thought i would let you in on a little secret.
paris hilton is actually "paris hilton", a fictional character within an ongoing bit of performance art.
seen from that angle, she is a genius.
the character "paris hilton" does not do anything--she gets fucked up, she participates in various incompetently documented sexual liaisons, she gets fucked up, she show up to events, she gets fucked up, she hangs out with other fictional characters in various LA bistrii, she gets fucked up, she drives around.
its all about the "spontenous" attraction of "the media" to "paris hilton."
the less she actually does while continuing to attract "the media" the better the piece gets.
now she is approaching a limit-state of self-erasure.
weaselling out of jail by refusing to eat bologna and going on a 3 day hunger strike is genius.
she shows that in amurica, if you are endowed by accident with adequate cash, you do not have to *do* anything--but she is beautiful because she takes doing nothing SO FAR...now, she has extended this idea that she does nothing all the way, to the effective erasure of a 2nd dui conviction.
so now she CAN'T do anything because nothing she does has any status.
she CANT really be guilty of dui because she doesn't DO ANYTHING.
so we see that "paris hilton" is transcending the cheap situationist character of her earlier work and attaining the status of zen master.
sheesh, people. i thought this would be obvious.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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