I've long been a Negativland fan, but this project seems by far the most interesting thing they've done. The idea itself is not new -- FM has done it, as has RJ. I am not, at any rate, fond of cars, so anything that proves their fundamental eeriness is fine by me. Get it. You will be hightly disturbed and like it.
In other news, a friend is flying off soon & in saying goodbye the word "closure" was tossed around, which used to give me hives & now does not. I've been wary of certain words, because they seem to tie things up too neatly -- "self-actualization" was big on that list, too: these words seem to take what is the messy, unformed stuff of life and turn it into all-too-tidy narratives. But closure applied. And "self-actualization" is okay too. I'm beginning to think that there are lessons to be learned, chapters to be closed, steady lines from point A to point B -- maybe the world is not all unformed, uninformed & inchoate. Anyway, she'll be off soon -- a devastatingly cute, sharp, flinty-hearted, funny girl: Orlando's loss.
