It's been a bi-polar week. I got mad lazy and detached over the break, wasting a lot of money and a lot of time on diversions, sleeping, reading fluff and discovering new ways of backlogging my workload until there was no escaping my responsibilites except through sleep. Jimmy's mom passed away and I found myself reconnecting with old friends over the corpse of a dead woman. My dog ran away and was gone overnight, lost in a snowstorm and senile as fuck.
But in the end everything turned out alright. I laid out a new track, my teachers are for the most part being understanding, Christianne got into grad school with a scholarship, a kind snowplow driver took my dog in for the night, fed her, bathed her, and returned her to us the next morning. Jimmy's mom is still dead but I'm remembering what life means.
On a personal bright note, there's a good chance I'm getting a summer placement at Ricepaper Magazine, which would mean a summer in Van City away from all the bullshit over here. Sure there'll be bullshit there as well, I'm under no illusions, but at least it'll be Brand New bullshit. And I'm interested in checking out the scenes down there, the hiphop scene, the geek scene, the film scene, the MMA scene, whatever. Last time I was there I was like 15 and had no strong interests (actually my thing back then was magazines...weird) and was too busy learning to shed my teenage homophobia in light of my brother's coming out.
The youtube clip is of poet Beau Sia (whom I'm a fan of as a performer but not really as a poet, though I think his poetry reads a lot better than it sounds when he performs it, if that makes any fucking sense at all), and his response to Rosie O'Donnell, whom I hated even before she released some 'cism on the Asian community. After this was aired on def poetry jam, O'Donnel finally apologized and reflected on her actions on her website. That's peace, but I wish she woulda done it on the View in front of the same audience she first did the asian impression for, and the same audience she later stubbornly and self-righteously defended her actions to...but hey, by this point I'm sure even her own viewers are tired of the whole thing and the only people who still care are a bunch of Asians on the internet.
But in the end everything turned out alright. I laid out a new track, my teachers are for the most part being understanding, Christianne got into grad school with a scholarship, a kind snowplow driver took my dog in for the night, fed her, bathed her, and returned her to us the next morning. Jimmy's mom is still dead but I'm remembering what life means.
On a personal bright note, there's a good chance I'm getting a summer placement at Ricepaper Magazine, which would mean a summer in Van City away from all the bullshit over here. Sure there'll be bullshit there as well, I'm under no illusions, but at least it'll be Brand New bullshit. And I'm interested in checking out the scenes down there, the hiphop scene, the geek scene, the film scene, the MMA scene, whatever. Last time I was there I was like 15 and had no strong interests (actually my thing back then was magazines...weird) and was too busy learning to shed my teenage homophobia in light of my brother's coming out.
The youtube clip is of poet Beau Sia (whom I'm a fan of as a performer but not really as a poet, though I think his poetry reads a lot better than it sounds when he performs it, if that makes any fucking sense at all), and his response to Rosie O'Donnell, whom I hated even before she released some 'cism on the Asian community. After this was aired on def poetry jam, O'Donnel finally apologized and reflected on her actions on her website. That's peace, but I wish she woulda done it on the View in front of the same audience she first did the asian impression for, and the same audience she later stubbornly and self-righteously defended her actions to...but hey, by this point I'm sure even her own viewers are tired of the whole thing and the only people who still care are a bunch of Asians on the internet.
