life is elsewhere
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I had a conversation with an artist (graphic designer) and pianist (I mean two different people, kupo. They're sisters) who was learning Clair de lune by Claude Debussy and whose favorite composer is Frederic Chopin, who, like Debussy, can do no wrong, and they had a cat named Peanut and a milk snake (or was it corn snake) with an unspecified name. It went from summer to winter in a week, says she.
We then met a man who drew Mario getting high on a mushroom on a whiteboard.
I tried to draw someone with black hair and a black jacket and gray hoodie who got on on South Station and she tried to take a picture of it and I hope it was successful.
And I'm sorry we couldn't talk about art or anything. I'm sorry I couldn't get to know you.
A woman told her dog Sully "I will give you cheese if you come with me" but he refused so she carried him instead.
I mentioned Bartok while waiting for the doors to open and a girl talked about how she played one of his pieces but can't remember the name for it because it was in Hungarian, and she tried to learn Russian and is now taking Mandarin Chinese and loves how simple the grammar is and its lack of tense and gender.
I met a Bianca at Panera Gurpgork, which is unofficially Turkmen for bread.
Someone was talking about a movie that was like Indiana Jones, if it was really crazy and Indiana Jones was a woman and there's a pterodactyl.
I don't have any clue what she's talking about.
Princess is a pug-chihuahua hybrid and her owner was playing with her and saying "well, she had a squashed face but we stretched out and then we tried to push it back in but it never works."
Princess played back by nibbling on his hand. The woman next to him was somewhat allergic to dogs.
I tried to draw her, but she kept moving around. It's not the first time I tried to draw a dog.
And I lucked out because Bob's Burgers wasn't on tonight anyway.
context
La boheme was originally set in the 1840s, same context as Les miserables. Leoncavallo wrote his own opera based on the play and Puccini called him Leonasino (lion-ass instead of lion-horse… not sure why… Italian surnames can be really out there. I have a friend who's surname translates to Make It Beautiful), in which the younger people of Paris were disillusioned by the Napoleonic Wars and the nationalism of the bourgeoisie, and artists could no longer rely on patronages, and Paris was experiencing an influx of people from the French countryside, who were living in close quarters.
Rodolfo, a poet (and filmmaker in the BLO's version), Marcello (a painter), Colline (a philosopher), and Schaunard (a musician) are living in a garret, they get their landlord Benoit, balls, drunk and swindle him out of his payment, which they use for an evening out, Rodolfo stays behind and Mimi's candle blows out so she needs Rodolfo to light it, but then she loses her key and the candle goes out too, and they fall in love, they gather at a revolutionary hangout and run into Marcello's ex Musetta. Musetta wants Marcello back so she swindles the government minister Alcindoro out of some money to pay for their food when nobody else has anytthing out, they join a protest, Mimi reveals that she has tuberculosis (probably, it's never specified, it was updated to AIDS in the musical Rent. It might be a bit hard to sing with the most common form tuberculosis because the bacteria are eating away the lungs, but tuberculosis can happen in other parts of the body too. Also, tuberculosis is a big problem where AIDS is), and they can't be together because Rodolfo has no money and can't do anything for her, Musetta finds Mimi wandering the streets desperately ill and brings her to the garret, they pawn their stuff to get Mimi some mittens to keep her hands warm and try to call a doctor but she dies before that.
The set for the first act had a painting of Che Guevara, a poster of the film Masculin Feminin, mattresses and chairs and other junk salvaged from curbsides and flea markets, graffiti that said "it is forbidden to forbid" and "we are here" and
.….. ot
GOD
.….. ard
The moon was projected against the words "time is an invention"
During the protest, they were carrying signs that said Revolution Now! and "capitalist pig" being held by the captive Alcindoro with an apple in his mouth and "beauty is in the streets." Originally the protest was a military band. The BLO depicted the barricade as a mountain of garbage.
