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Thursday, April 23, 2009
okays i suppose its time to get my act together. and hes right i guess. to keep on moving is better than to stop and continue wallowing in.. whatever you call it. darn. he is better than ann robers. maybe just marginally (am i just being prejudiced against the whole profession or what), but better i suppose. haha. maybe like self-help books, effectiveness is determined by how much you believe in it. i used to think that self-help books were for suckers though. so im not sure how that translates into anything.
anyways, i think theres a difference between hip hop inspired lyrical dance and lyrical hip hop. although the universal term seems to be lyrical hip hop. but theyre like so different la can. and both are like distilled versions of hip hop itself? stripped from much of the cultural context that it arose from. i remember reading some article in ST by some art person from either nafa or laselle last year or something saying how like now that graffiti has become more mainstream and these graffiti artists now have avenues to express themselves legally, this form of art isnt exactly the same as it was before. the whole element of subversion, of going against what is accepted in order to express yourself is gone. yeah sure, you may have the same stylistic features, the same influences, but the character of the pieces created will surely be different. you cannot take an art form out of its original social context and expect it to remain the same. i guess ditto with all those stylised dances and all? they sure werent the same after chopin and all. (hahaha, i hope im not like totally crapping all this up though) i mean, yeah well, theyre beautiful and all. but some of the original oomph has been lost. like the hip hop we see on mtv is most certainly different from how it orinigally came about in the streets?
you know its amazing how much we're (okay fine at least i am) influenced by american culture when we've never even set foot in the country. like how we club to hip hop/rnb and not trance. or club rather than go to some ktv pub thingthing. how the movies we watch are all hollywood-minted. (again, perhaps its just me but i dont watch chinese films) the rare occasional british movie illicits a "omg that is so english" kinda reaction in me. not to mention the sprinkling of foreign films. ie. others. although american and chinese should technically be called foreign films as well?
whoo. the supervisor is back. thank god for that. id never have imagined i would say that. goodbye days of being understaffed and overworked! =)
ps. jessie, the porno guy is in haha.
12:00 am
gail.
loves anything new
gets caught up in causes, events, loves
but doesn't do anything about them.
professes to be a supporter of the green movement
but leaves the lights on
disapproves of mcdonalds
but eats there anyways.
godwise, the jury's still out.
schoolwise, fass rocks my socks
but why do i have like a ton of work to do?
familywise, i guess theyre/its great
we just need to figure out what to do around each other?
freindswise, hey you guys are awesome.
blogwise, realises that the profile section is crappy
but doesn't know how else to fill up the space.
