Outside The Box - Blog Posts
Amen. 👏🏻 🍻 I don’t think people should — or need to — necessarily, put themselves in a box.
Just my two-cents.
What does make a human punk?
Listening to punk music? Well there are "punks" wno are nazi and listen to it, and people who are not punks and listen it
And if I listen not ONLY punk music? Am I "not punk enoth"?
Maybe, punk is about ideology? Na-ah, punks say that it is not, and you MUST listen the music. Also, punks are very different. Like, crust punk and hope punk, come on. Different main ideas
Maybe being punk is abowt style?
Bich, if anyone say it out loud, "true-punks" will eat them alife
For me, you are punk if you are punk. It's vibes. It's ideology - partly. Style - partly. Music - partly. It's about feeling "the taste" of being punk. About your feelings. Like gender: you are not boy because you have dick and not girl because of vagina. You're what you want to be because you FEEL IT with your soul.
Harriet the Spy
Ha, look at these youngins. So this is a movie I was obsessed with, the colors and what I remember being an active city but also quirky neighbourhood background for Harriet’s adventures. There was a lot I liked and connected to with this is film; I too had mostly been looked after by a caretaker because my parents worked, only child, high observations—thou it would be about two decades before I’d ever have mayonnaise and I don’t think it's with (baloney?—can’t remember). This film I would say has an extremely unrealistic ending and definitely not the best lessons for a kid; she’s mean to her friends and then lies to get them to be friends with her again? Thou….maybe accurate--John Mulaney: cliques
Another possible reason I hold this movie on a higher pedestal than it probably deserves the part where everyone hates her. Being bullied when I was younger and being sent to a psychiatrist to find out why I’m upset was shown as stupid in the movie and was stupid in real life (thank goodness the world is not the suburbs) but this is a small upswing, and on some level there was something wrong with Harriet—a little narcissism and grandeur, but that’s not important. The points I will focus on was while it had an unrealistic ending it was overall a film about someone quirky not necessarily a genius or a princess but someone a bit outside the box who had friends who were also a bit outside the box and looked at how being outside the box was a good thing
I believe in the power of knowledge, which comes from books. You want to learn something? Read.
Bookstore owner, Joan of Arcadia (via colemeanitch)
I’d expand this, as there is also art and discussion and life and other experiences, but yeah--these things come from other places and by putting yourself out there in a way that will get you more understanding of the situation and books are amazing for this, but sometimes a book or a just-fact book isn’t the right way either