 SQUAT RESPECTABILITY !!!
SQUAT RESPECTABILITY
SQUAT AUTHORITY
and all new important pics of jasha bleeding to death out of his ass to be posted later on tonight....
1. Awkward and Weird even for a non-profit Corporation
Hi, this is the new Interoffice memo !!!
so, last termite newsletter i talked a little bit about how wonderously magic it is that we some how under went this shift from being a bunch of nasty homeless drug addict criminal sociopaths with bad hygeine, to being an actual non profit corporation, a bunch of collective home owners, a renovation skill share co-op, and a home steading advocacy group for artists and musicians. if thats not proof that magic is real then you hate pink unicorns and theres nothing to be done about you.
at the same time, as wonderfully enchanted and princess power as that is i feel like its best to put on our shiny face. what is a shiny face you ask ?? well i have no idea. i was gonna type something here about how important it is that when your life as a travelling odd job tinker wingnut gets criminalised you start to identify as criminal, ie: that if your house impaired that its easy to wind up getting arrested and hassled and moved along, and then you start deciding you're a criminal element if your gonna keep getting treated like one and etc.
i'm not at my most eloquent right now i'm just jotting this down to remind myself to think about it later, that its important to realise that this house, our dear termite, has the power to change us all from being the potential criminal gutter snipe human garbage of tommorrow that we all thought we'd wind up as eventually, and insted termite makes us the ladies and lords of a tightly run fear inspiring political and arts world underground strong arming lobbiet group.
squat respectability !! delinquit degeneracy is the new fine art.
2. Work on the house for rest of december.
for the rest of december it might serve well to focus on cosmetic improvement to termite to show the neighbourhood what a pretty pretty house she is. some ideas we are allready working on:
PAINTING
everyone has been doing killer work on painting the outside of the house so far. i'm going to be wandering arround outside nit picking soon with a fresh can of vibrant blue and the tub of recycled gray 15 and painting every last little thing perfectly. painting is fun.
WINDOWS
fungus is a precious lil' angel from heaven and we should all buy him cupcakes or something. thank fungus for windows, fungus is window jesus.
EXTERIOR LIGHTS
modifications to the fus box this week include me hooking up the attic properly so it stops blowing the fuse, installatiuon of power for the oven and bunnomatic, and EXTERIOR LIGHTS
Front Of THE House
WE HAVE ALL myself included been slacking off on keeping up the fron tof our house pretty. please lets keep the front and side of the house clean all the time. we need to sweep the front and side of the house once a week and i'm always out there bussing tables picking up all the coffee cups and drink cans. some poor woman told tim that our house was still ugly this week , THATS NOT TRUE. lets show our neighbours how nice and tidy we are. we can hide the mess indied the house where they cant see it. AND PLEASE DONT PARK YOUR BIKE OUT FRONT ALL NIGHT. bicycles attrct theives, NOT JUST TO OUR HOUSE BUT ALSO OUR NEIGHBOURS. we have ample indoor bike parking.
THE YARD
holy shit ya'll are doing a lovely job.
cement chunks: ellery and me are fighting over what to do with them, i wanna get cement and make them in to terraces or planters or a fire place, he wants to throw them away...
fire pit: we can only have an enclosed fire pit, or swilly's grill.
tire fence: ok, maybe the tire fence is a stupid idea. but we do need a fence. i can buy fence posts and cement if we can scavange the rest of it and not make it too ugly.
raised bed planters: i like them.
'88 chevrolet celebrity: ok my car is stupid and ugly. it runs fine but its not registered. if any of you want to co-own the chevy with me and wants to register my car in their name and we'll split cost on it, discuss it with me. the person who is most entusistic about doing it gets the contract. theres a chance that i'll be co-owning a truck later this year also and if that happens i'd be willing to sell the chevy for $100 to any of you.
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3. Squat communitee
more info soon on communitee out reach and tighnening our relations with communittee, government, the arts councill, and the media.
4. media
might be doing another interview soon...
the internet radio interview i did last week (i was horrible and mumbling and repeating myself alot) will be online soon at http://www.knyo.libsyn.com/
i felt my radio interview went kinda awkward cuz ian was asking me how we're relevant to new orelans activism, and we need new orleans activism cuz everyone from iron rail to black forest to CGlegal have helped us get this house, and my answers we're half assed about how i'm trying to work for us lollyfucks, our own little collective of housingly challenged artists.
issues about that that i shoulda talked better about:
-we are a bunch of housingly challenged artsy squatter punk wingnuts, but i'm trying to down play the whole "substance abuse povety mental illness" thing and try more for "artists and musicans of diverse culture combining to have the traveller neo-hobo gypsy art scene...". we are important to the arts scene of this town. the neo hobo jug band and post gypsy music scene in morteville is a vital super mega important piece of virant quarter culture stuff. can you imagine this town without all the dirty buskers and insane circu kids and all the insane parties we throw ??
