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Bon's Final

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     For our final, I decided to make a mediocre poem along with a blog post, so, here it is.     And so it was done once pure and beautiful, and for all the best intentions It continues to break the bones of the pure and beautiful things that once thrived And the more they watch The more vindicated Sanguinary impetus grows manufacturing imperative imperceptible impulses Keeping them blank faced So utterly droll  Malleable And they can see it tearing sinews from bone and tendon But its looking at them too And they cant see that its looking at them too It will not spare you It can see you Marks every move, notes blood flows, crinkles of the face You again,     How nice it’s been seeing you,     Not seeing me,      And as I elude you,            I will use you. a violence so utterly white collar and clean Injected into the veins...
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A Gate? How is a Gate Confusing?

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       As I have grown more and more accustomed to darker, more extreme music, outside of the realm of industrial (boy that genre can get eerie and depraved) I find much of the blastbeats, pained wails, and dissonant clashing notes to be sonic textures, making up the segments of a soundscape, or colors coming together to create a deep dark painting. Many may label these characteristics as dark, unsettling, or unmusical. I relate this to this sense of cultural adaptations or programming that we all inherit over the course of our lives. Put simply, things start to feel more normal the more we are exposed to them. This adaptation has led me to a wide world of appreciation for many dark and oppressive sounds in metal. The work that I will be spotlighting today transmutes black metals often times bleak atmosphere into something liminal and psychedelic, culminating in a work that surprisingly reminds me of humanness, of effortful expression, and play.    ...
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A delirious walk through Nutter Butter land

  Marketing is quite a silly thing at times, sometimes you view something and feel that it is a grasping at straws sort of attempt at garnering attention towards some unremarkable product or brand. Other times you might be amused at the lengths some of these companies will go, may it be shock, awe, or aggravating, something was able to stick and captivate enough to set up a cozy camp in your mind. I suppose that the piece of marketing that I will be discussing today lies somewhere in between and yet firmly on either side of this spectrum, at least when I see it. The once humble Nutter Butter, and its current marketing strategy will be spotlighted in this post today. Unhinged, surreal, and a little scary are a couple of adjectives that come to mind when viewing the social media of Nutter Butter currently. The brands pages sport many videos of colorful hodge podges centering Nutter Butter amidst disembodied voices, flashing colors, and off putting and nonsensical atmospheres. https:...
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My intro post

 Hi, I'm Bon      When thinking about what to share about myself, I'm reminded of various lines from Charles Bukowski, the gravely voice of Tom Waits, and his eccentricity. I think of my mothers own quirks, the various gifts and anxietys shes given me. How when my father was once asked if he was wearing women's clothes, he said "No, they're my wife's!". I feel stitched together by the things my family exposed me too, by the essence of their characters, the things I admire within them, and those other aspects I reject adamantly as well.  One of those Bukowski lines states that one should "invent yourself and then reinvent yourself". Throughout my floundering process of becoming, I feel more and more that my life is defined by the things I do for others, and with that, secondary education is what I am studying here at college. I can only hope to develop the skills and perspective to become a inclusive and earnest educator who aims to help develop t...
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