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11-05-2014, 01:02 AM
So, since you listen to NPR... did you hear about Jian Ghomeshi?
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11-05-2014, 03:28 AM
I did! What even, dude. The truth is I never actually heard his show, but I saw adverts for it on the CBC, and I think maybe an appearance here and there. And... I don't know, he just seemed like a chill dude. I even thought he was a bit cute. But you know what's not cute? Violently manhandling people without their consent. What's going on in your brain box?!
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11-05-2014, 03:30 AM
Do they not play Q on your NPR? They play it on mine and it airs during my commute, so I heard him quite a bit. I thought his name was very pleasing to say. But yeah, awful, awful person. Fuck that guy! Not literally.
The article I read about it in also made mention of Bill Cosby. So... I did not know he had been raping women, what the fuck.
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11-05-2014, 03:59 AM
Yup, I heard about Bill Cosby about a year ago. I still can't wrap my head around it.
We get CBC shows, but I don't recall us ever getting Q. The one that we got for a time and that I MISS SO MUCH was Ideas
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11-05-2014, 04:54 AM
I remember recently seeing some headline about Bill Cosby, actually. But it was framed around how a comedian had talked about Bill Cosby being a rapist in his stand up act. I interpreted that as "Comedian makes awful, awful rape joke about beloved actor" rather than the truth, "comedian points out how awful it is that no one cares that beloved actor is a rapist" and didn't bother clicking on it.
Ah, I suppose it should have occurred to me that not all public radio stations would syndicate the same shows. Ideas sounds really neat, though!
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11-05-2014, 09:24 AM
I wish there were a way I could just load these up in my car, since that's about my only time for listening to something like that.
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11-05-2014, 09:32 AM
Rip them and put them on an ipod? Or better yet, when you are trying to sleep... you might need a few days to hear all of one, but it's very soothing.
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11-09-2014, 05:59 AM
That's an option, but then I have to work out how to get the audio out. I don't have the appropriate jack in my car and I don't feel like driving with headphones on is the safest measure.
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11-27-2014, 06:57 AM
I have an unpopular opinion here... I'm not so into Poe.
I appreciate what he did. I respect him. I understand he had a rough life and I sympathize.
But his work didn't age well... like at all. Standards have changed so much that what was unspeakably shocking then just seems tame now.  So often he just sounds (now) sort of like a sad 14 year old who just realized "pain" rhymes with "rain." Which is no discredit to him, he was the first to do everything he did, but it just lost its punch somewhere along the ages.
I think I'm more interested in him as a person than I am in his writing. Though I do read his work once in a while.
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11-27-2014, 10:11 AM
You're absolutely entitled to your opinion, don't fret.
I think a lot of it is down to you having to the sensibilities that he caters to inborn. I feel like that might be a person out of time, who can resonate with other ages, but I'm not quite sure. Or just a person who thrives on the surging yet subtle drama of it. He's got that overall arc of the Romantic Age in his work, you know?
On your comment that it sounds like bad emo poetry... I really put that down to him being the template for all that, the originator, which you sort of mentioned. I guarantee you that the emo kids have subsumed that. I don't think his rhyme schemes are too simplistic. I could see that in say, Annabelle Lee, but that's redeemed by it's excellent rhythm. But then something like Ulalume, which is similar, holds up to scrutiny much better, as far as rhyme.
then there's the other half, the prose.
Honestly, I just mostly wanted to share the personal beauty thing, in the face of our modern conception of him. Also the Mary Roger thing. Still intrigued by that.
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11-28-2014, 12:07 AM
Oh yeah, it's definitely that he inspired the current hacks. I don't believe he was unoriginal or a hack at all, but I've been exposed to so many bad writers who took inspiration from him (direct or not) that I just taste them when I read his stuff. Plus the "scary" stuff just isn't scary anymore, so it reads like a whole lot of "I'M SO MORBID!!! ... A PERSON DIED!" when, yes, I consider it to be much more subtle drama. I can appreciate that.
Again, I do respect his work, his contributions to literature, him as a person, etc. I just find myself underwhelmed by how it has (not) stood up over time. Maybe it's just that he's overhyped, in a way? So that nothing he could have ever written would have lived up to what I was expecting? It's entirely possible. I hold no ill feelings towards him, I'm just bummed that I can't get more into him like other people have. But I'm still open, so if there's something you feel might change my mind, I'd definitely give it a read.
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12-04-2014, 05:32 AM
Well, the other day I was reading his Some Words with a Mummy the other day and it was genuinely funny, I was chuckling to myself. Compare that to Giacomo Leopardi's Dialogue between Frederick Ruysch and His Mummies. Very good, but not very funny.
There was something going around on tumblr about two months ago about mummies, and one of the commentators was talking about the egyptian dead in the Victorian Era, and mentioned Mummy Porn. Which is a bit ??? because the only type of thing I can think she was talking about might be like Iras: A mystery, which is very chaste and involves a woman who was never dead, but only in statis. If she were dead (and if it hadn't have been written by a woman author), though, I would say it would compelling to look at in the light of the victorian dedication to the narrative of woman and innocent, or rather the mingling of death, woman, and seduction suggest a male fear of woman in the time period. Kind of like Stoker and his monster women in Dracula. In any case, the post is off the mark. Also don't goggle "mummy erotica" if you are trying to sort this all out.
