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kicking off my newsletter/return to Blogging by being incredibly on brand (remembering our departed nobel laureate, making fun of/having feelings about a certain blonde billionaire, going insane about a documentary from 1999, talking about one direction but only a little little bit)
does he like the odyssey bc it invented nonlinear narrative storytelling?
the great rooted bed scene is soooo crazy…. penelope’s like “i just gotta triple check the guy who slaughtered everyone in my house is in fact my long lost husband odysseus and i’m gonna do that by pulling an odysseys (lying my face off about moving the bed he carved out of an enormous ancient tree)” and then he freaks out at how fickle she is and she’s like “it IS you :’)”….. like homer your mind……
a little concerned about how the most astonishingly sexless director in hollywood is going to handle the great rooted bed scene…. that’s a scene that should really fuck….
Hm. Hmmmmm! hmm. well.
i finished my 2024 sessions today! 🥳 and moved my first 2025 session by a day so i don’t have to start up till 1/5 lol. i willll probably spend tomorrow working at least some because i have those nagging answer explanations i want to stop hanging over me + a little prep work i’d like to have done going in, plus i’m waiting on a couple emails re scheduling… but that’s alright. lol. overall i am pleased to have made it and not displeased to be coming back with the slate i’ll be returning with (a little heavier than i’d anticipated for january and very weekend skewed which is annoying for social reasons but overall Not So Bad and is helpful financially and at least some of the students i know for a fact will not be super prep heavy although alack re: How Long The Fucking ACT is). i think i may have said this earlier but according to my lil time tracking app i worked more hours in the fall this year than last year but overall my stress & mental health was soooooooo much better this year…. which is the result of some prolonged internal battles paying off & some interpersonal stuff getting worked through & changing circumstantially across the past 15 months or so, but also the result of little shifts in my life adding up. i learned this fall that it is now the case that even when i am really phoning it in re: Trying, i get my work done in a way that isn’t crazymaking and i work out regularly and i also still have lots of fun on a regular basis. i would say that literally none of those things were true for the vast majority of my adulthood (i am almost 37 and definitely would not say any of them were true during ANY of my twenties AT ALL), and now they are all true even when i am basically running on auto pilot. that’s neat!!! i feel very lucky.
this week i got my steps in & worked out 5 times partly because i have been so good about foam rolling but sooomehoooow did something weird to a part of my back i have never had pain in before….. i stretched it some and tennis balled it some and hopefully it is just tense and sore and will right itself when i sleep 🤞🏼 i also finally succumbed to my phone’s harassment to get extra icloud data mostly so i could clear enough room on my phone to update my iOS which i have been excited about mostly as a person who due to my particular Challenges almost exclusively remembers “oh shit! i was gonna text ___” at bedtime… i expect send later to be a real improvement for me. i have been good about keeping my room at its Not Making Me Insane baseline and ditto the kitchen after receiving substantial outside help. i’ve been ipad journaling and doing a lil meditation and it feels nice. today i came home and was going to do some more work and instead was soooo sleepy and that’s ok! lol. in confederate reckoning i am on the chapter about soldiers’ wives and in js&mn stephen black has met the gentleman with the thistle-down hair, which is what i shall turn my attention to next!
my mum was googling for an article about why everyone in the lord of the rings film is white (like to be clear she was annoyed by this) and the google ai was apparently like “everybody in the lord of the rings is not white. gandalf is grey.”
hello what food item makes you think of this time of year the most
the last sentence would be true if we lived in a society where we had not linked having a college degree to being able to access even the possibility of all manner of jobs that 100% do not require skills that can only be acquired through attaining a college degree. But Alas.
Out of Sight (1998)
don't forget the reason for the season: 🎶 i coulda been someone / WELL SO COULD ANYONE 🎶
fake old movie fans: cary grant was soo handsome i wish boys now looked like that
real old movie fans: peter lorre is looking so small and succulent in this film i want to carry him around alive but limply in my mouth
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partygoer: I miss tumblr
girl who has at least 20 hours screentime on tumblr per week: yeah me too crazy how no one uses it anymore
if we are adapting mediocre musicals for the screen now is it too much to ask for legally blonde the musical the movie. is it too much to ask that this happen and also is not directed by john m chu
have to confess sean fennessey is really picking up some points with me lately by being one of the few with a platform who are able and willing to perceive and speak the truth (wicked bad)
Music lovers of the mid-nineteenth century were young, middle class, white men and women, often newly arrived in American cities, who, for the first time in history, focused more on hearing public concerts than on making music themselves at home. For many Americans in antebellum cities, the chance to hear professionally performed music simply for the price of a ticket was astonishing, wiping away the necessity of having to learn an instrument, find sheet music, and practice. Indulging in its convenience was the mark of someone fully participating in the sophisticated culture of the city. But music lovers imbued their participation in this enterprise with unexpected enthusiasm. They did not just attend concerts; they depleted their savings to do so every night; they described their feelings about what they heard in diaries, and they waited, longingly, for their favorite performers to return so that listeners could hear those performers again and again.
Take Walt Whitman, who, as one of the earliest music lovers, developed a fascination with concerts while a journalist in New York City in the mid-1840s: on the “free list” for concerts, he was able to hear most of the major virtuoso performers who passed through the city in the late 1840s and early 1850s and would frequently rhapsodize about his favorite opera singers. Although Whitman never had any formal musical training and never learned to play an instrument, music affected him with such force that he described his listening experiences in poems, journal entries, and reminiscences throughout his entire life.
[...] As the concert business grew in the 1850s, spectacle became one means of competition between promoters, especially in the form of the “monster” concert format that, at its extreme, put literally thousands of performers onstage at the same time and necessitated the building of huge, temporary performance halls, the size of several contemporary football fields to accommodate such ambitions. The novelty of these performances for most people was the overwhelming physical experience—a kind of sonic rush of instruments, crowds, and applause.
For music lovers, though, sensation was not a novelty but rather a desired ideal for all performance experiences, whether in a temporary coliseum or a “lecture room” at a dime museum. Music lovers were attuned to the power and quality of performed sound at a visceral, almost intuitive level. Voices had to “strike” or “move” them to be important. In response to opera, especially, music lovers often expressed an overwhelming visceral ecstasy, with music “filling their souls” to the point of losing composure, something that was excitingly dangerous and quite cathartic within the behavioral strictures of middle-class Victorian culture.
—Daniel Cavicchi, “Fandom Before 'Fan': Shaping the History of Enthusiastic Audiences,” Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, Vol. 6 (2014)
