i haven't read a thing lately
hey hi
kanye west's twitter came to my attention (seems he's "back" from some length of absence) and now i feel a bit of hope as a fellow gemini, and one who's been in a creative rut.
he's dropping gems hagakure-style. hey y'all, the reason so many sayings are repeated over generations and cultures is because they have meaning. they have meaning to you when you realize you have heard some piece of wisdom before and are now finally able to contextualize it for yourself.
(his tweets starting around the 15th of this month make me think he's breaking up with kim k or something, or at least declaring a boundary or several)
here's something from the 18th:
if you wanna see the true character of person watch the way they treat someone who can't do anything for them.
and
everyone will say he needs to learn how to act. At home parental acting classes are one of the first steps to us loosing who we really are to "the simulation". Parents are our first acting coaches.
and
I don't believe in the concept of an enemy. We have been conditioned to always be in competition. Stop looking for something to beat and just be. You don't have to do all the work. Once you start moving in love the universe will assist you.
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when you first wake up don't hop right on the phone or the internet or even speak to anyone for even up to an hour if possible. Just be still and enjoy your own imagination. It's better than any movie.
and from the 17th
trend is always late
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BTW, I WILL BE SELLING DHD HEAVY INDUSTRY WARES AT A WEST PHILLY CRAFT FEST APRIL 28th AT WOODLAND CEMETERY.
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where have i been?
well March 1st i moved out a group house of ten years and into a 1br apt in an apt building. update on how that is forthcoming.
i just got back from a 2 week trip to japan. wow cool yay fun.
no. it was different. (i been there like 4 times now, surprised to say.) i was taking my boo there to see this place that i lived ten years ago. and i was revisiting an earlier self to see what was left. and i spent too much money (but that's to be expected there, tbh, cause everything is so expensive there for someone with a steady job and little savings).
i wanted to eat all this food again (taiyaki, okonomiyaki, conbini sandos) and visit all these shops and places. ten years ago i was actualizing a 15yr old anime nerd's life goal of "going to japan" – doing study abroad, saying a big fuck you to this abusive POS, blah blah blah... this time i was like damn, empire really fucks with empire. people dressed all 50s, heavy binary genders, eye on european history, no dark ppl on TV. before i was like, wow fashion. this time i was like wow globalized, compulsive heteronormative patriarchy & capitalist utopia with a "strong middle class" and what is there to do here as a tourist besides shop. (i know, ride a train and visit shrines – whoops also costs money).
ten years ago there was weird san-x character goods, my boy mame-shiba & elite banana banao, and this time it was fucking disney princesses and marvel. whatever man. it WAS nice to see a couple friends and be like yo we're still alive. i recall how the failure to be given a US work visa is what more or less ended my close relationships with Japanese friends living in the states, and i think about the media trope there of this well-meaning white man foreigner who is slight of build and handsome and understands Japanese ways...
when i lived there for school, i was not as yatted, pierced, or ambiguously gendered. i kept my tattoos covered most of the time. we stayed in a budget ryokan (fancy inn-style accommodation) and the indoor/outdoor bath area had a sign advising/semi-apologizing to Japanese guests about the presence of foreign guests with "fashion tattoos" (ファシオンタットゥ) between the hours of 9pm-1am. there was a second sign with an advertisment for beige tone tattoo cover-up patches, showing two trendy caucasian ppl looking way cool now that their fashion tatts had a big band-aid over them.
people wanna call japan "weird" or "crazy" but they're missing the point that it's its own capitalist society with active aspirations of empire. there i guess you can't hardly get a job if you have visible tattoos. now here, what cultural stigmas do we have that makes it hard to get a job...
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SUGGESTIVE REMINDER THAT I WILL BE SLINGING DHD HEAVY INDUSTRY WARES AT A WEST PHILLY CRAFT FEST APRIL 28th AT WOODLAND CEMETERY.
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Now that i've taken stock of old selves, a new year begins.
A book I'm in is coming out soon... I'm working on a piece for CLOG magazine rn... And hopefully will have this discipline/cleaning grimoire ready to debut at the aforementioned craft fair.
Crafts!
Hang in there.
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::goes back into lurker mode::