"There are few things sadder in this life than watching someone walk away after they've left you, watching the distance between your bodies expand until there's nothing... but empty space and silence."-Someone like you♥

Instru(menstrual)

It's funny (not funny ha ha) that horror is the LEAST respected genre of film and yet ( i would argue, and i know what i am a talking about) deconstructs and exposes many of societies values and culture. It explores human life (both waking and comatose) in a very explicit way. This way may and can often come off as non-productive, but i assure you horror films will save us all.

Horror films are also VERY female centered. While of course there is the portrayal that women are hypersexual damsels in distress, who deserve to be murdered for their looseness - - their sexual power/freedom. However, (and this is the piece most people miss because they don't watch these movies at all) Women can also be antagonist - - which can be seen as a reflection of men’s pathological fear of women, their power, and menstruation, resulting in castration anxiety. Women in horror films are often thought to be child like. I mean 'child like' in the sense that they're helpless, simple, - - even small. One thing in particular that audiences gleam from horror films is that women do nothing. They do nothing to advance the plot. They do nothing when there is danger around ( mostly because they can't, am i right?). They do nothing but scream, moan and eventually die a brutal death. Wrong. Well its not wrong so much as it is surface. That understanding of women in such a male dominated genre is understandable, plausible, reasonable, and even expected. Women are thought of this way even when the film stars, or is directly about HER! There are a few women characters I'd like to talk about here. They together, but separately, string together a truth of extreme feminist importance. The period. Menstruation. The Flow. You may be asking a couple questions to yourself right now: in what movie is a women's period central? is there more than one movie? how can horror films be feminist? and I wrapped my head around this from a bunch of different directions; and i found something interesting. The films 'Ginger Snaps' (2000), and Carrie (1976) are just two examples of womens power - through menstruation.


You’ve probably all heard the euphemisms, and probably the jokes, such as: "Don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die."


to be continued....

Pulling back the glass

Disc 2

1. Motownphilly - Boyz II Men
2. Selina Transforms II - Danny Elfman
3. And she was [ extended mix] - Talking Heads
4. Here's to believe - Aslyn
5. Wild hope - Mandy Moore
6. Praise Chorus - Jimmy Eat World
7. Didn't I tell you - Keshia Cole
8. Beautiful Calm Driving - Sia
9. I Am - Nelly Furtado
10. Breaking us in Two - Mandy Moore
11. Flower - Liz Phair
12. When i was a young girl - Feist
13. Night Fever - Bee Gee's
14. True Love Ways - Buddy Holly
15. Dream a little Dream of me - The Mamas and The Papas
16. Human Nature - Madonna
17. Delicate - Damien Rice
18. Hot Child in the City - Pat Benatar

Dancing along the brush fire

Disc 1

1. The Limit to your Love - Feist
2. Wild World - Cat Stevens
3. Good Luck - Basement Jaxx
4. Put you on game - Lupe Fiasco
5. Angry Angel - Imogen Heap
6. XO - Fall out Boy
7. Summer Nights - Olivia Newton John
8. Thats not my Name - The Ting Tings
9. Madie, Don't Leave - playradioplay!
10. Alone - Heart
11. Space Oddity - David Bowie
12. Dream on - Robyn
13. Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand
14. Pagan Poetry - Bjork
15. Monday, Monday - The Mamas and The Papas
16. We went for a ride - Fefe Dobson
17. Calling it love - Animotion
18. She lives in my lap - Andre Benjamin