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Who Am I? Into the flux of things in their perpetual becoming his compositions are dynamic and open and tend to expand outside their boundaries - What to wake for if not for light. I think of cinemas, panoramic sleights With multitudes bent toward some flashing scene Never disclosed, but hastened to again, Foretold to other eyes on the same screen; - Mine. No time for the who I am thing - you probably have a better idea of knowing who I am than I do. Although implicitly it is perhaps hard to comprehend, the way we define ourselves is through others eyes. You tell me. I tried one night. Read the blog "in-depth profile" - it is a detailed composition on the late late night, edited and modified as my life has changed, and as a result, how I have changed. It is alas, if you find interest, a place to start. There were no standards for him because he could not accept the definitions, the hideously mechanical jargon of the age. He saw no one around him worth his envy, did not believe in the vast, gray sleep which was called security, did not believe in the cures, panaceas, and slogans which afflicted the world he knew; and this meant that he had to create his standards and make up his definitions as he went along. "I am nothing, I know nothing, and my being is nothing." Words from one of the most successful, humble man within society's knowledge - and the reason for respect is that no one knows who he is, I am in. "I wish I had enough courage to be a nobody." -Salinger "We always deceive ourselves twice about the people that we love-first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage." -Albert Camus "I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles..." - Page 5, On the road - Kerouac The social construction of "crazy" or "different" is simply what I look to define, but then again, I suppose you could say I'm not really escaping the box. To say a word however, normal - normal isn't something anyone respects. I'm mad. I'm mad to change what I know, and I'm mad to meet the same.

Who Are You? Who. I want to meet people just a fraction different. Original people. Crazy, wild, naked-chinese-fire-drill participants in the middle of a busy intersection, dancing around, rocking out to an i-pod that only half of us can hear but we sing it anyways, puddle stomping, yelling at cabs to get the f*ck out of the way type of people. Playground, not-quite ready to grow up type, actually playing on the monkey bars never mind their feet drag on the ground, still have fire in their eyes, that never gave up type of people. Those that I can learn anything from. I played chess with Sam (a bum) in the park for two hours and got him wasted off of wine that I was supposed to bring to a party while I caught hypothermia because I wanted a different experience - I WANT TO MEET THOSE that aren't afraid to smile and be, and eat way too many cupcakes from magnolias or whatever else and chase it with milk straight from the jug, and get frosting all over everywhere type of people. The people who drink not because it is a social game that society plays with us because we are at this age that it is just something you do but rather because it is something that offers a moment of freedom from the psychological construct of what society is while also allowing libation to serve as an excuse to get crazy and enjoy the company of others like them type of people (or me and you type of people). I want to meet those that make me feel as though they have graced my presence, truly fierce, out of the box, Jesus Mary and Joseph, I‘d be upset, very upset if I didn‘t meet you again type of people. I like meeting pure intellectuals, inspirers, artists, actors, deconstructors, fashion designers, muses, photographers, innovators, vintage dressed, wayfarered, all the while in dior and yves-st.-laurent, that are so dark and yet so so light type of people. I WANT TO MEET individuals that know that life is wayyy too short to just follow what is. I like those who are confident, those that inspirer, but that not only inspire others but also themselves, every single day, crazy, feel like they are being suffocated by something amazing that just wants to come out, jumping out of the shower, soaking wet, and write it down type of people - with attitudes within, those that are so "cool" that they aren't. THOSE THAT DEFINE POST MODERN, PROGRESSIVE REFORMERS, THAT SHOW OTHERS THE LIGHT. Examples. The poor that are happy with it, the rich that worked for it, those few individuals that know what others think say hi, or wow, they are weird, or make that comment that wake that person up for maybe even 5 seconds. Pardon the Language (kids), but FUCK the status quo. Let fear dissipate. IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. I like individuals that impress the world not because they want to, but because that is who they are, it is their being. That, that person, that idea, that is who I want to meet.