ACHTUNG!ACHTUNG!ACHTUNG!ACHTUNG!ACHTUNG!ACHTUNG!ACHTUNG Live From Berlin, Millenium night special 12/31/1999-1/1/1900 A performance by performance group GLOWPLUG the next millenia of future history A CONSORTIUM OF ARTISTES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, BERLIN, MIT, PHILLY, CHICAGO, AMSTERDAM, FRISCO AND MYSTIC, CONN. A machine art performance with THE GAS-TURBINE POWERED Spinning VERTIGO Christmas Tree machine WITH INCENDIARY DEVICE ATTACHMENT, 9 BARRELL VERTICAL MILLENIUM BLASTER SALUTER, dissassorted pyrotechnics, fireworks and hijinks. This performance will be broadcast, monitored, mixed and reshuffled live for your enjoyment and irratation 9 whole hours before the west coast experiences the end of the world! well here i am in Berlin, we are doing 3 shows tomorrow night, it is incredible here, fantastic energy, cold grey, rain, snow, hash, guilt from germans, beautiful buildings, its all about the east, staying with a woman named Silke, she is originally from the east, she is famous here, i am in the eye, the heart of it all, 6 of us here at Bastians working, drinking eating all night, every night for a week, sleep doesn't come til 5:30 every night, not much daylight anyway, life is damn hell good.

12/16/99

well, here we are in The Hague, its weird, they are treating us like royalty, the promoters are are bestest buddies and want to represent us in the future over here. The whole thing is kinda like a dream, come true. The beer is damn godd as are the "coffee houses"" Our buddy Ryan O'Conner has come over from New York to help with a couple of his buddies, everything is going strangely well. So....... a bunch of acts tonight at the venue, we may do a little impromptu thang, we headline tomorrow night, the venue is huge and first class! Europe is all i was ever told for performing.

every single person i know here in SF is worried or threatened to lose their housing or studios, it is tiring, myself included, its sad, the end of an era, the yuppies are coming and it isn't pretty. i first came to SF in '79, i was 18, it was incredible, i left, came back left again only to return and have stayed this time for 10 years now, but it all seems to be winding down , no one can afford it anymore and all of the real artists warehouses are all but shut down with but a handful left, we live in fear and oppression. once turned out on the streets no artist can afford to rent another place, i feel the impending doom for SEEMEN TOO, just a matter of time, and welll who wants to stay in a town full of yups? what do i have to gain being in a whitebread overmonied culture ? when i am at the BOTTOM of the financial ladder? it used to be there were tons of artists and punks moving here , i met them all the time, now just yups move here, who wants to meet them? i don't. i don't have stock options, i am not going to inherit anything, i pay when family members die, death costs. EVERY time i go out, when i rarely run into old friends, you see it in their eyes and hear it in their voices, fear, where are we going? whats next? where to? when is that damn hell next earthquake coming to drive um off? to think everyone is willing to risk life and limb to clear the city. the end of an era, where shall i go? where to.

There is nothing virtual about my performances man isn't as interesting as he once was, as he works his way thru all possible actions and juxtapositions and begins and continues to repeat himself machines become more and more interesting for their actions and responses. The loss of privacy, aggressive invasion, people foist their ideas on me. Endless emails. I complain now. i always build a machine starting with a concept, an idea , not to just go cool, i wonder what this will do, that comes as i actually build the piece, invent the piece, i start with the idea. I can't imagine building something or doing something in a show some drunk comes blathering up to me yakkin about. It has nothing to do with me thus no reason to build it. people are weird. You cannot think of economics with regards to making or not making A PIECE OF ART. intentional applicationless engineering i have been thinking about the collective uncinscious, & the archetypes and art and how my art works and can work that way, fears/conflicts/survival instincts every person has. biologically, emotionally and intellectually and grounded. the inward experience of the human body we all have. "Art should look like it is going to move" Rodin yes well i say it Must move. happy new year

WHO'S BEEN CALLIN Playboy Real Edge Magazine Levis Ripleys Believe It Or Not TV Science Mag Wired BECK SONY/METREON Spin Canadian TV Toronto METALLICA Montreal Comedy Festival Richard Avedon New Orleans Leonardo magazine San Francisco magazine New York Times YerbBuena arts Center, but they chickened out. MAXIM most of these folks are window shopping, sniffin around but to scared to actually do something. What do they want? What can I believe? Europe trip coming up, don't know what to expect. BRRRR

working on my new "CARNY RIDE" piece, a bed i strap audience members onto, lookin good, finished the "FLOWER", it rocks.

12/10/99

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This spring 2000 we're lookin to go on tour across the US, I'm stoked, didn't go out this year, all kindsa new machines to show. The new Willie/Johnny Cash record is phenomenal. Showin at Chucho's Gallery this Fri, the hangover machine. The warehouse is cold, the garden is good. Y2k in Europe. VOTE FOR TOM AMMIANO!

shootin a commercial tomorrow for idunnowhat, doin special effects fer them

12/7/99 today i talked to Playboy magazine, i asked fer free issues, they are way into the site, the video clips, and my brain. Next Monday, Jay and I leave fer Europe, we are trippin.