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Jun. 8th, 2003 01:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sun_set_bravelyHer questions:
1) creation spirituality is on your interests list. have you read matthew fox? did you discover at some point that you had left a kind of orthodoxy behind and moved into a more liberal viewpoint, so that abandoning original sin as a concept wasn't a problem? or was this your original position, so to say?
2) is alison krauss a goddess or what?
ok, that was half a question.
2 1/2) how do you define "eurotrash"?
3) does it ever scare you, living in nyc? or are you exhilarated by the jostling crowd and the noise? or maybe both? what is the one quality about nyc that you love most?
4) are you losing your texas accent, living so far from home? would it bother you if you did? do you find that it's important to be known as a native texan, important i mean to your self-image?
5) how do you view the founding mothers of the modern feminist movement, such as gloria steinham, betty friedan, and germaine greer? do they matter, or are the more recent writers and thinkers saying what's relevant to you? whose writing do you like best among these women?
1) creation spirituality is on your interests list. have you read matthew fox? did you discover at some point that you had left a kind of orthodoxy behind and moved into a more liberal viewpoint, so that abandoning original sin as a concept wasn't a problem? or was this your original position, so to say?
I read Matthew Fox in a class on "Cosmology: Buddhism and Christianity" while I was studying in England. I connected deeply with the ideas of creation spirituality, though I haven't concentrated on them in a long time. I grew up Methodist, so my upbringing was pretty liberal to begin with, but I still felt liberated by the concept of original blessing, and of a spiritual journey that had to do with creativity and lifelong work on the soul, rather than self-righteous condemnation of other peoples' actions.
2) is alison krauss a goddess or what?
Yes she is! I get goosebumps listening to her.
ok, that was half a question. 2 1/2) how do you define "eurotrash"?
eurotrash dance music = "most of the music that was playing on the radio and in the Uni dance club when I lived in England from Fall 1999-Summer 2000." It's a very personal definition. I don't have a definition for "eurotrash" by itself, necessarily. It's always related to the music. BritPop is probably a more accurate term.
3) does it ever scare you, living in nyc? or are you exhilarated by the jostling crowd and the noise? or maybe both? what is the one quality about nyc that you love most?
Fear isn't something I usually feel about the City, not in a visceral, physical way. Annoyance, frustration: yes. I'm exhilarated by the movement, by the game of weaving through the crowds of people in the subway at rush hour. I'm exhilarated by the mental movement of the city, by the ideas and attitudes and opinions that swirl through here. What I love most about the city? The diverse energy that keeps me active. The way it's a lot of small communities living closely together, but it's disguised as a united city.
4) are you losing your texas accent, living so far from home? would it bother you if you did? do you find that it's important to be known as a native texan, important i mean to your self-image?
Before I came to NYC, I spent eight years living in Houston, which gave me a basic United States Suburban Accent, with a little Texas twang. Then I went to school for theatre, and so took two years of voice and speech, which wiped away whatever accent I had left. It doesn't bother me to be without it, because I know I can turn it on if I want to, and I know it comes on when I go home. It wasn't until I left Texas that I became proud of where I was from, where my family lives. And then I met the music of Lyle Lovett, and I knew I had to claim my roots, because there are a lot of great people from Texas. Also, we make some damn fine Ice Cream in Texas. The best in the country -- No joke.
5) how do you view the founding mothers of the modern feminist movement, such as gloria steinham, betty friedan, and germaine greer? do they matter, or are the more recent writers and thinkers saying what's relevant to you? whose writing do you like best among these women?
I love reading these works, mostly because I tend to be behind the times a little bit, and their words and ideas still make a helluva lot of sense. It can be depressing to realize how relevant their arguments still are. I feel like I've come into my feminist identity later than my peers (in my early 20s), so these writers absolutely matter to me. I have a lot of catching up to do with the more recent thinkers. Among these women, I like Germaine Greer's writing the best, probably because I've read more of her work than the others. Also -- she's so damn opinionated, and I tend to be a little more even-keeled, so I admire her ability to put a polemic idea down on the page and stand by it.
1) creation spirituality is on your interests list. have you read matthew fox? did you discover at some point that you had left a kind of orthodoxy behind and moved into a more liberal viewpoint, so that abandoning original sin as a concept wasn't a problem? or was this your original position, so to say?
2) is alison krauss a goddess or what?
ok, that was half a question.
