Since there are already prompts up for later posts I figured I should go ahead and answer the first one. So Black Mountain College, the home of artistic liberation and a sense of a community that seems to be so important in the Avante-Garde community. I can't begin to imagine the amount of drama that would have occurred at a place with so many artistic thinkers and ideas swimming about. While the idea is certainly sound and a great deal can be gained by throwing yourself into a situation like Black Mountain, I am not sure it would have been right for me.
My perfect day begins at noon. In which I slowly roll out of bed and then prepare myself a marvelous lunch. A lunch to end all lunches. Then I stick in a film and watch it and when it ends either get a snack or stick in another film and repeat until time for dinner or else bed. Without the constant reinforcements of some structure I don't think I would ever accomplish anything. While my artistic sensibilities of writing screenplays are something I would probably do anyway, without a sense of structure, I know that I would probably do nothing else but waste away. A raisin in a world of grapes. So, while I admire the faculty and students of Black Mountain College, I know myself too well to think that I could excel in such a place.
I have always wanted to be some kind of artistic-y, intellectual-y kind of person, but for some reason I always seem to come up just short of artistic brilliance and into the realm of mediocre. Perhaps a place like Black Mountain would be a good place to increase artistic skills. However, like I said, I just don't think its me.
I have one final thought on this whole Black Mountain College issue. And it is a stupid thought. Did anybody else think about the awful film Accepted?
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