The Hanover Collaboration

11:13 AM me: i’ve had that album on stream for like 4 hours at this point i think i’m going insane
Evan: Is it good? I forgot my headphones.
11:14 AM me: yeah, i think so. i don’t really knwo him at all, so the hype is lost on me. but it’s good. i’m trying to get sick of it so i won’t buy it.
11:15 AM Evan: You stil buy music? (that was my jonshea impression) But, really, you still buy music? INTERNET, DUDE.
11:16 AM me: i like looking at the pictures
11:17 AM me: evan, i have to do a presentation… are you an expert on graffiti?
Evan: I am a Certified Expert on Graffiti.
11:18 AM me: Great. How do you feel about Basquiat?
Evan: OUTSIDER ART. FUNNY STRETCHERS. AFRICAN?
11:19 AM :D
11:20 AM me: Evan, that’s not an emotion. how do you feel? (he’s haitian)
11:21 AM Evan: ;_;
11:23 AM me: uh… Do you find any hypocrisy in his reclamation of African art from the tradition of Picasso and Matisse and his wholehearted embrace of the NY “scene”? ps I don’t knwo what that last symbol means
Evan: Wasn’t Basquiat sort of unaware/stupid? Why do I think that?
11:24 AM Like, not a very critical thinker/painter. He just sorta made paintings. They happened to resemble street art/African art, and NY loved him for it.
me: 11:25 AM He was Warhol’s best friend. Kevin Young thinks he’s worth 117 poems.
11:26 AM Evan: Who is Kevin Young? Is that some football player?
11:28 AM me: his first book was selected for the national poetry series!
Evan: BORING NEXT
11:29 AM he was named by Swing magazine as one of the most powerful people under age 30 in the United States!
11:30 AM Evan: Poets are powerful again? Eww.
11:31 AM me: yeah, poetry is the new outsider art.
11:33 AM Evan: Gross.