Going back to the music you love is like coming home again - nothing replaces the feelings they stir, like kicking up the ashes and dust of your past. It took me a long time to think of Rita's last name, because my dad usually just says 'Rocking Rita', but her last name is Chiarelli and she plays delicious guitar. Her and Rachelle van Zanten, playing a wonderful smokey slide guitar, need to be on my playlist more. Today on the elevator I played Ram Jam really loudly and the people who got in after me told me 'This song is awesome.' Well, Ram Jam is just like that.
I finally got some decent direction on what to do for my interpretive piece! I'm going to do a portrait of Ayaan Hirsi Ali in pen and ink, with her face made entirely of words that describe the injustice and persecution she and many others went through. In particular, she faces a lot of backlash for her book and for her audacity to tell her story. Her book, ps, is fantastic and it's a wonderful insight into the balance between tolerating a culture and tolerating misogyny. That's really at the heart of that controversy, which fits in 100% with PEN Canada and the entire project.
As much as I'm looking forward to the summer, I don't want this school year to end. A lot of my friends are in their final year, and they seem to be moving way out across the country. I wish them all the best with their career, but I'll be sad to see them go, and it's even harder knowing that they're so busy this year I can't really see them as much as I'd like to before they move. I guess the only cure for this is Bob Seger? I think it is. I think it's time to curl up in bed with Bob Seger and a good book. Oh! And I found a complete online copy of Darwins' origin of species so now I'm reading both versions, chapter by chapter, of Nino Riccis' version and Darwins'. Anyways, night moves.
