The 6 Train Louse: Recent Episodes
Nate Hill
I'm Nate, the louse. I live in NYC and ride the 6 train. Since November 2012, I've begged for imaginary money in exchange for my art ideas. This is new, unedited audio.
- Rodeo clowns (1 per block) overlooking violent neighborhoods breaking up fights with their traditional tactics.
- Catch a fish in the East River and run it to the Hudson before it dies.
- Stand in front of a parked Porsche at night to see how the light feels.
- Bleed into the sewer at the top of Manhattan, and let the drops flow to the bottom.
- An app where I let my phone listen to a toilet, and it translates a message to me.
- Neck brace that fixes your head looking at the sky.
- Glass bottom boat rides on the East River. No visibility, so build aquarium under the boat.
- Make a balloon costume big enough for me to fit in, but I just get stuck in a tree.
- Rodeo clowns (1 per block) overlooking violent neighborhoods breaking up fights with their traditional tactics.
- Catch a fish in the East River and run it to the Hudson before it dies.
- Attach helium balloons with strings to mousetraps in way that triggered trap frees balloons and lifts dead mouse to ceiling.
- Wear garbage man uniform, run alongside truck, picking up loose items they ignore like one of those fish with shark.
- Secretly increase the thermostat more each day while ramping up the prosthetic wolf hairs you add to your face daily.
- Only look at the floor all day, no mirrors, and after a time, see if when you imagine your face, you only see the floor.
- Dressed as Superman, lie face first over a sidewalk subway grate, and let the air lift your cape a little.
- Dress like a bird, sit in a tree over a sidewalk, call yourself Poop Bird.
- Walk around pretending you're too tall for ceilings and doorways always bending down unnecessarily.
- Hand out your manifesto next to a garbage can, when someone refuses it, put it directly in the trash.
- Put a cat in a tree, and bring a community together.
- Sit in a closed box, people put things in a hole at the top of the box, you make something in the box, then slide it out the bottom of the box.
- Bleed into the sewer at the top of Manhattan, and let the drops flow to the bottom.
- Character who comes to your house to help you find clean underwear.
- Stand in front of a parked Porsche at night to see how the light feels.
- Wear a paper bag on my head that says, "I'm ugly."
- Inflatable puffy coat that inflates and deflates depending on how close you want to get to someone.
- Neck brace that fixes your head looking at the sky.
- An app where I let my phone listen to a toilet, and it translates a message to me.
- Get hired to sit atop a radio tower, and operate the red light manually.
- Mount a spotlight on a truck, and order it to follow you around all night.
- Make a balloon costume big enough for me to fit in, but I just get stuck in a tree.
- Glass bottom boat rides on the East River. No visibility, so build aquarium under the boat.
- Hire 10 people to surround you, and when asked tell you that you're flying.
- Rodeo clowns (1 per block) overlooking violent neighborhoods breaking up fights with their traditional tactics.
- Catch a fish in the East River and run it to the Hudson before it dies.
- Organize a convention of self-identified uncool black people.
- Close a door on yourself, but still try to accomplish what you wanted to do in that room.
- Show off your strength by wearing some wall around your wrist, where you punched through the wall.
- Put a fortune on toilet paper cardboard rolls like the cookie.
- Attach helium balloons with strings to mousetraps in way that triggered trap frees balloons and lifts dead mouse to ceiling.
- Wear garbage man uniform, run alongside truck, picking up loose items they ignore like one of those fish with shark.
- Secretly increase the thermostat more each day while ramping up the prosthetic wolf hairs you add to your face daily.
- Only look at the floor all day, no mirrors, and after a time, see if when you imagine your face, you only see the floor.
- Call someone on your cell, put it on speaker, drop it in a cereal box, eat to their voice, work together.
- Put on a dog sock puppet, hang it out a bus window.
- Dressed as Superman, lie face first over a sidewalk subway grate, and let the air lift your cape a little.
- Dress like a bird, sit in a tree over a sidewalk, call yourself Poop Bird.
- Organize a full auditorium of clapping actors for anyone willing to pay a fee for a standing ovation.
- Make a Barbie pinata filled with drugs only a Barbie would like.
- Walk around pretending you're too tall for ceilings and doorways always bending down unnecessarily.
- Hand out your manifesto next to a garbage can, when someone refuses it, put it directly in the trash.
- Put a cat in a tree, and bring a community together.
- Sit in a closed box, people put things in a hole at the top of the box, you make something in the box, then slide it out the bottom of the box.
- Bleed into the sewer at the top of Manhattan, and let the drops flow to the bottom.
- Character who comes to your house to help you find clean underwear.
- Stand in front of a parked Porsche at night to see how the light feels.
