Coolness as an art form

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Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!

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June 9th, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Columbus Mississippi, Darren Cox, Gran Torino, Lynn Ashmore, My life, Painting on a car, Punk Guy, glory days, meaning of life | No Comments »

Welcome to 99daz.com the coolest fine art blog on the internet, in this dimensional reality at least. Darren Daz Cox 1987 with punk rock art painted Torino

This is a scan of a photograph of me and my Gran Torino that me and my friends painted the top on, someone, Lynn? Pamster? Jane-O-La? Corinne?, might have some detail shots but I’m thankful I have this pic left after all that time! I’m wearing my home made Sex Pistols T shirt (as we didn’t have the internet or any cool stores that sold punk stuff and no one but my friends and I even knew who the Sex Pistols were back then, even though they were long gone, some places take a long time to catch up…).

I was pretty cool back then and still am. I’m not trying to be funny as ‘coolness’, like art, is subjective.

One man’s coolness is another man’s stupidity, and many people see coolness as a phase, something you have a shot at while you’re young or, if lucky, maintain as long as you are lucky and rich. Fame helps being considered as cool but coolness, unlike punk rock, is still legit even if everyone agrees. Mahatma Gandhi is universally regarded as cool. Here’s a quote of his that rules."The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong".

As an artist I think Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were extremely cool, at least as cool as me if not cooler, but if you aren’t into art you might think they were nuts or worse, after all, who would choose to be poor and alone and not follow a career where you can earn a modest living and provide for your retirement and have a family along the way? Why bother to be so different and mis-understood to the point of un-sanity just because you want to paint? It doesn’t make sense to someone who considers themselves ‘sensible’, but no one ever became a rock star by being sensible, ever.

Coolness is the natural state of mankind, not fear, not greed and creativity is spawned from that coolness. God is cool because God made us AND ring-tailed lemurs and all the things that really rock like sex and making music and painting etc. It is cool for your soul to become flesh (otherwise you are just a know-it-all concerned with bigger and better things than headbanging to Iron Maiden, which is often the most important thing I do at any one particular moment.)

There is a consensus amoung spiritual speakers that our souls are the chosen ones that come down to Earth to live as best we can in a state of amnesia against impossible odds of surviving.

There are a lot of cool people out there who are talking about quantum physics and parallel dimentions and even dimensional shifts (check out Whitley Streiber’s podcast with the mighty Starfire Tor) and there is one inescapable conclusion, this reality is not fixed unless you give up and think your destiny is unchangable.

I think that when you are born you have a template of certain things that are likely to happen but your free will via quantum physics can over-ride those pre-destinations, sort of like an elf can choose to weild a war hammer instead of a bow but he’d probably be more sucessful with the bow. But an elf bashing a villianous golem with a warhammer is definitely cooler than him using a bow (see how it works!!!!)

Ok, so I believe that there are infinite parallel universes that are in a state of potential, rather than what we perceive as reality, and our thoughts and intentions allow those universes to merge with our current one, changing it to better serve our state of mind. Our thoughts, not merely our actions, change reality so you should think cool thoughts if you want your world to be cool, and I have.

I’ve been taking the cool path, consciously, ever since I became a member of CBA (Cool Bums Association) I have my 30 year membership pin BTW. What? you aren’t still a member of the gangs you made when you were a kid? You didn’t even make your own gang? My life is an art project in coolness. You might not see it that way but you probably don’t think Sha Na Na were the best group at Woodstock either haha!!

Just to set the record straight, David Seidell of Pekin Illinois is a cool writer.

and to interpolate Biff Brown from the Lead Babie interview tape 1987 #3, recorded a few feet away from where this picture was taken, "it was yesterday, well last week, actually it was 20 years ago".