Category Archives: Creativity
Michael Uzowuru on “getting the point across”
it’s some people’s calling to put out 1 album, some to put out 20. it’s all about what we contribute to culture and how we affect people. sometimes it only takes a sentence to get a point across, those are usually the … Continue reading
Pure X’s Michael P. McGregor on conviction
Most people are conned by TRICKS, and I mean that in a few ways. They are duped by VANITY into believing that HUGE, VIRTUOSO, MASTURBATORY displays of skill (and technique) are powerful, and thereby meaningful. Kids see a 30-stair 360 … Continue reading
Summer 2011
[8/22/11] It’s been a while since the last post back in May. I am currently sitting in a newly acquired leather armchair at my new apartment in Isla Vista, watching a hoard of summer-crazed kids encircle and kick a torn … Continue reading
Pop in Contemporary Fiction by DFW
The apotheosis of the pop in postwar art marked a whole new marriage between High and Low culture. For the artistic viability of postmodernism was a direct consequence, again, not of any new facts about art, but facts about the … Continue reading
Update 3/28/11
Today is the first day of spring quarter. Here are all the books I need for the next ten weeks. It’s mostly all David Foster Wallace or Shakespeare. It’s going to be a good quarter. Here’s my schedule: Intro to … Continue reading
Winter 2011 Poetry Collection
I made a chapbook collection for the poetry I have written during my winter quarter. It also includes a couple from last fall. It includes photos by Sam Aschraft Kelsey Moore and Tyler Rizzo, who are all featured artists of … Continue reading
Of Originality
“Originality does not consist of saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself”. -James Stephens
