Standing the Test of Time

For my Literally Criticism class last semester I wrote a paper on artists who are standing the test of time. And I used Shakespeare as an example. So I thought I would include this paper into my blogs because here is yet again another reference to Shakespeare in my everyday life.

NOTE: The picture is of me of course in my room on my couch with my BEAST of a Bloom book, and the piece of paper that was in the book upon my buying it!

Humes main argument is whether an artist or author can stand the test of time. Meaning if the author can stay famous and not die out over the years, then that is a good artist or author. These authors and artist are still having records being sold, or books being sold. These authors have proven that they can stand the test of time. These authors and artist have good tastes in what they want, and they have high standards that they must reach every time. These authors will have high standards that they author will want to meet. By meeting these high standards proves that the author can still come out and write a piece that will sell out.

All authors have a standard of taste. These standards help them so that they will always write good pieces and will always sell out. These good authors will never die. If they die in real life, they will not figuratively die. Even though some great authors are not here anymore their works still are. Take William Shakespeare for example, even though he has been dead for so many decades his works still live on. Some of his plays are still some of the most read. They are propionate in the schools. Teachers will teach their students the plays of Shakespeare. He has stood the test of time.
Lady Gaga is an artist whose music will stand the test of time. She is something different in every aspect of music and literature. Her lyrics are literature and they are lyrics that speak to the common man. Her lyrics might not impact the listener but they will make the listener listen more closely to her, and will want to always listen to her. The way she dresses also makes a statement.

An artist or author, who stands the test of time, makes statements out of their works. They take a chance and do something that is against the social norm. What makes them stand the test of time is if they willing to take the chance. Critics admire people who will take a chance when they won’t. They latch onto these people because they want to know what they will do next. The power of excitement is what has people wanting to know more about these artists. Good artist never die. If the author or artist is good at what they do, and always pleases their readers and listeners with things that they want to hear and read then they will stay loyal to their favorite.

Woo

It has been way to long since I have blogged. So I thought with the little down time that I have I would sit here and blog. Get back on the blogging train. I always have a million things that I feel I would like to blog on, but of course with life, I never touch half of them. Tis life.

Recently my bestie (a term used for best friend) has been going out with her girls, and doing ‘The Main Street’ shuffle, and meeting guys. I usually have to work the nights they decide to do this, but that’s ok, I like hearing the stories of the things that have happened. The other day she was telling me of someone who was ‘wooing’ her. He didn’t use the term but she did. And I was like ahh hold the phone. Wooing? As in our Shakespearean class we have together? She said that it was the only word that she could use to describe the events that happened between her and this ‘suitor’. Nevertheless I embraced the word with open arms. A word that I wished we would use more often in our vocabulary. This one word sums up everything that happens between a boy and a girl. Shakespeare is so brilliant for wanting to use it in his plays, and using this word to describe a world of things that happen between two hormonal bodies. I love the way this word falls off the tip of my tongue.. woo.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/woo here is the site that I used to look up the definition of this glorious word. Woo.

am not sure of the status and my friend and her ‘wooing suitor’. Needless I was excited that I could make a connection to my life, and my Shakespeare class. Again Thank you Bill for being Awesome!

Finally!

So I will just get this out there. I live in the dorms, but I live alone. I have my own room so that’s very nice, not having to do the roommate thing again. Seems like I can’t hang out with my girls as much as I would like sometimes because I have to read or blog or do something pertaining to my wonderful major. This semester I have realized that this is my worst semester in the reading load. But nevertheless I will pull through!

So I ordered my secondary text on Amazon last week for a wallet busting $11. I order all of my books that I need for school on Amazon. I really love the site when it comes to buying books, but that’s beyond the point. But I finally got my Harold Bloom book! Its here I have a little red slip in my mail box saying that I have a package waiting for me at the front desk! I get this huge box! I had no idea what was coming my way. I was so excited to open this package. So I ripped open the box-just to find my secondary text. All 745 pages of Bloom. My friends were excited I got a package, until I showed them what it was. But there was something about it that made me excited. I don’t know if it was because it was another book to add to my collection, or if it was one of those books that I could toat around and show off that I was “reading” this really great theoretical text. I don’t know what it is. I’m still kind of excited about it. I have not really had the time to “dive right in” to the text yet. I plan on getting knee deep into it this weekend.

