I Probably DON'T Hate You!
First Off.. I Just want to wish everyone a Very Happy Thanksgiving!
Secondly, to all those many confused and angry people who emailed me today asking "How Can I Possibly be Friends with that %&!#$@*! Mr. I Probably Hate You - ROCCO!" or What type of misguided deviant I must be for Rocco to refer to me as "one of his favorite people in the world." I just want to say.. Life in NYC is a strange thing sometimes.. and we can't always choose our friends.. but I like to think everything in life happens for a reason. I try to see the good in everyone (so maybe with ROCCO you've got to look very a bit harder!). But, yes.. Rocco and I have become good friends over the last few months. I try to keep him out of prison, from killing someone, hurting himself, from Pissing off his drug dealer, out of trouble! So it's kind of my own version of a public service!
So please don't hate me, and most importantly don't believe anything She Says!!
My plan for this blog is mostly to keep a candid record of my journey in the NYC modern art world, and share my thoughts & experiences as a poor,inexperienced,novice young private collector. So the focus will be on many of the nice gallery/auction/museum people (Clamp, Cooney, Flowers, ICP, Jenkins, Kamm, Kopeikin, Milo, Phillips, Swann, ..etc) I meet, as well as vent a bit about the many bad, elitist, rude, stupid, inconsiderate, nasty, downright evil, not so nice ones (Grrrr.... Rosen, Gagosian, Christies, Sothebys, Crime & Read, Regen, Cowles, etc..) and experiences...
Plus I hope to have a discussion about artists who's work I love and think maybe undervalued or under appreciated (Goldin, Mapplethorpe, Pierson, Tress, Siskind, ..too many to list), as well as those who's work I either don't understand or who've been inflated and/or over-hyped (hmmm...Hirst, Prince, Koons, Penn, Struth, Schnabel, Ruff, Disfarmer, Lux,..etc). Anyway that should be enough to piss everyone off give you a flavor for what's to come... all Ideas or suggestions always welcome..
looking forward...
Posted by: A.J. | November 25, 2005 at 08:45 AM
Son..
Why didn't you tell us you knew Rocco?? He could have come to our Thanksgiving Dinner! Well do you think he might be available for Christmas?
Love, Mom
Posted by: Mom | November 25, 2005 at 09:49 AM
you know....
I myself am perplexed by the venom that Rocco can bring out of people
but then again, i am more perplexed that people who, if they hate him as much as they say they do, continue to read his blog
religiously.
we have quite a few favorite artists in common.
i get to buy art with other people's money though...
looking forward to reading more.
Posted by: landry | November 28, 2005 at 07:44 PM
i can't say a word ... i met up with rocco via a lunch with his bf corey in may ... and they were both quite pleasant.
Posted by: myke | December 12, 2005 at 07:23 PM