December 2010
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Silversun Pickups - Melatonin
love this band.
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Christmas and Other Things
So Merry Late Christmas to everyone. I hope it was fantastic! Mine was a mixture of good and bad I suppose. I guess I’ll get the bad out of the way so I can build my way back up with the good.
My great-grandmother died on Christmas day which, while expected and ultimately didn’t hit me too hard, was obviously hard for my Grandmother. I mean, it’s amazing in itself that I’m...
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This.
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A Poem I'm Working On
It’s a villanelle, which I’ve discovered is actually a pretty difficult form to make work. Usually the repeated refrain just gets old. Plus you have to keep the rhyme scheme and meter going. You kind of have to get two solid good lines and then work from there. The best villanelle ever written, in my opinion, is by Dylan Thomas called “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good...
Plans
So, I’ve decided to take some time off before I go to grad school. Pretty much every other person I’ve spoken to who has pursued an MFA has either 1. been very thankful for taking time off themselves or 2. wishes they had if they didn’t. Also, since I’m going to be here for a year and a half until Roxanne graduates, I just don’t really feel like getting my MA at Tech....
Surrealism
I just wrote a piece of fiction (around 4 pages single spaced) entirely by automatic writing, using a specific musical artist as the catalyst (in this case, the band Mono). According to true surrealist standards, the piece would be finished as is. Because it is a product of subconscious thought, it needs no editing. But I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I think surrealism can come...