Club
1)Never forget: all art is,
by its very nature, synthetic.
Romo is
made of plastic, as we all are if only we knew (plastic: having the power to
change, to be moulded into new forms, new shapes). Far from being disposable and
transient, plastic is in fact the most precious and enduring of commodities.
Stone crumbles, wood rots, the flesh dies, but PLASTIC IS FOREVER. After the
nuclear war, there will remain: insects, plastic.
2)Consider if you will how many
of the most valuable or deeply treasured or plainly beautiful human
achievements/discoveries/philanthropic acts have been born of the simplest
vainglory ...
Romo is always believing
you are gold.
3) ... and so in this
sense, pop can be likened to the hallucinogenic or the religious experience:
that is, it is not the reasliation of dreams or
aspirations that is finally important, rather those dreams and aspirations
themselves - and the creation of a world entirely separate from/to the wasted
codes of modern living.
Romo is the word
and shall be. Like "Dada": two simple syllables, Ro-Mo
Romantic. Modernist.
4)Never forget: all art is,
by its very nature, contrived.
Romo is
acknowledging the death of God and the supercession of
the need for Gods with human imagination itself. Romo
is the new religion, the spectacle of Man recreating himself in his own
image.
5)It is advisable to
actively cultivate the simulataneous alientaion from/vertiginous fascination with
one's own body that will arise spontaneously from time to time; one should treat
the body as somethng of a blank canvas and lavish upon
it the obsessive yet ulitmately superficial attention
we invariably reseve for matters of no importance
whatsover.
Romo is, correct, élitist. But we are talking about a peculiarly
democratic form of élitism. Anyone can reinvent
themselves. We can't help it if most are too dull to try.
6)Ridicule is nothing to be
scared of.
Romo is actively making life
more difficult and dangerous for yourself. Because pain
is beauty and beauty is pain.
7)The great cities are
already built. The great works have now been completed. This should be perceived
not as a limit, rather a stupendous and unprecedented FREEDOM.
Romo is tearing open the map of Europa, our frontierless homeland,
and gazing with romantic fascination at the placenames: Valencia, Sorrento,
Praha, Hammerfest, Zurich,
Sarajevo, Arkhangelsk, London
8)Never forget: all art is,
by its very nature, narcisistic.
Romo is
casting yourslef in the starring role in the film of
your life, and living every moment in the knowledge that the cameras are
rolling.
9)Lying is both useful and
constructive - but it is first necessary to restructure the delineation of
DECEIT and BELIEF. One must never, never think of lies as an indulgence or, worse, a convenience. Think of them rather
as ... seeds.
Romo is never telling your
real name. And never asking
10)Contravene at every reasonable opportunity, the four Great
Lies upon which late 20th century civilization has been based: The Lie Of
Authenticity, The Lie Of Fidelity, The Lie Of Modesty, The Lie Of Taste. All
engender nought but obstruction
Romo is
not a bloody revival, but some people are, you know, a bit slow.
11)Try thinking of the last days of this dense and speedy millenium as comparable to the last day of term:/"When it's
towards the end of the run you can overact appalingly"(Crisp)
Romo is la nouvelle belle époque. Romo is hurtling into this fin of the siecle to fin all
siecles with but one imperative: dance, for tomorrow, we die.
12)Never forget: all art is, by its very nature, irresponsible