wrinkle

in answer to the above question..

sometimes yea, sometimes no.

i think the impression i want to make on people depends on the person.
and a lot of times i fall into that weird place where the impression i make does not really matching up with 'who i am'... who i think i am.

sometimes you meet people and you don't feel like you need to do anything. you just kinda talk and an impression is made.

so maybe if you have to think about the impression you're making on someone...and try...it isn't so good. or maybe it's more interesting.


but i think that question moves in a direction away from the distant political world referred to in that martial law video and the 700 billion dollars and all that..and into the personal political world. the politics of ourselves. and what sorts of technologies work on us daily, carving us up, spitting us on to the table for a nice inspection. surveillance. public/private. ritual?
but i think both types of politics are important. but what about (in reference to the martial law video) the way institutions and groups like the police and whoever else are molding us, keeping us in check...changing our relationships to ourselves and people close to us. how do these things operate and what can we do to resist, etc?
must delve into this later.

today i scrape and stain a coffee table, drink coffee, play piano, work in the garden, swim and get dinner with grandparents.

mr david winer made me realize a few things about some of us humans last night. if i could take a picture of him in a suade jacket, no shirt underneath and sweat pants i would. but it's over. hairy chest.
wrinkles in his eyes from coughing up a lung with tobacco dripping from his mouth, snot from his nose.