walking kiwi

top 10 albums of 2008!

its hard to choose these, because sometimes i wear out albums that come out earlier in the year (fleet foxes and i have a bingey relationship) and discover some later on that kind of affect how i feel in december...but trying to be relfective of my musical listening patterns over the last 12 months, i present my top 10. in no order.

-blitzen trapper: furr
-mgmt: oracular spectacular
-nada surf: lucky
-wallpaper: on the chewing gum ground
-grand archives
-throw me the statue: moonbeams
-kay kay and his weathered underground
-of montreal: skeletal lamping
-why?: alopecia
-someone still loves you, boris yeltsin: perishing

ep's:
-passion pit: chunk of change
-fleet foxes: sun giant

my dethawing of emotion!

at least its something, you know, evidence of soul, but happiness and saddness (the pure versions) are really close to each other. they don't really overlap, but they are shoulder to shoulder so if one detail enters your sight, you may be at the other in a wink. like being happy for someone...is really just saddness for yourself. i don't think you, or i, can really have any emotion strictly outside our own realm of feelings. you can't just feel for someone, you feel for someone because it is of something to you.

i'm happy because you may have something, or you had what i want, but i still want it too, and i don't have it. so good for you, because i love you, but that does make me sad, for myself."

this is off of the point i was trying to make, but spiritually, maybe thats just what jesus did or something. or maybe him or others like him just had something to do with everyone in the world. thats how they cared for others, because everyone was of something to them. like everyone was of same value, all-encompassing connection to all individuals, so that since he was one of them and they were one of him, everything that happened to each affected the whole, so as a whole what happened to an individual did affect you as an individual, you were not confined to only emotion towards others because that is impossible anyway. because he was one of them they were one with him, so what happened to them happened to him and through his own personal emotions he could feel for his brethren. whoa, thats the meaning of unity. okay, i got it.

what i did in english last period on friday.

Name: Edna Sylvia Hagred

Period: 5

The Hero’s Adventure Continued

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences. Each answer only requires a 1-2 sentence answer.

1. How does Campbell explain the difference between fairy tales and myths?

Pooping and dying everywhere and then killing everyone with big water guns filled with acid that will make people dissolve and die and shit their pants.

2. What, according to Campbell, are the two emotions that motivate life? And how do they relate to one another?

Death and hatred. Death is not an emotion but it is related to hatred. They are the only motivations in life besides eating dairy products for survival which is definatley a motivation for life. They are all violent.

3. What does Campbell say is the difference between mythology and theology?

Mythology is lying and theology is lying even harder.

4. What shape, according to Plato, is the soul? Why?

Play-Doh can assume any shape, especially when in a soulful manner.

5. What causes our most troublesome psychological problems?

Happiness and hope of God. God makes us believe in things like Santa and magical mushrooms that really don’t give us happy effects after all. Our most troublesome problems of the mind is basically lying to our poor, weak selves.

6. What is the mythological significance of the belly?

Its where babies are made. Babies are mythical creatures. Obviously, significant.

7. Moyers acknowledges that regarding the watery unconscious (p47), “I can hear someone saying, “Well, that’s all well and good for the imagination of aGeorge Lucas or for the scholarship of a Joseph Campbell, but that isn’t what happens in my life.”” Is that how you, too, react, or does these ideas resonate with you on a deeper level?

I don’t have a deeper level, but some people might say that George Lucas is a good actor and should stay in the sitcom variety forever. I don’t react to such things because I don’t have a TV with any channels except 4 and my TV will no longer work on a couple months thanks to our dictator.

8. Campbell responds to Moyer’s question about how to slay our inner dragon with the answer: “Follow your bliss” (148). What does that mean? What is that for you, and will it be a risk if you do so?

I would never slay my inner dragon! It is what gives me my fighting power and superior fire breathing ability. I do not have bliss, but I do have dragon eggs floating somewhere around my esophagus ready to be hatched to become powerful fighting creatures.

9. Briefly describe the three transformations of the spirit.

a. When one of the dragon eggs in your esophagus hatches into a powerful fighting creature, you must keep it inside and pickle it with your stomach juice, making it forever dependent to your spirit until you die. This transforms your meek human spirit into a fighting carnivorous masterpiece of victory.

b. Being hit by a water gun filled with acid that will make everyone dissolve and shit their pants. It will make you want to die yourself, even if you are the water gun sniper. The stenches are also unfavorable.

c. Spirit may be transformed when one figures out that spirit does not exist within you, it is actually the incarnation of creatures such as Casper and the Marley Brothers that come back to haunt the earth until you decide to kill them, which, of course, is an impossible physical task due to ghost’s lack of flesh to cut or dissolve, so spirit is not transformed ever, it will always follow you around like a ball and chain that only your inner dragon must burn and destroy.