Today I'm spiritually thanking John Lennon for "pools of sorrow, waves of joy" (and thanking my dad for pointing me to these lyrics when I was a kid, thus starting my Lennon love early). On this stunning Good Friday before Easter, I have finished all of my coursework (for the term and for life!) and I am missing my family on the coast. Toward life goals, I feel restless and semi-productive. I'm in that wavy pool.
This week, I got together with some good friends of mine to make this video [http://youtu.be/lHxKdE5avxg], urging folks to vote against Stephen Harper's Conservatives in favour of any of the less militant alternatives. We had great fun shooting the lines and bonding over a shared leftist contempt for the current political situation. Afternoons like these help to keep us a little insulated from the depressing reality checks that are articles like these: [http://t.co/5yHgZgI]. The ageist rhetoric of this article would be alarming if we weren't already desensitized to political corruption. Now it's just sad.
The day after our "Breaking Up With Stephen Harper" vid went public on youtube, I got a comment to my phone when I was at lunch with some old choir friends. Sure, I've read the horrible comments on every other publicly posted video I've ever watched on youtube, but for some reason it didn't phase me that anyone would disagree with US. HA! I started writing retorts in my head while trying to be social at lunch, but then some healthy debate started on the comment wall and I let the commenters calm each other down. Whew. This is my encouragement for all those who agree with us to comment on the board :)
Now that the vid is done and vote mobs are planned (for tomorrow! vote!), I'm going through old papers and pulling thoughts together for future writing. As I mentioned in an earlier post: this review of old writing thing is the coolest thing going. Try it out!! For example, last year, I wrote a paper (for a political economy class) entirely in hypertext to present the potential displacement and reinforcement of the humanist subject in post-modern fiction... Well, as it turns out, when I was 19, I wrote this about Gulliver's Travels: "In Swift’s satirization (via Gulliver’s vain aspirations to become a more rational version of himself), he rejects the Period of Enlightenment, and its promotion of the supremacy of reason." First of all, who knew I read Gulliver's Travels? Not me. [What in heck's bells is a Houynhnhnm??] Who knew this urge to disrupt all the core tenets of classical liberal reason was birthed in my adolescence? Probably my parents did, but again... not me! I challenge you to check out the trajectory of your passions and reinforce them to yourself! Eat some chocolate eggs while you're at it!!
On that note, I'm off to caress my Lennon-opened mind with some snacks. Here's wishing you all a happy state holiday weekend. May it be filled with fair trade cocoa treats and organic free-range egg hunts!
And please enjoy my fave Easter vid while you munch:
http://youtu.be/zCRUPWDIgYM
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