10 Verbal Photographs
1. I recently read the book from H. G. Wells titled War of the Worlds and the plot, much better than the movie, fascinated me. There were alien spaceships with laser beams destroying the earth in the novel. My dream consisted of laser guns that were sold on the black market contributing to many deaths.
2. I recently went to a bar this past weekend that had the sign “No Colors” on the door. If not thinking clearly one could interpret this as a racial segregation sign for businesses, but it is actually for gang colors. It is unbelievable that people have to actually do this.
3. Imaginations can provoke some enticing thoughts when bored. I was sitting at the DMV and I imagined that the sky was Green and there were three moons at night.
4. An older woman, who I believe was a student, was disabled and in a motorized scooter. She was trying to get through a set of doors in the library, that were manual, and a set of boys remained idle, laughing, until I came to help her open the door. People can be horrible beings.
5. When I write I usually like to listen to my record player. It gives me that authentic feel and helps get my thought process going. I envisioned a room full of record players, set on the exact note of the exact song, playing simultaneously. I think that would be breathtaking.
6. There is hardly any movie that I have seen with Nicholas Cage, where he doesn’t, at least, do mediocre job. He is a good all around actor.
7. When blizzards come the clouds form a gray barrier blocking the sky. It almost looks like a water droplet filter surrounding the earth.
8. Somebody close to me is addicted to morphine. It is a sad, but true altercation between the body in the drug, and I have experienced it first hand to some close to me. You would think that a demon has possessed their body for how bad they want the pill and the things they would do or it.
9. I saw a billboard that said, “Lucky in Love.” It reminds me of an older poppy Beatles song from the mid-60’s.
10. Driving in the country, if in the right state of mind, can be totally relieving. There is not a care in the world, just you with your thoughts. Everyone should slip into his or her own abyss once in awhile.
10 Treasures
1. Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. -Vincent Van Gogh
2. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. -Malcolm X
3. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. -Warren Buffet
4. Change is difficult but often essential to survival. -Les Brown
5. Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. -Henry David Thoreau
6. The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. -Chinese Proverb
7. The Lover’s attempt to assert himself into a false, ideal reality. -Barthes On Neutral Writing
8. Lover seeking to identify and be identified. -Barthes On Neutral Writing
9. He knew how to Love . -Hoagland
10. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. -William Shakespeare
Usually when I write these lists I try to be as thorough into my present life as possible. Recently I have been having a difficult time in my life in the sense that things are starting to change for better and worse. I need to write to help keep my mind at ease. When I do these lists I try to stick to a topic that I spent most of the previous week thinking about and that is, of course, life. I have discussed behavioral psychology in people and how it interacts with others lives. People’s intentions can really affect their outlook and everything that is matter around them. Also the bodies need for something to happen, to be constantly amused building dependency. My life has serious incapacities that need to be filled, but I am filling them one by one. Sometimes I feel as if I am in my own personal war-zone and everything around me is kicking on the gravity towards my determination to succeed. I have established different passages in my verbal photographs of my lie, but I ended with my thought process in the country while driving because that is what leads me to that special cognitive wonder world in my mind.
For my treasures, I have picked a series of quotes that have influenced me, not only throughout my life, but also in general. I often worry about where I am going to end up or what I am going to do with my degree. There is constant pressure that begins to pry at your thoughts that begins to push you off the cliff. These were quotes that kept me stranded on the needed land. Van Gogh taught me to go with the flow and just adapt of love for what I do. Buffet’s quote left me with a sense of wonder because I disagree with it. I think people learn from their mistakes and it taught me not to be afraid to make one; you have to go with your dreams. Life can be a beautiful thing if I allow it. I am dealing with a significant amount of change to the point to where nothing seems the same anymore. My intentions are different, my relationships are different, and my writing, in turn, builds solid credibility. Brown change is essential to survive and Thoreau infers to follow your dreams at all times. You only live one time. Shakespeare finalizes my quotes because he is respectfully, inconsistent in this rhetoric. He is saying life signifies nothing when life actually signifies everything. Take the bull by the horns and go out and travel, talk to that girl, walk in the middle of the night, or just drive in the country. Life can be magnificent if you let it.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Steve Zwilling
02/08/09
10 Verbal Photographs
1. When I am past the point of being tired and tip toeing through that line of zombie-esque feeling, I start to hallucinate things on the wall.
2. The sun leaks through the gray clouds like strings connecting the sun to the green earth.
3. A billboard, which leaks persuasion through words of pity and despair, want you to donate your vehicle to somebody in need. Ironically, the billboard was about to fall onto the highway because it was swinging back in forth in the fierce wind; where is the pity in that? The billboard could have crushed a lot of the vehicles that people in need could have used.
