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...brain break left something to be desired. A healthy assortment of vegetables and salad was available, but the staple foods—bagels and varied cereals—were absent. However, the drink machines were operational, and the healthy food offered a nice alternative for health-conscious Harvardians. After the initial rush, there was still an ample supply of food available, though the supply faded...
...cultural output and its form of expression, though, are key. The contemporary Hipster is acutely self-conscious, and this is why Lady Gaga and what blogger Douglas Haddow has termed Gaga-ism are connected. The Hipster is a product of post-modernity unwinding in general culture to the point of constant self-awareness. The Beat-Hipsters were certainly self-obsessed, but they bore an earnestness and sincerity that is impossible if one’s mental energy is overly devoted to fretting over anticipated acceptance of an ironic costume bobble. Life and public existence as a creative endeavor rather than...
...Telephone,” which in its first week up had more than 20 million views on YouTube. The relevance of Gaga doesn’t need to be restated here. The “Telephone” video, like Hipsterdom’s underlying ideology, is self-conscious to the point of stylizing that awareness. The video is a celebration of celebrity qua celebrity, as well as an amalgamation of different cultural allusions, the familiarity of which render the viewer comfortable. ‘Telephone’ is pop music with the sizeable development of its use of brands...
What I do is I write every day, every single day in the morning. I just start writing. And things come up. And I'm not unaware of them, but I'm not completely in control of them either. Unconscious material start to become conscious. And when I stop writing, all during the day and that night, things are percolating. I wake up in the morning and there's more there. Things I didn't realize the day before. I'm completely confident in that. That's how I approach writing. So I'm always writing, and my writing always...
...title suggests, the movie follows the underachieving, scrawny, self-conscious Kirk as he dates Molly (Alice Eve) who is everything he is not: successful, beautiful, and confident. Kirk skipped college; Molly has a law degree. Kirk comes from a working-class family; Molly’s background is more affluent...