my to do list
(Didn't that sound like a Catholic confession!)
Spent last day in printmaking bliss, playing around with etching styles using copper plates (so easy! thought what it would be like doing the pressing by hand could be interesting) and having access to a very expensive press. Teacher kept talking up the cost of repairs if we broke it, to justify why we weren't allowed to touch it... she was a bit of a bossy sort, but her prints were good. The studio is good, I like being around the "high level" artists and seeing what they're working on, one was doing a very cool triptych of old 1800s sailing boats (what do you call the boats that are Horatio Hornblower era), large sails and arrangements of triangles and cables and criss crossing lines and an impression of a map/globe; even better was the way that she'd begun her painting, where everything was an impression you had to form and guess at. But definitely a boat.
Have been spending plenty of time navel gazing about things like:
- Where did the last 5 years go? I feel like I'm 26 but I'm not
- Am I generation X or Y? Don't feel like either, more like generation blog, but not generation myspace. And isn't it interesting that we define ourselves in relation to the technology we use; bit like referring to the industrial revolution, or comparing England, the industrialised society, to Ireland, which was still very much an agragrian society for much of the 20century
- And isn't history and the history of economics fascinating?I never felt like this at school which was probably the last time I had anyone try and teach this stuff, but now that I'm Not-26, I am completely interested. Tell me about the Irish economic boom, I'm listening
- Are the Pixies pop or rock? Duckworth thinks the former (evil!) but I say rock, maybe guitar pop rock, but not all of their songs are short (his criteria for being pop).
Speaking of the pixies, was completely thrilled to hear various reports of their concert from kindred spirits, (oooh, pixies and spirits, how synchronous) about how daggy they looked, that Kim Deal was wearing a sloppy joe, and it didn't matter because the music was what it was all about.
Whilst it's nice to avoid boredom wherever one can, and having grown up on an era of cure videos this does sound hypocritical, but don't you think those punk/emo cash in bands spend a lot of time and energy on the fashion of it?
Oh, and am enjoying Degrassi on ABC2, all the kids are now at high school, Heather and Erica invited Wheels to their party so she could make out with him, but he didn't want her as his girlfriend so now she hates him; probably the highlight of this episode was how snake got all excited and teasy and faux swoony; kind of an extension of that idea that when you're a kid your intermediates are experiencing the romance of it more than the actual participants. It's funny how Snake was made out to be the babe of the show, the cool guy with the right hair, nice clothes, good at maths and sport with most of the girls liking him at one stage or another. I could only just see it, as compared to Wheels. Why were the girls keen on a guy who wore baggy shirts tucked into tight jeans, and bad glasses and bad hair? Or maybe that was what was so cool about Degrassi, that what was uncool was cool, and they looked past the facade and judged people for deeper values. Which is so Canadian and nice! See! I'm experiencing 1989 nostalgia for North american culture.
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