Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 175-186
1) “Today Dr. Espanto noticed that his Van Gogh screen saver was jittery, the mouse pad upside down – there definitely was something wrong. His Virgen de Guadalupe frame was turned backward. (178)”
This to me he feels like he is upside down. Everything is upside down to him because he is so out of it. He wasn’t with his situation. There is a lot happening around him and he can’t concentrate right. Everything is going crazy and can’t do everything. He needs to take to time to relax.
2) “Bobo: I am awake, I’ve been awake since day one.”
Bobo is saying that he is very alert and he always noticing what’s going on. This quote just stood out me because some people don’t notice things and they think they are, like zoning out. The person that is interviewing him is also trying to make him look bad and just saying and asking him random stuff. Making fun of Americans.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 152 – 174
1) “Wanna B.: A grand prize of one hundred kilos of PRI cigars made of the finest blend of Zapatista tobacco leaves and a round trip for two to the Mayan rain forest in Chiapas – where you’ll stay at the luxurious PEMEX (Please Exit Mildly Except for Xenophobic) Motel” (156).
I thought that the people are making fun of how American game shows by advertising things where people don’t really want to go unless if they are desperate. I do not understand why this is in the book because it is a script from a television show. It do not have anything that relates to him or apart of his life.
2)
Wanna B.:[firecrackers, wheel spin] Here we go: “A self-taught Republican correspondence course for correcting over-reaching tongue action in the face of capital gains
Costestant: [crunch] What is Hisp-my-lips!
This also makes me feel like he is making fun of Americans or they people are making fun of American because they do not put American in a good way. They are amused by how America is and act. I guess he is using this to show that America maybe powerful, not everyone likes them and will respect them.
1) “Wanna B.: A grand prize of one hundred kilos of PRI cigars made of the finest blend of Zapatista tobacco leaves and a round trip for two to the Mayan rain forest in Chiapas – where you’ll stay at the luxurious PEMEX (Please Exit Mildly Except for Xenophobic) Motel” (156).
I thought that the people are making fun of how American game shows by advertising things where people don’t really want to go unless if they are desperate. I do not understand why this is in the book because it is a script from a television show. It do not have anything that relates to him or apart of his life.
2)
Wanna B.:[firecrackers, wheel spin] Here we go: “A self-taught Republican correspondence course for correcting over-reaching tongue action in the face of capital gains
Costestant: [crunch] What is Hisp-my-lips!
This also makes me feel like he is making fun of Americans or they people are making fun of American because they do not put American in a good way. They are amused by how America is and act. I guess he is using this to show that America maybe powerful, not everyone likes them and will respect them.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Yoga Interview with Liz Forkel
• When did you first start practicing yoga as student?
o 1997 - generally for all types of little exercises prescribed yoga such as stretches from aerobics stretches
• Why did you start?
o Started because of the demand for it for her company because her clients wanted it.
o She had found the vinyasa / power yoga became a hard workout and it had fit her
• How has yoga personally helped you?
o She was a hard-core person and she need to mend her injuries, since she gets injured a lot from over use and she had to slow down.
o It had helped her prevent injuries because of becoming more flexible.
• What type of yoga are you practicing that is different from when you first began?
o She is practicing Vinyasa / Power yoga but when she first started it was fast pace and she had to slow it down in order for her clients to keep up and also to prevent injuries for her and others
• What does yoga offer besides physical benefits?
o It helps clients to work out mental issues.
o They can make their bodies shut down and relax.
o They can be able to feel better about themselves
o Relax and meditate
o Open their body
o Wash out their problems / “kinks”
o Able to center themselves
o They can leave the world behind and shut down everything behind them
o Digestive Better
o Increase blood pressure
o Able to receive all benefits
o Live longer
o Do it anywhere
o Achieve results without breaking them
• How does yoga help you spiritually?
o She believes yoga calms the mind and slows the world around a little more
o Teaches to be a happier person and being calm
o Makes people look forward to change practice as the environment changes
• What kind do you practice?
o Body Flow
o Vinyasa
• Do you include meditation?
o She meditates after class and makes it comfortable and silent
o Empties the mind by being alone in the body and let go everything around them
• How is yoga counter cultural?
