Termite TV - Life Stories

My name is Dan H. I'm a second year senior here at the art department at O.U. and hopefully I'll be graduating in May. I have no idea what I'll be doing after this, it's kind of ridiculous, art school is. It's, they kind of want you to do what you're told and that's sort of strange. You get kind of angry and really pissed off because you have these people who sit there and they tell you that art is about doing your own work and you kind of have to find your own vein but at the same time you have to sit there and play these uh... Pussyfoot around with office politics and which person favors which other professor's teaching style and it's just a load of crap. It's hard to find people who are willing to actually work. most of the time people just sort of spit out this tripe that is just for the busy work that they have to do and for their grade, because for some reason they care more about their grade than they care about their work. It's kind of strange. So hopefully after this I'll go somewhere neat like Goldsmiths in London or something like that. A school that would sort of, in a roundabout way, not only an environment but maybe the faculty'll drive you to do something without having to have people constantly poking you with cattle prods or something like that. Either that or New York would be kind of fun for a while, I don't think that I could handle a big city too long. London's a nasty town. Dublin's a nice size, though. I lived there for a while, that was a lot of fun. I'd like to play music sometime. That's sort of the same deal with most of the arts I'm around here and everywhere else. It's hard to find people who commit to actual work. They don't want to work, they just sort of wanna do it whenever, not really focus. It's sort of a strange deal. I think that mainly what I operate on most of the time in my personal work is just sort of trying to find a cohesive balance between what I know painting, painting experiments and trying to find out actual things. And sort of a harmonious sort of balance with what is going on in my life whether I'm angry, pissed off, happy, sad, whatever. If I'm seeing someone, if I'm not, if I'm drunk. All of these things and I kind of want those to reflect what's happening in the now. A part from that there's nothing really, nothing really going on Oklahoma is a boring boring boring state. There's nothing to do but stare at cows all day long and baby doll art. But, it's alright, ya know? It's the middle of nowhere. Norman is the middle of nowhere. But there's a lot of good, a lot of nice people. Several. Several. Not many, Most people are on the business school and now, ya know you have people stabbing pregnant woman and stuff and then the newspaper reports, that plane crash Egypt flight 219 or whatever it was was a suicide attempt. I don't know what the hell's going on most of the time. I just... You wake up one day and we're bombing the shit out of some third world country and that's okay, I guess. I don't have.... There's nothing I can do about it. Except vote. Not event hat really. It doesn't even matter anymore. This is kind of funny. Nothing seems to matter for shit. But it's fun.