lift off

if i could go back and tell my grade 1 self anything, i wouldnt tell her anything.

in grade 1, i imagined myself to be taller, smarter, and more accomplished. im still learning and im still accomplishing things. im also five feet, but what do first graders know anyway.

mezzo forte

the amount of creativity and brilliance to craft instruments and the human ability to specialize in them, amazes me. whose idea was it and what was the need, that inspired the emergence of music?

bucket list

bucket lists are so interesting. a persons drive and ambition to achieve them is even more interesting

-tanzania
-victoria falls
-skydiving
-buy a dslr and live out pseudo-photographer dreams
-climb a mountain
-glass floor cn tower
-watch a broadway show in new york
-polar bear swim
-design and create a crop circle
-nazca lines
-aurora borealis
-oz
-new zealand
-geysers, anywhere
-volcanoes, anywhere
-bali
-thailand
-do a headstand in antarctica
-see totem poles
-swim in clear blue waters
-white sand
-swim under a waterfall
-float in the dead sea
-madagascar
-visit one of the seven wonders of the ancient world
-hold a tarsier
-galapagos islands

self explanatory

i fucking love summer. that is all.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

i think the best work comes out when youre borderline insane. i feel like sanity and humanity are oftentimes understood as synchronous. look at musicians, artists, writers, all the ones that make us uneasy and violate human morals are the ones who are the most successful. i think its because they provide a perspective that is unconventional, something that cannot be accessed in the proper human and sane state. i think thats why my best work comes out with the lack of sleep and at ungodly hours because i am spitting shit that could not be produced if i were sane. and academia loves that, organic bullshit is refreshing to them.

why are we socially and perhaps culturally valued depending on how many big words we know? who is really the fool here? academia is consuming and recycling the bullshit by those individuals conforming to the structure of educational institutions. perhaps both parties are fools.

public/private

every individual has the capacity to highlight and suppress different aspects of their histories through memory, perhaps captured by stories, text, and photographs, thus creating an autobiography that is inevitably edited.

cheers

tokenism: the practice of making only a token effort or doing no more than the minimum

one of my anthropology professors noted that some areas of my final essay were "tokenistic." i had to google what it meant. so cheers professor, ill be using that word everyday but will be living my life in the opposite, asshole.