03 April 2008

You must have one grand passion

You must know where you stop and the world begins.

You owe the world not the other way around.

You should study as much as possible.

You have to hurt others to be extraordinary.

You must disagree with authority figures.

Your actions are pointless if no one notices.

Your oldest fears are the worst ones.

You are trapped on the earth so you will explode.

What urge will save us now that sex won't?

Put food out in the same place every day and talk to the people who come to eat and organize them.

Saver kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Dance on down to the government and tell them you're eager to rule because you know what's good for you.

The breakdown comes when you stop controlling yourself and want the release of a bloodbath.

Spit all over someone with a mouthful of milk if you want to find out something about his personality fast.

Mothers with reasons to sob should do it in groups in public and wait for offers.

Outerspace is where you discover wonder and where you fight and never hurt earth.

If you stop believing this your mood turns ugly.

Trust visions that don't feature buckets of blood.

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.

If you're considered useless no one will feed you anymore.

When you expect fair play you create an infectious bubble of madness around you.

You are so complex that you don't respond to danger.

Men don't protect you anymore.

With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien.

When someone beats you with a flashlight you make light shine in all directions.

Finding extreme pleasure will make you a better person if you're careful about what thrills you.

It is in your self interest to find a way to be very tender.

The beginning of the war will be secret.

The conversation always turns to living long enough to have fun.

What country should you adopt if you hate poor people?

Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.

Protect me from what I want.

It's hard to know if y ou're going crazy if you feel you're in danger all the time now.

You can't reach the people who can kill you any time so you have to go home and think about what to do.

The future is stupid.

Hide underwater or anywhere so undisturbed you can feel the jerk of pleasure when an idea comes.

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.

When there's no safe place to sleep you're tired from walking all day and exhausted from the night because it's twice as dangerous then.

It's easy to get millions of people on every continent to pledge allegiance to eating and equal opportunity.

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.

Turn soft and lovely anytime you get a chance.

You live the surprise results of old plans.

Let your hand wander on flesh to make possibility multiply.

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons.

Shoot into infinite space to hit a target in time and call it inevitable.

You hover near lovely unconscious life forms - offer no immediate resistance.

People look like they are dancing before they love.

Your modern face scans the surprise ending.

A man can't know what it's like to be a mother.

A name means a lot just by itself.

A positive attitude makes all the difference in the world.

A relaxed man is not necessarily a better man.

A sense of timing is the mark of genius.

A sincere effort is all you can ask.

If you know you're going crazy you must not be insane.

Absolute submission can be a form of freedom.

Abstraction is a type of decadence.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise.

Action causes more trouble than thought.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

When one leg is shorter than the other you know that the body will warp and many parts will twist out of alignment. You can hope the adjustments won't be crippling or you can operate to make the legs the same.

When someone is breathing on you you feel cool air pulled across your skin followed by moist warm air pushed in the opposite direction. This occurs at regular intervals and makes a perfect temperature.




Thank you crazy installation piece at Schiphol Airport.

7 comments:

magallomom said...

some of these are so good, I must re-read them numerous times!( you must have gotten writer's cramp!)

emily rose said...

my hand hurt very bad and it was hard to keep up with it. i'll have to post a video of it so you can see where these all came from!

emily rose said...

i especially like the one about being on earth so you'll explode and getting beaten with a flashlight

magallomom said...

yes, the flashlight one is great, can really picture it! ...also would very much like to try the milk-spitting one...not sure I'd like the results, though...

magallodad said...

Just finished crawling around the floor picking up the pieces of my brain. Oops, I see a few pieces on the wall, and yes there is definately one dangling from the ceiling. No wait. It just slipped off and splattered on the floor. Danger, danger Will Robinson!!! Too much information for one seating.

emily rose said...

that's so hilarious... i wish we could have stayed longer and gotten more of them!!! i'm going to look it up online and figure out if it's someone's art installation or what

sarabbit said...

I saw this installation Back in 1996 in New York City, while on a class trip to some artists studios. I loved the sayings and wrote down as many as i could as they scrolled past, (ignoring the lecture i was supposed to be there for) but i never caught the artists name. It's a woman, i believe, but who?!