Is this a project
So, let me take you to late 80's North Nottinghamshire. It's a drizly morning, like usual, and young Rockers has 10 mins to get from bed to school and to do the English homework for the course work folder that was being put together.

The assignment was to write around 150 words about a random photo that had been handed out a week earlier. Now unless you are familiar with the greats of photo journalism you may not know this picture here...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg

and unless you are familiar with the late 80's work of Pink Floyd you may not be familiar with the songs 'A New Machine I' and 'A New Machine II'

A New Machine - Part I Lyrics

I have always been here
I have always looked out from behind the eyes
It feels like more than a lifetime
Feels like more than a lifetime

Sometimes I get tired of the waiting
Sometimes I get tired of being in here
Is this the way it has always been?
Could it ever have been different?

Do you ever get tired of the waiting?
Do you ever get tired of being in there?
Don't worry, nobody lives forever,
Nobody lives forever

A New Machine - Part II Lyrics

I will always be in here
I will always look out from behind these eyes
It's only a lifetime
It's only a lifetime
It's only a lifetime

Now, I had been listening to that album for ages before the assignment and just thought... woooo fucking hoooooo! Simple, photo + Lyrics = what? If I was rumbled then the argument is it's an exercise in juxtaposition if I wasn't rumbled then what would happen... erm an A grade that's what happened, and thank the lord they decided not to put it into the pta news letter.

The thing is that isn't the worst bit. I then persuaded the teacher that she had lost one of my essays that I hadn't done (she fell for it) and my course work was 3000 words down... only a bit of poo came out after marking... but i was one of the 5 peole who DIDN'T have thier folders sent for external marking.

Oh and I have an English degree, but I used fake computer crashes and York notes to pass that :-)

HA!
(rockers74 killed a man in Reno just to watch him die., Mon 17 Aug 2009, 20:15, Reply)