Miserable In New York City
Published April 06, 2021 · 3:06 · 232,008 views
About This Video
The spirited man finds himself in a multi-million dollar Park Avenue apartment, having neither asked for it nor earned it. To hell with this town. In 12 hours the snow will be yellow, then brown, then gray, then gone.
Three minutes. Van maps the arc from one dream to the space between dreams: not lost, but disoriented. His intuition speaks in cardinal directions. The quiet voice gives one-word answers, one at a time. Follow the word and the next word will come. The video is Van at his most compressed and most literary, a prose poem about the moment when one chapter of New York ends and the next life hasn't yet announced itself. The new dream whispers.
Transcript
the spirited man may find himself living in a multi-million dollar park avenue apartment
having neither asked for it nor earned for it to hell with this town
to hell with park avenue in 12 hours this snow will be yellow and brown
then gray then gone the americans talk about following
dreams they have a term for it they call it the american dream
the american dream is to live in a dream this is the ambition of the spirited man
to follow a dream and then to live in it having lived one dream perhaps the spirited man in his intoxication neglected to dream
another perhaps he finds himself not lost but disoriented
his intuition bad with maps intuition speaks in cardinal directions
back in the fort no more park avenue to hell with this town to hell with the fort wiser now the spirited man knows when to listen and knows how
he knows to listen for the quiet voice and that the quiet voice does not explain itself
the quiet voice gives one word answers one at a time
follow the word and the next word will come the spirited man learns to lead his new dream and his new dream [Music] whispers you