Saturday, May 25, 2002
“One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind.”*
1. I love jumbo paper clips. I’m on a secret mission, being the guy who orders office supplies, to quietly, steadily replace all small paper clips in our department with the jumbo size. Shhhh.
2. Lisa Shaw’s voice on “Ultimate High”.
3. I always laugh when people say “I didn’t think it could happen here“. Haven’t they learned yet? Shit happens everywhere. I’m starting a campaign today to encourage the use of original statements made by neighbors to the media following a death or disaster. No more “you wouldn’t think it could happen here” or “he was always so quiet”. Modern reporting requires more drama than that. Try “everyday I lay awake knowing a plane would drop on my house, and now it has.” Or “That guy was such a fucking psycho. I’m surprised more people around here hadn’t gotten killed already.”
4. Sometimes I’m terribly out of sync with the Americans.
5. “You may sometimes think everyone lives in the crotch of the pleasure principle these days except you, but you have company, friend. I live under the same pressures you do. It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of people who I believe are like me are those who have never found the professional skin to fit the riot in their souls.”
*-Seymour Krim, “For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business”