4. I had a dream that my parents recently divorced and I was a young child, which really happened, but my father was remarried to Janis Joplin and I was offered a part in her band, but as a journalist.
5. I imagined that I put myself in the place of William Miller, a young music journalist that went on tour with a rock n roll band in the movie Almost Famous, and it was my calling.
6. The Who might be one of the hardest rocking bands in the world because there decibels on stage blow enjoy the people at the Super Bowl out of their seats.
7. When trying to squeal a note on the guitar, I have to be plugged into some sort of amp because it is a hidden ringing noise.
8. I work two jobs and go to school full time. I deserve to go along with this notion in my head. I go to Europe and write reviews on different bands trying to get popular.
9. I had a dream that my band went to the bit time with a record deal, but the record label CEO made us change our type of music to polka and that became the alpha genre in our society.
10. When I tip a pizza boy, or girl, they say thank you every time. It makes a good name for the delivery occupation. Not saying ‘thank you’ after a tip seems to be an annoying pet peeve of mine.
10 Treasures
1. “Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.” -Pete Townshend
2. “Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.” -William S. Burroughs
3. “And maybe it’s the time of year. Yes, and maybe it’s the time of man. And I don’t know who I am. But life is for learning.” -Joni Mitchell
4. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain
5. “All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swit, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick
6. “Ignorance is the parent of fear…” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick
7. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” -J.D Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
8. “It is difficult to keep the public interested.” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
9. “The audience huddled together. The people counted their sins.” - The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
10. “A few babies, boobies, silly’s, simps.” - The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
This past weekend was one of the more influential ones of my life, not only visually, but also physically. I work at a children’s hospital in Detroit, which is a good job, but the hours can be very instantaneously detrimental to my body. For example, this past weekend I worked from 3pm on Friday night all the way through to 3:30pm on Saturday afternoon. I will admit that the money is very nice, but I was in a state of mind that I have never experienced in my life. Some people take hallucinogenic drugs to achieve that statue of my being at that time. I was tired to the point to where I was seeing things. Obviously I could not sleep at all, so when it came down to it, I was a walking zombie, but I observed everything in a new light. I envisioned my calling on music and what I want to do with my band, on the way home every billboard spoke out to me in many different fashions, I looked at music and bands in a whole new light, and the little things in life became more noticeable and perishable. I could lose them anytime so I started writing and for hours on hours, in my pain-staking zombie persona, I pushed through and picked a few of my new experiences.
My theme for the treasures is many quotes that I have read over the past week. I read bits of Moby Dick because I remember reading it and hating it, but felt bad, so I read some of it again. I remember exactly why I despise it, but Herman Melville has spectacular quotes. They really hit home for me. I often live in fear of certain things and he helped to explain how I was feeling in literature. The different quotes, for example Joni Mitchell, William s. Burroughs, among the others, have taught me that life is about learning. Fear should not be an issue. Live without fear, to an extent. If I want something I should go get it, don’t ever let anything hold me back. I rounded it off with JD Salinger’s quote because, although he is a choppy writer that I do not prefer, he does write some pretty provocative lines from time to time. I don’t tell anybody anything because I am afraid of getting to close to people, but I know this is unhealthy. For the time being, it seems healthy because I need to discover life through my eyes and then through my pen.
02/08/09
10 Verbal Photographs
1. When I am past the point of being tired and tip toeing through that line of zombie-esque feeling, I start to hallucinate things on the wall.
2. The sun leaks through the gray clouds like strings connecting the sun to the green earth.
3. A billboard, which leaks persuasion through words of pity and despair, want you to donate your vehicle to somebody in need. Ironically, the billboard was about to fall onto the highway because it was swinging back in forth in the fierce wind; where is the pity in that? The billboard could have crushed a lot of the vehicles that people in need could have used.
4. I had a dream that my parents recently divorced and I was a young child, which really happened, but my father was remarried to Janis Joplin and I was offered a part in her band, but as a journalist.
5. I imagined that I put myself in the place of William Miller, a young music journalist that went on tour with a rock n roll band in the movie Almost Famous, and it was my calling.
6. The Who might be one of the hardest rocking bands in the world because there decibels on stage blow enjoy the people at the Super Bowl out of their seats.
7. When trying to squeal a note on the guitar, I have to be plugged into some sort of amp because it is a hidden ringing noise.
8. I work two jobs and go to school full time. I deserve to go along with this notion in my head. I go to Europe and write reviews on different bands trying to get popular.
9. I had a dream that my band went to the bit time with a record deal, but the record label CEO made us change our type of music to polka and that became the alpha genre in our society.
10. When I tip a pizza boy, or girl, they say thank you every time. It makes a good name for the delivery occupation. Not saying ‘thank you’ after a tip seems to be an annoying pet peeve of mine.
