Dilemma:
He says, “I don’t know where any of this is going.”
She says, “ Have you ever thought about just writing jokes on the backs of placemats?”
He asks, “In all seriousness, is it better to have a preconceived notion about life, work, and love or to just ‘go with the flow?’”
I say, “ I think one has to do both at all times, you have an opinion and direction, but you always have to allow your inner child to continually develop.
Song:
“Well it’s the L…I…R…R…”
Drama:
Tom says, “I may not be completely right, but I know your completely I know your completely wrong.”
One Day:
Becky says,” This was an epic day.”
Ralph says, “What happened? Did your lip explode?”
Becky replies, “No, but almost, I was down at Dr. Finks and while I was in the waiting room a rep came in offering free samples. She gave me two injections and now I can’t smile.”
Never Tell People What to Do:
“Would you relax?”
“No, you relax,”
I Rarely Take the Train:
“I just want to hop these turnstiles. This monopoly of rails. Prices go up.”
Song:
Street meat tastes good when you’re hungry. The six train is the best when you’re hungry. 115th street feels good when you’re hungry. The neighborhood bully looks good when he’s hungry. The project elevators look good when they’re hungry. Street meat tastes good when you’re hungry. The Black Fin and all the Blue Shirts look good when they’re hungry. Crazy men on the subway look good when they’re hungry. Boxing at nothing cause he’s hungry. Street meat tastes good when you’re hungry. Red sweats feel good when you’re hungry. Bloodstains look good when you’re hungry. Criminals have a blank stair when they’re hungry.
Song:
Rainy days in Denver.
He’s So Sincere With It:
“He’s so sincere with it,” she says to her twin sister. “He really means it when he talks. You know some people have facial ticks, not this guy, he’s so sincere with it.”
Fish sticks:
“Take a cab and I’ll give you a ring,” she closes her cell phone and stares out the foggy bus window. She thinks to herself, “I wonder if Marvin wants fish sticks for dinner?”
Movie:
“Rookie Cop Training Ground”
Drama
“Don’t you get it they want us all on drugs!” Ken yells at Jose.
Story:
I open my apartment door and a man is standing there with a cardboard box. “I don’t know why you’re standing on my floor.”
He replies, “Neither do I.”
Icing My Lump:
“Hurry, hurry, what’s taking so long?” says one to another.
“I have to ice my lump,” the other replies.
ChaCha
“Thank Jesus that ChaCha was there!”
Sometimes I’m Slow:
“Remember when you made a quick joke. I told you that I didn’t understand it. Then you told me never mind. I have been obsessing about it for weeks. Too bad I lost your number.
Is it that you are so clever and so cute?
Is it that you are so clever and so cute that you don’t have to repeat yourself?”
Quote:
“Remember it was Mussolini who made the trains run on time.”
Question:
Is there anything as beautiful as lettuce?
Dilemma:
“Hey did you get a look at these sculptures?”
“Yeah they look like shiny blobs.”
“Don’t you think they are great?”
“My ceramics teacher used to yell at me for making this kind of stuff.”
“How much are they.”
“There are no price tags.”
“I guess if you have to ask, then you can’t afford it.”
Burdens:
“I got enough burdens and now expect me to carry all yours?”
Neither Here Nor There:
My mind does pray.
If I let you in.
Will the light stay on?
I we make the choice.
To mend the wounds.
We have to leave it all behind.
Jammed In The Cans:
Like sardines.
Wasting paper.
Can’t care.
Bow out.
Feel pain
Sketch life.
That’s a lot of blocks; can I help you with that?
Can I Help It?:
Can I help it that there is an angel watching over me?
Can I help it that there is a middle aged white woman humming “Everybody Plays the Fool?
Can I help it that she reads US Weekly so dang close to me that I can’t help but look at Kate Hudson in a bikini?”
No More Apologies
She says to me with a wild look in her eye,” I am tired of apologizing for not playing with a full deck”
I respond clinching my napkin, “I don’t speak Hebrew.”
Contest:
Infinity VS. Boundaries
Their Brains Explode:
My ziplock baggy has a blow out.
You glass gives way.
His sock disintegrates.
This pixel vanishes.
While her jokes loose edge.
Working These Jobs:
Punch in; punch out, lots of deodorant and ham sandwiches.
They say everything gets “shopped out.”
My brain got shopped out.
I am about to hop out.
Hop the BIG TURNSTILE.
This time.
He Can Sit…
…For three days and write three sentences.
…By the window and complain about the light.
…Staring at a blank wall and see an unknown universe.
…On her bed and lie to her.
…Downstairs and listen to Ken and Christine fighting.
…On the rug dreaming about King Tut and Rambo.
Quote:
“Pillows Make Really Good Butts.”
Image:
Holding Jody as a baby.
Image:
Lighting face on fire with a spray paint blowtorch with Matt Ricker.
Quote:
“I want my own mobile comfort unit.”
Quote:
“Does he still have it?”
Image:
Two black men beating up a Mexican deliveryman in the middle of an intersection, no one doing anything about it in broad daylight.
Quote:
“The home depot, you can do it we can help.”
Quote:
“You sure are one swarthy motherfucker.”
