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Malcolm McLaren: Musical Paintings (Hapax)

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"Shallow" was McLaren's late hypnotic, absurd, and simply terrific music/video exhibition. It was made up of generally non-explicit moments from faded, B-level, "dirty movies" in close up or slow motion, and repeated until you felt yourself in a trance--faces leering mysteriously, someone walking down stairs, one actor drifting toward another, someone vacuuming suggestively (!) The sound track was, at times, quite clever: I recall the Betty Boop version of "I wanna be loved by you" woven together with Mick Jagger and the Stones' early hit "I just wanna make love to you." Over and over and over, but that was part of the dreamy effect. The book, which I flicked through at the book display, left me cold. It added very little, though to be fair, I didn't sit down with it for very long, or flick through it repetitively! Still, I wanted to like it, but just couldn't. If a DVD ever comes out, that's what I'll spring for. Goodbye Malcolm. You were a lively one.