<![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction - Jalopnik Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction - Jalopnik Comments]]> http://jalopnik.com Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:45:46 EDT Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:45:46 EDT http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4824430 That "friend" who did the throwing was comedy writer/musician Mason Williams who had a big guitar instumental hit in the '60's called "Classical Gas". He, at least was fairly talented, and along with Steve Martin provided much of the edge to the political humor that was central to the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour TV show (also in the late '60's). However, I doubt he will be remembered as much for his part in the production of Rausch's so-called "performance art".
Nevertheless, he had a little bit more than his 15 minutes of fame.


supersoul

]]> 12:370722:c4824430 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:45:46 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4821548 @Brian B: Me too.
Was this Dylan's inspiration for "From a Buick 6"?

Could you get a ticket for commiting an act of Dada at 90 mph?


Novaload

]]> 12:370722:c4821548 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:25:05 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4818672 When I first read the headline I thought this was about Hunter S. Thompson.

Brian B

]]> 12:370722:c4818672 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:00:39 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4816511 @2slo4u:

It was! The Auto Show has cooked my synapses.

Matthew DeBord

]]> 12:370722:c4816511 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:06:03 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4813965 @graverobber: @ƂƵЯ: @I'm so Malaise I can't taste it!!!!!!!!!11:

*haughty sniff*

Philistines. You wouldn't know art if it bounced of the hood of your Camry at 90mph.

lascauxcaveman

]]> 12:370722:c4813965 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:25:25 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4813198 Ahhh... 1966, back when you could actually speed on Highway 91. Today, that multilane concrete ribbon is in perpetual gridlock, and the monotony is only interrupted by the occassional horrific multi-vehicle collision...

Those were the days...

charles_barrett

]]> 12:370722:c4813198 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:55:01 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4812578 i thought the book was called "Royal Road Test"

Ben Simons

]]> 12:370722:c4812578 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:32:25 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4812431 Wow, it's amazing, that in 1968, that act of performance art made a statement ( probably something about the automobile causing the death of traditional forms of communication) while today half the population likely haven't ever even seen a typewriter.

The National Endowment for the Arts; spending your tax dollars on shit so esoteric, you can never hope to understand it.

graverobber- Same great taste, new low price!

]]> 12:370722:c4812431 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:26:50 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4812254 Throwing a typewriter out of a moving car is art nowadays? Well I suppose if you're into collecting massive coffee-table books. Otherwise I call it "Sunday night with a case of Keystone and half a bag of weed in my mom's Sentra".

bzr the paranoid android

]]> 12:370722:c4812254 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:20:36 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4811410 When done with the proper air of snobbery, aloofness and a Gitanes in one hand, anything can be called 'art'.

FreeMan

]]> 12:370722:c4811410 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:52:04 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4810865 I vote this time we use a typist, not a typewriter.

Specifically, Lawrence Ulrich.

boosted-lego-wagon

]]> 12:370722:c4810865 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:33:12 EDT <![CDATA[Performance Art And The Automobile: A 1963 LeSabre, A Typewriter And 90MPH Worth Of Destruction]]> http://jalopnik.com/370722/performance-art-and-the-automobile-a-1963-lesabre-a-typewriter-and-90mph-worth-of-destruction#c4810574 that's how the typewriter crumbles??

oh "art"... I made some this morning.. in the toilet, let me rub it on a Renault.

Starlton Heston, Gushing post-mother

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