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.
Also, am not trying to write well here. This blog is mainly just to get things off my chest! And help me realise what I spend my time thinking about.
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. More viscerality is needed, more honesty, more truth. More dynamism. Check out the Postmodernism Generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ and Dawkins' article at: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/824-postmodernism-disrobed
Not that I don't want to get into arts too, even though I'm a science graduate, but I want to get into it in a dynamic, Kermode-kinda way.
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