your body's a dream that turns violent

Jan 12, 2006 09:38

back from winter break. didn't get anything serious done, at all. saw a little of my family and highschool friends (and drank roughly one million gallons of tea with unagotitadenada). saw considerably more of boston and dayanna, whose family cooked vegetarian venezuelan things for new years to accomodate me! whoa with the tasty- i gained roughly one million ( Read more... )

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laleonaenojada January 12 2006, 16:28:24 UTC
Sometimes love and fighting are indistinguishable ... but yeah ... this painting does look more like love than fighting.

I, too, need to learn to love my city, even though there aren't nearly that many cool things on my street. I've got another year and a half here, and if my dislike of B-ton doesn't dissipate soon, it's going to be a loooong 16 months

~A

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unagotitadenada January 12 2006, 20:58:16 UTC
is b-ton near west lafayette? if it is and i end up at purdue, we can hang out!!!

or, we can road trip and hang out anyway :-P

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laleonaenojada January 12 2006, 21:52:10 UTC
It's only about 2.5 hrs away! And we can only hang out if I am still in B-ton next year. I don't want to be, so we'll have to see

~A

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unagotitadenada January 13 2006, 18:29:55 UTC
yees...i might not even end up at purdue either...it's my third choice but my grad school is going to be the winner of a financial crapshoot, so who knows...but if perchance we're both in indiana, then by all means let's hang out! :o)

also rent came back around and i am going to see it tonight! *bounces* i will let you know what i think :-D

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morganmalfoy January 12 2006, 18:02:08 UTC
The Robber Bride was the first Atwood novel I read, when I was about 12. I think it was good as a novel, but it doesn't have the feminist critique of her other books.

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icara January 19 2006, 14:37:49 UTC
i can't decide whether it was meant to be postfeminist, or maybe a different kind of feminist criticism, or if margaret atwood is just screwing around, like, "let's see what you do with this!"
it didn't feel as serious, or when it moved towards serious it would keep going until it became absurd... (have you ever read cris mazza?)

i'm starting to notice recurring images in atwood's stuff, though, like the coffee grinder, and the foreign uncles... that kinda stuff makes me really curious about authors.

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morganmalfoy January 19 2006, 17:46:54 UTC
I think that the different characters all deal with living in a patriarchy differently, whether they don't have a father, or had bad fathers, or other bad relationships with men. So I guess it's a more implicit critique.

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piscesgrrl17 January 12 2006, 18:15:12 UTC
You perv, its totally about love. On that same note, saw Brokeback and loved it as well, I especially loved the scenes where they can't figure out if they want to hug, kiss, wrestle or fight, so they do all of those things in 2 seconds. Hot. Love your city, your street sounds awesome and you should visit me this weekend. Also, I keep trying to call you and keep getting a message that says the call cann't be completed.

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valdomero January 13 2006, 01:09:43 UTC
I know its a about love, but its apicture of wrestler trying to hrt each other its just that they love each other and it comes through in their fighting (thats why its my favorite) Suz and I went to the museum just to see that painting

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piscesgrrl17 January 13 2006, 02:02:57 UTC
the lengths you too will go to, just to see some boy on boy.

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icara January 19 2006, 14:47:34 UTC
I especially loved the scenes where they can't figure out if they want to hug, kiss, wrestle or fight, so they do all of those things in 2 seconds.
yes! to quote A's review, "theirloveissorepressed!"
guh.

i wanted to visit you last weekend, but i was at work all day on friday and saturday. it blew.

"i miss you like my left arm that's been lost in a war;
today i dreamed of home, and not of london anymore."
-waifs

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unagotitadenada January 12 2006, 21:00:34 UTC
suz, if you had told me of your street, i would have moved in with you by now :-P

on a non-related note, *wants to go to boston*

let me know how the book is, and i promise to read freaking amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas...i don't know what's been stopping me--probably the inability to write in it, haha--though at the moment it's "the constant gardener" and "in cold blood"

*wants to see capote not as much as brokeback mountain, but a lot*

miss you!

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icara January 19 2006, 15:01:32 UTC
it's not too late! i have a spare bed in the loft...
clearly you should visit and we should go to asheville or charleston or atlanta or somewhere on the weekend.

boston is wicked enjoyable. i think i could live there in spite of the cold, and that's saying alot.

beatriz... is awesome so far. no worries about amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas, and feel free to write in it if you want! i think i probably already scribbled translations in parts of it, since i did that to alot of the books i read for school (man, literature classes were the sweetest thing ever...)

i still haven't seen constant gardener... is it on dvd yet?

ps. I MISS YOU, TOO!

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unagotitadenada January 19 2006, 21:54:13 UTC
=-O to visits! clearly the universe deems it so :-P....just let me get workin' again, and i will save up some money and come visit, for sure! (i think it is back to the olive garden with me, if they will have me :-(...i hope they will, or else that another restaurant will be charitable) also, if i go to hollins (in roanoke!), i will be wicked close(r) to you! although i just told A that if she is in indiana and i am in indiana next year we could road trip and hang out....i am kind of a road trip whore, eh? :-P or a grad school whore (i am depending on them to tell me where to go, what with the money, and all ( ... )

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