New Brutalism

NEW BRUTALISM, ETHIC OR AESTHETIC? NEITHER, NEW BRUTALISM IS 3 MEN, NOT SPECIAL MEN, OR FAMOUS MEN, JUST MEN. MEN WITH NAMES THAT DON'T MATTER. NEWBRUTALISM IS ALMOST 7 YEARS OF MONEY WASTED OR LOST, VANS BROKEN AND BENT,BLOOD, SWEAT, AND NEVER TEARS. NEW BRUTALISM IS HELL MADE FROM ALUMINUM; GUITARS, DRUMS, AMPS, ANY CHANCE TO APPLY THAT GEM OF A MATERIAL THAT IS NOT QUITE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE STEEL, BUT LIGHT ENOUGH TO BE USEFUL, SLICED LIKE BUTTER ON A BRIDGEPORT MILL. NEW BRUTALISM IS 64 SONGS AND COUNTING, NAMED BY THEIR NUMBER, STERILE IN ORIGIN AND COLD IN EXECUTION. NEW BRUTALISM IS PURE PRETENSION DRESSED IN BLACK, AS COLOR IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A HEART. NEW BRUTALISM IS BY NO MEANS ORIGINAL, AND NEW BRUTALISM IS COMFORTABLE WITH THAT. NEW BRUTALISM BUILDS UPON A FOUNDATION PREVIOUSLY LAID, BASED ON THE MINIMAL AND HONEST, THE RAWAND PRECISE; NEW BRUTALISM IS ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS, THE BANAL AND THE WASTED, THE ABANDONED HULKS IN THE ROTTING URBAN CORES. WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO NEW BRUTALISM IS NOT THE GRASS YOU CANNOT WALK ON, BUT THE CONCRETE YOU CAN, THIS CONCRETE THAT HAS BECOME AN EXTENSION OF OUR FEET, THE ALUMINUM INSTRUMENT AN EXTENSION OF OUR ARMS, THE MACHINES WE HATE BUT WE USE DAILY TO OUR ADVANTAGE. NEW BRUTALISM IS WHAT WE MAKE, AND WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT, BUT REGARDLESS OF INTERPRETATION, NEW BRUTALISM EXISTS, AND NEW BRUTALISM WORKS. WHEN NEW BRUTALISM IS HOT, LET IT BE HOT AS THE TONGUE OF FLAME, WHEN IT IS COLD LET IT BE COLD AS ICE, NEW BRUTALISM HURTS.

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