Abusing the T-word

As much as I hate talking about anything that has the word “twitter” in it, I just got a memo that today I should be begging my friends and fans to use and abuse the T-word and post the following (for real):

“#musicmonday This song by Lena is not half shabby http://bit.ly/Hm2KM!“ (or something along those lines).

Okay, I am begging as instructed. Now the ball is in your court.

Living together with another person serves a very useful purpose – it distracts one from the tragedy of being unfulfilled.

My classification of advertisements:

1) Ads made for peasants (“Local. Loyal. The way it should be”)

2) Ads made for peasants who want to feel and be perceived as “magazine cover” hip (very sensory ads for clubs, vodka, sunglasses etc)

3) Ads made for intelligentsia and the like (art and science related advertisements)

4) Ads made for peasants who want to feel and be perceived as “sophisticated” hip (promotions for alternative arts and artifacts of hipster culture)

5) Ads made for members of the upper society (a broad group of ads for various expensive things, experiences and systems).

There is a bit of a blur between the horizontals and the verticals of my classification (for example, there are ads for “new money” who want to feel and be perceived as “old money” etc). But that’s that – I am not going to spend more time on it.

Re: Mass. sues feds over definition of marriage

As I read about Mass. sueing feds over definition of marriage, I couldn’t help thinking about the lovely photoshop job of the famous Russian painting called “Unequal Marriage”.

Here is the original.

And here is “Equal marriage”:

Links to my recent interviews

June 17 – Live at UCB Theater – WFMU’s Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy

June 28 – Donkey Weed Talk Show with Christopher (I am in part 2)

Summary of thoughts I’ve had after the accident

1) Let the governors fuck (and love) whoever they want, please. What matters is how they rule, not who they choose for things that are nobody else’s business, anyway. Monitoring other people’s love (and sex) lives started with good ol’ monotheistic church, and has been happily exploited  since by all sorts of totalitarian and semi-totalitarian political systems. The only thing it says to me….but what else is new (*yawn*).

2) But really, if people were not created as for-life-monogamous creatures, who in the crying hell came up with the nauseating idea of criminalizing those who follow their God given nature? Again, the stupid church (and whoever adopted its five e-z steps of enslaving normal people). I am not saying that it’s not possible to do (being monogamous for life, that is), but it is only healthy when it’s by choice. I think there is more crime in staying in a loveless relationship than in following one’s heart. I swear. It’s not the lover who should be criminalized, but the system that makes it so freaking hard to be normal. 

3) The term “gay pride”, when used seriously, still pisses me off, as it does every year. What’s there to be proud of? No, no, no, I have no problem with gays at all, as a matter of fact, I fooled around with girls myself, and it’s lovely. But in my mind pride is associated with an individual or communal achievement, not with a biological feature such as having two hairy arms or being gay. Even animals can be homosexual, so? 

4) Therefore, I suggest to replace the term “gay pride” with the term “fuck all”. Residents of the UK may be excused. 

5) And no, I don’t want to blog about my car accident.  It happened, I  was very very fortunate, the movie is still in my head but it’s one of those things. It’s my movie.

Today several important things happened: 

1) I embraced the hipsters. I just saw one with hunger for love and fear of rejection in his eyes, and my heart melted. They are just like me!

(That poster with Nick Cave in my kitchen helped, but it was mainly that one guy who was dressed like a hipster but didn’t act like a total asshole).

2) I think I have the queen of all misreadings. I misread the giant letters on the building that I was walking by as “ALL ARTS ARE ON E”. I even spent several seconds thinking about what they could have meant by that and how an abstract thing can be on anything, but as I continued walking, I saw “…BRANCH OF ONE TREE”. Boring. 

3) I learnt my new favorite joke on the WFMU show where I was kindly invited as a guest a bit earlier today. Yes it was that rapist joke. 

4)  Now food

Newsletter word for word – ciao, running away

1) Yours truly is featured on the home page of Reverb Nation *puffing my cheeks up as if they need to be any puffier*

2) She is also performing at UCB Theater tonight at 6 p.m. as a guest of WFMU’s Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy. If you can’t attend you can listen in online. 

3) She almost locked herself in her apartment today by accidentally unscrewing (don’t ask) a part of the door lock that is absolutely necessary for the door to be opened. She  starting evoking a knight in shining armor throwing a rope ladder into her window to get in and rescue her, but on a later thought, she quietly screwed this thing back in and opened the door. As usual, too much thinking screwed things up, the pun is absolutely intended. The knight would have been more fun. 

4) She definitely spends way too much time on Facebook, as you can tell by the way she talks about herself in the third person. 

 

HUGZ

L

This coming Wednesday at USB Theater

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
Street: 307 W. 26th Street
City/Town: New York, NY

Seven Second Delay

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=86137671148

Film trailer that blew me away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ZeIe-Dl4A

Wow, this video left me agape. As if they were spying on me to say those words. Not the suicide part but the situation of confusing a faulty environment with a faulty self.

That was my (almost) entire life in Chicago after I immigrated to the US – landing in wrong places, being judged and fucked by wrong people, thinking less and less of my value in the world because there was no connect between me and “others”. I hope one day I will understand why it was needed – right now I see it as years wasted on self-destructing (and I don’t blame anybody by the way – just my own fearfulness and idiotic choices).

As far as suicide, everybody with a heart has thought about it at least once, I am sure. This includes me. It does not make me crazy. Somebody who I consider my business mentor and who is incredibly successful by any criterion (made billions, has one of the happiest and most inspiring marriages I’ve seen in my entire life, – I’ve seen many marriages but those inspiring ones I can count using the fingers of one hand, – and is just a very clear human being) said that at some point he was actively thinking about not whether he should – but about how to kill himself. So we all have – although on an afterthought it is a really dumb idea, with a capital “D”.

But wow, this video.