Thursday, 7 December 2017

NATASHA IS YOUNG AND WORTHLESS AND DUMB

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Thats right. Natasha is one of my least favorite characters in the history of ever. and while i acknowledge that that is a bit of an exxageration i still hold firm in my DETEST for her. in the musical, she seems to have absosultely no inner thoughts or initiative. her whole character arc can be boiled down to 'oh i love andre, no wait i mighgt like anatole, gosh im so innocent and pure, oh wait i screwed up- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH KILLL ME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. her naivety INFURIATES me. she is so easily manipulated and when she screws up her whole life because of that, she ramps the drama WAY up, like poisoning herself level drama. I think bolkonsky had it right when he said she was young and worthless and dumb. shes so stuuupid?? in the song 'letters' anatole writes her a love letter and she literally says 'yes yes I love him, how else could i have his letter in my hand' as if a love letter means you must love him. AAAGGH. I am keeping in mind that the story is set in eighteenth century russia, and that is probably what women were like then but still, she represents everything i dont ever want to be, naive, stupid and quite honestly, she is pretty vapid. maybe in the book she makes more sense or has more character depth but i honestly cant see that happening. anyway,
LATER POTATER.

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

RESPECT



Howdy y'all,
first of all I would like to talk about the fact that 'howdy' is short for 'how do you do' like?? whaaaaaatttt?????
But mostly I would like to talk about this video. My dear friend enlightened me to this videos existence and I will be forever grateful to her for that.
this is a wonderful video with a beautiful message and if you haven't seen it yet you should, right now.
In it, markiplier (god bless his soul) talks about respect, and how he feels we have lost it, our very definition has become muddied over the years and i fully agree. akjnkfdjkjfng I love this video and I know a lot of people at my school who could use a watch of it to get it into their brains that you dont have to agree with someone to treat them like a human being, with respect and kindness regardless of how you feel about them. IM TALKING ABOUT YOU BRENDAN TIFFEN. god I hate that assnoodle but I still treat him with respect because i am a good PERSON WHO ISNT GOING TO HELL ON A FREAKING MOTORBIKE.

Saturday, 2 September 2017

the golden palace

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THE GOLDEN PALACE, gee whiz what a whopper of a bop. this is a very goodgoodgood song from the musical now. here. this and it is jaaaam packed full of meaningfullness lemme tell ya.
now here this is a musical by four people and its sort of like four autobiographies?? the premise is that its four people walking through the natural history museum travelling through time but there isnt really a plot, theyll like come across a chameleon exhibit and someone will be singing a song about 'dazzle camoflauge(which is a really good song too, check it oouuuuut) but most of the songs are individual or mainly talking about one of the actors lives/ moments from their lives.
So the golden palace is about one of the female actors lives. she tells the story of how when her dad grew up he couldnt read but he was a really good mimic so no one noticed. she then goes on to explain what the golden palace is. the golden palace is located just over the horizon, just out of reach. it is where all the great artists make great works of art. it illustrates the idea that art is an intangible thing that is not for normal, ordinary people like us but for the 'beautiful, stunning, clean, priveliged people'
it continues, her father is now an adult. working at a factory writing poems on the back of an unemployment form. skipping forward a bit and shes in college and going to graduate at the same time as her dad. she finds his old poem and encourages him, saying 'you can really write' to which he says 'i cant' she talks about the golden palace again 'its all going down in the golden palace', 'there is no room in the golden palace for girls like me, girls who come from what i come from'
she then breaks the frikin fourth wall and starts talking about herself writing that song, seeing her hands resting on the keyboard of her lap top, looking out of her window thinking about her paid for artists residence, becomes overwhelmed with the calliber of art that has come from the place 'i try to relax myhands, my finger, to write', 'i cant'
still in the artists colony, writing the song, she chacks her facebook and someone has updated their feed with the quote from john adams 'I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.' hbd
 she concludes, there is a golden palace, and it is anywhere we make it, it is anywhere we make anything. it is not out of reach, it is not over the horizon.

