a sense of reality

Maybe it's just me but I think the 1980 version of 'fame' is much better in every respect than the 2009 version. It's more real, more raw, less polished. It's so much more convincing. Have standards fallen? I look at the trailer for the 2009 version and I just see actors playing parts, but I look at the trailer and the film itself of the 1980 version and I see real situations, real concerns, real drama. 

the girl who changed history

People become famous and influential by doing things that, in retrospect, seem simple and natural, like Hiromix taking photos of her everyday life. 

People think, oh, I can become famous by doing that or something like it, but no, you can't. You'll be just another person doing what everyone is doing, following the trend. 

How do people do something so simple yet so groundbreaking? 

that it is

What is Emily Bronte: Heretic by Stevie Davies? Is it literary criticism, biography, some kind of prose poem? It's all of those things and not strictly any of them. Like, it's so personal and poetic that it would be hard to use it in an essay, but it's essentially an academic book. 

identical

Just based on his artwork I imagined that Francis Bacon would be kind of brooding and neurotic, but recently I learnt that he was actually very sociable and outgoing, with a magnetic personality. 

frenetic samples

There are books from which you can pick random excerpts and read them, and each excerpt is like a segment of an orange. It's self contained. You get something complete from each bit that you read. Novels are never like that and we don't want them to be. 

reading and writing

For most of my primary/ elementary school years, I hated school. But then, as time went by, to some extend in 5th grade, and then especially in 6th grade, I started to like school a bit more, because I got to do things that I enjoyed and found interesting. I liked a subject called 'themes', which was kind of about being creative. It was like a cross between English, social studies and art. We had a book and you would read a passage from the book and then answer the questions, and it was this that I really took to, but for me it wasn't about writing. It was more about designing the page with lettering and colors and designs. So, I would write the answers and then color in the page. 

I also started to get more into reading around that time. 

Our teacher was radical. He had the idea that we would work on a contract basis. So, at the beginning of the week we would fill in the contract with what we were going to do for each of the different subjects, and then, at the end of the week we would meet with him and discuss how we went and get his input about what to work on for the future. For me, everything else except 'themes' became like a side-gig and themes was my full-time job. I didn't really care about anything else. 

serenidipity

In general, I don't see many possibilities for myself, but at times I realize that there's no reason why exciting things can't happen. I'm constantly thinking about why they can't happen, but that thinking is distorted and I think it's characteristic of my old self so it's a thing of the past. 

There's part of me that wants to make a whole life out of loss and lack, blinded to the possibility of anything good.