Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Least Threatening Tailgater
A sunny yellow bug with a flower in the windshield followed me for ~10 minutes on the way home today. It wanted me to go faster, but I couldn't take it seriously!
Poetry!
I chose this poem to analyze for an English paper and it was COOL.
Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there must always be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a cornor, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the foresaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
So, why was it cool? The Musee des Beaux Arts = the Musee royal des Beaux Arts de Belgique in Brussels. It is the home of Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. The coolness comes in here - I had been a bit confused about the entire first sentence. Seriously, I thought, where did this stuff about dogs and torturers and horses with the itchy butts come from? Then, while looking through a collection of Breughel's works, I saw The Census of Bethlehem (containing a pregnant Mary, a dude opening a window, and a bunch of kids skating) and the Massacre of the Innocents (dogs and a knight on a horse by a tree in the bottom right corner). Better, they're both at the Musee, too.
I love finding things that allow you to imagine the situation surrounding the conception of a creative work.
Yes! And Mrs. B says my analysis of sound devices and structure rocked her socks (my words). AND she didn't get angry when I called Auden a little raincloud. Overall, this paper writing experience rates a 10, I think.
Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there must always be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a cornor, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the foresaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
So, why was it cool? The Musee des Beaux Arts = the Musee royal des Beaux Arts de Belgique in Brussels. It is the home of Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. The coolness comes in here - I had been a bit confused about the entire first sentence. Seriously, I thought, where did this stuff about dogs and torturers and horses with the itchy butts come from? Then, while looking through a collection of Breughel's works, I saw The Census of Bethlehem (containing a pregnant Mary, a dude opening a window, and a bunch of kids skating) and the Massacre of the Innocents (dogs and a knight on a horse by a tree in the bottom right corner). Better, they're both at the Musee, too.
I love finding things that allow you to imagine the situation surrounding the conception of a creative work.
Yes! And Mrs. B says my analysis of sound devices and structure rocked her socks (my words). AND she didn't get angry when I called Auden a little raincloud. Overall, this paper writing experience rates a 10, I think.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
So, I am actually going to keep up a sketch blog. For real.
To start:
A nice transition from my old blog to this new one, I think.
+the blue is appropriate because it is MIDTERM WEEK. This could fuck with my straight A average, which would make me look like a slacking senior, which would prevent me from getting into a good school - THIS IS ALL VERY DEPRESSING I MUST STOP.
It is nice that my grades won't really matter next semester, though. I might actually have time to read some books outside of those assigned for school. I'm thinking... Kant, maybe? Supposedly you need to reread his books several times to understand them, and now that I have time, why not?
Getting ahead of myself. You don't have time yet, silly! You have a calculus midterm.
To start:
A nice transition from my old blog to this new one, I think.
+the blue is appropriate because it is MIDTERM WEEK. This could fuck with my straight A average, which would make me look like a slacking senior, which would prevent me from getting into a good school - THIS IS ALL VERY DEPRESSING I MUST STOP.
It is nice that my grades won't really matter next semester, though. I might actually have time to read some books outside of those assigned for school. I'm thinking... Kant, maybe? Supposedly you need to reread his books several times to understand them, and now that I have time, why not?
Getting ahead of myself. You don't have time yet, silly! You have a calculus midterm.
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