some selected quotes:
"look at you. earlier you get blessed by the pope and now you're carousing with a man in bed. and if i weren't so exhausted i would sin you all over"
"you want to know what your life is worth to me? i would kill ALL the Somalians for you. kill em dead...given there was some reason for it."
Popemobile came through town yesterday. it was his birthday too. his car was pretty sweet but I think i like the old school 50s version more. Seeing the pope made me want to do two very opposing things- watch more Fellini films and read the Bible again. I cant wait to get some free time.
there are many things i want to do once this rat-race is over. make handbags, stuffed animals. break out the record collection again. do more painting, relearn french. learn guitar. start a synth band [but first learn how to sew onesies so we have good costumes]. i cant wait for graduation.
jude wrote a manifesto. there are some things that need to be editted but its actually damned good. I do wish i wrote more, as I cant seem to enunciate any good thoughts anymore.
less than 2 months left in DC, no job prospects and no apartment still. eh.
What Cheer Manifesto
1. We do therefore we are not.
We act and are manifest in our actions but renounce all labels. As labels and names contain inherent divisiveness and cultural baggage, we reject them as entailing judgments and values not inherent in action. Hence we write poetry and yet are not poets. We paint but are not painters. We sculpt but are not sculptors. Action is the sign of our presence, and we renounce all pretense and posing.
2. We reject post-modernity, as post-modern writings are boring and convoluted and therefore the enemy of ecstatic experience. Also, irony is the nemesis of genuine sincere expression and experience.
3. We embrace ecstatic experience and the wonder of creating. We celebrate the spectacular and elevate the wonder inherent in the mundane as well as the abnormal alike.
4. We reject that which takes the wonder and joy out of life. Hence we reject scholarly criticism and the Academy. Government is also frowned upon.
5. We long for meaning and profundity. Hence we reject politics and journalism.
6. We long for an Ideal but have complicated and often contradictory views concerning Religion. Our superstitions are pluralistic and multivalent.
7. We elevate the human form because the human form is just fine.
8. We reject Puritanism in all of its forms. We reject any ideology that seeks to confine the emotional and psychological complexity of the human experience.
9. We reject violence as evil and destructive. Creation is our primary goal.
10. We always expect a dance party.
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