dream world

wtf steph you know how I feel about Latin- sincerely, you know who

Anonymous

lol jdlfjsldkjflksjfls i actually completely forgot! this adds to the project! ahahahaha my spells are going to feel so much more powerful now knowing they could actually scare someone.

(hahahaha the last time i saw maria she told me that she is legit horrified by the use of latin incantations in horror movies) (who even? haha so perfect).

actually the more i read it, the more i feel like i am spell-casting. spend the summer writing poems full of spells in latin.

SUNT PUERI PUERI, PUERI CONTEMPTOS TRACANT

boys will be boys, and boys do terrible things

except i don’t know anything about verb tenses and nominative / accusatives? meta-filter seems to mostly think this is on point

if you think that people won’t take that as a science fiction-type suggestion like, “at some point in the future on this spot, boys will be.” I generally like to shorten things as much as possible, and Latin’s pretty good at that when you’re going for sententiousness, so I say, “pueri erunt.”

a science fiction type suggestion: “at some point in the future on this spot, boys will be” at some point in the future, on this spot, boys will do terrible things. lol science-fiction like. suggestion.

so i think my time-off in the summer thing will be splicing latin phrases / latin grammar to make kinda latin poetry (even though i know nothing except what i have gleaned from greek lit and wikipedia…) (so idk) (but it is definitely a better idea than crying all day like last summer)

luria-p:

Also having some trouble reconciling “your body is not really yours it is basically the accidental confluence of a zillion factors most of which you couldn’t even vaguely identify and you need to stop being a weirdo control freak about it” with “your body is suddenly violently not yours and you need to RUN”

your body is not really yours it is basically the accidental confluence of a zillion factors most of which you couldn’t even vaguely identify and you need to stop being a weirdo control freak about it

this actually hurts me to read / think about. it hurts. my feelings or something? so bad.

We care so much about equalizing educational opportunity for underprivileged students that we are expanding our campuses by displacing working-class communities who have objected to our presence in their neighborhood.

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—	colleges (via isabelthespy) lol, northeastern………… looking at you.

To take somebody’s adolescence away is to deny that person some of the closest looks at God’s face that we ever get on this planet; I try not to hate the parents who, as misguided as confused, take young men and women away from their friends and their lives to send them away. But it’s hard. I try not to excuse the destructive things adolescents sometimes do to express their pain, but in my gut, when I write a song in which a couple of teenagers vow to take revenge on the grownups who’re fucking up their lives, well, I cast my lot with the teenagers. They may do wrong sometimes, but their hearts aren’t rotten yet, and the light is strong within them.

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—	John Darnielle, from this interview. When you punish a person for dreaming his dream Don’t expect him to thank or forgive you The best ever death metal band out of Denton Will in time both outpace and outlive you (via theherocomplex) can we canonize john darnielle already

downwriter is practically the same thing as paying an artist to do a commissioned piece. if you think artists who do commissioned work are bad people, that's pretty ignorant of you. they just want to make a living doing something they enjoy. it's not like people don't have control over their own money, anyway, so i don't know why you have such a problem with it.

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i just get the sense that james dewees / matt pryor don’t think they have to market themselves because they are entitled to money for their music because they are talented + exist (which seems to ignore that there are many people who are talented and existing) and they both seem to embody this sense that the real reason they’ve faded into obscurity / are no longer “relatable” is because the people who used to consume them have deteriorating taste in music / don’t actually know anything about What’s Good Music (or else they’d still matter, and we’d all go see matt pryor play and scream New Amsterdam song requests out, or… quietly appreciate his masterful, pre-planned set list…)

standard issue aging white dude musicians… no interest in backing any of the projects they need investment backing for to deem worthy of their time / effort. i’ll pay $10 for my digi-copy of no country for old musicians (a title that completely ignores the experience of…. a bunch of “old musicians”) (some of which you are ft. in your $1300+ / song tracks, james dewees, btw), once i hear it and i decide it doesn’t suck.

Crazy and The Brains - King Kong

lol but really, were the get up kids all collectively brain washed at one point, or?

$7,000 (travel not included) (of course) (but don’t worry, you’ll have photos and will cherish / remember a day you could have otherwise easily forgotten) (so you’re welcome) (what is i will do my own photos of me there….. btw, even. are we talking cell phone selfies? do i get to be in them? or?)

JOKES ON U M. PRYOR. gonna pay james dewees $1000 to personally write me a song that lets matt pryor know i am “upset with” him “for whatever reason”

lol can we also, while on the subject, talk about how james dewees launched and has over raised $50,000 on kickstarter.…….. to release a new reggie and the full effect album……………………….

love, longing, divorce and dinosaurs

matt pryor everybody.

Fans and music lovers connect with an artist & hire them to write & record a one-of-a-kind piece of music, which they provide the inspiration & direction for! Entirely original, entirely personalized.

oh really? so can i pay matt pryor to write a song about my personal struggles with conflicting feelings re: the get up kids (mainly my struggle to be into the get up kids, while maintaining / cultivating feelings that matt pryror is one Obnoxious Dude)

we could call it matt with two ts or stay gone maybe.