wow. hilarious words. a fascinating read. Poetry that I dig. hey! Can I be your roadie? Bonnaroo sounds like fun! And Gastonbury - wowsa! very amp-ed post. Doesn't sound like you need an amphetamines. bon voyage, madame. keep it high and bright!
oh yeah. What's the thesis? a Dialectic on the Selective Unconscious? ha!
haha i am at bonnaroo right now, being a complete tool by hiding in the VIP tent on someone else's computer. i have no idea whose computer this is, even! but i was paranoid about my 100+ message inbox so i "had" to go online. my formerly black boots are now completely brown with mud & i am laughing at all the hippies in their sandals being swamped by the dirt. it's surprisingly civilized here if you're performing or on staff--we get free food, free drinks, free showers while everyone else pays $5 to look at a pizza & $7 to shower [literally! this is the case! no wonder these fuckers never bathe
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I was appalled by the money-money-no food allowed, you gotta buy from our corpor-RAT vendors stuff on the Bonnaroo site. And to arrive there for find out a shower is $7 is obscene. oh well. If the psuedo-hippies can afford to pay for the tickets and the fast food, they can pay for a shower! damn.
I was close on the title: "Selective Unconscious" - We all select where we live, right? Maybe not tho! ...and I had no clue you were doing sociology or is it psychology? I've been telling myself for years to go back to school, but I really don't know where to start or what I'd want to study! I like all subjects. Life seems to be my chosen teacher. Part of my brain just wants a degree and the title that goes with it. I can relate to being an overachiever.
i majored in writing/journalism, but was originally going to do neuroscience or psychology--the project is mostly just an unwieldy hybrid beast of sociology & journalism with wads of psychology thrown in here & there & a bit of healthy speculation [i did originally want to do fiction when i started out as a writing major, but gradually changed my mind] i appreciate the degree because it validates what i've been doing / not doing with my life for the past four years. why not go back to school & just study whatever subjects you find interesting? even if you're "majoring" in one subject you generally have plenty of latitude to take other classes, unless you're going to some rigidly-curriculumed shithole like columbia which i made the mistake of attending once...i'm pretty sure in most places you can even get a vague 'liberal arts' major & not even have to take the requisite amount of classes in one discipline to "major" in anything!
So it's the same in grad school? I'm talking about MFA err something. MA, not BFD, whatevs. I considered doing pharmaceutical writing but would have to take undegrad lab courses! ick! no. kidding. There just seems to be no latitude in grad schools. I already got a non-degree from an acting school, so if I do "school" again, I bloody well get another letter to add to my name;)
i'm pretty sure new school has a general studies program that will let you take classes in whatever beyond a ba/bfa/etc. haven't really looked into that though, as i'm sort of hiding from the possibility of grad school at the moment & coccooning myself in the delusion that i will be able to get a job once i get back from touring that will a) pay reasonably well & b) not fire me/inspire me to quit in a month. fortunately my delusion-drive is operating at full capacity these days or i'd be seriously fucked.
oh yeah. What's the thesis? a Dialectic on the Selective Unconscious? ha!
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I was close on the title: "Selective Unconscious" - We all select where we live, right? Maybe not tho! ...and I had no clue you were doing sociology or is it psychology? I've been telling myself for years to go back to school, but I really don't know where to start or what I'd want to study! I like all subjects. Life seems to be my chosen teacher. Part of my brain just wants a degree and the title that goes with it. I can relate to being an overachiever.
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i appreciate the degree because it validates what i've been doing / not doing with my life for the past four years. why not go back to school & just study whatever subjects you find interesting? even if you're "majoring" in one subject you generally have plenty of latitude to take other classes, unless you're going to some rigidly-curriculumed shithole like columbia which i made the mistake of attending once...i'm pretty sure in most places you can even get a vague 'liberal arts' major & not even have to take the requisite amount of classes in one discipline to "major" in anything!
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