why? why does the globatron persist?
this is not a loaded question. it is a serious one.
yet we are here, we truly are followers, followers of this experiment, participants, jailers and inmates.
what is missing is real purpose.
such things as art, culture, truth, ideas, expressive mediums, if anything this site and the need for content reveal the existential tension of the meaninglessness of these terms.
this is the tension that feeds the suicide bomber, the religious zealot, the knitting group.
but what about us, the isolated, downtrodden artists left over in a world of institutionalized music and entertainment, laugh tracks and britney spears on barbara walters. what are we? jedi knights?
the answer is not in more input, more comments, more posts. what kind of answer is that but blips in matrix?
eventually we will have to face the question. and i do not say this from a point of knowing, i too do not know, i too follow globatron, i honor his stubborn will to be, i too see there is truth in this journey, but i just don’t know if it has found it’s form yet. perhaps the answer is death, perhaps it is rather a courageous change of focus.
How am I not myself?
here’s a post, born out of the pain of our leader.
as he once said, ‘if you can’t stand the heat’, but what if the whole world is a kitchen and there are too many cooks?
akbar
Originally posted August 17th, 2008.
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Kara pound, www.karapound.com, today who is a writer for the Music and Arts section of Folio Weekly. And instead of us doing a regular old interview we decided to make our interview go both directions and turn it into a podcast too. Kara’s edited version of this interview with me will be published sometime in the coming weeks, but in this case we will be able to get an actual two way look into the life of an artist (me) and the writer (Kara) who usually don’t get interviewed. I wonder why writers/journalist aren’t interviewed more often myself? Thanks Kara for sharing and being open to the tag team interview concept. I look forward to following the path you take as a writer.
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