Mayer Vishner: We’re coming from vastly different spaces. No one is ever gonna be as naive, as naively hopeful and naively optimistic as we were in the late sixties.
Colin Beavan: But I think there might be something kind of similar, though more muted that’s happening now. Not in the same way at all, but I feel that there’s a certain quiet beginning of a rebellion happening.
Mayer: The other thing to point out is this on the garlic. This is called a scape. S-C-A-P-E. I would suggest you take home one or two of those. These are the beans. You can see how they’re grabbing the pole. And see this? It’s starting to make tomatoes.
Colin: Are you overall optimistic about humankind, or skeptical?
Mayer: I’m of the belief that it’s always fifty fifty. Somethings are getting better. Somethings are getting worse. You know, there are all these… Every time you try to do something right, no matter what level you’re on, there are unforeseen results.
Michelle Conlin: Colin told me what the project would be and my honest reaction- I was really excited that he had an idea that he was excited about, because that was overall the most important thing. I thought as long as we were doing all these things why don’t we throw in my two current addictions, which are shopping and reality TV. I’m a reality TV aficionado, addict and expert.
Colin Beaven: Look at her face right now! She like totally gets sucked in!
Michelle: Its good. I’ve had a totally intense relationship with retail. Catherine Malandrino sample sale. Jean Paul Gaultier’s so fun… “I’ll see you at midnight and then we’ll have dinner at 2am.” Marc Jacobs is like, “I’m married, I’m a mom, but I’m still trying to work it a little bit.” I’m like a high fructose corn syrup addicted, you know, screen addicted, meat-eating girl. I would say that I’m not an environmentalist. I would say that I’m the typical, consuming… I’m a consumer. I’m a take-out junkie.
-from the documentary / blog / book No Impact Man
Consuming time, days, hours, running to and fro. No time. For sleep. I’ll meet you in between here and there, the food we’ll inhale, the time we’ll burn thinking about other things. Always, other things!
Summer’s stretching on the grass- summer dresses pass – in the shade of a willow tree, creeps are crawling over me —
3rdarm, summer time is here! are you killing it in your way? I hope so – and to be up in New England, the best summer location, soon!
For the cover of the new CD, Phoebe Snow chose a picture of clouds and lightning. ”It reminds me of power,” she said. She wrote the lyrics for the title cut; Drew Yowell wrote the music. The chorus goes like this: ”Sugar crystal lightning/Mystic evening thunder/ By the stars we’re under/ It’s a natural wonder/No more sorrows, forgiven by tomorrow’s.”