day 0 x 5

from the change bin in the drawer of my computer desk.

Let me leave you with the 10th aphorism from Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia:

Separated-united. – Marriage, whose despicable parody lives on in a time when the basis of the human right of marriage has been withdrawn, serves today mostly as a trick of self-preservation: each of the two conspirators deflects the responsibility for any villainy which they might commit onto the other, while in truth they exist together opaquely and swampily. The only proper marriage would be one, in which both have an independent life for themselves, without the fusion which rests on an economically compulsory community of interest, but which instead would involve taking mutual responsibility for each other out of freedom. Marriage as a community of interest inexorably signifies the degradation of the interested parties, and what is perfidious about the existing state of affairs, is that no-one, even if one knew of this, can avoid such degradation. Sometimes one might entertain the thought that it is only those who are emancipated from the pursuit of interests, that is to say the rich, who retain the possibility of a marriage without shame. But this possibility is entirely formal, because those who are privileged are precisely the ones to whom the pursuit of interests has become second nature – otherwise they would not maintain their privileges.

day 0 x 1

a shot from my desktop – various CDs I don’t ever listen to.

Yes, so it seems like everyone is doing one of these. But, I like the idea of being able to look back at any day of the past year and have a visual cue to that day.

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From craigslist.org
Best of craigslist is a plethora of rants and lulz, but this right here is one of my favorite rants to date. I know a lot of you are gonna TL;DR, thats fine.

Date: 2010-02-26, 11:35AM PST

Dear University Alumni Office,

I’m sorry to hear that the university’s $750 million endowment has fallen in value to $500 million because of the recession and because your bank died. I’m also sorry to hear that you’re dealing with declining enrollment due to the fact that middle-class families are no longer willing or able to bet their homes on a $45,000-a-year higher education for their children. I really am.

So, what I want to know is, why are you wasting money on glossy fundraising brochures full of meaningless synonyms for the word “Excellence”? And, why are you sending them to ME? Yes, I know that I got a master’s degree at your fine institution, but that master’s degree hasn’t done jack shit for me since I got it! I have been unemployed for the past TWO YEARS and I am now a professional resume-submitter, sending out dozens of resumes a month to employers, and the degree I received in your hallowed halls is at the TOP OF IT and it doesn’t do a fucking thing.

You know, maybe if you wanted a little bit of money from me (and these days you’d get about $3) maybe you should send me a fancy color brochure admitting your role in the bubble economics that got us all in to this mess.

For example, since 1987, higher education expenses have gone up 450 percent, while personal income in this country has gone up 87 percent, making tuition IMPOSSIBLE to afford without special financing. But, during this time, you were thriving because people could come up with the cash in two ways:

1. Get a home equity loan and use the inflated value of their house to pay for their kid to get drunk and/or raped at your school and then lose the house when the market crashed.
2. Get a federal loan.

HAD IT OCCURRED TO YOU THAT NEITHER OF THESE SOURCES OF MONEY ACTUALLY EXIST? THAT IT WAS BEING MANUFACTURED BECAUSE YOU MADE PEOPLE THINK THAT ONE OF YOUR DEGREES WAS NECESSARY TO CLIMB TO THE TOP OF THE BUBBLE?

Oh yes, federal loans. I’ve got $40,000 of those, which are in “forebearance” right now because I’m unemployed, meaning that the feds are paying the interest for a while, which is convenient for me, but not for our government which is now owned by China. You know, the idea behind federal loans was that it would allow more students to attend your university, not let you INFLATE your tuition to obscene levels! I mean, what the fuck were you spending the $16,000 per semester on, anyway? I was in a public policy program, so that meant we got to sit in classrooms and listen to Professor God up at the front of the lecture hall glorify Himself and Creation as He saw it and talk about how much smarter he was than anyone else and how much he’d learned at MIT and the RAND Corporation.

Really, that’s about all you did for us — gave us a lecture hall, gave us an arrogant bastard to listen to, and gave us a room full of computers we could use sometimes, and you gave us a degree that employers look at and say “This guy knows how to write reports. Amusing.” And I will be paying for this privilege until I am 51 years old.

So I’m sorry that the economy’s been rough on you. Maybe, if you wanted to save a little money, you could stop printing and sending brochures to my parents’ house (oh yeah, that’s where I live because I can’t afford rent on ANYTHING). And, maybe I’ll donate a little bit of money to you in 2030, when I get the loans for your imaginary education PAID OFF!

Sincerely yours,
Alumnus

Location: Seattle, WA
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Challenge the rock

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
To hug the mountain
To envelop…that mountain
To hug the mountain
To envelop…that mountain
To hug the mountain
…that mountain
…that mountain

He wants to make love to the mountain.

Tough young guys singing with bodies in their…..eh….
Finger and teeny toes
Challenge the rock…..Challenging…death!
Why do I climb the mountain?… Because I’m in love!
There is a passionate affair going on with Kirk and that mountain
Kirk is on…Kirk is on the mountain.
Now in order to create that illusion…sucking…some of the most
Sensational men to not only climb are veracious, fleeting and illusive and peripheral.
And that’s putting me on the mountain
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
HOLD IT PLEASE….

To hug the mountain
To envelop…that mountain

To hug the mountain
To envelop…that mountain
To hug the mountain
…that mountain
…that mountain
He wants to make love to the mountain.
And the climb is going where no man has gone before
Where no man has gone before!
Challenge the rock…..Challenging…death!
Why do I climb the mountain?… Because I’m in love!

DY NO MITE!

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Where: MCAD
Price: free [ Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Fri., May 28 ]

Design studio Aesthetic Apparatus is arguably the Twin Cities’ most lauded poster designer. The MCAD Gallery’s latest exhibit takes a look at its impressive first decade—one year after the fact. The retrospective gathers the prodigious output of sole employees Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski, who founded AA 11 years ago as an after-hours project away from their “real” design jobs.

When:
Daily from Thu., May 27 until Sun., June 27
The opening reception is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, May 28.

“AAXI” highlights every limited-edition poster Aesthetic Apparatus has turned out since it formed, including show posters for the likes of Grizzly Bear and the Hold Steady, and art prints from the well-known Doom Drip series. It even expands beyond 2D works to include half-jokingly venerated studio artifacts: wire and clips from AA’s first workspace, rubber stamp designs, an infamously ugly studio couch, and the sheet of legal paper where Ibarra and Byzewski first wrote their business plan (“Low art. High prices!”).

Katie Christian / CITYPAGES

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