In the third act, the graffiti became "we are still here" and
.….. ot
GOD
.….. ard
is
dead
Colline sings a tearful goodbye to his coat.
In the last act, before Musetta informed the men that Mimi had fallen seriously ill, I think one of the guys was holding a de Gaulle caricature in front of his face and the other guy had a Marx painting and they were fightning over Marilyn Monroe.
There's a lost third act where Musetta holds a party and her landlord auctions off her furniture and Musetta dances with a viscouit and Rodolfo is jealous.
Liberté, Égalité, Sexualité.
In 1968, students protested against the conservative middle class values in France, its violent colonial legacy, its disregard for the needs of students and youth, the brave new world of capitalism and its growing inequality. Protests began at the University of Paris campus in Nanterre, where men and women were not permitted to visit each other, and they shuttered the university for the second time (the first was in 1940 and you can guess why) in its 700 year history. 600 students were arrested.
Eventually artists, workers, and intellectuals joined them and a nationwide strike brought French society to a halt. "Life Is Elsewhere," a surrealist slogan, became a rallying cry for revolutionaries. Other slogans included "it is forbidden to forbid," "enjoy without hindrance," and "elections, a trap for idiots."
De Gaulle left the country, retuned the next day accusing the Communists of stoking the unrest and plotting the downfall of the French nation and state, and held elections, which gave even more power to the right wing.
France For The French was a popular anti-revolutionary slogan, even though if it wasn't for the very very many non-French in the French Resistance, they'd all be speaking German in the largest province of the German empire French has no word for gratitude, I guess.
Time is an invention of those incapable of love is a phrase connected with the left-communist magazine Invariance, for those of you wondering.
Of course, in 2015, it's more aptly "time is an invention of those without deLoreans."
the happening world
Some things change, some things stay the same. Meanwhile, the Syrian Arab Republic is currently brutally putting down protests that escalated into a civil war instead of fizzling out at the first sign of violence with the help of their Russian and Iranian puppetmasters because Bashar al Assad and his wife would rather leave Syria in ruins than leave power. Refugees are pouring out of Syria, and right-wing movements are gaining ground, and even Democratic Underground has joined in in the xenophobic fervor.
A few years ago, Occupy and Black Lives Matter fizzled out and accomplished very little politically. I'm not going to blame them if the right wing gains power. It's not their fault. It's the democratic establishment's fault for fielding lackluster candidates in response to the Republican's outright terrible ones.
And then you have the commodification of art and people giving advice that is basically saying the only reason to write fiction is to make money and you have people saying that you should write at least four novels a year and don't give a shit about quality. And you have techies pricing everyone out of homes.
Lisa Goldstein wrote a novel called The Dream Years, in which André Breton and his friend Robert St. Onge, who was not a real person which explained why the first thing I found when Googling him is arrest records, though I am fairly confident that I can find arrest records for André Breton, uses surrealism to peacefully fight in 1968 protests and a revolution further in the future.
I'll have to see if I can get my hands on this.
I don't like commenting using Facebook but I want to say the Arch of Triumph in Palmyra was blown up as if to say "hey, Bashar, remember those tourists who came to visit these ruins? Well, they're not going to come to your new Transcaspian-style despotate!"
So I'll say it here.
tracking with closeups
Most of these are from earlier times where I thought of collecting random snippets of conversations, forum posts, facebook statuses, and tweets.
Orange moon
la luna sangre
how beautiful are you.
somebody sarcastically proposed this and I actually sincerely agree that all militaries should send their soldiers to battle carrying kittens, and nobody would ever want to shoot each other.
I've posted about this before, but I think the hitman franchise needs a game where agent 47 travels through time and assassinates historical figures
datura simulator.
But now for the real worst part. Right after the bride and groom kissed, and they turned to face the audience, the groom's face turned to stone
I choose to take that literally. People shouldn't be marrying basilisks. Fucking seriously.
I feel like this should be put into an old-school Looney Toons episode. It would be a silent episode that would involve nothing but Daffy Duck attempting to walk through a mile of swamp.
