It's dizzying psychedelic country in finest Meat Puppets tradition, full of slightly off-centre harmonies in Grateful Dead manner, and plenty of Kirkwood's swirling, trippy guitar.
As adept at legalistic flim-flam as his great mate Bill Clinton, he has been staying up until 3am to prepare for this ordeal, we're assured, anticipating every imaginable line of enquiry and rehearsing every possible reply in finest detail.
Weiner, a pioneer of language-based art, appears in finest fettle in his first U.S. retrospective: intelligent, provocative, allusive, and, for all his insistence on the word, vitally engaged with visual pleasure.
SUCH feeling for beauty, for greatness, for never being quite happy, undoubtedly had its roots in his relationship with his mother and with another woman, Isabella Blow, the alarming-looking stylist-aristocrat whose effect was like an umbrella opening in a phone booth — but the perfect umbrella in finest silk.
In finest Spinal Tap fashion, singer Ozzy Osbourne – who once famously played down his band's supposed association with black magic on the grounds that "I always preferred Milk Tray" – pointed out that his band's forces of darkness had triumphed over not God, but Rod.
– But I'm assured by all Old friends that it was fair. 3 "Come, thou canst bring it forth again, I know, In pristine bloom – once more, 'ere yet I go Beneath the sod, Present me to myself in finest feather Of youth and health, – as when the mountain heather I lightly trod". 4 Time seemed not all unwilling to comply: Bade me look forth, and I should soon enjoy An apparition.
