Ryan Branche

well fickle as a fucking pickle I've grown up all over. I read once that the average American Family relocates once every 4 years- this was an argument for the obvious American Superficiality that foriegners pick up on. Your society is too transient to make any sort of lasting connection she said- I put the paper down to smoke a spliff- laughing at her German accent.I am interested in how we can do things right- I guess that makes me a pessimist. If it weren't for the last 500 years of bloody genocidal war against eachother and our mother earth I might be a bit more optimistic, even if we were as a people moving a bit quicker toward cleaning up our past 500 years of inconsiderate consumption and excretion I might be a bit more optimistic- but unfortunately at the moment I'm a little wieghted down by the fact that superficial consumption- Alienated living- and war continue. currently I'm living in Rio de Janeiro land of the most unequal distribution of wealth in the world. On one side is the very glamourous and sexy Ipanema- on the other slums larger than the cities I have grown up in-You gotta stay happy to deal with activism other wise you burn out- the tides are too tilted- even the activists contribute to the problem and as such I dance, sing, wake up as early as possible and try to find the beauty. It isn't hard to do this life is a blessing, it is just having to see people piss on the blessing that leads me to smoke cigarettes---- I guess that makes me just as hypocritical---- and here in lies the rub- after a dub to the head--- maybe humans are completely flawed.I think we've just given into selfishness under many different guises: Even still I'm down for your surprises.