12:05 a.m. - 2003-09-14
politicriffs pushin' dope
i'm not sure which irks me more - the constitutional provision that prevents bill clinton from running for president again, or the man himself, for managing in one speech to make me forget all about nafta, the defense of marriage act, don't ask don't tell, and all the other politically expedient policy moves of the clinton administration. man, is this guy good! he'd mop the floor with bush if he could only compete ..the problem is he can't, and none of the other democrats in the field yet have the mojo. god, but we need it. i know i'm not typically prone to falling in line with the democratic party, but man, if ever there was a situation where the lesser of two evils argument applies, this is it.
in other news, i spent four hours in a darkroom yesterday and another one today (my lunch break, even!) and it feels great. rolling film still makes me want to cry, but once i can actually see those pictures and start tinkering with them, it's the most fun thing in the world. slowly 'getting it,' i should be able to produce really darn good prints pretty soon. i already have one or two, just not of the things i want them to be of. lotus, beautiful lotus! here's hoping by wednesday i can do the negatives justice.
tomorrow, depending which things come together and which don't: photographing o.c. mcfly, as well as kitkat. studying with jojorbius and andre the giant. possibly, most slimly possibly, going to atlanta to see andrew wk, whose music over breakfast is the only thing that's given me the energy to get away with 6 hours of sleep these last couple days.
andrew wk makes me think of a moment of revelation, a crusade of sincerity in the previously ironic. jojorbius herself observed a while back that it is easy to think one is living at the critical juncture, that /this/ particular generation (which is by sheer and utter coincidence the one into which we were born) is the one that's going to cast off the shackles of the past, or bear witness to deep and fundamental change. perhaps this is, indeed, just subtly expressed egoism. but sometimes i think that those who predict a transformative (alternately catastrophic - see www.kunstler.com) set of events may be right. perhaps we face a true watershed!
or perhaps i was just babbling when i wrote all this an hour ago back when the internet wasn't working and i couldn't post it.
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