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[18 Jul 2009|07:48pm] |
1. is this my cold
2. subtle as a knife
3. synthesize
4. little birds cover
5. the valves in everyone
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| they canceled the classes I really wanted but I'm in these: |
[13 Jul 2009|09:15am] |
DV0012 Ecclesiastical History 2Ah: Gospel and Church in the Pluralistic Roman World
U04730 Martial and Juvenal
U04706 History of Art 1A
which are good for classics requirements, and will be fun. Plus, I have no idea how I got into DV0012 because I've never taken a religion class, but it's pretty much a giant area of interest for me so I'm really excited.
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| Glamour articles. |
[11 Jul 2009|09:42pm] |
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What Words Did Your Parents Forbid You From Saying When You Were Little?
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Afternoon Confessional: I’ve Named My Unborn Children (That I Don’t Even Want...Yet)
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Sarah Jessica Parker Had Twins. Do You Ever Wish For Twins, Triplets, Octuplets?
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What Are You Doing This Fourth of July Weekend?
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Getting to Know You: What's Your Middle Name?
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| This guy is amazing. |
[08 Jul 2009|07:38pm] |
The thing is those kind of places still exist (though less and less, thank God).
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[04 Jul 2009|07:58am] |
My mom and I saw Every Little Step. It was boss. I CRIED A LOT. Except, it wasn't that suspenseful because I saw the revival.
I keep not getting my internship schedule. Also, the visa stuff is taking forever, and it's too late to back out now because my dad already paid for me to get fingerprints or whatever you have to get to apply for a visa. But I didn't really need a visa, I was just hoping to get a job there because I'm so extremely jobless this summer and I don't want to be a spoiled college kid bouncing from Internship to Study Abroad In Europe existing entirely on my parents' money. But also, my only real talent is cashiering (seriously, I'm an amazing cashier) but I don't know how well that would translate to pounds.
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| my lit requirements at Oberlin are already overstuffed |
[01 Jul 2009|03:48pm] |
plus I think you're only supposed to take classes in one concentration at Edinburgh, where I'm about to study abroad. Which would be the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology for me, but I wouldn't have to just take Latin, if I can get some art history and stuff in that can only help me fill my classics major better.
*Medieval Latin Lyric
*Early Virgil
Archaeology of Scotland 1A
Archaeology 2A: Ancient Europe
Classical Art 2A: The Development of Greek and Roman Art
The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making
The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome
Medieval Scottish History
I'll have to look up which ones would actually work for my major (probably not the Scottish ones, obviously, sad times--but we are prettiest much the cuddliest department ever so I think I could get away with a lot).
I've been feeling kind of nervous about studying abroad. I wish I had chosen more practical things to major in, and with only a term and a half left at Oberlin there's no time for me to scramble around trying to add a psych major or something. But if I could get a lot of my classics requirements filled, I wouldn't have such a feeling that I'm wasting a term for no reason.
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[29 Jun 2009|11:00pm] |
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aggh I'm reading this really good book about a guy cheating on his wife (actually it's a lot worse than that, it's really really bad and it's about to blow up)--I sort of want to stop reading it because I'm so totally submerged in it and I can't stand reading books where you know everything awful is about to happen to the main character and you're so into it you think the main character is you...what a trauma. However I love writing and reading. I forgot.
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| I like that I said this. |
[29 Jun 2009|05:20pm] |
5:16pmKhari
hey you
5:16pmAmanda
hey you too
how are you?
5:17pmKhari
alive
and that's good
5:17pmAmanda
good good
5:17pmKhari
your songs are cute
5:17pmAmanda
I'm glad
omg omg ----- -------- friended me on facebook
he looks like a rock star, have you ever seen him?
5:17pmKhari
nope
5:18pmAmanda
it's like being friended by C. S. Lewis
or Stuart Murdoch!
or Henry James!
Khari said he doesn't want to vote anymore and I showed him EVIDENCE OF LOOK WHAT A COOL PERSON WE GOT AS A RESULT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS VOTING:
(this is from an interview the Obamas did in 1996, as part of someone's photography and interview project on American couples)
Michelle is a tremendously strong person, and has a very strong sense of herself and who she is and where she comes from. But I also think in her eyes you can see a trace of vulnerability that most people don’t know, because when she’s walking through the world she is this tall, beautiful, confident woman. There is a part of her that is vulnerable and young and sometimes frightened, and I think seeing both of those things is what attracted me to her. And then what sustains our relationship is I’m extremely happy with her, and part of it has to do with the fact that she is at once completely familiar to me, so that I can be myself and she knows me very well and I trust her completely, but at the same time she is also a complete mystery to me in some ways. And there are times when we are lying in bed and I look over and sort of have a start. Because I realize here is this other person who is separate and different and has different memories and backgrounds and thoughts and feelings. It’s that tension between familiarity and mystery that makes for something strong, because, even as you build a life of trust and comfort and mutual support, you retain some sense of surprise or wonder about the other person.
