I can't wait for harry potter....

Scenes 2 and 3 pg 142-143

            Shakespeare is walking home from the tavern, coming across the Old Man and Judith who criticizes Shakespeare. Shakespeare tells her that after temporarily abandoning her mother, he tried to love Judith with money, but ended up making her materialistic and crude. She leaves him, and as he sits alone, several dark figures run by backstage, and a gunshot is heard. The Old Woman comes to bring Shakespeare home.

            Shakespeare is in bed, half delirious, with Judith and her mother knocking on the door calling for Shakespeare to let them in, until finally he slips his will to them under the door and they leave. The Son enters, and tells Shakespeare that in a scuffle with Combe's men he shot his father, the Old Man. Combe enters, and the Son hypocritcally accuses him of shooting the Old Man, and leaving Shakespeare to take poison pills he had taken from Jonson. Combe and the Son leave, unaware that Shakespeare is dying. Judith enters, and paying no care to her dying father, she scours the room looking for money or a second will.

live like a hobbit?

check out all of these weird looking buildings. i especially like a huge shell. the interior is just as cool. my other favorite is the one that looks kind of like a hobbit house. it is in wales... i guess i will just have to move there because i think i would love it. but really, check these out there great.
awesome architecture!

Scene 1, 2, 3 pg. 101-142

this is another play by edward bond that i had to read along side many other books. it is actually quite interesting...

Bingo begins with Shakespeare seated in his garden when the Young Woman arrives to beg. The Old Man takes her into the back garden for sex, but not without the Old Woman warning Shakespeare that William Combe’s intentions to enclose the common lands will ruin local families. Combe then arrives to convince Shakespeare to sign a contract stating that he will not interfere with the scheme, in exchange for the security of his own lands. The Old Man enters, followed by the Son, scolding the Old Man for his sexual misconduct with the Young Woman. Hearing this, Combe and the Son take the Young Woman to be whipped for prostitution.

            Six months later, The Old Woman tells Judith, Shakespeare’s daughter, about her husband's condition after being involved with the press gang, but Judith condemns him. Later, Shakespeare and the Old Man are in the garden when the Young Woman returns. She is physically defeated, having been living in burned out barns all winter, supported by the Old Man. Shakespeare tells Judith to give the woman food and clothing, but Judith resents her and refuses. Combe arrives to give Shakespeare the contract, which he signs. Judith soon feels guilty at being the cause of the woman's punishment, after telling Combe that she has returned, and regrets turning her in. The Old Man believes she will be executed for burning down several barns.

            Later on, The Young Woman has been executed. Hanging on a gallows, The Son and his friend Wally look into the dead woman's face and engage in passionate prayer.

While Shakespeare and Ben Jonson are drinking in a tavern, Jonson has come to tell Shakespeare that the Globe Theatre has burned down, and to ask Shakespeare what he is writing. Their conversation and their attitude towards literature are unglamorous due to the fact that Jonson recounts a life of violence, compared with Shakespeare's composed existence. The Son and the workers then enter, having just had an encounter with Combe's men while destroying Combe's ditches and fences and Combe confronts them, claiming that he represents progress and realism.

how would you handle yourself if this was offerered instead of cash?

i'm wondering why she even ponders it...
my favorite part is when she screams uncontrollably.
i also enjoy when her sister yells at her. it's just so hilarious.
i think i would cry or faint.

once upon a time, there was a girl

who was absolutely obsessed with harry potter.
who wants to come with me to the premiere on july 14th?
you might only be slightly embarrassed by my draco malfoy shirt( i am in love with tom felton) and my dark mark tattoo.
but speaking of tom felton, i recently ordered a draco malfoy cardboard cutout that i have had a lot of fun with. yesterday i had a little to much fun...
you can see what i did here

the blogs i enjoy.

my favorite blog to read is this one. i love her take on everything. seems to like the same things i do, and keeps up with her blog every week way better than any of us do. just admit it guys! it is really a fun blog.
this is really a fun blog too. i love the balance of pictures and text. i love the personality of it, it's so down to earth and real.

i am obsessed with adele right now. i don't have time to blog. i'm too busy listening to adele....

Lear Act 1, 2, 3 pgs. 1- 102

Act I

Lear opens at the site of a wall King Lear is having built in order to keep enemies out of his kingdom. Two workers carry a dead laborer onstage just before Lear enters with Lord Warrington and Lear's daughters, Bodice and Fontanelle, among others. When Lear sees the dead man, his primary concern is with the resulting delay to the building of the wall, and he shoots the worker who accidentally caused the man's death. Bodice and Fontanelle object to Lear's violence and reveal their own plans to marry Lear's enemies, the Duke of North and the Duke of Cornwall, respectively. Lear's daughters believe their marriages will lead to peace, butLear believes that only the wall can protect his people. After Lear and the others leave, Bodice and Fontanelle reveal the plans they share with their husbands to attack Lear's armies. In Scene 2, as Lear prepares for war, Warrington informs him that each daughter has written separately, each asking Warrington to betray Lear, then the other daughter. In Scene 3, each of the daughters complains about her husband and reveals plans to have him killed.

