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I really do live my life from obsession to obsession. Sob.
In worse cases, there are obsessions within obsessions (just like dreams within dreams!-- no points for guessing one of my current obsessions). Like Edith Piaf.
But you have to admit Edith Piaf is a very good obsession to have.
Not going to link Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien because I think everyone's heard it by now- or at least the people who've watched Inception.
Oh, and I went to check out a clip of Marion Cotillard playing Edith Piaf- and now I really really want to watch La Vie En Rose, because her portrayal is so wonderfully bohemian (is that the right way to describe it?).
Art History was awesome! We did Palaeolithic and Neolithic art today, very briefly. I'd never really taken a close look at cave art before, but the examples shown today were just gorgeous. ♥ According to my lecturer, Picasso went to Altamira and came out, only to declare that humanity has learnt nothing. I think it's bullshit, but that could be due to my longstanding bias against Picasso.
I really hope I'm in group A and not transferred elsewhere, because the lecturer we had today was really good. She's an anthropologist, and a feminist, and well, it might be a little narrow of me, but I really want to hear art history from her perspective, to know the less-explored side of art.
I mean, in under two hours today, I learnt so, so much, including that women's place in Palaeolithic and Neolithic culture was way more important than most people would have thought. There are a lot of Venus figures around for one, venerating the woman, the bringer of life, and even water is compared to the milk of the breast in one example of a water holder, where the spout is a stylized breast. There are also theories that women were the first to domesticate animals, since they were the ones who kept close to home and who planted crops while the men hunted for meat.
And that's just one part of it.
And... I shall stop being such a nerd, god.
In worse cases, there are obsessions within obsessions (just like dreams within dreams!-- no points for guessing one of my current obsessions). Like Edith Piaf.
But you have to admit Edith Piaf is a very good obsession to have.
Click to viewNot going to link Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien because I think everyone's heard it by now- or at least the people who've watched Inception.
Oh, and I went to check out a clip of Marion Cotillard playing Edith Piaf- and now I really really want to watch La Vie En Rose, because her portrayal is so wonderfully bohemian (is that the right way to describe it?).
Art History was awesome! We did Palaeolithic and Neolithic art today, very briefly. I'd never really taken a close look at cave art before, but the examples shown today were just gorgeous. ♥ According to my lecturer, Picasso went to Altamira and came out, only to declare that humanity has learnt nothing. I think it's bullshit, but that could be due to my longstanding bias against Picasso.
I really hope I'm in group A and not transferred elsewhere, because the lecturer we had today was really good. She's an anthropologist, and a feminist, and well, it might be a little narrow of me, but I really want to hear art history from her perspective, to know the less-explored side of art.
I mean, in under two hours today, I learnt so, so much, including that women's place in Palaeolithic and Neolithic culture was way more important than most people would have thought. There are a lot of Venus figures around for one, venerating the woman, the bringer of life, and even water is compared to the milk of the breast in one example of a water holder, where the spout is a stylized breast. There are also theories that women were the first to domesticate animals, since they were the ones who kept close to home and who planted crops while the men hunted for meat.
And that's just one part of it.
And... I shall stop being such a nerd, god.