Oh and I'm also NOT supporting the Royal Wedding - we're having libraries closed goddammit! We shouldn't even be giving them pretty salt and pepper shakers, let alone paying for so much of the damn thing! Got nothing against Will and Kate (although I don't know them - first name forced use also annoying), they seem pleasant enough, and I actually thought I was a Royalist (like the idea of non-politically aligned standard-bearer for the country to get behind, give a sense of continuity, national cohesion etc). In the current economic climate though it's all too much.
Which reminds me, why don't we just choose someone already rich who'd like the kudos of the title and make them the king/queen? They could run about doing all the international rep stuff, as they'd do that anyway, and we wouldn't have to pay for the whole family. Would be better.
This blog is really helping me realise what I spend my time thinking about. Damn I need to fill my head with better material!
Sunday, 24 April 2011
YALREET
Just had to boost off about how derivative most art-student writing is. "Oh these dusty photos of the old library where I used to work"; images of moth-eaten taxidermy subjects; ponderings which are admitted to be 'pointless' - 'oh but it's all so lovely.' Yes, well done on enjoying life. But it's not work. It's not DOING anything. it's just self-indulgent crap.
Please note that the above venting is largely due to my self-doubt at not having studied English, even though I love it so, and worrying whether I will ever reattain that luxurious richly-referenced feel to my work that I once deluded myself I had.
I went with science so I'd have a huge mountain of material to ramble through with my thesaurus and storytelling crafts, and because all great work is about finding out the truths about life.
But because I studied sciences, I'm going to really push that more viscerality is needed, more honesty, more truth, more dynamism, in English and journalism work. And hope that I can rechannel the artistry into my own work.
Do you really want to be like this?! : http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/824-postmodernism-disrobed
Please note that the above venting is largely due to my self-doubt at not having studied English, even though I love it so, and worrying whether I will ever reattain that luxurious richly-referenced feel to my work that I once deluded myself I had.
I went with science so I'd have a huge mountain of material to ramble through with my thesaurus and storytelling crafts, and because all great work is about finding out the truths about life.
But because I studied sciences, I'm going to really push that more viscerality is needed, more honesty, more truth, more dynamism, in English and journalism work. And hope that I can rechannel the artistry into my own work.
Do you really want to be like this?! : http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/824-postmodernism-disrobed
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