nico as Batman and Robin, from Esquire magazine, 1967
The 20th Century in Pictures: 1967
I really don’t know how I wasn’t aware of this earlier. It’s way too relevant to my interests for me to not know about.
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every boy should own this book.
this is the truest thing ive read all day.
also, i am kind of obsessed with pointing out to people that valerie solanas did not actually say that “SCUM” stood for “Society for Cutting Up Men.” her (male) publisher was the one who said this. she did say women should annihilate most men and overthrow capitalism, however. was she serious? kidding? she is so awesomely confusing, and being confusing is one of my favorite feminist strategies.
How does everybody feel about Valerie Solanas overall? For me, her attempt to kill Andy Warhol and the negative effect that had on him/the Factory/art outweigh anything else she did, so I’m wondering if there’s something to that whole story I’m missing or if you just disassociate her and her later actions from her work.
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People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?
-Andy Warhol
Andy, I love it when I alternate between finding you completely trite and completely profound.
