Its THAT time of year again!

the heartbeat of the 1980s - can't touch this.

Adrienne Salinger
Teenagers in their bedrooms.

teenagers are so akward.

"When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win." - The Stalker

neighbors

"We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself."

-Walter Bagehot, "Shakespeare," Literary Studies

lexicon

speak jive
&
around the world (slight stereotyping)
or saying nothing at all.

"At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect -- a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known"
-Robert Adams