Portfolio’s going well
Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet sucks ASS. I’ve never watched a film which sucked more ASS in my ASS-SUCKING life. The two main characters, Romeo and somebody, sucked so much ASS that their mouths were all full of ASS-MATTER. I can only assume the director also sucked ASS because the film sucked ASS HARD.
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
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| — | Martin Amis - London Fields |
“…read every composition aloud, preferably to a trusted friend. The rules are much the same: Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don’t say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a…
The thing is, you know. You have taste. That’s not the battle - that’s the whole war.
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| — | An Education |
Practical science isn’t strictly necessary. Tomorrow a law could close all laboratories and stop all experiments. But human creativity could stop only if the species were destroyed, or, ironically, it were surrendered totally to technology and “robotised.” Science isn’t necessary, imperative, though it is inevitable. But “creativity” is what we do in order to do anything else; and creativity applied to recording experience can produce art. Art is necessary even to the maintenance of the status quo. It is even more necessary for change. Unless human beings record experience creatively it doesn’t become an event in history but remains inert, brute fact.
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| — | Edward Bond, giving semblance of meaning to humanities students everywhere. |
