I can’t tell if this is real without actually going down there.
He’s a parody of self-punishing performance artists, but he’s not just funny, he’s mesmerizing, and he’s really drinking the awful stuff, a medicine man. Simi came of age during the Bush years, when American foreign policy depended on the dichotomies of simpletons. Simi’s silly video is also a meditation on the zone that exists beyond clarity.