"You make my heart smile with your humour! You naturally include everyone and make them feel important!"
- Anonymous section 6 classmate, from an activity whereby you had to write something positive about each person in the class and place it in their labelled cup at the back of the room
That is by far the nicest thing that someone has ever said/written about me. When I first read it, I felt like crying. I really wish I knew who wrote it.
12 December 2007
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10 December 2007
On handwritten vs typed text
I was thinking about perfect-looking text, like the stuff you're reading now that's been typed by a computer instead of written by my hand:
'Back in the day', before we could just reproduce letters and write shit out so that it looks perfect and all the letters were identical, this sort of effect had to be attempted by hand. when achieved, it exuded an aesthetic of extreme labour and care; it proved that TONNES of work went into rendering each letter, and thus there was a sort of air of dignity and a special beauty to it.
now, however, such fancy perfect-looking lettering is EVERYWHERE, since it's easier than life to reproduce letters. therefore, it's lost this air of specialness and dignity, and it's become way more common in our visual landscape than hand-written text.
thus, it feels, at least to me, as if now hand-written text, despite how sloppy or quick it looks, is the sort of text that gives an air of effort and care, not to mention intimacy, and computerised text is the lazy choice. so yeah, i was just thinking about this weird shift.
09 December 2007
I was perusing the internet today instead of working on the mounds of assignments I have, and I came across some sort of horoscope-related thing, explaining the type of lover an individual was based on their astrological sign.
Out of sheer curiosity, I scrolled down to Libra (my own birth sign). While other signs had titles such as "The Beauty" and "The Promiscuous One," to my mild surprise, Libra was labelled "The Lame One".
So I guess it's not my fault that I'm so pathetic. It was predestined by the alignments of the planets and the stars and such.
04 December 2007
"I feel like one of the hugest things that music ever did for me was make me feel that there's someone else who is feeling the way I am feeling -- disconnected [from] humans as a whole. And I just think it's an amazing way to learn about interactions and real life -- that the things that you feel, other people feel them too. People are the same in a lot of ways. I justr try to write about what I know and hopefully people will identify."
-Adrian Orange, in an interview:
http://www.ithacatimesartsblog.com/interview-with-gregg-gillis-of-girl-talk/interview-with-adrian-orange-of-thanksgiving/
27 November 2007
poetry vs. songs
Idea: cryptically deep puzzling lyrics, meant to be studied and dived into and shit, are more appropriate for poems than songs. with poetry, you CAN study the words because you can SEE them, but with a song it should be more direct so that they can be appreciated whilst hearing them.
Plus, the more complicated and cryptic the lyric is, the more simple the song should be, so that it functions more like a poem and less as music. i.e. it should be sung in really simple repetitive melodies (like Thanskgiving). and the more musically-complicated and thus lyrically-hard-to- follow, the more easy the lyric should be to understand.
22 November 2007
Gratefulness When Everyone Owes Everyone Anyway
I was thinking about how I value living one's life in a way that exudes a sense of general gratitude and indebtedness to all fellow humans, but this seems to conflict with my other belief that we all owe each other everything anyway.
Like the shirt that Mount Eerie references in No Flashlight that says "I like thanksgiving because everything is my mother."
But if we all deserve all the help that anyone can give us and it is all of our responsibility to help each other out, then being so grateful all the time doesn't really make sense. or does it?
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