Just Today (survivalism)

Catherine wrote me back soon after my "wisps of thoughts" email, and we decided to start off with the first sin on the list, Luxuria (extravagance, later lust). Almost two weeks have passed since my first email, and I finally got my act together and managed to create a blog (after several failed attempts to make one on my own website).

Catherine wrote today, with this to say:

HI there what about myspace.com? I know people have blogs posted on there, I wonder if that would work?? I think its quite easy to set up an account- it is free and everything.... let me know what you think.... I thought maybe luxuria was not a good thing to start with but on second thought I think it is good. I have been interested in this whole realm of survivalism, the economy of peoples lives, the huge percentage of population who are only just surviving, not being able to eat, doing shit jobs, the level of life and then in realtion to that the middle class luxury of art, leisure, dreams. I suppose it is quite personal as i am an aspiring middle class 'artist' yet I come from a background of poverty, disfunction, idealism but having to face grim realities... Where does art fit into all of this when people are starving??? I have been looking at anarchistic manifestos - www.nothingness.com (i think) .

The class system is so massive in this country it is so fucked up and yet there is this false belief that we are living in a classless society, it couldn't be further away from the truth... You just have to look at the theatre and performance scene in this country, the people involved in it, the audiences, I am sure you know what I am talking about.

I have recently been cleaning for cash in two pubs and it has really made me look at all of these things. I have literally been scraping shit off of toilets every day and well its not pleasant and there are some people that have to do that kind of thing everyday - immigrants etc. The difference in the way peole live there lives are huge - the gap between rich and poor. Anyway luxuria I think could be interesting....

Hope you are ok over there and enjoying your new apartment....

love catx