| EBOLA |
[Feb. 15th, 2011|09:35 am] |
i have ebola again.
i will see all of you in heaven if i die, and maybe at cactus club or work something if i don't.
love,
kellen |
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| i almost went to class today! |
[Sep. 12th, 2010|10:33 am] |
IT IS MY FIRST YEAR ARCHEOLOGY CLASS AND I HAVE STILL NOT BEEN. MAYBE I CAN JUST PRETEND I HAVE BEEN ON IMPORTANT ARCHEOLOGY MISSIONS WITH INDIANA JONES. I KNOW A LOT ABOUT INDIANA JONES SO I COULD PROBABLY LIE ABOUT IT CONVINCINGLY. WHEN THE PROF IS ALL LIKE "KELLEN INDIANA JONES IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER I WILL LOOK HIM INTENSLY IN THE EYES FOR A SECOND AND THEN DRAMATICALLY ROLL MY EYES, THEN A GIRL FROM THE CLASS WILL BE LIKE "LOOK OUUUUUUT" AND THE T.A WILL TRY TO SHOOT ME AND I WILL RUN OUT OF THE CLASSROOM.
DUN DUN NA NAA DUN DUN NAAAAAA.
FUCK...
I GOTTA GO ON MONDAY OR I'LL SHOOT MYSELF IN THE FACE.
I WOULD HAVE BEEN ON TIME EXCEPT I WAS AN HOUR LATE WHICH NORMALLY IS FINE BUT THIS CLASS DOESN'T HAVE ANY TUTORIALS AND THE CLASSES ARE ONLY AN HOUR LONG. FIRST YEAR SUCKS SO HARD.
ALSO, IF ANYONE KNOWS OF ANY SPACES OPEN IN ANY CLASSES I WOULD LIKE TO BE IN A CLASS SO I CAN GRAD.
LOVE,
KELLEN |
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| wait, what? |
[Sep. 5th, 2010|01:59 pm] |
so i'm in first year university again. i can't get any of the classes i want because i forgot that first year classes are hard to get into and didn't register for any. i cannot stress enough that this basically feels exactly like being in first year university and i hate it. it is breaking my mind.
so basically i have two options for getting classes and getting out of school as quickly as possible without going completely insane;
a) beg and cry until professors let me into their class or
b) take whatever i can that will enable me to graduate regardless of the content of the course and tell everyone in those classes that i am a first year university student so that i can at least get a little bit of amusement out of dirt class or canada until confederation or whatever i'm probably going to end up begin stuck with.
i should explain that the reason i think the two are mutually exclusive is that because in option bitching that i'm a fifth year is going to be an important part of getting into the class. |
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| an expensive peice of cheese |
[Aug. 30th, 2010|12:39 pm] |
my mom bought me an expensive peice of cheese. i picked it out. when i went to eat it, it was too smokey it tasted like smoked fish. normally i like the taste of strong cheeses, but the smokeyness in this particular gouda seemed artificial.
rainforest crisps on the other hand, are delicious.
the ones i have now would probably go better with a really strong goat cheese. i am so over any smokey cheese that isn't a cheddar. |
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| no, i'm kellen. |
[Aug. 29th, 2010|04:31 pm] |
two things. first up is
WHAT HAVE I EATEN SO FAR TODAY
muslix
corn nuts
3 twizzlers
a bottle of water
4 m&m's
the second thing
I DECIDED THAT I NEED TO APPLY MYSELF TO THINGS
THIS IS WHAT I DECIDED TO APPLY MYSELF TO
IT IS A LIST OF THINGS I ENJOY RIGHT NOW
creating new foods out of existing combinations of mcdonalds food
watching the larry sanders show
the ricky gervais podcast
american spirit all natural cigarettes (additive free)
going to the ocean at night
seinfeld
sparkling water
salads
garlic
if i think of any that i missed i'll just ad them in as comments.
also, i'm contemplating a switch to blogspot just because i'm sick of having to change the date ahead 3 years every time i want to make an entry. |
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| a true story |
[Jul. 4th, 2010|05:04 pm] |
transformers was awesome.
