Vincent Gallo and Zak Smith are two individuals I would like to meet someday.
Zak Smith is an artist, whose art is out of this world. His use of imagery, subject matter, material and range of conceptual depth is provocative and powerful. I never met him, but I conducted an email interview with him once back in high school. One day while I was browsing through a shelf of art books at the library, I came across “Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls”, one of his first published books. Upon review, I was startled by his art, the frenetic energy of his paint colors and the overwhelming multiplicity of his series, such as the 755 images for Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (featured in 2004 Whitney Biennial) and “100 Girls – 100 Octopuses” which exuded an obsessive oversaturated expressionism, revealing hybrids of drawing, painting and photochemistry as well as the tiny, erotic, jewel-colored paintings.
The 2004 Whitney Biennial commented, “Smith’s stylized portraits and acidic abstractions intimately capture stillness in an ever-encroaching world [with] a deconstructed neo-punk aesthetic conversant in comic book-style drawing, vivid psychedelic coloration, experimental photographic processes, and traditional draftsmanship”. My curiosity with him was further heightened when I found out he was a pornographic film star under the alias “Zak Sabbath”. I have yet to read his recent book, “We did Porn”, a memoir of his career as an actor in the adult films industry. Smith to me remains a mystery, his unorthodox lifestyle and nonchalant bohemian ways project him a peculiar fellow.
Then came Vincent Gallo, one of the most discrete, original, and under appreciated individuals of our time. I was recently on his website and the “personal services” section caught me by surprise to say the least with an uncanny humor. Here is a little snippet via vgmerchandise.com:
VINCENT GALLO evenings, weekends escort.
$50,000.00
wish, dream or fantasy with VINCENT GALLO, ladies only
Have you ever watched a movie and fallen in love with one of the actors? The way they looked or a character they played? Afterwards you thought of them over and over. Daydreaming, imagining things, sexy things. When I was very young I was madly in love with Tuesday Weld and Charlotte Rampling. On my 14th birthday I went to see the film Rolling Thunder and had my biggest crush of all on the actress Linda Haynes. I wished and wished and wished everyday that I could meet all these girls. I thought of a lot of sexy things with Susan Blakely after seeing her in Lords of Flatbush. In my mind I could do with her anything I wanted to do. So believe me, I know and understand what it’s like to wish and dream about spending time with a movie star. Doing things that couples do. Couples in love. At least couples where the guy is hot and knows how to handle a chick.
I, Vincent Gallo, star of such classics as Buffalo 66 and The Brown Bunny have decided to make myself available to all women. All women who can afford me, that is. For the modest fee of $50,000 plus expenses, I can fulfill the wish, dream, or fantasy of any naturally born female. The fee covers one evening with Vincent Gallo. For those who wish to enjoy my company for a weekend, the fee is increased to a mere $100,000. Heavy set, older, red heads and even black chicks can have me if they can pay the bill. No real female will be refused. However, I highly frown upon any male having even the slightest momentary thought or wish that they could ever become my client. No way Jose. However, female couples of the lesbian persuasion can enjoy a Vincent Gallo evening together for $100,000. $200,000 buys the lesbos a weekend. A weekend that will have them second-guessing.
I am willing to travel worldwide to accommodate clients. However, travel days are billed at $50,000 per plus all premium flight fees. Scanning for STD’s is required as is bathing and grooming prior to our encounter. Detailed photos of potential clients also required prior. An extra fee for security to protect me is charged on top of the fantasy fee. Security fees will vary depending on the details of an encounter and how much security I will need.
Potential clients are advised to screen the controversial scene from The Brown Bunny to be sure for themselves that they can fully accommodate all of me. Clients who have doubt may want to test themselves with an unusually thick and large prosthetic prior to meeting me. You may be surprised just how much you can handle and how good it feels.
This service is available, but is only payable by cash, checks, and/or bank wire. No credit card payments accepted for this item.
There was also another ad where he offers to sell his sperm for 1 million dollars. According to his biography “Gallo is selling his sperm and sexual fantasies as conceptual works.” His Internet art questions celebrity, procreation, ego, social agenda, and views of religion, race and sexuality. His public offerings are “motivated by extreme sensitivity, concept and thoughtfulness, however their presentation appears crude and offensive. Misinterpretation of this work is common and Gallo is often incorrectly categorized as a racist, sexist, homophobe.” What I appreciate most about Gallo is his modest mannerism and incredible work ethic in which he sternly represents himself – embodies himself media and likewise, as well as produces, edits and distributes his own films. His talent are widespread in the fields of performance art, artist, musician, vintage gadget enthusiast, and motorcycle racer. He embodies no celebrity like facade, but just that of a plain individual. His films and music always leave me captivated and bound in the moment, he has a unique way of transcending the viewer into his concourse of phantasmagoric shadows.