o At one point it was but not anymore
o Today it’s more of a physical exercise all around us
o From old hippie to Urban set
o Moving into sports
o Any age can do yoga and “not changing anytime soon”
o She believes that its popular because she is in the think of it and sees it all the time and can’t get away from it
• How does it help to fill the void or emptiness caused by suburban living?
o Spiritual
o Able to help the community by slowing down
o Organize
o Have a lot thought about what’s around you – once you think about it is worth less and you can let it go
• Today Yoga is more popular, do you think it has taken on a more commercial sort of “fitness industry” approach or do you feel that the roots of the practice have been maintained. What do you notice about this shift over the years?
o Commercialized very
o Not only US is changing yoga but India is also changing to make yoga different and fit different people
o She worries about the safety of yoga as in doing poses safely but people will not benefit them
o “Try out and be open to many forms and hopefully will find what works for you.”
o 1997 - generally for all types of little exercises prescribed yoga such as stretches from aerobics stretches
• Why did you start?
o Started because of the demand for it for her company because her clients wanted it.
o She had found the vinyasa / power yoga became a hard workout and it had fit her
• How has yoga personally helped you?
o She was a hard-core person and she need to mend her injuries, since she gets injured a lot from over use and she had to slow down.
o It had helped her prevent injuries because of becoming more flexible.
• What type of yoga are you practicing that is different from when you first began?
o She is practicing Vinyasa / Power yoga but when she first started it was fast pace and she had to slow it down in order for her clients to keep up and also to prevent injuries for her and others
• What does yoga offer besides physical benefits?
o It helps clients to work out mental issues.
o They can make their bodies shut down and relax.
o They can be able to feel better about themselves
o Relax and meditate
o Open their body
o Wash out their problems / “kinks”
o Able to center themselves
o They can leave the world behind and shut down everything behind them
o Digestive Better
o Increase blood pressure
o Able to receive all benefits
o Live longer
o Do it anywhere
o Achieve results without breaking them
• How does yoga help you spiritually?
o She believes yoga calms the mind and slows the world around a little more
o Teaches to be a happier person and being calm
o Makes people look forward to change practice as the environment changes
• What kind do you practice?
o Body Flow
o Vinyasa
• Do you include meditation?
o She meditates after class and makes it comfortable and silent
o Empties the mind by being alone in the body and let go everything around them
• How is yoga counter cultural?
o At one point it was but not anymore
o Today it’s more of a physical exercise all around us
o From old hippie to Urban set
o Moving into sports
o Any age can do yoga and “not changing anytime soon”
o She believes that its popular because she is in the think of it and sees it all the time and can’t get away from it
• How does it help to fill the void or emptiness caused by suburban living?
o Spiritual
o Able to help the community by slowing down
o Organize
o Have a lot thought about what’s around you – once you think about it is worth less and you can let it go
• Today Yoga is more popular, do you think it has taken on a more commercial sort of “fitness industry” approach or do you feel that the roots of the practice have been maintained. What do you notice about this shift over the years?
o Commercialized very
o Not only US is changing yoga but India is also changing to make yoga different and fit different people
o She worries about the safety of yoga as in doing poses safely but people will not benefit them
o “Try out and be open to many forms and hopefully will find what works for you.”
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg 131- 151
1) “We are on a dual road now. One leads to the top, the pyramid that is, the convex-shaped tower of corporate letters, “the system” as we used to put it, the other eggs us on, let us slide down the tortuous path to self-knowledge and self-immolation, it is as id all the fiery poems, essays, stories, and novels we have written are now running back and breaking out of their printed half-lives and are tackling up, punishing us for giving them form and voice and exposure” (136).
This quote makes me feel like the person is at two different pathways that lead to heaven and hell. It also means that no matter what you choose in life, it is either choosing the path of heaven or the path to hell. Everyday you choose from the different paths. If you choose heaven, you life will be peaceful and simple but if you choose hell then you would live more complex confusing and not a happy life. Make your choices wisely.
2) “I have no commandments, no books, no way, no rule, you must touch, but it is not me I am really speaking of, you must swim into another with every leaf and wave and wind, the wind itself, the fire itself, the waters raging in the blue eyelash of the heavens, look up, now, you, look up, it is all unraveling, above and below, there is nowhere to stand, nothing to say, or write or act to be” (137).
