Monday, September 27, 2010

Playground Obsession


1.HI JAMIE! HD FN STNDNG NXT 2 U IN DA CLASS LINE. MUM SAYS MY KNEE WILL B BETA NXT WK & I CN CUM BK 2 SKUL. C U L8RS. XOXO (N.M)

2.DR.JAMIE.X.UR.CYCLING.THRU.MY.DREAMS.4REAL.WNT.2.STAND.IN.THE.FRONT.OF.THE.LINE.W.ME?
WONT.TRIP.YOU.UP.IZZAFACE. (D.H)

3.BIG MISTAKE...SORRY...PLS IGNORE PIZZA SCENARIO. I WANT 2 MARRY U. LOL. :)...:/...JUST JOKES (S.B)

4. FUCK YOU CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DOWNTROWED ME...I HOPE TO PUSH YOU OFF YOUR FCKING PRETTY BIKE + MAKE YOUR KNEE BLEED. (K.A)

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

You Are A Party


You are a party in my head. You are for me. You look beautiful. You start out awkward but you end up wild and full of rambling conversation. Your punch is spiked. I feel light headed and my dress is getting puffier and girlier by the minute. Your music is sweet and loud. My hair feels soft and shiny. You are decorated and colourful, a thousand morsels of glitter under fairy lights. You are wild. You are flirting and dancing everywhere. You are dangerous, you could get busted and shut down at any moment now. I am magnetised. I want to pounce into every space you have like a big cat. I love moving around you. It seems like everyone is in love with you.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

What Have You done To Me?


Number of Pronouns: 2 - you, me.
Number of verbs: 2 - done (past tense of to do), have.
Number of prepositions: 1 - to.
Number of question words: 1 - what (WHquestion).
Punctuation: 1 question mark.

There are five words in the sentence, mostly pronouns and verbs, no adjectives, adverbs or proper nouns.

The use of the past participle of the verb to do (have done) implies that there are no alternatives for the consequences of the subject's action.

The subject, me, feels that the perpetrator, you, has done something. That something is done to the subject implies that whatever the effect is on me, they should not be responsible. The responsibility for the action, the 'what' is clearly on the shoulders of you. This could be a positive something, like 'you made me smell like roses' but it could equally be a negative something, like, 'you made me crash the car and now my arm is broken.' Either way, the subject, me, puts them self as the consequent subject to you. The me character is clearly feeling less in control, subjugated or manipulated by you. The fact that me tells you this information, informs us that there is a direct mode of communication, perhaps even humour in the statement, though underpinned by a somewhat cynical view of their situation.

Obsession (n) - ...the desire to have a place, even if only in the mind.... (Harald Szeemann)


1. Compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea or an unwanted feeling or emotion, often accompanied by symptoms of anxiety.
2. A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion.

1. (Psychiatry) Psychiatry a persistent idea or impulse that continually forces its way into consciousness, often associated with anxiety and mental illness
2. a persistent preoccupation, idea, or feeling
3. the act of obsessing or the state of being obsessed

1.
the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire,
2.
the idea, image, desire, feeling, itself