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Stop and Frisk
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Income inequality
How about changing how we measure economic health? Income gaps. Money is worth less. Wallstreet.
Laura Gottesdiener: On Housing & Fighting Back Against Dreams Diverted
7 ways to narrow the rich-poor gap
River Pheonix - 20 years later
He takes a speedball. For your education, that's heroin and cocaine.
A famous names "burst into tears."
Flea, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, jumped in the ambulance with him to the hospital, reminding me that I've only heard nice things about Flea. Flea is interviewed saying nice things about River today
I gained no wisdom. We never know what we've lost. Is someone trying to make mugs and t-shirts happen with his image?
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Laurie Anderson Inspiration
"The individual is always comparing his or herself to the mass media, preventing the growth of that person."
"The biggest celebrities are products [like Coke], dependable and meaningless, which is how people are encouraged to be"
"So this concept means enormous loneliness."
"The force of media is one of the biggest aliening forces in the universe."
"What is your group? It's a long way from yourself to the group, but it's a short distance to within yourself. How do you grow? How do you measure this distance?"
[consider adding reference to Katherine Ann Porter's essay on Willa Cather
The part about Andy Warhol saying "That's wonderful" or "That's fantastic" to everything because he wanted to encourage others to be their best, so he didn't say a cross word.
"The biggest celebrities are products [like Coke], dependable and meaningless, which is how people are encouraged to be"
"So this concept means enormous loneliness."
"The force of media is one of the biggest aliening forces in the universe."
"What is your group? It's a long way from yourself to the group, but it's a short distance to within yourself. How do you grow? How do you measure this distance?"
[consider adding reference to Katherine Ann Porter's essay on Willa Cather
The part about Andy Warhol saying "That's wonderful" or "That's fantastic" to everything because he wanted to encourage others to be their best, so he didn't say a cross word.
On performance. Turn out all the lights. Turn on the equipment. Sometimes play with innocence. Sometimes rigid to figure things out. Most things have a language and story at the core.
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