Remember Uncle Buck and Home Alone? Then Party Monster and Saved!.

Everything Macaulay Culkin has done or ever will do is confined in part by the cultural space he created as child. His movies, his money, his parents, his young marriage, his young divorce, disappearance, stories bout drugs, reappearance and now, his life as artist.

Knowing nothing about the person himself, it seems to me that Culkin has in recent years found a way to operate in this cultural space in the most fascinating manner possible. By embarking on an experimental life of this-and-thattery.

His work is crazy and great and way more interesting than a lot of what comes across the wire. The painting and referential commentary of a popular culture figure turned artist and cultural commentator cannot be more apt for meta- and irony and all things circular.

We have nothing in common but our age. But I’ve read all the interviews and stories about his life basically for the past 10 years. He’s a person who does not cease to inspire response. He may be the greatest living troll in the world. And I cannot get enough of his endeavors.

This may sound hyperbolic. But his life will be truly worthy of study.

Anyway. Macaulay Culkin is in a band called Pizza Underground and they sing covers of Velvet Underground songs rearranged to be about, and only about, pizza.

You can follow the Pizza Underground on Twitter or Tumblr.

It’s such a pizza day. I’m glad I spent it with food.