george gershwin turned 110 five days ago. listen!!!

listening to rhapsody in blue reminds me of lit today, after which i just felt like some dimwit plebian... i really, really like modernist literature. i like it heaps more than the free-the-blacks-racial-equality thing we do in paper 1, but i can't seem to get it right during the test. i also need to learn to write faster and think faster and keep attention span! omg, i was all fidgety today and so the last essay about conflict in long day's journey ended like this: tyrone's blunt complacence adds to the... best thing is, i didn't even know what i wanted to write in the ..., so that is bad, no? i ended it with 'mood', though, five seconds after we were supposed to stop. mood? what mood? bleh

at least the great gatsby went well, and the prose was enjoyable... i really like the great gatsby as a whole embodiment of decadence thing- i wonder if materialism (in the blunt, james gatsby sense) is really a bad thing? did you know wallace stevens also wrote the emperor of ice cream? if i read the poem properly i would have chose it, but i skipped to the prose instead cause it was so much more... modern. not in the literal sense. ha ha.