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the other day we found all these little pieces of alphabet shaped pasta on the sidewalk and arranged them to say:
"HELLO PEDESTRIAN MANS!"
AND THIS IS SO COOL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?hp=&pagewanted=alli am still suspicious of them but this seems pretty cool. maybe i am being overly optimistic about this being something that will change government policy.
we went on tour and it was great. i stopped being afraid to sing in front of people. now i need more time and less distraction so that i can do things that i like doing ALL THE TIME!
the coolest people are the ones having the most fun
the ones constantly growing
the ones consistantly confronting their feelings/oppressive and nurturing attitudes/relationship to the world
every so often i end up writing a pretty intense letter to someone older than me and i am wondering about why i am in this habit and why it is important. i feel like it is.
two years ago i wrote to this famous artist who taught our class, telling her about why the people younger than her deserve respect and to be taken seriously as the people who will continue to work on the projects that she has been working on/started/will inevitably fail to have fresh perspective on (or even to have the breath in her lungs that allows her to make anything at all. (maybe this puts things into too cohesive of a historical trajectory (we are told that traditions are fragmented as is identity and collective notions of reality; is this really the case or is it merely a new tradition?) or is teleological or something but especially in cases where we're trying to grapple with/break away from the weight of history...it's good to ask everyone where they're at and what they are trying to accomplish as if they were real people *imagine that*). is it too much to ask someone to consider the fact that eventually they will not be the newest thing or to consider the fact that they are stuck working from a specific point in time and that they can adapt or be stuck but in the end they will be irrelevant? my ideas will eventually be replaced by ones that are newer and more revolutionary. my ideas will be normal and square. i am totally okay with that.
maybe the avant garde is dead because of the rate of assimilation into mass culture/collective consciousness. does that mean it's really dead or just working?
i'm kidding myself to think that it's "working"....
anyway i feel like i try to talk to people sometimes in a way that asks them to step outside of their ego/life/personality and look at the bigger picture and i'm not sure that's an easy thing to ask anyone to do. i forgot that not everyone is even aware that it's possible to try that. o could be kidding myself into thinking that i am even capable but having the thought that i am makes it easy to put things into perspective anyway. but i am considering a new approach.
i think i might be fired from my job is all.
"HELLO PEDESTRIAN MANS!"
AND THIS IS SO COOL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?hp=&pagewanted=alli am still suspicious of them but this seems pretty cool. maybe i am being overly optimistic about this being something that will change government policy.
we went on tour and it was great. i stopped being afraid to sing in front of people. now i need more time and less distraction so that i can do things that i like doing ALL THE TIME!
the coolest people are the ones having the most fun
the ones constantly growing
the ones consistantly confronting their feelings/oppressive and nurturing attitudes/relationship to the world
every so often i end up writing a pretty intense letter to someone older than me and i am wondering about why i am in this habit and why it is important. i feel like it is.
two years ago i wrote to this famous artist who taught our class, telling her about why the people younger than her deserve respect and to be taken seriously as the people who will continue to work on the projects that she has been working on/started/will inevitably fail to have fresh perspective on (or even to have the breath in her lungs that allows her to make anything at all. (maybe this puts things into too cohesive of a historical trajectory (we are told that traditions are fragmented as is identity and collective notions of reality; is this really the case or is it merely a new tradition?) or is teleological or something but especially in cases where we're trying to grapple with/break away from the weight of history...it's good to ask everyone where they're at and what they are trying to accomplish as if they were real people *imagine that*). is it too much to ask someone to consider the fact that eventually they will not be the newest thing or to consider the fact that they are stuck working from a specific point in time and that they can adapt or be stuck but in the end they will be irrelevant? my ideas will eventually be replaced by ones that are newer and more revolutionary. my ideas will be normal and square. i am totally okay with that.
maybe the avant garde is dead because of the rate of assimilation into mass culture/collective consciousness. does that mean it's really dead or just working?
i'm kidding myself to think that it's "working"....
anyway i feel like i try to talk to people sometimes in a way that asks them to step outside of their ego/life/personality and look at the bigger picture and i'm not sure that's an easy thing to ask anyone to do. i forgot that not everyone is even aware that it's possible to try that. o could be kidding myself into thinking that i am even capable but having the thought that i am makes it easy to put things into perspective anyway. but i am considering a new approach.
i think i might be fired from my job is all.