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03/12/2004 Archived Entry: "mystory"

More mystory notes to give students as my example during Tuesday's class:
I'm working with Parliament's Motor Booty Affair while I work with Ulmer's directive to find the overlap of entertainment and the personal in the popcycle.
On the back cover of Motor Booty Affair is the picture of a cowboy (in hat and clothes) riding a wave with a ghetto blaster to his ear. As I note on my notes for the assignment, my personal involves Homestead and Miami, Florida, cowboy imagery and the frontier. I'm from Miami (my father is from Homestead; at my grandmother's house in Homestead, I would pretend the water pump in the backyard was a horse). This image from Motor Booty Affair, then, functions as an emblem within my mystory bridging Detroit and Miami (motor booty and the waves off of South Beach where we would hang out as kids). It also contains elements of the frontier: Detroit bordering Canada; Homestead is the frontier.
The character in the image, I assume, is Rumpofsteelskin whose name further aligns me with the auto industry of Detroit (STEEL) and technology (my discipline). The directive on the album, which is repeated in several songs and on the back cover, is "Go Wiggle." This directive repeats in my UDM URL as the tilda (~).