- Wear a paper bag on my head that says, "I'm ugly."
- Inflatable puffy coat that inflates and deflates depending on how close you want to get to someone.
- Neck brace that fixes your head looking at the sky.
- An app where I let my phone listen to a toilet, and it translates a message to me.
- Get hired to sit atop a radio tower, and operate the red light manually.
- Mount a spotlight on a truck, and order it to follow you around all night.
- Make a balloon costume big enough for me to fit in, but I just get stuck in a tree.
- Glass bottom boat rides on the East River. No visibility, so build aquarium under the boat.
- Hire 10 people to surround you, and when asked tell you that you're flying.
- Rodeo clowns (1 per block) overlooking violent neighborhoods breaking up fights with their traditional tactics.
- Catch a fish in the East River and run it to the Hudson before it dies.
- Organize a convention of self-identified uncool black people.
- Close a door on yourself, but still try to accomplish what you wanted to do in that room.
- Show off your strength by wearing some wall around your wrist, where you punched through the wall.
- Put a fortune on toilet paper cardboard rolls like the cookie.
- Attach helium balloons with strings to mousetraps in way that triggered trap frees balloons and lifts dead mouse to ceiling.
- Wear garbage man uniform, run alongside truck, picking up loose items they ignore like one of those fish with shark.
- Secretly increase the thermostat more each day while ramping up the prosthetic wolf hairs you add to your face daily.
- Only look at the floor all day, no mirrors, and after a time, see if when you imagine your face, you only see the floor.
- Call someone on your cell, put it on speaker, drop it in a cereal box, eat to their voice, work together.
- Put on a dog sock puppet, hang it out a bus window.
- Dressed as Superman, lie face first over a sidewalk subway grate, and let the air lift your cape a little.
- Dress like a bird, sit in a tree over a sidewalk, call yourself Poop Bird.
- Organize a full auditorium of clapping actors for anyone willing to pay a fee for a standing ovation.
- Make a Barbie pinata filled with drugs only a Barbie would like.
- Walk around pretending you're too tall for ceilings and doorways always bending down unnecessarily.
- Hand out your manifesto next to a garbage can, when someone refuses it, put it directly in the trash.
- Put a cat in a tree, and bring a community together.
- Sit in a closed box, people put things in a hole at the top of the box, you make something in the box, then slide it out the bottom of the box.
- Bleed into the sewer at the top of Manhattan, and let the drops flow to the bottom.
- Character who comes to your house to help you find clean underwear.
- Stand in front of a parked Porsche at night to see how the light feels.
- Wear a paper bag on my head that says, "I'm ugly."
- Inflatable puffy coat that inflates and deflates depending on how close you want to get to someone.
- Neck brace that fixes your head looking at the sky.
- An app where I let my phone listen to a toilet, and it translates a message to me.
- Get hired to sit atop a radio tower, and operate the red light manually.
- Mount a spotlight on a truck, and order it to follow you around all night.
- Make a balloon costume big enough for me to fit in, but I just get stuck in a tree.
- Glass bottom boat rides on the East River. No visibility, so build aquarium under the boat.
- Hire 10 people to surround you, and when asked tell you that you're flying.
- Rodeo clowns (1 per block) overlooking violent neighborhoods breaking up fights with their traditional tactics.
- Catch a fish in the East River and run it to the Hudson before it dies.
- Organize a convention of self-identified uncool black people.
- Close a door on yourself, but still try to accomplish what you wanted to do in that room.
- Show off your strength by wearing some wall around your wrist, where you punched through the wall.
- Put a fortune on toilet paper cardboard rolls like the cookie.
- Attach helium balloons with strings to mousetraps in way that triggered trap frees balloons and lifts dead mouse to ceiling.
- Wear garbage man uniform, run alongside truck, picking up loose items they ignore like one of those fish with shark.
- Secretly increase the thermostat more each day while ramping up the prosthetic wolf hairs you add to your face daily.
- Only look at the floor all day, no mirrors, and after a time, see if when you imagine your face, you only see the floor.
- Call someone on your cell, put it on speaker, drop it in a cereal box, eat to their voice, work together.
- Put on a dog sock puppet, hang it out a bus window.
- Dressed as Superman, lie face first over a sidewalk subway grate, and let the air lift your cape a little.
- Dress like a bird, sit in a tree over a sidewalk, call yourself Poop Bird.
- Organize a full auditorium of clapping actors for anyone willing to pay a fee for a standing ovation.
- Make a Barbie pinata filled with drugs only a Barbie would like.
- Walk around pretending you're too tall for ceilings and doorways always bending down unnecessarily.
