"I think that's a bit of all right." -Skarda

[hermionesviolin]

Today i wore my black shirt with the indeterminate animal on the front. Kate said it's the most frightening thing she's ever seen.

Flash animation to "The Cat Came Back." ::hearts:: (My father is such a bad influence :) )

_foolforlove_ has some beautiful icons.

Yay for a new Wishverse archive! (It made me sad when wishful thinking died.)

I was gonna try to write my Ethan fic tonight, but friends intervened. I think that's okay.

We agreed we would eat Fefe first if we were all stranded in a desert. And we watched a couple of the fanvids i have on my computer. We really must watch Firefly at some point.

Thursday:
7:30pm - Wright Auditorium - Jane Hirshfield poetry reading

Friday:
4:30pm - Wright Auditorium - "Listening Between the Lines: Reflections on Becoming a Writer" talk by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ’86
7pm - Chapin Living Room - Ninjas vs. Pirates Groove Jam

Sunday:
8pm - Sweeney - Rachel's senior recital. (yum, cello.)

And Harry and the Potters are at MHC April 7th :) [Not that i'm going; i'm just amused.]

Skarda on my reader response: "Lovely in its detail to the end."

I explained RCFOS to Megan this afternoon. And referenced, as i so often do, "What If No One's Watching" (from imperfectly, my second favorite Ani album):

if my life were a movie
i would light a cigarette
and the smoke would curl around my face
everything i do would be interesting
i'd play the good guy
in every scene
but i always feel i have to
take a stand
and there's always someone on hand
to hate me for standing there
i always feel i have to open my mouth
and every time i do
i offend someone
somewhere

but what
what if no one's watching
what if when we're dead, we are just dead
what if there's no time to lose
what if there's things we gotta do
things that need to be said

you know i can't apologize
for everything i know
i mean you don't have to agree with me
but once you get me going
you better just let me go
we have to be able to criticize
what we love
say what we have to say
'cause if you're not trying to make something better
then as far as i can tell
you are just in the way

Kate was there, and we talked about dance some. Part of what i loved about the dance concert was seeing these people doing amazing things with their bodies and thinking, "Wow, the human body can do amazing beautiful things." Hearing about the damage dance does to your body makes me sad, and makes me really uncomfortable with enjoying watching dance. I understand pushing limits and good pain and stuff like that, but to make your body do things it isn't designed to and to be in constant pain? Strikes me as a bad thing. But then, i also just don't do pain well, as we all know.

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Song lyrics people still haven't guessed (a couple of which i had expected to get guessed):

3. imagine if our world was blue and weightless
4. I crawled out of the world [For assistance, i'm adding: Can I make it right? Can I spend the night? Alone.]
6. starin' at the cracks in the walls, 'cause I'm waiting for it all to come to an end
7. it's true that I stole your lighter
8. and does your conscience ever mention the way that you treat me

Comments

[wisdomeagle]

*googles*

I excuse myself from #4 'cos I've only heard it once.
And number 8 I could identify the artist but not the specific song.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I figure it takes a certain level of obsession to know song title and artist for #4, but i was hoping someone would say, "Oh, that song from _____"

And i'm pleased you at least knew the artist for #8 :) And it is from one of her newer albums.

[kitkatpaws.livejournal.com]

"the indeterminate animal on the front"
you mean fluffy, the cat?

[immortalavalamp.livejournal.com]

er...is 8 "all i really want" by alanis morrisette?

I might be very, very wrong. *shrug*

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Not entirely different genres, but you are quite wrong.

Thanks for playing, though :)

[immortalavalamp.livejournal.com]

*cries*

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

::hugs you::

[diadeloro.livejournal.com]

The pain only seems like an issue because you don't dance. See, for me, it really is worth it. And, I mean, yeah you damage yourself. But so do a lot of atheletes. It's just the way it is.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I just feel like making the human body do things it isn't designed to do is badness. That pushing is okay, but actual damage is not. I understand that it's worth it to you, and that part of my reaction is just that i don't do pain well, but a large part of my enjoyment of watching dance is the beauty of what the human body can do, and knowing that the people are not only in pain but are damaging their bodies to do this, not only troubles me but cuts out a lot of my enjoyment. I wish that people made part of the challenge of choreographing dance be that it had to be choreography that wouldn't damage the dancers' bodies.