Power to the Peaceful

Debbie Harry’s famous “cooking” shot by Chris Stein in their 17th Street kitchen after they’d returned from tour with Blondie in 1977, only to discover their NY apartment had burned down. Debbie then put on an old gown supposedly of Marilyn Monroe’s which appeared to have melted, and set a frying pan on fire for this shot.

“…One shot, of her “cooking” (that is, brandishing a flaming frying pan in a blackened kitchen), has a wild humour that’s typical of Stein’s sensibility – it’s one that the writer Glenn O’Brien identifies in an essay in the book as “the light side of the dark side”. The photoshoot happened when the couple returned from a tour in 1977 to discover their apartment had burned down, after an electrical fire. Rather than despair, Stein looked at all that sooty ruin and thrilled to its aesthetic potential.

“I think the point of Chris’s charm as a photographer,” Harry agrees, “is to see beauty in rot and chaos and destruction and rubble. Plus, the dress that I’m wearing was supposedly Marilyn Monroe’s.” It, too, had been in the fire, so it “had done a weird thing: it was very soft and chiffony and then it became this melted, stiff thing”..”

theguardian.com

your high school teachers are LIARS.

Most college professors accept late assignments.

Some of them are so chill that you can ditch most of class so long as you can handle the final. 

It’s all about playing it by ear.

YOU DON’T ASK TO GO TO THE BATHROOM PLEASE SAVE YOURSELF THE EMBARRASSMENT. 

It is NOT harder than high school. You’re more or less ready for it if you do ok in high school, ok?

Seriously. I got A’s in AP classes yet was terrified that I wouldn’t be able to handle college.

Surprise surprise?

AP classes are harder than college classes. 

No joke. 

College professors are a lot more liberal on what counts as a “right” answer. 

Plus they give you points for caring. 

Some classes give you points just for showing up. 

There’s an atmosphere of controlled panic, and you are not the only one. 

You can pretty much go up to anyone and say god life is a nightmare and finals are gonna kick my ass, and they’ll go saaaaame, regardless of how genius they’re supposed to be. 

Seriously. 

College student here.

High school teachers are the WORST of liars.

They’ll tell you college is a “whole nother level” but that’s such horse shit. 

High school is a standardized sheep counting facility.