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m s .  m a r v e l   a c t r e s s

I’m screaming in excitement! I’ve been a fan of Ms Marvel from day one and those comics have always held a special place in my heart. And now, hearing Kamala Khan’s actress has been cast?

Ah yes! 

This girl, Iman Vellani, is going to play my fave marvel superhero. I admit, I have my doubts about the tv show, but I’m willing to see what they’ll do! After all, the marvel movies are iconic.

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Take Down the Bricks - Pim Stones

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I love Tony’s Chocolonely! Their chocolate is amazing and it also started in my home country:)

#chocolate #Tony’s Chocolonely

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My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. These senses are the fruits of a lifetime of longing, longing to be rescued, to be completed. Just as the skirt needs the wind to billow, I’m not formed by things that are of myself alone. I wear my father’s belt tied around my mother’s blouse, and shoes which are from my uncle. This is me. Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free, and to become adult is to become free. Stoker (2013) dir. Park Chan-wook

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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Playlist: October Country

#sabrina #TV #Netflix #i really like this show so far #hooked

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I love the moon

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Things To Do Today by Joe Wenderoth

1. thaw the wounded

2. carry the portraits out into the sea and rest them upon the breaking wave

3. destroy the capital with picturesque caress

4. mention the inexplicably famous

5. dredge the lightest bunches (ASAP!)

6. burn the symbols as soon as bone starts to become apparent in them

7. decrease the drama to the point of gesture, phrase, a weathered and weathering yard. 

8. descend upon the living sound of propriety

9. gather the weight of not having said and place it upon the prettiest graves

10. organize and dispense an imperceptible the

11. perfect the ground

12. motion at the shore (as if familiar with the families there)

13. restore hunger analogies to the feast scene which has no before and no after

14. demand to see the sleep that has not been earned

15. motivate the habitually sick

16. sing the lack of anticipation upon which we are most certainly impaled

17. recall Mother

18. disconnect the vaguer images from one another and from the way in which we get on with it

19. determine the cause of the cause

20. facilitate the ways of children

21. earn what is needed for remaining beneath the sky

22. set the famous criminals free

23. force the unmonied nudes into view (and so, into wealth/evaporation)

24. urge the animals to retract themselves, their lack of standard grammar

25. rouse the allegedly unpregnant from their unfathomable slumber

26. make the beautiful go to work

27. distract the keepers of the calendar and, when they are distracted, detach and destroy their unforgivable hobbies

28. people the pin-prick this evening alone makes in the atrophied muscle of common sense

29. grope and ogle the money machine

30. make a list of things to in case of consenting adults

31. profit from the simple inability of a given body to own the breath it absently rides towards its own concept

32. get the fuck out (i.e., get to fuck)

33. develop humble obsessive donors

34. locate the words with which the deaf-mutes are never done thinking

35. mass-murder the animals with overly smooth minds

36. place a hand upon the brand-new gash in each picture–not to stop the bleeding but to know it is true

37. prepare the eyes for the oncoming absence of voices

38. nibble at the warm stone of what has been

39. mourn the continuing success of the Snack Area

40. indict the misleading absence of spontaneity following each and every serious injury

41. understand nothing but the trap in which these many fine bones are inextricably lodged

42. produce a striking likeness of any one unproductive moment

43. be mindful of the ring-card-girl-prose in oneself and in others, and be ready to make the difference a fateful myth

44. listen to the involuntary gatherers wishing for an impossible poverty

45. bless the bait-shop employees who remain unopposed to an on-going radical renovation of the idea of what is to be caught 

46. collide with the hidden zoo and act surprised by the amount of unnecessary sleep hidden therein

47. picture the dirty dull scissors at work in the seeming

48. refuse to pay the suggested amount

49. tremble with the hunger of cameras fixed upon a spot incapable of becoming predestined

50. oversleep

51. distribute faulty prevention devices

52. establish eligibility for the death penalty 

53. clarify a morning posture

54. sing of eyes freezing, thighs giving birth, what have you

55. overestimate the degree to which the new scene, the scene that is just now being written, is fixed

56. overestimate the degree to which the new scene, the scene that is just now being written, is broken

57. lament those who are already on the way

58. postpone, for as long as possible, moving in to the sentence that is never not under construction

59. insist on the sad waste at the heart of all honest work

60. bury the elderly in the laughter which heals each instance of prayer

61. require the intellectuals to attend indoor night-time drug-taking picnics

62. complain about the way the various escalating dangers seem to conspire

63. nudge the drowsy lumberjack

64. adhere to the faint golden grunt (even when it dips into where it comes from, where it can’t go)

65. use the definitive article to make a broth

66. confine the untoward

67. polish the pre-birth emotion until it does not shine

68. mourn the health of the debonair

69. drudge the nowsy mumblejack

70. control the urge to farm

71. suck the body part of an other until there is a new feeling of closeness

72. offer help to the dying

73. embarrass that which abstracts itself from the secretly intentional clash of heads

