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believe in peace? [20 Jan 2009|08:09am] [ mood | jubilant ] [ music | communist daughter//nmh ] I am so happy! I thought today was never going to happen. I hope my Reference teacher plays it during class.... Heart, I believe in America!

believe in peace? [19 Dec 2008|03:22pm] [ mood | distressed ] [ music | eye of the tiger ] SAM IS THE YELLOW EYED DEMON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH From Yellow Fever.

believe in peace? Holy Friggin Crap [11 Dec 2008|01:23am] [ mood | nervous ] Ok sooo I am totally hooked on Supernatural like its no buddy's business. WTF! DEANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNn!

believe in peace? [18 Nov 2008|04:33pm] [ mood | happy ] [ music | purple people//tori amos ] I am going to IU in Spring of 09! Tomorrow I am going down to find an apartment! The Fearless Vampire Killers is really funny. I very much enjoyed the movie and would recommend it.

6 waitresses | believe in peace? [17 Nov 2008|04:35pm] [ mood | nervous ] [ music | washing machine...washing machine ] IU is reviewing my application for the MLS program! AHH I should hear by the end of the week. I hope everything goes well. Roger says he has a good feeling about it and I hope he is right. He also said my abstract for my thesis looked good, so who knows. Maybe I will go back down there sometime this week when I have time off work and look around the place...umm sounds like a plan. Sigh. I had a dream that Robert said my thesis was the 4th best one in the class, who dreams like that (other then curly?) Abstract: Orlan’s Re-figuration of the Body in The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan: From Gender Performativity to the Cyborg. French artist Orlan is the first to use plastic surgery as a platform for artistic expression. Her performance piece The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan consists of several surgical operations done to her body from 1990 to 1993. Orlan declares herself a saint because of her ability to transcend pain with only local anesthesia during the operations. My thesis focuses on Orlan’s capacity to reshape and overcome her body as an artistic interpretation for women. I contextualize Orlan as a French artist and one clearly involved in French philosophical debates from the events of May 1968 onward. The blending of her surgeries, photographs and ideas shows that her work comes from a strong theoretical and methodical background. Orlan’s invention of carnal art is consistent with many values of French feminists. I chose the French feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray as a comparative study to Orlan’s sensory experience during the surgical performances. I connect Luce Irigaray’s thoughts to those of queer theorist Judith Butler and her notion of gender performativity. The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan takes Butler’s theory to the extreme, as Orlan carves gender into her flesh. Next I discuss Donna Haraway’s feminist cyborg as a contrast to with Judith Butler’s culturally constructed sexed body. The cyborg has the capacity to change its identity and self through the aid of technology. Through this discourse I prove that Orlan’s surgical performances situate themselves between these radical theories. I use pain, self awareness, and religious traditions to demonstrate the application of each theory in Orlan’s piece The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan. Therefore, this thesis contextualizes, critically engages, and continues discourse on the “feminisms” of Orlan’s artistic performances.

believe in peace? [04 Nov 2008|11:27pm] [ mood | ecstatic ] [ music | CNN ] We just made history, and I can't stop crying....American is truly a great country to live in. OBAMALOVE 08 I officially live in a Blue State Wahooo!

1 waitresses | believe in peace? [19 Oct 2008|06:54pm] [ mood | excited ] [ music | both hands//ani d ] Friday night epiphanies: I love Bill Maher (even his thinning gray hair is sexy). Drinking wine creates a creeping delirious drunk. Joe is a good skype companion (did I flash him?). Don't write city names phonetically, it only embarrasses you in the next day. If there are no vampires, there is no god (well at least none in Nineveh).

believe in peace? [02 Oct 2008|09:22pm] [ mood | impressed ] Biden just bitchslapped Palin....

4 waitresses | believe in peace? [22 Sep 2008|11:26pm] [ mood | dorky ] [ music | Do Something//Mizz Spears ] I know what I am going to be for halloween, the costume is almost done and cost a whopping 10 dollars... ahhh I am a dork.

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