May 2010
28 posts
My class got canceled today, which for me is a sign that I should dedicate the entirety of my day watching season 6 of Lost before the damn internet somehow finds a way to ruin the ending for me.
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I really need to promise to myself that this is the last page I tear out of my notebook, seriously.
in time. with time.: "Straight edge," I am getting sick of how you pronounce it. →
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Everybody. Read this. Now.
OK.
They say the youth is infected. Well they are right. Infected with ignorance, pride, and selfishness. These thing have bore, drug use, alcoholism, STD’s, and a host of other illegitimate off-spring to be abandoned and over looked. Among the bastard children of youthful inclinations is the…
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“You could say that graffiti is ugly, selfish and that it’s just the action of people who want some pathetic kind of fame. But if that’s true it’s only because graffiti writers are just like everyone else in this fucking country. There is this idea that people who write Graffiti are just frustrated scribblers who couldn’t make it in the art world, but that’s not really the point. It’s better being outside anyway. Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars and generally is the voice of people who aren’t listened to. Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.
And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss. Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it’s a tool; “I’ll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw”. I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?” —Banksy
And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss. Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it’s a tool; “I’ll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw”. I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?” —Banksy
“I wasn’t born with a strong voice, its never been one to boom, but I’ll be damned to go out quiet, if its the only thing I’ll lose”
—Touche Amore was incredible last night, but the barricades really bummed me out (even after the singer hopped them for Honest Sleep, it just wasn’t the same). I can’t wait until they come around again, hopefully minus the barricades and the preteen Thursday crowd.