As I’m thumbing through all daunting 745 pages a piece of paper falls out of the book. Keep in mind that this is a used book from Amazon. It’s a clipping from a magazine that has 3 books that pertain to Shakespeare. The books are Shakespeare A life by Park Honan, Harold Blooms book, and get this- Shakespeare for Dummies. I think it was a fun sign I guess we can call it on why I was excited for this book in the first place. This little piece of paper was just enough to make me excited about this book!

Hope all is well! Until then – I’ll keep reading the mounds of books that I have! 

I woke up and it was ALL a dream

I woke up and it was all a dream.

As a person I hate having that be the end of any story. Doesn’t matter the movie or the book I hate that ending. I think it is such an easy way of getting out of the hardest part to the story-the ending. When I was in school writing stories in my creative writing classes I could never end my story with I woke up and it was all a dream. I hate how even some movies and books that make millions of dollars end their plots with this simple and basic line.

It gives the whole meaning to the plot no meaning at all. Like everything that happened didn’t matter. Believe me I saw Inception and it blew my mind in so many ways, and I want to watch it over and over again to understand the ending… was it a dream or not. Was the whole plot of the story just a dream that meant nothing to the writer and the actors? Did writer and director Christopher Nolan not think of anything better to end his mind blowing movie?

All in all that is the beauty of this movie, is that you as an audience member are left to question and wonder, and we still won’t know even if we watch it over and over and 100 times more. I feel like MSND falls in to this category. It just ends with me wanting more. More questions than answers. Wondering why everything happened the way it did, and how everything was played out in the end. I felt like my questions were not answered and I didn’t know how to go about the ending. Was it all a dream? Or was it real events that had the audience captivated in the events? Or was it the fact that the audience was dreaming along with the actors.
Ah its just one big question these days. Was Bill dreamin his whole life? And he would of loved loved Inception!!

Onion Layers

As I sit in class I always find myself writing down ideas that I would like to spend time that I do not have to expand on. I would like to expand on so many ideas that are brought up in class, but I like every college student does not have all the time in the world. Even though I would like to think I did. Anyway the idea that I has been in my mind for the past few days is the writer of our story. Who is the writer of our life story? What would people say about our life story?

My dad casually asked me over the Christmas break if I was planning on writing a book in my life time. I mean I would like to think that I can accomplish that dream by writing my own book. What would my book be like? Well that’s simple. It would be my life story. I like to think that I have experienced and accomplished a lot in my life time. things that I’m proud of, and thinks of course that I’m not proud of. But aren’t we all?

My life story would be a read that the reader would not want to put down. I as a person strive to live up to expectations, so I would want my book to be a best seller. But I want to say unforutnally but I am not really that sad about it, I have a very dark text to my story. Like we discussed in class today I have a dark sub text. I have had events happen to me that I do not want to talk about, but then at the same time I feel that they need to be talked about. I’m sure Bill and I are in the same boat. Which then makes me wonder, are his plays in some way his “darker text”. let’s admit some of his plays which I’ve said before are questionable. In MSND there is this awesome love triangle, or should we say love square (or some other fun shape, but due to the fact that I am an English major I don’t give two thoughts about math shapes). Each person is connected to someone. They are desire and yearn for each other and affection of each other. Did Bill have some secret lovers in his day? who were some of the sonnets written to? I mean it is only logical if he did have some other lovers to whom he wanted to be with at the time.
I think that his plays are some sort of autobiography to his life. Some plays are dark and have questionable plot lines, but then some others are beautiful and I wish that I was an actress in the play. Because then I could feel and understand the underlying meaning of them. Like every human being Bill and his plays have many many many meanings and layers. I came up with this little anaology to describe Bill. He and his plays are like onions. Onions have many many layers. And while “dealing” with an onion one can become very… “emotional” or not. I myself am indifferent about chopping onions, but once they start to mess with my eyes, I’m out. Same with Bill. Once he gets to me, I have to be done for a little bit. I have to walk away and think about the only 2 pages that I had read and think about them in my life.

I must wrap up this blog as work is calling my name, but I will expand on this blog later in my timeless world. I hope this makes sense, and makes you think of something outside of the box. Until then my friends!