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FACTORY_DAYS
May 21, 2010
Morrisey makes a few points when
talking about the old Factory days: On the commentary disk
with Paul Morrisey's
(1) Warhol hired Morrisey, and put his Andy Warhol's "Flesh".
own name on things, but wasn't really
doing all that much.
(2) The Factory wasn't actually a
hang-out, but rather a place where My understanding was that
they regularly scheduled and staged the old Silver Factory Funny
photoshoots for anyone who called. was more of an authentic Morrisey
gathering place. doesn't
(3) The entire goal of the dis-
game was to do what they tinguish.
actually achieved: promote We might guess that Morrisey
Warhol's name, and sell is exaggerating his own role
screen prints at every and downplaying others...
increasing prices (and
without paying gallery You might get
commissions). the impression Really, Morrisey
that Warhol was joined The Factory
a nobody until in 1965, when
Morrisey put him Warhol's silver star
over. was already rising.
After the Soup can
paintings, after the
Much of what Marilyn silkscreens,
Morrisey says after the movies
has a ring of "Sleep" and "Beauty
truth about it. No. 2"...
His portrait of Warhol as
this weirdly hung-up
character who did very I've often thought he
little artistically and yet was an example of an Though
became famous... that idiot savant: he could there's
doesn't sound too far off. do interesting things another view
despite not really being that this was
Morrisey is dismissive of very bright. schtick, a
Warhol's self-conscious defense
schtick in some of the But consider the mechanism.
photographs, e.g. meeting portrait of Warhol
a European photgrapher by Reed and Cale on If you refuse
with a large dildo peeping "Songs for Drella": to defend
out of his jacket pocket. a more respectful yourself, if
view. you just
But this schtick admit to
works much in the Morrisey's anything
way Morrisey's story is a you're
movies work, little sketchy accused of,
because it's concerning you undermine
so deadpan, so people such as the momentum
unconcerned. Lou Reed. of the
DRY_FLESH attack.
Did the Velvet
In the land of the Cool, Underground
the autistic man is king. break-up mostly
because Reed was
jealous of Nico?
That one does not
quite take the
ring...
WARHOL
Morrisey organized the
Exploding Plastic Inevitable
and brought Nico into the VU.
He was involved with
the founding of *the*
proto-punk band...
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