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    This is a fantastic thread, thanks for the bump. Strange to look at where I was, where everyone has gone to.

    I'm 34 now. The corporate gig I left in SF helped sustain me for a few years in Portland with freelance and some references. A bad break up and some friends taking different directions in life lead me to re-evaluate things (adult for "have a nervous breakdown") a few years back.

    So I left my nice apartment and moved in to an anarchist art collective, I was drunk in and out of various dive bars for a couple years there. I painted and wrote and made books and spent too much time watching (and emulating to some extent) "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." Learned about life and myself from the perspective of a gutter, I suppose.

    Now I am poorer than poor but my art is getting to where I want it to be. I can't find design work for the life of me, as I haven't had a normal job in 5 years. I run art shows out of the studio space I am a part of that are getting pretty hip in PDX. I've had a solo show in Portland each month this summer. I'm in a pretty great group sound project / band type thing recording an album next week in a garage. For lack of a better term, life is punk as fuck.

    That being said I'm still a 34 year old who is one medical accident away from fucked-for-good status. I'm trying to figure out how to survive in America, especially now, especially the way things are going, and I don't know. Still single, no kids, no money, no responsibility - It's going to be an interesting and terrifying next five years. I'll see you then.

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    • May the force be with you! You might be one gig away from something incredible as well.mugwart
    • great post - sounds like your soul is nurtured which is all it comes down to in the end.fadein11
    • I should also clarify "anarchist" is not black bloc leftists, but rather a communal mindset of equal responsibility and little to no oversightcolin_s
    • But thank y'allcolin_s
    • That was very interesting. I'm sure we'd love to see any work you'd like to share.CyBrainX
    • he's shared loads in the past - lovely stuff.fadein11
    • Your life just sounds very european.Longcopylover
    • Yes, welcome to EU ;)OBBTKN
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