Me & Bruce & Art - 1966 Ben Van Meter
"In 1966 Uncle Art Linkletter invited Bruce Conner and me to be on his show and give him the word about the difference between Art and Dirty Movies. It was one of those typical L.A. trips. The guy that drove us to and from the airport talked non stop about the laws on buying fully automatic weapons." - Ben Van Meter
What are the chances that I would be reading about Michael Jackson in Lipstick Traces on the day he died? It freaked me out a little. Typically, the only time anyone reads about Michael Jackson nowadays is when he is in the news for having done something terrible. Just a weird coincidence, then, but still. What follows is a chunk from the book that especially stood out. Read on: By 6 July 1984, when the Jacksons played the first show of their "Victory" tour, in Kansas City, Missouri - thirty years and a day after Elvis Presley made his first record in Memphis, Tennessee - Jacksonism had produced a system of commodification so complete that whatever and whoever was admitted to it instantly became a new commodity. People were no longer consuming commodities as such things are conventionally understood (records, videos, posters, books, magazines, key rings, earrings necklaces pins buttons wigs voice-altering devices Pepsis t-shirts underwear hats scarves gloves jackets - and why
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