Is the semester over yet?
So- my 4 pg. paper? It turned out 6 pages. And it only covered one aspect of African art-- masks. Motard-Noar is the kind of teacher who imposes ridiculous restrictions but at the same time asks for in-depth analysis. Rather than gloss the analysis and cover all disciplines, I focused in on mask-making as a microcosm of all West African art and discussed its cultural, religious, and economic role in tribal life. And if she doesn't like it, the woman can absolutely kiss my ass.
We also finished a Nigerian movie this morning, Yeelen. African cinema is really interesting, but also terribly confusing. The extent of special effects was overexposing a section of film to indicate terrible brightness. And the speech patterns are so odd-- the speakers would stop every three or so seconds, at the oddest junctures, and the listeners would respond with "umh hmm" almost like clockwork. I get putting in the occasional "yeah" or "uh huh" every now and again, but every three seconds? Whoa, dude. I'm listening. I promise.
Anyway, I think the moral of the movie is that if you spend too much time with your magic post, you turn into an egg. It was all David Lynch.
We have a mandatory extra two class periods that the crazy woman added on, the first of which is tonight. And she bitches at us for being last-minute.
Bolding the ones I've read...
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre (Most of it.)
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans (Parts of it. Awful stuff.)
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment (*GROAN*)
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying (I take the Faulkner class next semester.)
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (I hated it so much I don't even remember most of it.)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad (parts of it.)
Homer - The Odyssey (parts of it.)
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God (Ahh, Ms. Gladney.)
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild (In like, fifth grade.)
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath (I would have killed myself.)
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels (Stupidest. Ending. Ever.)
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden (Bits and pieces.)
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Or was it Tom Sawyer?)
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five (Definitely on my list.)
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray (One of my all-time favorites!)
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"He was carrying the body of a very pale child into the woods and holding the ax..." Francesca Lia Block, Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold (Snow White).
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
My computer screen.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?:
I watched a bit of POTC last night.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is: About 10:42.
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?: 10:55
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
Heather washing her face in the bathroom, the whirr of the fan.
7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?:
I had class this morning, so I walked to the Library, and then to Hill Hall.
8: before you came to this website, what did you look at?:
My mail.
9: what are you wearing?:
Dark gray sweatpants, a burgundy hooded sweater, a ballcap and sneakers.
10: Did you dream last night?:
I don't remember.
11: When did you last laugh?:
At the 'magic pole' ending of the aforementioned movie.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
Goddess tarot cards, my calendar, a Rothko print, a signed glossy of Angelina Jolie, dried flowers, three Japanese lanterns, and a Red Hot Riding Hood poster.
13: Seen anything weird lately?: Not particularly strange.
15: What is the last film you saw?: Potc, but full movie-- Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?: I'd pay off my tuition and set up funds for my siblings.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
I secretly love hot pink.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
I'd make Bill Gates donate 3/4ths of his money to starving nations.
19: Do you like to dance?:
On occasion. Can I dance? No.
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nut case or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?:
You know, I'm not going to dignify this with an answer. Just watch the conference tonight.
21(a): Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?: I like Diana.
21(b): Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?:
I like Dylan, Ethan, and Aiden.
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?:
Crete, Ireland, Australia-- I so wish.
Now, as I got 4 hours of sleep last night, I need a nap.
We also finished a Nigerian movie this morning, Yeelen. African cinema is really interesting, but also terribly confusing. The extent of special effects was overexposing a section of film to indicate terrible brightness. And the speech patterns are so odd-- the speakers would stop every three or so seconds, at the oddest junctures, and the listeners would respond with "umh hmm" almost like clockwork. I get putting in the occasional "yeah" or "uh huh" every now and again, but every three seconds? Whoa, dude. I'm listening. I promise.
Anyway, I think the moral of the movie is that if you spend too much time with your magic post, you turn into an egg. It was all David Lynch.
We have a mandatory extra two class periods that the crazy woman added on, the first of which is tonight. And she bitches at us for being last-minute.
Bolding the ones I've read...
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre (Most of it.)
Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights
Camus, Albert - The Stranger
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans (Parts of it. Awful stuff.)
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment (*GROAN*)
Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying (I take the Faulkner class next semester.)
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (I hated it so much I don't even remember most of it.)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad (parts of it.)
Homer - The Odyssey (parts of it.)
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God (Ahh, Ms. Gladney.)
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild (In like, fifth grade.)
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel García - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath (I would have killed myself.)
Steinbeck, John - East of Eden
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels (Stupidest. Ending. Ever.)
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden (Bits and pieces.)
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Or was it Tom Sawyer?)
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five (Definitely on my list.)
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray (One of my all-time favorites!)
Williams, Tennessee - The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard - Native Son
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"He was carrying the body of a very pale child into the woods and holding the ax..." Francesca Lia Block, Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold (Snow White).
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
My computer screen.
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?:
I watched a bit of POTC last night.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is: About 10:42.
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?: 10:55
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
Heather washing her face in the bathroom, the whirr of the fan.
7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?:
I had class this morning, so I walked to the Library, and then to Hill Hall.
8: before you came to this website, what did you look at?:
My mail.
9: what are you wearing?:
Dark gray sweatpants, a burgundy hooded sweater, a ballcap and sneakers.
10: Did you dream last night?:
I don't remember.
11: When did you last laugh?:
At the 'magic pole' ending of the aforementioned movie.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
Goddess tarot cards, my calendar, a Rothko print, a signed glossy of Angelina Jolie, dried flowers, three Japanese lanterns, and a Red Hot Riding Hood poster.
13: Seen anything weird lately?: Not particularly strange.
15: What is the last film you saw?: Potc, but full movie-- Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?: I'd pay off my tuition and set up funds for my siblings.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
I secretly love hot pink.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
I'd make Bill Gates donate 3/4ths of his money to starving nations.
19: Do you like to dance?:
On occasion. Can I dance? No.
20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nut case or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?:
You know, I'm not going to dignify this with an answer. Just watch the conference tonight.
21(a): Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?: I like Diana.
21(b): Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?:
I like Dylan, Ethan, and Aiden.
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?:
Crete, Ireland, Australia-- I so wish.
Now, as I got 4 hours of sleep last night, I need a nap.