Unlimited Free Space: Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
| VJ |
How about rules and regulations? Do you ever find them limiting? Do you think they're necessary? |
| NICOLE |
Yeah. I'd say that just from parking your car to crossing the street. |
| VJ |
Or "You can't sit here" or "You have to leave now" or "This park is closed at this time" - any kind of thing like that. |
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NICOLE |
Yeah. I tend to ignore all those. I go into the Hudson River Park at night if I want to cuz I know how to get in. I really don't pay attention. I get out of every traffic ticket I've ever had. I don't pay attention to a lot of the supposed rules. I have good luck with getting out of things. I push it more than I need to. |
| ND |
You think that there's a possibility that - in spite of all the rules and regulations - for individuals to overcome the borders that are established? |
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NICOLE |
I'm sure - yeah - definitely. I mean, it's a massive education program. It's like the Doctors Without Borders - the French. It's just getting scarier with credit cards that will have your fingerprint on them. Just to get into a building - they'll scan that. You can be tracked wherever you go - just to get into buildings. It'll get worse. Hopefully, there'll be groups to fight that kind of regulation - guys with funny yellow suits - colors. |
| ND |
We'll probably have to not wear yellow
suits in order to get around those regulations. I don't think we've ever asked this question of anyone but, I'm gonna ask you. Do you think that you have the required qualities to become an unlimited specialist? |
| NICOLE |
An unlimited specialist? Uhm... I don't know. It's hard to say. I'm probably pretty conservative when it comes down to it. But I don't mind breaking the rules. I see a lotta grey fuzzy areas. I think as long as everything's morally set in the right place, there's a balance between how people are supposed to exist with one another. It's to hard to think of it. |
| ND |
What would you describe as "morally set" in the right place? |
| NICOLE |
Hard to say. It's certainly not like a Mormon. It's not religiously based. It's hard to eliminate a lot of structures without eliminating traditions and things. I'd have to follow my morals - in terms of designing space under the landscape architects. I don't know if I answered that. |
| ND |
So, cool. I think we've just made you into an unlimited specialist - since we have no moral criteria. |
| VJ |
We give these certificates. That includes taking a picture of you. We're gonna give you the picture. And we give you a card. |
| ND |
And invite you to dinner. |
| NICOLE |
I'll invite you to flamenco. How many people did you talk to? |
| ND |
About twenty. |
| NICOLE |
That's good. |
| VJ |
[unintelligible] we're not getting paid for it... [unintelligible] I have everything under control. |
| ND |
I'm off the hook. Do we have the original manifesto? This is it. The original manifesto's on the back. |
| VJ |
This thing is stuck. |
| NICOLE |
Free meal. So you guys aren't part of the Moonies? |
| ND |
We're part of the Moonies. Yeah. We're part of everyone. We're unlimited specialists. |
| NICOLE |
That's what free meals imply. |
| ND |
We're part of the Scientologists, evangelists, Jews for Jesus, the JDL, the PLO, the Republicans, the Democrats, the communists, the Nazis, we're unlimited. |
| VJ |
Talk for yourself. |
| ND |
No, it's true. Today I was given one of these religious things. |
| NICOLE |
Hey! Bollagio! |
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Modified December 23, 1997