Zak Smith is an artist, whose art is out of this world. His use of imagery, subject matter, material and range of conceptual depth is provocative and powerful. I never met him, but I conducted an email interview with him once back in high school. One day while I was browsing through a shelf of art books at the library, I came across “Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls”, one of his first published books. Upon review, I was startled by his art, the frenetic energy of his paint colors and the overwhelming multiplicity of his series, such as the 755 images for Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (featured in 2004 Whitney Biennial) and “100 Girls – 100 Octopuses” which exuded an obsessive oversaturated expressionism, revealing hybrids of drawing, painting and photochemistry as well as the tiny, erotic, jewel-colored paintings.
The 2004 Whitney Biennial commented, “Smith’s stylized portraits and acidic abstractions intimately capture stillness in an ever-encroaching world [with] a deconstructed neo-punk aesthetic conversant in comic book-style drawing, vivid psychedelic coloration, experimental photographic processes, and traditional draftsmanship”. My curiosity with him was further heightened when I found out he was a pornographic film star under the alias “Zak Sabbath”. I have yet to read his recent book, “We did Porn”, a memoir of his career as an actor in the adult films industry. Smith to me remains a mystery, his unorthodox lifestyle and nonchalant bohemian ways project him a peculiar fellow.
Then came Vincent Gallo, one of the most discrete, original, and under appreciated individuals of our time. I was recently on his website and the “personal services” section caught me by surprise to say the least with an uncanny humor. Here is a little snippet via vgmerchandise.com:
VINCENT GALLO evenings, weekends escort.
$50,000.00
wish, dream or fantasy with VINCENT GALLO, ladies only
Have you ever watched a movie and fallen in love with one of the actors? The way they looked or a character they played? Afterwards you thought of them over and over. Daydreaming, imagining things, sexy things. When I was very young I was madly in love with Tuesday Weld and Charlotte Rampling. On my 14th birthday I went to see the film Rolling Thunder and had my biggest crush of all on the actress Linda Haynes. I wished and wished and wished everyday that I could meet all these girls. I thought of a lot of sexy things with Susan Blakely after seeing her in Lords of Flatbush. In my mind I could do with her anything I wanted to do. So believe me, I know and understand what it’s like to wish and dream about spending time with a movie star. Doing things that couples do. Couples in love. At least couples where the guy is hot and knows how to handle a chick.
I, Vincent Gallo, star of such classics as Buffalo 66 and The Brown Bunny have decided to make myself available to all women. All women who can afford me, that is. For the modest fee of $50,000 plus expenses, I can fulfill the wish, dream, or fantasy of any naturally born female. The fee covers one evening with Vincent Gallo. For those who wish to enjoy my company for a weekend, the fee is increased to a mere $100,000. Heavy set, older, red heads and even black chicks can have me if they can pay the bill. No real female will be refused. However, I highly frown upon any male having even the slightest momentary thought or wish that they could ever become my client. No way Jose. However, female couples of the lesbian persuasion can enjoy a Vincent Gallo evening together for $100,000. $200,000 buys the lesbos a weekend. A weekend that will have them second-guessing.
I am willing to travel worldwide to accommodate clients. However, travel days are billed at $50,000 per plus all premium flight fees. Scanning for STD’s is required as is bathing and grooming prior to our encounter. Detailed photos of potential clients also required prior. An extra fee for security to protect me is charged on top of the fantasy fee. Security fees will vary depending on the details of an encounter and how much security I will need.
Potential clients are advised to screen the controversial scene from The Brown Bunny to be sure for themselves that they can fully accommodate all of me. Clients who have doubt may want to test themselves with an unusually thick and large prosthetic prior to meeting me. You may be surprised just how much you can handle and how good it feels.
This service is available, but is only payable by cash, checks, and/or bank wire. No credit card payments accepted for this item.
There was also another ad where he offers to sell his sperm for 1 million dollars. According to his biography “Gallo is selling his sperm and sexual fantasies as conceptual works.” His Internet art questions celebrity, procreation, ego, social agenda, and views of religion, race and sexuality. His public offerings are “motivated by extreme sensitivity, concept and thoughtfulness, however their presentation appears crude and offensive. Misinterpretation of this work is common and Gallo is often incorrectly categorized as a racist, sexist, homophobe.” What I appreciate most about Gallo is his modest mannerism and incredible work ethic in which he sternly represents himself – embodies himself media and likewise, as well as produces, edits and distributes his own films. His talent are widespread in the fields of performance art, artist, musician, vintage gadget enthusiast, and motorcycle racer. He embodies no celebrity like facade, but just that of a plain individual. His films and music always leave me captivated and bound in the moment, he has a unique way of transcending the viewer into his concourse of phantasmagoric shadows.
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