Feb 01, 2008
In one of my classes, we were supposed to pick random lines from the Illustrated Man and put them together to create a poem, so here it goes...
He had smoked a packet of cigarettes in two hours.
"Goodnight," she said.
He cried all night in his sleep.
He listened to the dry-grass rustle of the old witches' voices.
There were fireworks the very first night.
The cooling afternoon rain had come over the valley.
When they heard the news they came out of the restaurants.
They walked into the city.
The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain.
The electrical fireflies were hovering above.
Fire exploded over summer night lawns. You saw sparkling.
The wind blew sand over his shoes, whining.
The first illustration quivered and came to life...
again...and again...and again...
Slowly, pleasurably, the city enjoyed the luxury of dying.
Before morning, I would reach the town.
Blackness, falling while I watched.
"We'll see what we can do about that," someone said.
The exercise was actually pretty interesting, because it makes me think of a nightmare that someone is having, but end with some sort of hope...for the nightmare? For humanity? I think it adds something to the original reading that I did of the Illustrated Man. Anyone else have any theories? Has anyone done something similar with this or other readings?
Music
, Queen,The Strokes,Gunther,The Cure,Tarkan,Miss Saigon,les mes,la boheme,jcs,reefer madness,rocky horror,rent,Matchbox Twenty,(not rob thomas as a solo artist),No Doubt,The Red Hot Chilli Peppers,David Bowie,(no specific time period),Tenacious D,Keane,the Shins,The White Stripes,The Clash,The Ramones,the Beatles,The Darkness,Blondie,My Chemical Romance,Emerson Rose,James Blunt,Mika,Kasabian,Dirty Pretty things,
Film
,I am a film major,so I really should have a favorite film or at least be able to narrow it down to a top five,but there is no way I could ever do that. My favorite film changes from week to week. I like all genres,and am always trying to see new things. But nonetheless,here are a few of my favorites.
Boondock Saints,M,Notorious,The Silence of the Lambs,All LOTR,(but especially two towers),Brick,Dangerous Beauty,Emma,RENT,Encino Man,(hey Pauly Shore is AMAZING),Love Me if You Dar,
Books
,I am reading a lot for school right now,so haven't been able to read for pleasure nearly as much as I would like. I really like the Daughters of the Moon series. I love everything by Louise Rennison. I've read all of the Harry Potter books (in fact,I was one of those dorks that dressed up and went to the store at midnight to wait for the next book to come out). I like everything by Laurie Stolarz. The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice are awesome. I just recently read the Illustrated Man,and j,
Artists