Getting Some Culture
Me me me. It's like I'm obsessed or something. I'm sorry, I've been all by myself all day.
I am swamped with things to do. But because it's so hot, I've become very lazy.
I've resorted to watching the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on ABC Family.
So this weekend, I had lots of plans, but only achieved a percentage of what I wanted. There was a poetry reading last Friday. Did I go? No. And I missed a good reading. Then on Saturday, I saw Macbeth at UTEP. It surpassed my expectations. Lady Macbeth was phenomenal, what is she doing in El Paso? And some of the other players were pretty talented too. Some of the men characters even looked like Kenneth Branaugh, I'm not kidding, there were like three of his twins on stage. It was well produced and incredibly well rehearsed. A good show, I wouldn't be surprised if it won some awards. The set design was pretty low-key. A few dead trees, lots of shadows and a rotating set of stairs. I was surprised that I didn't even get bored. (I'm embarrassed to even say that, but it's true). What the heck do I know about theater, anyway?
And then, when I was supposed to go to the symphony on Sunday, I instead checked out the new history museum with a couple of friends. I felt really bad for missing the symphony because I had been planning to go for weeks, but the museum had some very interesting things to offer. One of them was a pair of "patch pants." They were part of a rock 'n' roll exhibit on the second floor. Most of it was memorabilia that wasn't really that old. It included a picture of Steve Crosno, some old Coke Machines, and a telephone booth. Really? A telephone booth? Not only did I not understand how a telephone booth has become an unfamiliar, museum-deserving object, but what does a telephone booth have anything to do with rock 'n' roll? What-ev.
Afterward, I gave my friends an impromptu tour of what I learned in the archives at the newspaper. Then, BFF got the greatest idea ever. We should be tour guides! After we left downtown, we went to her house to plan a historic downtown walking tour. I'm not sure if we should kick it off before the sweltering summer however. Plus school is almost out, so no field trip groups. I think the fall would be ideal. We are going to plan a preliminary run next week anyway.
The museum is really well put-together and clean. It's informative and quirky and very interactive. Kudos to the El Paso Museum of History. Goody, culture!
So now, I've got to write two research papers. One is about the Mexican Student Revolution in 1968 and its influence on the literature to come out of that era. The other is a comparative argument on the main character of Saul Bellow's Seize the Day to the myth of Narcissus.
Ambitious, I know. I'm really freaking out. ... Hey, the Real World's on!
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