The irony of his fame now really is that he was one of the least significant rulers.

Waking Up Dead does a great job of portraying the irony of stardom's illusive promise of money, fame and power only to have it boomerang back and cut so many artists to shreds.

LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

The irony is that these financial pressures don't seem to be saving cost overall.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.