MARQUIS DE SADE MY ARSE.....

Current mood: SORE
Category: SORE Art and Photography

Today is the first big day of the Tour De France.

Today these brave and stupid bastards are riding their bikes up 2000m mountains with the expressed aim of grinding one another into the ground.

But this is sport, it's not-

This is art. This is far more art than nearly all other art. It's theatre - it's pure organised fucking suffering for no good reason at all.

Look at Vinos legs.



He crashed 2 days ago at 70kph. He got back on his bike, cycled 25km at an average of over 40kph, came over the line dripping in blood from two deep cuts on his knees and with his arse hanging out the back of his shorts contused and redened to fuck.

Vino had stiches in the knees overnight (8 in one, 7 in the other and 5 in his elbow) and yesterday he rode a couple of hundred kilometers at over 35kph to stay in the race, despite the fact he could barely walk.

Today he'll be trying to attack as he rides up and over a selection of Alps..

It's not just Vino.

Here's the list of the injuries that have led to riders having to quit in the first week...

• Stage 1: DNF Eduardo Gonzalo Ramirez (Spa) Agritubel - broken collarbone
  
• Stage 3: DNS Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel - broken thumb
  
• Stage 4: DNF Xabier Zandio Echaide (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - broken collarbone
  
• Stage 5: DNS Rémy Di Grégorio (Fra) Française des Jeux - broken elbow
  
• Stage 5: DNF Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram - sciatica
  
• Stage 6: DNS Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis - multiple injuries
  
• Stage 7: DNS Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank - saddle sore/cyst

Watching the Tour De France and cycle racing in general this last 11 years has led me to conclude that despite their great claims of endless suffering, most artists, writers and musicians are as soft as shit and don't know the first thing about suffering.

Perhaps this explains why there's so much shitty unlovely and unimaginative work around......

Marquis De Sade my arse....

Currently listening : Tour de France Soundtracks By Kraftwerk Release date: By 19 August, 2003

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	Madeleine	its the ones with the broken collarbones that do my head in but vino is incredible, thought he was out though after that signal of throat slitting he made to the camera. fuck art long live the tour Posted by Madeleine on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 14:05 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR	The collarbone is a very common injury, but it doesn't always exclude riders. Tyler Hamilton did a whole tour and won a mountain stage after sustaining one at an early stage a few years back - though he was accused of lying about it... Posted by PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 18:25 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Paloma Pirate	artists writers and musicians are only so because they are really cowards. that's a fact. i'm a coward. damn. all this and the up a mountain. damn. shit. Posted by Paloma Pirate on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 17:53 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR	I blame Vincent Van Gogh - before him, artists and the like were a little more heavyweight and feisty.. Since VG it's almost become compulsory for creative types to be weak, pathethic and overly vulnerable. 'Oh I'm an artist....' has become an excuse for almost any kind of laziness... I think a part of an artists vaguest training should be a few weeks riding bikes up mountains, then the skinny, unhealthy looking bastards would know about suffering and might actually produce some good work.... Picasso & Hemmingway had some energy and verve - for that matter Hemmingway used to sit up all night inbetween the stages drinking with the riders. But them two aside, this last 100 years has been a very 'unhealthy and unfit' period for art... Posted by PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 18:14 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Paloma Pirate	yeah. there should be some kind of an artist boot camp. show all these suffering types the real meaning of suffering. it should involve some grueling physical conditioning and real starving. not the "im a starving artist starving..." but REAL starving. then they should all be forced to go on drinking & drug binges (oh wait, they already do that), spend some time in East LA, walk over a bed of hot coals, and have boxing matches with one another. then, I'd like to see what kind of art we get... Posted by Paloma Pirate on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 18:26 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR	I might organise this... Maybe I'll buy a piece of land up a mountain somewhere in the old country and set up and 'artists training camp' To all intents and purposes it'll be just like a 'terrorists training camp', but they'll be fewer guns, less shouting of the word ALLAH, and no bombs whatsoever...(except perhaps the odd grenade to wake them up an hour before they've gone to bed....) Posted by PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 18:30 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Paloma Pirate	well now mr g this is a lucrative business opportunity. we'll need some investors....i can see the advertisement now. Artist? Writer? Musician? Creative Type? Is something missing from your life? Is your lack of authentic suffering having a negative impact on your work? Let us be your solution. Posted by Paloma Pirate on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 18:59 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR	Yes... We can display the ads in arty magazines, fly post them and graffitti them in a trendy style in arty parts of town and work out deals with art schools... 'LEARN TO SUFFER!! - SPEND A WEEK AT THE ARTISTS TRAINING CAMP!!!' This could be the thing that makes us rich...Bring your people in October and they can meet with with my people a deal can be thrashed out.. Posted by PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 19:06 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Paloma Pirate	but, then again, i do like skinny and pale so much....sigh... Posted by Paloma Pirate on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 18:29 [Remove] [Reply to this]

PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR

I like tanned, curvey and athlethic in both sexes... That said, I saw a mountain stage of the Giro D'Italia last year and Danilo Di Luca (who won this years addition) managed to look both completely tanned and pale as a fucking ghost at the same time. His face in that moment will never leave my mind - he looked half fucking dead and supremely alive at the exact same moment... Posted by PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 18:38 [Remove] [Reply to this]