death becomes you....

"Geniuses don't make errors- it is just a portal to another discovery"

And we shouldn't live with shame. 

Ides of March.....

Well, almost getting hit by a speeding car and being inches near death put Hamlet into a whole new perspective.

Do we play to play?

Now for reals. So this is not the play but an interview done with Jude Law. He recently performed Hamlet on stage in London, about a year or so ago. The way he describes what he went through while playing Hamlet was very much like what Mr. Sexson was saying in class about how Hamlet was ( bad way of re-saying this) " he new the meanings behind everything." Jude says that he " somewhat became Hamlet while playing him", being able to see what it took to become "the madness with in the man". I believe that we all, in turn, play Hamlet at one time or another. Maybe not questioning whether or not we should live or die but questioning the cosmos and the way in which we live. Is it not true?

Monsterpeice Theater

Just like Hamlet, Cookie Monster is no more. On the lighter side of things I guess. :)

Karma's a com'n!

So we all know the the famous line "To be or not to be". And as Professor Sexson was saying in class this morning, we've heard about every rendition that anyone could come up with. The line that I find interesting how ever is the line right before that where Claudius's conscience is getting the better of him.

"How smart a last that speech doth give m conscience! 
The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art, 
is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
Than is my deed to my most painted word.
O heavy burden!"

With in this, the audience is given a tempted treat. It could go two ways: 1.) It is possible that what Scott was saying that Hamlet is just a raving lunatic (taking freedom with that one) and that he  is over exaggerating the death of his father and that Claudius is just feeling guilty for the pain that the quick marriage to Hamlets mother is putting onto Hamlet. Or 2.) is that it is possible that Claudius really did kill his own brother  and marrying his sister - in- law and becoming king to Denmark, and is living out a plot to take over the throne and create the diversion that Hamlet is the crazy one so that he would be put away and then he (Claudius) wouldn't have to deal with him again.

Either way the fact that Claudius feels guilty for something shows that he knows what he did, by marrying his brothers wife was probably not the smartest thing to have done so quickly.

Paper Airplane Love

High over head, the moon, she waits
The ground underneath, lit like a lamp.
The distance between us, one we both hate.
A seal that marks us both like a stamp.

Afternoon coffee with a sweet little smile,
After dinner dishes that you asked to do
No one had been that kind in a while
Now I couldn't imagine anyone but you.

The mornings come, as does the new day.
Little trinkets and flowers that we send
until we see the other on the fifth of May
the bonds of love will never bend.

Paper air planes fly through trees and lines,
Mostly Blue Spruce, Western White, and Ponderosa Pine

This is my sonnet for my significant otter. It's being sent out tomorrow via United States Post :).  It's a little loaded but that's the way I write my pieces. I feel like our generation is coming dangerously close to loosing the art of writing. Emails and text messages don't count or cut it. People took time out of their day to write each other beautifully crafted letters, announcements,  and  thank yous.

Marion...." The girl with clay on her hands and green eyes"

So I have been thinking a lot about our discussion that we had about Hamlet being Hamlet. The book title above shows an example of certain people get out of what they read. "Ghost Dad" is an interesting title because although the story is about Hamlet revenging his fathers death, I feel that it is more about Hamlet and they way he handles his life. It's the same as if everyone were "normal". (What is normal anyway?) There wouldn't be anybody to make us think about why we are the way we are. We have people in the world that are straight edge, a little loopy, conservative, eccentric, and just plain orbital because that is their normal. I'm not trying to play "devils advocate" even though it may sound like it, but although it is clinical proven that Hamlet is mentally unhealthy, we wouldn't have HAMLET with out that mental disease.