June 22, 2008

Wordsworth = Dr. Dre

Songs run through my head nonstop. It’s usually gangsta rap from the 90s (I watched a lot of MTV growing up) or lyrics that relate to something I’ve been thinking about.

Since they didn’t have much recorded music in the 1800s, I wonder if people back then had the same problem, but with poetry.

“Juan comes to St. Petersburg with news of the victory, and attracts the attentions of Catherine the Great. Juan comes to St… fuuuuuuuck! Stupid Lord Byron’s Canto the Ninth of Don Juan is stuck in my head AGAIN!”