In Scene 4, the audience discovers that the sisters' armies have been victorious, but Bodice and Fontanelle each has failed at having her husband killed. Warrington, now a prisoner whose tongue has been cut out, is brought before the sisters. Bodice calmly knits while Warrington is tortured by her soldiers. Fontanelle calls for increased violence against Warrington, then deafens him by poking Bodice's knitting needles into his ears. Warrington is taken out by a soldier.

In Scene 5, Lear, in the woods, finds bread on the ground and eats it. Warrington, crippled, and for whom the bread is intended, sneaks up behind Lear with a knife but leaves when the Gravedigger's Boy arrives with bread and water for Lear. The Boy asks Lear to stay with him and his wife. Scene 6 takes place at the Boy's house, where Lear finds out how the Boy lives. The Boy has two fields and his pregnant wife, Cordelia, keeps pigs. When Lear goes out with the Boy, Warrington returns with a knife, and the Boy's wife calls out, saying that the Wild Man has returned. While Lear sleeps, Warrington returns with a knife, attacks Lear, then leaves.

In Scene 7, the Boy complains to Lear about the king who caused so much suffering for the workers building his wall, but asks Lear to stay. A sergeant and three soldiers come on stage looking for Lear. Warrington's body is discovered plugging the well. The soldiers kill the Boy, rape Cordelia, and kill the pigs. The Carpenter arrives and kills the soldiers. Lear is taken prisoner.

Act II

In the first scene, saying Lear is mad, Bodice and Fontanelle bring him before a judge. When asked about Bodice and Fontanelle, Lear denies that they are his daughters. Bodice has her mirror given to Lear, as she believes that madmen are frightened of themselves. Lear sees himself in the mirror as a tortured animal in a cage. He is found mad and taken away. Bodice tells Fontanelle that there are malcontents in the kingdom and that there will be a civil war. Fontanelle replies that the rebels are led by Cordelia.

In Scene 2, the Gravedigger's Boy's Ghost appears to Lear in his cell. Lear asks the Ghost to bring him his daughters. The apparitions that appear are of Bodice and Fontanelle as young girls. Lear and his daughters talk as the two girls sit with their heads on his knees. Lear asks the daughters to stay, but they leave him. The Ghost reappears and asks Lear if he can stay with him. Lear agrees, saying they will be comforted by the sound of each other's voices.

In Scene 3, Cordelia appears with her soldiers, one of whom was wounded in a skirmish with Bodice and Fontanelle's troops. The Carpenter arrives. A soldier captured by Cordelia's men asks to join their forces, but Cordelia has him shot because he does not hate. The others go offstage, leaving the wounded soldier to die alone. In Scene 4, Bodice and Fontanelle, talking at their headquarters, reveal that their husbands have tried to desert. Fontanelle is given Lear's death warrant by Bodice and signs it. The Dukes of North and Cornwall arrive and are told they are to be kept in cells unless there is a need for them to be seen in public. Left alone, Bodice reveals that she started to have the wall pulled down, but that she needed the workers as soldiers.

In Scene 5, Cordelia's soldiers, who appear leading Lear and other prisoners, have lost their way. Lear says that he only wants to live to find the Ghost and help him. Fontanelle is brought in, a prisoner also. In Scene 6,Lear and the other prisoners, including Fontanelle, are in their cell. The Ghost arrives. He is cold and thin.Lear says he wishes he'd been the Ghost's father and looked after him. Fontanelle tells Lear that if he helps her, she will protect him if Bodice is victorious. At the Carpenter's command, a soldier shoots Fontanelle. A medical doctor who is also a prisoner arrives to perform an autopsy on Fontanelle. Lear is awed by the beauty of the inside of her body, in contrast to her cruelty and hatred when alive.

Bodice arrives as a prisoner, indicating that Cordelia's forces have defeated the last remnants of the daughters' regime. Lear tells his daughter that he destroyed Fontanelle. Bodice too has been sentenced to death. The soldiers stab her with a bayonet three times. Cordelia, now the Carpenter's wife, has asked thatLear not be killed. Using a “scientific device,” the doctor removes Lear's eyes. In terrible pain, Lear leaves the prison with the Ghost. In Scene 7, Lear meets a family of farmers by the wall. They reveal that the father will go to work on the wall and the son will become a soldier. Lear feels pity and tells them to run away. Lear says that Cordelia does not know what she is doing and that he will write to tell her of the people's suffering.

Act III

In Scene 1, Lear is living in the Boy's old house with Thomas, his wife Susan, and John, all of whom care forLear in his blindness. A deserter from Cordelia's wall arrives; the Ghost wants him to leave for the sake of everyone else's safety. Soldiers arrive, looking for the deserter, but Lear hides the fugitive. Unable to find him, the soldiers leave. The others want the deserter to leave as well, but Lear insists that he—and all escapees who come to the house—can stay.

