Text received at 2:09am today: "Hiya! Warhol's death: HIV, drugs, or other?"
I responded at 2:10am: "Banal death: complications from routine gall bladder surgery. Shouldn't have happened."
It made me sad that people probably assume the worst of poor old Andrej Varchola, when his death was really the result of his fear of hospitals and doctors, which meant he delayed having his recurring gall bladder problems checked. He died at the age of 58 and, like the good Catholic boy he wanted to be, was interred at St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery.
Ugh. While I'm at it - some Warhol quotes:
+ Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
+ Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.
+ Uh, gee, great.
3 comments:
Hey hey hey.... Everyone should move to Shepparton. Its amazing here. If you are really lucky you could follow a community health nurse on her rounds doing Age Care Assessments. So much fun I nearly bought a shot-gun from the local Hunting Superstore to see if being dead was actually more boring.....
didn't know the Catholic thing... I can never understand that, the whole repentig on the deathbed thing... oh well, R.I.P. Andy, loved your work
what must it have been like for bowie to portray warhol in 'basquiat', considering they must have had a lot to do with each other over the years?
"shut up, rene"
"oh these are gooood. bruno, can i borrow some murney?"
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