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sebastienneany sense of irony my college may have possesed has entirely dissipated. and any amusement i may have felt at the renaming of our JCR the "Nelson Mandella JCR Lounge" - in 2006 - because that was the last time the college actually did anything to deserve its "lefty" reputation - has completely evaporated.
the theme for Wadham's 2007 ball?
Vive La Revolution.
the cost of tickets?
£70.
'kinell...
it's enough to make one resort to 6th form poetry:
"decadence decayed"
if only it had been
fin-de-siècle
they always said it couldn't last
where do we go
from the protracted and
ultimately empty end?
to subverted subversion
and inverted inversion
when green carnations grow on trees
when $80 shirts read 'Anarchy!'
art above nature!
(science above nature)
people above principles!
(profit above people)
when media is truth
and truth therefore
illusion
beauty is left out of the equation
(less ennui and more tv)
we know the price of everything
and the value of nothing
buy one, get one free
it's self-expression through mass-production
choosing limitations to be free
trade bells ring, are you listening?
we're walking in a splintered wonderland
in starbucks and borders we buy our bohemia
and cry
with our fists raised high to the coca-cola sky
'we are the buysexual generation!'
the theme for Wadham's 2007 ball?
Vive La Revolution.
the cost of tickets?
£70.
'kinell...
it's enough to make one resort to 6th form poetry:
"decadence decayed"
if only it had been
fin-de-siècle
they always said it couldn't last
where do we go
from the protracted and
ultimately empty end?
to subverted subversion
and inverted inversion
when green carnations grow on trees
when $80 shirts read 'Anarchy!'
art above nature!
(science above nature)
people above principles!
(profit above people)
when media is truth
and truth therefore
illusion
beauty is left out of the equation
(less ennui and more tv)
we know the price of everything
and the value of nothing
buy one, get one free
it's self-expression through mass-production
choosing limitations to be free
trade bells ring, are you listening?
we're walking in a splintered wonderland
in starbucks and borders we buy our bohemia
and cry
with our fists raised high to the coca-cola sky
'we are the buysexual generation!'
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Date: 2007-02-19 04:23 am (UTC)rofl. thank fucking god for you.
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Date: 2007-02-19 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-19 07:55 am (UTC)Hasn't our college JCR always been called the Nelson Mandela JCR? I thought it had been. But perhaps that's just my memory playing tricks on me.
Oh well. Still a fair old amount of joy to be found in Wadham if you look for it...
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Date: 2007-02-19 09:23 am (UTC)Re: You've only yourslef to balme
Date: 2007-02-19 10:03 am (UTC)Re: You've only yourslef to balme
Date: 2007-02-19 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-19 09:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-19 03:32 pm (UTC)but.. but.. it's 6th-form poetry! clever it may be (though i prefer "full of painful referentiality" [did i just make that word up?]), it's not really any /good/.
(gods, who am i kidding, i still love it, in all its clichéd glory.. but i didn't expect that anybody else would!)
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Date: 2007-02-19 10:47 am (UTC)And d'you think if you did, they'd get the joke (http://www.gilscottheron.com/lyrevol.html)?
(oh, and I like the poem.)
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Date: 2007-02-19 03:30 pm (UTC)oh, the wanting to televise the revolution is great in me now.
(and, while i'd heard "the revolution will not be televised" all over the shop to the point of cliché, i'd never actually seen that poem before. thank you!)
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Date: 2007-02-19 12:49 pm (UTC)£70 is, alas, middle-of-the-road for an Oxford ball. Have you seen how much New/Magdalen/$other_expensive_college charge? Anyway, my advice is not to bother; go to the Balliol Summer Event instead, which is a) cheap, b) great.
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Date: 2007-02-19 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-19 01:45 pm (UTC)*sobs* WHY, Hilda's, WHY?
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Date: 2007-02-19 04:40 pm (UTC)Wadham ball was 70 quid in my first year, so at least you've not had inflation. (Mind you, that was the ball which amazingly managed to lose 27,000 quid. Oh, you know after that fiasco, we had a big survey and debate and thingy and decided not to do expensive balls any more. Oh well.)
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Date: 2007-02-20 09:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-19 08:17 pm (UTC)