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Editor's Note, 9/26/13
By Megan Rise | September 26, 2013But as busy as we all are, this isn’t an argument to stop watching television.
But as busy as we all are, this isn’t an argument to stop watching television.
And no matter how embarrassing, how unforgiving or even how inauthentic, these tidbits—these multitudes—were once important, so in a way, they still are.
Is this technique really the best way to tell a story, or are we all just so used to a format that we can’t enjoy something that breaks the mold?
It was o-week and I felt like I was one icebreaker away from breaking myself.
Growing up in the suburbs of South Florida, public transportation opportunities were slim to none. It’s the nature of the sprawl.
Take art personally on this campus, and anywhere. Take it so personally that you have to tell people about it, about why it compels you, about why it’s worth preserving.
#artsconfessions: I am a Bio major. #scienceconfessions: I am an editor for this arts publication and I play in the orchestra.
I’m starting to come to grips with the idea that being an artist or a thinker or a journalist isn’t about having been properly educated.
I will never get pleasure from floating through the Bronx at 2 a.m., even if there’s the potential to discover a new haunt or meet Don DeLillo or whatever.
The hardest part about returning to the “paved world” after spending time in the woods is figuring out how to make things seem alive.
This was something worse: a fear of becoming an impostor of musical taste, a false authority on art.
The major film industry doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. But what you can do is stop giving a damn.
If I could have plagiarized this Editor’s Note from other sources to prove a point, I would have.
Here’s my public service announcement: the creative writing minor is there if you want it.
Hemingway once mentioned that there is no friend as loyal as a book.
My little, beautiful, vibrant, cool, intelligent, artistic, progressive Southern town, I thought.
It has become increasingly apparent to me that I should have done more internships.
To some, film soundtracks and scores are like seatbelts, always in use but rarely necessary.
For a long time, I’ve struggled to reconcile my position as a feminist with my love of hip-hop.