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12-08-2014, 11:30 AM
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12-08-2014, 10:05 PM
Oh my god indeed. Almost makes me wish I had an occasion to use those!
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12-09-2014, 05:22 AM
Those are absolutely beautiful.
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12-11-2014, 08:52 PM
Okay, so a couple of things
I was watching that travel channel and they have this spate of shows like Mysteries at the Museum, Monumental Mysteries, etc. And I tuned in just to see them cover the Mary Rogers case. I was super excited. Interestingly, what they seemed to play up was the idea that her employer might have been the culprit, which is not one of the theories I'd really seen dwelled on online.
And another thing: may I introduce you to Phoolan Devi? Because she is fascinating (a word I overuse, I know)
Phoolan Devi (Indian folk hero) | Encyclopedia Britannica
She's also the subject of two operas
Phoolan Devi
Phoolan Devi Opera-Home
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12-13-2014, 09:01 AM
Oh man, that site is awesome. Gonna have to read the whole thing. :D
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12-16-2014, 05:52 AM
Eeee, that is amazing, fairywaif: If you have more cool websites to share, please do
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12-16-2014, 11:00 PM
Standing ovation for Phoolan Devi! Truly amazing that not only was she able to get revenge, but that she was then able to get a seat in Parliament. Rock on, lady.
So are you guys familiar with Nick Cave? No, not that one. The artist.
He makes these amazing full-body suits of crazy materials called Soundsuits. You've probably seen some pictures floating around the internet before...
Anyway, I've been a casual admirer of his work for some time now. So I was looking for something to do this past weekend when I happened to find that some of his suits were temporarily on exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum! I also found that Nick Cave is a Missouri native, something I didn't know before. So I persuaded my boyfriend to go with me, and I got to see some of his works in person. And oh... man. Oh man. They were absolutely amazing. Art gets me emotional, so there was a lot of feelings of being overwhelmed with awe to be standing in front of them, getting to walk around them and see them from every angle, getting in close, stepping back. Pictures never do anything justice.
Now, beyond being cool sculptural pieces to look at... They're meant to be performed in. Of course they had no performers in them for the exhibition, but they did have a video playing to watch. Luckily, I found this video online!
Drive-By
It's not too long, but if you're not feeling it... give it time. I wasn't so into the very beginning with the earth-toned suits. But it really gets good when they bring out the bright, furry suits! Cave has said the whole goal of the performances is to get the performers to a point where they completely lose themselves to the suits, and that is the part he's interested (and what is filmed).
His work really is something else. I love it. I'll post some of the pictures I took of the exhibit if there's interest. Some of the suits were assembled from materials other than fabric - one had a bunch of old tin toys, and another had tons of thrift store ceramic bird tchotchkes.
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12-17-2014, 07:06 AM
Yeah, I've seen his work before, there was a show at the Seattle Art Museum a few years ago. You can imagine how weird it was to see those on the sides of buses x)
Double cred to fairywaif, I found out about a non-princess that is delightful through a link at the bottom of one of the pages:
Japanese "Author Nun" Texts Her Way Into Literary World, My Heart - Esquire
I didn't read that sidebar article, but if we want to discuss it, I might.
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12-21-2014, 04:38 AM
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Standing ovation for Phoolan Devi! Truly amazing that not only was she able to get revenge, but that she was then able to get a seat in Parliament. Rock on, lady.
So are you guys familiar with Nick Cave? No, not that one. The artist.
He makes these amazing full-body suits of crazy materials called Soundsuits. You've probably seen some pictures floating around the internet before...
Anyway, I've been a casual admirer of his work for some time now. So I was looking for something to do this past weekend when I happened to find that some of his suits were temporarily on exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum! I also found that Nick Cave is a Missouri native, something I didn't know before. So I persuaded my boyfriend to go with me, and I got to see some of his works in person. And oh... man. Oh man. They were absolutely amazing. Art gets me emotional, so there was a lot of feelings of being overwhelmed with awe to be standing in front of them, getting to walk around them and see them from every angle, getting in close, stepping back. Pictures never do anything justice.
Now, beyond being cool sculptural pieces to look at... They're meant to be performed in. Of course they had no performers in them for the exhibition, but they did have a video playing to watch. Luckily, I found this video online!
Drive-By
It's not too long, but if you're not feeling it... give it time. I wasn't so into the very beginning with the earth-toned suits. But it really gets good when they bring out the bright, furry suits! Cave has said the whole goal of the performances is to get the performers to a point where they completely lose themselves to the suits, and that is the part he's interested (and what is filmed).
His work really is something else. I love it. I'll post some of the pictures I took of the exhibit if there's interest. Some of the suits were assembled from materials other than fabric - one had a bunch of old tin toys, and another had tons of thrift store ceramic bird tchotchkes.
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Those look amazing! I'll look into this artist.
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