this library computer wont play it... i was really hung over when i did this interview and i rember that i just kept babbling nonscence and repeating myself and i totally blanked when i was supposed to be talking about the large scale relevance of our house.
technically termite and vine is a project to get me and my punk ass low life friends a cheap house so we can be a big ugly smelly familly and live cheap and pursue our creative shit. we're starting to do actual work with some friends and i help other squatters learn about how they can get legitimate and protect their houses but i gotta admit that its ambigious what our larger social relevance is. i usually tell people that we support this citys vibrant busker and jug band music scene but even that is a scene that mostly plays to its own peers when its not working passers by on the sidewalk.
i'm very concious of the fact that our little weird non profit mostly takes care of the nomadic dirty kid population. its hard to defend that sometimes especially in a city where people are most concerned about protecting communitees of people who have lived here and only here for generations. and we're still really fucked up from the great flood.
we're trying to actually seriously possess the store now. we're having to grocery store and two little houses before this summer. if we can pull this off i'm going to ask one of my neighbours if they want one of the houses. if i
2 years ago i was semi homeless and loosing everything i owned and trying to figure out the best way to slowly turn in to a crazy bag lady. also i thought most activism was dumb cuz the whole planet was just gonna fuck up and die anyways...
now people seem to think i'm a really important homesteaders rights activist and i do interviews. i am continually weirded out by how i skirt this thing line between being a mentally-ill-squatter-drug-addict-with-cavitees and/or a buissiness woman-housing activist-artist and musicians co-op project manager-and pundit on the practicle and etheral natures of folk anarchy...
i'm gonna keep doing this for a year and then
2009 - i'm gonna be a scientist and invent something important 2010 - rock star and actress 2011 - criminal drug lord ultra violent organised crime boss 2012 - gutter pixie of the food riots !!!
and after that i'm gonna see what happens with the colapse of civilisation. if it goes to shit i'm gonna have 12 kids and grow cucumbers. if civilisation as we know it is still its stupid old self in 2013 then i'm gonna either become a politician or a situationistpostfuturisthumanistterorist and self immolate myself for no reason just to spite you, hundreds and hundreds of times.