Carla said this.
Today was the temp to perm training. The instructor uses this as an ice breaker, "if you were a cookie, what cookie would you be?"
There were like 25 of us and the most common responses were, " sugar cookie, chocolate chip, girl scout, Oreo etc."
My response? " browser cookie."
Immelman said this.
I want to congratulate the following.
-Those who found love.
-Those who lost love then found love again.
-Those who lost their car keys then found love.
-And those who lost their car keys then found their car keys.
A response:
Everyone finds their keys. That's a fact.
My response: and if they don't find their keys, others find them and use them to make jewelry or something.
Sully said this. this is a true statement, because I was in a hot car with my coat on in traffic and I had no way to take my coat off and I was motion sick and it felt like forever.
Sully's theory of MBTA Relativity: the louder, more overcrowded, or generally more uncomfortable the vessel in which you occupy, the slower time goes.
List of things you need to shoot 12 times in self defense:
1. Werewolves
2. That's literally it.
Ethan said this.
Every time Facebook puts out a notice that they are "updating" their privacy policies, I assume that means they are removing them.
Shannon said this.
That awkward moment when you think your beard's finally coming in and it just so happens theres a spider on your chin instead.
Sully: Oh she invented Google?
Gwenhwyfar: Former famous pro tennis player, then famous for being stepdad of the Kardashians, and now for being the most famous trans* person in America.
Sully: All that and she invented Google? I'm impressed.
Sully: Yeah fuck the Kardashians. Props to Jenner: it takes balls to be a woman and let the world know. A public announcemt like this raises the conversation and (gasp) might even help some people accept trans folks if not understand them. I just wish it had been somebody I gave a fuck about like Al Jean or The Hamburglar.
Super Spooky Burning Question time, because it's October. They were mostly ganked from NeoGAF.
burning question: at what altitude or depth does haunted land stop being haunted? Apparently, there's a movie where the Bermuda Triangle extends to the moon.
I had a conversation with an artist (graphic designer) and pianist (I mean two different people, kupo. They're sisters) who was learning Clair de lune by Claude Debussy and whose favorite composer is Frederic Chopin, who, like Debussy, can do no wrong, and they had a cat named Peanut and a milk snake (or was it corn snake) with an unspecified name. It went from summer to winter in a week, says she.
We then met a man who drew Mario getting high on a mushroom on a whiteboard.
I tried to draw someone with black hair and a black jacket and gray hoodie who got on on South Station and she tried to take a picture of it and I hope it was successful.
And I'm sorry we couldn't talk about art or anything. I'm sorry I couldn't get to know you.
A woman told her dog Sully "I will give you cheese if you come with me" but he refused so she carried him instead.
I mentioned Bartok while waiting for the doors to open and a girl talked about how she played one of his pieces but can't remember the name for it because it was in Hungarian, and she tried to learn Russian and is now taking Mandarin Chinese and loves how simple the grammar is and its lack of tense and gender.
I met a Bianca at Panera Gurpgork, which is unofficially Turkmen for bread.
Someone was talking about a movie that was like Indiana Jones, if it was really crazy and Indiana Jones was a woman and there's a pterodactyl.
I don't have any clue what she's talking about.
Princess is a pug-chihuahua hybrid and her owner was playing with her and saying "well, she had a squashed face but we stretched out and then we tried to push it back in but it never works."
Princess played back by nibbling on his hand. The woman next to him was somewhat allergic to dogs.
I tried to draw her, but she kept moving around. It's not the first time I tried to draw a dog.
And I lucked out because Bob's Burgers wasn't on tonight anyway.
context
La boheme was originally set in the 1840s, same context as Les miserables. Leoncavallo wrote his own opera based on the play and Puccini called him Leonasino (lion-ass instead of lion-horse… not sure why… Italian surnames can be really out there. I have a friend who's surname translates to Make It Beautiful), in which the younger people of Paris were disillusioned by the Napoleonic Wars and the nationalism of the bourgeoisie, and artists could no longer rely on patronages, and Paris was experiencing an influx of people from the French countryside, who were living in close quarters.
