Dionysus vs. A Night on the Town.

this is how i relate:

it starts in Luca, Italy, where there was a fair. and this fair had cotton candy, corn-dogs, and rides... that looked fun.
i went with my brother and my nanny. we decided to try a ride called "Twister!!!" it sounds just like it feels.
after eating cotton candy, caramel apples, weird italian candies... we felt anything but mollified.
and soon we saw the corn-dogs and candy once again, splattered on the ground like a puddle of fun at a fair!
we promised we would never speak of that ride again... we assigned little "white" lies to each other so no one would know what happened.
it was not only the first time i threw-up, but the last time i will ever go on anything named "Twister!!!"
they say that dionysus was joyful and immoderate... well then i must be the opposite, because believe me i was nothing but joyful.

evolution

I am a girl. A new girl.
They say that the men hunt and the woman nurture their children. But I am all alone, there is no man to hunt and there are no children to nurture, so I find my own home, and my own food.
There is nothing but animals and nature. The grass has grown above my head because there is no one to mend to it. There are fruits and vegetables everywhere, enough for the whole world to live off of. And then there are the animals... coyotes, horses, cows, pigs, dogs, monkeys, the list goes on.
There are dinosaurs, as tall as the empire state building, not as scary as they seem.
I have lost everything, technology, friends, family, pets, a nice home, meat that I didn't have to kill and skin all on my own, and water. Water is what I miss most, clean fresh water. We drink from streams now and the water tastes like dirt. I try to talk to the other cavemen about the past, but they don't seem to remember. So I am alone. Stuck in my own thoughts, forever.
Our world has been torn apart. Evolution has begun, again.

apollo and artemis.

apollo - the god of light (sun), music, poetry, medicine, prophecy, and archery.
artemis - the goddess of the moon, the hunt, wild animals, transitions in the lives of women.
these two gods are the children of zeus and leto, they are twins.
they're pretective, fast, amazing with a bow and arrow, and ruthless.

artemis was sworn to never fall in love and always stay a virgin. she did fall in love once, but her brother tricked her and she killed him. so she put him up in the sky as a constilation so she can always see him.

a few days after apollo was born he went to the slopes of Mount Parnassus to kill the python that harassed his mother when she was pregnant with him. the pyton was guarding the Delphic Oracle which at that point belonged to Gaia. he killed the python and took over the oracle.

the gods...

zeus - dictator

afrodite - beautiful, evil

hermes - liar

poseidon - resentful

hesphaestus - whiney

dionysus - drunk

apollo - beautiful

artimes - masculant

athena - strong

Donald Baechler

My teacher Juanita and I went to the Chelsea galleries for a day when we were in New York. That's where I saw Vik Muniz and many other interesting artists. One of my favorites, and Juanita's favorite!, was Donald Baechler. He paints on collages. He sometimes uses house paint which I had never seen before this exhibit. He will paint a simple shape over very intricate designs. Its really interesting and you should most definitely go see it.

new orleans after the flood.

Robert Polidori has photographs of one of the most tragic incodents in america.
he took pictures of huricane katrina over a few months, right after, a moth after, a couple months after...
it amazing, he turned something so tragic into something so beautiful.

vik muniz

The imagination of every artist that can blow you away.
for example: Vik Muniz. He took a bunch of garbage like crushed up soda cans, the front of a car, screws, a broken refrigerator... And turned it into a sort of optical illustion, a beautiful optical illustion.
he took all this garbage (which was its actual size) and arranged it so you can see a picture of a Greek god.
this one is mars, the god of war.

little girl... and raccoon testicles.

jackson hole, wyoming.

when your in a place where every tree is a different shade of yellow, orange, red, bright green... it hard to pay attention to anything else.
for example:
when your driving a golf-cart and your looking at the trees and all of a sudden you just happen to run into one.
i lived in wyoming until i was around 5. but i never remember the leaves like this. however, i do remember taking old-time photos. dressing up like floozies, indians, or cowboys. posing with Jack Daniel's bottles, guns and sometimes "naked" in a bathtub.

ALWAYS.

Facing you
i am not jealous.

Come with a man at your back,
come with a hundred men in your hair,
come with a thousand men between your bosom and your feet,
come like a river
filled with drowned men
that meets the furious sea,
the eternal foam, the weather.

