Washin' Sane

Today I tried an experiment (I guess). I wanted to silkscreen some Aladdin Sane dollar bills. I went to the bank and got $30 of one dollar bills. I planned to make a 4 color print: pink skin, orange hair, red lightning bolt with the blue highlight. The registration was pretty impossible (for me at least) since the bills are so small. I printed the pink skin first and out of those only 20 were registered correctly enough to continue with the other colors. By the end I only had 10 acceptable bills, and I decided to do the blue lightning streak by hand. It came out decent enough, and besides, I'm going to spend them anyway. I hope they find good homes.

On a side note, the hot water in my building was nonexistent last night. Coincidentally, I desperately needed a shower and decided to suck it up and take one. I think it was the coldest shower I've ever taken and the water was probably the temperature of a natural spring. You know the ones where water bubbles up from the sand in a river? Yeah those ones. The hot water is back today, and I now have a new appreciation for hot water after cursing out the soap for not rinsing off my body fast enough. Oh the minor inconveniences of post-modern living.

Interpol

Paul Banks, ink on paper

Waiting Room

I was listening to the song, Waiting Room, by Fugazi today, and all of a sudden it hit me that the song is actually about religion. As in Christian theology. Here's the lyrics with my analysis:

I am a patient boy
I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait
My time is water down a drain
(What Ian meant was that he's waiting for the final judgement or simply to be resurrected into heaven. Life on earth is meaningless, or "water down the drain," compared to eternal life in heaven.)

Everybody's moving
Everybody's moving
Everything is moving,
Moving, moving, moving
(People don't understand that worldy occupations are not what's really important. Ian is really stressing the importance of God.)

Please don't leave me to remain
In the waiting room
(Ian doesn't want to go to purgatory or be left behind when the final judgement comes.)

I don't want the news
(I got no use for it)
I don't want the news
(I won't live by it)
(More about how earth is whack.)

Sitting outside of town
Everybody's always down
(Tell me why)
(Tell me why? Because they haven't found the love of God! And unfortunately won't be saved.)

Because they can't get up
(Ahhh... Come on and get up)
(Come on and get up)
(Yeah, they can't get up to heaven if they aren't true believers. So get up and repent now.)

But I won't sit idly by
(Ahhh...)
I'm planning a big surprise
I'm gonna fight
For what I want to be
(Ian wants to set a good example by keeping up the faith.)

And I won't make the same mistakes
(Because I know)
Because I know how much time that wastes
(And function)
Function is the key
Inside the waiting room
(Ian won't make the same mistakes because sinning twice is showing God you don't really care. To get out of the "waiting room" one must be a good Christian.)


And this is a portrait of Suzanne Anker, Fine Arts Chair at SVA:

(She's pretty epic.)

And this is Suzanne witnessing nuclear holocaust:

Future Foe Scenarios

Lately, I've been making t-shirts. I really like making shirts that take advantage of the entire shirt space, i.e. huge prints. The one with Chris Burden is the first time I've ever used duotone and DUOTONE IS MAGIC. I love duotone. It looks so fucking sweet. I FINALLY found a use for the Chris Burden image I've been obsessing over these past few months. The pictures I took don't really do the shirts justice considering they're all white shirts, but in the photos they look yellow or whatever. And the deer's body is shiny gold.

SOURCE DECAY UPDATE

Yes yes. VASA is back in their office and so am I. Look out for the newest issue of Source Decay in the SVA library next Tuesday, April 8th.