so I'm gonna poke your brain, maybe stir some shit around. lets start off with some familiar stuff.
Have you ever read/watched Fightclub?
fight club was written in 1996 the movie came out in 1999, so a couple years before 9/11, it's been more than a decade, everybody's seen fightclub. but...
ever notice it's a story about a dude with a mental disorder that starts a terrorist cell that corp dives & maintains a collective to build bombs and overthrow capitalist consumerism?always thought that was funny, the part that stuck out to me was the paramilitant lifestyle it depicted, so minimalist and orderly, space monkey haircut, black clothes and boots, minds focusing solely on the mission, the fight, whether it be us vs us beating eachother in basements and parking lots or the greater fight us vs them working hard to monkeywrench the system and be free of it all. not to mention an interesting narrative with soap, sex, humor and violence, anarchy and brad pitt. fighclub is fuckin classic.
fight club was written in 1996 the movie came out in 1999, so a couple years before 9/11, it's been more than a decade, everybody's seen fightclub. but...
ever notice it's a story about a dude with a mental disorder that starts a terrorist cell that corp dives & maintains a collective to build bombs and overthrow capitalist consumerism?always thought that was funny, the part that stuck out to me was the paramilitant lifestyle it depicted, so minimalist and orderly, space monkey haircut, black clothes and boots, minds focusing solely on the mission, the fight, whether it be us vs us beating eachother in basements and parking lots or the greater fight us vs them working hard to monkeywrench the system and be free of it all. not to mention an interesting narrative with soap, sex, humor and violence, anarchy and brad pitt. fighclub is fuckin classic.
you ever been to Urban Outfitters?
I went to this one in my hometown, it was on the main strip, all the street kids hung out in front of the place and stole shit all the time. big old fuckin industrial space, huge 40 foot ceilings, exposed HVAC, cinderblock walls and concrete floor, and it was decorated with bitchin Furninture made of OSB, abstract 2x2 frames stuck out from the walls, it was corporate paid-for hipster decor, and actually pretty cool. I don't really care for hipster things in general, I don't particularly dig american spirits, PBR and turquoise, but I do happen to like the whimsical vintage look, the old mailboxes and neon signs, mixed with modern things like chrismas lights and apple products. it's very atemporal.
I went to this one in my hometown, it was on the main strip, all the street kids hung out in front of the place and stole shit all the time. big old fuckin industrial space, huge 40 foot ceilings, exposed HVAC, cinderblock walls and concrete floor, and it was decorated with bitchin Furninture made of OSB, abstract 2x2 frames stuck out from the walls, it was corporate paid-for hipster decor, and actually pretty cool. I don't really care for hipster things in general, I don't particularly dig american spirits, PBR and turquoise, but I do happen to like the whimsical vintage look, the old mailboxes and neon signs, mixed with modern things like chrismas lights and apple products. it's very atemporal.
you ever heard of Food Not Bombs?
FNB generally consists of a group of people who get together a few times a week/month and cook a big ass vegan meal, and serve it up to people, usually their friends and homeless dudes @ parks. in concept FNB is amazing, and they do good work. I have a few gripes with FNB, in practice FNB often only benefits the anarcopunk activist kids that run it, it sometimes manages to feed a crowd a few times a week or less, but usually it's just a buncha starving vegans and a homeless dude or two. but boy is it nice to say, we make free food and give it to people. which is really the point, they feed people, it's warm social activism that most people can sympathize with.
FNB generally consists of a group of people who get together a few times a week/month and cook a big ass vegan meal, and serve it up to people, usually their friends and homeless dudes @ parks. in concept FNB is amazing, and they do good work. I have a few gripes with FNB, in practice FNB often only benefits the anarcopunk activist kids that run it, it sometimes manages to feed a crowd a few times a week or less, but usually it's just a buncha starving vegans and a homeless dude or two. but boy is it nice to say, we make free food and give it to people. which is really the point, they feed people, it's warm social activism that most people can sympathize with.
how bout Bruce Sterling?
ever heard of that guy? well he's been dickin with the internet and writing books since before you were born. he's got alot to say, if you take the time to watch this, you'll have a headstart putting this together.
ever heard of that guy? well he's been dickin with the internet and writing books since before you were born. he's got alot to say, if you take the time to watch this, you'll have a headstart putting this together.
so what am I getting at? I'm trying to help you relate to my life. in it's past present and future state.
if you don't know my bigger past already, then it's irrelevant here, about 2 weeks ago I boiled down everything I owned to a few backpacks, nothing but black clothes and tools. I packed my shit and I got on a plane and left my hometown behind.
now I'm in atlanta, I live on a pallet rack in a warehouse, I built an apartment up here, with wood pulled from a dumpster, scrap from jacked up pallets and discarded veneer, it's hipster as fuck, this is modern shanty towns, and we make it look Coool .
To Be Continued....
3 comments:
U made it man :)
Damnit, kid. I started responding to this, but my words were too many, so I may need to respond to your blog post with a post of my own, to follow soon.
You know how I feel about this.
Hurray!
Fuck you man, PBR is a blessing. Glad you got out and on though. Tallyhooooo
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