BANKSY THE WEASEL : GRAFFITI ARTISTS WORSE FRAUDS THAN PSYCHICS

This new wave of superstar "Graffiti Artists" are even more obnoxious than rappers...the monkeys who make millions by yelling insults and sexist curses while scratching records and armpits. They are even more calculating than all those phony psychics with storefronts and sidewalk-blocking signs offering conjob come-ons.

This Banksy shit-lump has, to use an awful phrase, "caught the zeitgeist" of our times...a revolt against taste and quality, a need for guttersnipes to legitimize the gutter by embracing anything mediocre.

Do not doubt me. What do you think rap is about? It's about scum who can't SING reducing the music world to their dogshit level. And so we have "Graffiti Artists" who can't even get a job with a comic book company, spitting their crap on public and private property and calling it ART.

Just as Puff Daddy (P. Diddy, Sean Puffy, etc. etc.) and Jay-Z proved, if you're really a wily P.T. Barnum, you can make money hoodwinking the public. And now, we see how this Banksy shit-lump plays that game.

This guy has the publicity machine working overtime, and give him credit, while his "art" stinks, his instincts as a criminal and a fraud are first rate. He has all the evil guile of a fake psychic. Worse. The psychic has to work person-to-person to con someone, but Banksy...he does mass hypnosis just by putting himself out there as a hero, renegade and a "what's happening" star. Oh, look, it's BANKSY and he's a STREET ARTIST, so he's GREAT!

The average jerk with a spray can doesn't have Reuters dropping a daily article into newspapers around the world. Try sending a press release to them and see what happens. Nothing. Visit them in person. Nothing. You need to be very shrewd and cunning to get Reuters to go along with your publicity bullshit, and legitimize it. Not every whore is Kardashian, either, right?

Talk about cheap publicity...this guy uses a website to announce 30 days of pranks in NYC. That didn't cost much. The bored press ate it up and is now covering him EVERY DAY, asking delightedly, "where will he strike?" (In the not too distant future, the next Jack the Ripper will operate the same way, and if he chooses his victims well, he'll become a hero and a millionaire).

This Banksy shit-lump told Reuters to go check his website and pull some quotes. And they did: "Yesterday I set up a stall in the park...." Not exactly legal. Central Park is supposed to be a PARK, not a fucking zoo for beggars, con artists and jerks selling their used books and old tat. WOW, stop the presses! It's BANKSY, so let's report this! What a genius! That's even better than Macca doing a surprise concert in Times Square (for which he and his label had to get permission and pay fees).

Banksy video-recorded his sales (he leaves nothing to waste...he's probably going to make a documentary out of his NYC shenannigans) and ha ha, "buyers had no idea they were buying Banksy originals. Total taking for the day - $420." Now, most struggling artists would be very happy to make $420 selling their quickly spray-painted pieces of junk, and leave it at that. But THIS guy is parlaying that measly $420 into...$150,000 or more. Check the line in the article: "Banksy is selling work at auction later this year...expected to fetch upward of $150,000..."

Clever, huh? Even Yoko didn't think of it. Use NYC as your publicity shill. Go around spray painting illegal shit all over town, laugh yourself silly about it, act like you're an artistic genius, and see the sheep coming waddling over to sniff your shit and eat it up. Have some do-gooders declare that this is "fun" and that you're "livening up" an otherwise dull town, and then put on an exhibit or do an auction where all the phonies with money, and all the dedicated followers of whatever is fashionable, out-bid each other to put a Banksy on their wall in time for their next party.

So just as rappers proliferated like rats...and even TV commercials are often rap jingles with dumbass nursery rhymes and idiots flexing their fingers and gorilla-stomping around in baggy pants..."Graffiti Artists" are degrading and destroying communities and saying "get used to it!" Fuck architecture, fuck peace, fuck being able to see unmolested housing...let's contribute to the rising rate of attention deficit disorder and disobedience, let's see more garishness and selfishness. Let's amp up the level of stress in the world by not only permitting road signs and billboards and A-frame sidewalk crap that are eyesores but help the economy in some way...and say YES to graffiti all over buildings and walls, which our economy doesn't QUITE have the money available to remove.

There are "murals" on most every public school, every playground...all telling kids that it's ok to vandalize, and that crude, kindergarten level "art" is ART, and "it's all good."

And you thought Warhol and his soup can and Pollock and his drips were revolutionary? Were a breakthrough? What did it influence and what barriers were brought down? It created monster-bastards like Banksy, and it's brought down our culture and our concept of art. Go look at the stained glass windows of a church...and then go look at the spray-paint on the back wall of that church.