- Hand out your manifesto next to a garbage can, when someone refuses it, put it directly in the trash.
- Put a cat in a tree, and bring a community together.
- Sit in a closed box, people put things in a hole at the top of the box, you make something in the box, then slide it out the bottom of the box.
- Bleed into the sewer at the top of Manhattan, and let the drops flow to the bottom.
- Character who comes to your house to help you find clean underwear.
- Stand in front of a parked Porsche at night to see how the light feels.
- Wear a paper bag on my head that says, "I'm ugly."
- Inflatable puffy coat that inflates and deflates depending on how close you want to get to someone.
- Neck brace that fixes your head looking at the sky.
- An app where I let my phone listen to a toilet, and it translates a message to me.
- Get hired to sit atop a radio tower, and operate the red light manually.
- Mount a spotlight on a truck, and order it to follow you around all night.
- Make a balloon costume big enough for me to fit in, but I just get stuck in a tree.
- Glass bottom boat rides on the East River. No visibility, so build aquarium under the boat.
- Hire 10 people to surround you, and when asked tell you that you're flying.
- Rodeo clowns (1 per block) overlooking violent neighborhoods breaking up fights with their traditional tactics.
- Catch a fish in the East River and run it to the Hudson before it dies.
- Organize a convention of self-identified uncool black people.
- Close a door on yourself, but still try to accomplish what you wanted to do in that room.
- Show off your strength by wearing some wall around your wrist, where you punched through the wall.
- Put a fortune on toilet paper cardboard rolls like the cookie.
- Attach helium balloons with strings to mousetraps in way that triggered trap frees balloons and lifts dead mouse to ceiling.
- Wear garbage man uniform, run alongside truck, picking up loose items they ignore like one of those fish with shark.
- Secretly increase the thermostat more each day while ramping up the prosthetic wolf hairs you add to your face daily.
- Only look at the floor all day, no mirrors, and after a time, see if when you imagine your face, you only see the floor.
- Call someone on your cell, put it on speaker, drop it in a cereal box, eat to their voice, work together.
- Put on a dog sock puppet, hang it out a bus window.
- Dressed as Superman, lie face first over a sidewalk subway grate, and let the air lift your cape a little.
- Dress like a bird, sit in a tree over a sidewalk, call yourself Poop Bird.
- Organize a full auditorium of clapping actors for anyone willing to pay a fee for a standing ovation.
- Make a Barbie pinata filled with drugs only a Barbie would like.
- Walk around pretending you're too tall for ceilings and doorways always bending down unnecessarily.
- Hand out your manifesto next to a garbage can, when someone refuses it, put it directly in the trash.
- Put a cat in a tree, and bring a community together.
- Sit in a closed box, people put things in a hole at the top of the box, you make something in the box, then slide it out the bottom of the box.
- Bleed into the sewer at the top of Manhattan, and let the drops flow to the bottom.
- Character who comes to your house to help you find clean underwear.
- Stand in front of a parked Porsche at night to see how the light feels.
- Wear a paper bag on my head that says, "I'm ugly."
- Inflatable puffy coat that inflates and deflates depending on how close you want to get to someone.
- Neck brace that fixes your head looking at the sky.
- An app where I let my phone listen to a toilet, and it translates a message to me.
- Get hired to sit atop a radio tower, and operate the red light manually.
- Mount a spotlight on a truck, and order it to follow you around all night.
- Make a balloon costume big enough for me to fit in, but I just get stuck in a tree.
- Glass bottom boat rides on the East River. No visibility, so build aquarium under the boat.
- Hire 10 people to surround you, and when asked tell you that you're flying.
- Rodeo clowns (1 per block) overlooking violent neighborhoods breaking up fights with their traditional tactics.
- Catch a fish in the East River and run it to the Hudson before it dies.
- Close a door on yourself, but still try to accomplish what you wanted to do in that room.
- Make a neon sign, hang it facing out the subway window.
- Put on puppet show with found dead fish on sticks in pet store aquarium.
- Make animatronic waving arm, I can wear at all times, and it waves non stop.
- Score your day in the morning, use playlist to decide your moods during the day.
- Catch and release fish but implant with flash drive for other anglers with content.
- When grape rolls on the floor of the subway, I think it's funny, so do this discreetly.
- Cut port hole in your shower curtain at waist level and find a use.
- Organize a convention of self-identified uncool black people.
- Hesitate for an hour, keep repeating "I'm just trying to figure this out", but never start.
- Troll the police by doing the most obscure crime in front of them like dying your pet rabbit (illegal).
- Take a good, long look at something before throwing it away like chewing gum.
- Like Adopt-A-Highway, adopt individual squares of the sidewalk, keep yours pristine.
