"Where women are true, they break things."
- Helke Sander
I decided to start with one of my favorite quotes because I've rehearsed five different openings for this page, and none of them made it. In one I sounded like a misanthropist, which is only true sometimes. In another I sounded like a hipster, and it was just awful. I really hate writing this About Me crap, but I thought I'd at least attempt to give a somewhat developed, balanced view of who you are reading.
The quote above comes from Helke Sander. She is a German director, actress and writer. I chanced upon her in a German film class I took in college called Mothers, Comrades and Whores. I enjoyed the films and readings immensely. It wasn't a class that counted towards my majors (English and Russian Studies) or my minor (History) but it was a class I took because I liked what the title promised me. I like the quote because it describes what Sander does very well, and how she goes about doing it.
I love reading and writing. They are things that fulfill me, and they teach me different ways to make sense of the world. My other areas of interest include traveling, theater, debate, Russia, languages, modern history, good films, art museums, football (the one you actually play with your foot) and - daunting as it is - astrophysics. I don't know everything about it, but I battle with myself everyday if the human race should establish contact with extraterrestrial beings, if they exist. (I think they do.) If you think that's not a good enough showcase of my interest in astrophysics, go fuck yourself.
I dislike very few things in this world. Or maybe I should say I dislike so many things that I am no longer selective in what I don't like. My frank and cynical nature has, actually, made me very forgiving to mistakes and withholding of judgments. Why judge someone for a flaw that I see mankind to be guilty of? What does it mean to label someone "weird"? If someone is outside your parameters of what is normal, maybe you need to reconsider what is normal to you. I rarely use the word "weird" in a negative context. It's either good or neutral to me. I think in extremes, but I acknowledge particularities. I am a walking contradiction.
My favorite books are written by men who write beautifully, and women who write bravely. They're not mutually exclusive categories, but I see the need for women to write bravely, given the unjust circumstances we have to live in. Usually, it is just to write honestly. I hope to be one of them someday.
To come full circle, I will end this post with another quote, also by a German,- Helke Sander
I decided to start with one of my favorite quotes because I've rehearsed five different openings for this page, and none of them made it. In one I sounded like a misanthropist, which is only true sometimes. In another I sounded like a hipster, and it was just awful. I really hate writing this About Me crap, but I thought I'd at least attempt to give a somewhat developed, balanced view of who you are reading.
The quote above comes from Helke Sander. She is a German director, actress and writer. I chanced upon her in a German film class I took in college called Mothers, Comrades and Whores. I enjoyed the films and readings immensely. It wasn't a class that counted towards my majors (English and Russian Studies) or my minor (History) but it was a class I took because I liked what the title promised me. I like the quote because it describes what Sander does very well, and how she goes about doing it.
I love reading and writing. They are things that fulfill me, and they teach me different ways to make sense of the world. My other areas of interest include traveling, theater, debate, Russia, languages, modern history, good films, art museums, football (the one you actually play with your foot) and - daunting as it is - astrophysics. I don't know everything about it, but I battle with myself everyday if the human race should establish contact with extraterrestrial beings, if they exist. (I think they do.) If you think that's not a good enough showcase of my interest in astrophysics, go fuck yourself.
I dislike very few things in this world. Or maybe I should say I dislike so many things that I am no longer selective in what I don't like. My frank and cynical nature has, actually, made me very forgiving to mistakes and withholding of judgments. Why judge someone for a flaw that I see mankind to be guilty of? What does it mean to label someone "weird"? If someone is outside your parameters of what is normal, maybe you need to reconsider what is normal to you. I rarely use the word "weird" in a negative context. It's either good or neutral to me. I think in extremes, but I acknowledge particularities. I am a walking contradiction.
My favorite books are written by men who write beautifully, and women who write bravely. They're not mutually exclusive categories, but I see the need for women to write bravely, given the unjust circumstances we have to live in. Usually, it is just to write honestly. I hope to be one of them someday.
"What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."
- Franz Kafka
These are the kinds of books I want to write, and I can only hope that when that moment does come around I will still have the option of publishing books in print, instead of those God-awful electronic books. That is all I ask of humanity.
