Thoughts & Ramblings of a College Student

1. My initial reaction to the text was aggravation. What was the point of that, if nothing was done. However i realize that that exactly is probably the point of the story, to expose the way things work in a place, and how frustratingly nothing gets done because of the constant interruption of other "forces". In the same manner it was a sort of story inception where there was a story being told about telling a story that was never told, or well, completed. Needless to say the lack of information as to why the sequence happened in that way was frustrating to me, and made me feel slightly aggravated. 2. Being from Venezuela, I could connect to some of the ideas of brute force as the leading method of communication and of getting what you need or want, because similarly this kind of violent actions happen there too. I was also able to connect to the narrator's frustrations of the totally unnecessary situation, and inability to complete a simple task. I also could connect...

I think this course ought to include live music. As an avid concert goer and festival goer, i think its important for people to view and feel the feelings that come with live music. These feelings can range from anywhere in the spectrum from happiness to anger and back again. I believe if anything is the universal language, more than mathematics, music is the universal language. Regardless of lyrics and cultural aspects of music,  music is not just heard but more importantly felt. In the live setting, I believe we receive the energies and the feelings a lot more profoundly and somehow in our subconscious music speaks to us, and allows us to express things we don't have words or images for. It's also interesting to see the kind of culture that live music has developed, specially music festivals as they've become a lot more mainstream and attainable to people, especially in America. Which goes to show universality of it, as many different walks of life, ages, and kinds of ...

What a joy to watch something that was nothing like what you expected... in a good way! The End of the F****** World World was a wonderful series to dive into, as it was easy to consume and the content wasn't as lengthy as some other of the shows, which is very appealing to me. Personally, binge watching is not my favorite form of media consumption, because the information gets jumbled in my brain and sometimes I cant even synthesize the information, or truly understand the intricacies of what is happening in the show. I much rather watch one episode a day for the duration of the series, but I definitely never mix series, meaning I will watch one series at a time, not many different episodes from different series in the same time frame. On the topic of binge watching, long form television, is an identifying quality of our time. With the phase out of common cable broadcasting, and the onset of Netflix, and all its subsequent streaming services, we have started leaning towards co...

Reading comics is a very particular kind of literary experience. For me, a person who hasn't picked up any kind of comic but maybe once in my life and never finished, I found that it is unlike most literary experiences, and that there's a process to how to do it, and what to pay attention to. The imagery in comics informs you just as much as the text if not more, and there's a particular order in which to look at a page and to make sense of it. This, for me, makes it a more confusing experience than simply reading a book, as I have far more practice in that realm. In the world of the graphic narrative, we see the authors voice come through a combination of  the imagery they present, the format of said imagery, and the writing style they pursue. In My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, the imagery and the format are the main factors for me. This pen sketching style on ruled paper, seeming much like an illustrated diary of sorts points to the idea of someone speaking from inside,...

This week I chose to explore Sofia Coppola's work, almost solely based on the tiny fact that she is the wife of  the leading man of a band I thoroughly enjoy, Thomas Mars of Phoenix. I was surprised to realize, I had seen a lot of her work before, actually, MOST of her work before this moment. So I was excited to be able to look at it with a critical eye instead of having to decipher the plot and point of the movie. I watched The Bling Ring Marie Antoinette Somewhere The Virgin Suicides Lost in Translation and for some fun and to see the way her voice might have translated i also watched The Flaming Lips : This Here Giraffe Phoenix: Chloroform I found that the her voice certainly shined through every single movie, and the first element I  noticed make an appearance time and time again was the way sound was used in the movies. More often than not the dialogue was sparse and there was use of a lot of mundane sounds we don't truly pay any attention to in our real live...