They're playing the Harry P soundtrack on the Weather Channel right now! Hahaha!
What do you do for fun in your spare time?
I spend most of my time sewing. I buy used clothing from Salvation Army and make them fit me. Sometimes I give them to friends (Sylvie) and family (Maddie) because I know I have too many clothes and I like to give people presents. I sew my friends' pants into skinnies and in return get to borrow them! Aside from being a good time-passer, it also helped me develop creatively. I found a suitcase of material in my attic and my gramma gave me a tin of buttons recently, so I've been making my own clothing by mixing patterns and my own imagination.
I'm also very interested in music. I've played the piano for 9 years now. I love the usic and my teacher and it has really taught me a lot about music--not just how to play, but how to really feeel the music (groove)((thang)). I tried to expand out and go a synth, but I don't have the right cord to connect it to my amp, so I haven't played it in a while. I want to learn the bass next year and form an all girl punk band if I meet the right grrlz. I read a lot about music and go to shows with I can [get the money]. But now that I'm making bank at my job, Hello NY.
Where do you imagine yourself to be in 10 years?
In ten years I hope to have a job that allows me to work in different countries. I hope to have graduated from grad school somewhere and have traveled. I want to travel so badly! I hope that I will have worked with an environmental organizations helping to save animals and maybe some conservations and agriculture. I want to travel to a different country and work on an organic farm. this is more about what I want to have accomplished, I just realized, but I think that's okay because they will all form who I will be in ten years. I also hope to have gone on a road trip to Mexico and a nice beach vacation on the west coast.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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I finished Beloved last week and started reading The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. I've been wanting to read this book for a while now because I started learning about feminism last month via punk rock and zines. My sister and I have been talking about it a lot and she showed me this book that she learned about from her Women's Studies class. Then I found out they had it in the library! Woot!
So this book is really an essay that discusses "How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women." It's divided into different parts, and so far I've read about sexism in the work place and how religion is used subconciously to promote female degredation. Some information I read in this book I at first think is exagerated, but it's all so true. Everything she says makes sense, is logical and is blaringly evident once you think about it. Women are abused left to right in ways that we don't even see because it's always been there. It's really frightening because it's so obvious, but few people understand the extent of which we are being persecuted.
This book provides examples of how women are being pushed to reach this impossible beauty-to spend their money, time, and efforts to attain the unattainable. She explains this "Beauty Myth" as a backlash to women's rights movements when women began to move out of the home to seek jobs. It seeks an alternative enslavement for women because they can no longer keep them silent in the home. Now that women were gaining voices, the Beauty Myth was used to silence them.
This sounds sort of far-out, but it really makes sense if you read the examples that she uses. I think it's really important for women to read this book and stop putting up with all of the crap that they are being assaulted with. Suckaaa
So this book is really an essay that discusses "How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women." It's divided into different parts, and so far I've read about sexism in the work place and how religion is used subconciously to promote female degredation. Some information I read in this book I at first think is exagerated, but it's all so true. Everything she says makes sense, is logical and is blaringly evident once you think about it. Women are abused left to right in ways that we don't even see because it's always been there. It's really frightening because it's so obvious, but few people understand the extent of which we are being persecuted.
This book provides examples of how women are being pushed to reach this impossible beauty-to spend their money, time, and efforts to attain the unattainable. She explains this "Beauty Myth" as a backlash to women's rights movements when women began to move out of the home to seek jobs. It seeks an alternative enslavement for women because they can no longer keep them silent in the home. Now that women were gaining voices, the Beauty Myth was used to silence them.
This sounds sort of far-out, but it really makes sense if you read the examples that she uses. I think it's really important for women to read this book and stop putting up with all of the crap that they are being assaulted with. Suckaaa
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Book I'm Reading. zZzZzZz
I'm reading Beloved!!!!!!!
By Toni Morrison!!!!
They made a movie out of it. Oprah Winfrey was in it? I wonder if that's a joke.. No, I think it's not. Here's the movie cover, get a feel for it: http://dvdandcdspot.com/images/beloved.jpg
Well anyway, this book was written in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize. It's the best book I have ever read. Dean calls it the greatest American novel, and I laughed at that statement at first, but it really is incredible; I've never read a book like it.
It's about this family during the civil war and post-civil war. It describes the life of former slave, Sethe, and her journey from enslavement to freedom.
It's difficult to understand the chronology of events during their life because it's all told in flash-backs and out of order. It's really interesting because the narrator shifts attention from each character so quickly, so every event (current event, not memory) is told from a different perspective, completely clouded by that character's opinions, and suddenly it will shift focus really fluidly to another character.
