Random Impulse

This past week in my sixties culture class, we started talking about the legacy of the sixties. We have seen many video clips, documentaries, and we have even had several guest speakers who have said that the sixties revolution was a natural phenomenon because the frustration level, anger, and lack of hope was on an epidemic level, so naturally the world rebelled collectively. Dr. Aanstoos believes that the main purpose of the sixties revolutions was to save the earth; it was all a result of an environmental crisis that was obviously a threat during that time because of the use of nuclear weaponry. He felt that the main goal of the hippies and activists, ultimatly, was to attempt to encouage people to relate to the world differently, because, after all, the earth is the mother of all things living on it. The hippies were trying to buy us time. According to some ecologists, we only have three generations left before the earth is too toxic to live on, but of course we never hear that on the news because people want to continue driling for oil and creating nuclear power plants. There have been TONS of books before during and after the sixties trying to encourage people to live with less and to live closer to the earth. I'm reading a book right now called 'the voice of the earth' by Theodore Roszak who breaks down the reasons why we are so apprehensive about living with less to take care of our home. I dunno, just wanted to share.

Random Impulse

• We talked about point of view in class this week. In my 60s culture class, we've been talking about the different perspectives from different social, racial and political groups in the sixties. I wrote a paper about the differences between civil rights activists based on race. In my paper for sixties culture, we talked about the SDS (Students for a Deocratic Society) and the SAS (Student Afro Society) during the Colombia University riots in 1968. The cause of this riot was because of two things: a gymnasium that was going to be a segregated gym (Gym Crow) along with the exposure of Colombia University's involvment with the assymbly of weapons to support the vietman war. The adults on campus were trying to supress the students' right to free speech because they felt that the students were bringing outside affairs onto campus. The SDS and SAS (both student ogranizations on campus) ended fighting each other instead of combining efforts. I feel the sixties, obviously, had a huge impact on where we are today socially. And for that reason that these two student groups who, for the most part, were different races of people (black -vs- white) along with different view points about what to do with the political and social situations they were forced to deal with. my point is that because of the fact that the view points during that time differed so much during the sixties, the perspectives where skewed and even exploited during times to come.


• I think it is interesting that in MLK's letters from bermingham he found a way to talk to the people who were opressing using the 'involved author' point of view where there is no single viewpoint from one character being utilized, but King takes on the perspective of those opressing, those being oppresed, and those who have the power to end oppression but turn the other cheek (usually friends). Choosing the right view point and utilizing it properly can obviously have a huge impact on how things are delt with inside of a story, during a speech, an everyday conversation, or letters being written to others in hopes to change the world for the better.

reading response

• The Fat Girl:

I enjoyed this reading. It's a story about a common girl, and her 'rebirth' so to speak in several different stories that are fit into one short story. I felt like i could relate to Louise and Carrie. Even though Louise and Carrie's lives are pretty different from mine, the auther found a way to create a feeling of some type of common ground. When i'm doing writing exercies, i like writing about people and things that are unique, and find a common ground and similarities between the characters and the reader. Even though Carrie and Louise seem to come from a different time and background, i i felt comfortable in a sense because i too was an awkward child with a parent that was constantly hard on me. This is going to sound corney, but i think that we caught louise in a part of her life where she was cacooning like a butter fly. She was in the 'mushy' phase of her growth. Parts of her life were highlighted that were significant to who she became by the end of the story as well as who she will become later as a parent and a grandparent. I think it's interesting how authors can write about people who are so common but they find a way to make their stories profound.

• Chapter Seven

Being a psychology major, i found chapter seven to be really interesting. Because humans are thrown into different cultures, lifestyles and given a different set of parents and siblings, attend different schools in various cultures and communities and have so many different languages that portray these different was of seeing the world there are so many different perspectives to write from. I thought it was interesting that different perspectives were broken down to portray a different idea and view point. I plan on doing more exercies pertaining to perspective because i enjoy being forced to look through someone elses eyes and perspectives. I find creative writing interesting because it allows me to study and analyze human behavior and toy with it. I liked this chapter. :]

junkyard

1. "You owe relaity nothing. You owe your imagination and your feelings everything" -the triggering town "There is no such thing as a weird person, it's just that some need more understanding than others" - Tom Robbins


2. "we do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is vulnerable, worth listening to, worthy of trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. --e.e. cummings


3. "I made my shoes shine with my coal / but my polish didn't shine the hole" Modest Mouse - Edit the Sad Parts


4. "We're all so funny but he's lost his joke now / our communications come from one lined jokes / from stand up comics and rock musicians / making so much noise you don't know when to listen" - Modest Mouse


5. "my concern was always about the nobody (not the genius), the man who is lost in the shuffle, the man who is so common, so ordinary that his presence is not even noticed... the only benefits, i reflected, which could offer me was to remove the differences which separated me from my fellow-man -Henery Miller


6. There is a world in me unlike the world i know of. I dont think it is my exclusive property, it's only the angle of my vision which is exclusive in that it is unique. If i take the language of my unique vision nobody understands; the most colossal edifice maybe reared and yet remain invisible -Henery Miller

Junkyard

i really fuck things up sometimes …but guess what? I’m really fucking human all of the time

random impulse

if America were an egg it would need to be a lot less cheesy It would need a lot less scrambling and it would need to be a lot less greasy.

random impulse

The People in power around the world are like a bunch of bonobos throwing shit at each other… and the civilians are the little chimp spectators. watch out for the shit, please.