That's so cool! That's exactly what I want. Unfortunately if I get it it won't be legally recognized because contrary to what his wife says, adorably, in the previous paragraph (I’m very wary of politics. I think he’s too much of a good guy for the kind of brutality, the skepticism) Obama knows which way his bread is buttered in terms of pretending not to think gay people are equal. Whatever. I expected it. I'm still happy we ended up with such a smart and nice person in charge of our country.
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[29 Jun 2009|05:10pm] |
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summer plans: get a fake ID and use it to get a library card and then take out a lot of books and KEEP THEM FOREVER and they can never find me.
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| Mysterious Skin |
[28 Jun 2009|10:22pm] |
I just watched this movie, it was SUPER good. I'm going to try to get the book from the library tomorrow.
I like how this picture makes it look like it might be a nice movie about gay loving. It's pretty much the opposite of that.
I went to Brookyln for the first time yesterday! It was so beautiful. I know this is ridiculous because AT and I probably stayed within a one-mile radius from where we got off the subway, so it's not like I really know about it. But I just thought I wanted to live in the city so much, but Manhattan is so ugly and gross and everything costs a million dollars. I mean, I still love a lot of things about it but it takes me a certain frame of mind or energy to want to go there. Brookyln is just...aww, city-like but actually pretty and with trees and stuff. Like cities in other countries.
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| oh so I finished my album |
[25 Jun 2009|10:19pm] |
(ish, I might rerecord some songs at Ami's house tomorrow)
1. High School Montage
2. Laocoon
3. Cartoons for Nick
4. Castle Raincoat
5. Running Out of Time
6. Heavy Love
7. Harry Potter Scar
8. Access the Memories
9. Ghost
10. I Wasn't Conscientious
11. Oh Man, Oh Yeah
12. My Dear Friend
13. You're Such a Good Writer
14. John, I'm a Figment
15. On His White Carpet
16. Felix/Infelix
17. Trial and Error
DOWNLOAD http://www.realthingshappening.net/awv/music/heavy.html
LISTEN http://www.myspace.com/rosarybook
yeah, I'm just really tired and glad this is over, by now. but I think it's by far the best thing I have ever done.
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[25 Jun 2009|03:37pm] |
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"maybe something really stupid will happen, like an official will molest an intern, and while everyone's paying attention to that, he'll give gay couples their rights"--OCon
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| a lot of Polly Scattergood is sort of WTF |
[25 Jun 2009|10:54am] |
but I really like this song:
Basically it's hard not to be impressed by someone unselfconsciously acting like a five-year-old. Maybe that's why I keep listening to her.
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| Matthew 16:25-26 |
[23 Jun 2009|01:47am] |
The Vulgate: 25. qui enim voluerit animam suam salvam facere perdet eam qui autem perdiderit animam suam propter me inveniet eam 26. quid enim prodest homini si mundum universum lucretur animae vero suae detrimentum patiatur aut quam dabit homo commutationem pro anima sua
Me: In fact, the one who wants to make his life safe will destroy it, but the one who destroys his life because of me will discover it. For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world but suffers the loss of his soul--or how shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
KJV: For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
This is really interesting because the same word, anima, is used throughout but the person who did the translation used "life" in 25 and "soul" in 26. I've done the same just because I read that translation first so that seems natural to me now. Something else is that, just from googling perdo, perdere, perdidi, perditus I'm getting a whole lot of destroy, waste, and squander, and not a lot of lose, which might just mean that it meant waste in antiquity and came to mean lose in medieval Latin--but it's just so interesting because it sounds so much more active than lose, and so much more negative. This guy isn't just losing his life for God, he's ruining his life. This seems to imply things to me about how the act of giving yourself to God might appear to be a negative, reckless, and foolish thing to the people around you. Also, given that life and soul are pretty much interchangeable here, I'm wondering if any commentary is being made about people who become Christian because they are afraid of going to hell, rather than out of love.
And, what if this is not all about after death, but finding your life while you're alive. That you find it in God?
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| I really like this. |
[22 Jun 2009|02:44pm] |
It's weird to listen to songs where people use the word God because I don't use it. Almost because I don't use it I think I'm more likely to be moved by songs that use it because it seems such a powerful word to me, which makes me feel guilty. Some of her songs are dumb but this one is really good.
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