Bitch Kitty Racing

As most of you know, I have all the depth of a sheet of paper. I’ m okay with that. My very best friends on planet describe me as a self-centered, arrogant, egotistical prick. Fine. 99% of the time, that’s true.

Except for one thing: I do not now, nor will I ever, accept public funding for anything I do. That money is earmarked for people who need it; artists whose time has not yet come, those so revolutionary that their genius is only know beginning to be recognized.

Or, as in the case of The Descendants Project (my top friend), a project that revolutionizes the way we tell something so simple as the story of two friends becoming separated by the Holocaust, sixty years after it happened. For the record, I cry every time I view that film. The way it brings to the forefront of the mind the forgotten eradication of a single individual, a person with a face and a name, with a family, with a home, with a history, with children whose families live on into eternity with the memories of inhuman horrors not seen in the circles of hell . . . It’s an amazingly powerful piece. It’s getting funding, and it deserves more. This is why the art of film was invented.

Bitch Kitty Racing? A company which begins the conversation with: “Fuck you?” No. That’s not our goal. Our goal is maintaining our fierce independence and the freedom to do whatever-the-hell we want. Yes, we do have a message. Yes, we do have an Artistic Statement. But it will be a cold day in hell before we take money away from such as The Descendants Project to finance our vision.

It goes further still. As you all know, Bitch Kitty Racing is dedicated to giving one half of all proceeds from upcoming film projects back to the community. We are dedicated to fulfilling one of life’s basic needs; that of food. Food, shelter, clothing, and water can physically sustain a human being. We’re trying for the first quarter.

It sometimes totally kills me that we don’t just raise it and give it all away. When I spend $200, $500, $1000 on a shoot, I feel guilt and shame. “This money could do so much more,” I think to myself. ”$1000 is three hundred meals!” The truth of the matter is, I have complete faith that I can do so much more. If we consider all this investment expense, I am setting up a company that can earn that $1000 back a thousand times over, and I can give $500,000 towards feeding children in my community, in the community that is my home, surrounded by my neighbors, my friends.

I still bear the physical marks of childhood poverty, in my spine and in my knees. Being hungry is quite probably the worst humiliation God ever visited on a sapient species. It’s totally unnecessary.

So, excuse me for being an arrogant, egotistical prick when I say this, but I can stop hunger in my community by providing a working example of a company that is both caring and profitable.

This is my art. This is what I have chosen. I create a fun product that stretches the limits of creativity, no matter how absurd. People pay for that product. I cover operating and production expenses, support artists in my community, put aside some for the next project, allow myself time to create more product, and give a defined percentage towards creating a better world for all of us.

I have never been more driven to succeed in my life. What I’m doing is exactly what I know to be the right thing to do. Every investment I take in now is a loaded shotgun aimed against the inanity of poverty in a wealthy society. All I have to do is what I’m doing, and I will work harder every day at that as I realize how wonderful it is to live in a world where I can both be an artist (a self-centered, arrogant, egotistical prick) and save some kid from dying in an alley.

i have never been more proud of Bitch Kitty Racing as I am at this moment. The work we do, no matter how strange, is for a purpose that lives up to every moral ideal I know to be right.

Oh, it’s on now, bitches!

John Moroney Seattle