Between this and that, I like to daydream to break up the monotony.
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Between this and that, I like to daydream to break up the monotony.
My Kind of Happy is...
Listening to Miles Davis right before meditation.
My Kind of Happy is...
Conversations about Nouvelle Vague and existentialism in the backyard.
My Kind of Happy is...
A concert hall, Wu-Tang on the speakers, and some two and six-stepping on the floor.
My Kind of Happy is...
A combination of a dark blue dusk or dawn, Melody A.M. playing on the radio, and being driven instead of driving. All with no particular place to go.
My Kind of Happy is...
Safely sitting in an open field, under stars, while listening to crickets, listening to nothing, and then listening to something by Guster.
My Kind of Happy is....
Listening to Whip It by Devo before or while watching a Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon.
“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.”
Thomas Merton
That's about right...
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I grew up in broken pieces...
Listening to punk rock in an apartment...
Howling at the moon on the back porch...
When I got to the mosh-pit, it all came together...
What was your reaction to the book Things Fall Apart and what are the main themes that really got your attention and why?
The main theme that really got my attention was that of choosing tradition over conscience. There were so many opportunities for the main character to choose to follow his heart over his ego, but he utimately chose to painfully follow the traditions of his tribe. In the end, it all came back to destroy him.
Day 10 - 5 books you would recommend and why.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
I think that everyone should read this book to understand a portion of the black struggle in America during the early 20th century. Regardless of what you've heard or think of Malcolm X, his story is one of poverty, pain, struggle, betrayal, and ultimately redemption.
The Stranger - Albert Camus
They don't call Camus the father of French Existentialism for nothing. It's almost jarring how emotionally detached the main character is. In other words, he just doesn't give a ****.
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Communism and Stalin allegories are brilliantly done. I should have read this in grammar school or high school, but I didn't end up reading it until after Undergrad's.
History of the United States (Mental Floss) - Erik Sass
Love history? Of course you do. This little ditty might teach you a thing or two that you didn't know about American History.
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
A sad, but very introspective story of a geek at heart living in an uninviting world.
Day 9 - Favorite poet and poem.
Theme for English B - Langston Hughes
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true.
I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. I am the only colored student in my class. The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem, through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas, Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y, the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator up to my room, sit down, and write this page:
It's not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I'm what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you: hear you, hear me--we two--you, me, talk on this page. (I hear New York, too.) Me--who? Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records--Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn't make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races. So will my page be colored that I write?
Being me, it will not be white. But it will be a part of you, instructor. You are white-- yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That's American. Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me. Nor do I often want to be a part of you. But we are, that's true! As I learn from you, I guess you learn from me-- although you're older--and white-- and somewhat more free.
This is my page for English B.
Day 8 - Favorite book you had to read for school.
Native Son - Richard Wright
I couldn't put this book down, because it brought my family to mind.
My family had moved to Chicago from the South a little more than 10 years before this story took place and lived in the Black Belt (the area of Chicago's southside that was predominantly black) much like the characters in the book. I won't have a chance to ask many of those family members about their struggles, pains, and sorrows of their youth, but I always imagine that they weren't that far off from those of the characters in the book.
Even though the character commits these crimes and has the nature that he has, it always makes me emotional to think of times like this. It makes me curious about my family's struggles and breaks my heart to know that they went through them.
Day 7 - What are you currently reading?
The Four Desires - Rod Stryker
Day 6 - Favorite quote from any book.
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
"Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” - Holden Caulfield