September 2010

Some Things Too Beautiful

September 20, 2010
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The hardest part of surviving is the indifference. If you produced a black metal box and spray painted the word, “SUFFERING” in white chunky letters on it, you would have to pile shit into it all day then hose it out before getting some sleep. You have to not care if you’re breathing. You have [...]

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An Apology

September 17, 2010
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I am such an asshole. Recently I blasted an enthusiastic email in praise and adoration of a movie that I saw, claiming it to be a “must see!” I was just about to embed it here. Have you seen the movie, 180 Degrees South? I did, and thought it was spectacular enough to urge my [...]

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Guerrilla Tech

September 15, 2010
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For $79, you can buy a 1 terabyte external hard drive which exceeds the amount of information in the entire contents of the Library of Congress (Iomega Prestige 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 34919 (Gray)). It weighs 2.5 pounds. I’m over hating the internet, but I understand the love/hate relationship that forms [...]

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We Used to Make Things

September 14, 2010
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Down on Morgan Ave. in Brooklyn is where we used to make things. There’s a stretch of factory hulks that nobody wants to touch because they’re not worth the liability. All the windows have long since broken and the rats have moved in with the homeless squatters. This is where the scrap yards, housing projects, [...]

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Up to Me

September 13, 2010
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If it was up to me, you wouldn’t have a job — but you’d work your ass off and work with energy and purpose in a place where time and space evaporate.  This is where artists live. If it was up to me, you wouldn’t have a single cent of obligatory debt.  Monetary debt is [...]

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