Mark this date somewhere
It's important. "Sometimes, you need to take a bath." If you know where that quote is from, you have just earned my respect.
So there I was, in the tub. A nice little compilation of ambient music playing on iTunes through the stereo. Lights almost all off. And I felt...charged. There's a lot going on in my life that I have no idea what to do with. Or about. I wonder if it's a crisis. Or a blessing. I wonder how late I will have to stay up tonight to harness all the good that is kicking around my skull. My fingers cannot move quickly enough to get these words out. It's all so frustrating. But I know I am headed somewhere now. I was looking through an old sketchbook from college. Bryan Langdo and I started using them in High School in New Jersey. He drew, mostly. I wrote. And saved photos. Some I took. Well, I guess most of them were mine. But anyway, in college I knew a couple Tyler's. The one I am talking about was a tall, attractive brown-haired guy in the Art School with me. A couple years older, and a great friend of Bennet Scott McKnight. He wore a shirt one day (well, he wore it more than once, but it stuck out this day) during breakfast in the Brick Dining Hall. It said "Use what is dominant in culture and change it quickly." I founf this quote looking for a Celtic cross tattoo design I drew in the same book. It comes from Jenny Holzer.
A diary (of sorts) of her work: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5047/index.html
Anyway, I must go and find that drawing. And I am sure I Will write more. But today is a day that I will no longer be the old me. I've been hatching for a little over a year, I think. Shrugging off the old me, making stands where I used to not. Leaving those childish habits behind. I love it. Something clicked tonight. It is the piece of the puzzle I wish I found earlier. But I rejoice that it is finally in my hands.
-Rich
PS- sorry for the typos or bad grammar. I usually check it twice. But tonight, I have no time. There is too much to do.
So there I was, in the tub. A nice little compilation of ambient music playing on iTunes through the stereo. Lights almost all off. And I felt...charged. There's a lot going on in my life that I have no idea what to do with. Or about. I wonder if it's a crisis. Or a blessing. I wonder how late I will have to stay up tonight to harness all the good that is kicking around my skull. My fingers cannot move quickly enough to get these words out. It's all so frustrating. But I know I am headed somewhere now. I was looking through an old sketchbook from college. Bryan Langdo and I started using them in High School in New Jersey. He drew, mostly. I wrote. And saved photos. Some I took. Well, I guess most of them were mine. But anyway, in college I knew a couple Tyler's. The one I am talking about was a tall, attractive brown-haired guy in the Art School with me. A couple years older, and a great friend of Bennet Scott McKnight. He wore a shirt one day (well, he wore it more than once, but it stuck out this day) during breakfast in the Brick Dining Hall. It said "Use what is dominant in culture and change it quickly." I founf this quote looking for a Celtic cross tattoo design I drew in the same book. It comes from Jenny Holzer.
A diary (of sorts) of her work: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5047/index.html
Anyway, I must go and find that drawing. And I am sure I Will write more. But today is a day that I will no longer be the old me. I've been hatching for a little over a year, I think. Shrugging off the old me, making stands where I used to not. Leaving those childish habits behind. I love it. Something clicked tonight. It is the piece of the puzzle I wish I found earlier. But I rejoice that it is finally in my hands.
-Rich
PS- sorry for the typos or bad grammar. I usually check it twice. But tonight, I have no time. There is too much to do.
posted by Rich at 10/09/2005 08:27:00 PM
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