Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Incidents In the Life of A (British) Girl

06.00 UK/22.00 SF

'The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom.'
- Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl

'
we apologise for the inconvienience


but this is a REVOLUTION.'



mYths of the world/bob dYlan/aMerican lit/woMen in lit

cesar chavez + malcolm X in the plaza,little asia in the basement,queer alliance on the mezzanine,hyper christians in the quad and one british girl lost (and found) in translation.

citylightsbookstore(ferlinghetti)-beatgeneration - OUR generation,OUR revolution. you see what world we live in, what world we are in NOW.

being in the presence of colossal writers/poems/prose today at citylights made me think about this city,this experience,this year. i want to writewritewrite as i always have in here ----> <3.
i want to document my life thus far with polaroids,poems,words,quotes,phrases. {am i good enough?}

the prof's here at STATE are in a word: amazing. Drs cAnnon and HaNley challenge us as students to think outside our [ boxes ] and to think with our heads and our < hearts 3

we are students,but we are the next travellers into the unknown///// i am scared.overwhelmed.excited.anxious.frustrated.thrilled.

littleitaly,fortmason,28/71/Nlines,goldengatebridge ('paint it gold-ferlinghetti),headcolds,laughingfits,noforearms-likeat-rex,parcels,zineszineszineszineszineszineszineszines.

welcome to San Francisco,

'this world is not built by men in suits.'


......but by you.




-e.w.