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[Jun. 27th, 2006|02:44 pm] |
I am recovering from a very full weekend.
I attended and participated in the Allied Media Conference in Bowling Green Ohio this past weekend. It was bookended with 10 + hrs driving through the night with 8 other people. My head is very full.
This is the first time I traveled to a conference that we did not build a radio station. I did not feel the compulsion to work at something from the time I awoke until the moment I passed out. The conference was an opportunity to meet and listen to people with shared politics.
There was one speaker, Kat, that I was most engaged in. She works with WBAI in NYC. She also works with public school students in brooklyn, enabling them to produce their own radio programs.
During her opening she had us participate in an exercise. She projected an alphabet made of letters from corporate packaging. Even in a room filled with people who are engaged in the struggle against corporate media, we knew where each of the letters came from. Instead of repeating the alphabet we said the name of the corporate product that the letter came from. It made me queasy. I felt like part of Hitlers Germany repeating the propaganda that I have been forced to swallow.
But who is making me swallow this? No one. It is just around and I absorb it. I want to claim control of my life, as most of us do, but it is so much work to filter through the corporate branding and objects.
And so, struggle continues but it feels worth the fight.
So many things happened but this is the first aspect I am able to process.
Thanks for reading.
em |
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[Apr. 24th, 2006|10:17 am] |
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i'm at radio volta in west philly... and stealing a moment on the computer. my home internet has been down for about a month. anyway gotta go back to engineer anthony's half of the show. hi everybody!!! |
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| keeping in touch |
[Apr. 4th, 2006|12:58 pm] |
i have not posted in quite some time and very little at that. i'm trying to learn to use the computer as a tool & ward of the sense of isolation working out of the house three days a week.
the house can be very consuming.
my boyfriend anthony and i are working towards a greener life and greener seems to mean more work.
we shop at the food co-op now in west philly! it has taken two years of procrastination and working to divorce ourselves from cheaper-is-better mindset. things are cheaper at another food store but at what cost? i like that i am excited when anthony brings home an organic pink lady apple for me! we have slowed things down so that we can enjoy opportunities as they become availible, even if it is only food. i feel more conected and responsible for the choices i make.
so...
being responsible for the choices i make...
i have a long list of things that need to be made.
sodafine and lingo need some emmaluv batches.
some dresses and more tops.
and finish line for fall 06.
there is so much to be done but i know i can do it.
i did drop off 5 silk ts ($112 each) and three leather bags ($280 each) at sodafine!!!
thanks for reading!
luv, em |
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| great friends |
[Feb. 14th, 2006|10:24 am] |
So...
I have amazing friends (all of them, you too!!)
It is valentines day, and to celebrate anthony and i had are great friends from prometheus radio project over for our protest dinner. Andy and Kate are truly amazing. Kate whipped a homeade peach pie out of thin air and a high ball glass. Andy made my laptop wok.!!!!!OH MY GOD!!! I am so excited. I don't know much about computers, but linux is what we run on and it is a bit more than i can navigate on my own. Oh, I will catch up. It is so good to be mobil. Happy Valentines day.. |
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[Feb. 6th, 2006|10:33 am] |
Today is the day. I have been pretending that the sewing space is just a little messy... maybe a little bit more than messy? So, I need to clean it. Maybe a little rearranging?? I will reward myself with a very long city walk. And then,... I can start making some new stuff. Some emmaluv stuff that has been waiting patiently. |
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[Feb. 3rd, 2006|05:46 pm] |
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This is quite fun. Something like the excitement of talking on the telephone when you are thirteen. I have grown past an age that I had ever conceptualized and I am wondering how to grow into the next phase. Of course it will happen if I dream about it of not but... it is nice to have a shared space to discuss what is happening and where all of this is going. Isn't that what we were doing on the phone when we were thirteen?
Thank you Erin and Jenny for such lovely thursday evenings!!! It is something I have been homesick for. Who knew watching Erin wrestle a knitting machine could make me giggle so much?
I have a loving boy friend and a wonderful life but, for sometime something felt elusive. What ever that something is, I feel it is closer.
Thanks for the comments and posts. |
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| hallo!!! |
[Feb. 2nd, 2006|08:15 pm] |
Hey everyone on the computers!!
I am excited about this live journal buisness.
I am by nature reclusive but ... i think it is time to engage in this computer world with my friends.
Hallo! |
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