love, elton john.*
video of the week: bag of bones by kevin devine.
i like the stock footage alot, and this song.
food of the week:
my dear friend micah was eating a pomegranate last semester, and i had a pearl and thought to myself, this is happiness. there's fruit of good or evil. this is the fruit of good.honestly. stop grabbing an apple for it's sweetness and convenience. stop grabbing a handful of grapes and popping them in your mouth. stop peeling a banana, eating it, then tossing it on the ground to be tripped on. buy a pomegranate, cut it open, and take your slow time eating each wonderful pearl. you'll thank me one day. maybe not. but maybe.
book of the week:
i blame my brother for my admiration of chuck. he has all of his books. and when i was visiting him at christmas i read the back of his newest one, and i'm excited. i went to the library,["having fun isn't hard, when you've got a library card" a dollar to the person that can tell me who sings that!] and picked it up. i only got a few pages into it, but boy i'm excited. you're probably used to the average book synopsis on the back or the website...well this is how chuck does it:
Q: What is this book about?
A: Well, that's difficult to say. I haven't read it yet - I've just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage. There clearly isn't a plot. I've heard there's a lot of stuff about time travel in this book, and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans don't laugh when they're inside grocery stores. Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles. I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women. Supposedly there's a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about, but perhaps I'm misinformed.
yeah.
car of the week:
1966 VOLVO.
i know i was born in the wrong decade. i've known this for a long time. the sixties would have been glamorous i think. i mean i would time travel to get this adorable volvo. look at that green, it's such a pretty green.artist of the week:
michelle ramin
she's a snazzy artist in portland, oregon. if i didn't love the south so much i'd up and go to portland. maybe open up the first mellow mushroom on the west, those granolas would eat that place up. anyway, this is her self-portrait, and i really like it. she also does alot of construction and landscape drawings.
http://www.michelleramin.com/
musician(s) of the week:
FUN.anyone remember the wondrous band The Format? i do. and i loved them so. and i was so upset when they broke up. luckily nate continued on. they are hard to get a hold of, but so chipper and great.
this is one of their videos. nate looks about the same, but his jeans got alot skinnier. and he still reminds me of kevin bacon.
http://video.aol.com/aolvideo/AOL Music/all-the-pretty-girls/51743220001
creation of the week:
sewn together: owl
seems i need better lighting. or a not like 5 year old digital camera. i'll fix the second before i go to europe.i'm painting alot of the ideas that i didn't have time to work on or complete when i was to busy with my art classes at school. it's just a simple painting of an owl, that's made up of fabric, so it's like a quilted animal.
i'm thinking now that i needs a background. good thing i have the time to go back and do that. if not, i'll move on to the next piece.
also, another hair accessory creation. i crocheted this. i think i'll keep this up. a creation, and then a not-so-much-or-too-impressive-creation.
side-note: it looks like my parents are conniving again with their friends to set me up with some son of theirs. this time it's sasquatch himself. no really. this boy is 6'10". i thought i was tall. that's an entire foot taller than me. he's cute though. we'll see what happens. oh the adventures of kendal in wonderland, now living at home-land.
p.s.... speaking of sasquatch.
this is a new photo of my dear friend tanner,
on a bus in japan. he's like 6'3 or 4 i think.
and that bus is so asian-sized.
*watch the grammys. or the first 10 minutes, like i did.
4 comments:
i thought i would leave an excessively long comment about the pomegranate.
in greek mythology, persephone is kidnapped by hades and taken to the underworld to be his wife. her mother, demeter, requests the return of her daughter. zeus consents; however, while in the underworld, persephone eats nine seeds of a pomegranate. for this reason, persephone must stay in the underworld half the year in the underworld (winter). this is the "cause" of seasons.
the story, and the pomegranate, have a deeper meaning though. persephone represents the virgin maiden of all women (her name is sometimes just "the maiden"), thus she is an archetype of pre-marital women. the pomegranate is a symbol of sex, the shell representing the womb, and the seeds representing, well er, hem... guy seed. persephone partakes of hades "seed" via the symbol of a pomegranate. so, persephone can never truly return to child-like girlhood. she is now a woman in marriage, never the same (she had sex).
thus, pomegranate = sex, that's why they're so sublime to eat.
you can say thank you to my greek & roman mythology class for that.
thank you so much david.
that was a wonderful addition to my point!
i especially liked the 'never the same (she had sex)' i made me lol.
i do love greek mythology, maybe i'll take that class at byu.
that owl is amazing
love the owl, love the headband and how did that date go?
also, that picture of tanner is flipping hilarious!
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