Cleaning the kitchen,
wondering how the hob gets so filthy, waiting for Tiger to start in the Open, listening to Neneh Cherry, The Jackson Sisters, Cheryl Lynn, Sister Sledge, NWA and A Tribe Called Quest (again) in a late 80's/early 90's club style. Playing around with my PhD proposal - who would think that 500 words to obtain funding could be so difficult to write. I suppose that the brevity is the most important thing, and that the vaule of each word has to be carefully weighed. I may haveto take a sharp intake of Chekhov to inspire me along these lines. Waiting to see if I win an Ebay auction for a mis-listed item. Sundays are fun. Back to work tomorrow.
posted by lukeski at 2:49 pm
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Did you get the proposal done? What's your subject going to be, or is it taboo to discuss it at this early stage?
OK, I'm still workking on it at the moment, but essentially it will examine how films were the apogee of late Stalinist culture, that they draw together all the disparate elements of the visual culture, literary style, music, fakelore, etc all into one medium, along with a number of elements that exist in film only (for example compare them to American musicals of the same period), and, most noticeably the most accessible (to most inhabitants of the USSR) medium. Most interesting, however, will be that this ws not simply a one way process - parts of the Soviet populace were willingly engaging in this mass deception, the echoes of which can still be found today in the popularity of the Pyrev musicals amongst Russians today.
I think that kind of covers it.
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