Rodolfo, a poet (and filmmaker in the BLO's version), Marcello (a painter), Colline (a philosopher), and Schaunard (a musician) are living in a garret, they get their landlord Benoit, balls, drunk and swindle him out of his payment, which they use for an evening out, Rodolfo stays behind and Mimi's candle blows out so she needs Rodolfo to light it, but then she loses her key and the candle goes out too, and they fall in love, they gather at a revolutionary hangout and run into Marcello's ex Musetta. Musetta wants Marcello back so she swindles the government minister Alcindoro out of some money to pay for their food when nobody else has anytthing out, they join a protest, Mimi reveals that she has tuberculosis (probably, it's never specified, it was updated to AIDS in the musical Rent. It might be a bit hard to sing with the most common form tuberculosis because the bacteria are eating away the lungs, but tuberculosis can happen in other parts of the body too. Also, tuberculosis is a big problem where AIDS is), and they can't be together because Rodolfo has no money and can't do anything for her, Musetta finds Mimi wandering the streets desperately ill and brings her to the garret, they pawn their stuff to get Mimi some mittens to keep her hands warm and try to call a doctor but she dies before that.
The set for the first act had a painting of Che Guevara, a poster of the film Masculin Feminin, mattresses and chairs and other junk salvaged from curbsides and flea markets, graffiti that said "it is forbidden to forbid" and "we are here" and
.….. ot
GOD
.….. ard
The moon was projected against the words "time is an invention"
During the protest, they were carrying signs that said Revolution Now! and "capitalist pig" being held by the captive Alcindoro with an apple in his mouth and "beauty is in the streets." Originally the protest was a military band. The BLO depicted the barricade as a mountain of garbage.
In the third act, the graffiti became "we are still here" and
.….. ot
GOD
.….. ard
is
dead
Colline sings a tearful goodbye to his coat.
In the last act, before Musetta informed the men that Mimi had fallen seriously ill, I think one of the guys was holding a de Gaulle caricature in front of his face and the other guy had a Marx painting and they were fightning over Marilyn Monroe.
There's a lost third act where Musetta holds a party and her landlord auctions off her furniture and Musetta dances with a viscouit and Rodolfo is jealous.
Liberté, Égalité, Sexualité.
In 1968, students protested against the conservative middle class values in France, its violent colonial legacy, its disregard for the needs of students and youth, the brave new world of capitalism and its growing inequality. Protests began at the University of Paris campus in Nanterre, where men and women were not permitted to visit each other, and they shuttered the university for the second time (the first was in 1940 and you can guess why) in its 700 year history. 600 students were arrested.
Eventually artists, workers, and intellectuals joined them and a nationwide strike brought French society to a halt. "Life Is Elsewhere," a surrealist slogan, became a rallying cry for revolutionaries. Other slogans included "it is forbidden to forbid," "enjoy without hindrance," and "elections, a trap for idiots."
De Gaulle left the country, retuned the next day accusing the Communists of stoking the unrest and plotting the downfall of the French nation and state, and held elections, which gave even more power to the right wing.
France For The French was a popular anti-revolutionary slogan, even though if it wasn't for the very very many non-French in the French Resistance, they'd all be speaking German in the largest province of the German empire French has no word for gratitude, I guess.
Time is an invention of those incapable of love is a phrase connected with the left-communist magazine Invariance, for those of you wondering.
Of course, in 2015, it's more aptly "time is an invention of those without deLoreans."
the happening world
Some things change, some things stay the same. Meanwhile, the Syrian Arab Republic is currently brutally putting down protests that escalated into a civil war instead of fizzling out at the first sign of violence with the help of their Russian and Iranian puppetmasters because Bashar al Assad and his wife would rather leave Syria in ruins than leave power. Refugees are pouring out of Syria, and right-wing movements are gaining ground, and even Democratic Underground has joined in in the xenophobic fervor.
