AnthonySEaston (6:27:08 AM): 1) how geographic isolation mirrors emotional isolation
2) how our ideas of women and men, are often about how they deal with this isolation (esp w. ideas of spectacle, and the domestic)
3) how we create works about this isolaiton is a simulacra of real expereinces
AnthonySEaston (6:27:27 AM): and then how all of those things are intertextual
pattismithsmense (6:27:37 AM): are they what you offered them?
AnthonySEaston (6:28:03 AM): w/o the baggage i think
pattismithsmense (6:28:30 AM): ok - how do they relate specifically to the magnetic fields song?
pattismithsmense (6:30:17 AM): (check out the list of books the mum wants banned - freakonomics??? http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bookban22.html)
AnthonySEaston (6:34:07 AM): the song is about losing, rambling thru an imagined west, and there are large sections of the song, in the beginning and in the middle, where there is no music sung. the idea of rodeo, is one of the examples of spectacled masculinity (look how it fits in oppostion to domesticity in brokeback, or how it is handled in nick rays these lusty men), how it revolves itself into a heteronormative marriage, or love or something like that, is relfected in the taming of the cowboy, which is frequently connected to the taming of the cowboy (like in the last picture show), but its really arch, and his view of the west, does not seem real, like the cowboys in that gary winnogrand photo or how winnipeg and tulsa look the same when stephen shore shoots them
pattismithsmense (6:35:21 AM): well, there's yr essay
AnthonySEaston (6:36:09 AM): just need to pump it up
AnthonySEaston (6:36:17 AM): do you think it matches what i pitched