VANITY
When this video first surfaced on YouTube I was thrilled because I appear in front of one of my early paintings. It’s a nice piece and in many ways it still holds up. But three years later and after over 90,000 views I demanded that the video be withdrawn from public view. The premise of this short film is a multi-dimensional view of the French artist Currado Malaspina. As many of my readers know, I have been involved – on again/off again – with this wildly charismatic, insanely talented idiot for a number of years. What I find particularly offensive about the video is the gushing behavior of Lita Abruzzi, the dancer.
At first I assumed that her fawning depiction of Currado was just a vapid yet innocent expression of hero-worship – after all, it was well known that Abruzzi was married to the famously possessive Italian industrialist Giovanni Malpaghino. Now. it tuns out, that this “marriage” was a sham – a pathetic ruse to hide Malpaghino’s homosexuality – and all the while Abruzzi and Currado were involved in a torrid role-playing romance whose kinky, abject, squalid sordidness was known to everyone ….. but me!
I just found out that it has just reappeared online so I might as well throw up my hands and (don’t ask me why) post it here:
I guess I like the way I look in it …
