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dancerjodi) wrote2004-09-08 08:49 am
dancerjodi) wrote2004-09-08 08:49 am
Back at work
Every time I go away for a bit (even if only for a weekend) I feel refreshed and ready for a new beginning. Since this is a 3-day week and I have a meeting to prep for that's on Friday morning it will be a busy one.
My first class of the semester was last night - it seems like it will be both challenging and thought provoking. Its a course on Social Policy, and we'll be focusing on welfare and poverty (particular interests of the prof - though investigating those issues should help us build skills to look at other types of policy critically/in a connected way).
I've been reading Bruce Campbell's "If Chins Could Kill" and I'm hoping to continue despite the fact that school's started up again. I finished the Traci Lords biography on the plane to Atlanta (while Brian was reading a book by Jenna Jamison - it will be interesting to compare). I'm also going to be starting a sewing project for Ashton - he asked if I'd make him 2 Han Solo style shirts but in black. I need to pick up the muslin soon and see if the Civil War era uniform pattern I have will cut it (though it will need alteration).
On the fitness front - I think given that I'm still in school I won't have the mental capacity for learning routines at dance classes. I'm going to stick to the working out at home/fitness class thing. Also, despite the fact that I have fun bellydancing and I love the goddesses . . . I'm not going back. I owe it to myself to admit that that form of dance isn't what I want to do long-term. Seeing a rendition of "Cellblock Tango" from Chicago (at the DragonCon Masquerade) served to remind me my main love for tap and jazz dance. Mind you - it was a demon/monster version of the song, but Fosse is Fosse, you know?:
http://www.tk7602.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=47&pos=174
Quote of the day:
"Friends share all things." - Pythagorus
My first class of the semester was last night - it seems like it will be both challenging and thought provoking. Its a course on Social Policy, and we'll be focusing on welfare and poverty (particular interests of the prof - though investigating those issues should help us build skills to look at other types of policy critically/in a connected way).
I've been reading Bruce Campbell's "If Chins Could Kill" and I'm hoping to continue despite the fact that school's started up again. I finished the Traci Lords biography on the plane to Atlanta (while Brian was reading a book by Jenna Jamison - it will be interesting to compare). I'm also going to be starting a sewing project for Ashton - he asked if I'd make him 2 Han Solo style shirts but in black. I need to pick up the muslin soon and see if the Civil War era uniform pattern I have will cut it (though it will need alteration).
On the fitness front - I think given that I'm still in school I won't have the mental capacity for learning routines at dance classes. I'm going to stick to the working out at home/fitness class thing. Also, despite the fact that I have fun bellydancing and I love the goddesses . . . I'm not going back. I owe it to myself to admit that that form of dance isn't what I want to do long-term. Seeing a rendition of "Cellblock Tango" from Chicago (at the DragonCon Masquerade) served to remind me my main love for tap and jazz dance. Mind you - it was a demon/monster version of the song, but Fosse is Fosse, you know?:
http://www.tk7602.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=47&pos=174
Quote of the day:
"Friends share all things." - Pythagorus
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How was that? I'm curious as to her take on her porn career. So many ex-porn people make excuses for their participation, as if they had been possesed or something, and they are "all better" now.
Traci Lords
Well, seeing how most of her career (all of her movies but one) were made when she was a minor, she's not too proud of it. She kind of fell into modeling when she was 15 after having an abortion (and needing $ for it) and getting a fake ID. Modeling made its way to nude modeling, which made its way to porn. Her step-dad and her sleazy agent were all too ready to lead the way or push her each step along. Her first porn actually involved her just walking arond on set in a bikini . . . later on after she and one of the actors were flirting and such (and she was strung out on drugs) they had sex while unbeknownst to her, a camera person was taping to put that footage in the movie. Money, dependency and whatever led her to continue (I think she was 16 for the first movie - and went on to make a ton).
Through luck she hooked up with people who got her back into more artistic modeling, and from there got into acting. She credits John Waters with giving her her first big chance (in Cry Baby) and the people she starred with in that movie being the first to see her as anything beyond a porn person.
She doesn't "blame" it on anyone or thing persay, but says she did it because she was desperate, stuck in it, and saw no other way out (as a result of poverty, rape at the age of 10, incest at the hand of her stepfather, and then subsequent drug addictions and homelessness). At the end of the book she adds a concluding chapter about her opinions of porn in general (she doesn't see value in it, though she does support "erotic art" doesn't see the porn movies as art). I thought it was pretty well written, and it was neat reading about all of her insecurities (i.e. she really is just a "normal" person) and seeing the progression of her career.
Jenna seems much more pro-porn right now (despite from the sounds of it, having a lot of similar experiences to Traci), which is why I'm really curious to compare . . . Brian is still working on his book so I won't be able to read it for a while. The quality of photos though between the two are SO different (Traci's are more artsy/cheesecake while Jennas are more cheap/trampy).
A note on cost - the Traci book came out a year or so ago in hardcover, but recently came out in paperback (which is why I picked it up). The Jenna book is still just in hardcover.