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Thursday, February 19, 2009
So THAT's what university is all about...
"Studying Aristotle or Rousseau or Derrida is something you do in college because you
have four years of leisure to become this vague thing called an educated person, not
because somehow you're going to go out into the real world and "live" the ideas you
learned from Aristotle." |
Sunday, February 15, 2009
If you've studied Saussure, you might find this funny...
'Signs are never innocent. Semiotics teaches us that.' 'Semi-what?' 'Semiotics. The study of signs.' 'It teaches us to have dirty minds, if you ask me.'
This is a quote from David Lodge's novel Nice Work, and it was used in a lecture as an example to explain metonymy and metaphor. I don't get the connection, but I found it funny... |
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Best line ever
"This is between me and the vegetable."
-Seymour, from Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
A brilliant song from the same film:
A Mean Green Mother From Outer Space
Better wait a minute.
Ya better hold the phone.
Ya better mind your manners.
Better change your tone.
Don't you threaten me son.
You got a lot of gall.
We gonna do things my way.
Or we won't do things at all.
Ya don't know what you're messin' with.
You got no idea.
Ya don't know what you're lookin' at
When you're lookin' here.
Ya don't know what you're up against,
No, no way, no how.
You don't know what you're messin' with,
But I'm gonna tell you now!
Get this straight!
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space
and I'm bad.
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space
and it looks like you been had.
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space,
So get off my back, 'n get out my face,
'Cause I'm mean and green
And I am bad.
Wanna save your skin boy?
You wanna save your hide?
You wanna see tomorrow? (Ha-Ha!)
You better step aside.
Better take a tip boy.
Want some good advice?
Ya better take it easy,
'Cause you're walkin' on thin ice.
Ya don't know what you're dealin' with.
No, you never did.
Ya don't know what you're lookin' at,
But that's tough titty, kid!
The Lion don't sleep tonight,
And if you pull his tail, he roars.
Ya say, "That ain't fair?"
Ya say, "That ain't nice?"
Ya know what I say? "Up yours!"
Watch me now!
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space
And I'm bad.
I'm just a mean green mother, a real disgrace,
And you've got me violent and mad.
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space,
Gonna trash your ass! Gonna rock this place!
I'm mean and green,
And I am bad.
Don't talk to me about old King-Kong.
You think he's the worst? Well, you're thinkin' wrong.
Don't talk to me about Frankenstein.
He got a temper? -HA!- He ain't got mine.
You know I don't come from no black lagoon.
I'm from past the stars and beyond the moon.
You can keep the thing,
Keep the it,
Keep the creature, they don't mean shit!
I got garden style, major moves.
I got the stuff, and I think that proves,
You better move it out! Nature calls!
You got the point? I'm gonna bust your balls!
Here it comes!
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space
And I'm bad.
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space
A real hard case. You can't beat this trouble, man.
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space
So just give it up. It's all over, ace.
I'm mean and green.
(Mean green mother from outer space.)
I'm mean and green.
(Mean green mother from outer space.)
I'm mean and green.
(Mean green mother from outer space.)
And I...am...bad!
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Monday, February 09, 2009
Paul Robeson - "Ol' Man River" from Showboat (1936)
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Life after BA (which I will probably receive in Feb. 2011)
This is the dream, which has kind of become a plan now. That is because this is the other option, and, to be honest, it's kinda shite!
To go to Dublin and achieve the dream, I will have to fork out 16,048 Euros, if Iceland will not be in the EU by autumn 2011. Even if I don't take into consideration the inflation and the current exchange rate, this is an enormous amount of money for a poor student to pay.
However, if Iceland will be in the EU by then, I will have to play the slightly less amount of 7,032 Euros.
Either way, I will find a way to deal with this. I will jump into the deep end and drown myself in debt before I even finish my studies - this is the dream and one way or another, it will come true. (No matter what you say, mother!!!)
But can you really blame me for wanting Iceland to join the EU??? |
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