Im not sure if anyone else read Bruno's shirt in class today, but it really seemed to stand out to me. For those of you who didn't catch it, he was wearing a shirt that said "Free your mind" in the shape of a brain. Immediately what came into my mind was the EN VOGUE song entitled "Free your mind". As the song goes "Free your mind, and the rest will follow... be color blind, don't be so shallow" The reason why I am bring this up, other than feeling bad for being distracted from Bruno's close reading of Blue Velvet, is because I feel like this directly connects to what we were talking about last week in class about Phenomenology. This song to me is a perfect summerization of what phenomenologists sought to acheive. "Free your mind, and the rest will follow..." means exactly what the these people were saying about looking at the text "wholly and purely" and the "meaning" will be created from those ideas itself. "Be color blind, don't be so shallow" when looking in this context can have the same ideas of looking at things a-historically. Granted, I dont think this is specially what EN VOGUE was referring to in the song (Although that might be argued with a frame of "significance"), but I do feel that the song is a great representation of that topic.
So thanks to you Bruno for sparking a connection!!!!
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