Weekly Photo Challenge: Path

06Sep11

Each photo represents a literal depiction of this week’s theme, path. Each also symbolizes some aspect from my own life. My mother is smoking a hand-rolled cigarette on her sidewalk with Oreo, one of two cats she lives with in the one-bedroom apartment she’s managed to keep for several  years now. She’s served as an [...]

Filed under: Educational ♥, Lincoln Elementary, Past, Photographic Novel, Religion, Voice   |  15 Comments
Tags: family, Friends, park, path, postaday2011, school, symbol, train

T.S. Eliot: Isolated Love Song

01Sep11

The Love Song of the Lonely J. Alfred Prufrock: A Closer Look T.S. Eliot constructs a sympathetic character named J. Alfred Prufrock through imagery and language that symbolize how Prufrock alienates himself from the rest of his decaying world. Eliot is successful in not only telling Prufrock’s unfortunate story but also conveys basic human truths [...]

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Tags: Alfred Prufrock, interpretation, isolat, love song, metaphor, modern city, poem, t.s. eliot

Emily Dickinson: Master of Madness

30Aug11

Emily Dickinson was a brilliant poet who challenged traditional conventions and forced readers into dark yet captivating worlds in which she explored themes such as death, religion, individuality, longing and madness. She was very perceptive of the world around her and yet cautious about her presentation to others. Today she would most likely be diagnosed [...]

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Tags: censor, Emily Dickinson, female, insanity, interpretation, madness, majority, poem

Female Identities in Popular Music

11Jul11

I will post more of these as I record more audio and compile more sources. Hopefully this one will not be blocked for copyright reasons. Parts of this were originally in Too Much Media but it was impossible to cut out the songs without demolishing the whole project. If you are interested in music video [...]

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Tags: cher, closer, females, garbage, girls, gwen stefani, Media, music industry, nine inch nails, no doubt, patsy cline, sell, sex, shirley manson, sonny, women

Don’t Tread on Me: EMI, UMG & WMG

04Jul11

I woke this 4th of July and checked on the video that took me hours to upload with my crappy internet connection and I had been hit by the big three. EMI I can assume was mad that I lifted a fitting Spice Girl’s song to the opening of my documentary about women in the [...]

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Tags: 4th of July, american, banned video, censorship, EMI, freedom, music, umg, WMG, YouTube

Too Much Media: Women in Popular Culture

03Jul11

For this Independence Day I am posting a video that celebrates a group of people who have fought for the freedom of countess others and yet are often held back themselves… WOMEN. We make less and we still make your sandwiches! On a more serious note, some of the topics I will cover in future [...]

Filed under: Editing, Educational ♥, Media, Music ♪, Television, YouTube   |  1 Comment
Tags: censorship, EMI, Media, music video, nudity, sex, Television, umg, WMG, women

Last April

23Apr11

Songs, facts, making fun of a girl’s name, fighting with a friend who would later become my enemy, insulting a person of a different race in self-defense, my last memory of Alex Lemons, a boy who got brain cancer and died when we were twelve, the “Pocahontas” incident at the talent show, not getting the [...]

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Tags: abandoned, school, waterloo

Drug Documentary

27Mar11

I’m compiling footage from YouTube for a documentary. So far I’m only using news clips and prescription drug advertisements and bits from other good documentaries. I may record original footage to include… the ideas sort of sprang from looking up clips on the internet. I’m also interested in the possibilities of a YouTube/Windows Movie Maker [...]

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Tags: documentary, drug, prescription, YouTube

TOPICS of INTEREST!

23Feb11

There are so many thoughts scattering in my brain. Eyes roll in smoke circles getting dizzy trying to get just one idea to pop to the top. If I were so inclined to finish that line with a marketing tag-line it would have ended with the fun don’t stop. Sadly they lied, like all ads. [...]

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Tags: Dislike, Interest, music, Opinion, Phones, postaday2011

Snow Tracks: The Aftermath

02Feb11

I took these today in between digging my car out and taking my mom grocery shopping. I am still freezing from spending a lot of time kicking snow around and using a broken shovel and broom! These turned out pretty neat, I love the ones of our outdoor sitting area, they are totally random! I [...]

Filed under: Historical, News Stories, Photographic Novel, Photography, Reality   |  1 Comment
Tags: bike, blizzard, driving, iowa, midwest, postaday2011, snow storm

Wasting Time & Money In America

22Jan11

I didn’t have enough money for books my first semester of college and my school loans were thirty days from my bank account so I got my first credit card. Five years and some odd months later I have a few more credit cards, a few loans and a lot of bills going into delinquency, [...]

Filed under: Conspiracies, Rant, School Related, Time & Money, University of Northern Iowa, Writing ♥   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: america, credit cards, debt, education, money, postaday2011, time, waste

A Trip to the Rod Library: Thinking of Places I’ve Worked

19Jan11

Tonight on BLASTEDGOAT we will join our post already in progress from the library I used to work at on the campus of the university I used to attend once I leave my house and drive there! ::travel music:: Well here I am at the library and someone has just dropped a book. We had [...]

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Tags: Library, postaday2011, trip, winter

New Schedule ♥

12Jan11

BLASTEDGOAT is giving herself homework! Or at least some sort of blog/writing schedule. When she was still in school she was the kind of gal who looked forward to registration day. She always felt it gave her a new sense of direction. She wants to submit suitable things to journals and she’s also building a [...]

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Tags: assignment, blog, homework, postaday2011, schedule, writing