The first three lines of the verse are written in simple past, but the fourth shifts to present perfect, foreshadowing the showdown to come between tenses.

I remember magazine pictures of very handsome male models with perfect faces and, with an almost physical pang, wondering what it would be to look like that. I remember daydreams of a doctor who (on the sly) was experimenting with a drug that would turn you into a real stud. Swift describes the song as having “two lives” in her mind, one rooted in her own catharsis and one generated through its sharing and performance—the way the lyrics are transcribed in fans’ diaries and tattooed on their skin.

Uno per uno, i cosiddetti libri fondamentali della nostra epoca saranno dimenticati, mentre la piccola, semplice gemma di Joe Brainard è destinata a restare. Brainard started writing his memoir I Remember in 1969, when he was twenty-seven, while staying in Vermont, along with the poet James Schuyler. Tercera lección: debería empezar a escribir sobre las cosas que me gustaban para intentar recordar a la niña/adolescente/joven que fui, y quedarme con lo bueno. All Too Well (10 Minute Version)”—which broke the Guinness World Record for longest song to hit number one on Billboard’s Hot 100—is also a master class in the present tense. Ik herinner me" wordt heel het boek door gevolgd door dikwijls herkenbare, soms erg intieme of net heel universele dingen die onze terugblik kleuren.

Many collages went untitled, as if the "message" were of no concern and many wound up with provisional titles such as "Good’n Fruity Madonna," reflecting instead the process and materials rather than any will of the artist, reflecting style over content and a refusal on the artist’s part to take the art, or himself, too seriously. Tramite disegni realizzati da lui personalmente, citazioni, impariamo a conoscere Joe Brainard, ancora poco noto in Italia. Found a copy in the library today after a psychedelic case of deja-vu, and boy, over a nice lunch of double-espresso and another mention from a co-worker (Mind you, a professor in Astrophysics) brought up the girl who dances with teddy bears and occupies the American mind more-so these days than the twilight of American culture, I was livid, and when I get livid, I turn off my phone and excuse myself briefly for the bathroom. Estoy convencido de que el sexo ahora es mucho mejor que antes, pero echo de menos las rodillas desolladas.that I know that the scarf Swift leaves at “your sister’s house” is the navy-and-maroon-striped Gucci scarf she was photographed wearing during her 2010 relationship with Gyllenhaal. Painterly in its vivid details and collagist in its hands-off juxtaposition, it is an accumulative, oblique biography, a portrait of the artist as a young man. Io sono di un’altra epoca rispetto all’autore (lui era già morto quando io sono nata), eppure ho trovato tanti attimi e tante emozioni in comune con lui, ho ritrovato tratti di me nella sua infanzia. Among his belongings was a very old photograph of a naked young boy pinned to an old pair of young boy's underwear.

Segunda lección que la iniciación sexual es igual de complicada para todo el mundo, con independencia de tu sexo, género o preferencia. I loved this book when I first read it over thirty years ago (the edition with the yellowy-orange French-looking cover, published by Full Court Press). Joe Brainard puts together a wide compilation of personal, social, cultural, and economic memories across the span of over 100 pages. In korte, heldere stukjes - dikwijls niet meer dan 1 of 2 zinnen - somt Joe Brainard op wat hij zich herinnert. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Brainard followed I Remember with I Remember More (1972) and More I Remember More (1973), both published by Angel Hair. Lucky enough to have Tulsa pals Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan, the godfather of second-generation New York School poets, as his New York City welcoming committee, Brainard thrived, living the life of a bohemian artist on the Lower East Side and earning his first solo exhibit four short years after arriving in the city. Despite the fact that I was born in 1986 and cannot relate to everything in the book, this does not stop it from being amazing. Past tense rendered the scenarios “less vivid … more difficult to imagine … reducing likelihood assessments and increasing psychological distance. El caso es que, platicando del descubrimiento que significó leer a Braunstein, saqué a relucir mi recuerdo, solo para constatar, que tal recuerdo, era ciento por ciento una reconstrucción mía.

Anzi smisurata, perché ‘I Remember’ è, appunto, una gemma, ma è anche indimenticabile, e imperdibile, e non si può separarsene: resterà lì, sul comodino, in buona compagnia, per essere ripreso di quando in quando. The only good thing about it is that when I get lofty enough I’ve stopped thinking and that’s when refreshment arrives.

I loved it for the glamour of all the references to American brands and customs, which made it seem both real and other-worldly. It ranges from what fresh cut grass smells like on a Sunday morning to personal experiences that Joe, as a young gay man, experienced finding himself in a world unkind to such life choices.