I Understand
1991-02-27
I understand it, The junkey is the most profound expression of desperation.
They tell him to leave it, so he seceeds from America, into his own country, the country of his own mind.
Hippies tried to change things, and when they couldn't change it, many of them became junkeys, alcoholics, seceeded from this country, into their own.
This doesn't mean that this is right, and its definitely self-destructive, but that's what happened.
Jimi Hendrix and Dylan were great, because they were able to transcend the inherent limitations of the genres that they chose to work through.
Jimi started out playing the blues, but he had so much more to say, that he expanded and shattered it to reveal a whole new territory.
Dylan did the same with white folk, He started out imitating Woody Guthrie, but when he came against the wall, he burst through it, because he had too much to say.
They both embraced new technology.
I was very angry today, I was frustrated with everything, and I felt like I wanted to kill everything.
I felt as if the whole system down here was created against my most basic feelings. This place is a sterile denial of youth; its like a spaceship.
It was supposed to be utopia, but it's so safe that you could suffocate. There is nothing organic here. Like a spaceship, even the soil is imported.
They try to deny our most basic instincts, and it makes me angry, frustrates me, so, I just ran out to the balcony and yelled "F__k you Irvine, I hate Irvine, Irvine can suck my a__."
Then Maria told me that I was being inconsiderate, I said sorry, I was having a psychiatric period but I felt much better after.