it's an interesting feeling...
Dec. 9th, 2004 06:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1369643,00.html?gusrc=rss
President Bush wants 'pro-homosexual' drama banned. Gary Taylor meets the politician in charge of making it happen
Normally I'm used to feeling general Constitution-based outrage, or intellectually-based outrage, or "my people"-based outrage. But despite all the NEA wars, this is my first moment of utter art-based horror.
I fear for my ability to do what I want to do, and it's got nothing to do with my skill.
Read tihs article if you care about any type of art or literature at all. So frightening.
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In other news, I just got my BPAL order from months ago (pre-crisis), and it came with LOTS of samples -- I now have Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo, Dragon's Tears, Baba Yaga, Dracul, Kabuki, Blood Amber, and perhaps most amusing to me, Juliet.
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Can we all give me a bit of good thoughts for my bank account being back under my control tomorrow?
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Work was pretty decent today, although I felt like I got nothing done. Good money promises (which I'll belive when I see), and real committments in terms of my future there (_not_ that it's a career, but it's a wacy situation that I'd lie to have solidly under me until I'm able to be fully-supported by my creative work.
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To return to the first segment of this post, when I went off to college, I entertained a lot of fantasies about what my roommate would be like. Perhaps she would be from a small town, and I would be cool, and sophisticated, and we could be great friends. Maybe she would ask me, what it was like to be from where I am. It didn't turn out that way, but that's not part of this story.
I find myself having similar but less naive and arrogant thoughts about the studio program in Sydney. What will they be like? Will I be the oldest? Will it amuse them at all that I'm from New York? Hopefully they'll want to be friends. But mostly I wonder if they're going to ask me the question I perhaps most need to hear, "What's it like to watch the errosion from afar?"
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Ooooo! Cate Blanchett in Hedda Gabler at BAM in 2006!
President Bush wants 'pro-homosexual' drama banned. Gary Taylor meets the politician in charge of making it happen
Normally I'm used to feeling general Constitution-based outrage, or intellectually-based outrage, or "my people"-based outrage. But despite all the NEA wars, this is my first moment of utter art-based horror.
I fear for my ability to do what I want to do, and it's got nothing to do with my skill.
Read tihs article if you care about any type of art or literature at all. So frightening.
*
In other news, I just got my BPAL order from months ago (pre-crisis), and it came with LOTS of samples -- I now have Aunt Caroline's Joy Mojo, Dragon's Tears, Baba Yaga, Dracul, Kabuki, Blood Amber, and perhaps most amusing to me, Juliet.
*
Can we all give me a bit of good thoughts for my bank account being back under my control tomorrow?
*
Work was pretty decent today, although I felt like I got nothing done. Good money promises (which I'll belive when I see), and real committments in terms of my future there (_not_ that it's a career, but it's a wacy situation that I'd lie to have solidly under me until I'm able to be fully-supported by my creative work.
*
To return to the first segment of this post, when I went off to college, I entertained a lot of fantasies about what my roommate would be like. Perhaps she would be from a small town, and I would be cool, and sophisticated, and we could be great friends. Maybe she would ask me, what it was like to be from where I am. It didn't turn out that way, but that's not part of this story.
I find myself having similar but less naive and arrogant thoughts about the studio program in Sydney. What will they be like? Will I be the oldest? Will it amuse them at all that I'm from New York? Hopefully they'll want to be friends. But mostly I wonder if they're going to ask me the question I perhaps most need to hear, "What's it like to watch the errosion from afar?"
*
Ooooo! Cate Blanchett in Hedda Gabler at BAM in 2006!
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People from AL are horrified as well. And fighting back.
Date: 2004-12-09 07:42 pm (UTC)Scroll up through her journal for more.