November 08, 2009
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrocka the baby ?????
When we were first presented with the image of Kurts trash-collage i liked how he put it together; the colors and composition. Despite not being able to read the bits of paper that was part of it it as nice to look at. His background added to the intrigue, which I think can greatly help or hurt an artist. In the case of the recording, I tried to follow what was going on at the beginning which was probably a bad idea. It really wasn't something anyone could follow. Its not that I understood any of the languages aside English, but sometimes you can somewhat tell what a person is getting at. The repetition got old pretty fast. It made me want to fall asleep, which i almost did. It has that somewhat soothing style that, like Ian was talking about, is what one might hear as a baby. I probably wouldn't listen to it again though.
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October 28, 2009
Theeeeee after
I don't buy these “secrets to the world and success” tapes. They seem like a scam to me; there’s not set way to succeeding in the world. Sometimes it takes a lot of hard work and failures, and other times its pure-dumb-luck. I find that the harder I think about my goals the farther off they seem to get. I can end up being distracted by them and then falling behind in the work I have in the here-and-now. As a pessimistic person most of the time it makes it hard to really believe much of what these tapes said. Not everyone that's ever “asked-ith” has always “received-ith”. I think its these discrepancies that annoy me most of all. I don’t think that a person should give up on their dreams, not at all.
These tapes just made it out to seem that if a person had enough faith than they’d be able to accomplish everything. That just goes back to religion in my mind. Religion’s not a bad thing, not until the zealots start walking around with signs that damn all sinners to hell, throwing their bibles and what not at people. You can thank god all you want for whatever success you have in life, be my guest. But right now I need to get back to that Aeneid essay. The only goal I have in mind for the moment is getting it done and having it done well. One of my greatest weaknesses is my writing. I like to start with small goals, and getting better with my writing is one of them.
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The During
I really do not like this guys voice. I feel like if I met him in real life he’d still have this gravely, AM-radio voice, just without the handy dial to change it back over to FM. He does enjoy hearing himself talk; he has probably repeated the same thought twenty-times over. Sure I’ve heard that repetition helps the memory but you can go too far. I’m also getting a little annoyed how the only job he describes a woman as having and being “happy” in is as a home maker. Gee I wonder if he thought we’d be able to make it out in that big scary world.
His idea, or SECRET, of the world is too obvious to me to really grant him a recording tape. Of course a man should be waking up in the morning to a job he really likes, but unfortunately that can’t happen for everyone. He is making it sound like if you really believe in these things they will naturally happen. I have personally tried a few times to only think of the positives as he puts it, to have a set goal in mind. Any goals I have usually end up being clouded over by everyday doldrums and things that HAVE to be done that have absolutely no relation to whatever goal I currently have in mind, effectively making me forget that goal. I’m stuck focusing on the negatives instead of whatever positives were once there and could have helped me become that “millionaire” he talked about at the beginning of the tape. If anything I’d maybe try to save that little bit of my money like he states in the tape.
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The Before
I'm currently trying to mentally sort through all the things I still need to get done. Maybe it was a mistake to go to that tango lesson tonight, maybe I should have stayed in and just worked on my ever-growing pile of assignments. But I did have a good time and many MANY hearty laughs. Oh the laughs I had. But now I need to sit down and do this assignment and then focus on my essay for Roman Myth. That sucker is just LOOMING over me. Seriously TMP, way to take up my whole Friday so I can’t make it down to Central to turn it in. I can sense with my Jedi skills that the things I’m “learning” in TMP will, I suppose, have some good consequences in my career. Right now, I’m kind of going crazy from the constant barrage of assignments in mediums I have had no previous experience in and just being told to go at it. Insert further moaning and groaning here.
I need to figure out how to start my next paragraph in my Aeneid essay. Obviously it’s going to center around Dido, but how do I do it without sounding cliché is a real toughie. My attention span is rapidly depleting. It doesn’t help I just found out what I’m being for Halloween and spent a good half hour figuring out what items of clothing I have and what I need to get. LETS GO SHOPPING MY MERRY DROGGS AND HAVE A JOLLY GOOD TIME.
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October 27, 2009
250 words
are to be used in the entries for the Nightingale thing. WEEOOWWT
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