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Michael and Us

#576 - The Society of the Spectacle

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

With America suddenly lurching to the right on immigration, we checked to see where one prominent Democrat documentarian stood circa 2011. In CITIZEN USA: A 50 STATE ROAD TRIP (2011), our old friend Alexandra Pelosi travels to all 50 states, flattening all of them into the same paste. PLUS: Andy Warhol, Paul/Tyson, and the real legacy of Obama's 2008 campaign. If you absolutely must watch Citizen USA, you can rent it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3CYtUBofJk&ab_channel=YouTubeMovies

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0:00.0

Well, welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan. Here as always with. Luke Savage, welcome back, folks.

0:10.7

We were just out getting lunch and we passed one of the many great, like, art stores in Yorkville.

0:16.6

If you don't know Toronto geography, Yorkville is this neighborhood in Toronto that has fancy people.

0:23.3

It used to be quite poor, like in the 1960s and 70s.

0:27.8

And now it's just like stores that sell, yeah, expensive watches and some rather interesting art,

0:34.0

which is I think Wyewell is bringing this up.

0:36.1

Yeah, you guessed correctly.

0:37.3

We saw this one art store.

0:39.1

It's a neighborhood for Nouveau-Rish people, basically.

0:41.9

If I can show my class chauvinism here a little bit.

0:46.0

Class chauvinism towards a new voreish.

0:48.5

I'll note your turn of phrase there.

0:50.3

You did not say gallery.

0:51.7

You used the word store, you know?

0:53.8

Well, absolutely. And every major

0:56.2

city has an area like this where you look in and you see like they're selling the fake

1:01.4

Baskiyots, the fake Warhols, the fake Jeff Coons, you know, not paintings by those guys,

1:08.2

but like they're imitators. Derivations of derivations.

1:11.6

Yeah, you'll see the slavish imitations of these people.

1:14.6

And what I particularly hate are those ones that are like, it'll be a painting of Tweety Bird or Mickey Mouse and they're in rap gear.

1:22.6

And it's like kind of a collage effect behind them with lots of colors and it sparkles a little bit.

1:28.9

And it's $80,000.

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