1. I REALLY want to see this. And it's not playing anywhere near me...yet.  I'm checking Detroit area movie listings weekly in the hopes that between the independently-focused theatres and the art galleries, somebody will be showing this.  It's been awhile since I've been so impressed by a trailer and so drawn to a film. Hunger is Steve McQueen's first film (the Turner Prize-winning, and deservedly so, artist not the deceased actor, of course) and it looks really powerful. Has anyone else ever seen that piece McQueen did with the horse? Amazing.


Fucking Thatcher. Ugh.

2. Can someone please explain the difference between synedoche and metonymy?  Even after looking this up, I still can't wrap my head around how these two things are different. 

3. I got the job I applied for at the Banff Centre but I am not going to accept. Partly because I don't actually want to move out to Alberta and partly because I sense that other opportunities may arise. I kind of went on my gut feeling about this one so I hope it all works out.  I am hoping to be accepted for a week long residency there during the summer but for now, I am staying in Southern Ontario.  

4. I've started reading T.S. Eliot "Prufrock and Other Observations" and I was struck by this:

The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.

I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing. 

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 I caught this in the most recent issue of Frieze magazine:

"Germans are generally good at turning ordinary labels into insults. A popular curse is Warmduscher, someone who takes warm showers. I've also heard the term Leserbriefschreiber, someone who writes letters to newspapers. teenagers in Berlin's Kruezberg neighborhood use the term opfer or victim, as in: 'Piss off, you fucking victim'."

I am calling for the widespread use of more imaginative insults. Forget the ubiquitous douche, asshole, skank, the next time you meet a particularly abhorrent individual, let loose with "I bet you're someone who takes warm showers" and walk away in disgust.






edit: Check out the Shakespearean insulter. http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/

Craig and I spent last weekend in Toronto. I was there to attend a workshop but we both also wanted to see and experience the new AGO. The AGO offered free admission all weekend and I knew that, along with Frank Gehry's name, would entice a lot of people. What I didn't expect was 2 hour long wait times and line-ups stretching blocks and blocks. Craig and I decided against standing in line and decided we might be better off trying for another time. I read that 51,800 people showed up!

I have the use of a new, quite spectacular camera. Instead of doing much in my studio with it, I have been obsessively documenting my cats.( Read more... )

This video perfectly encapsulates why I don't dig on poultry or Sarah Palin.
"You need a little levity in this job. Especially with so much of what has gone in the last couple of months that has been so.....political"

Ugh. I'm not sure what she is exactly referring to. Perhaps the McCain staffers calling her out for not knowing that Africa is a continent or that South Africa is a country and not just the southern part of Africa or that she couldn't name the countries belonging to NAFTA !?!!  

This woman is considering a run for the 2012 presidential nomination.

 

You Are 8% Capitalist, 92% Socialist

You see a lot of injustice in the world, and you'd like to see it fixed. As far as you're concerned, all the wrong people have the power. You're strongly in favor of the redistribution of wealth - and more protection for the average person.

Due in part to my ongoing hatred of Facebook, I have gone old-school and started a livejournal. This stuff has changed since I last checked! It's either gotten much easier or more complicated; I haven't decided yet.  My hope is to stay in better contact with Winnipeg peeps and assorted Winnipeg expats. Mostly, I just want someone to agree with me when I write diatribes against Stephen "Dead Eyes" Harper. Oh, and I may pepper in posts about fashion, current events (by this I mean Britney and Mariah), and me! I promise I will try to keep the b-ball talk to a minimum. 

Speaking  of fashion, these are the images I am using for my Fall fashion inspiration. 

Marni Fall 2008 Collection



Kanye West



Much-desired "Chain" scarf from Etsy