the boron narratives

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

listening to: wicked, defying gravity

ooooh i found a bunch of botan rice candy at the bottom of my easter care package. how did i miss those before?! i looove botan rice candy. it's so... lemony and yet.. not lemony. and it comes with tattoos! (although it used to come with stickers, and i liked the stickers better. that's okay.) and the rice paper is all dissolve-on-your-tongueish. and you can eat a whole box and it's only 60 calories.

mmm... rice. (not condoleezza.)

so anyway. i finally got around to reading the book wicked, which i loved a lot. and i think maybe...what i like best, are things that take old things, and give a new look at them. like... well, wicked. but if you look at like... most of neil's stuff is like that. american gods? new look at mythology, as well as sandman. 1602, new look at both history and the marvelverse. (sidnote: i got this book about roanoke for 50% off at the bookstore and i'm super excited!! when i was really little i had this random book of like... cool facts/stories, and one of them talked about roanoke and it really left an impression on me. it's just such a cool story! gah! and this book is really awesome so far, it analyzes the whole story as if it were a crime... oh man.) stardust, new look at fairy tales. etc. and then even sci-fi/fantasy in general, as well as non-genre fiction that i like best... tends to involve a new perspective on the ordinary.

and then like... the musicals i tend to like. generally, they're not the classic "musical theatre" kinds of musicals.

and satire is really just finding an unusual perpsective on a situation. (and making it funny.)

even when i write stuff for class, i'm usually not happy with writing an ordinary paper, i usually prefer to have some sort of strange thesis.

aand it also explains why i enjoy history so much, really learning history tends to be a completely different perspective than what popular culture and junior-high level classes teach.

okay. enough navel-gazing, i have woooork to do. dear god, do i have work to do.

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