4.18.2001
 
Whew! Now that seeing that video is over (must download from somewhere) time to continue posting.

First off, Kyle's Bed and Breakfast has a new episode posted. Yay!

Scary... Track 2 on the Josie soundtrack matches a lot with the newest 'Spears video.

Art was rather interesting today. We had an artist come and talk to us; Jerry M-something (JM). The majority of works he had and talked about were rather interesting. Minus the fact that he's straight, we have a relatively similar background: family of devote Catholics, breaks away from religion, father kinda wacko. Another difference is that his dad worked in the dealer's pit in a casino, so he had spent a lot of time between church and casino.

To explain a little bit, you won't believe how some people stereotype us Vegans here! While I was dropping off stuff in the art room earlier this morning, the people in the room discussed the relatively close-mindedness of the world outside our valley. E told her story about, during spring break, she told some people that she was from Vegas, and they replied with "You can actually live there? Isn't it not a real city?" Along those same notes, J shared his encounter with a store assistant over in Michigan who, after learning about where he came from, asked if his dad worked in the casino or if his mom was a showgirl. Even my friend Cat who, when she moved to Rhode Island, laughed at all the Elvises and hookers the senior class set up for their spirit decorations (theme being, obviously, Las Vegas).

But anyways, JM showed some of this earlier pieces, and they were quite intriguing. A point he made a lot was the symbiosis the churches and the casinos have. Afterall, in Vegas there are more churches per capa than there are anywhere else in the nation. So, he painted a lot of the triple 7's one would get on a slot machine which would pay out big money, and often painted them engulfed in Pentecostal flames. Others used religious symbols as those one would find on the reel of a slot machine. Really thought provoking.

I have a feeling that the 75% I got on the biology homework is a foreshadow of the rest of the school year. Damn.

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