RODSTUARTLOVESTHEHAMPTONS.COM: Recent Comments

Comment on Mandolin Wind

2009-11-03T03:15:02Z

Is that a Stuart/Rachel Hunter/Hornsby sandwich I smell, hot from the toaster of a midsummer Hamptons Jitney ride?

Comment on Every Picture Tells A Story

2009-08-15T19:28:58Z

hamptons

Comment on Every Picture Tells A Story

2009-08-15T05:12:23Z

I'm at ear inn. Where r u?

Comment on Vote Ed Koch! Vote Public Urination!

2009-07-04T16:32:12Z

Bring back NY!! Amen to that!!! NYC is dying and its people like Rod Stuart who are keeping it alive. Rod will I see you tonight on an Brooklyn bound train?

Comment on Young Hearts Be Free Tonight

2009-06-19T05:38:25Z

Someone left a comment about old New York vs. new New York. What I find compelling about this graffiti is that it seems to both mock and embody the "new" New York. A friend described Rod Stuart's (sic) work as "Yuppie Graffiti". I found that fitting and this entire campaign endlessly fascinating. It's an empty message packaged in a quirky slogan that quite simply, works.

Comment on Young Hearts Be Free Tonight

2009-06-16T15:31:04Z

rod stewart loves the hamptons was just inducted into the hall of memes with punk and hippies. i know one person that is going to be endlessly amused by that

Comment on Young Hearts Be Free Tonight

2009-06-16T04:08:16Z

I think you both need to get laid.

Comment on Young Hearts Be Free Tonight

2009-06-16T00:08:36Z

Ah the halcyon days when the streets of New York were paved with real grit and populated by real people, salt of the earth types.

Am I right? Or am I just spouting mawkish piffle like you - sentimental longings for a time when I wasn’t around and neither were you. I tell you who was though. Most of the people living in this building – artists for the most part, who can’t afford to remove this cheap, gimmicky affront to their existence. See we get fined by the city if we don’t take action. How romantic is that? How fucking great?

This is nothing more than vandalism. It’s an assault, a personal attack that we have to deal with and pay for at the expense of our own art. And what’s more, just like punkhood, hippydom and all the other movements, memes reprised and mimicked for lack of original thought – it’s irrelevant and dated.

Comment on Young Hearts Be Free Tonight

2009-06-11T01:44:18Z

Some interesting points there... Is graffiti right? Probably not if it's not your property... but as long as there have been walls, there have been writing on them. From caves to ancient Roman structures and even today in New York City, graffiti in one form or another has always existed. It's a fact of life. Is it clever? Skilled? Maybe... maybe not... beauty is, after all, in the eye of the beholder. But as soon as you paint over it, remove it, whatever, more will surely come again... and again... and again... My advice is to start accepting that urban scrawl is just as much a part of the city as homeless people, noise, pollution, and even those obnoxious fancy condos. This is an apple we live in... and all apples have blights. If that's too much for you to swallow, stop eating them... or move to the country.

Comment on Young Hearts Be Free Tonight

2009-06-10T23:35:19Z

This is going to cost us $3500 to remove, and our building has no money. Why doesn't the "artist" hit the fancy condos instead of old-school building like ours and the mechanics next door who have just repainted their walls at considerable expense? Because there's no security, no doorman, no risk? What the fuck is the point of this? It's not clever, it's not skilled, it's not daring or heroic. It's a fucking blight. As defiant as dog shit, expression cloaked in cowardice.