Spike Vee's Questionnaire

I don't have a homebase because i just travel all over and sleep wherever I am. Probably the city I find myself the most in is Amsterdam. It's the only city with enough street culture, art, drugs and diversity for me to stay longer than a week. I spend a lot of time in East Village NYC though. There are plenty of tattoo parlors that will just put me up around the world. I sleep in backrooms, crash in friend's apartments, occasionally a hostel, but it's never hard for me to find a place to put up. I just get offered places to stay everywhere i go. I don't have stuff, just a bag with my essentials. 

I'm a known tattoo artist. People see my name, and it draws tattoo fans. Most tattoo shop owners have heard of me, or I've worked at their salon. My work has been shown in tattoo magazines and online tattoo sites around the world, and I've been interviewed for them too. My works shows up a lot on socials, too, but I don't have any social accounts. Fuck that brainwashing bullshit. I get invited to do stints all over the world. Fans show up. Drop a few flyers around town and dozens will show up. I never have a problem getting work. I also get commissions for complex jobs, too. I don't spend my money on much. Food, weed, clothes when my current clothes wear out. Occasionally an old occult book I find at a used bookstore. Not much else.

When i get the chance, I research the occult. I have some innate...supernatural abilities that I've never been able to explain. Like, I can see in the dark better than anyone else I've ever met. So I have some sort of affinity for the occult. I dig through old books and try out spells. Haven't found anything that works yet, but I'm getting close. I want to learn some magic because first off, it's so fucking cool. That's some weird awesome shit. Straight up that's the biggest thing. Given the chance, I'll do what i can to bring down the corporate engine that rules the world. Corporations are fascist bullshit and they should all die. Would I kill for magic? Not really. It should serve me, not the other way around. I want power that gives me an edge...and is just mind-blowing. But i can't use power if I'm dead, right? Would I kill for it? I'd kill a motherfucker for plenty of reasons--being a scumbag, being an abuser, being a corporate lackey. But i'd never hurt an innocent person for power. That's what THEY do. 

I was always intuitively aware of social oppression in society. You don't have to be all that educated or even smart to recognize how the system fucks us all over. What really brought it into focus for me was when i was 12 and my mother got cancer. My dad's health insurance didn't cover the costs of her cancer treatments. We went into 100s of thousands in debt and she died anyway. My dad sold the house and then died of a broken heart soon after that. The logic of society fell into place for me after that. The true divide is corporations and the wealthy vs. everyone else. All the patriarchal sexism and racism and religious ideology is a distraction to make social groups fight each other so the corpos and oligarchs can plunder the world. We're all victims, even the MAGA idiots are victims, their empathy is just too stunted to recognize it. 

Peter Vacan - 37 years old. Brown hair, 6' tall, usually wears sunglasses. Good-looking and usually unshaven. He's a gay tattoo shop owner in Amsterdam. I frequently work there and crash at his place. We party fairly often or just hangout at coffeeshops and smoke weed together. He's flamboyant and funny.

Tabitha March - 22 years old. Blonde and very pretty, barely 5' tall. She's a street artist who I've given a lot of tattoos too in the Village. I usually crash at her apartment when I got to NYC. She's bold and politically radically. She joins all the protests. Always wears hoodies with a spraycan in a deep pocket. 

Martha Anderberry - 62 years old. Mostly grey hair, where's reading glasses on neck chains. She's the owner of a small, crowded used bookstore in Greenwich Village packed from floor to ceiling with books. We often talk about occult phenomena, she's read a lot. She puts books aside for me whenever she spots something relevant.