I find it amazing that he wrote a good couple of alternative albums when young, then allegedly wrote thousands of songs before releasing shitty records for years to come.
― skygreenleopard, Monday, 1 December 2008 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I studied the lives of Napoleon and David Geffen, Machiavelli’s “The Prince”, and contemporary texts on leadership and management.
oof
― battered beauties (get bent), Monday, 1 December 2008 06:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/9107/9107067.jpg
^^ should be called "six sigma" amirite
― battered beauties (get bent), Monday, 1 December 2008 06:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.metalsludge.tv/main/modules/subjects/pages/ExposedWeezer.jpg
for my money, it's all about pre-epiphany cuomo
― chocolatepiekid, Monday, 1 December 2008 12:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that really the same essay? Because why would a Harvard application essay be about what he did after he left Harvard?
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Or rather, was the premise behind this thread completely off from the get-go? (I never read the essay the first time, either.)
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Did he not go Back to harvard?
― Mark G, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure it's a readmission essay to Harvard. He finished up his degree there just a few years ago. What's confusing is the last line, "I am returning to Harvard in the fall." That's a pretty confident statement, if his admission status was at all in doubt!
― Z S, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i just took it as your typical end-of-essay projection of confidence
― No HOOS need a steen whoppin (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 1 December 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
As far as I know, you typically don't have to do a readmission essay. Once you've been accepted as a student, you can come back and finish your degree pretty much whenever you want to (I know a dude who ended up being 81-95 after dropping out due to horrific grades and building money as a slumlord for 13 years). They might ask you "why do you want to come back?" but I don't think re-admittance hinges on it.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 1 December 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I could not tell if my current predicament was just a classic case of an audience lagging behind the development of an artist (as in the case of Bob Dylan when he went electric)
― francisF, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
he's a classic case all right
― francisF, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, "Beverly Hills" was too far ahead of its time for us to fully grasp
― skygreenleopard, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't believe no one caught my hilarious addition to his essay. I guess it's a testament to the absurdity of some of his sentences that the bogus ones don't really stand out that much.
― Z S, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I can see the absurdity and pomposity, but it's basically a noble, honest-seeming essay. He doesn't elevate himself so much as examine the manner in which he knows he elevates himself (while also elevating himself, but that seems inevitable). I find it hard to "create" without struggling with a conflicted sense of my own greatness/failure, so I can accept his descriptions of the process at face value. I guess I only mean that I can relate, though I'm not a Celebrity Rock Artist.
4 sentences, 3 beginning with "I", 6 uses of the word "I".
― contenderizer, Monday, 1 December 2008 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I volunteered six days a week at Project Angel Food in Hollywood, preparing meals for people with HIV.
ive volunteered here, place is dope
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
1P3 volunteering thread
― roxymuzak, Friday, 5 December 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
ladies and gentlemen...Rivers....ROMO
http://deadspin.com/tony-romo-spawns-future-frontman-of-weezer-cover-band-1547395027
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
I studied other writers’ methods. I took hundreds of pages of notes on the creative process, mostly from Nietzsche, but also from Goethe and Stravinsky.
Stravinsky influence really shows in "Hash Pipe".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 20 March 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link
"Island in the Sun" lyrics could be ripped straight from the pages of "Faust".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 20 March 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Goethe_%28Stieler_1828%29.jpg/486px-Goethe_%28Stieler_1828%29.jpg
You can't find the words to sayAll the things that come to you
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 20 March 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link