"You enter the world with nothing; you leave it with nothing; and during your life on earth it is better to have nothing."
-Yuwipi; Vision & Experience in Oglala Ritual
By William K. Powers
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2007 15 October :: 5.34pm
:: Mood: busy
:: Music: hey jude - the beatles
don't carry the world upon your shoulder
dead tired and more to do.
college is fucking crazy. i am trying not to smoke because under this dumb stress i will be going through 23 packs a day and i don't need that. this month should be exciting though.
this weekend is across the universe on lsd, and then the wednesday after is halloween horror nights. but right now i'm just trying to get through one day at a time.
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2007 27 September :: 11.58pm
:: Mood: amused
:: Music: music of the spheres - the receiving end of sirens
my people were fair and had sky in their hair
there is so much running around here: early wake up call and then separate views of perspective, the study of the human as we are vain vain creatures and then --- oh. and then it's plunging, straight-forward, into the portrayal of the basic principles of design using the formal elements, visual literacy, a touch of 4d to transfer into and some sequential design studies of the universe.
it's bright and alive and wonderful.
i live in a building that has a ghost, with construction downstairs, and the way i get to class is down a fire escape. its hot and sticky outside, the kind of heat which is cloying and forever sticking to your skin, even after you've gotten indoors.
(which is not to say that the sleepless nights are bothering me still. they aren't. it's for good reasons anyway, so i suppose that's a change for the better.)
sometimes i will sit outside the library, on round stone benches with the sun blocked out by leaves, and that is when i will remember.
this, i will say to myself, this is what i've been waiting for. art school: a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic & interactive communication (+a minor in advertising?) at one of the best colleges, literally, on the planet.
king leer
your boyfriend, he
went down one knee
well, could it be
he's only got one knee?
i tried to surprise you
with vodka
or, tizer
i can't quite remember
but you didn't thank me
you didn't even thank me
because you never do
your boyfriend, he
has the gift of the gab
or, could it be
the gift of the grab?
i tried to surprise you
i lay down beside you
and... nothing much happened
and you didn't phone me
you didn't even phone me
because it's not your style to dial
your boyfriend, he
has displayed to me
more than just a real hint of cruelty
i tried to surprise you
i crept up behind you
with a homeless chihuahua
you cooed for an hour
you handed him back and you said,
"you'll never guess! i'm bored now."
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- A.A. Milne