GO HERE, 5 of 6 viewers will see an art gallery with a picture entitled "chemical graffiti" At first, I just thought the title was witty, a play on led zeppelin's album entitled "chemical graffiti."  but one day, one of my coworkers was discussing the impact of drugs on a person's mood and thoughts.  he asked me, "don't you think depression is just chemical?"  I replied, "Yes, but everything in our brains and bodies is."  Boom.

We are chemical houses, chemical streets, with chemical walls.  And sometimes we have to scrawl chemical graffiti. 

As much as I enjoy painting and writing, I think it should be obvious that 99.4% of  painting (whether "realistic" or "abstract") and writing (whether novels or poetry) have evaporated into a critics' ghetto, only to be discussed y people who use said discussion as an ego stroke, a method of mutual mental masturbation meant to demonstrate their superiority to the readers and viewers who don't "get it."  Compare the number of people who read a given book to the number who read a given street sign or listen to a given hip-hop album. I digress.

Chemical graffiti is a powerful medium.  It encompasses drugs, soapbubbles, computers, explosives, anthrax.  Words that command no attention from a senator, when sent in an envelope with white powder enclosed, become fascinating.  You can slip acid in milk, and a dazzling array of images can fit on a postage stamp. Can you say that about a surrealist painting?

I'm not giving a wholesale endorsement of biological terrorism or drug usage here.  But I am saying that too many "artists" believe any activity is "art" if (butonly if) someone who calls themselves an "artist" (and preferably has the right papers to certify it).  When those who truly get it write art history books,  most with an MFA will be barred from inclusion.

SENTIENT SOAPBUBBLES per se, these are just the tools (weapons if you hold them right) that I currently have at my disposal.

By the way, hip-hop producers, please do something original.  You hear one song with a hot idea, the next month you hear ten songs riding the same hot idea.  Get your own hot idea.  The fact that you're light years ahead of most other types of artists (by the way, how the fuck did artists get "typed"?  that's a bad sign right there.) when it comes to intellectual and creative innovation doesn't mean you can rest on these tired samples and gimmicks when it comes time to throw down sonic science.

The revolution will NOT be ETHERIZED.

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