from Suella
"So she still needs help."
"I can’t believe she’s not leaving ‘til September."
"She’s leaving September 1st."
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"Alyssa hasn’t called me yet."
"Alyssa?"
"Yeah."
"Is Denver that blonde kid?"
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"Which way? Left?"
"Uh…sure…left."
"Is the school still open? I need to get my fuckin’ list."
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An observation from this assignment...
The obvious is that the lines, no matter what, are so random...especially when they're sliced out of a full conversation. Their randomness makes them disorder.
What then occurs to me within the disorder/order conversation, is that it depends on the role. When I am an observer, disorder is more likely. If I am a player, it isn't random, it's order. I carry the entire context within my head where it makes perfect sense. (Of course, within my head is a dark neighborhood where no one should wander alone!)
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On a different note, I watched "The Family Stone" last night. I had seen it when it came out, with Diane Keaton and Sarah Jessica Parker. Parker is disorder, or so it seems. At closer look, it's interesting to examine our judgments about what is normal and what is abnormal. Normal/order is often the more dishonest, the illusion. Seeing the movie a second time, within the context of Fear/Falling is fun, interesting, new.
Comments
great thoughts, suella - thanks for posting!
Posted by: michelle | August 23, 2006 2:50 PM
Your thoughts about context and order/disorder really resonate with me. And sort of like we were talking about following Ben's presentation last week, I wonder if there is anything universally recognizable as "order" or "orderly". And why is order almost always a positive thing - what is it that makes us afraid of being "disorderly"? I mean, life is messy, so why don't we just want to embrace it that way?
Posted by: Cassie | August 23, 2006 7:20 PM