dark academia by jey withane, 1st of september 2019
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below: the lyrics, the film clips shown, the music
thank you for reading, thank you for watching, take care
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It’s not all about the aesthetic, you know,
It’s the hunger for content, for knowledge and sight.
For living the now, fully, unapologetically.
It’s not just about getting good grades and finding a job,
It’s about striving for more, for something we cannot quite grasp.
We dream of trust and friends that forgive,
Of that certain obscurity shading the knowledge of light.
Philosophy, languages, physics and maths.
We dream of adventures so crude, so intense, so unfettered and free,
That we’d find but the softest of loves in each other’s company.
Music that crackles, museums where we are the art,
Red wine and stains, tea in both hands.
Sweaters and snow, oh the years passed so well.
Candid pictures of Summers well spent,
Crowns of flowers, realms of reality came and went.
It’s pretentiousness without the pretent,
It’s doing those things for the love of themselves.
Attempt to impress, important affect, merit possessed.
Read and write and sing and dance,
To impress no one but your own self, by chance.
A heart and a head go hand in hand,
Study hard but make toasts with the gods.
Old books, new thoughts, obsessions and lust.
Cobble and desks, adoring crisp paper stores,
And those tales and myths of lovers’ lore.
Carpe diem, carpe noctum,
Love the sun but praise the moon.
Wonder, marvel, educate the minds who seek.
Vintage, forgotten, loved media,
This is our own little kind of dark academia.
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films shown:
dead poets society (1998), peter weir
the dreamers (2004), bernado bertolucci
picnic at hanging rock (1975), peter weir
au revoir les enfants (1987), louis malle
the secret garden (1994), agnieszka holland
brideshead revisited (2008), julian jarrold
brideshead revisited (1981), charles sturridge
kill your darlings (2013), john krokidas
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music used:
brahms - synphony no.3 - poco allegretto
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