LA Times "Cole Case's meaty paintings transfix at Western Project" by David Pagel :)
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COLE CASE :”NFL Flowers” (Detail), 2012, oil on canvas over panel,
110 x 82 inches
Cole Case Studio 2012
Flowers, Water and Other Places: New Paintings and Drawings opens Saturday, October 20, 2012
“The same place animals go when they die, you can’t climb across a mountain so high. The same city where I go when I sleep, you can’t swim across a river so deep. They know my name because I told it to them, but they don’t know where and they don’t know when it’s coming. Oh when is it coming? Keep the car running.” — Win and Regine
“Friends say it’s fine. Friends say it’s good. Everybody says it’s just like rock and roll.” — T. Rex
“Nature is so inhuman that it is not even criminal. It is everything that we must basically overcome and reject because, for all our own superabundant horrendousness, cruelty and vileness, we are still capable of producing a spark of hope which we can also call love. Nature has none of this. Its stupidity is absolute.” — Gerhard Richter
“My mother said/To get things done/You’d better not mess with Major Tom”
So pretty please, with sugar on top: clean the fucking car :)
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And then two minutes later, they came back and Dee Dee counted off, 1-2-3-4 and then went into Blitzkrieg Bop. They just played really fast and really short songs and it was very funny but they were very earnest about it. It wasn’t that they were trying to be funny. They were really serious and so it was almost like conceptual art, that it was just so great, you couldn’t believe that it could exist. It made you smile, once you managed to close your mouth.
The Ramones are not an opening act. Whoever you came to see, they will confuse you as an opening act.
” — End Of The Century, 2003