Like jumping on a trampoline while a funeral parade marches by.
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making strangers laugh, spreading color across the land, singing kareoke in unflattering short shorts, falling off things i shouldn’t be climbing on in the first place, laughing so hard i cry, laughing so hard that YOU cry, wires, wordplay, old keyboards and synths, video remixing, home shopping network, vhs tapes, projecting things onto other things, old televisions, lite brites, electrical tape, portable technology, recording devices, being a hermit, hot sauce, autumn, road trips,celebrity worship, tabloids, pink and orange, forking and knifing, yerba mate, kombucha, organicz, cilantro, public art, raucousness, guerilla screenings, bikes, nostalgia, vertigo, indifference, cynicism, sarcasm, despair, and kinda just being like "whatever"
dirty ragamuffins, bloodsuckers, grumblers, mumblers, expatriats, troublemakers, tech junkies, haters, creators, lovers, lusters, untrusters, clusterfuckers, and unhappy people who love to laugh.
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screaming whimsy. anything you might hear while watching a funeral march, attending the carnival, or sitting under a bloody rainbow.
a smattering: the troggs, tommy james and the shondells, salt n' pepa, thai pop a go-go, public enemy, asha bhosle, devo, animal collective, the kinks, the velvet underground, modeselektor, daft punk, queen latifah, japanther, ariel pink, wu-tang, nas, queen, 60s garage, smokey robinson, gang gang dance, talking heads, sparks, t. rex, lo-fi....and the list goes onnnnnnn...
koyaanisqatsi, man with a movie camera, dark days, the gleaners and i, week-end, the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie, battle royale, mad max, vivre sa vie, the cabinet of dr. caligari, dancer in the dark, videodrome, sherman's march, edward scissorhands, boogie nights, streetwise, metropolis, baraka, salesman, anything by jan svankmajer, hands on a hardbody, rainbow brite and the star stealers, dawn of the dead, not without my daughter. anything on lifetime (channel for women) that's inspired by a true story.
paid programming, home shopping, televangelists, and lost.
society of the spectacle, the revolution of everyday life, mythologies, variations on a theme park, bomb the suburbs, jitterbug perfume, the phantom tollbooth, breakfast of champions, a humument, the plague, ramona the brave.
my grandmothers, Francois Le Gros, Marat, Arty (the strongest man in the world), Rainbow Brite, Chomsky, Zinn.