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Sang this in high school. My choir director looooved Rutter.
“Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind” - Shakespeare (Composed by John Rutter)(Performed by The Cambridge Singers)
Sometimes you have to take an incredibly cynical Shakespearean verse and set it to some really pretty music with four-part harmonies that is sung around Christmas because “winter wind” is involved. And when I say incredibly cynical I am not fucking around.
Most friendship is feigning; Most loving mere folly
(Most friendships are fake. Most love is bullshit.)
And this is why I unfriended a ton of high school folks on facebook. I would like my badassery to remain a mystery, thank you.
I don’t jive with the climate of blogging right now. When marketing moved in, I moved out. There’s been a shift in perception with the influx of money; smaller blogs get lost in the shuffle, and it’s a chorus of similar voices. What I loved about blogging was finding those marginal voices, connecting with people over this weird nerdy habit, pushing myself to be a better writer because so many others were already great. I don’t see a lot of that now – I don’t see writers writing for writing’s sake. That’s been replaced by twenty people talking about their awesome experience with Brand X paper towels because a company gave them a few bucks to do so. I tend towards the personal, the political and the analytical. Writing on my blog started to feel like screaming into a void, so I stopped. I have all of the archives saved on my external hard drive, but I can’t imagine I will make them public ever again.
