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"Last Clean Shirt"

Finding common denominators in this movie was challenging, and finding meaning to the song "The last clean Shirt" was even more challenging. The movie played three times each time with different focus points. The first time was just the ride, followed with the text of the female, and finally with the male thoughts. The song played on cue each and every time without any variation. The lyrics to the song were fast but the central theme to the last clean shirt is the shirt one wears when passing to the next world. The visual of the movie reflected everyness with typical traffic inside an urban area. The camera angle stead fixed in the back scene and did which toward the end of each scene. The duration of the drive was approximately ten minutes giving a sense of time and was deliberately done so. The question as to why film two people driving three times in the city while playing this song can lead to a few thoughts. The thought that I believe the songs were introduced for is to relay a message of life spent in our cars. The everydayness that takes place in the car in always overlooked and many people just go into auto pilot. The actors never really acknowledged one anther they were only releasing thoughts. One was verbal the other just thinking. The time spent wasn't meaningful to either, but was time spent driving. The time spent was meaningful to me because I had to study the time. I looked for the common denominators to attempt to find reason to the everyday that surrounded the two that were just moving about their day. The music of the last clean shirt filter in at the end of each segment. Was this by design? The end representing the end of the movie and the end of life. The time captured showed the everyday not observed by the actors, but due the movie observed by me. Maybe the author's point. I'm ultimately unsure why the last clean shirt, but I think part of the reasoning my exist in my wondering thoughts.

Wednesday's writing assignment

The photo above shows the internal relationship between two young boys, who during their adventures of the day have founds rewards of turtles, these turtles are the currency that they later seek in the adventure of life in the market, they unknowingly are enjoying their life in the most simplest form, but still doing what is expected of them in their adult future, fun and rewards. The times have surely changed for these two unknown lads, and the bare feet are now covered in working boots, or tennis shoes, the friendship fades and this memory that stands in black and white is what is left of this day. The day has with it an everlasting testimony to the fun filled days of hunting and finding treasures, in this case turtles, along with the companionship that we seek, the adventure seeking life that only a young boy has complete freedom of enjoying, before the world tells him not to find turtles any longer, but to do something productive that will benefit yourself and society.

"games" How I love them

The game that I turn to is Age of Empires. I consider this game to be dangerous. I have my wife hide this game from me at the beginning of every quarter, so I won't waste my time.

The game itself is one of our country's past. At least I imagine it to be that way. The game starts with colonies of any of the old world's empires (UK, Dutch, French...). In addition to the colonial forces that start with almost nothing, there is Native Americans tribes and trade post to be established. Native Americans help by providing additional troops, much like how history was written (French and Indian War). The trade post bring in food, wood, coin, or colonial points. The game goes through a series of ages which one is trying to achieve. Time and resources must be used wisely here in order not to be attacked by another colony. In total there are five ages bring settlers from the dark age to the imperial age. The game is independent and survival of the fittest. One must understand how to properly defend and grow a society with the given conditions to be victorious.

The game to me is a mixture of time management skills, a bit of historical value, and a ton of military tactics. This miniature world allows one to become a commander of a world with all the control over one's people, and ultimately responsible for the success or failure of one's own strategy. This game mirrors life in a small respect in how our decisions will dictate our life's and people around us, but without destroying other colonies.

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I've been studying trying to keep track of all my tasking, but I drift into the nothing. Odd. Just a few days ago I found it hard to contain myself from doing nothing, but when I'm busy and time is short my mind drifts to things deemed less important than the task at hand. Why do we want to stay busy, but can't? Why when we try not to do anything, is it so difficult? I guess this is why I'm studying.

Scrutiny of the Everyday

"Recongnizing that 'quotidiennete dissolves (into statistics, properties, data) when the everyday is made an object of scrutiny' he proposes that what connects the most redolent and suggestive attempts to acknowledge the everyday is the project-like status." by Johnstone (page20), who is paraphrasing Michael Sheringham.


Reading this sentence seems to clog up my blood flow in my brain. The everyday object of scrutiny I find to be interesting and kinda true. The idea of finding the everyday as something more then nothing is hard to wrap your mind around. Creating categories of data on the random everyday object seems impossible and unimportant, which may give a status not worthy of study. However, their is literature that shows something is at stake. The project-like status seems to grow onto the projects of attention, who Sheringham is interested in.



The trend that I'm seeing is the terming of the "everyday". Everyday is turning into a status that is beginning the process of being recognized as something worthy of scholarly study. I believe that learning about how we ignore our everyday, teaches us about ourselves. So, by scrutiny of the everyday we find why it matters.

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