January 2010
17 posts
“Well, Pete Seeger went to Harvard. You could say that folk music is the middle...”
– Stephin Merritt, answering the question “Do you not feel that folk could also be defined by class in many ways?”, in an interview on the Drowned In Sound site. It’s always horrible when cynicism and truth intersect in the Venn diagram of life. (via perpetua)
we real cool
ladidaladida:
THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. -gwendolyn brooks
I didn’t like this poem that much when I was in high school, but in the past few years it has become one of my favorites.
