Stuff From My Head

Shame! SHAME! Shame on the slacker lady!

Yep! That’s me. Well it’s not so much slacking as it is procrastinating. (But they do seem to go hand in hand, don’t they?) Anyway I didn’t start my homework till 1opm and now it is 1am which means I only have 5 hours to sleep so I’m going to be slacking on my blog today. (sorry!) But alas is the life of the current college student. There’s just not enough hours in the day, Reddit! *points finger angrily* (I love you anyway though)

So yeah, it’s time for bed. Peace!

1 month of blogging accomplished!

Last semester when I was signing up for classes, I needed 2 humanities credits. For one of them I took U.S. history. I decided to take this class mainly because I feel that the Texas public school district failed at teaching me much about this topic.

Now that I’m taking the class I realize that it focuses mainly on the things that get left out of text books. (Hopefully my common knowledge of history will be enough to keep up.) Anyway, I’m finding it really interesting. Basically we started shortly before colonial America and now we are studying how our current social and class systems originally got set up.

What our current text-book claims (which the teacher doesn’t entirely believe, but agrees the text has a good point) is that America was originally set up so that the rich, white male settlers could remain peacefully at the top of the economic pyramid. They created a middle class so that there would be a buffer of sorts between the upper class and the lower class. The way the Declaration of Independence is set up, no one but the white male landowners(predominately rich) have a place in government. Although the Declaration of Independence does allow for more middle class settling farther west than the Appalachians (which is good for the lower class and bad for the indigenous people of America). It even goes so far to suggest that our current problems with racism between blacks and whites spawn from the deep alienation that came from laws against blacks and whites marrying and procreating during colonial America to avoid race-mixing.

In other words, it isn’t your typical cut and dry history class, but I’m really glad I’m taking it.

Bed time!

You can't tell, but my shirt has Reptar on it.

For anyone who does not know me that well, I am a dance major in college. Creating dance or choreography is my main focus, so I’m going to use today’s post to describe some of the choreographic ideas floating around in my mind.

Dirty Laundry- This piece would be choreographed to The Eagles’s Dirty Laundry. I would have around 5 to 10 dancers and they would be dressed in silly t-shirts, boxers, and tube sox. The content would be composed of them doing awesome and funny things with those mesh-fold-up laundry hampers (I’m thinking about 20 of them). The piece would probably begin with about 3 or so dancers sitting on the ground completely encased in the hampers. After some wiggling other dancers would come on stage and free them of the hampers and toss them aside. I may have a little stacked hamper city behind them until they run into it and topple it over. There would also be a section were they fold them up and toss them to their partner who would just open them up again. I’m thinking really bright colors where the hampers are concerned. It would look great under stage lights.

Love Dance- Around Valentine’s Day, our choreography class will be doing love-themed dances as an assignment. I think for mine I would do a video of a girl and a guy. The couple meet in a park or something and throughout the piece, the girl would have flamboyant, frilly movements, while the guy would have somewhat dramatic pedestrian movements. In the girl’s excitement she accidently does things that cause the boy harm. It gets progressively worse and by the end of it, the boy is trying to hobble away in crutches from the klutzy girl in fear. It would be a comedy.

An Insanity of Her Own- I like horror as a genre, but I have not yet experimented with creating scary works yet. This would also be a film. It will probably have more pedestrian movements than dance movements, but the work will not have any words or lines (but possibly a scream). This work would only have one performer. She would go about everyday life, but gradually she starts hallucinating. Eventually her hallucinations would attack her and at the end she would fight back. When the piece resolves the cinematographer will reveal that she has been fighting herself. I would have a lot of dark lighting and I will probably need a body double of whoever is playing the main role.

Well that’s what’s in my head right now. I have to do homework. Peace!