AndreaHart, Author at CounterPulse

30 Jul, 2012

Thoughts on Strangerhood: with help from Bruce, Bacon and Baudrillard

2016-04-07T01:32:25-07:00By AndreaHart|Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|Tags: Action Hero, Andrea Hart, CounterPULSE, driving, freeway, Jean Baudrillard, Kansas, Kevin Bacon, Stranger in a Strange Land|

Reading Gemma's post about a European's impression of the US, I immediately thought of Jean Baudrillard’s book “America." Here are some gems from my well-underlined, college copy: “This (The United States) is the only country which gives you the opportunity to be so brutally naïve: things, faces, skies, and deserts are expected to be simply what they are. This is the land of the ‘just as it is’.” “America is neither dream nor reality. It is a hyperreality. It is

10 Aug, 2012

We Heart Cars

2016-04-07T01:32:10-07:00By AndreaHart|Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|Tags: car culture, cars, knight rider|

Something I know, but don't think about until reading/watching something like this, is our ridiculous obsession with cars in this country. We love our cars. We name our cars. We sweet talk our cars. My mom would pat the dashboard of our ailing Dodge van as it struggled up a hill and say "Come on Bessy. You can do it." And who could forget our favorite carmance: between Kitt and David Hasselhoff in "Knight Rider." http://youtu.be/6ImbzstQdAo (Gosh. I almost got

13 Aug, 2012

Task

2016-04-07T01:31:42-07:00By AndreaHart|Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|

Since I'd been putting off washing my truck for about 4 years and had it with me yesterday, I decided my American activity would be to go get it washed. The car wash ended up being in one of those "one-stop-shopping" sorta places, so I figured the most American thing I could do is spend as much money in one place on as much crap as possible. Incidentally, the car wash was called "Winner's Finish" and the wash I got,

16 Aug, 2012

Diving In

2016-04-07T01:30:46-07:00By AndreaHart|Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|

So our week “away” from each other begins. We’ve all set out with tasks we aim to focus on in a big way. James encouraged us to “go outside our comfort zone, be ambitious, challenge ourselves.” I had a few ideas scrawled down, but the one that seemed to get the most traction with the group was to take an album by Bruce Springsteen, and each day try to live out the lyrics to a different song. I didn’t think

23 Aug, 2012

Careful What You Wish For

2016-04-07T01:29:56-07:00By AndreaHart|Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Levi's|

My week with Bruce turned into something I never could've imagined. I don't want to say too much, because my brain is a bit fried and I don't want to give away anything about our event on Monday. But here's my best representation of the "Born in the USA" album cover. I can say that the Levi's are only marginally more comfortable after a week of non-stop wearing. That was really the hardest part of my whole week. I wanted

24 Aug, 2012

Vintage Levi’s

2016-04-07T01:29:48-07:00By AndreaHart|Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|

Oh no...I really don't want to do this. But since I'm on my Levi's trip, how can I resist. Here's a vintage commercial for the jeans with Bruce Willis. I really don't know what to say...the dancing, roller skating, car washing...blues music. Oy. http://youtu.be/Fb2KVoUnT8U

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