{"id":361,"date":"2010-06-30T08:19:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=361"},"modified":"2010-06-30T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:19:37","slug":"the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Mourning, messages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sun instead of rain. Bonus. Writing quite a lot, most of which can\u2019t be posted, about events personal and searingly painful. Too much grit, not enough lyric. A death in the family works to put matters of the heart into perspective though. I can<\/em> say I\u2019m fortunate to have compassionate, intelligent friends in my corner.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so sad, weary, jaded. I wonder if anything appalls<\/em> me anymore. I was more bemused by the antics\u2014or tactics<\/em>\u2014because the Black Bloc is not an organization<\/em>, Black Bloc is a tactic<\/em>\u2014at the G-20 summit in fair Toronto over the weekend. It seems their message<\/em> becomes more obscured with each year of their annual bash-in, one reason I\u2019m sure most people chose to watch the World Cup on Saturday instead. It\u2019s all so predictable, tedious. This, a few days after a discussion of anarchy with Sean Cranbury of Books on the Radio<\/a> as it pertained to punk rock and the Internet. I suppose that is their message. Anarchy. I understand that anarchy does not equate with violent disorder, that the anarchists have gotten a bad rap, but I don\u2019t believe their utopian vision is feasible. Not in this world.<\/p>\n

I have always been suspect of mixing art and politics and none of my comrades in punk rock were card-carrying anarchists. I suppose Gerry Useless of the Subhumans was the most radicalized among us and perhaps the only, at least to that degree. Zealotry is zealotry, something my Zellots band mate Conny Nowe and I were aware of as we chose a resonant name. Zealotry is dangerous, futile, often resulting in death. To me, being an artist is<\/em> a political statement.<\/p>\n

The information highway<\/em> may be swamped with billboards these days but its essence is the same. Everybody and his dog has a blog. What could be more populist? Which is more democracy than chaos. I detest capitalism, abhor the yawning chasm between the rich and the poor\u2014don\u2019t get me started! \u2014but until something better comes along, will not ascribe to anarchy, nor tolerate the chaos anarchists create. Take your Molotovs and your machetes and shove \u2018em.
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\nMINE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I find a message
\nvia vanity plate,
\na gearshift in the gutter,
\nan egg,
\nturquoise and high in a nest.
\n<\/em>I make it my own.
\nAlways.
\nDepreciation?
\nNot in my house!
\n<\/em>It holds its value.
\nThe toaster,
\nthe red couch,
\nleftover lasagne,
\nmy first stainless steel appliance,
\nthe inherent drama
\nwithin
\nfour walls.<\/em><\/p>\n

And now I mourn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sun instead of rain. Bonus. Writing quite a lot, most of which can\u2019t be posted, about events personal and searingly painful. Too much grit, not enough lyric. A death in the family works to put matters of the heart into perspective though. I can say I\u2019m fortunate to have compassionate, intelligent friends in my corner. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[25,59,149,236,246,280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}