Frankenstein vs. the World

These are the words to my new driving to/from work song:

That the eye — is the measure of the man
You can fly — from the stuff that still surrounds you
We’re home — and the band keeps marchin’ on
Connecting — to ev’ry living soul
Compassion — for things I’ll never know”
                                       – David Bryne, “Home”

Tags: still, stuff, surrounds, that, you.

Tags: heart, is, melting, my.

“I’m always going to improvise, it’s my nature to improvise, you know, or it’s what I develop. But I want to say, for younger artists . . . you know, because one of the things is that, you know, this has gone on for 20 years . . . people see me perform, they work with me, and I talk directly to the audience. Which was one of the things that I created, which now has like, you know, an actual academic name, which is direct address, right? And I started speaking directly to the audience because I was so ignored by the press and the art scene, and so I would talk directly to the audience. I understood that my relationship was with the audience, that it wasn’t with arts administrators, that it wasn’t with the press, and that the audience and I were actually treated the same way by the press and by arts administrators. They thought we were stupid and didn’t know anything, and so I developed that talking to the audience, and just got braver and braver and braver . . . because partially . . . I was brave because things that I wouldn’t really be able to really reveal . . . because I’m as scared as anybody else . . . I’m not . . . I’m a very frightened person emotionally . . . and I don’t have a lot of self-esteem, or self-confidence. Everything that’s perceived as my self-confidence is because I believe what I perceive though my mind. I believe in my intelligence, and I believe in my intuition. But as far as being emotionally self-confident . . . if I was emotionally self-confident, I’d be one of the most famous artists in America, I’d be a major movie star, but I don’t have that kind of killer instinct, you know, I don’t have that ego. I have a malformed ego, you know. And so at any rate . . . a lot of younger people who’d work with me, they’d see me talk directly to the audience, and they’d go, ‘oh, I can do that,’ you know? And they didn’t understand the level of integrity that you have to bring to talking directly to the audience. Because . . . it doesn’t work unless you’re really at risk.”

– Penny Arcade

Tags: longing lasts longer.

We are driving on the Autobahn

We are driving on the Autobahn.

Tags: Kraftwerk.

Tags: snowed in.