Tegan and Sara on CURVE Magazine March 2012 (HQ)
The digital copy is on Zinio already. If anyone wants to read the interview, just leave me an ask ;)
(Source: run-the-scene)
Thoughts on “The Giving Tree”
Just some of my elaborated thoughts on Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree:
The actions of the tree and the boy lend themselves as evidence to a parasitic relationship. In the beginning, the tree and the boy are both equally benefiting from their relationship. The boy is young and enjoys what free and natural commodities the tree can offer as he plays beneath her limbs. In return the tree feels fulfilled and happy because she can satisfy the boy. As time goes by, however, the boy stops coming because he feels like the tree has nothing more to offer him. Although he periodically deserts her, whenever the boy returns the tree is willing to give him whatever she thinks will make him stay. The boy’s constant and unabashed neediness is almost matched by the tree’s extreme selflessness in giving. Their relationship represents how women are stereotypically supposed to give and serve until, like the tree, “they have nothing left” (Silverstein 25), and then give some more.
The depictions of male and female gender roles in The Giving Tree are typical of the social climate when the book was published. If the book were to be re-published in 2012 the roles and actions of the boy and the tree would need to change in order to reflect a more equal partnership. The main plot of the book needs no altering since it fits the materialistic tendencies of contemporary people, maybe even more than in 1964, but changing one key scene would bring it to the 21st century. The female tree can still love and care for the boy giving him all she is, willingly, but the boy’s responding action should be to give something in return. For example, whenever the tree tells the boy, “Cut down my trunk and make a boat” (Silverstein 22), the boy, now an older man, should plant some treelings near to her stump before he “ma[kes] a boat and sail[s] away” (Silverstein 23). While I did perceive the tree as mother-like at the start, as the text progresses she seems to become an equally aged female. In my opinion, the giving of the treelings by the elderly boy would reflect the tree as a grandmother, disabled from years of life, but rewarded with its spoils: children.
Silverstein, Shel. The Giving Tree. New York: Harper & Row. Print
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (via itsaniceviewfromthetop)
(Source: larmoyante, via itsaniceviewfromthetop)
SOPA/PIPA
To the honorable Ralph M. Hall:
I am one of your constituents and I vehemently oppose SOPA and PIPA. I shudder to think of the huge step backward we will be taking as a nation if they were to pass. The leaps and bounds we’ve made as a society and as a people where information sharing and its unlimited access is concerned is astounding. Just in my lifetime from the early nineties to present, we’ve reaped the benefits of information even when it concerns copyrighted information. I would hate to see us plunged back into some form of a dark age in the name of protecting copyrighted material. There has to be another way.
LOVE.
I need this !!! It’ll keep my energy going all the way through my final semester of undergrad work and into graduate school!
My other blog?
It’ll be a contest to see which one I update the most often. Whichever wins will become my primary used blog I supposed. Twice in thirty seconds I’ve tried to spell “blog” as “blong”. Either I am massively tired or…stupid.
4 months ago - 
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11 Come with me, into the trees. We’ll lay in the grass and let the hours pass.
Shiny Toy Guns redux of Depeche Mode’s “Stripped”
I found this cool image a split second ago.
Pictures always capture my attention more than words, which I find highly ironic considering my addiction and life by the way of novels and text.
On the other hand, it makes perfect sense because my tattoos are almost completely pictures. Paying to be inked with something I can read any day just doesn’t hold the same allure and meaning as an image forever etched into my skin.
I could take this post in many different directions at this point: I could talk more about tattoos (always a fun task for me), or I could segue into my new years resolutions, which include better skin care. Yes, yes. It sounds ridiculous, but it’s all the skin I’ll ever have (in a way). Technically, my skin regenerates approximately every twenty-eight days, but taking care of my skin now means I’m helping myself look younger. To those of you who know me, I’m freaking white as a ghost. First thing is SPF. I recently bought SPF 30 facial moisturizer. Check, check there.
My other goal is to not go to bed with makeup on. I wash my face regularly, but makeup just doesn’t seem to want to let go of my thin-skinned eye lids/under eyes. Last, but not least because I’m certain I’ll find more skin care tips to incorporate, when I get out of the shower I will promptly (within ten minutes) lather up with lotion to replenish all the sapped out moisture the shower just stole from me.
Three days into the new year and I’ve only failed to remove all makeup once. So far, so good.
Next time: tattoos. Let’s see….
Mmm, a good place to hang
I go to this website when I am feeling down or need haircut inspiration. I bow to your awesomeness.
Tegan & Sara have GREAT Between Song Banter
Tegan: My mom told me this really beautiful story. She told Sara and I both. Probably about a month after Sara had come out, she saw Sara and her partner making dinner and laughing and dancing around in the kitchen and my mom was going, breaking up with my dad of thirteen years. And she said that she just felt so happy that we were happy. That we had chosen this path that made us feel full and content and happy.
Audience: Applause/Cheering
Sara: I just thought she was happy cause I had scored a really hot girlfriend.
