bc there is no precise word in english for the length of time one is capable of maintaining to oneself that it was a good use of resources to spend not quite the whole advance on cocaine right at the very beginning of the project without even an outline because how else would one be able to draft the kind of kickass outline this project deserves without a sufficient supply of cocaine to be able to really focus on the…

How It Starts (Mostly) "I always felt like a freak and then suddenly there were other people who felt the same way. It was this ability to combine art with the circumstances of life. Before, art was on a white pedestal and in an ivory tower, and though I loved art, I couldn't bear it, you know, that I would have to live in this hovel, and worry about getting sick, and you know, everything was a fight, and nothing…

When I was an agoraphobic psychotic 13 year old in 1987, my most prized possession was a VHS tape I had made myself by recording David Cronenberg's The Fly and Aliens off of HBO. I watched those movies over and over. I barely went to school that fall. I had not finished the end of 7th Grade because incarcerated in a for-profit psychiatric hospital for children, let out to go to an academic summer program, which was a bad idea…