As a pretext, I was working at a fundraiser last weekend where some of the most tediously boring art was being auctioned off for tens of thousands of dollars. I mean a black canvas with 3 different colored keyholes on it. Various ineffectual "minimalist" stripe paintings and etc. Who other than vapidly narcissistic and obnoxoiusly ambitious blowhards would buy or sell such crap? I'm sure the catering company was charging at least $50 for each bottle of $10 wine. You could get some sweat shop motherfuckers to dance around on some goddamn grapes in front of you for that price. But I digress.

And today I'm on the train where I met a burnt out old man who kinda dressed like he might be homeless, but claimed he was actually a sound and lighting designer for huge concerts; For the last 25 years; Gov't Mule, Phish, The Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic blah blah blah. Now I took the guy on his word, but when we discussed art school, because he'd graduated from one, I said that they must just teach people to give good blowjobs in art school because I can't imagine how the art world got to be this way in any other manner.

Now he went on to talk about art he liked (The Jerry Garcia Museum in California and other luminary things), but that's not what I'm getting at. What I'm getting at, is I was surrounded by people on this packed train obviously texting or posting about this on their phones. Obviously, getting a giggle out of one thing or the other, I mean everyone on the train was quietly thumbing with smirks on their faces. Maybe my blowjob comment, maybe his Jerry Garcia comment, maybe that we both had visibly used/shabby/beatnik/vagabond clothing to varied degrees, I don't know. But I could see the people on each side of me, and they were definitely scrobbling or whatever the fuck it is these kids do now, and I just wanted to kill every body. Every goddamn one of these ridiculously sterile, carefully coitered cretins. Let them LOL in hell. I wanted to bash their heads in just to mess up their make up. They should all be dragged into the street and shot.