-so we've been talking alot about being more relevant to the neighbourhood. we have our house by the grace of our neighbours who seem to rather like and respect us... but it took a while for our neighbours to get used to us, we must always be senstiive to that we are a bunch of strange little weirdos who some how took over the house thats been sitting empty on termite street for the last 2 decades. we are a very strange dramatic change that came after the great flood and are lumped in with the horrible disapearence of half the neighbours, the destructions of peoples homes and possessions and buissinessess, and this neighbourhood is a tight nit communitee of peole who've lived here and worked hard to make this a nice kinda safe mixed income neighbourhood.
-that all said we've been talking about projects to build our connection with the neighbourhood. i just quit my job at the pizza place to have time to work on corporate stuff but still i'm gonna be crazy busy trying to get termite repectible enuff looking to pas her building inspection next year. it is to our advantage tho to try to reach out to our neighbours and demonstrate that we're an approachable, non scarry part of our communitee, our arts scene, and a homesteaders political lobbiest force.
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the New Corporate Mandate of fun
1. general upkeep of T&Vs property
just that we should look good all the time,
2. media relations
media people have been interviewing me lately, the website is getting notice by people from all over thanks to brodie macaroni's documentary photo series on travel kids. i'm cautious with the media but i think having neat positive blab about us that both outsiders and those people who are watching us can see is more respectability points for us and will help people take us seriously. my media plan is to talk about advocating for cheap housing, creating a space for traveller artists to flourish and get creative form a family and share ideas. i want to stay away from talking about homeless squatting issues or the state of mortevilles housing epidemic.
3. 7 ward
we've been talking a bit latley about doing work in our imediate neighbourhood to build relations. theese ideas include:
- -homesteading skill share with our neighbour terry and working with hime to maintain and rehabilitate soem other blighted properties arround our block.
- -filing claim on the store and not working on it yet (we dont want our neighbours to think that we're some kinna homeless artist property spectualting squatter empire builders) but securing it, gutting it out, and painting it would be delighfull !! i'm gonna talk to terry and omar about bringing in a long time neighbour to take one of the houses with support from our relations with the vintur family and our precedent for securing houses with the city government...
- Tim is working on a project to team up with a local organic produce co-op and do delivery bike stuff, build delivery bikes. ask tim for more info.
- - i have compiled 3 differnt resource books for homesteaders including the complete nora guide to homesteading and La Laws relevant to homesteaders. i've been loaning theese books out to people but need to actually print out some copies and give them to some differnt groups including terry, iron rail, house on stilts, CGtech. and others.
- -up date the termite and vine website
sicknessandfilth.com/squat/termite
also update the official corporate mission statement pamphlet
and make it all beautiful.
- -MEDIA.... did i mention media ??
- -there is a church on our street. and there is the mid city neighbourhood organisation. should i go meet my loacl church and nieghbourhood lobbiest group ?? i'd dress up in a jackie -O style get up of course to demonstrate maximum instant trustability. everybuddy loves jackie -o and i love giant sunglasses.
- -me and my fiance, chester 'soup' valentino, are colaborating on a giant sign for out front on our temporary elctrical construction pole.
the sign is 4x4 on lovely old pine wood and was salvaged from the wreckage of the dixie brewery. it will read
TERMITE & VINE
1825 DUELS
ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS
HOMESTEADERS COLLECTIVE
CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
REGISTERED LOUISIANA NON PROFIT CORPORATION
its true. its a weird match, him being an american citizen and me being a a canadian citizen and all, but he cute in a very damged way, hes a wingnut tinkerer, and i have lots of broken metal odds and ends and he really likes broken metal odds and ends and i'm only doing this to break up him and meg cuz shes too cute and i'm vomitardedly jelous of her. obviously soup should leave her forever and he'll quit his philandering womanizing ways cuz i am his perfect soul mate forever. expect me to start dropping babies like a perplexing bio-organic gigantic baby powered machine gun by this time next year.
our wedding is set for next spring, niagra fucking falls, and will be a double wedding with chris "simone" chiken-bone and her new beau patrick biscuits, project co-ordinatoroffice manager of "house on stilts". because they got jelous of me and soup's perfect relation ship and copied us.
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