2 1/2) how do you define "eurotrash"?
3) does it ever scare you, living in nyc? or are you exhilarated by the jostling crowd and the noise? or maybe both? what is the one quality about nyc that you love most?
4) are you losing your texas accent, living so far from home? would it bother you if you did? do you find that it's important to be known as a native texan, important i mean to your self-image?
5) how do you view the founding mothers of the modern feminist movement, such as gloria steinham, betty friedan, and germaine greer? do they matter, or are the more recent writers and thinkers saying what's relevant to you? whose writing do you like best among these women?
1) creation spirituality is on your interests list. have you read matthew fox? did you discover at some point that you had left a kind of orthodoxy behind and moved into a more liberal viewpoint, so that abandoning original sin as a concept wasn't a problem? or was this your original position, so to say?
I read Matthew Fox in a class on "Cosmology: Buddhism and Christianity" while I was studying in England. I connected deeply with the ideas of creation spirituality, though I haven't concentrated on them in a long time. I grew up Methodist, so my upbringing was pretty liberal to begin with, but I still felt liberated by the concept of original blessing, and of a spiritual journey that had to do with creativity and lifelong work on the soul, rather than self-righteous condemnation of other peoples' actions.
2) is alison krauss a goddess or what?
Yes she is! I get goosebumps listening to her.
ok, that was half a question. 2 1/2) how do you define "eurotrash"?
eurotrash dance music = "most of the music that was playing on the radio and in the Uni dance club when I lived in England from Fall 1999-Summer 2000." It's a very personal definition. I don't have a definition for "eurotrash" by itself, necessarily. It's always related to the music. BritPop is probably a more accurate term.
3) does it ever scare you, living in nyc? or are you exhilarated by the jostling crowd and the noise? or maybe both? what is the one quality about nyc that you love most?
Fear isn't something I usually feel about the City, not in a visceral, physical way. Annoyance, frustration: yes. I'm exhilarated by the movement, by the game of weaving through the crowds of people in the subway at rush hour. I'm exhilarated by the mental movement of the city, by the ideas and attitudes and opinions that swirl through here. What I love most about the city? The diverse energy that keeps me active. The way it's a lot of small communities living closely together, but it's disguised as a united city.
4) are you losing your texas accent, living so far from home? would it bother you if you did? do you find that it's important to be known as a native texan, important i mean to your self-image?
Before I came to NYC, I spent eight years living in Houston, which gave me a basic United States Suburban Accent, with a little Texas twang. Then I went to school for theatre, and so took two years of voice and speech, which wiped away whatever accent I had left. It doesn't bother me to be without it, because I know I can turn it on if I want to, and I know it comes on when I go home. It wasn't until I left Texas that I became proud of where I was from, where my family lives. And then I met the music of Lyle Lovett, and I knew I had to claim my roots, because there are a lot of great people from Texas. Also, we make some damn fine Ice Cream in Texas. The best in the country -- No joke.
5) how do you view the founding mothers of the modern feminist movement, such as gloria steinham, betty friedan, and germaine greer? do they matter, or are the more recent writers and thinkers saying what's relevant to you? whose writing do you like best among these women?
I love reading these works, mostly because I tend to be behind the times a little bit, and their words and ideas still make a helluva lot of sense. It can be depressing to realize how relevant their arguments still are. I feel like I've come into my feminist identity later than my peers (in my early 20s), so these writers absolutely matter to me. I have a lot of catching up to do with the more recent thinkers. Among these women, I like Germaine Greer's writing the best, probably because I've read more of her work than the others. Also -- she's so damn opinionated, and I tend to be a little more even-keeled, so I admire her ability to put a polemic idea down on the page and stand by it.
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Date: 2003-06-08 11:02 am (UTC)"I still felt liberated by the concept of original blessing, and of a spiritual journey that had to do with creativity and lifelong work on the soul, rather than self-righteous condemnation of other peoples' actions."
yes, exactly! well put. that is liberating, isn't it? not to have to judge all the time, either oneself or others.
i've liked greer when she's appeared on tv (i don't often watch but have managed to catch her a couple of times). like paglia, she just radiates nervy intelligence, even when i don't agree with what she has to say.
thanks! (oh, i think lovett is muy fabuloso. when he married julia roberts, i hadn't heard of him before and said, looking at the photos, what does she see in that guy? then i heard him sing... and ever after, i wondered what he saw in HER. ha.)
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