Monthly Archives: May 2009
I Was Young When I Left Home
I can’t believe it’s been only three years since Camera Obscura released Let’s Get Out Of This Country. It seems like so much longer than that. And only lately have I been playing 2001′s Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi on repeat, an album that holds a special place in my high school heart. Their most recent album, [...]
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Letter From An Occupant
This is a letter by Jack Abott written to Norman Mailer from a federal penitentiary in the 1980s. I came across it in my readings for class and it really struck me because it was written so beautifully and because of the real saddness I felt from it. It’s a bit long but it’s an [...]
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Mad About The Boy
What turned into a fifteen minute break from my Gender, Sexuality, and Literature readings—which, by the way are amazing—turned into an hour long scramble on getting videos to play properly on this page. The WordPress.com blog made everything so easy but now I have to upload plugins by myself, edit settings, etc. Don’t they know [...]
Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks
This weekend I watched Dreamboy, a film directed by James Bolton about two gay teenagers in the rural south. It was quiet, intense, and an overall good film. I loved the setting and there were a handful of still shots that did it justice. It was predictably sad towards the end but then again, what [...]
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Many Rivers, One Ocean