Some rather striking remarks made by Jim Jarmusch in an interview with Alan Licht for this month's Wire:

"I was thinking a lot lately about museums being temples of capitalism in a funny way, and that art used to be in a context, in a place, you know what I mean? Like those Greek statues that were painted were an exterior... they were there for you to see in the context of a place. And then, imperialism looted those things. The first really Western museums are born of imperialist culture, they started in France or something. But it's not that old, having museums where art is isolated, you know. It's funny how art often was spiritual, as well. So I was thinking, what's the context of museums? I guess it's the religion of the empires, it's capitalist temples of looted shit that we've isolated and made worth a lot of money by removing it from its context, somehow."

"You must have some ideas"

The interviewer is a complete boob, but this is otherwise a memorable appearance on what I'm sure is an entirely forgettable talk show.

Edit: After watching the interview again, I have to remark that this interviewer is actually out-and-out scum. In fact, he is part of the problem!

GATHERING OF THE JUGGALOS

Unfortunately I missed out on this year's festival but I plan to attend in 2010. This infomercial describes some of the festival's events such as a JUGGALO PILOTED HELICOPTER RIDE.