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JEAN TOUITOU’S ADVICE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
The unapologetic A.P.C. founder offers some words on how to live well
December 17, 2012 by Max Gibson
• Although appearance shows quite the reverse, the natural trend of the system is to turn you into a slave. Your mission is to remain erect and never crawl.
• When learning, you must know how to make the clear distinction between what is ideology and what is genuine knowledge.
• Be fully aware of the difference between making a compromise and compromising yourself.
December 17, 2012 BY Max Gibson
“I WANT A DYKE FOR PRESIDENT”
A 1992 poem by artist Zoe Leonard
November 8, 2012 by Will Bundy
“I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia.
I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to AIDS, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no air conditioning, a president who has stood on line at the clinic, at the DMV, at the welfare office and has been unemployed and layed off and sexually harrassed and gay-bashed and deported.
I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy.
I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown: always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught.”
November 8, 2012 BY Will Bundy
STEVE JOBS ON PERSEVERANCE
September 21, 2012 by Max Gibson
“People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing, and it’s totally true. The reason is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up. It’s really hard, and you have to do it over a sustained period of time. So if you don’t love it, if you’re not having fun doing it, you don’t really love it, you’re gonna give up.
And that’s what happens to most people actually. If you really look at the ones who ended up being successful in the eyes of society and the ones who didn’t, often times it’s the ones that are successful who loved what they did so they could persevere when it got really tough. And the ones who didn’t love it, quit, because they’re sane, right? Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don’t love it. So it’s a lot of hard work, and it’s a lot of worrying, constantly, and if you don’t love it, you’re gonna fail. So you gotta love it, you’ve gotta have passion.”
September 21, 2012 BY Max Gibson
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA PREDICTS THE FUTURE (1991)
September 13, 2012 by Will Bundy
I guess he never really could’ve seen it coming. Did anybody? I’m not sure he had Chocolate Rain or the turtles kid in mind. Let alone Worldstar. But it’s a beautiful thing, the walls coming down the way they have in the YouTube era. Accessibility is almost always a good thing, and pretty clearly, it’s a big reason why art is thriving on so many platforms, in so many places. Even if a low bar of entry means we’re exposed to a pretty substantial amount of dumb shit. I suppose it’s all up for debate. But in a sense, it’s why Max and I, and the rest of the crew are here, doing what we’re doing. On a side note, for the Coppola fans, Hearts of Darkness is a must. But more broadly speaking, this particular excerpt just kinda tripped me out. The future’s arrived. I guess all we have to do now is figure out what we’re going to do with it.
September 13, 2012 BY Will Bundy
A STORY FROM MAURICE SENDAK
May 10, 2012 by Will Bundy
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, ‘Dear Jim: I loved your card.’ Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, ‘Jim loved your card so much he ate it.’ That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
May 10, 2012 BY Will Bundy
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ON ACTIVISM
January 16, 2012 by Max Gibson
January 16, 2012 BY Max Gibson
JIM MORRISON ON FRIENDSHIP
December 21, 2011 by Max Gibson
December 21, 2011 BY Max Gibson
MUHAMMAD ALI ON TEMPTATION
October 3, 2011 by Max Gibson
October 3, 2011 BY Max Gibson