Lehman Maupin gallery, Mr. 6.9.07!

These are giant anime heads. Look at the video. This gallery was near a bunch of other galleries. The artist’s name is “Mr.” That’s pretty cool, maybe pretentious, I’ve never met him.

Is this art? Is this novelty? I’m tired. I don’t care. I’m going to change the subject.

I own so much garbage. I hate owning things sometimes. I got all these books, maybe you know what I’m talking about, but I’ve got all these books that I bought a while back that I told myself I would read but have not yet read. Some of these books are many years old. Owning books you want to read is stressful. I hate it.

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I’ve been enlightened before. There were times in my life where I tried to get rid of as much as I could. I felt lighter/more free immediately. Years ago, I read this “list of things that are cool” in this magazine called Giant Robot. It listed what was cool and what was not cool. One of the things that I remember it saying was NOT COOL was getting rid of everything you own, going through some sorta punk rebellious stage. I’m tired of owning things.

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I saw this thing on Dateline a few months back and there was this whole thing on hoarders. People who go overboard collecting things and cannot throw away anything. They were crazy. It made me feel sick.
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Since the last point in my life, when I got rid of a bunch of stuff, I have since gotten some more stuff. Some more crap. I have started collecting small pieces of art, from ebay, from gallery shows, from wherever. It’s making me sick. I am sick of crap. I also have two bikes now. What the hell happened?

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I remember when I was a kid and I had all these comic books, Marvel Universe cards, books, notebooks, drawings, report cards, dvds, music cds, video games, action figures, McDonald’s toys, ugh, junk… I didn’t throw anything away. It made me all stressed thinking about things I felt like I needed to do. When I throw things away, it’s like, well, now I don’t have any choice, I’m not obligated to read it/watch it/play with it anymore. I’m free.

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Does anyone out there know what I’m talking about? I feel better not owning anything. When I had that exercise book, or that book about eating healthier, it felt like a burden to have to look through that crap and then finally doing a push-up or eating the “right” amount of cereal. There are so many books in the world for everything anything. Having too much information at your fingertips can be a bad thing.

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I’m not saying I don’t want to own anything. I don’t want to be a homeless man/woman. I’m saying I just want what I need and will use. Anything excess will slowly eat away at me.

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I don’t want to throw things away though. I want to atleast ebay the stuff away.
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I don’t know if I’ll ever have nothing. If that happens, no one would know because I can’t call anyone or email anyone about it. It would be great. Nothing would matter.

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That felt good, getting all that out. Okay, look at the rest of the pictures.

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Have you guys seen my previous post about SNL Puns? I was just looking at it right now and it was hilarious: SNL Puns

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Maybe the worst/unfocused post ever!? Maybe. Have a nice day. Don’t bother me.

ADD: Here’s a thing you can read about Mr.

3 Responses to “Lehman Maupin gallery, Mr. 6.9.07!”


  1. 1 meedee June 12, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    I remember reading in one of my books on Buddhism (likewise, I have a ton of books on Buddhism which I’ve yet to read. ugh) that the cause of suffering is the attachment to things which do not give lasting happiness.

    Consumerism is a societal norm which is hard to escape.

    Anyway, funny you should post about this since I was about to purge my latest mountain of accumulated things I’ll never get around to using or simply don’t need. The process of getting rid of but then slowly amassing more possessions makes this all seem quite hopeless at times!

    Also, your pictures are quite lovely.

  2. 2 son June 14, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    yeah..your pictures are great..speaking of pictures..i have pictures on my comp. of people that i despise personally but will i delete them? nah…it gives me some sort of pleasure knowing my enemy is failing…it reminds me that i’m rational. @ 19 my first apt. burnt up and i had a lot of things i liked…well, adored…like my roller skates…oh well. i’ve wanted less and gotten more from that so go figure…this is a material world even bums got shit

  1. 1 Learn Japanese @ Japancast.net » Blog Archive » "Mr." Anime Gallery in NY! Trackback on June 12, 2007 at 4:10 am

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