10 Treasures
1. “Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.” -Pete Townshend
2. “Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.” -William S. Burroughs
3. “And maybe it’s the time of year. Yes, and maybe it’s the time of man. And I don’t know who I am. But life is for learning.” -Joni Mitchell
4. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain
5. “All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swit, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life.” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick
6. “Ignorance is the parent of fear…” -Herman Melville, Moby Dick
7. “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” -J.D Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
8. “It is difficult to keep the public interested.” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
9. “The audience huddled together. The people counted their sins.” - The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
10. “A few babies, boobies, silly’s, simps.” - The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
This past weekend was one of the more influential ones of my life, not only visually, but also physically. I work at a children’s hospital in Detroit, which is a good job, but the hours can be very instantaneously detrimental to my body. For example, this past weekend I worked from 3pm on Friday night all the way through to 3:30pm on Saturday afternoon. I will admit that the money is very nice, but I was in a state of mind that I have never experienced in my life. Some people take hallucinogenic drugs to achieve that statue of my being at that time. I was tired to the point to where I was seeing things. Obviously I could not sleep at all, so when it came down to it, I was a walking zombie, but I observed everything in a new light. I envisioned my calling on music and what I want to do with my band, on the way home every billboard spoke out to me in many different fashions, I looked at music and bands in a whole new light, and the little things in life became more noticeable and perishable. I could lose them anytime so I started writing and for hours on hours, in my pain-staking zombie persona, I pushed through and picked a few of my new experiences.
My theme for the treasures is many quotes that I have read over the past week. I read bits of Moby Dick because I remember reading it and hating it, but felt bad, so I read some of it again. I remember exactly why I despise it, but Herman Melville has spectacular quotes. They really hit home for me. I often live in fear of certain things and he helped to explain how I was feeling in literature. The different quotes, for example Joni Mitchell, William s. Burroughs, among the others, have taught me that life is about learning. Fear should not be an issue. Live without fear, to an extent. If I want something I should go get it, don’t ever let anything hold me back. I rounded it off with JD Salinger’s quote because, although he is a choppy writer that I do not prefer, he does write some pretty provocative lines from time to time. I don’t tell anybody anything because I am afraid of getting to close to people, but I know this is unhealthy. For the time being, it seems healthy because I need to discover life through my eyes and then through my pen.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The '10' List 3
Steve Zwilling
02/08/10
CRTW 335
10 Verbal Photographs
1. I had a dream that I was a rock star. I gave up everything for a record deal. I received lots of money and went on tour, but when I went up to play, I could not play an instrument or sing.
2. There is a design in my tile at work that swirls from the inside out like a distorted wind cluster. It gives me an idea for writing an obtuse-minded Psychological thriller.
3. My guitar on strummed on the note C# can make a noise that sounds like something is dying.
4. The gray sky forms an internal cluster below the clouds, which forms a snow globe effect, but without the snow, and with the wind.
5. A man was walking in downtown Detroit after a bar. He held up a sign that stated, “Behold I am a bum, Could I spare you some change?” Fascinated by his grammar, I threw down some change, but second-guessed myself when I left. Was he a faker?
6. Hospital halls, painted in oceans of pale ale paint flood the walls. It looks like I am walking through the alley of a depressing spaceship leading to a melancholy death.
7. I am observed a man today rolling with only one leg in a wheel chair, but he refused any help. He opened a manual set of doors, using his one good leg. I admired his tenacity.
8. Arnold Palmer, for those of you do not know, is a former pro-golfer and a delicious beverage from Arizona Tea Company. Arnold Palmer, on the can, looks like a hung-over Paul Newman, or maybe the other way around.
9. Recently, I could not sleep to the point to where I was hallucinating little images on paper. It may sound crazy, but I was writing to try to write and the words kept swirling together.
10. I had a dream about the first time I kissed a girl. I do not remember her name, but she was taller than I am. I have a problem with women taller than me, so I could imagine the kiss could have went a rye, in some fashion.
10 Treasures
1. “A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding” -Bob Dylan
2. “Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” -Bob Dylan
3. “Set honour in one eye and death I’ the other, And I will look on both indifferently.” -William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
4. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” -The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald.
