baaaa.

(Since everyone's doing it)

I especially like "5 fra-a-ame drums," since of course after that you hear *ba dum bum bum* ( Read more... )

kids movies and stereotypes

The comment discussion with elissali has brought up another issue that I want the peanut gallery's thoughts on. We're talking about Disney films and the tiny princess factor. One of the things that I liked about Happy Feet was the lack of tiny body images, but there was a lack of humans in the film. The Disney films that I can think of that don't include impossibly proportioned girls are the animal movies like Lion King and Ice Age (that was disney, wasn't it?). Since animals are the ultimate "other," they don't have to hold to human beauty standards (even if the female animals in these films are often given anthropomorphically feminine characteristics).

Come to think of it, I don't think I've purposely seen a kids film in the last decade that wasn't an animal film, probably because while I was in highschool I decided that I was boycotting Disney femininity...I guess I actually am only boycotting Disney *human* femininity.

And for the record, Disney certainly hasn't cornered the market on heinous and impossible portrayal of women in animation. Anime's big-eye'd big-headed stick-figure girls in school girl uniforms really makes me wonder if it is even worse in Japan. Or, because it's SUCH a characature, is it taken as a non-human representation? Maybe I should go search J-stor for work on this, since I'm sure it must be there.

EDIT: Of course this work has been done - have a look at this:
(and I'm interested that this stuff doesn't show up in women's studies journals, it's in film and japanese studies scholarly collections)

http://www.jstor.org/view/00151386/ap040134/04a00020/0?currentResult=00151386%2bap040134%2b04a00020%2b0%2cFE7F&searchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FBasicResults%3Fhp%3D25%26si%3D1%26Query%3Danime

Oh Nos!

I know that it is just a thing, but I'm upset right now. My dutar has come unglued I assume from the dry weather. Luckily it's my practice/demo dutar not my stradivarius equivalent, but I am still pretty upset. PMS will be gone in a day or so, but my broken dutar is more permanent and there just *isn't* anywhere that works on dutars in this country or even this hemisphere.

I should have noticed it earlier, but this dutar has always had a duller sound and the wood was staying in place because of the strings. I unstrung it this evening to change the strings since I noticed they were sounding old and then I noticed that the entire base of the face of the instrument had separated from the body.

I don't know what the right choice is to do. If I have to travel to an interview I am NOT risking taking my master dutar (no matter how amazing it sounds), and my 3rd dutar is either in PA or in Livermore, so I have to get this one fixed or fix it myself. I guess I start with McCabes tomorrow, or maybe try to contact Prof. R the Middle Eastern musician. This is just one more thing that needs to be taken care of before I leave.

It's just a thing, but it is a really important and irreplacable thing *pout*

I know everything is better in the morning; man do I ever wish I could wake up to a whole dutar.

Why do I feel like I just dropped my baby or something? I feel like a bad dutar mommy...