{"id":1284,"date":"2012-03-24T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/read-so-hard\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T05:06:30","slug":"read-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/read-so-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Read so hard."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EQiEJk-o5WA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read so hard with <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/lashea_delaney\">La Shea Delaney<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/annabelleqv\">Annabelle Quezada<\/a> in this brilliant spoof on Jay Z &amp; Kanye&#8217;s &#8216;N*ggas in Paris&#8217;, titled B*tches in Bookshops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I guess you could say I&#8217;m Mark Twaining&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lyrics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read so hard librarians tryin&#8217; ta FINE me\u00ad,<br \/>\nThey can&#8217;t identify me,<br \/>\nChecked in with a pseudonym, so I guess you can say I&#8217;m Mark Twaining.<br \/>\nRead so hard, I&#8217;m not lazy.<br \/>\nGo on Goodreads, so much rated.<br \/>\nFountainhead, on my just read, gave it four stars, and then changed it.<br \/>\nRead so hard, I&#8217;m literary.<br \/>\nGoosebumps series, TOO SCARY!<\/p>\n<p>Animal Farm, Jane Eyre<br \/>\nBarnes &amp; Nobles, Foursquare it<br \/>\nNo TV, I read instead<br \/>\nGot lotsa Bills, but not bread<br \/>\nBURROUGHS , GOLDING, SHAKESPEARE &#8212; all dead<\/p>\n<p>Read so hard, got paper cuts<br \/>\nOn trains while you&#8217;re playin&#8217; connect the dots<br \/>\nAll these blisters from turning pages<br \/>\nRead so hard, I&#8217;m seeing spots<br \/>\nYour Sudoku just can&#8217;t compare<br \/>\nNor Angry Birds cos lookit here<br \/>\nMy Little Birds is getting stares<\/p>\n<p>(pause)<\/p>\n<p>This print&#8217;s rare.<br \/>\nRead so hard, I memorize, The Illiad&#8230; I know lines.<br \/>\nWatch me spit, classic lit, epic poems that don&#8217;t rhyme.<br \/>\nWar and Peace, piece of cake, read Tolstoy in 3 days.<br \/>\nStraight through, no delays.<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t miss a word. Not one phrase.<\/p>\n<p>Read so hard librarians tryin&#8217; ta fineee me &#8211; That shit cray x 3<br \/>\nRead so hard librarians tryin&#8217; ta fineee me &#8212; That shit cray x 3<br \/>\nHe said Shea can we get married at the Strand<br \/>\nHis Friday Reads are bad so he can&#8217;t have my hand<br \/>\nYou ball so hard, OK you&#8217;re bowling<br \/>\nBut I read so hard, I&#8217;m JK Rowling<br \/>\nThat shit cray<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t it, A? What you readin&#8217;?<br \/>\nAQ: DeMontaigne.<br \/>\nYou use a Kindle? I carry spines.<br \/>\nSupporting bookshops like a bra, Calvin Klein.<br \/>\nNerdy boy, he&#8217;s so slow<br \/>\nTuesday we started Foucault<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s still stuck on the intro? He&#8217;s a no go.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s sad I had to kick him out my house though &#8212;<br \/>\nHe Mispronounced an author &#8211; MARCEL PROUST<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t read in the dark<br \/>\nI highlight with markers<br \/>\nWhile laying in the park<br \/>\nAnd wearing Warby Parkers<br \/>\nMarriage Plot broke my heart<br \/>\nAnd it made me read Barthes<br \/>\nI special ordered a<br \/>\nA softcover not hard- HUAH?AHEHA?!<\/p>\n<p>Read so hard libraries tryin&#8217; ta fine me x 2<\/p>\n<p>I am now marking my place<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t wanna crease on my page<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t let me forget this page<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t let me forget this page<br \/>\nI may forget where I left off so I&#8217;ll use this little post it&#8230;<br \/>\nI hope it doesn&#8217;t fall out, I hope that it stays stickie&#8230;<br \/>\nI am now marking my place<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t wanna crease on my page<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t let me forget this page<br \/>\nI got bookmarks at home<br \/>\nBut I forgot one for the road<\/p>\n<p>AQ: I got a bookmark I can loan<br \/>\nLa Shea: Know how many bookmarks I own?<br \/>\nI am now bookmarking my page x3<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let me forget this PAGE&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>-Director\/Producer\/Songwriter &#8211; Annabelle Quezada<br \/>\n-Director of Photography\/Editor\/Special FX &#8211; Eliav Mintz<br \/>\n-Song Recorded and Mixed by &#8211; Stephen Galgano<\/p>\n<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"1284\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read so hard with La Shea Delaney and Annabelle Quezada in this brilliant spoof on Jay Z &#038; Kanye&#8217;s &#8216;N*ggas in Paris&#8217;, titled B*tches in Bookshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taramoss.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}