Saturday, May 21, 2011

Gardens and Villa

This is a pretty neat song. Not amazing but it a soothing quality to it. At first I thought that if was just going to be a song without words but 30-1:00 they started singing . Check it out.

Blue Valentine

Well, I've decided that I will still blog even though the blogging is over in ETY class. It's become such a habit. Recently I watched the movie "Blue Valentine" Its about a failing marriage between two young people. It's kind of depressing but I liked how everything flowed.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Just Kids 50-110





Well, while working at the bookstore Patti meets Robert Mapplethrope, a young aspiring artist with very curly hair and slightly bowlegged legs. He comes into the store and ends up purchasing a medallion a necklace that Pattie really liked. When he buys it she states " Don't give that to any other girl but me." and immediately resents saying such a odd thing. Robert doesn't seem to mind though. Well they don't see each other for a while and she ends up going on a date with this old creepy poet man when she meets him again. The old creepy poet man asks Patti if she wants to go up to his room and she happens to see Robert in the knick of time. She pleads him to her her boyfriend and he accepts right away. I guess they just hit it off after that because he asks her if she needs a place to stay and they bunk at a friends house for awhile until they can find an apartment of their own. Roberts into LSD because  he claims it helps him paint, I think its interesting that Robert uses Drugs but Patti barely does throughout the book (well at least not as hard core). So after awhile things with Robert start to get shady, he starts to question his sexuality and later ends up going to San Fransisco to have a self learning experience. When he returns he still seems to be a little off. He starts to put sexual references and drawling within his art, maybe to shock people or maybe just to experiment, I don't know.  Later on after moving to another shady apartment, Robert becomes very sick and Patti ends up moving him out to find a doctor and to live in the Chelsea Hotel.

Black and Whites

Another picture post. These pictures were featured in National Geographic's.....they are pretty cool. I'm going to miss blogging for this class it has to be one of my favorite things involving school...maybe I'll keep blogging. Well here are the pics.

Photo: Zebra, Tanzania
Photo: Humpback whales in sunlit water
Photo: Woman’s face hidden by cloth
Photo: Scholars in a girls' school

Monday, May 16, 2011

Sounds Good.

So recently I watched the trailer for the movie The First Grader and it sounds like it would be a very inspirational movie. Check it out.

Adele


 
So I've been listening to Adele for a while, a friend of mine named Ayesha introduced me to her. She has such a powerful voice and at first you probably wouldn't assume she’s a young English woman. She grew up with her single mother who continually supported her. She later ended up in one of the top performing colleges in London and then her career just took off. What an amazing voice.