March 24th, 2010
Somehow evoking both Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in Rainman…

C. Stryker’s description of me -my favorite of all time- in reference to this, which I still won’t watch. I know I’m aging because ten years ago the embarrassment of a video like that would have actually killed me.

It’s particularly apt that it came from Stryker, who I like for the same reasons I like this guy: if art’s value lies partly in its capacity to take suffering and transform it into existential wisdom, the Internet’s value comes partly from its capacity to take stupidity, cliche, small miseries, and everything offensive and turn it into humor. Stryker’s site is like an alchemist’s laboratory, and I’m proud to join the menagerie of defectives there.

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abby's worse but i'm too nice to prove it i can get pretentious about anything
  1. krystalgomez reblogged this from undercover-ginger and added:
    i wish i was friends with mills.
  2. melanyouth reblogged this from littlepotato and added:
    My favorite part: “WHY did I post
  3. lacey said: ugh. you did this as a reblog so now i can’t LIKE it again.
  4. mills reblogged this from stryker and added:
    C. Stryker’s description of me -my favorite of all time-...reference to this, which I...
  5. nudawn reblogged this from undercover-ginger and added:
    This is a rollercoaster of goddamn emotions. There was intrigue, there was belly laughing humor, there was fear, there...
  6. leeg reblogged this from gratefulgeorge and added:
    I feel changed inside. Reborn. Glorious.
  7. gratefulgeorge reblogged this from undercover-ginger and added:
    I like to play this video while any song is playing on the radio - every time, Mills’ dancing is in sync with the music.
  8. undercover-ginger reblogged this from sydvish and added:
    Remember when we lost Mills at Jazz Fest last year, and when we found him, he told us that his dancing inspired a grown...
  9. jhnbrssndn reblogged this from sydvish and added:
    Hmm, yes. Cute, voyeuristic and a little disturbing all at once. Oddly reminiscent of those prison visit scenes, except...
  10. sydvish reblogged this from littlepotato and added:
    I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CAPTURE THIS DANCE ON VIDEO FOR YEARS! THANK YOU ABBY!! He does
  11. mills said: I am never going to watch this! I saw the keyframe and thought: if I am to maintain any self-esteem, I need to not see this! Instead, I’ll continue to assume that I look more or less like “Dutch” Schaefer.
  12. locomotivehootenanny said: Well, I, for one, am excited you have red nails. Not that I ever had an opinion on them. Just, you know…thought I’d speak for Mills.
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Aporia is written by Mills Baker and concerns art, culture, love, philosophy, memory, history, and more. A selection of better posts has been assembled. It's been featured on Tumblr Tuesday and is listed in the Spotlight, but it pines for its youth as a coloring book.