2/27/91
I understand it.
The junkey is the most
profound expression of
desperation.
They tell him to
~~leave~~ it or leave it,
so he seceeds from
America, into his own
country, the country of
his own mind. ~~He~~
Hippies tried to change
things, and when they
couldn’t change it,
many of them became
junkeys, alcoholics,
seceeded from this
country, into their own.
This doesn’t mean that
this is right, and its definitely
self-destructive, but that’s
what happened.
Jimi Hendrix & Dylan
were great, because
they were able to
transcend the inherent
limitations of the genres
that they chose to work
through.
Jimi started out
playing the blues, but
he had so much more
to say, that he expanded
and shattered it to
reveal a whole new territory.
Dylan did the same
with white folk, He
started out imitating Woody Guthrie,
but when he came against
the wall, he burst through
it, because he had too
much to say.
They both embraced new
technology.
I was very angry
today, I was frustrated
with everything, and I felt
like I wanted to kill
everything.
I felt as if the
whole system down here
was created against my
most basic feelings. This
place is a sterile denial
of youth; its like a
spaceship. It was supposed
to be utopia, but it’s
so safe that you could
suffocate. There is nothing
organic here. Like a
spaceship, even the soil
is imported.
They try to deny our
most basic instincts, and it
makes me angry, frustrates me,
so, I just ran out to the balcony
and yelled “Fuck you Irvine, I hate
Irvine, Irvine can suck my ass.”
Then Maria told me that I was
being inconsiderate, I said sorry,
I was having a psychiatric period
but I felt much better after.
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