Being a Comic Book Superhero=Awesome

This is my last blog and I have no idea what to write about. I was thinking about Persepolis, but that's what the rest of you lovely people already wrote about. Then I thought about it being a graphic novel, and then I thought about comic books, and then I thought about summer. Last summer I was in a musical called Starmites and it was pretty much the greatest thing ever.

It was about a huge comic book nerd who wishes she lived in her comic book world. She dreamed of being a Starmite and saving Innerspace. Eventually she gets sucked into this world and they are trying to kill her. She thinks that she can't do it, but in the end she defeats the bad guy Shak Graa.

This actually has a connection to Pan's Labyrinth. When Eleanor gets transferred to Innerspace, she is called Milady. Milady is the object of the Starmites' quest, and what Shak-Graa needs to destroy in order to rule all. In Pan's Labyrinth Ofelia has a quest to find a key and go through a labyrinth under the name Princess Moanna. It's really not that similiar, but I noticed it when watching the film.

The play was a ton of fun to be in. Playing a comic book superhero really has no limits. The costumes and makeup were insanely colorful, and we wore these light up stars on our costumes that were sound activated. It was pretty sweet. The best thing about playing a comic book character is that you can act completely insane and no one can tell you you're overacting. Superhero comic books are often written to be insane and unrealistic and it was just a lot of fun to play that.

Just Dance, It'll Be Okay.

We've focused a lot on motifs in this class. Catcher in the Rye and Jane Eyre were crawling with them. After reading Feed, I noticed there was a motif of dancing.

The main character Titus would malfunction (make himself high by overflowing his feed), and he connected that to rain. He said he and his girlfriend danced in it like rain. Later in the book, Titus's girlfriend makes a bucket list, and number one is dancing. Number three is dancing in a nightclub.

When I tried to figure out what this meant, I immediately thought of Just Dance by Lady Gaga. The whole song is basically about getting wasted and dancing.

Violet understands that the Earth is dying and there are all these problems going on. Dancing for her is just kind of a release for all these issues. It is the only thing that's left in the world that isn't controlled by the feed. Violet is starting to lose her ability to move though because of the feed. Dancing was the only way she was able to relieve stress and be carefree.

In the words of Gaga, "Just dance, it'll be okay."

Literature on Drugs

Everyone has seen Alice in Wonderland. All the colors and strange characters, and not to mention a catapillar smoking a hookah. When you're a kid you just find it interesting. It's a disney movie so it has to be innocent right? Well, that's false.
There are so many different theories out there about if the author Lewis Carroll was on acid while he wrote Alice in Wonderland. I researched it and found out that it's not true that he was on acid, because acid wasn't even discovered until many years later. But, through my research I did come across that Carroll had many migranes and was on the drug Opium. Opium is known to cause vivid dreams. There are some sites that refute this, but I believe it. Lewis Carroll was a mathematician. He either just had creative explosion one day, or he took something.
A couple weeks ago I saw a play called "Still Life With Iris." It starts out with a girl living in a very colorful world, where people make storms and flowers and catch the moon. Everyone wears coats that keep hold of all their memories. Once they take their coats off, they don't know who they are anymore. Iris gets kidnapped and taken to a black and white world to live with the Goode family. The Goode family insists on having the best of everything. They only wear one shoe, the best shoe. Iris hates this world and runs away to a beach, where she meets a pirate gypsy woman and Mozart. Maybe it's just me, but I definately felt like I was tripping while I was watching it.

This blog really has nothing to do with anything we're doing in class right now, but I just wanted to write it for funsies. It's literature, and this is a literature class after all.

I do have one connection. If the Goode family found something that was not the best, they would send it to the cave. In one part of the play, they show all the people that have been sent to the dungeon. They all look hot damn messes. The cave was crawling with Bertha Masons.

Wrongs of Passage: Sixteen Candles.

I believe what she was saying is true for the most part. I don't really understand what she was saying with the age part though. I relate my "sweet sixteen" to the movie Sixteen Candles. I was at a swim meet that weekend and like maybe three people said happy birthday to me. I wasn't with any of my family or any of my real friends. It was probably the worst birthday ever. I did crash a redneck wedding though, that was fun... until we almost got arrested. That wasn't too fun. It all turned up from there though. A month later I got my driver's license and the same day I got a 2009 Chevy Cobalt. I was feeling pretty optimistic that day, expecially because the car was yellow.
Anyways, I think that the age thing is a fine example, but still it's not 100% accurate. Once you turn a certain age, that doesn't mean you're going to grow up any faster.

I guess my rite of passage will be when I go off to college. I'm shy and dependent, and I'm going to have to change that before I go off to live on my own without parents telling me to do things. This is a positive rite because I will be independent and I will be alot more outgoing. That's something I want to do now, I just have no motivation. College will push me to be what I want to be.