Monday, 07 December 2009

  • Currently
    Gimme More
    By Liza Cody
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    There's a quote which I can't find at the moment - thanks a lot, Google - which basically states that you should look closely at anything you find humorous, because it likely contains a grain of truth.

    I was thinking about A Fish Called Wanda because we just watched it as a family (the little brother had somehow never seen it), and realized that this is completely true about one of my favorite lines from the movie. To quote John Cleese,

    Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time? Being so... stifled by this dread of doing the wrong thing? Of saying to someone "Are you married?"and hearing "My wife left me today"? Or saying..."Do you have children?" and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday? You see, Wanda, we're all... terrified of embarrassment. That's why we're so... dead.

    I'm writing a paper for a final in one of my classes about my intellectual growth over the course of the semester. And while I have plenty to write about on the topic (this was my first graduate class in my field), it strikes me that my class participation this semester has been exactly what it almost always was as an undergraduate: nil to slightly-less-than-nil. In looking at my papers I clearly have something to say, and in looking at my grades I clearly know what I'm talking about ... except that I don't talk in class.

    Why? Because I'm terrified of embarrassment, of course. Of making a fool of myself in front of those smarter and wiser than me - at least, that's what it feels like in my head. As if they'd kick me out of school for raising a less than perfectly reasoned argument, or asking a less than expert-level question.

    I have a different class with the same professor next semester, and this right here is my resolution to participate more often and be a little less "English" ... because, dammit, I'm an American

Wednesday, 02 December 2009

  • Currently
    Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Collector's Set (40 discs)
    By Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Stewart Head, James Marsters
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    Rewatching Buffy

    I'd forgotten how much I enjoy some of the lines from this show -

    Honestly, what is it about [computers] that bothers you so much?

    The smell.

    Computers don’t smell, Rupert.

    I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell. Musty and, and, and, and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, is, it … it has no texture, no context. It’s there and then it’s gone. If it’s to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be, um… smelly.

Monday, 23 November 2009

  • Currently
    Restless Soul
    By The Proclaimers
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    Free, My Favorite Flavor

    Amazon, as I found out today, is offering up $3 credit to the Amazon MP3 store, with the promo code MP34FREE. (I believe the offer expires on Nov. 30)

    I treated myself to a "new" song by The Proclaimers, because I've been on a massive Proclaimers kick for the last week. Then, not being able to find Juan Luis Guerra's version of Me Enamoro De Ella, I actually bought two separate versions of the song so I could pick my favorite.

Friday, 20 November 2009

  • Currently
    Lie to Me: Season One
    By Tim Roth
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    Back to Basics

    A - Age: 23

    B - Bed size: Queen

    C - Chore you hate: Dishes

    D - Day I love best: Every day above ground. Or Halloween.

    E - Essential start your day item: ipod

    F - Favorite color: Green

    G - Game(s): Wii games, Bomberman on the Gameboy, Guesstures, Scene It

    H - Height: 5 feet "3" inches. "3" in this case meaning "somewhere between 2 and 3"

    I - Instruments you play(ed): trumpet, guitar, keyboard, triangle, crash cymbals

    J - Job title: Varies by the week, ranging from Copywriter to Our Lady of Website Migration

    K - Kids: Ahahaha. Ahaha. None.

    L - Living arrangements: Rent-free and a room to myself.

    M - Mom's name: Carmen

    N - Nickname: No one's called me Pollymorph in a while, sadly. Many others, including kiwi.

    O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: Pneumonia at age 2.

    P - Pet Peeve: Hipsters. Which I know is a vague term, so see below:

    [From Wikipedia: In 2003 Robert Lanham's satirical book The Hipster Handbook described hipsters as young people with "... mop-top haircuts, swinging retro pocketbooks, talking on cell phones, smoking European cigarettes,... strutting in platform shoes with a biography of Che Guevara sticking out of their bags." Lanham further describes hipsters thusly: "You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration" and "you have one Republican friend who you always describe as being your 'one Republican friend.'"
    [. . .] Rob Horning in "The Death of the Hipster" argues that the "...problem with hipsters" is the "way in which they reduce the particularity of anything you might be curious about or invested in into the same dreary common denominator of how “cool” it is perceived to be", as "...just another signifier of personal identity." Furthermore, he argues that the "hipster is defined by a lack of authenticity, by a sense of lateness to the scene" or the way that they transform the situation into a "self-conscious scene, something others can scrutinize and exploit".]

    Q - Quote from a movie:
    Glenn Holland: Which instrument do you think you'd like to play?
    Louis Russ: Well, I was kinda thinkin' like... How about electric guitar?
    Glenn Holland: Well, this is a marching band. The extension cord will kill us.

    R - Right or left handed: Right

    S - Siblings: 1 bother

    T- Time you get up: Generally 6-7 hours after I go to bed, which can be anywhere from midnight to 5 am.

    U- Underwear: ...what about it? I don't really have any strong feelings about underwear.

    V - Vegetable you dislike: Brussels sprouts

    W - Ways you run late: The cat sleeps near my pillow and purrs - it's so relaxing and makes me ... *yawn* ... sleeepy...

    X - X-rays you've had: knee

    Y - Yummy food you make: Beer bread, scones, tomato pie, pumpkin pie, lasagna, snickerdoodles.

    Z - Zoo: Some days I think my house qualifies. We've got two aquariums, dangerous beasts, and docile (petting zoo?) animals.

Friday, 25 April 2008

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