Seeing my ex-husband four years after the ink dried on our divorce papers was not part of my plan. Returning to the small town where we’d grown up and fallen in love to rebuild my life at the exact time he’d chose to do the same thing wasn’t part of my plan either. It was,...
An invocation of the musical philosophy of John Cage is appropriate here: “The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.” This quote has always haunted me ...
If you ever got too far ahead in terms of the machinations of the twists or what the character was deciding to do, an audience could just disconnect. It’s too confusing. I can’t invest in this emotionally. So really making sure that all those revelations have the space within the ...
Some have interpreted David Bowie's "Teenage Wildlife" as having to do with "Bowie imitators" so to speak, those who came up behind him utilizing similar techniques. "You'll take me aside and say 'Well, David, what shall I do? They wait for me in the hallway,'" he sings. "I'll...
my hand, stop, Put Van The Man on the jukebox And then we start to dance, and now I'm singing like Girl, you know I want your love 女孩儿 你知道我想得到你的爱 Your love was handmade for somebody like me 你的爱也只为像我这样的人量身存在 Come on now, follow my lead 来吧 就...
I will ask: How do Penelope and Circe function in relation to Odysseus? What is their relationship to one another? And, to what extent do they conform to traditional ideologies of gender? 2. Reading the Odyssey In the Odyssey, Penelope and Circe’s actions are limited, and this can ...