Good, Bad, or Indifferent: Youth
Good. Sometimes I watch a show on public access that plays all through the night where they tape kindergarten and first grade classes and you get to watch the kids learn and discuss stuff while the teacher teaches them and then they interview the theachers. It runs all nite and if I come accross it at around midnight, I'll stay up and watch it until the morning. Sometimes the teachers kind of suck, sometimes they don't. None of the kids ever suck, though. They make me want to be in kindergarten again. I'm not sure why, considering I disliked school so much all the time, I think maybe I wish I had tried to enjoy it more and be less shy and distracted. I like to watch the kids put their stuff in their cubbies and take stuff out of their cubbies and draw pictures and not be able to sit still when the teacher is talking. A lot of them raise their hands even when they don't know the answer at all.
Good, Bad, or Indifferent: the band name "love organ delux"
Good. Love Organ Deluxe was my band's name when I was doing more bandy stuff and I played the organ and there were multiple keyboards and samples and stuff. Unfortunately, it had that stupid unintentional double-meaning. So wait, it's bad. You love referencing that crappy old thing.
Good, Bad, or Indifferent: postmodern art
Good. It's all exciting and important to me, even when there is the possibility of it being insincere. I'm rarely skeptical of art and I always look for a place to climb into it, even if I don't immediately enjoy or react to it. There is almost always a place to climb in and find a way to really dig something. I get kicked out of galleries for trying to climb into the pieces. Quank quank. I just saw the Henry Darger exhibit at Galerie St. Etienne on 57th street and it was pretty amazing. I don't know what kind of art it is, I guess it is "Outsider Art." He traced little girls out of coloring books and drew penises on them and sometimes changed their expressions from happy to sad. There's a lot more to it than that, but I won't go into it all.
Good, Bad, or Indifferent: Monday nights
Good. I usually work until 11:00. While I'm working I like to missmatch words in my head like "Trophy Blisters." From the missmatched words, I often come up with an idea for some kind of project. Sometimes the ideas alone have to be the work of art.
Good, Bad, or Indifferent: Your most memerable show
Good. The one I remember most right now was the last one I played in CT and it was organized by a team of artists I am involved in called N.O.Y.C.E. It was a big place and we packed the place in and people had to wait outside for other people to come out. I'm not very good at playing guitar or singing or performing or being comfortable on stage, but even when all those things go to shit, I feel good at least about the lyrics, so if I feel like people are listening to what I'm saying, everything is okay cause I think maybe those lyrics make up for the weaknesses and then I'm not embarrassed. Also I used a tremalo pedal for my vocals on some parts which was cool you know in that Crimson and Clover kind of way. My friend Lucas Crane was supposed to perform at that show too, but he ended up having a family function to attend. That would have made it perfect.
Good, Bad, or Indifferent: The republican convention being held in NYC
Indifferent. My friend John Mary is writing a song called "Third Story Bomb Shelter," and he asked if I would write it with him. Now that sounds like a project I'd like to be a part of. It's not political, it's just about a bomb shelter on the third story of a building and how there isn't enough room for everybody but everybody wants to get up in there. Don't steal the idea because John would be pissed at me for giving that shit away.
Good, Bad, or Indifferent: Your first favorite song
Good. It was probably a song from Ghostbusters or Back to the Future. All the songs in those movies are great. Maybe it was "Cleaning up the town." Maybe it was the Gremlins theme song. I used to have the Ghostbusters toys and I was confused about how there were all these ghost characters as toys that weren't in the movies at all. I still played with them.
Good, Bad, or Indifferent: your love life
Good. I love a lot of girls. Some have boyfriends already so I don't have a chance with them. Other ones don't have boyfriends but wouldn't be caught dead with me. Sometimes I find one that likes me back but then I kiss them and I'm like "You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore."
Good, Bad, or Indifferent: the first song you wrote
Good. It was about how He-Man and Man-at-Arms were friends and got along, so if you make them fight with your action figures, you're playing wrong. And there were some Simon and Garfunkle lyrics in there too. It never had a name. I'll name it now. It's called "Making Out with the Saddest Mouth".
Good, Bad, or Indifferent: The last movie you saw
Good. It was "Gerry". Gerry is starring/written by Casey Affleck and Matt Damon. The two of them are both named Gerry and they are stranded in the desert after getting lost on their hike and they ad-libbed most of it. Sometimes it goes like 20 minutes without anything happening, just a long shot of them sitting or walking. A lot of people hate it because it is long and tedious and boring but once in a while something happens and it's magic. Like when Casey Affleck Gerry climbed up a big rock and then couldn't get back down cause he was too high up. And Matt Damon Gerry is like "Come down from there." And Casey Affleck Gerry is like "I can't come down, I'm fuckin' marrooned." And Matt Damon Gerry is like "You're not rock-marrooned." And Casey Affleck Gerry is like "I am so rock-marrooned." And Matt Damon Gerry is like "How did you get up there?" and Casey Affleck Gerry is like "I scrambled." And Matt Damon Gerry is like "Can you jump?" and Casey Affleck Gerry is like "Make me dirt mattress." And Matt Damon Gerry is all like "I'm gonna have to haul the dirt." and Casey Affleck Gerry is all like, "Well get haulin'." And so Matt Damon Gerry has to make a Shirt Basket, so he puts dirt from over there into his shirt and hauls it back to over here a bunch of times and he is kind of upset that he has to do all this dirt haulin'. But Casey Affleck Gerry is all like, "I crows-nested up here to scout about the revine because I thought you Gerried up the rondevoux." But then before that Casey Affleck was like "I thought maybe you succomed." And Matt Damon Gerry is like, "I almost did succom but then I turbined up and now I'm fine."
Tally:
Good: 9
Bad: 0
Indifferent: 1