74. endure the baby-sitting which knows no names

75. rehabilitate the truth tellers

76. devalue the circus tender

77. practice saying something

78. scrape the forgotten music from the great stadiums it accidentally built and failed to keep up

79.try to fluster the bulk of language with the idea of buried faces

80. discontinue the breadth of applicable horizon

81. lance and drain the churches

82. define the deceased

83. derive the trajectory of absolution

84. attack the display

85. let yourself “go”

86. pray for the institution of a consistently glancing blow

87. mimic the open area

88. elaborate the impasse from which each orgasm seems to shrink

89. look for what’s left of the portraits on the shore

90. post signs indicating relevant battlefields

91. expose the most casual technology in the world to the logic of its various fictional aftermaths

92. make the faithful look at us

93. weep new syllables 

#engl #creative nonfiction #lists #joe wenderoth #inspiration #lyrical #writing #english #I lowkey dont understand half of these but its so pretty

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#mood #daredevil

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Hello World, or, more realistically, hello friends from ENGL 311!! I won’t add too much, because I’m sure that would go against this written-format-defying-exercise, but in case my favorite piece of advice confuses you, this is why I said what I said. Do with it what you will, but know that I listen to it every once in a while to maintain sight of the bigger picture.

PS. the ‘cover art’ is a drawing I made of the cottage described in the audio. 

#me #myself #i dont think ive ever been this exposing about myself on the internet #scary? #i dont feel scared though #engl #engl311 #narrative #audio

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Unspooled Episode #1: Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles

On episode one of Unspooled, Paul and Amy jump straight into the AFI’s number one film of all time, Citizen Kane. They explain why it was almost never released, take a closer listen to Orson Welles’ innovative use of sound, and try to answer the big question: is this really the best movie ever? Plus: an interview with a guest expert, cinematographer Steve Gainer, on why Citizen Kane looks so incredible. (Listen)

#movies #citizen kane #orson welles #black and white #film #cinematography

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Beyoncé and Rihanna in Feels Like Summer (2018)

#YES #I love this so much #animation #art #inspiration #donald glover #feels like summer #childish gambino #wild with wonder

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ancient greek soldiers fighting the amazons: how are you so powerful??

amazons: 

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#omg me #pete davidson #i just can't #why murrica why

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Repeat After Me: You Are A Cyborg...

The age of Cyborgs is here! In fact, it’s been here for a while now. Or at least, it is if you believe people like Donna Haraway and Amber Case. “What in the world is that supposed to mean” You ask? Well, there is an article written about Donna Haraway back in 1997 (by Hari Kunzru) and even at that time, Haraway had been describing herself as a cyborg for a while. This may seem odd, because smartphones weren’t even a thing back then, but for Haraway (and many others) being a cyborg is not the same as the futuristic sci-fi-esque half-human-half-machine that most of us are imagining right now.

To Haraway, being a cyborg is about networks, and about “an alliance between (wo)man, machinery, and new technology.” We may not necessarily have superpower-granting-implants (though those do in fact also exist) but over the years humans and technology have created an almost inseparable bond. There are an incredibly large amount of things in our day to day life that wouldn’t be possible anymore without technology (See Amber Case’ TED talk). To Haraway, Case, and many others, this means that we have basically become cyborgs?

Does that thought freak you out? Think about the role that technology plays in your daily life? What are you using to read this right now? Is it perhaps that smartphone that, as some (like one of my favorites: Banksy) have suggested, has become glued to our hand?

Sorry, I didn’t mean to get so existential. But I do think they are ideas worthy of giving some thought. After all, these are questions of identity and what it means for us to define ourselves as humans (or cyborgs).

To me, one of the most interesting parts of the article about Donna Haraway, is the significance it brings forth between cyborgs, technology, and oppressed minorities. Didn’t see that one coming, right? Or maybe you did. Because, when I read that “The cyborg idea may in the end be Donna Haraway’s way of showing us how to let folks be folks, rather than carving them up into cruel, arbitrary divisions.” I suddenly made connections between this cyborg idea any many other artists that have used the metaphors and visuals of cyborgs and androids to deal with different parts of their identity. Right away, Janelle Monáe and her “Dirty Computers” come to mind. Her most recent album exists in a reality where all humans have turned into computers, and if you don’t fit the mold (in other words belong to any minority) you are Dirty. (oh man I could write an entire blog about Janelle tbh). But she’s not the only one. Other artists, like Years and Years, have also felt a connection to cyborgs as a way to deal with sexuality.

I leave you to think about why it is that artist and other creative minded people like us feel this connection to ‘obscure’ and futuristic ideas of technology.

#me #engl311 #class post #omg I love janelle #cyborgs #am I a cyborg? #I am a dirty computer

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Dissolve Me by Dániel Taylor

#art #inspiration #visual art #daniel taylor