29 June 2009
25 June 2009
Goodreads Flow.
"Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer."
-David Foster Wallace
+I move (a-fucking-'gain) on June 30th/July 1st
+I'm taking a copywriting class July-August to 1. get a better job and 2. to have a reason to hang at the hip yuppie coffeeshop in my new 'hood (or the bar.)
+I'm taking CORE class again fall semester, traditional grad. tracks be damned, and haven't picked out the other 4-credit beast that I'll have to take (either "Post 9-11 Lit" or another poetry one with Jim Moore.)
+Nothing seems permanent, and everything seems light. It's nice in a stomach-wrenching sort of way.
Addicted.
-David Foster Wallace
+I move (a-fucking-'gain) on June 30th/July 1st
+I'm taking a copywriting class July-August to 1. get a better job and 2. to have a reason to hang at the hip yuppie coffeeshop in my new 'hood (or the bar.)
+I'm taking CORE class again fall semester, traditional grad. tracks be damned, and haven't picked out the other 4-credit beast that I'll have to take (either "Post 9-11 Lit" or another poetry one with Jim Moore.)
+Nothing seems permanent, and everything seems light. It's nice in a stomach-wrenching sort of way.
Addicted.
23 June 2009
music made local by local students
"Free Live Music on Peavey Plaza!
Indulge in free live music and a delicious bite to eat on Peavey Plaza—before each concert inside Orchestra Hall and after the Friday and Saturday night concerts. Choose from a variety of casual fare. Then sit back, enjoy your tasty summer delights, and take in great entertainment by some of the Twin Cities' best musicians.
SAT JUL 18 11:30AM-2PM
Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education: Student Showcase (Jazz)"
Indulge in free live music and a delicious bite to eat on Peavey Plaza—before each concert inside Orchestra Hall and after the Friday and Saturday night concerts. Choose from a variety of casual fare. Then sit back, enjoy your tasty summer delights, and take in great entertainment by some of the Twin Cities' best musicians.
SAT JUL 18 11:30AM-2PM
Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education: Student Showcase (Jazz)"
well well well
love her love her. this vid has such a home-made quality, kind of a diy-inspiration. i remember falling in love with deceptacon as a kid, and loving le tigre a little more when she played at the punk theatre in detroit that cindigo was living at at the time. i like how in this video she bends everything and gets the viewer to think about gender expectations and uses pathetic fallacy with a lot of the office supplies too.
22 June 2009
30 May 2009
Crazy Cryin'.
Yesterday, while lounging and watching VH1s Top 20 countdown (I know, the shame, but I tried to make it interactive by guffawing at the TV) I saw a video with Alicia Silverstone in it ("Her Diamonds" by Rob Thomas - pretty/angsty/forgettable.) Anyways, it reminded me of two other videos with her that made an impression on me in the oh-so-angsty and grungeful early-90s: "Crazy" and "Cryin'" by Aerosmith. Both are great for a kick if not a little indulgent but the former in particular: it's romantic and sexy what with the ditching school in a convertible, the dusty country roads, and the irreverance of the young girls that were the main characters of the videos, not just video hos...like I said, Silverstone, young Liv Tyler and the kind of meta-production of it definitely made an impression on my impressionable 11 year-old self. Also, the fact that my parents adamantly prohibited watching MTV, VH1, and BET, music TV of any sort so I was most definitely "sneaking it" when I watched, thereby heightening the experience. Ha.
I could get into a whole diatribe about how exploitative the industry is towards women (though I think it's gotten much more balanced in the last couple of years, more a accepting, honest meritocracy than a glass box to climb into if you want to be a popular female musician) but there's no need to waste more words on an already apparent truth. With that, here they be, mateys:
I could get into a whole diatribe about how exploitative the industry is towards women (though I think it's gotten much more balanced in the last couple of years, more a accepting, honest meritocracy than a glass box to climb into if you want to be a popular female musician) but there's no need to waste more words on an already apparent truth. With that, here they be, mateys:
27 May 2009
Well-Quoted, Grasshopper.
"There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest."
- Anais Nin
via Dragon
*Note: To read Atlas Shrugged first thing at the new place (the last two books I've read have been How to Be Good by Nick Hornby and The Red Tent which both amount to good but kind of skimpy, uninspiring reading.)
*Sidenote: I started seriously looking for the new place yesterday and can't wait to create another little hotbed of practical thought, unpractical art/domestic projects, relay points, and beautiful rest. I may be building it up a little too much but right now I feel about as excited to burst at the prospect of inhabiting my own little cave once again. Mef.
- Anais Nin
via Dragon
*Note: To read Atlas Shrugged first thing at the new place (the last two books I've read have been How to Be Good by Nick Hornby and The Red Tent which both amount to good but kind of skimpy, uninspiring reading.)
*Sidenote: I started seriously looking for the new place yesterday and can't wait to create another little hotbed of practical thought, unpractical art/domestic projects, relay points, and beautiful rest. I may be building it up a little too much but right now I feel about as excited to burst at the prospect of inhabiting my own little cave once again. Mef.
26 May 2009
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