Echo of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
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I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
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This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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Bigotry doesn’t care about state or regional lines. It’s all over the place.
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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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So while I loved not being hungry and having new gear, etc. I missed the sounds of my neighbors and the kind of generosity people who are struggling together often show.
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Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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