A few years ago, Occupy and Black Lives Matter fizzled out and accomplished very little politically. I'm not going to blame them if the right wing gains power. It's not their fault. It's the democratic establishment's fault for fielding lackluster candidates in response to the Republican's outright terrible ones.
And then you have the commodification of art and people giving advice that is basically saying the only reason to write fiction is to make money and you have people saying that you should write at least four novels a year and don't give a shit about quality. And you have techies pricing everyone out of homes.
Lisa Goldstein wrote a novel called The Dream Years, in which André Breton and his friend Robert St. Onge, who was not a real person which explained why the first thing I found when Googling him is arrest records, though I am fairly confident that I can find arrest records for André Breton, uses surrealism to peacefully fight in 1968 protests and a revolution further in the future.
I'll have to see if I can get my hands on this.
I don't like commenting using Facebook but I want to say the Arch of Triumph in Palmyra was blown up as if to say "hey, Bashar, remember those tourists who came to visit these ruins? Well, they're not going to come to your new Transcaspian-style despotate!"
So I'll say it here.
tracking with closeups
Most of these are from earlier times where I thought of collecting random snippets of conversations, forum posts, facebook statuses, and tweets.
Orange moon
la luna sangre
how beautiful are you.
somebody sarcastically proposed this and I actually sincerely agree that all militaries should send their soldiers to battle carrying kittens, and nobody would ever want to shoot each other.
I've posted about this before, but I think the hitman franchise needs a game where agent 47 travels through time and assassinates historical figures
datura simulator.
But now for the real worst part. Right after the bride and groom kissed, and they turned to face the audience, the groom's face turned to stone
I choose to take that literally. People shouldn't be marrying basilisks. Fucking seriously.
I feel like this should be put into an old-school Looney Toons episode. It would be a silent episode that would involve nothing but Daffy Duck attempting to walk through a mile of swamp.
Carla said this.
Today was the temp to perm training. The instructor uses this as an ice breaker, "if you were a cookie, what cookie would you be?"
There were like 25 of us and the most common responses were, " sugar cookie, chocolate chip, girl scout, Oreo etc."
My response? " browser cookie."
Immelman said this.
I want to congratulate the following.
-Those who found love.
-Those who lost love then found love again.
-Those who lost their car keys then found love.
-And those who lost their car keys then found their car keys.
A response:
Everyone finds their keys. That's a fact.
My response: and if they don't find their keys, others find them and use them to make jewelry or something.
Sully said this. this is a true statement, because I was in a hot car with my coat on in traffic and I had no way to take my coat off and I was motion sick and it felt like forever.
Sully's theory of MBTA Relativity: the louder, more overcrowded, or generally more uncomfortable the vessel in which you occupy, the slower time goes.
List of things you need to shoot 12 times in self defense:
1. Werewolves
2. That's literally it.
Ethan said this.
Every time Facebook puts out a notice that they are "updating" their privacy policies, I assume that means they are removing them.
Shannon said this.
That awkward moment when you think your beard's finally coming in and it just so happens theres a spider on your chin instead.
Sully: Oh she invented Google?
Gwenhwyfar: Former famous pro tennis player, then famous for being stepdad of the Kardashians, and now for being the most famous trans* person in America.
Sully: All that and she invented Google? I'm impressed.
Sully: Yeah fuck the Kardashians. Props to Jenner: it takes balls to be a woman and let the world know. A public announcemt like this raises the conversation and (gasp) might even help some people accept trans folks if not understand them. I just wish it had been somebody I gave a fuck about like Al Jean or The Hamburglar.
Super Spooky Burning Question time, because it's October. They were mostly ganked from NeoGAF.
burning question: at what altitude or depth does haunted land stop being haunted? Apparently, there's a movie where the Bermuda Triangle extends to the moon.
