"I don’t want any more gifts, cards, phone calls, prizes, clothes, friends, letters, books, souvenirs, pets, magazines, land, machines, houses, entertainments, honors, good news, dinners, jewels, vacations, flowers, or telegrams. I just want money." - LYDIA DAVIS
Bloody Death Skull made a song out of my piece for DUM DUM Zine issue 4 and now I am super happy.
"AN ARTIST’S RELATION TO SUFFERING:
1. An artist should suffer
2. From the suffering comes the best work
3. Suffering brings transformation
4. Through the suffering an artist transcends their spirit
5. Through the suffering an artist transcends their spirit
6. Through the suffering an artist transcends their spirit”
- MARINA ABRAMOVIC
When I was eleven years old I wanted someone to cryogenically preserve Robert Smith for me so I could marry him and maybe kiss him when I was older. Suffice to say it never happened. Now I just date boys who look like him.
"I want to say something about bad writing. I’m proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston’s bad painting. I am proud of Baudelaire’s mamma’s boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which’s something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b." - ARIANA REINES
The next time someone is being cruel to you or is just doing something bad to you whip this one out and tell them where it’s at and your mind will go to a stronger place.
