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I Want A Drink. I Want Fifty Drinks. I Want A Bottle Of The Purest, Strongest, Most Destructive, Most Poisonous Alcohol On Earth. I Want Fifty Bottles Of It. I Want Crack, Dirty And Yellow And Filled With Formaldehyde. I Want A Pile Of Powder Meth, Five Hundred Hits Of Acid, A Garbage Bag Full Of Mushrooms, A Tube Of Glue Bigger Than A Truck, A Pool Of Gas Large Enough To Drown In. I Want Something Anything Whatever However As Much As I Can.

There Are No Categories In Contemporary Art. There Are No Rules. Artists Are Given The Freedom To Make And Create Whatever They Please And Call It Whatever They Please. I Identify With That System, Or Lack Of System, Much More Than I Do The Landscape Of Contemporary Publishing.

I Always Wanted To Write A Book About La, A Big Ambitious Book. Nobody Had Ever Really Done It With La- Treating The City Seriously As A Major Economic And Cultural Power, As The Embodiment Of 21st Century America.

About Life: "it Is Not Complicated Unless I Make It So. It Is Not Difficult Unless I Allow It To Be. A Second Is No More Than A Second, A Minute No More Than A Minute, A Day No More Than A Day. They Pass. All Things And All Time Will Pass. Don't Force Or Fear, Don't Control Or Lose Control. Don't Fight And Don't Stop Fighting. Embrace And Endure. If You Embrace, You Will Endure.

When I Was A Little Boy, Marvin Hagler Was My Idol. He Got No Respect For Most Of His Career. His Fighting Style Was Straight Ahead. He Took Every Shot Thrown At Him, And He Kept Punching Back 'til He Won. I Honestly Feel That's How I Am. I Take Big Shots From People. But I Keep Going.