America our age of plastic is over Am erica the weedless ghosts of our stripmall parking lots and three billion headless chickens will haunt the arid steps of our great great grand children's grand children.
Love it. What's the weedless refer to? I'm a dumb-dumb, me no get. And who's erica? haha, just kidding. This better appear in rant form the next time we jam.
heh. when you use the colour blue in a painting, what does it refer to? i dunno. that's a tough question.
i don't know if it's always intentional or not, but i seem to use words that have multiple or open-ended meanings. ("arid steps", for e.g., being both footsteps and high, dry, landscapes).
with "weedless" i was thinking about how wal-mart parking lots use tons of weedkiller every year, how they speed up climate change by absorbing sunlight, and how ugly and ridiculous they are. how they facilitate our automobile culture, our over-consumption, etc. and how, soon enough, trees will grow out of the middle of them, and the pavement will decay (like in david macmillan's photos).
also, of course, i liked the word weedless because it suggested to me the idea of the war on drugs-- hundreds of billions of dollars that could be spent on better things, imo.
Cara-- i hope i'm not a prophet, because usually they're ignored, locked up, or killed. plus i would feel pretty hesitant about claiming such a lofty title with all its biblical ramifications. :)
My grandma is hindu and a strict vegetarian before she moved to Canada and my grandpa pressured into eating meat in order to assimilate properly.
To this day she'll only eat chicken, and my grandpa teases her saying that after she dies all the chickens she ate in her life will line up before her in the afterlife and demand, "why me?!".
I like hearing about the creative process, and creative thought. It helps me in how I create.
When I use the color blue, it's usually describes something literally, like a blue sky or blue water. In abstraction I use blue to makes things shift to the background or to complement other colors that I'm using.
I like juxtaposing words together too in poetry, words that don't normally appear together create interesting visuals for me.
Wal-mart IS a very strange part of our culture. The 24 hour ones in the US are the worst.
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No doubt. I'm in mourning for us all.
Ugh, nice one.
wow.
voice of the prophet!
nice.
Love it. What's the weedless refer to? I'm a dumb-dumb, me no get. And who's erica? haha, just kidding. This better appear in rant form the next time we jam.
heh. when you use the colour blue in a painting, what does it refer to? i dunno. that's a tough question.
i don't know if it's always intentional or not, but i seem to use words that have multiple or open-ended meanings. ("arid steps", for e.g., being both footsteps and high, dry, landscapes).
with "weedless" i was thinking about how wal-mart parking lots use tons of weedkiller every year, how they speed up climate change by absorbing sunlight, and how ugly and ridiculous they are. how they facilitate our automobile culture, our over-consumption, etc. and how, soon enough, trees will grow out of the middle of them, and the pavement will decay (like in david macmillan's photos).
also, of course, i liked the word weedless because it suggested to me the idea of the war on drugs-- hundreds of billions of dollars that could be spent on better things, imo.
Cara-- i hope i'm not a prophet, because usually they're ignored, locked up, or killed. plus i would feel pretty hesitant about claiming such a lofty title with all its biblical ramifications. :)
Love it.
My grandma is hindu and a strict vegetarian before she moved to Canada and my grandpa pressured into eating meat in order to assimilate properly.
To this day she'll only eat chicken, and my grandpa teases her saying that after she dies all the chickens she ate in her life will line up before her in the afterlife and demand, "why me?!".
I like hearing about the creative process, and creative thought. It helps me in how I create.
When I use the color blue, it's usually describes something literally, like a blue sky or blue water. In abstraction I use blue to makes things shift to the background or to complement other colors that I'm using.
I like juxtaposing words together too in poetry, words that don't normally appear together create interesting visuals for me.
Wal-mart IS a very strange part of our culture. The 24 hour ones in the US are the worst.
we don't get to choose whether we are prophets or not.
;)
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