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| Your Famous Last Words Will Be: |
 "So, you're a cannibal." |
Apr. 7th, 2006
| Your Famous Last Words Will Be: |
 "So, you're a cannibal." |
She's the best one that we've ever had!
Apr. 7th, 2006 07:47 amSaw Dar Williams for the second time this year with Ari and Annie at Grinell last night. She sang Babysitter and When I Was a Boy, and it was free, so lovely. The drive to Grinell was as annoying as ever, and the tornado watch didn't improve it with any spectacular natural displays. Tonight is supposed to be Gogol Bordello, and sunday night, Angels in Am., but I feel kind of sick and depressed and unwilling to go anywhere. Not in a 'needs to be slapped out of it way,' more of a 'not very social at the moment' way. I'm just unwilling to go into the world and be bitchy and taciturn in any wider a sphere than I have to.
Finished fifth season of Degrassi with Annie, and had a good Med Soc class talking to the teacher Renee Goethe (during break, please, I'm not Luther) about the book/movie It, the book/movie Haunting of Hill House, and such. I like her a lot. She thinks of history like an essayist, like Anne Carson really, in the way she organizes facts by their poetic relevance rather than any imposed theoretical structure.
Her contention this evening was that the erotic is always present in female death. When Joan of Arc burned, the clothes burned first, and the priests went into a tizzy over 800 men at arms briefly seeing her unclad body. Beheading was out of the question, it required an exposed neck and bossom for a clear shot. Hanging meant looking up her dress. Women's executions are drowning, and, before the 15th century, commonly, being burried alive. Women were lowered in a coffin with iron supports over the top and then shoveled in, left to die there. The death of a woman was too sexual to be witnessed.
Today there are five times as many applicants to watch public executions of females as there are for male executions, and the only picture of a public execution in progress, DURING death, is of a woman being electrocuted in the 20's. I find this all incredibly interesting, the added pain of burrial alive connecting with the fate of a wayward Vestal in the Roman period, the walling in. A sexual urge to smother women, or to bind them? Fundamentally different acts.
Finished fifth season of Degrassi with Annie, and had a good Med Soc class talking to the teacher Renee Goethe (during break, please, I'm not Luther) about the book/movie It, the book/movie Haunting of Hill House, and such. I like her a lot. She thinks of history like an essayist, like Anne Carson really, in the way she organizes facts by their poetic relevance rather than any imposed theoretical structure.
Her contention this evening was that the erotic is always present in female death. When Joan of Arc burned, the clothes burned first, and the priests went into a tizzy over 800 men at arms briefly seeing her unclad body. Beheading was out of the question, it required an exposed neck and bossom for a clear shot. Hanging meant looking up her dress. Women's executions are drowning, and, before the 15th century, commonly, being burried alive. Women were lowered in a coffin with iron supports over the top and then shoveled in, left to die there. The death of a woman was too sexual to be witnessed.
Today there are five times as many applicants to watch public executions of females as there are for male executions, and the only picture of a public execution in progress, DURING death, is of a woman being electrocuted in the 20's. I find this all incredibly interesting, the added pain of burrial alive connecting with the fate of a wayward Vestal in the Roman period, the walling in. A sexual urge to smother women, or to bind them? Fundamentally different acts.
She's the best one that we've ever had!
Apr. 7th, 2006 07:47 amSaw Dar Williams for the second time this year with Ari and Annie at Grinell last night. She sang Babysitter and When I Was a Boy, and it was free, so lovely. The drive to Grinell was as annoying as ever, and the tornado watch didn't improve it with any spectacular natural displays. Tonight is supposed to be Gogol Bordello, and sunday night, Angels in Am., but I feel kind of sick and depressed and unwilling to go anywhere. Not in a 'needs to be slapped out of it way,' more of a 'not very social at the moment' way. I'm just unwilling to go into the world and be bitchy and taciturn in any wider a sphere than I have to.
Finished fifth season of Degrassi with Annie, and had a good Med Soc class talking to the teacher Renee Goethe (during break, please, I'm not Luther) about the book/movie It, the book/movie Haunting of Hill House, and such. I like her a lot. She thinks of history like an essayist, like Anne Carson really, in the way she organizes facts by their poetic relevance rather than any imposed theoretical structure.
Her contention this evening was that the erotic is always present in female death. When Joan of Arc burned, the clothes burned first, and the priests went into a tizzy over 800 men at arms briefly seeing her unclad body. Beheading was out of the question, it required an exposed neck and bossom for a clear shot. Hanging meant looking up her dress. Women's executions are drowning, and, before the 15th century, commonly, being burried alive. Women were lowered in a coffin with iron supports over the top and then shoveled in, left to die there. The death of a woman was too sexual to be witnessed.
Today there are five times as many applicants to watch public executions of females as there are for male executions, and the only picture of a public execution in progress, DURING death, is of a woman being electrocuted in the 20's. I find this all incredibly interesting, the added pain of burrial alive connecting with the fate of a wayward Vestal in the Roman period, the walling in. A sexual urge to smother women, or to bind them? Fundamentally different acts.
Finished fifth season of Degrassi with Annie, and had a good Med Soc class talking to the teacher Renee Goethe (during break, please, I'm not Luther) about the book/movie It, the book/movie Haunting of Hill House, and such. I like her a lot. She thinks of history like an essayist, like Anne Carson really, in the way she organizes facts by their poetic relevance rather than any imposed theoretical structure.
Her contention this evening was that the erotic is always present in female death. When Joan of Arc burned, the clothes burned first, and the priests went into a tizzy over 800 men at arms briefly seeing her unclad body. Beheading was out of the question, it required an exposed neck and bossom for a clear shot. Hanging meant looking up her dress. Women's executions are drowning, and, before the 15th century, commonly, being burried alive. Women were lowered in a coffin with iron supports over the top and then shoveled in, left to die there. The death of a woman was too sexual to be witnessed.
Today there are five times as many applicants to watch public executions of females as there are for male executions, and the only picture of a public execution in progress, DURING death, is of a woman being electrocuted in the 20's. I find this all incredibly interesting, the added pain of burrial alive connecting with the fate of a wayward Vestal in the Roman period, the walling in. A sexual urge to smother women, or to bind them? Fundamentally different acts.