The Rent is Too Damn High

or  How Jimmy McMillan is (hopefully) taking NYC's Governor's Race

See full story here: The Rent is Too Damn High- Jimmy McMillan

The "official" website:

http://www.rentistoodamnhigh.org/

Why you should visit these things:

1- Quotes

• On the deficit: "It's like a cancer. It will heal itself."
• On negative campaigning: "As a karate expert, I will not talk about anyone up here."
• On gay marriage: "The Rent Is 2 Damn High Party feels if you want to marry a shoe, I'll marry you."
• On... Jesus, I have no clue what prompted this one: "We plan to bulldoze some of those mountains in Upstate to make New York an independent state. I want my own cable company; I want my own telephone company."
• On the rent: Too damn high.
• (via gawker.com)

2-His Appearance and Image

3-In all actuality, for many reasons, this is politic at its finest. McMillan is using the Media, pulling it's tail and feeding it the table scraps. He is be both hilarious, truthful and outlandish.

Modern America-- you baffle me. 

Happy Mothafucking Tuesday.

Austin City Limits

or  The Sweaty Bourgeoisie Proletariat

As I sit on my baloney in a tank top and shorts in 80 degree weather listening to Van Morrison, I realized have discovered the meaning of autonomy. I will show this meaning through  chaotic narrative progression. 

 Autonomy: Casually strolling into an 75,000 mass of sweaty people, 7 stages, hard beating southern sun with nothing more than myself, an empty waterbottle,  $5 in my pocket and a seductive lust to surrender myself to a weekend full of live music and sweat. The world, for three days, was my motherfucking Oyster. 

The festival started out with The Mountain Goats, a band that has taken on a new meaning since I've arrived in Texas. "All Hail West Texas" was the defining album of my 4 day drive (see:love for the goatsl) I then progressed to see many, many fucking amazing bands.  I came home every night exhausted and covered in other peoples sweat.  (Black Keys, The XX, Matt & Kim, M.I.A., Edward Sharpe and The Magneficent Zeros, The Strokes, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, Phish, Broken Bells, Gogol Bordello, The National, The Eagles, The Flaming Lips….) but these experiences are not worth blogging about. There are professionals over at stereogum that are much, much hipper than I and I shall leave that job to them. 

I was swallowed whole by the mass of people, spit back out and I remained unscathed, minus the Strep Throat that was given to me by a joint I shared with  a Phish fan (I believe).  There's nothing like being baked, while being surrounded by 75,000 strangers wondering how you're going to ride your bike home or trying, successfully with a friend, to start a dance party to M.I.A. as she sings about revolution and intense political instability and everyone around you is either drunk, stoned or fucked up on some drug, or seeing Dan Aucherbach or watching The Lips crawl their way out of a strange figurative vagina...

The Sweaty Bourgeoisie Proletariat: Autonomy: being baked, surrounded by strangers and feeling oddly independent: Realizing the true meaning of solitude: Freedom.

Wa-bam.

This woman is amazing. I'll let her words speak for her (and me).

Hi, How are you?

or what does it feel like to live in the 3rd fastest growing city in the US?

and

and what does Daniel Johnston have to do with this?

Originally when I was writing this post, I was going to write about how incredibly and noticeably gentrified Austin has started to become due to its population growth rate. I was then going to relate it back to the famous, "Hi, How are you?"  graffiti on Guadeloupe. Austin has grown, and along with it, so has the wealth distribution and social class. 

"These days, though, the mural of a relic of an Austin which no 

longer exists, but for in the minds of its current (and former) citizens

 who are at least a decade older than the undergraduates who walk past it every single day" 

Hip Austin Blogger

However, after thinking about this, I realized that I don't want to write about that, so I erased all my words, letters and spaces and decided to share a video by Daniel Johnston, the creator of the, now famous, "Hi, How are you" frog. I am drawn to his music, not because of its quality, but because of it's incredible raw honest tone.