NEW EPISODE YAY
Abby is making them do that…?
Okay, seriously?
YAY (any girl other than Maddie) WON!
Jill opens her mouth
See preview for next week…
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“Clarence lived a wonderful life. He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave everything he had every night he stepped on stage. His loss is immeasurable and we are honored and thankful to have known him and had the opportunity to stand beside him for nearly forty years. He was my great friend, my partner and with Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to tell a story far deeper than those simply contained in our music. His life, his memory, and his love will live on in that story and in our band.” - Bruce Springsteen
I’m procrastinating. My plan for the evening is to finish Part II of Eat Pray Love. The shower. Then do some HW. Then eat a late dinner. Then do laundry. But I figure the sooner I finish Eat Pray Love, the sooner I have to do laundry. So I’ll procrastinate instead.
I also want to start writing down everything I want to do with my life. But my goals are a little too lofty. But anyway, here’s the first part.
1. Learn Italian.
2. Learn French.
3. Learn (remember) Spanish.
4. Learn Russian.
5. Learn German.
6. Learn Czech.
7. Learn Hungarian.
8. Learn Swedish.
9. Learn Czech.
10. Learn Arabic.
11. Go to all of these places.
I don’t think this will be too hard.
I’m going to attempt to start using this again (or really, start using it period). Bear with me while I figure it out lol.
This picture of MJC and ELJ is cute. But it almost made me cry. Because E looks ginormous and M looks like such a grown-up kid and not the little guy that I’m used to. They’re growing up too fast :(
Andrew Mueller
The Guardian, Saturday 20 November 2010
Here’s something you can’t do. Name a contemporary songwriter, aged mid- to late-20s, two or three albums into their career, who you confidently expect, three decades from now, will command substantial or any critical and commercial attention.
Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise, stuff that didn’t make it on to his 1978 LP Darkness On The Edge Of Town, is an astounding artefact in its own right; most artists would cheerfully claim these studio-floor sweepings as their magnum opus. But it’s also a reminder of how music, and our relationship to it, has changed since Springsteen recorded it. “At 27,” writes a now sixtysomething Springsteen in the sleevenotes, “that is what I’d hoped for, that I’d written something which continued to fill me with purpose and meaning in the years to come, that would continue to mean something to me and to you.”
The key word in that phrase is “continue”. It is difficult to believe that any songwriter will get to do that, anymore. Popular culture, and the means by which it is distributed and consumed, has become too diffuse to allow any artist to define their times, and become the kind of act that people grow up with. In 2007, I attended a few shows of Springsteen’s Magic tour in the US. When interviewing his fans, I was struck by the degree to which they considered him more than merely a composer of a soundtrack to their lives. Another new Springsteen release, The Collection: 1973-84, which ties his first seven albums to an unpassably cheap £21.99 tag, emphasises what has been lost: the artist as a touchstone, whose work you could return to, grow with, measure yourself against.
When Springsteen released Born To Run in 1975, and famously appeared simultaneously on the covers of Newsweek and Time, it is inconceivable that anybody who took even a passing interest in rock’n’roll would not have known who he was and what his records sounded like. It is now perfectly possible, thanks to the niche-marketing offered by the internet, to establish a plausible career without anybody noticing you but the people who’ve decided to.
Springsteen may well be the last of his kind, an artist whose gravitas is at least partly a function of his longevity and ubiquity. There’s an obvious retort to this, to the effect that rock’n’roll was never supposed to be an old man’s song, and that if modern communications technology has made it more difficult for singers to grow grey, fat and pompous – not that Springsteen’s guilty of any of those – then so much the better.
Ironically, however, the primary beneficiaries of this are Springsteen and others of similar or greater age. The reason our music media will continue to be dominated by artists of the pre-internet generations is that they’re the ones everybody knows, and the only ones, now, who are ever going to be known by everybody.
and I haven’t started my 7-8 page midterm that’s due. Damn.
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And also, my party. Thanks so much.
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Day 1 Blogging
Day 1-Introduce, 15 interesting facts
Introduction of me:
Hmm…23, born and raised in NH, left when I was 18 for college in upstate New York, studied Political Science and History with a minor in American Studies, went to NYC my freshman year, got starry eyed and fell in love, moved there less than 2 months after graduation, and never looked back. Currently in an MA program in Political Science with a double concentration in American Government and Comparative Politics at CUNY Brooklyn. One older brother, one older sister, and two wonderful nephews and a gorgeous niece.
Fifteen Interesting (I hope) Facts:
1. Sometimes I want to stay completely career oriented and stay in the city forever with maybe a husband and a maybe a dog, but definitely no kids.
2. Other times, I want to move to the suburbs, work sometimes, and have the standard white picket fence, 2.5 kids, 2 cars kind of deal.
3. But at the end of the day, I think my life will become a combination of the 2. Kids? Probably. Suburbs? Maybe, but within commuting distance to the city. White picket fence? Eh, too much maintenance.
4. I always knew I would enjoy having nieces and nephews. I would have never imagined how much though. Those kids are my life.
5. In high school, I was in a relationship for 3 solid years. After that, I didn’t date again until I was out of college.
6. I firmly, with all of my heart, believe that everything happens for a reason…
7. …but I don’t know if I believe in God.
8. There are very few things I love as much as Bruce Springsteen. Including theater. And most of my extended family.
9. My mom died 20 years ago and my grandmother died 6 years ago, and I’m still not okay with either of those, and I don’t think I’ll ever be. But I’ve come to accept it.
10. I have almost unrealistically high standards for myself, and I really beat myself up when I don’t measure up to them.
11. I miss college so much that it physically hurts sometimes.
12. I used to love getting mail until it turned into bills.
13. I really wish I was artistic, but I’m just not.
14. I have a very rigid routine in the shower and organize my toiletries accordingly.
15. I am the world’s biggest procrastinator, and I always think that someday I won’t actually get my work done in time and it will come back to bite me in the ass. But I’ve been waiting for that day since high school and it has yet to come. I almost want it to so I can learn.
