SpazzkortheAbsurd

first, i need to say thanks to zebrazebrazebra for posting my work in the UA feature and to all the people who've been poking around the gallery and leaving feedback and stuff. i have been neglectful in responding, and i'm sorry. I've been working 11 and 12 hour days all summer, so i haven't had much time even for writing, much less for being present here. over the next few days i will begin responding/thanking people individually for their time and thoughts. it really is appreciated. next week is the last real hell week as far as work is concerned, followed by a brief but total respite followed by the happily diminished expectations of the s

yesterday night I was walking home to my aparment in allston MA where I'll be untill the school year starts. there's this group of vaguely vagrant guys who hang out/beg/sell drugs on a sidewalk on the way home from the train station. so I'd just gotten off a long day getting yelled at for fucking up rich peoples' coffee and i was walking down the sidewalk and these guys are on both sides so I have to walk through the group of them and one black guy looks up at me and sees the white suburban kid getting nervous and says what's up, chief? and the world is a fucked up place when rich people spend 4 bucks on a latte for the privilege of tellin

-Gabriel Garcia Marquez sucks -Italo Calvino sucks -Abstraction in art is worthless -"artists" are people who can do things "normal people" can't. Specifically, they are capable of accurrately rendering existing reality in various mediums. -beauty is not relative; there is one specific set of things which are beautiful, and anyone who finds beauty in something else is wrong. -I don't believe this now because i'm too young, but i'll grow into it. if you read this, you must solemnly swear to track me down and murder me if that ever happens.