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Old friend. Did a teevee show. Visited from chicago for 5 days. Slept a total of 16 hours. ‘Methetatied’ on the train and in taxis. Microsleep. If awake -> then drinking. ‘I am not good with authority- I have been arrested. Stupid things like that. But they broke me. I made a painting for Audi.’ It was fascinating to see people taking themselves seriously- but that’s always fascinating. Carried around a portfolio that no one wanted to see. ‘Let’s go to this- it’s the world’s least interesting burlesque show.’ Cheerful Abdi gave this rambling giddy speech and called out the haters. Overheard: ‘Your world view is small enough that turning the other cheek still feels revolutionary.” “Are you asking me if I’m a blogger because I’m getting in a cab?” Looked at Otto Dix paintings with a banker who said he had read all of Proust twice. ‘Do you have an NDA for the NDA? Can I disclose that I won’t disclose?’ ‘You can have one more popper and then you have to either leave or I will blow you.’ Is there still a Lower East Side or do they call it something else now? ‘I’m like if Dash Snow met Rembrandt.’ ‘Oh? I’m like if an anonymous set of molecules collaborated for a while and then eventually got tired of each other and quit.’ ‘Wait, next time you see me I won’t be as famous.’ ‘Twelve people in the world will like you enough to help you out. The problem is that you have to find them.’ ‘I read that book at the airport too- I threw it in the barf bag’
A man with a video camera at 2am taping three waifs dancing at a bus stop. ‘Wait, which one are you?’ ‘Who plays drums?’ ‘We’re in a band called ‘The Strokes” ‘Oh, haven’t heard of them.’ ‘We are making a show about people who come to New York and don’t know what to do.’ ‘Won’t the police come?’ ‘Yes, but we won’t be here.’
‘Take this book. It’s the only thing important left in my life-and it isn’t even mine.’
It was not fun at all. But it was something. ‘Shakespere is a guy we like to reference when we feel we’re not being mature or intellectual enough’ ‘Oh yeah, that asshole, he made up words all the time’ ‘Actually my favorite Shakespere scholar lives in Alaska—but it’s not who you think.’ ‘Jesus Betts, it’s like Sex, Religion, or Politics—why talk about it?’
He made up words all the time- it wasn’t language- it was more like chemistry.
I had a friend who was on a teevee show. It wasn’t good, and it wasn’t helpful- it was just something. Shakespere had a word for it, well he made up a word.
Unreal.
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