Scene 2 occurs some months later. At the Boy's house, Lear tells a group of people a fable. The audience learns from Thomas that hundreds gather to hear Lear's public speeches, but Thomas believes it is dangerous for Lear to continue speaking out against the government. An officer arrives with Lear's old Councilor and accuses Lear of hiding deserters. The deserter from Scene 2 is taken away to be hanged. The Councilor tellsLear that Cordelia has tolerated Lear's speaking, but now he must stop. The Councilor and those who came with him leave. Lear complains that he is still a prisoner; there is a wall everywhere. The Ghost enters; he is thinner and more shrunken. The Ghost suggests that he poison the well so the others will leave; he will takeLear to a spring to drink. Lear sleeps, and John tells Susan that he is leaving and asks her to come with him. John leaves, Thomas enters, and Susan, crying, asks Thomas to take her away from Lear. Thomas tells Susan to come into the house.

In Scene 3, Lear is alone in the woods. The Ghost arrives; he is deteriorating rapidly and appears terrified. The Ghost believes he is dying and weeps because he is afraid. Cordelia and the Carpenter enter. Cordelia speaks of how the soldiers killed her husband and raped her and of the way in which her new government is creating a better way of life. The Ghost watches his former wife, wishing he could speak to her. Cordelia asksLear to stop working against her. Lear tells Cordelia she must pull the wall down, but she says the kingdom will be attacked by enemies if she does. When Lear continues saying he will not be quiet, Cordelia says he will be put on trial, then leaves.

The Ghost is gored to death by pigs that have gone mad. In Scene 4, Lear is taken to the wall by Susan. He climbs up on the structure in order to dig it up. The Farmer's Son, now a soldier, shoots Lear, injuring him.Lear continues to shovel. The Farmer's Son shoots Lear again, killing him. Lear's body is left alone onstage.

scene 2,3,4,5 pg. 29-57

Scene Two takes place in a park near the flat. Len and Pam are in a boat on an otherwise bare stage. The audience learns that Len is now a boarder in the flat. They also speak of their relationship, the fact that Harry and Mary haven’t spoken in so many years Pam can’t remember when the silence started or why, that they had a boy during World War II and that he was killed by a bomb in this park. Fred, the boat handler, calls them in and makes crude sexual jokes. Len jokes back, and it is obvious that Pam is attracted to Fred.

Pete, Barry, Mike, and Colin meet in the park. Pete is dressed in a suit because he is going to the funeral of a boy he killed with his van—intentionally, he says. He openly seeks the admiration of the others and they do admire him for the killing and the fact that he got away with it. They tease Barry and there is lots of low and crude sexual humor. Len comes in and Colin recognizes him from school years before. Mary enters with groceries, Len goes to help her, and there are more crude sexual jokes among the gang.

Scene Four takes place in the living-room. Mary puts food on the table, Len eats, and Harry dozes in the armchair. Pam enters in her slip, turns on the TV and puts on makeup. The TV doesn’t work properly and no one knows how to adjust it. The baby starts to cry off-stage and continues to cry throughout the scene. No one does anything to comfort the baby. The only other actions consists of bickering about where Pam should dress and small domestic concerns. Fred arrives and Pam nags him about being late and they leave, Len clears the table and Harry tells Len it is better for him to sleep with his door closed so he won’t hear Pam and Fred in her room. The baby continues to scream uncomforted.

Pam is sick in bed and Len tries to comfort her. She is pining for Fred, who has dumped her. Len fetches the baby and Pam wants nothing to do with it; she hasn’t looked at it for weeks. (It is worth noting that throughout the play the baby is referred to only as “it” by all the other characters.) Len has bribed Fred with tickets for a football game so he will visit Pam.

scene 1 pg. 1-29

i had to abandon the book i was reading and get cracking on these plays for english. i have to read four of them for my research project along side All the Pretty Horses. quite a bit of reading...

anyway, the plays are by Edward Bond. the first one i am reading is called Saved.

the play is basically about this baby that gets stoned and murdered, but thats really all i know...

so far i have read scene 1.

so far, Pam has brought Len home for sex. She insists on using the living-room because her bed isn’t made. They have just met and when Len asks Pam her name, she says, “Yer ain’ arf nosey.” They have trouble getting comfortable. Harry, her father, comes in and goes out again. Len is somewhat disconcerted, but Pam doesn’t seem to mind the interruption at all. Pam and Len continue their sex play, Harry again puts his head in, and Pam and Len offer him candy (laced with sexual innuendo). Finally, they hear Harry leave the house for work and as Pam undoes Len’s belt, Len says, “This is the life.”

Pharrell William's home

I really liked this house and how sleek and clean it looked. it had crisp and clean lines with a modern, but urban feel to it. i especially loved this chair. it looked like he had it designed especially for him. i love how it can tell so much, like the human body is compared to a piece of furniture. the other white piece reminds me of the michelin man mixed with some sort of elephant creature. i love how it is all his own, all funky creations, maybe describing his ornate personality.every single one of his pieces are different and tell visitors something else about him.

exciting day

i am very excited to go home today. harry potter comes out friday, but i preordered it and it came today. guess what i'll be watching today :) oh and this new twilight guide book came out today. im excited to read it. yayyyy

this is what my spring break consisted of

thats daniel radcliffe... i was 2 feet from daniel radcliffe. i'm still freaking out.