Lou Reed & the Radicals

Going to the Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures exhibition in Rudolfinum, Prague had affected me more than I anticipated. I indeed expected to like it. In the days to follow, it had, however, had some unexpected major influences.

Fist off, it made me have a closer look on Lou Reed. After having a long, amazed stare at him, sunglasses and a Coke bottle in one of Warhol's Screen Tests, I'm actually listening to his music while writing this.

More notably to anyone but my iPod, me and my friends have made fun of the program: I really liked the movies, but calling Empire daring, experimental and radical....OK, maybe experimental (no one has done a thing like that before) and daring (publicly showing a movie like that sure is daring), but radical? We went on to how ridiculous the proliferation of the word 'radical' is .

The next 2 days, me and those radical-mocking friends were making a movie for a competition. For lack of a better name we called our group 'Radical Art' and turned the movie in just hours before the deadline (the name of our group and the movie were the two things we were most dissatisfied with). Now it seems that there will be some sort of fancy event for this competition and we will be asked questions of the "What-does-that-name-mean?" sort. Since it obviously came up as a joke, we will hopefully elaborate several seriously sounding theories.)