Please Follow Me

To shadow another is to give him, in fact, a double life, a parallel existence. Any commonplace existence can be transfigured (without one's knowledge), any exceptional existence can be made commonplace. It is this effect of doubling that makes the object surreal in its banality and weaves around it the strange (eventually dangerous?) web of seduction

-Jean Baudrillard (1983)

Iznt dis wut U call BLOGGING???

-Vera (2009)

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AND that is one of my current research topics. Here is what I am doing for my NCUR research project.

I didnt take this photo. I wasnt there. BUT even better I came across this on someone's FACEBOOK and was rather enchanted by the various levels of screens in this image.



RESEARCH TOPIC: AGE OF THE WORLD SCREEN!!!!!!!
its about to get serious.

HARVEST

It is Friday night- which means im working @ the hostel.
Which means im bored surfing the net
which means its time to blog
which means----....

Thanksgiving
Just me and Jakob @ the house this weekend.
Jakob looked up Thanksgiving on WIKI- as it is a holiday foreign to him. I dont really know anything about thanksgiving either. I learned it is a harvest celebration. Which makes sense becuse the natives love to give thanks to nature for shit like a good harvest or a fat turkey or not having venerial disease.

Which means we got supppper drunk on Wednesday

Shuffleboard @ the cantebury which was preceded by the drinking of a variety of beverages.

Me and Will are a really great team except when we have to play other people who are actually good at the game so then things get serious and its hard to be serious about bar sports. One guy wouldnt let the 4 of us play only if we challenged him and won. I dont think that is fair because if i am going to spend my 2QAURTERs then I want to play WHO I WANT TO PLAY WITH not play someonw who I know will win no matter what. if he wants people to challenge him he really should be putting the quarters in. Or maybe this isnt how it works. What do I know about aracade etiquette. Surely there is a forum for it somewhere on the WWW.

wokeup thursday hungover. went for a walk in the rain to madrona. napped then
FOOD TIME!
Thank you Jackie for the delicious and labourious meal you prepared for me.
I drank lots of sangria. I felt a bit drunk I asked christina how many glasses before I should expect to be drunk- her reply
"3 wine bongs will usually do the job"
Ah how I miss dorm life with christina. I really dont think my binge drinking is up to the same level as it was back then.

Then went over to see DE-BOIZ
Hayden was pretty much in a coma
Cael was eating handfull's of turkey
Will eating some kind of biscuit sandwich with cranberry sauce and cheese
Matt obviously the most drunk out of everyone disapearing every 10 minutes and returning increasingly intoxicated each time
And things were only getting better when rob took the remainder of the cranberry sauce (can shape still visible) and proceded to eat it without using utensils and mostly just mouth.
This also led to a whip cream fight between me rob and will.
This was fun times minus- smelling like cream the rest of the night which seems delicious- but really isnt after a few hours. and I also got cream in my phone and now it does not work nearly as well.
Need a new phone soon anyways so ill just pee on it sometime soon or something.

DAD + INTERNET = <3

Due to the steep decline of our economy my dad has been on unemployment on and off a couple times over the past year. For the first time in perhaps 15 years my dad has had the opportunity to do what every lazy asshole in the US has been doing for the past 15 years- and that is learning the ins and out + & - of the computer world. Dad had some catching up to do. Up to now he was wholly disconnected with the cyber realm and basically from reality in general. but alas YOUTUBE GOOGLE! DAD has entered a new world. information is now readily available. so now he needs (real) human interaction perhaps even less than before which is saying a lot.
First he was telling me links of youtube videos I should watch ie- Eric Bourdon, rolling stones, Eric Clapton etc etc.

Now we enter into the second quarter of unemployment- moms bringing home the bacon and dad is musing over the wonders of websites that detail politics in the worst way: MICHAEL MOORE documentaries. even better than real information!

Last night at like 11 pm my mom calls. She really picks the best times to call so I have to sober up and talk to her.
-Hi mom I got off work early- just making food. blah blah.
-oh okay today we had the neighbors over for dinner and your dad talked to them about his thoughts on the michael moore documentaries he found on youtube.

i dont know how this works out given my dads lean towards the republican party. now he is drunk and watching youtube videos. I hear him yell something from the other room and my mom hands him the phone.
We talked about London and art and that transitioned to my dad talking about a contemporary pop- dance performance that he found online. apparently its really interesting new thing (probably happened 50 years ago) but the point is that London has great things going on like this performance art. Thanks dad i could not have imagined that given this I spent six months there this year.

I am trying to tell my dad that perhaps we can compare our ten top fav websites another time- when im not climbing into the crossfade. minus the latter section of that clause. and then my mom comes back takes the phone, luckily and says his time is up.

blows my mind how people can live together for so long and have a functional relationship. Is it about sacrifices or just giving in and realizing that you love someone whose favorite pastime is getting drunk and watching propaganda on the WWW ? further- I am a product of their co-existence. at work blogging. exactly.

PAVEMENT AT SASQUATCH !@@##$$%% STEPHEN MALKMUS IS MY INDIE DAD ive decided. HYPOTHETICALLY If i had a dad in the music world it would be MALKMUS FO SHO.

JAM SESSION

Im sick. I wouldnt even be surprised if I had swine flu given that my roommmate robin buys like ten pounds of meat every week out refridgerator has become a incubation tank for disease. YUM!
Halloweener was good. Mine and Gill's Costume of Wayne and Garth was a surprising success. Surprising and uncanny. This is probably not a good thing. So I had to change it up the next night be Russian New Money on Saturday. This involved lots o' fur, gold, and heavy makeup. Im proud of my heritage and its inability to cope with money and taste simulatenously. Something I could go into more detail with but I think once I post some pics it will make more sense.

Been thinking about art a lot. Im really into Jeff Koons art- which i refrenced in a past blog. He was a topic of discussion in my bussiness of art class. I feel few people understand the value of his artwork. Trash and commodity in a post-modern consumer culture- that pretty much sums it up. If anyone wonders why I love the following:
Hello Kitty
Stuffed Animals
cat posters/calendars
Images from Romance Novels
or any cute knickknack for that matter.

It can be summed up in the work of Jeff Koons. I am obsessed with pop-culture and the trash culture it perpetuates and this is realized in his art. Im glad we found eachother.

On that note I am planning a trip with Jakob to Las Vegas for New Years where are all my Trashy American Dreams can be realized.