RUMP Zine #02
“12. Today I woke up and I felt like a camera, just a mechanical register of things.”
—2500 Random Things About Me Too by Matias Viegener
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So Tell me how Bent you are?
1. Virus or Bacteria? Virus definitely, metaphorically
2. Preferred Pronoun? He
3. What Periodic Table Element are you? The earth's core is mostly made of iron and that feels important to me
4. Favorite Object? 10 rules for students and teachers from John Cage. Also I like good chair.
5. What shape are you?
The boundary of me expanding like a thick latex bubble into infinity and looking for what's beyond the tension of never bursting and never encompassing the whole
6. Give us a texture. The skin behind the hip just below the waist.
7. Anarchist, Socialist, Capitalist, Libertarian, etc. I want to thrive and I want to help those around me thrive
8. Favorite person of Color that you disagree with? Kanye
9. What sound are you? Carti adlibs and vast silence
10. Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or a Broken Copper Pot? Torbjorn Rodland
11. What’s the last thing you broke? The ice
12. Last person you kissed? My girlfriend.
13. Best thing about men’s right activists? Aren't they really into lifting weights? It would be that
14. Do you meditate?
Yeah but not that regularly until recently. I started practicing physiological sigh and open monitoring meditation and they're both very rewarding. I want to keep going deeper with all that
15. Are you a Neutron Star, White Hole, or Solar Flare?
"In general relativity, a white hole is a hypothetical region of spacetime and singularity that cannot be entered from the outside, although energy-matter, light and information can escape from it."
16. Which fetish are you? Klismaphilia, EDERACINISM, Fornifilia, OCULOLINCTUS :
I'm in the realm of oculolinctus. More so the linctus than the oculus
17. Your opinion on Lesbian Separatist? I don't subscribe to that myself.
18. Favorite Mythological Character? The self
19. What type of Cancer are you? Robin Williams
20. Matriarchal Punishment or Patriarchal Redemption? Patriarchal Redemption for me
21. Who do you actually hate? Generally the more someone is hated the more I want to know them and it makes me hate them less.
22. Best regrettable purchase this month? Pint of ice cream
23. Finish this sentence. I know Kim Kardashian I know *of* Kim Kardashian.
24. Your favorite body of water. Willow Bay
25. What’s the most middle class thing you’ve done this week?
This was a couple weeks ago but I ordered an old fashioned at a dive bar where I realized very quickly I wasn't supposed to do that. They made the shit out of that though, one of the best i've had honestly.
26. I’m only politically correct when…it feels like the right thing to do
27. What’s your favorite scar on your body?
When I was in second grade my friend stabbed me in the shoulder with a pencil and you can still see the graphite in my arm
28. Last time you cried tears of joy. I was probably laughing with friends
29. Your most noble trait. I'm practicing to take my intuition more seriously
30. I know the taste of...Heaven