if you are a boy and you die, when you get to heaven, heaven is a giant fight between decepticons, the army, and the autobots. then, as soon as you realise what's going on, someone hands you a cube and tells you to get it away from the decepticons and two autobots turn and look at you to say "we'll protect you kellen". |
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| yep |
[Feb. 23rd, 2010|10:17 pm] |
Dear Dance Community,
I feel it is appropriate that I address the recent influx of angry mail I have received in the week that has passed since the writing of my editorial entitled “Dancing? Really?” I have chosen to place my response in my section, rather than the opinions section, because frankly, this situation is funnier than anything else anyone could possibly draw or write. Remember in the movie Breakin’ where Ozone and Turbo are the victims of prejudice from members of the traditional dance community that hate street dancing? Well, that’s sort of how I feel, except not I’m a street dancer. I just feel like you are probably the same kind of prejudiced people that are portrayed in the above-mentioned cinematic gem.
(For those of you that are just joining us, here’s what’s going on; I wrote an editorial last week, and somehow it offended EVERY member of the dance community across Canada. It was meant to compare a degree in dancing to the hypothetical idea of a degree in football. In the past week I have received e-mails from infuriated individuals who, for whatever reason, care what I write in The Peak.)
I didn't want to address any of this at first, because frankly, I think it’s silly. But I am in utter disbelief at how shallow the dance community seems to be. Can none of you laugh at yourselves at all? Do you never have days where you wake up and think to your self, “This is a little ridiculous, but I love it, so I'm going to keep on doing it.” I go through that as a filmmaker all the time.
I happen to think dance is just as worthy of a degree as any other fine art. That’s why I went out of my way to be self-deprecating in the first paragraph of my article. I shouldn’t have to tell anyone ostensibly intelligent enough to be enrolled in university that I don’t — actually — think a line should be arbitrarily drawn to exclude dance. I just think it’s a valuable question to ask that if we give degrees for dance, why not football? Don't you think that's something that dancers should be prepared to answer?
I never meant to undercut the amount of work dancers put into their art form or the validity of it. But I'm amazed at how hostile the reaction has been. Apparently the dance community isn't prepared to be challenged by anyone . . . Which reflects poorly on them, and draws even more attention to the possibility that maybe what they do is a bit of a wank.
Perhaps the most baffling aspect of this entire debacle is that very few of the responses have actually addressed my article. They have simply taken for granted that I consider myself an expert on dance, or that I worship sports, or project equally ridiculous qualities onto me. Most consistently, the people that have written in have demonstrated an incredibly off-putting sense of elitism. It seems to be a unanimous sentiment among dancers that there is no complexity to sports. I find this sentiment disturbing. I think one of the biggest challenges we face as young artists is how to take ourselves seriously without perpetuating the stereotypical elitism that has off-put people from being able to enjoy art for centuries.
Let’s not kid ourselves here. The reaction to my article was completely uncalled for. If anyone was ever legitimately concerned that the humour editor at The Peak could actually affect the university curriculum I think we’d have a much bigger problem on our hands. The school would be offering degrees in disciplines like, “How to be Awesome,” “Shotgunning Beers,” and “The Awesomeology of Shotgunning Beers.”
As for those of you that have tried to paint me as a philistine, I guess you’re right, because I admittedly don’t enjoy watching dance. I have never found it engaging, but I have always acknowledged its history and importance. I don’t think it is valuable to make high-art / low-art distinctions among fans and critics in any art community. I guess I’m just too hung up on low-culture artists like Picasso, Stravinsky, and Kurosawa to be able to appreciate something as complex as dance.
The opinions expressed in this letter, which is placed firmly within the realms of the humour section, do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the film program or the film student union, or The Peak, or even for that matter the author himself. Those that write in to respond to this letter are advised to keep in mind that they are responding to a piece in which the author includes the phrase, “The Awesomeology of Shotgunning Beers.”
Kellen Powell,
Peak Humour Editor
Independent Filmmaker
Dance Critic |
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