I am a 6 out of 10. Here's why:
Thesis
If you're blogging after 3 AM, it better be for good reason. What does good mean? What is reason, anyway? Blogging is that thing I do late at night when I don't feel like going to bed, or for some reason I've decided to listen to black metal. Sometimes after 3 AM, my thoughts become so disassembled that I don't know what or why I'm writing.
In other words: I'm afraid this is not going to be a very good blog post.
What Happened?
The past two weeks witnessed an unfortunately sick me. The weather, though entertaining and poetry-inducing, hurt more than helped my health. To make matters worse, my Dead Week was resurrected in an Easterly fashion to taunt me as the Undead Week From Hell. I've slept for nine of the past seventy-two hours. Free time has been limited to manic forum-browsing and desperate Portal 2-gaming. When I wasn't devoting my thought to writing papers, I was devoting it to furious gibberish about gum recession and capitalist patriarchy.
All of the above is not only to vent, but to excuse the lack of activity on this blog. Let's get more active (I promise Finals Week will produce at least one or two procrastination-fueled think-pieces). Speaking of getting active
IUFAC
Or, the Indiana University Feminist Action Coalition. Hell Yeah (disclaimer: for legal reasons, the group can't exactly exist under that title yet). IUFAC is something initially conceived of by myself and two other like-minded young feminists from our History Of Feminist Theory course. Enough interest has been shown to make me grin. But as of now, we have no Manifesto and no Money.
All of that is going to change [(except for the Money, but we can just steal stuff (RADICAL)]. Our first meeting is tonight. Honestly, it's hard to say what can and will be accomplished by an activist coalition on this campus. Of course, the legislation on Planned Parenthood that recently passed the Indiana senate would be a good rallying point. For now, though, it's probably best that we simply sort out what our interests and intentions are. Or maybe we can articulate our interests and intentions through immediate political action.
Personally, I'm excited that this organization is exists at all. What is our politics going to look like? What kind of theory will we incorporate? What constitutes a feminist?
I'm even more excited by the coalition's myriad possibilities. Pamphleting, protesting, and partying! Isn't it time for some radical change? Some radical fun? Isn't it time to reintroduce consciousness raising sessions to university campuses? We need to bring some energy to these issues that are more pressing than ever. We are responsible for reviving feminism. Our generation has already been portrayed as inactive and disinterested by the bitter radicals of old, and there are too few groups proving otherwise.
I want to change this dialogue about my generation. I want to see students caring and working for change. I want to scare IU.
Promise
Several items have recently come to my attention that also elicit hella excitement on my part. My ears are counting down the days. That's right fam, #METASWAG will adorn its Music and Movie Blog caps for a moment.
The promise of Great Entertainment this summer is absolutely enormous:
June 14, 21, & 28 : Theatrical releases of The Lord Of The Rings Extended Editions
July 13: Animal Collective at Mr. Small's, in Pittsburgh
July 14: Gang Gang Dance at The Bishop, in Bloomington
July 15: Kurt Vile and Woods at Russian Recording, in Bloomington
July 17: Pitchfork Music Festival
Y'all, does that not look like a lot of fun?
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I was going to include a rambling section on taste, how recent changes in my own perception of art have enabled blah blah etc. Instead, I will briefly state that thanks to certain artworks (Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Tatami Galaxy), I will no longer be so quick to judge the artistic merit of a creation based on its form or genre. Not that I wasn't loving up anime throughout my childhood, but that the stigmatization of cartoons in high school really prevented me from embracing the art.
Other points were going to be made about Metal and Rap, but...
Conclusions
... Sleep is far more important than almost everything going on above. Things are really cooking around here. It's time to catch up, take my time, and do whatever I want to do all the time. I want to write more music reviews. I want to make lists. I want to read a lot of feminist theory this summer. I want to read a lot of fiction this summer. I want to make a lot of art this summer. I want to grow within and without myself this summer.
Also, I've been writing poetry. So, here's a poem:
