Weekend Playist: Strange Magic

I've been really into listening to 70s music lately. Disco, rock, whatever. Anything 70s! Here are some of my favorites...

1. "Barracuda" Heart, 1977

2. "Strange Magic" Electric Light Orchestra,

3. "September" Earth, Wind and Fire, 1971

4. 'Cherry Bomb" The Runaways, 1976

5. "The Wild One" Suzi Quatro, 1974

6. "Doctor's Orders" Carol Douglas, 1974

7. "Waterloo" ABBA, 1974

8. "Evil Woman" Electric Light Orchestra, 1975

9. "Black Magic Woman" Santana, 1970

10. "Rhiannon" Fleetwood Mac, 1975

Sorry if I got a year or two wrong! Blame Google.

Lizzie Rose

Classic Rock Bands that I've Been Loving Lately/Forever

Here are some bands that I've been loving. Some of them I've discovered more recently, but others I've loved for forever. Here's a list of fifteen of them and a song or two from them that I love.

1. The Beatles Favorite song: "Here Comes The Sun"

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2. The Monkees Favorite song: "Valleri"

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3. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Favorite song: "Crimson and Clover"

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4. The Runaways Favorite song: "I Love Playin' With Fire" 

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Heart Favorite Song: "Magic Man"

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5. Blondie "Heart of Glass" and "Sunday Girl"

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6. ABBA Favorite song: "Waterloo" and (obviously) "Dancing Queen"

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7. Fleetwood Mac Favorite Song: "Rhiannon"

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8. The Carpenters Favorite song: "Rainy Days and Mondays"

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9. The Ronettes Favorite song: "Be My Baby"

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10. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Favorite song: "American Girl"

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11. David Bowie Favorite song: "Heroes"

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13. The Steve Miller Band Favorite song: "Jungle Love"

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14. Dexys Midnight Runners Favorite song: "The Celtic Soul Brothers (More, Please, Thank You)"

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15. Electric Light Orchestra Favorite song: "Strange Magic"

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Picture Development Day!

 My photos finally came back from CVS! It only took FOREVER (I'm not kidding, it took 3 weeks because they had to send them out to get them developed) but it's worth it! This is the very roll of film I have ever taken on an older film SLR that my dad gave to me. I wanted to post some of the pictures to share, so I hope you enjoy!

I loved driving around the country side near where I live and taking pictures of things, like the railroad tracks and the marshy pond next to those tracks. I have already used 2 more rolls after this one and I am on my fourth right now, so more of these posts to come!

Also, in case you were wondering, the camera is a Canon Rebel 2000 and I used was Fujifilm X-Tra 400 film.

Lizzie Rose

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead envy

We are in the middle of the Drama unit in my AP Lit class, and it is fantastic. So far, we have read Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller!! Perfection!! Possibly a post dedicated just to Miller is in order?), Trifles, Hamlet, A Doll's House, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard.

R&G especially inspired a word lust and an envy that happens whenever I read something so fantastic that it makes me want to cry because of the sheer brilliance of the writing. It makes me so jealous that I didn't write it, I think My God I wish I wrote that! I and then I go off into my room and write until I can't anymore.

In Stoppard's R&G, he rewrites the story of Hamlet through the eyes of courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who were both minor characters in Hamlet. The way that Stoppard writes the play, intertwining R&G's stories into the original story of Hamlet, sometimes even incorporating scenes pulled straight from Shakespeare's play. I love the way he makes the characters, two bumbling idiots who spout truths about death and the meaning of life. I have a feeling that I'm going to keep coming back to reread this one.

Miller's Salesman was another example. His use of lighting as a way of cuing a flashback was ingenious. Whenever Willy is flashing back to a memory, the lighting changes and flute music is cued to tell the audience that this scene is set in a happier time in the Loman family's life. This element actually inspired me to use a similar tactic in the play that I am writing now. Miller's use of symbols, like the stockings from the line where Biff says "You gave her mama's stockings!" pull the play together. Lines like Biff's here really got to me, especially when I was watching it at a theater about 40 minutes away from my house. when I heard that line, I had an "a-ha" (who else thinks of "Take On Me" when they see that?) moment and everything came together. The meaning of the play and key to the unraveling of Biff and Willy's relationship. 

Trifles by Susan Glaspell and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen were so inspiring and thought provoking that I'm including them in a post about Feminism in early/turn of the century Lit (coming soon! *imagine this being said in an epic Morgan Freeman voice*). 

That's why sometimes it seems so daunting, opening a fresh new Word document or turning to a blank page in my notebook. What if what I write is no good? These masterpieces float around in the back of my mind and somehow my fingers can't move from being frozen, poised over the keyboard. I talk myself out of writing so easily. The little devil that sits on my left shoulder whispers evils into my ear and beats me back, away from the computer to the TV or the fridge. But I've recently found that writing is a lot like life. If you don't take that chance, you're not only letting that bitchy little devil win, but you're cheating yourself out of something special. I've learned that I have to write, even if I think what I do write sucks and no one will like it. Taking a leap of faith in writing is the only thing a writer can do. After all, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead wasn't written in a day.

Frida Kahlo: An Inspiration

Frida Kahlo is one of my favorite artists. I've always loved her self portraits, but I recently realised that I don't know much about Frida or her art, other than what I learned about in elementary school art class. I researched her life and her art, and she became even more inspiring as I studied her art online.

When I was little, I saw one of Frida's paintings in a museum. I remember it was a self portrait, and that I was completely mesmerized by her style. I still remember that trip because of that painting, and Frida has been one of my favorite artists ever since. She used her art to document her life. The pain and the passion. Even though the internet is still an incredible resource for knowledge, these pictures probably don't do the paintings justice. But please, admire them anyway. Maybe what you see here can inspire a trip to a museum to see her art in person, or to just go on to learn a little bit more about Frida's art and life.
  

 El Autobus

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."

Henry Ford Hospital

Moses Nucleus Of Creation

 

 Self Portrait 1926

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world. But then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her and imagine that she must be out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true. I'm here and I'm just as strange as you."

Self Portrait 1940

 The Two Fridas

What The Water Gave Me

"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly."

What I Watched This Weekend #2

1. Numb3rs

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I finished watching this series on Friday night. I started watching it again from the beginning after that. It's that amazing.

2. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

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I'm not a huge fan of high pressure intense action movies, but I am a fan of Chris Pine.

3. 7th Heaven

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I've been watching some of the early episodes, total blast from the past. I spent entire summers watching 7th Heaven.

4. Parenthood

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After finishing Numb3rs, my family started watching Parenthood. The Bravermans make the Camdens  look drama free.

5. The Great Gatsby (1974)

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I LOVED this adaptation of one of my all time favorite books! For the most part, I feel like they did the book justice, and the acting was on point. I'd take Robert Redford over Leonardo DiCaprio any day.

6. Howl

 

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I was very disappointed with this one. I'm not familiar with Allen Ginsberg's poetry, but from what I read on Poetry Foundation before watching, I had high hopes. The animation and court scenes didn't mesh and it didn't really didn't do anything for me.

7. Stuck In Love

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This is one of my favorite movies! Mostly because I love movies about writers and I love Logan Lerman.

8. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

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Meh. The Grimm brothers are rolling in their graves. But if you're not thinking about how WILDLY inaccurate this is, both historically and the original fairy tale, it's a good enough thriller.