My Incandescent Thoughts

so i posted my dream about the Ramones on my new/unused blog

stuck-in-someone-elses-past:

YOU GUYS SHOULD GO READ IT

3. Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy. Upon accepting the New York City Teacher of the Year Award on January 31, 1990, John Taylor Gatto upset many in attendance by stating: “The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.” A generation ago, the problem of compulsory schooling as a vehicle for an authoritarian society was widely discussed, but as this problem has gotten worse, it is seldom discussed.

The nature of most classrooms, regardless of the subject matter, socializes students to be passive and directed by others, to follow orders, to take seriously the rewards and punishments of authorities, to pretend to care about things they don’t care about, and that they are impotent to affect their situation. A teacher can lecture about democracy, but schools are essentially undemocratic places, and so democracy is not what is instilled in students. Jonathan Kozol in The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home focused on how school breaks us from courageous actions. Kozol explains how our schools teach us a kind of “inert concern” in which “caring”—in and of itself and without risking the consequences of actual action—is considered “ethical.” School teaches us that we are “moral and mature” if we politely assert our concerns, but the essence of school—its demand for compliance—teaches us not to act in a friction-causing manner. 

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stuck-in-someone-elses-past:

oh my god. what is going on here

stuck-in-someone-elses-past:

scissors cuts paper

paper covers rock

rock crushes lizard

lizard poisons spock

spock smashes scissors

scissors decapitates lizard

lizard eats paper

paper disproves spock

spock vaporizes rock

and as it always has rock crushes scissors

stuck-in-someone-elses-past:

i have this horrible feeling that one day sophie, allie, and i are going to wind up in England, piss raving drunk and end up at Kings Cross Station running full drunken sprint at a brick wall and shouting something about platform 9 3/4 and how we are going to be late for school.

#and the funny thing is i am not joking we have the capacity to do something like this #goodness gracious

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stuck-in-someone-elses-past:

this is from an old shoot when i was trying to be Edie. i cropped this part of the photo out because i actually liked my profile in it, and i usually don’t. in the original photo i am doing a sort of back bend like in one of Edie’s famous pictures (which explains why i am sideways)

stuck-in-someone-elses-past:

soooo…. this is what i did today

stuck-in-someone-elses-past:

i think the problem here is that im too mellow, and nobody apparently wants to hang out with a person who is simply content to just bum about at the beach listening to records and drinking tea. i get it, my generation wants to have some sort of extravagant wild story to tell after they spend a day with other people so it seems that their life is exciting. and i am sorry that all i have to offer is salty sea air and old scratched vinyls, but that is who i am and am happy being. so if that means that it will just be me and sophie trekking through life together, than cool, we can be chill and mellowed out together in our hippie skirts and painted pottery glasses filled with irish tea, living life like we are in that stupid czech movie Daisies.

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theannachrist:

Prison tattoos without the prison time. DIY or die. Stick and Poke tattoo tutorial brought to you by The Annachrist. Yes, it hurts. Including photos of three I did to myself and one on my brother.

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seabois:

Van Gogh - Roses, detail

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composingof-burlesque:

Herb Alpert- This Guy’s in Love With You

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