Apr. 8th, 2008

adiva_calandia: (Merry Fucking Christmas)
Probably the single most frustrating prompt I have ever -- ever, including standardized test prompts -- seen:

Describe the influence of African art.

. . . On what? On who? Which African art? When?

We asked the prof.

"On everybody," she said.

. . . Seriously?

Yes.




AAAAAGH.

It doesn't help that she didn't tell us at the outset of these single-page prompts that we would be expected to do outside research, just assumed we would, and then wouldn't listen when we said Well we didn't understand that obviously--

Agh. Just. Agh.

ETA: Okay, but Graceland makes things better.

Oh, these songs. These are my childhood; these are the cassette tape I played over and over and over again until I could mouth the Ladysmith Black Mombazo lyrics almost as well as I could the English ones. He's a poor boy, empty as a pocket, empty as a pocket with nothing to lose . . .

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