i have re-installed myself in the dripped house paint tradition. i'm working in water based latex at the moment for the highly formal reason they don't stink. they drip sort of gloppy. luckily i sort of like gloppy.
momma told me to look up megalomania (see comments aug. 18th). momma is helpful. megalomania is exactly what we need. now, truly, i had tried to point this out to momma in my directing her towards quentin crisp and the movie 'crumb' but i don't think she went there. anyway, from now on, we're playing megalomania rools. i want the cover of time magazine (i hate time magazine). i want the cover of time magazine and i want the words to read: the new pollock (? optional). i need money.
"when you get money," dale asks, "will you be trashy rich or richy trash?" dale, i reply, be real. when i get money as soon as you say 'flibberty-gibbit' and spit i'll be broke again.
on a tavis smiley show lani guinier said: "i believe african american and progressives must, and forgive me for using an 'academic' {she gestures quotation marks with her fingers} word, 'deconstruct' the american dream." quin believes a workable deconstruction of the american dream is given on that 'up in smoke' video with dre and snoop and eminem: "one neighborhood, invincible, with luxury and riches for all."
invincibility is not about retaliative capability, it's about not giving a fuck. george bush will never be invincible. nelson mandela is invincible. when i moved to this town new york was a murdersome place. you go uptown and you'd be at these intersections and everywhere you look there were crosses representing little boys gone down in the battle over powder and rock (these children might as well have been on a chain gang their lives so cruelly determined by the need for profit.) {powder and rock that the bush family buddies in the intelligence community were importing into this country to pay for their latin american wars.} [ the same intelligence community that recruited osama bin laden and conspired with saddam hussein.] the thursday after those towers fell down flyers for lost children and daddies and mommies sprung up and envined the lamp posts down 84th street. i'm walking beth to work: "whoa honey, check it out. it's like the dying moved down forty blocks."
goonliani gets the credit for 'cleaning up' new york. but not from me. the 'quality of life' police methodology got started by kelly under dinkins. i went to jail because of it so i remember. goonliani simply carried it on because it was so immediately demonstrably effective. this was because the n.y.p.d. had been doing mostly nothing but scratch their collective ass for twenty years and strong-arm payoffs. the 'quality of life' policing made them work and they bitched like hell about it until goonliani let them know that it was gonna be all right to beat shit out of people. that shut them up for awhile. then they got caught beating too often. civic leaders began to calculate the law suit potentialities. the n.y.p.d. expects goonliani to stand by them because they're dumb-ass micks . goonliani doesn't and never intended to. this would've been a nastier fight but since the economy was booming those drunk irish cops from long island that used to plague us found better jobs elsewhere and thank god. i'm guessing the average n.y.p.d. street person today exists on about half the income/benefits of his counterpart twenty tears ago. the principle graft now, i'm guessing, comes from protection for prostitution. that's become a phone book/ online issue, not a street issue, and is negotiated up high. (except in the immigrant communities perhaps... muscling immigrants remains an important n.y.p.d. function.)
goonliani supervises the luchese-disney negotiations, but that was going to happen anyway. i mean maybe a bent wop mayor was needed (that goonliani crusading D.A. thing straight out of the movies) because the lucheses like all the new york mob really phenomenally graceless and stupid - they had run times square into the ground peddling high priced rotten smut. the smut you get in times square now is a lot better. the toys are better and more colorful. the prices are better. and when you're checking the smut out (say at the virgin store or at ricky's) instead of being surrounded by nasty suits you find yourself in these throngs of ogling teenage girls. it's a good thing.
which brings me to luxury and riches. i have studied the magazines carefully. i have social worked in the ghettos of the silver spooned. 'luxury and riches' is mostly nekkid girls, properly cooked pasta, fresh flowers, pictures on your walls and a charlie chan book to read before you take your nap. 'luxury and riches' is within the grasp of every little cowboy and cowgirl out there. go tell it on a mountain.
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