tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3743665121474121058..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: I blame Gerald of WalesCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-49953384205977806442013-03-06T01:22:36.244-05:002013-03-06T01:22:36.244-05:00p.s Kirstin I started playing around with this ide...p.s Kirstin I started playing around with this idea by jokingly mixing highly camp images of modern wrestlers with early welsh poetry. I love laughter as a way into things. Differences dissolve things become one. Absorbed in each other. Memory trick to use an image as a means of remembering lots of things in a highly condensed form. Handy if you do not have a paper or a computer to hand and want to think while walking down the street. Or you belong to a culture which does not have such things. <br /><br />Relationship between muscle memory and singing. When you look at the way poets are taking about warriors in song. I suspect they may be noting the similarity as well. Both have a long physical training involving the body, muscle memory to move mouth or sword.<br /><br />If Gerald had been a poet. I would be highly tempted to run with Iron man. I find the notion of mixing these things deeply amusing. The move from non-sense to sense.<br /><br /> Jebnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-14354242480364911422013-03-06T00:41:22.244-05:002013-03-06T00:41:22.244-05:00One way of using Burton vid. would be to run it al...One way of using Burton vid. would be to run it alonside a video of a welsh preacher (if in welsh all the better. Actors using the declamatory noted a range of stylistic similarities and the welsh preachers were recommended to students at R.a.d.a Old Vic as a teaching aid.<br /><br />stylistically Gerald is going to be different but underlying technique with vocals is body dependent and not subject to the same variation.<br /><br />In the unlikely event I got stuck having to explain away a relationship between Gerald and iron Man Stark (who I am guessing is a wrestler.) I would go for Gerald (cough)may have been taught some fighting skills and then sung like a canary on muscle memory and learning. Jebnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-9422455327305743142013-02-22T20:58:13.010-05:002013-02-22T20:58:13.010-05:00I taught a History of Fantasy course last spring, ...I taught a History of Fantasy course last spring, and had links to several authors' websites and blogs in various powerpoints, and realized at one point that my lecture had become all of us looking at pictures of Robin McKinley's greyhounds online. I think I saved it by turning that into a discussion of how and where animals and the nonhuman appear in her fantasy, and the relationships they have with the human protagonists, and that actually ended up being very productive, in the end. Though I suspect some of the brighter students knew it hadn't been planned.<br /><br />On a Gerald-related side note: do you know, there's actually fanfiction in existence--I know because someone once sent the link to me, amused--in which Gerald meets Tony Iron Man Stark? I'll have to see if I can find that link again...Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07958323486427668466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-36723082655057965112013-02-21T17:30:13.281-05:002013-02-21T17:30:13.281-05:00But that only reflects my reticence and experience...But that only reflects my reticence and experience of having to deal with very alien minds day in day out.<br /><br />Safer to hide what you are. Avoid those awkward moments.Jebhttp://historyfrog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-9844937769423361192013-02-21T13:58:00.109-05:002013-02-21T13:58:00.109-05:00"That was me, maybe"
Not given a lectur..."That was me, maybe"<br /><br />Not given a lecture for ages. I use music, images etc. to supplement my gnat like short term memory (mind is on that dyslexic spectrum). I can use it as a base to layer multiple thoughts and then watch them dance and morph. <br /><br />It won't translate though. If I was communicating to an audience composed of minds like myself I would use the way I work and think.<br />But that is not the case. <br /><br />I noticed a got into huge issues as a post grad, finished work had gone down well but when folks started taking more of an interest in how I worked, planned, researched it created huge difficulties.<br /><br />Was a bit of an eye opener with regard to differences. I don't think in words they make little internal sense. The way I think and plan internal makes little sense to those more dependent on them.<br /><br />I tone it down severely as a result (if I am attempting more than thinking out-loud) Last lecture on Gerald I used two images Bearded Lady and I digressed into the world of the farter with the image of the Irish Lord at a cattle feast with the two farters baring bums at the fire at the left had corner. ( I like to explore differences through the remarks the English/Scots/Welsh made about each others bowel movements as they give a sense of real disgust and awkward, embarrassing social encounters/ the welsh shit on the doorstep but consider farting at the dinner table an affront as an English observer notes etc.) Jebnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-63121446080834589712013-02-21T11:11:28.456-05:002013-02-21T11:11:28.456-05:00Well, I like Gerald. One reason (though maybe off ...Well, I like Gerald. One reason (though maybe off topic here) about him is that in his writings he wrote down some scattered, but precious, informations about traditional music of Ireland and Britain. He studied music in Paris and his description of traditional styles of music are no less than brilliant.<br />Paolo GalloniPaolo Gallonihttp://www.paologalloni.itnoreply@blogger.com