Working....
May. 11th, 2008 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ezekielsdaughterThe "last modified date" on that story is April 7th, so I am trying to get back to it. Jazz Fest is over. I had fun. Now to work.
I went to see "Red Belt" yesterday, by the way. I enjoyed it. It reminds me of the best and the worst of my time taking Tae Kwan Do.
I was reading Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States: 1492-present". I had it checked out of the library for over a month. I finally turned it back--not because I didn't like it. It made me furious, and I could only read so much at a time. A lot of this I have read before, but having it chapter after chapter! Actually, I had the impression that I had read this book earlier, but the copyright is after my high school years and after my college years. I would read a couple of chapters and stop with my heart full of lead and thinking that this country is going to burn... And yes, I know that there are no innocent countries. And yes, the crimes of the first few chapters are British crimes, Spanish crimes, and French crimes. When he gets to slavery, I don't think that he even presses the fact that Africans were selling their tribal enemies into slavery. The focus is on this county; the country who's blindness he wants to correct. Anyway, I would read and feel genuine hatred for the leaders and so-called heroes of this county. It was making me cynical. So the book went back to the library. I will pick it up again later.
I've tried to get some of the Netflix movies out of the door also. "La Vie en Rose" and "Turn Left at the End of the World" were completed this weekend.
I went to see "Red Belt" yesterday, by the way. I enjoyed it. It reminds me of the best and the worst of my time taking Tae Kwan Do.
I was reading Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States: 1492-present". I had it checked out of the library for over a month. I finally turned it back--not because I didn't like it. It made me furious, and I could only read so much at a time. A lot of this I have read before, but having it chapter after chapter! Actually, I had the impression that I had read this book earlier, but the copyright is after my high school years and after my college years. I would read a couple of chapters and stop with my heart full of lead and thinking that this country is going to burn... And yes, I know that there are no innocent countries. And yes, the crimes of the first few chapters are British crimes, Spanish crimes, and French crimes. When he gets to slavery, I don't think that he even presses the fact that Africans were selling their tribal enemies into slavery. The focus is on this county; the country who's blindness he wants to correct. Anyway, I would read and feel genuine hatred for the leaders and so-called heroes of this county. It was making me cynical. So the book went back to the library. I will pick it up again later.
I've tried to get some of the Netflix movies out of the door also. "La Vie en Rose" and "Turn Left at the End of the World" were completed this weekend.
- "La Vie en Rose" took forever. I still don't know a thing about Piaf. I need a genuine biography. This movie was meant for people who knew her life story already. It makes me wonder what the French may have made of Richard Pryor's semi-biopic "Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling". No doubt there were shortcuts in that film because an African-American audience knew something of his life.
- "Turn Left..." was better than I expected. A little better than the standard American coming of age movie. This was an Israeli movie set in a community of new Moroccan-Israelis and Indian-Israelis right after the 6-day war. The movie is quite honest about the prejudices that each group has about the other.