Bring them all,
where i wait for you:
we shall always be alone,
we shall always be, you and i,
alone upon the earth
to begin life.

lineage - direct line of related individuals.

repertoire - group of skills readily available to you.

monotheism - one god.

polytheism - many gods.

Lost In Translation

it was very good. it was interesting to see the way they portrayed Japan. i've been to Japan and it looks a lot different in the movie as it does when your actually there. the thing i loved most was the way they showed they're lives outside of their own relationship. the shots and music were amazing. and my favorite part was the photo shoot with bob and his whisky.

words of the day

ominous (omen) - suggesting something negative is coming.

trepidation - fear.

expiation - to make amends for guilt or sin.

sojourn - small journey.

candor - honesty.

incarceration - put in prison.

My Very Own Memoir

I smell the pasta cooking, the sauce steaming. I hear the waiters screaming at each other in Italian. I try to understand what they're saying, but they're talking as fast as our food is supposed to be coming. Finally the food arrives, pasta of course... We are in Italy. I can taste Italy in this pasta, in the olives and the tomatoes. I'm looking around spying on all the people and waiters in the restaurant, I look out the window and my stomach drops... The one person we don't want to see. The person who we last saw skinny-dipping at 3:00 a.m. in his hotel pool. I was so nervous, I could feel my heart start beating faster and faster... And then he was gone, in 10 seconds.
30 minutes and I had smelt, heard, tasted, looked, saw, and felt. All 5 senses and I just laughed it all off. ;o)

blind or deaf?

Helen Keller once said that if she had to choose between being deaf and being blind, she'd be blind, because while blindness cut her off from things, deafness cut her off from people.

many, many people have asked me this question... and its one of the hardest questions known to man!
if you are deaf you could never hear you child first words.
yet if you were blind you could never see your child.

i disagree with this famous quote. if i had to choose i would pick deaf.
i could ever imagine not seeing the people that i love.

plus there are so many advances right now to help cure deafness (to help you hear.) that even being deaf... isn't being deaf.

the words of the day...

edification - education.

solace - comfort.

serialized - presented in pieces, like episodes or chapters.

cacophony - noise.

conjecture - guess.

OCTOBER.

didn't the scar form, invisible
above the injury

lonleygirl15

there's a huge scandal right now about "Bree" (a.k.a. lonelygirl)
she's a cute little girl (in her 20's) on YouTube.com. she has a camera that she can talk into and a cute little juicer that she makes lemonade from.
"Hi, so I'm up here in my room again, because I'm grounded..."
20 year old girls don't get grounded.
people lie on the internet all the time (you might say), but this lovely girl and some of her friends lied to around 1,000,000 people, hoping they could start an acting career.
well things didn't really work out for them. everyone found out about their lie, mostly because it was on the front page of the NY Times and LA Times.
well it was good while it lasted.

venice beach...

crazy people, lovely people, people you should know about...
a woman in a wheelchair pushing herself with her stiletto shoes probably from Marshals.
a man yelling curse words to himself.
and a sweet man singing a beautiful christmas carrel... "jingle bells, jingle bells, help me yet DRUNK!"
you will always meet crazy people at the venice boardwalk, but thats just the excitement.

this coming school year.

I'll start by saying something Ms. Juanita already knows... when I first saw this sheet (sheets) I almost "shat" myself. I thought to myself this woman is crazy to think that I could possibly read this many books in one year. But we had a talk and now i understand that we are just reading the exerps which i am ok with. ;o)

And now i will talk about the things I have learned and think about this paper that I have.
I would like to learn about Buddha, I would not like to learn about Jesus. But to learn about Buddha and Jesus at the same time I think will be quite interesting.

I love to travel so I'm interested in learning about all the different places in this world and on this paper. I know a little bit about some of them, but I'd like to know more. China, Cuba, Lebanon, Israel. And the newspapers... they may make our hands dirty, but they are very interesting.

And short stories from around the world does interest me. Maybe not right at this moment... but probably when we start reading them.

Italian. Italian. Italian.

Chemistry and Literature Science. Science was always my favorite subject, so it will be interesting to see how this works out.

I loved Art last year, I'm sure i will this year too. Mythology... I don't know much about... And the blogging, I'll get used too.

Math, Money, Harvard.
Math i always hated... but I'll give it my best shot.

hello.

i would like to say hello to everyone who may look at this. this post is my first. this is my first blog. so... hello.