A Blog For Ideas

 

                                                      (Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg)

This is a blog about ideas. It's a place where we can analyze our favorite stories in any given medium, be they real or fictional, and think about what philosophies might be their driving force. It's a place where we can make connections between seemingly disparate facts and come to beautiful, terrifying, or incredibly trivial conclusions.


The main theme of most posts will be to pursue the ideas behind aspects of pop culture and alternative culture with an academic mindset, researching the history and ideas behind events and movements and linking them to a manifestation in the arts. My particular backgrounds are in literature, creative writing, and media, so most discussions will tend toward analyzing books, films, music, and advertising. I also have a particular interest in fashion trends, especially alternative movements such as the Goth and Punk scenes of the late 1970s and early 1980s.


I'd like for this to be a place where people feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and opinions. It is a privilege to be able to think freely and to communicate with other thinkers, and I would welcome in depth conversations about almost any topic.


Let me introduce myself, as a way of opening up the discussion. I am a senior English and Communication student at the undergraduate level, which means that I'm one year away from being young and free and glamorously unemployed. My particular concentration in college has been primarily poetry, but I dabble in fiction as well. Someday, I would love to write articles for a magazine like Rolling Stone. Currently I work at a bakery.


I would be delighted to have your company on Pinterest, where I keep track of all the best films, books, music, and other creative works I've come across, and where I go looking for inspiration from others. I will have a separate board for this blog, and will place a link there to each new post.