A little bit of everything.

[jackshoegazer]

I'm going to a 1950's retro-Halloween party. Your dress is of course, supposed to be someone from the 50's or a really clever excuse for your anachronistic non-50's costume. I considered going as Queen Elizabeth's magician, John Dee and claiming I thought the invitation said the 1550's.  However, it is distinctly possible that I will be Papa Hemingway for Halloween this year.



I just need to find that awesome sweater. And some white for my beard. Maybe a rifle. Or a typewriter.  And some liquor.

I am also thinking constantly about my NaNoWriMo project. I'm thinking thematically about memory, identity, and meaning. I smell a dissociative fugue for characters in my future.

In my Abnormal Psych class this morning, I had to speak up and defend psychoanalysis. Everyone was taking the obvious potshots at Freud so I pointed out the good a lot of later and neo-Freudians have done. What they seem to teach in psych classes these days about Freud is a caricature of Freud rather than an accurate view of his structure and methods.

Ethan is going as James Bond.  We have to find him a suit and a gun.

God damn, I need a hair cut.

Comments

[tori-vixen.livejournal.com]

Holy Poop! You sure do look like him.

[anubis75.livejournal.com]

Great idea. If I were going I'd dress like Jack Kerouac.

[mystickeeper.livejournal.com]

Hemingway is such a bad-ass costume!

[nonbeast.livejournal.com]

I agree about Freud. Yeah, he had some crazy ideas, but that doesn't mean you should ignore all his other innovative theories. I took a class on Psychological Theories of Religion (great class) and the prof. loves Freud (maybe a little too much) but we really learned some interesting stuff. Civilization and its Discontents is one of my favorite books. I think Lacan has some amazing ideas and he was directly influenced by Freud.

[dakinigrl.livejournal.com]

I think it would be funny if you lugged around a really old and heavy typewriter from the fifties throughout the entire party. : )

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I really think your brown sweater works - when I saw you in it, I was like, "wow!" We'll grey your hair up tonight. Are you going to say drunken, sexist things all night?

I keep wondering if he was really overtly a sexist ass, or if people have just built up that reputation around him. I want evidence and anecdotes!

[shortcakeness.livejournal.com]

Carry around a 6 toed cat...he has over a hundred of them at his home in Key West:)You'll be uber authentic then:)

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

That's a very good idea for a costume for you, you look a good bit like him.

You're going to have a very busy November!

Freud completely changed the face of the 20th century! I've been watching this 4 part BBC documentary called "the century of self" which is all about how Freud's theories led to modern advertising and modern government and everything else in the world today. Freud is not some idiot, he changed the world.

[dakini-grl.livejournal.com]

Genius. I do hope you found a sweater, and more importantly, that photos of you were taken!