First post…
Imaginative title I know.
So this is going to be a collection of musings by me; IcarusGirl.
To introduce myself: like so many I am an aspiring writer, specifically playwriting and dabblings in poety. The name IcarusGirl? Inspired by a song of Ani DiFranco’s which i shall finish this post with, it was a pseudonym chosen when a bit younger and a lot more emo, but noone should be ashamed of where they come from, if happy with who they are now (which we must mostly be to exist, save a wish to be a little more toned, tucked and trimmer).
My spelling and grammar is lazy, I can do it but type fast and tend to garble occasionally, we both know what I mean so suck it up.
My interersts are varied, music is a must (from emo and screamo, post hardcore to ska, jazz and blues, electronica and drum and bass, lots more) I read (terry pratchett and harry potter to relax, other wise Ian Banks, David Mitchell, Ian McEwan, Austen, Neil Gaiman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Murakami et al) I paint (portraits mainly), am studying for a BA Hons in Drama, following it next year with a MPhil in Playwriting which I was recently accepted onto. I also follow a few online comics, namely rpgworld, megatokyo, and xkcd.com.
Ocassionally I get the urge to excercise, when I do, I swim, i’ve always felt more ‘me’ in water, i’m naturally kind of fast moving/thinking and quite clumsy, water slows everything down and makes me feel (dare I say it) graceful.
There’s a lot more but for now, that will do. If you feel like following me, my writings will be about whatever the hell I want, although as the title of the blog suggests I intend to use this space to perhaps discuss ‘A Science Fiction Thetare’, what I write, and am writing and how I think Science Fiction has long been (almost) absent from the stage, why it is valuable and how my various plays address then and now (cue the voices of dissent with numerous examples of ostenisbly SciFi theatre) Manifestos are about passion, statements and beliefs, and I believe I don’t have to listen to nitpicking.
ICARUS (Ani DiFranco)
seems like you juststarted noticinghow noticably bad things really areand when you walked past this couple arguingin a rolled up windowof a parked carand all of thatgesticulated bitternessand all of thatmuffled yelling hellits dark just starts wafting at youlike a big fury rat diedinside of that wall kinda smell
breathe like it's rolling like a cold frontthunder is thundering and lightening in towand your tiny little life getseven smalleras you heed the heaven's mighty show
and I don't mean heavenlike god-likethe animal in me knows very wellnature is our teacher, our leader, and our loverand god is just another story that we tell
and you're trying not to grasp-not to start graspingat straws -or sticks- or stonesjust learn how to sit inside your sadnesseven if you're sitting there alone
it's just like Icarus ascendingnever intending to look backnature's law and your tragic flawI find descendingflying into the arms of a Venus flytrap
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Hi, Welcome to Blogger! (Ooh, sound like an automated message).
I didn’t actually know that about your alias, quite interesting. I’ve obviously never heard the song, unless it has recently been adapted into a Disney film, but there you go. You can see my blog by clicking on my name in this comment.