[kj] Short review of "In Excelsis" by someone who may have heard it...

[jon chapman]

stop having an eppy,that won't be the artwork.


 

 
 



 


> From: fatpotanga at gmail.com

> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 23:52:15 +0100

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: Re: [kj] Short review of "In Excelsis" by someone who may have heard it...

> 

> On 28 May 2010, at 22:52, phil wrote:

> 

> > They really need to give Mr Coles a call....

> 

> while I wholeheartedly echo that sentiment, I really quite like the can-top-pop-art thing.

> I also like the way the hammer & sickle KJ is subtly hidden in the ring pulls.

> 

> as for the significance in orientation & explaining it, my fat little brain sees the obvious thing about consumerism/global corporations

> orientation wise I see clocks

> Lots of twelves.

> Mayan calendar end of an epoch 2012

> So cover = globalism/consumerism/death of the world???

> I'm no good with numbers or the significance of, but maybe the columns all add up like some killing joke game of sudoko

> (875-020-079)

> qabala?

> maybe they point to letters. (9 cans, 9 letters, paulraven?)

> 

> I also see lots of smiling cyclops Buddhas with red noses...

> also stony faced red masks with the hammer & sickle logo as it's 'third eye' 

> & a bunch of cans

> 

> Whether I'm right or wrong, I actually think it's very clever & a well thought out piece of design.

> Krusty was just some goon thinking 'killing + joke - I know, I'll do a psycho clown - ooh! this needs MUSTARD!"

> 

> well, off the top of my beery head, it's a theory... :)

> 

> nighty-night

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