These are harrowing, inspirational days; I'm not sleeping well and neither is my friend Carrie Brownstein. So we got up, turned on the light and made a little website. Please share it.
I am not a very good drawer, so you know that I like someone a lot if they can get me to draw a picture. My Learning To Love You More collaborator, Harrell Fletcher, is the head of the new and radical Art and Social Practice program at Portland State University, and I happily drew a picture for his art auction benefiting the PSU art department. Luckily for all of us, I am just one of 100 artists who donated work. There's some very tempting stuff on there, by some of my favorite artists, including Dan Graham, Chris Johanson, Karen Yasinsky and Jim Drain (pictured below).
Dear Friends, A few weeks ago I invited my friend Lindsay over to help me make some promotional videos for the paperback edition of No One Belongs Here More Than You. The sales team tells me that they have had absolutely no impact on sales, and have maybe even confused people out of buying the book. Luckily, we could not have known this at the time we were making them, and thus, we had fun. mj
I made this for truck drivers and the blind, but you might enjoy it too. I tried to read it in a way that would make it impossible for you to not get me.
The new MGMT album, Oracular Spectacular, is also pretty enjoyable.
Which is the better album, mine or theirs? Well, if we are judging by length, mine is 5 hours long, so mine wins - but we might not have been judging by length. If judged by yellowness, I also win. But if judging by number of young men in feathers and scarves on the cover, I lose. (Unless you think of the word "Unabridged" as a young man?) I also lose on danceability.
Also on view, work by: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Andrea Bowers, Nao Bustamante, Tammy Rae Carland, Vaginal Davis, Eve Fowler with Math Bass, Deborah Grant, MK Guth, Taraneh Hemami, LTTR, Leslie Labowitz and Suzanne Lacy, Aleksandra Mir, Laurel Nakadate, Shinique Smith, and more.
And While We’re On The Topic, I Am Voting For Barack Obama.
I'd like to think all the people who follow my work are radical, political firecrackers. But those of you who are don't need any encouragement from me. Instead I will focus my efforts on the demographic who, like me in 1996, feels completely disconnected from life, nevermind their country. I'm hoping that there aren't very many of you, in this day and age. You people are hard to encourage, because all the political arguments will mean nothing to you. I just spent the last hour typing up my case for Obama, but you won't even read it, you'll skip ahead to something that seems subtler or less cliche, I know you. (And those of you who will read it, who are perhaps torn between Obama and Clinton, are well tended to by better writers.) So nevermind all that.
Here's why you should vote: you are going to really love it, the whole strange procedure. You get to walk right into a building that you would never normally be allowed in, often an elementary school. You can pause in the hallway to look at all the weird school-art and feel the eerie vibe of hundreds of kids living their endless kid lives right nearby. Then you follow the arrows to the voting room and look at the faces of the volunteers - who are these people? There is a hush of secrecy, the voting booth is clunky, the whole thing seems fake somehow. You consider filling in all the bubbles, like you did on the SATs. But you don't. You vote. You walk back outside feeling like you just gave blood or something, lightheaded from citizenry. You are wearing a sticker that says "I Voted" and you wish you could continue to get stickers like this throughout the day: I Ate Dinner, I Went To Sleep, I Got Out Of Bed, I Went To Work. But alas, it is just this one thing that we all do together, savor it.
I tried to find an easy link for you to locate your polling place, but the best thing to do is just type the name of your city + "where do I vote" into google. If you're not registered, then you might not be able to vote in the primaries, but register right now so you can vote in November.
pps: non-american myspacers: sorry. for everything. we are working on it.
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(Everyone else: this is just the same yellow book of stories that maybe you already have. But wouldn't it be cool if i had written a whole new book? In French no less!)