- Stage a live action comic strip.
- Repeatedly email the same people rapidly enough to sustain a shape.
- Dress as a sleeper semi truck, that's a cardboard box on your back, travel the highways by foot, think you're a truck.
- Enclose an ATM in cardboard, get in, try to do transactions with strangers through a hole.
- In grocery store veggie aisle, put a single tomato with the onions, an onion with the celery, and a celery with the tomatoes, and keep this solar system going a long time.
- Show off your strength by wearing some wall around your wrist, where you punched through the wall.
- Wear a suggestion box as a backpack.
- Attach vacuum to gas mask to selectively breath certain second hand smoke on the street.
- At mall with 3 shoe stores, buy 1 pair, then at the 2nd store, try on same shoes, secretly swap, repeat at 3rd store, this way experience new shoes 3x within 15 min.
- Wear garbage man uniform, run alongside truck, picking up loose items they ignore like one of those fish with shark.
- Monetize your wife's tears.
- For those who feel art is not so important, create charity where they give money specifically not to art.
- Adopt the practice of marking hiking trails with painted shapes on trees, known as trail blazing, to Harlem.
- Mix slot machine with dishwasher, quarters are dishes.
- Attach helium balloons with strings to mousetraps in way that triggered trap frees balloons and lifts dead mouse to ceiling.
- Only look at the floor all day, no mirrors, and after a time, see if when you imagine your face, you only see the floor.
- Secretly increase the thermostat by a degree at work each day while ramping up the prosthetic wolf hairs you add to your face daily.
- Stick your finger in a cherry and with finger stuck in cherry, feel other cherries.
- Freeze one grape then with it smash all other grapes.
- In grocery store, move labels on each banana to wrong place on each banana.
- I can't condone this, but ask friend to keep your departed pet frozen at their house, and periodically surprise you.
- I can't condone this, but glue roach parts to enough elevator buttons that people don't use them, and enter your maze.
- Make exchange program, roach kebobs for beef kebobs.
- I can't condone this, but leave security guard uniform next to sleeping person in ATM.
- Make a perfume or cologne that makes your partner smell like they're from a different race.
- When someone speaks to you, listen for compatible fragments, and reconnect the fragments to hear something different.
- Mark your finger with a pen, then to yourself for 10 minutes, keep wiping a black spot off your forehead that's not there.
- Steal restaurant menu, name sandwich after yourself, replace menu.
- Find way to connect different graffiti tags with squiggles.
- With a white paint pen, make an escalator handrail into a low-fi scrolling LED sign.
- Try giving away free dashikis in front of a Harlem high school.
- With a portable hair dryer, evaporate puddles into pleasing shapes.
- Make eyeglasses with sealed Petri dishes with live flies inside that give you African animal vision.
- Tie up a busy bathroom stall, every time someone jiggles the door, squeeze a clown horn twice.
- Paint your nails like a woman then do manly things.
- On days you find it hard to be your race, wear a color matched leotard all day then come home and take it off.
- At your desk at work, stretch at least once per hour, and do a small art.
- Call someone on your cell, put it on speaker, drop it in a cereal box, eat to their voice, work together.
- Put on a dog sock puppet, hang it out a bus window.
- Make a Rick Ross fat suit with tats and do kids birthday parties.
- Run a feminist bodega, calling only female customers "Boss".
- Put on as many coats as you can at one time, and zip multiple odd ones together.
- Put rappers wearing colorful diamond chains, tightly together, people look down and see a kaleidoscope.
- Make a news feed for black/white bi-racial people that's only issues of black/white racial tension in the news, and ask them to pick a side.
- Make a website that is just 99 cent PayPal donation for emailed encouragement for anything you need--no judgements.
- Leave your art in a public toilet letting people decide.
- Walk around with a cardboard diarama around your head, in your face, of a warplane cockpit, and put a hole in it to look at real planes.
- Dressed as Superman, lie face first over a sidewalk subway grate, and let the air lift your cape a little.
- Dress like a bird, sit in a tree over a sidewalk, call yourself Poop Bird.
- Make room dimmer switch that dims incrementally faster or slower depending on anxiety.
- Cake decorate public bathroom toilet seat leaving behind cleaning supplies and signed note of apology.
- Collect local dog doody, make fertilizer, then sell to local drug dealer who cuts drugs.
- Make topographical map of NYC, but instead of elevation use street light.
- Make Barbie pinata filled with illegal drugs only a Barbie would like.
- Sell canvas to painters with surprise dead spots that don't absorb paint.
- Organize a full auditorium of clapping actors for anyone willing to pay a fee for a standing ovation.
- Watch something by watching someone watch the thing you want to see.