tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336649512006385402.post5861485741636794540..comments2023-10-26T07:41:21.592-07:00Comments on Defining "Cool"--Can it be Done?: An Enviable Oasisemileigh18http://www.blogger.com/profile/15632704653991962424noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336649512006385402.post-60362402105982917542009-04-22T05:54:00.000-07:002009-04-22T05:54:00.000-07:00I appreciate that you were able to really think ab...I appreciate that you were able to really think about the film and find a way to identify with it. You're absolutely right that so many of us feel restricted in some way shape or form (career choices is a major one among college students). We all try to find ways to stop thinking about what we can't be as a defense mechanism. It would be depressing if all we could do is think about what we weren't and how we wanted to be that.<br /><br />But that's the situation that these men, transgendered and not so, find themselves in when they go to the balls. It is a direct confrontation of the fact that they are not these people because the have to go all this trouble only to look like who they want to be - yet, simultaneously, it is a method of escapism, outside of the grittiness of their dim realities.<br /><br />Good job, Emileigh.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07331961951316180787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4336649512006385402.post-47681175786399695202009-04-19T12:19:00.000-07:002009-04-19T12:19:00.000-07:00The scene is vital to cool's survival. Whether it ...The scene is vital to cool's survival. Whether it is a smokey jazz club or a fashion show or a rave, cool is rarely without a physical birthplace. Often then the idea that cool dies when a place is destroyed or corrupted by outsiders makes these places holy.<br /><br />You should totally look into historically cool places and see if you might have fit into any of them, from CBGB to the Haight Ashbury district.fjohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06827891221669580321noreply@blogger.com