5. “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. “I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats, with scarves of red tied ‘round their throats, to keep their little heads” -Fleet Foxes
7. “Ok so look I’m seventeen years old, and you’re the last best thing I’ve got going.” -Mountain Goats
8. “The noble and empty spaces were perfect for our purposes.” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
9. “There were a lot of situations where men were being evil to women- dominating them and eating their food.” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
10. “Did she really try? I can’t recall her ever failing to catch anyone she was really fond of” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
These thoughts and quotes are some of the most influential to my wirting at all compared to the previous too. In this list I have incorporated similar topics than before, but I also put in some more. My dream is a little more avant-garde than the previous ones before. I described everything from music to denial, depression and tenacity, Arnold Palmer and Paul Newman. I like especially that I included Paul Newman into my list. Pal Newman has always been my favorite actor so to be able to include him was very significant to me. The thoughts again have lead to mostly, maybe because Of my deadpan humor, brilliant comedies. I am taking a screenwriting class this semester so these ideas on my list could incorporate to some future pieces of work. The last characteristic that I like about this list is that I incorporate just plain observations from my everyday life that I have not noticed before. My mind has been trained to look out for little details like this.
The quotes are different then the previous one’s of the last two lists. Recently, I read Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and found a certain quote to really touch home. It reminded me of a true person, someone who really sets himself or herself apart from any other original man. Of course, I had to include some quotes from one of the most proclaimed and one of my favorite authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Music was also included because I believe true poetry comes through music. It’s not that other forms do not, but to really touch someone’s so, personally mine, the music behind wonderful words solidifies the experience. Then, I took from The most random quotes from the reading because it’s the smallest quotes that people overpass that mean the most to me.
02/08/10
CRTW 335
10 Verbal Photographs
1. I had a dream that I was a rock star. I gave up everything for a record deal. I received lots of money and went on tour, but when I went up to play, I could not play an instrument or sing.
2. There is a design in my tile at work that swirls from the inside out like a distorted wind cluster. It gives me an idea for writing an obtuse-minded Psychological thriller.
3. My guitar on strummed on the note C# can make a noise that sounds like something is dying.
4. The gray sky forms an internal cluster below the clouds, which forms a snow globe effect, but without the snow, and with the wind.
5. A man was walking in downtown Detroit after a bar. He held up a sign that stated, “Behold I am a bum, Could I spare you some change?” Fascinated by his grammar, I threw down some change, but second-guessed myself when I left. Was he a faker?
6. Hospital halls, painted in oceans of pale ale paint flood the walls. It looks like I am walking through the alley of a depressing spaceship leading to a melancholy death.
7. I am observed a man today rolling with only one leg in a wheel chair, but he refused any help. He opened a manual set of doors, using his one good leg. I admired his tenacity.
8. Arnold Palmer, for those of you do not know, is a former pro-golfer and a delicious beverage from Arizona Tea Company. Arnold Palmer, on the can, looks like a hung-over Paul Newman, or maybe the other way around.
9. Recently, I could not sleep to the point to where I was hallucinating little images on paper. It may sound crazy, but I was writing to try to write and the words kept swirling together.
10. I had a dream about the first time I kissed a girl. I do not remember her name, but she was taller than I am. I have a problem with women taller than me, so I could imagine the kiss could have went a rye, in some fashion.
10 Treasures
1. “A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding” -Bob Dylan
2. “Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” -Bob Dylan
3. “Set honour in one eye and death I’ the other, And I will look on both indifferently.” -William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
4. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” -The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald.
5. “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. “I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats, with scarves of red tied ‘round their throats, to keep their little heads” -Fleet Foxes
7. “Ok so look I’m seventeen years old, and you’re the last best thing I’ve got going.” -Mountain Goats
8. “The noble and empty spaces were perfect for our purposes.” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
9. “There were a lot of situations where men were being evil to women- dominating them and eating their food.” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
10. “Did she really try? I can’t recall her ever failing to catch anyone she was really fond of” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
These thoughts and quotes are some of the most influential to my wirting at all compared to the previous too. In this list I have incorporated similar topics than before, but I also put in some more. My dream is a little more avant-garde than the previous ones before. I described everything from music to denial, depression and tenacity, Arnold Palmer and Paul Newman. I like especially that I included Paul Newman into my list. Pal Newman has always been my favorite actor so to be able to include him was very significant to me. The thoughts again have lead to mostly, maybe because Of my deadpan humor, brilliant comedies. I am taking a screenwriting class this semester so these ideas on my list could incorporate to some future pieces of work. The last characteristic that I like about this list is that I incorporate just plain observations from my everyday life that I have not noticed before. My mind has been trained to look out for little details like this.
The quotes are different then the previous one’s of the last two lists. Recently, I read Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and found a certain quote to really touch home. It reminded me of a true person, someone who really sets himself or herself apart from any other original man. Of course, I had to include some quotes from one of the most proclaimed and one of my favorite authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Music was also included because I believe true poetry comes through music. It’s not that other forms do not, but to really touch someone’s so, personally mine, the music behind wonderful words solidifies the experience. Then, I took from The most random quotes from the reading because it’s the smallest quotes that people overpass that mean the most to me.
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