This quote tells about how he writes. He has no format of teaching people what he knows but just uses putting in random thoughts that sometimes will make sense but other times it will not. He wants people to get know what he is telling them by trying to describe his experiences. It will make them understanf where he is coming from.
1) “We are on a dual road now. One leads to the top, the pyramid that is, the convex-shaped tower of corporate letters, “the system” as we used to put it, the other eggs us on, let us slide down the tortuous path to self-knowledge and self-immolation, it is as id all the fiery poems, essays, stories, and novels we have written are now running back and breaking out of their printed half-lives and are tackling up, punishing us for giving them form and voice and exposure” (136).
This quote makes me feel like the person is at two different pathways that lead to heaven and hell. It also means that no matter what you choose in life, it is either choosing the path of heaven or the path to hell. Everyday you choose from the different paths. If you choose heaven, you life will be peaceful and simple but if you choose hell then you would live more complex confusing and not a happy life. Make your choices wisely.
2) “I have no commandments, no books, no way, no rule, you must touch, but it is not me I am really speaking of, you must swim into another with every leaf and wave and wind, the wind itself, the fire itself, the waters raging in the blue eyelash of the heavens, look up, now, you, look up, it is all unraveling, above and below, there is nowhere to stand, nothing to say, or write or act to be” (137).
This quote tells about how he writes. He has no format of teaching people what he knows but just uses putting in random thoughts that sometimes will make sense but other times it will not. He wants people to get know what he is telling them by trying to describe his experiences. It will make them understanf where he is coming from.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 106-130
1) “How to make velas take your wishes to the universe” (110)
This to me means that he wants his wishes to last forever and there will never be an end to wishes, since the universe is huge and no end. Not only him, that wants to know but other people in the Chicana and Chicano Intervention so they too can live happily. The amount of wishes that you have at your birthday will last forever and it will go on forever. Knowing how to do that, would be nice because it would keep everyone alive more.
2) “This was my beginning” (117)
His mom had died and they are her funeral and talking about her and he feels grief and this is his beginning of innocence. His life is just on step closer to be mature. He is also the beginning of his life of people close to him die and he has to accepts that too. People die and others are born, life is a cycle. He will remember his mom forever although he had lost her physically, but mentally he has her inside of her.
1) “How to make velas take your wishes to the universe” (110)
This to me means that he wants his wishes to last forever and there will never be an end to wishes, since the universe is huge and no end. Not only him, that wants to know but other people in the Chicana and Chicano Intervention so they too can live happily. The amount of wishes that you have at your birthday will last forever and it will go on forever. Knowing how to do that, would be nice because it would keep everyone alive more.
2) “This was my beginning” (117)
His mom had died and they are her funeral and talking about her and he feels grief and this is his beginning of innocence. His life is just on step closer to be mature. He is also the beginning of his life of people close to him die and he has to accepts that too. People die and others are born, life is a cycle. He will remember his mom forever although he had lost her physically, but mentally he has her inside of her.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 81-105
1) “My Plutomobile” (87)
The Plutomobile runs on things that people can run on but, some of the things he says does not make sense with other things. As people themselves that can run on it or they live by it on some of them. He says “Runs on free on free on free on free” which means on nothing. People can run on nothing but I don’t know how far they can get. They run on things that human beings can run on, it can be their type of fuel.
2) “No matter how many piercing, tattoos, hollers, mosh pits we may deive into, we have the nasty habit of bounding back into our current miasma of meaninglessness, pretty frames of violence from all directions.”
Everywhere is a type of violence, no matter where you look or what people say or do. Anyone can take things in a violence way depending the tone of the voice, their acts, and their appearance. No one can get rid of violence because violence is everything of a teenager because that is how a teenager lives.
1) “My Plutomobile” (87)
The Plutomobile runs on things that people can run on but, some of the things he says does not make sense with other things. As people themselves that can run on it or they live by it on some of them. He says “Runs on free on free on free on free” which means on nothing. People can run on nothing but I don’t know how far they can get. They run on things that human beings can run on, it can be their type of fuel.
2) “No matter how many piercing, tattoos, hollers, mosh pits we may deive into, we have the nasty habit of bounding back into our current miasma of meaninglessness, pretty frames of violence from all directions.”
