Sisyphean Workout Tape

Secret from PostSecret.com

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:31:36 -0600

Secret from PostSecret.com

The weeknd! (Taken with Instagram)

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:12:16 -0500

The weeknd! (Taken with Instagram)

The only one worth keeping (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:55:39 -0500

The only one worth keeping (Taken with instagram)

Annnd my summer life. (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:35:46 -0500

Annnd my summer life. (Taken with instagram)

My pinhole camera (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:28:16 -0500

My pinhole camera (Taken with instagram)

Undergrad. (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 30 May 2012 20:00:07 -0500

Undergrad. (Taken with instagram)

Revolution 91.7 plays this constantly…so now I’m...

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:25:12 -0500

Revolution 91.7 plays this constantly…so now I’m hooked.

THEESatisfaction :: QueenS (by stelioscockey)

This summer I'm going to

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:23:33 -0500

-make more use of tumblr/instagram/wordpress/social media (shameless self-lauding stuff), hopefully to the benefit of others

-write on a regular basis—weekly, if not daily

-read more than I ever did in undergrad (easy); a book a week if I’m careful

-get rid of things I don’t need before moving down to Alabama (yaaard sale)

-try my damnedest to get back to Austin

-develop a better knowledge of alcohol (not to be confused with ‘get drunk a lot’)

-start/finish at least one critically acclaimed tv series my friends keep ranting to me about and i pretend to have seen to carry on a conversation

-craft? maybe? can i do that?

See you in raaaaleigh (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:15:28 -0500

See you in raaaaleigh (Taken with instagram)

I swear I will use this more.

Sat, 26 May 2012 19:29:54 -0500

And wordpress. I will sell this house today.

chicagobusiness: “Woman was on the phone being interviewed for...

Sat, 26 May 2012 19:29:12 -0500

chicagobusiness:

“Woman was on the phone being interviewed for a job and this guy took her phone to put in a good word.” via @dan4lopez

#gooddeeds

art&abortion

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:54:54 -0500

After spending five days forensicating in Athens, Ohio, the return to WKU was marked by none other than the religious right. I’m not certain on the timeline of events here, but apparently, the story plays out like the following:

Pro-life (Hilltoppers for Life, here’s their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hilltoppers-for-Life/288771708370 or one of them at least)student group sets up field of crosses to represent abortions that happen each day.

That’s neat, I suppose. Brutal, if you’re going for a death metal band. Is Graveyard Abortions taken as a band name already? I know the album cover is (http://cd.metallicaworld.eu/files/m_front.jpg)

Shortly thereafter, an art student gets an installation project approved to place condoms over the crosses on the last day of the installment. Said pro-lifers were camped out, watched her and her boyfriend place condoms over crosses, called the police and have since been throwing endless fits about their freedoms. The story is a bit more detailed, but it has already been covered by others and can be easily googled. For a similar blogpost, check out Dr. Kerby at WKU (http://molly.kerby.blog.wku.edu/)

The point of this post, then, is to point out, and really, make fun of the discussion surrounding it. Why? Because I suddenly have too much free time. Deriding follows.

Let’s start with this LifeNews Article (http://www.lifenews.com/2012/04/20/police-refuse-to-stop-vandals-desecrating-pro-life-cross-display/)

3 paragraphs in:

“Claiming vandalism as art is disingenuous and disturbing at best. The desecration of the crosses at WKU is sacrilegious, offensive, and borders on a hate crime. While we have seen vandalism before at other campuses across the nation, it is not uncommon for students to face opposition of this nature but usually the campus police do help out and stop the vandalism rather than hide behind some ‘artistic expression’ excuse.”

I guess there are different interpretations of art, but if the student succeeds in prompting such a reaction—it’s probably art, and not vandalism. See also: Banksy. Additionally, it’s disturbing to think that a public university could be criticized for something deemed sacrilegious when it ought to (keyword) have no religious affiliation. That is probably another topic in itself. I’m also glad that the author of this piece decided to criticize the police for not dismantling an installation…it’s not like police officers have been particularly busy increasing their presence to prevent the ever more frequent crimes from occurring on campus.

