Ja meneertje, je dacht zeker dat ik het vergeten was. He?

 

Last saturday after having some coffees and vodkas in one of my favourite saturday afternoon cafes, reading my new book (Truman Capotes’ ‘In Cold Blood’), running into old friends and more recent hos and asking tourists about thanksgiving (I’m planning on throwing a thanksgiving dinner this year to celebrate the ongoing influence America has on my life and to celebrate friendship in general, naturellement), anyway... after all that good fun, I went to my friend J’s house who had called me just as I was flipping back through the pages to find out who was who again (that book seems just crammed with personages).
Although I’ve been there numerous times I suddenly felt the urge to express my feelings about the look of the house. I didn’t supress it and told J. (who shall remain nameless, because this isn’t a pretty story) that

 

 

I really liked his house and ‘what he’d done with it’. And just as I did so realised that his lifesize Anton Corbijn portrait of Ian Curtis (see the pic above and imagine it being a zillion times bigger) was gone. I’ve seen it in several of his houses, but somehow I suspected the thing didn’t quite make it to this new one.
When I asked J. about the whereabouts of this poster, he started this rap on it being kind of old and dirty (but since I like it raw, that didn’t work for me) then he suggested that it had been in his room ever since he was a teenager and that it was ‘maybe time for a change’ and all that crap... Hey, that’s all well and good, but asking him what he’d done with that really big poster he told me he’d ripped it to shreds, because he needed the sound of paper being torn to pieces for some movie soundtrack. ‘This way’, my friend claimed ‘the recorded sound provides for the poster to always live on in audio format’.
Man, I ask of thee, wouldn’t that have been just the ultimate gift for his first born child, or at least some magical thing that could have been kept in the family for all time? Maybe I’m being somewhat emotional about it all, but that poster was just really beautiful, man...

 

This might be a good occasion to show you all this really nice picture of Peter Saville’s office. Or maybe it’s an office designed by Peter Saville. Who cares?!
It just looks fucking te erg! check it out...

 

 

Rufus k. is a Rotterdam-based artist. With companion Gyz la Riviere he forms the succesfull art duo De Humobisten. If you want to hang with him you can just send him an email.