Hey, remember that time I got really depressed about boys and started quoting Sylvia Plath, like an angsty 17-year-old? I promise it won’t happen again, at least not this month (note that there is hardly a week left to the month).
But anyhow. On to more important things, like…
DJ mixing class! So great. It is me and Shelina and a bunch of 18-year-old boys who needed to be told that the term “mix tape: comes from “cassette tape” which were these things we used to record stuff onto back in the 1990s. Golly. This week I am going to mix The Shangri-Las with MC Lyte and it is going to be super awesome. Also, today I picked up a record of horror movie sound effects (including: Arm Chopped Off, Sawing Leg Off, Grave Digging (In Stoney Ground), Grave Digging (In Wet Ground), Eerie Wind, Weird Wind, Wind Howling in Ship’s Rigging, and, inexplicably, The Electronic Swamp), which clearly means that I am going to be named Most Likely to Succeed by my DJ School Yearbook.
And now bedtime, for a have a long day ahead of me tomorrow in which I will read that entire Paul Gilroy book and think of lots of intelligent things to say about it for my meeting on Wednesday.
Oh, hey, also: someone is finally starting a Fringe Festival in Los Angeles! Which means that I might finally have a venue for this one-woman show I am working on (as of this morning) about how shitty everything is! Tanya is my Associate Producer. WE’LL SEE YOU AT THE TONY AWARDS!!!!!
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You have no idea how excited I am to be producing a show on the west coast, entirely through the power of The Internet! I want to see a first draft by Friday! Here’s an idea: slide show! Arne muppets!
We need to start thinking Corporate Sponsorship. I am thinking…Bombay Sapphire! Or else maybe Doritos.
Man, this play is going to be SO MUCH BETTER than the Vagina Monologues.
I once read that book in its entirety as well. Why are you reading it, Ms. Xandra?
Well, the project I’m working on for my independent study is about musics of the black diaspora being incorporated into white, working class, British musical genres – I’m looking specifically at how reggae was used by girl punk bands like The Slits. It’s potentially part of this possible dissertationy-type idea I’ve been mulling over about black music and white women in the UK – I could have a punk chapter and I could have a blue-eyed soul chapter (Dusty, Amy Winehouse et al), but obviously it’s too early for me to decide any of this right now so I don’t want to make any commitments to this idea until I’ve had the chance to explore it a bit more because I have a lot of other potential dissertation topics floating around in my head.
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