Brooks Sterritt

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Writing by Brooks Sterritt appears or will appear in The Believer, Subtropics, Salt Hill, Denver Quarterly, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago.

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Behind the Scenes / 45 Comments
August 19th, 2011 / 3:00 pm

Copywrite on Writing

“A camera can’t capture the essence.”

“It’s like, when I hear a bassline, I think of blue. When I hear pieces of a nice beat, I think of green, like emeralds and shit. To me, music is like how I look at drawing: it’s just shapes, you’ve just got to put it in the right spots. A picture of Mickey Mouse is just a bunch of circles; you’ve just got to know where to stop the connections at. To me, music and words are just all shapes.”

“I don’t want to be mainstream–I want to piss in it.”

Craft Notes / 3 Comments
August 16th, 2011 / 2:30 am