Of Dancers and Drama

 

My first final was yesterday, it was an okay paper I’m not terribly happy with how I did it but cant really help, as far as I know, its dead and buried, so I shant speak of it.

I also noticed that I use a lot of mixed English, when I mean mixed English I mean the different slang terms, pronunciations, and wordings, for instance, I wrote something recently on reddit and happened to mention a bus halt, someone asked me if we say bus halt rather than bus to here in SL, yes we do, is it british, is it American, not really sure. This is what you call Sri Lankan English, its completely legitimate.

Topic change ;)

I ended up drawing a sketch of Roldolf Nureyev, for those who are not in the know he is one of the best male ballet dancers of all time second only to Vaslav Nijinsky (in my opinion anyway.

Here he is pictured with the most beautiful and talented Julie Andrews.

and him alone here:

This reminds me of the golden era of performers, the ones who had the purest of talent untouched by special effects, auto-tune or voiceovers. By the way this was not really oh look hot guy, now I like the olden days things, I do truly treasure those golden years, the early 1900’s particularly was a magnificent age of art and dance and the consecutive years showed the fruits through the artists of the time, through dance and music, to art and pop culture.

Sure history is written by the victors of wars, remembered through the battles won, lands gained and lost. But it is civilizations’ advancement through the invention, and innovation of man that is the evaluator , is not Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bellini , Van Gogh, Picasso, down in history, what about Plato, Socrates, Descartes, Yan Xishan( Came across him when I was helping my sister revise) , Neruda, Keats, Shakespeare. Wars may be what tells us what happened when one man and another butted heads, but it is the art and beauty of that age that is remembered dearly, no one wants to remember bloody fields and death counts, (maybe some would but that’s not the point).

The creativity of the human race must be celebrated think of the person who came by the wheel, bless his face, whoever he is , if not for him where would we be?

I find myself going off topic so much these days, actually everyday.

I ended up skyping with some really old school friends, one who I hadn't spoken t in like 4 years, we ended up talking nonsense, making fun of each other and generally having a good time. I also ended up giving them my tumblr url then burning in shame that they see how advance I am in my education of the world…also the fact that I drew pr0n, seemed to to affect them too much.

Sometimes I think of how I have changed, people say change comes gradually, I think for me its comes like those old cartoons where Wile E. Coyote is running, and ends up off a cliff and falls only when he looks down, that’s how I view the change in my life, it hits me all at once with the world falling out beneath my feet. And I end up banging my head on the wall and going, I cant believe I was that stupid.

I also want to say sorry for that last post if it was too depressing, all I can say it, I was on that time of the month XD.

I seriously cant wait for my exams to end, my mother is taking me saree shopping, I’m not much of a fan, not really easy to walk or run in, and by the heavens, going to the ladies room is a task in itself.

I’m supposed to be studying for my thermodynamics paper on Tuesday, not too fond of the subject, but I do like some areas of it, the theoretical parts anyway. I ended up studying in the morning, then reading ‘The Dragon Reborn’, the third book in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, I wont even try to explain it to anyone, it is an epic, its has the cliché thing about the the chosen one vs. evil, but nothing about this story is cliché, just reading one book puts a heavy burden on you like you are one of characters and you are yourself deeply embroiled in the heavy business going around. Unlike the ASOIF series (Game of thrones, book series, for the tv series fans) you can actually imagine yourself as a character in the universe, now in the GoT universe you don’t want that with everyone dying, you’d have a fraction of a chance to survive past lunch.

jeez gotta go,

Later Gator,

M