Plans for the End of This Year – Literary Style

Well now, September’s gone by nice and quickly, hasn’t it? Time passes at a terrifying rate once you acclimate into “Le Groove d’Ecole” (The Groove of School).

I guess that means I am now “dans la routine”. This should be a slap-yourself-on-the-forehead worthy feat in itself, considering the trap of monotony and routine that we all too easily fall for – although some feel better within a set of guidelines, while others feel uneasy and restless. Think of it as Restless Leg Syndrome for your mind.

What is there for me to do around this time period? Quite a few things, actually. If you are a student, there are countless competitions that begin around this time of year. However, instead of compiling solely a list of student-oriented solutions, I’ve decided to make a universally applicable list. Hopefully, readers of all age groups will find the bullshit advice of a 16-year old relatively useful.

- Learn an Instrument: Any time’s a good time to learn a new instrument. Great satisfaction and the acquisition of a new set of musical skills usually go hand in hand. Although it might seem mediocre or pointless at times, remember than learning a new instrument is not only for gaining recognition. It’s more for personal achievement – a benchmark of sorts. Learning a new instrument is great fun, too. (It also makes you more attractive towards certain members of the OPPOSITE sex!! And no, I was not gay-bashing when I said OPPOSITE sex.)

- Enter a Competition: You might not win. You probably won’t win. There, I’ve said it, and now it’s over and done with. Nothing quite beats the rush of preparing to compete against hundreds/thousands/hundreds of thousands of other competitors, however. Each participant believes (or should believe) that they will win. Each participant is goal-oriented, focused, and INTENSE!!! As “frightening” as that sounds, entering competitions is also a good way to discern one’s strengths. Competitions like the Scholastic Art and Writing awards have many, many categories under which to submit. This leaves comfortable room for self-exploration: “What am I good at? What should I try out? What would I like to do?”…  While these questions may become overwhelming at times, to succeed and to properly plot oneself upon the coordinate plane of the universe is to gain back the effort and frustration you paid, hundredfold.

COMPETITIONS TO CONSIDER

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2010

Writer’s Digest 10th Annual Short Short Story Writing Competition

Writer’s Digest Pop Fiction Awards

NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month

Shed Design Competition 2009 (Rather eccentric, but what the hell..)

Foldees – The Ongoing Greeting Card Contest

Roland 2theMAX Design Competitions

Other 2theMAX Competitions

GraphicCompetitions.com offers a hefty amount of writing/design competitions ranging from the world-renowned to the inscrutably obscure. Refer to TheObscureBlog.com for more obscurity.

- Write: Y’know. Like what I’m doing right now. Write. Practice, and should Hell rain fury down upon you should you fail to improve. Find classes, look for tutors, get together with friends – do anything that you can to further improve your writing. It’s what I’m doing, and since I’m so damn awesome, you should too. *cough*

THINGS TO CONSIDER: Try submitting to Teen Ink and The Claremont Review if you’re “young enough”. For all you elderly people over the age of 21 out there, the Writer’s Market is always a good starting point.

A Series of Theses (Not really, more like ideas than theses)

1. “Would a modern-day Quixote survive?”

2. “I… Took a piss at MIT. Think of it as an inauguration.”

3. “A blimp hangar on the outskirts of an urbane, banal town. Almost, but not quite. One can almost grab the feeling of euphoria, that damned-cool sensation, in real life due to things like this blimp hangar. It adds mystique, character, and adventure. Mostly though, it adds a touch of the unknown. At the last second, when we nearly cross the threshold into the land of big-screen-impossibility, a director in a beret confines it within a film reel to be edited, published, and mass-produced. Truth be told though, life isn’t a movie. Just how boring can things get?”

4. “Just how cool… is Diana’s mom? An odd question, to say the least. Her mother is like a big mama cow, a character with TRUE CHARACTER that transcends the normalcy of daily life. Once again though, the character doesn’t extend to it’s full potential – Diana’s mother is still a mother, and not a mama cow.”

5. “‘We evolve, we grow, but do we sell our souls along the way? Or do people like me cling desperately to antiquated images and ideals of the past?”

6. “Growing up in Irvine – a planned, sheltered, bubble of a suburb.”

7. Looking in as an outsider/removed narrator, regarding the change that “folks back at home” have underwent: “Perhaps it’s because I’ve been gone, on extended leave, but I view things differently from the people whom I formerly shared my views with so dearly. These resident domestics do not see what they have entangled themselves into – A graduation from simple middle-school idealism to high-school superficiality. It’s a homecoming, perhaps, but this isn’t my home, and these aren’t my people.”

8. Building off of my previous thesis, I stated that this (Irvine) “wasn’t my home”. If so, then what is? I find that hard to answer – I’d rather not get too attached to things like this. I take solace in living life as the solo-mio, itinerant individual. Now, that all just sounds like a load of propagandistic shit – BUT: I’ve  yet to confine myself to a straightforward, american highway path down life. As of now, I’m taking winding side roads, looking for touge’s with other ‘drifters’. (Hint hint: Double meaning: Touge = mountain race, where people drift cars very often)

9. An Age of Specialization: Now’s right about the age where people specialize into different branches – sports, science, literature.

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DJ AM found dead.

DJ AM/Adam Goldstein was found dead today. 

Well, seeing how it’s a trending topic now and all… *Tags*

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Montecito Fine Arts, of Southern California

Montecito Fine Arts, a renowned art school among Southern California Chinese circles, has recently suffered a series of crippling blows. The school entered into DEEP financial troubles, but the roots of these issues stem from nearly a year ago. Just today, founders Edgar and Trisha Kuckelkorn have fled to China, or some other part of the world, in an attempt to escape the wraths of thousands of angry Chinese parents.

Oh, fuck.

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