(FOR-EVER)

RB: “They were looking like scared, lustful baby deer, and me following with careful feet, a camera and a corndog, a Christian one. THE GROUND OPENED UP TO BEDROCK PLAYING ON THE ZIPPER!”

1. Que vous inspire en tant que hairstylist ? En tant que directeur créateur ? En général ?

Sculptural Ambition.
Sensory exchange (fingers-head-fingers).
Impossible pursuits of Perfection.
Beautiful Women.
Unapologetic texture-making.
The Opportunity to express Tenderness.
Feasts of multi- forms (food, fellowship, etc.).
Surfaces defined via Subcultures.
Procuring security through Shape.

"Nice One!"

CLEAR EYES/FULL HEARTS/CAN'T LOSE

RB: “Been walkin’ round waving at cowboys with my sunglasses on so they don’t see me cryin’.”

TR: “Where are you going now?”

RB: “To a temperature controlled environment where there aren’t cataclysmic lightening storms or trilingual men in lizard skin footwear, and eye contact doesn’t make you shiver.”

TR: “We thought you were a Norwegian mail order bride.”

RB: “No you didn’t.”

TR: “Alright, we thought you came to colonize us with acid wash denim and extraterrestrial family values.”

RB: (TEARING UP) “UHM, SAVE MY SEAT FOR ME I’LL BE RIGHT BACK.”

Love Street

(I AM JUST A NEW-BORN)

“Didn’t anyone ever tell you not to use imperialist rhetoric when ordering your steak tartare? SIGNIFY SOME PLURALISM OR GET BACK IN THE VAN, LADY.”

-Kenny of the White Plains, NM

BT: “Walk down this landing strip, wear this hoodie, talk to Mike about the Cold War.”

MG: “You mean Lonesome Dove?”

RB: “I’M CLICKING MY HEELS AND NOTHING IS HAPPENING.”

AN INTERVIEW FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCY:

MR: “How do you feel about the four food groups?”

RB: “Couldn’t be bothered.”

ST: “Do you find women who discuss the dramatic splendor of being a woman, depressing?”

RB: “Yes.”

EG: “How about women who talk about their Lovers?”

RB: “Exponentially so.”

PK: “What of creatives who exhibit superficial activation positioned as the thin-skinned brand of Fragility/Complexity/Confliction?”

RB: “SKIN CRUMBLING.”

AH: “Tell me about money.  Do you want alot of it?”

RB: “I want enough to keep my scissors sharp, my belly full, my wardrobe steaming, and my parallelograms on point.”

TR: “Lastly, big-city Spiritualistas?”

RB: “CURRENCY-BASED CRYSTAL HEALING/WHITE GURUS/SALAD RECIPES FOR LEANER THIGHS”

TR: “And would you contribute to our community’s utilitarian discussion of cultural circulation, were you to keep this P.O. Box for eternity?”

RB: “It would be one of my three cardinal motives for perpetual motion, probably in first place and occasionally in second.”

SS: ” Who told you you could wear the same pair of shorts every day for 49 days?”

RB: ”       .”

RH: “Will you consider teaching a class on the art of heat-based hermitude?”

RB: “It is a deep, dark passion of mine and would therefore be an honor of the most ultimate kind.”

AS: “May we expect a bi-monthly dinner party based on the color coding of food and plates, from you?”

RB: “I will learn how to manipulate food, yes.  I will need some time and perhaps a place-setting budget.”

TT: “For every gemstone you take home from the desert will you bury a pile of haircut, under a prickle-pear?”

RB: “My golden spade was wrought for this very purpose, from the metalsmith in Valentine.”

RC: “Ok, well then, it seems you have passed the test with a score of 83% and are therefore eligible to enlist for permanent residency on the Isle of Misfits.”

RB: “I WILL WAKE UP AND FALL ASLEEP WITH GRATITUDE DRIFTING FROM MY LIPS. (Thank you very much).”

Le Temps Des Souvenirs

W.W.S.F.C.D.

Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)

Interview of Arthur Clarke by Linda Ferguson, Pacific Sun 4.12.73

LF: You’ve written that machines will eventually supersede human beings.

AC: I suspect that’s true, yes…I’ve concluded that we will have intelligent machines, and I think they will be superior to us in intellectual abilities- of all kinds. I suspect that our destiny is to act as a bridge between non-thinking, inorganic matter and our successors. I don’t see how you can get from anything like a lifeless planet to anything like a super IBM machine without some intermediate stage rather like us.

I Feel Love

"Their villages are built in pairs to represent heaven and earth, and fields are cleared in spirals because the world has been created spirally."