He Had to Tell a Bold Face Lie Today:
He had to tell a bold face lie today. He had to protect his children from starving today. He had to trudge through life today.
Project:
A race to see how many galleries you can see in one day.
Project:
Life size silhouettes of people at the DMV
Project:
Create multiple facebook accounts, dress up in disguises and “play” each person.
Image:
Drugged out man throwing wood onto the third rail
Film Documentary:
People who sit around in dreary offices and write T-Shirts
T-Shirt Idea:
Dumb Smart
Project:
Show a room to potential renters. Secretly video and record them.
Drama:
“I am not imagining it.”
“Your crazy.”
“With your snide remarks and laughs.”
Image:
Erin throwing bottle in an Oakhurst shopping plaza parking lot.
Quote:
“I guess I never wanted that.”
Top Artist:
Evan Hecox
Watch:
Ukrainian cowboy movies.
Command:
Compile lists.
Image:
She sleeps crouched in train seat; her purse lies there for all to see, her phone is out, so trusting so naïve.
Top Five Voyeur Movies:
4.
5.
Project:
Keep all receipts, notes, and lists in a binder as a visual journal.
Mantra
“Sometimes doing the right thing means sticking up for you.”
Where You Going Abby Now:
Excuse me sir.
I did not slur.
Would you wipe the grin?
Pour me some gin.
Do it here.
Kill me now.
I read your lies.
You taught me your fears.
I’ve been blind folded all these years.
Where you going Abby now.
The applause came you did not bow.
It seems that you wait until the final last hour.
To through in the towel.
“GO SLOW YOUNG MAN”
“BE YOUR GOOD DAD TO YOU SON.”
“TAKE THE TIME TO MEND THE WOUNDS.”
Dialogue:
She lifts her flashlight and whispers into Philips ear,” have you ever noticed that in all this mob mentality, no one is sticking up for themselves.”
“Well you are the one with the flashlight,” Philip adds. “Listen Tammy, before we kissed I should of told you that I wasn’t ready to carry your burden.”
Project:
Screen Tests
True Story:
“Do you sell sandbags?”
“No, but we sell bags of sand.”
“You think I give a rats ass about that? What’s important is whether or not he gets results.”
Project:
Video sweeping dirt into a small circular pile.
Project:
Photographs of each window in a project building then collage it all together.
“Freedom is not needing anything.”
Drama:
A man in his late forties, dressed in a suit in tie stares at his reflection in the window of the subway door on his way to his brokerage firm in midtown. As he stares he thinks to himself,” when are you going to come to terms that you’re an artist?”
Dilemma:
We walk through the park on a Sunday afternoon. She tries to hide her bottle of rum in the small pouch of her lavender backpack. I never have the heart to tell her, “I am worried that you are an alcoholic.”
Project:
Video bike ride from Bronx to Manhattan
Image:
“This is the real world!”
Image:
“Gangs chasing and shooting at each other on 112th st.”
“Get up in the Brains.”
Statement:
Memory and Repression in the age of Denial.
“What is your code of honor?”
“ I am sorry I can’t spend the night.”
“Did you see that Ukrainian cowboy movie”?
“No, No their pipeline sucks”
“Getting robbed for hot water.”
“I can do better than that.”
“That was in Mom’s driveway, you know how crazy that place is.”
“I was standing down in Korea town one day, singing hey, hey, hey, hey.
“There’s a needle at the bottom of every bottle.”
Image:
Hasidic Jews smoking out the window of a Cadillac Escalade, waiting to park.
Project:
Education tree
Image:
Rolando scaling the fence, breaking and crashing into the drums.
“He’s not a very likeable person, nobody likes him”
Movie:
Spitzer the Movie
“Business class is like this”
“Economy class is like this”
“I’m trying to go to Tokyo too.”
“I don’t care for travel”
“You got to know what to buy.”
“You can lose fifteen grand like that.”
Song:
Eat a lot of these.
You got to eat a lot of those
Image:
Playing with trains in room in Montana
Image:
Sunset on trailer in Montana
Image:
Buffalo in Montana
“Everybody gets excessed.”
“Sacrificial lambs of celebrity culture.”
“Police are held to a different standard of justice.”
Drama Episode:
She says: “I don’t understand, whenever I see you, you seem to intentionally ignore me, you won’t even look at me.”
He responds, “I think you’re a complete liar and the sight of you makes me sick to my stomach and I am going to continue to ignore you.
She becomes enraged, “You’re a child! How dare you.”
He responds, “At least I tell the truth.”
“To separate issues does no one justice.”
“We are just freaks trying to figure it all out.” – Jason Florence Williams
Research:
Mi Li Massacre
“I don’t need you to tell me what I need.”
“No, it didn’t just kill them, it caused genetic mutations.”
“O.K. I will listen.”
“Keep it real by making it completely fake.” – David B. Frye
“I’m in the mood to call it like I see it, to burn bridges, and to swear.
Listen to: Old Money
Lust:Possesion:Murder
“You got to get leather.”
“Everything inevitable breaks”
Image:
A young boy mimics the voice on the subway, “The next stop is 59th street.”
Image:
A decapitated cathead on Fernando’s lawn.
“There’s a boat in Woman IV”