to me this message is invaluable. it gives me inspiration to create art and the courage to keep doing it. its like the quote from neil gaiman when he talks about the solution to every problem is to make good art , on the good days and the bad ones

later potater

Monday, 3 July 2017

An ode to Wikipedia

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Dear Wikipedia,
you get so much shit and none of it deserved
for the world of knowledge which you preserve
teachers seem to hate you, say you're unreliable
but to me you are the most desirable
the bounty of general knowledge you posses
is the pinnacle of finesse

So yeah that was my poem I just made. I was overcome with a defensive affection for Wikipedia just now because everyone always says 'anyone can write anything on Wikipedia so its not a good source' but I disagree. firstly how many people go onto Wikipedia pages and make stuff up for fun? there cant be that many and there's a crap-tonne of Wikipedia pages anyway so the likelihood that the one you're looking at has been screwed with is slim. '
And while i agree that it may not give you the most in depth understanding of a topic, its certainly a good starting point anyway to give you a quick overview of a topic to perhaps see what part of it you want to explore more.
okay.
rant over.
later potaters.

Wednesday, 28 June 2017

MIKE WASOWSKI = CHARLES BUKOWSKI

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Alright crazy theory time lets go
I have a theory that i just though of that the character mike wasowski is based on poet charles bukowski.
first of all some background. Charles bukowski was initially a writer who was trying to get published but then he sort of gave up trying to please the publishers and started writing for himself and thats how his poetry came about. In a collection of his works published after he died it says that he was a loser, sort of thought of himself as scum of the earth and he wrote for himself and all theother losers too.
Mike wasowski went to the monster university where he was trying to be a scarer but then sort of failed and eventually became something he was better at. he has a similar persona to bukowski, the loser, rejected kind of vibe.
first of all there is obviously the similarities of the last name bukowski/wasowski. But also there is the whole 'tried to be one thing but it didnt work out so they became a slightly different version of the thing" thing.
also, in the collection of bukowski poems, one of them mentions a friend of his who got published but he thought that he was actually a much better writer than him. this creates the paralell because wasowski is friends with sully who is better than hime even though he tries way harder which causes wasowski to resent him for it. also in the poem the published writer ends up losing because he becomes indulgent and old and fat and lazy, having lived a colourful life yet never really having lived at all. this is just like sully who ends up getting told that he would be expelled because he didnt try hard enough in his studies, he too, became lazy and sloth like.
taa daa
honestly i dont even think this is true but whatev.

Saturday, 17 June 2017

WICKED hitler theory

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Okay.
So I just thought up this theory and its a lil cray cray but whatev. i think in the musical wicked the wizard is hitler.
I dont mean literal but theres a sort of parralell? as if they based his character upon hitlers life.
I do have actual proof though chill, NUMBER ONE the animal thing in the musical there is an oppresion of the animal people in oz, we even see them losing their rights/abilities to speak, we later find out that the wizard was the reason for it. I think that ones a pretty obvious paralell.
NUMBER TWO there is a song called 'a sentimental man' in which we get to know more about the wizard as a person, a lot of people think hitler was this evil mastermind, but really he was a normal person and perhaps that was the most scary thing about him.
NUMBER THREE I think glinda represents propoganda
NUMBER FOUR the wizard was literally'blown in by balloon' similar to the way hitler appeared out of nowhere, formed his own political party and BAM hitler is chancellor now
NUMBER FIVE the munchkin people, pretty much the only reason the wizard became in charge is because the citizens of oz 'needed someone to believe in' this is preeeeetty much the same thing that happened with hitler, germans were losing faith in the democratic system after ww1 and the very negative affect it had on every one living there, so the idea of a 'strong male leader' was very appealing to them
So there you have it, five rock-solid peices of evidence explaining why the wizard of oz is actually hitler.
see ya later potater
HOLY HECK I JUST REALISED THEIR VEST JACKET THINGS ARE SIMILAR



boi this is ages later im writing this but i was googling stuff about this and apparently he is actually supposed to be representative or at least evoke a similar leadership stlye to hitler or stalin