Eleventy Pages
Eleventy Pages because really I was just aiming for ten. Having failed at the ten, I signed up on a course to help me 'focus.' Over the next ten weeks I'll be writing about the course, the demons that writers face and well.. anything else that comes to mind.My tumblr was created back in 2009, when I wanted visual inspiration and as a result my posts may appear slightly random (i.e. the LOLcatz). What can I say? I'm easily amused.
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depp on ginsberg
“I wanted my education to come from living life, getting out there in the world, seeing and doing and moving amongst the other vagabonds who had the same sneaking suspicion that I did, that there would be no great need for high-end mathematics, nope. … I was not going to be doing other people’s taxes and going home at 5:37 P.M. to pat my dog’s head and sit down to my one-meat-and-two-vegetable table waiting for Jeopardy to pop on the glass tit, the Pat Sajak of my own private game show, in the bellybutton of the universe, Miramar, Florida. A beautiful life, to be sure, but one I knew I was destined not to have, thanks to big brother Dan and the French-Canadian with the name Jack Kerouac.”
-Johnny Depp on Ginsberg & Kerouac & the Beats in this pretty fantastic little piece. Depp just rose like 2984293842398423984 points in my book.
it’s a turning-point moment, to be sure, when you first read on the road. i read it from my tiny bed in a tiny room i was renting in a large french farmhouse on the outskirts of a city in the midst of the alps. i was 21 and realizing that i’d never be cut out for a life that ends at 5.37 pm, either. i had a hot plate and a bicycle and that’s all i needed, that and a desperate yearning for experiencing everything possible, for saying yes to everything just like kerouac did. and i did and i do and i don’t ever want it any other way.
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