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20May09

in my art, i’m trying to learn a language that’s not my own. it’s constantly reaching the level of fluency, but it always retreats. there are just some forces that will always keep it unfinished, missing pieces. i can speak the language of a foreign culture, i can visit that country but i can never be one of them. i’m an alien, forever. today i learned that product manufacturers in china are so good at recreating knockoffs that it seeps into every product line without warning. you can drink a beer and it will taste and feel like beer, but later your head throbs and your stomach burns because instead of using alcohol they use formaldehyde. just try to think of all the lies you receive in a day. the lies you see in front of you, the lies you hear in conversation, you can’t even tell what’s real and what’s fake anymore. the new reality is based on lies, false imagery. reality is a lie.

i watched american idol tonight. its funny how the best art is made without any thought behind it. they’re just a voice. it’s not even their song. not even close. but they can sing it and we see those words coming out of those lips and it looks so real. but art is never real, always disconnected. all the pieces, parts completely separate from one another, to create a spectacle. and it usually works.

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