Moving on…

“John Sohl, President of WKU Hilltoppers for Life relays his first hand account here:

“All I wanted to do was take a nap during the last night of a very successful Life Week at WKU. But just as I was dozing off, my brother spotted two people dressed in dark clothing, hanging something in front of our display! Well, it didn’t take long to figure out what they were doing because we had been waiting for something like this all week long. Yes…they were vandalizing our Cemetery of the Innocents.”

Hahah, wow. Allow me to pity you for just a moment, John. Your life is clearly so stressful defending your freedom of speech which vandals are clearly interrupting so you have a bad day. Also, Cemetery of the Innocents? Helllo album title for Graveyard Abortions.

These are the highlights here…and the fact that the article inaccurately listed a faculty member as some one to call.

Here, http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/western-kentucky-u-student-i-did-not-apologize-for-desecrating-crosses, Kristan Hawkins, of Students for Life, claimed the art student in question was “armed with enough condoms to cover all the crosses…”

I’m just going to put the lid on armed with condoms (second album title?) and let the implications of such language simmer for a while.

Another Sohl gem from WKBO (http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/WKU_Student_Accused_of_Desecrating_Pro-Life_Cross_Display_Speaks_Up_148598445.html):

“You do not respond to art work by altering that art work. It would be the same as if i went into the National Art Gallery, looked at the Mona Lisa and said, I don’t like the color of her hair and then I proceeded to color it a different color,” Sohl says.

1)I would like to know where these art guidelines are as to how to create art. 2) You put crosses in a football stand. To represent aborted fetuses. You are not the Mona Lisa. Nor anything close. 3) If you went into the National Art Gallery, you would not find the Mona Lisa. The Lourve, maybe. The National Art Gallery? Unlikely. And let’s not forget the work of Surrealists and Dadaists, (easy google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa#Legacy)

I’ll leave it at that because it’ll only become more incomprehensible and centered upon my own entertainment.

Photo

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:30:19 -0600

I’m just going to try writing, instead of trying to write...

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:45:30 -0600

I’m just going to try writing, instead of trying to write well.

Heliography

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:15:06 -0600

You and me are daguerreotypes

Transient instances of a captured scene

Of portraits and landscapes

Becoming 19th century Prometheans

bringing silver plates for the masses.

We’ll burn bright with fame

until we become molten polaroid bubbles

lost in disposable plasticity.

aaronmeier: Best holiday card award goes to SNL

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:30:15 -0600

aaronmeier:

Best holiday card award goes to SNL

Frith's First

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:19:41 -0600

Underneath the dark tent

covering your head

you squinted

clumsy in that heat

into the brown box

that peered into the past

as sands whipped across you.

The stiff dryness of Giza

threatened those wet plates of early film

as they fizzed

bubbling over glass.

You gazed ahead toward feats of

buried peoples

headstones worthy of the pharaoh,

graves further entombed.

Adjusting

you waited.

Adjusting,

you remained.

A sunken scentless guardian

as your foreground,

burnt in golden sepias in the same sands until well after you rest.

An introduction.

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:11:29 -0600

This will end up as a thought repository, both good and bad, and it’s more interesting than papers. Well, less intensive. For the moment:

Die Hard is the greatest Christmas movie.

I am strongly considering buying audio books I’d have no intention of listening to otherwise just because they are read by Alan Rickman (but only two exist? http://www.amazon.com/Return-Native-Thomas-Hardy/dp/1572705701/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322287603&sr=1-2 and http://www.amazon.com/Nelson-Mandelas-Favorite-African-Folktales/dp/1600246664/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322287691&sr=1-1)

Distance motivates me to write. So does being outdoors. And listening to people speak. I would like Chuck Palahniuk more if he didn’t (inadvertently) inspire tons of shitty knock-offs. But same goes for just about anything famous.

Also, this is pretentious, so I’ll leave it here.

Optimism is a lack of experience; cynicism is experience with a lack of success.

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:55:40 -0600

Optimism is a lack of experience; cynicism is experience with a lack of success.