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Gabe

Usually and sometimes, but never at the same time

About Me

hopefully taking a break from taking a break, but wont know 'til later.

My Interests

Staring out the window, avoiding my projects by imagining new projects, pretending I'm an artist, playing with my dog (mr. fennel pants), political theory, questioning methodologies, volunteering, constantly asking for help because I have virtually no real skills, biking, water, kayaking, wondering about people I used to know wondering if I'll know them again, welding, gardening, building stuff, designing things, shooting the shit, goat cheese, heirloom tomatoes, and wanting new interests.

I'd like to meet:

from no souls to old soles People who say they are "people persons" but dont really mean it.

Music:

bebop jazz, Charlie Parker, Kristen Plater, David Gray, Rent soundtrack, Hedwig and the angry inch soundtrack, Bebel Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Gypsy Kings, songs I make up at work . . . this is so silly. (My music taste if very pedestrian.)

Movies:

Brokeback Mountain, RENT, the matrix, A Beautiful Mind, The Machinist, Proof, Charade, singing in the rain, Young at Heart, I heart huckabees, fight club, The Squid and the Whale

Television:

weeds (nothing happens when I smoke though)

Books:

I'm an avid reader of emails and testimonials. Also, I love reading theory usually Foucault, Baudrillard, Sandel, Marcuse, and recently Zizek. Most anything by Sharon Zukin she's a totally amazing sociologist who teaches at CUNY graduate center - my fave book of her's is Landscapes of Power.

Heroes:

As long as there are heroes the responsibility is theirs and not mine.

My Blog

Liberation, sexuality, and age (only read if you're . . .fuck it read it)

The idea of the child as the victim is ever prevalent.  The child isnt sexual. We dont allow teenagers or really some 11 year olds and 12 year olds an exploration into the realms of what we c...
Posted by Gabe on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:16:00 PST

observationist as artist

Notions of property not only move art, but also more importantly restrict it to the confines of being something that must constantly manipulate material.  The Lockean idea, the first to define pr...
Posted by Gabe on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:02:00 PST

Alternative Perceptions to the Statistical Norm

Here is my artist's statement for a recent art installation at Milk Studio Alternative Perceptions to the Statistical Norm     When we experience symptoms, or rather something that feels unu...
Posted by Gabe on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:10:00 PST

There's a little God in each of us

Dear God, I wish I believed in you because then I coul wish for all sorts of fantastic things and not be surprised when they arrived through your various channels or through a good deal on ebay. ...
Posted by Gabe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My belief of Freedom

Journals dont exist I need to get help . . . my demons are following me to school and I can hear them best if I put my ear to the wall . . . . they dont live in the wall moron . . . everyone knows t...
Posted by Gabe on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST