Jenny, You’re Barely Alive - Rilo Kiley
The metal rod you put in your fucking jaw / To keep you from grinding your teeth at night
(Source: fuckyeahchickmusicians)
an exercise in writing and accountability
an honest truth
University of Pennsylvania: If you find yourself jobless after graduation, you’re in good company....
If you find yourself jobless after graduation, you’re in good company. Penn ‘09 grad Jarrett Stein spoke on a panel last night on careers in food and left students with this piece of advice:
“My job didn’t exist when I graduated. If you want to work in food, you just have to go out and do it.”
“The sense of being between cultures has been very, very strong for me. I would say that’s the single strongest strand running through my life: the fact that I’m always in and out of things, and never really of anything for very long.”
— Edward Said on the bicultural immigrant experience
“IT IS SUNNY SOMEWHERE.”
— graffiti outside my seminar room window
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It is essential to prove that beauty may be in small, dry things.
The great aim is accurate, precise and definite description. The first thing is to recognize how extraordinarily difficult this is. It is no mere matter of carefulness; you have to use language, and language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise that which is common to you, me and everybody. But each man sees a little differently, and to get out clearly and exactly what he does see, he must have a terrific struggle with language, whether it be with words or the technique of other arts.
Wherever you get this sincerity, you get the fundamental quality of good art without dragging in infinite or serious.
”— Hulme
“I object even to the best of the romantics. I object still more to the receptive attitude. I object to the sloppiness which doesn’t consider that a poem is a poem unless it is moaning or whining about something or other.”
—
T. E. Hulme
I wrote one of my mid-term papers on why the romantics were wrong.
