Listening
comprehension exercise:
Embroidery Felon
Third Coast International Audio Festival (2003)
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/pages/archive03.html
RealPlayer audio file: http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/ra/felon.ram
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the show materials at hand limitations to generate inspiration Ray Materson armed robbery to commit that he'd committed toy gun to support cocaine habit jail term to be angry at the world for what he'd done to find redemption in a pair of socks commercials upcoming ball games Christmas Michigan to be slated to play University of Southern California Rose Bowl a couple of cells down from to hang out underwear and socks tier railings tube socks stripes University of Michigan to think to oneself |
to strike
up a deal a pack of cigarettes kind of = more or less the going rate (the usual price) to pull a thread out to borrow sewing needle guard to design sewing hoop link 2 Rubbermaid dish to tear a piece of sheet to drew block letter embroidered maize = corn, the color of corn, tannish yellow maize and blue letter "M" makeshift Rose Bowl game popcorn Kool-Aid link 2 prison store Pasadena to sport (a hat) cell block Yo, man! immediately to be inundated with requests for all variety of flags sports emblems |
a such-and-such Seattle Seahawks emblem Seahawk green mysteriously on the bunk (bed) involving experience to design images drug and alcohol abuse sports heroes theater scenes songs peaceful thoughts to escape into you go = you say magnifying glass now we're talking about... to be paroled metamorphosis Monarch butterfly cocoon link 2 chrysalis link 2 to take apart into the dark into the unknown suspended animation to be turned back into something to emerge from than it had been to be on display American Visionary Art Museum Baltimore the Outsider Art Show |