It does a really amazing job of revealing the emotions that surrounded the civil war--the fear, especially. Jeez this is a good book. I'm doing it injustice, I feel really lousy about this now. Guhh-hh. Well, I still have 1/3 to go. It takes FOREVER to read this book because it's so..powerful, I guess. So, you know, I guess I'll go read now. xx00000
By Toni Morrison!!!!
They made a movie out of it. Oprah Winfrey was in it? I wonder if that's a joke.. No, I think it's not. Here's the movie cover, get a feel for it: http://dvdandcdspot.com/images/beloved.jpg
Well anyway, this book was written in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize. It's the best book I have ever read. Dean calls it the greatest American novel, and I laughed at that statement at first, but it really is incredible; I've never read a book like it.
It's about this family during the civil war and post-civil war. It describes the life of former slave, Sethe, and her journey from enslavement to freedom.
It's difficult to understand the chronology of events during their life because it's all told in flash-backs and out of order. It's really interesting because the narrator shifts attention from each character so quickly, so every event (current event, not memory) is told from a different perspective, completely clouded by that character's opinions, and suddenly it will shift focus really fluidly to another character.
It does a really amazing job of revealing the emotions that surrounded the civil war--the fear, especially. Jeez this is a good book. I'm doing it injustice, I feel really lousy about this now. Guhh-hh. Well, I still have 1/3 to go. It takes FOREVER to read this book because it's so..powerful, I guess. So, you know, I guess I'll go read now. xx00000
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
People who have impacted my literacy
My parents have a lot of books. I peruse around their "library" once in a while to find something. I guess that's been influencial, but not so much.
More importantly, Audrina Lint Thompasint has been very important in my literary history of the past semester! She reads all the time and knows so many books because of it. She makes me want to read more so that I can talk to her about books. We have really great conversations because of it.
Also, I think my bum-lifestyle has been important, because I read during lunch now and I find a lot of books in the library. Ones that aren't necessarily well-written, but have taught me a lot, like this Nazi book I just read. I also read a lot at home because I don't have friends.
More importantly, Audrina Lint Thompasint has been very important in my literary history of the past semester! She reads all the time and knows so many books because of it. She makes me want to read more so that I can talk to her about books. We have really great conversations because of it.
Also, I think my bum-lifestyle has been important, because I read during lunch now and I find a lot of books in the library. Ones that aren't necessarily well-written, but have taught me a lot, like this Nazi book I just read. I also read a lot at home because I don't have friends.
Monday, May 17, 2010
History of Literacy
My dad and I used to read the Little House on the Prairie books when I was little. Every night! Except my mom would read the Lord of the Rings trilogy with my siblings at the same time, so I was jealous. I think we stopped reading together once Laura met Almonzo, or whatever, and I read the next one on my own (secretly so my Dad wouldn't get mad) and then felt bad so I stopped.
And before that we would all read this book about bears together as a family. There were four bears, I think. We also read Dr. Suess and my Dad used to chase me around with the cat-in-the-hat doll because I was afraid of it.
I read Julie of the Wolves in third grade. I really liked it, except for the ending when she comes back into society. Then I read Star Girl in 5th grade. SO BAD.
Middle school I read fantasy books. They were really long so I felt cool. They were also really sexually explicit, which is sort of creepy considering the age group that they are intended for...Some how I managed to get out of that, even though it was kind of cute, and started reading Fiction "grown-up" books. I read a ton of Jane Austen, which I'm really glad about now because she's an awesome author but I'm not as interested in that era of writing anymore. I also read books about animals, and growing tomatoes, and Gone with the Wind.
Then I stopped reading. And then last semester I started reading again, starting with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I read Lolita (both REALLY GOOD), and read half of Madame Bovary (boring--overly long), etc, etc, etc.
And before that we would all read this book about bears together as a family. There were four bears, I think. We also read Dr. Suess and my Dad used to chase me around with the cat-in-the-hat doll because I was afraid of it.
I read Julie of the Wolves in third grade. I really liked it, except for the ending when she comes back into society. Then I read Star Girl in 5th grade. SO BAD.
Middle school I read fantasy books. They were really long so I felt cool. They were also really sexually explicit, which is sort of creepy considering the age group that they are intended for...Some how I managed to get out of that, even though it was kind of cute, and started reading Fiction "grown-up" books. I read a ton of Jane Austen, which I'm really glad about now because she's an awesome author but I'm not as interested in that era of writing anymore. I also read books about animals, and growing tomatoes, and Gone with the Wind.
Then I stopped reading. And then last semester I started reading again, starting with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I read Lolita (both REALLY GOOD), and read half of Madame Bovary (boring--overly long), etc, etc, etc.
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