Everywhere is a type of violence, no matter where you look or what people say or do. Anyone can take things in a violence way depending the tone of the voice, their acts, and their appearance. No one can get rid of violence because violence is everything of a teenager because that is how a teenager lives.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 56-80
1) “I am worried about my luggage—one piece with underwear and ironed blue shirt and pants for the big fandango in NYC.” (59)
From what I got from this quotes was sarcasm about his suitcase because he only has only few of things. It seems like he is making fun of people who have almost all of their things in their bags and they are traveling with it. Like how he thinks it’s funny how he can get by with three pieces of clothing while people bring extra clothes for ‘just in case” situations. It shows that he does not take a lot of things when he travels.
2) “La noche was all around me, expect for the tiny light da la tiendita.” (71)
He has been in the dark for a long time and being freezing outside and waiting for the time when he can go inside. It means that the light is the only way he can be free from the darkness that surrounds him. He wants get out of the darkness and be in a place where it’ warm. The light is where he wants to be, which means he is achieving his goal by reaching to the light. Inorder to reach his goal he needs to keep moving foward.
1) “I am worried about my luggage—one piece with underwear and ironed blue shirt and pants for the big fandango in NYC.” (59)
From what I got from this quotes was sarcasm about his suitcase because he only has only few of things. It seems like he is making fun of people who have almost all of their things in their bags and they are traveling with it. Like how he thinks it’s funny how he can get by with three pieces of clothing while people bring extra clothes for ‘just in case” situations. It shows that he does not take a lot of things when he travels.
2) “La noche was all around me, expect for the tiny light da la tiendita.” (71)
He has been in the dark for a long time and being freezing outside and waiting for the time when he can go inside. It means that the light is the only way he can be free from the darkness that surrounds him. He wants get out of the darkness and be in a place where it’ warm. The light is where he wants to be, which means he is achieving his goal by reaching to the light. Inorder to reach his goal he needs to keep moving foward.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera – Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
pg. 30-55
1) “Consider getting stoned on potato pancakes” (47)
This quote to me, means like it’s physically impossible to get stoned on potato pancakes just like other “consider…” remarks on this entry. They are all impossible and it doesn’t make sense to people like me although it may make sense to other people. When I found out this author was under the influence of frijol juice, epazote and raw eggs combination it made more sense how this non sense kind of made sense. When he says consider getting stoned on potato pancakes, it would be different interesting to see how that would turn out.
2) “Graceland drifts near Luzon…Los Angles rubbing against Cabo San Lucas” (48)
This is from “The Event and Found Objects after the Blast” he realizes the earth is moving and the lands are all going to be moved together in some sort of way in the future and the lands are going to combined. So this also could mean that the culture of each country would merge into that other countries or cities. He makes a couple of remarks and to me it seems like he thinks that is was is going to happen sometime in the future. He also is saying this because he is stoned.
1) “Consider getting stoned on potato pancakes” (47)
This quote to me, means like it’s physically impossible to get stoned on potato pancakes just like other “consider…” remarks on this entry. They are all impossible and it doesn’t make sense to people like me although it may make sense to other people. When I found out this author was under the influence of frijol juice, epazote and raw eggs combination it made more sense how this non sense kind of made sense. When he says consider getting stoned on potato pancakes, it would be different interesting to see how that would turn out.
2) “Graceland drifts near Luzon…Los Angles rubbing against Cabo San Lucas” (48)
This is from “The Event and Found Objects after the Blast” he realizes the earth is moving and the lands are all going to be moved together in some sort of way in the future and the lands are going to combined. So this also could mean that the culture of each country would merge into that other countries or cities. He makes a couple of remarks and to me it seems like he thinks that is was is going to happen sometime in the future. He also is saying this because he is stoned.
Comparison Paper
Like people today, in the “White Heron” and Huckleberry Finn, nature offers solace to Sylvia and Huck as they face moral dixlemmas placed upon them by society when Sylvia has to choose between nature and monetary reward and Huck chooses between his relationship with Jim in the wild and the expectation’s society places on him during the time of slavery. Sylvia lives with her grandmother on a farm next to the woods and they do not own a lot of money, but she does not need that because she feels nature is the place where she belongs. Huck travels with a slave, Jim, on the river to get away from society. People today choose to live the way Huck experiences the love of nature because he can escape to nature from society to feel peace and relaxation.
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