Wright and Hirst

Today is a day that I truly want to go back to bed on another gray cold, technically summer morning in Sweden.

Because in the span of 5 minutes of waking up I have felt sadness, madness, rage and depression.......

Sadness because I found out that Rick Wright, founding member and keyboardist for Pink Floyd died of cancer yesterday. The man wrote "Us and Them" and "The great gig in the sky" to which the latter song never seemed more approriate than today.....

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=lBWY3bli92Y.

Genzoman wites it better that I could here:
http://genzoman.deviantart.com/journal/20509280/

Madness because I then read that somebody bought a pickled real-life bull with gold horns and hooves in formaldehyde for $18 million dollars US AND a real life pickle tiger shark for $17.5 million dollars US.

http://www.luxist.com/2008/09/15/hirsts-golden-calf-sells-for-record-breaking-18-million/

Yup! That's nearly THIRTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS for what is basically a sick and perverse lab experiement...

That when RAGE kicked in! THIRTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS people!!! 36!!!!! For what? ART? That's not ART! That's glorified taxidermy!!!

WTF!!!!! C'mon! can you imagine how many arts and education and social programs you could support in poor inner cities with that much cash? Can you imagine how many people you CAN FEED with that money!

You f***ing MORONS!! You spent THIRTY SIX Million DOLLARS on what is bascally picked beef tongue and pickled herring. I can buy a jar of each at the local food market for $5 bucks......

And that's when DEPRESSION hit and I'm going back to bed and hide away from this stupid, stupid world!!!!!