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| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
koganbot
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9:25a |
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koganbot
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7:43a |
Jump off that sofa
This is the first time I've paid attention to any of these lyrics other than "mazel tov": watching this, I was wondering just how or if the person assigned to a particular segment connected to its meaning: Is tonight gonna be a good night for this fellow? And these women are singing "Look at her dancing/Just take it... OFF," but they're not dancing, much less taking it off. Jump off that sofa, rock it don't stop (w/ guitar), etc. No doubt there are hundreds of vids on YouTube with kids acting out the lyrics. I just hadn't previously thought to look until Tom Tumblr'd this. Also, every now and then ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) girlboymusic will post vids along these lines that are more inventive and expert, shot in single take so all the lip synccers have to be spaced throughout the building, rehearsed and choreographed, waiting for the camera to show up so they can do their turn. I hope she links 'em again. But on those I'm so enthralled by the staging that I'm ignoring the words. ( EDIT: Here's the better version that she linked )NB: But I still haven't reconciled myself to BEP's misusing "gotta." I had the problem with Eve's "Gotta Man" ten years ago. Look "gotta" means "got to," not "got a." "I got to feeling" makes no sense. Current Music: The Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" |
dubdobdee
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1:49p |
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| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
beatonna
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8:50p |
Familiar Faces
 Some holiday comics! The Kiss Elves return. Oh and I am posting journal type comics on twitter sometimes. If you are on twitter I am @beatonna |
ratmmjess
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12:19p |
Mini book review: Chinese Spatial Strategies
Jianfei Zhu's Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing, 1420-1911 will likely be of interest primarily to those wanting an in-depth look at the layout of Beijing and/or obsessive-compulsive world-builders (I leave it to you to guess which one I am), but both groups will find it quite interesting and useful. Chinese Spatial Strategies is primarily an illustration of the application of urban design theory to Beijing, which results in paragraphs like this: "What constitutes the figure-ground map, at an abstract level, are not only nodes, but also lines, of avenues, streets and alleyways. These lines, defined and compressed by blocks, criss-crossed the city, constituting a net-like fabric of urban space. Linear streets, together with nodal areas, dominated the landscape. While streets facilitated linear flow of movement, nodal areas accommodated the commercial, cultural, and religious life life of the local population. The two overlapped significantly, creating a spectacle of congestion and vitality. Urban civic life overpowered the setting in the Chinese context, which may be contrasted to the European situation in which the setting was dominating and architecturally elaborate on the high, large facades. One could even speculate that, at the level of spatial layout, a generative path of Chinese urbanity was based on a web of lines and nodes, whereas that in Europe was based on the core of an agora. While the first had an origin in total planning and an emphasis on efficacy, the second had a tradition of local growth, local autonomy and competition, and an emphasis on frontal display and formal, architectural spectacle." Dry, yes, but Chinese Spatial Strategies is amply supplied with maps and charts, a number of which are historical, and some of which are high Qing-era, and these do a lot to illustrate the points being made. By the book's end you'll be half-stunned with the more theoretical and abstruse material (unless you're made of sterner stuff than I), but you'll also have a solid grounding in both the evolution of Beijing and the theories which influenced its evolution. Chinese Spatial Strategies also has useful passages on the guilds of Beijing (something I confess to being entirely ignorant of before now), historical trends of urban policing in Beijing, and the theory and practice of concubine placement, to wit: "...there were distances that separated them from the emperor. There were metrical as well as structural, topological distances on the paths between them. The lanes that related to the emperor's to the lades' locations involved metrical length, change of directions and layers of boundaries made by walls and gates. They created spatial distance of different kinds, generating an overall effect of distancing. They engineered a subtle 'gap' between the master and the women. They made the spatial relationship, paradoxically but effectively, both close and distant." Of course, Beijing's the imperial capital, so it's a special case among Chinese cities. Skinner's The City in Late Imperial China looks like it will be more useful than Chinese Spatial Strategies for places like Guangzhou. Oh, and Chinese Spatial Strategies has a kick-ass bibliography. I've now got two dozen new articles and books to read, none of which I knew about before I opened Chinese Spatial Strategies. So, yeah, recommended. Current Mood:  melancholyCurrent Music: "Souvenir," Brittle Stars |
koganbot
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11:31a |
Music For Graduations
I went to a high school graduation yesterday afternoon. The music was: During the processional: "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1," Sir Edward Elgar. During the slide show: "Little Wonders," Rob Thomas; "Here Comes The Sun," The Beatles. During the recessional: "Don't Stop Believin'," Journey. Current Music: Journey "Don't Stop Believin'" |
dubdobdee
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12:35p |
fvck
someone just arrived from catalogues with a bunch of work i promised to do by next week then totally forgot till just now >X( can i fit this in? not and xmas shop for fambly on monday >:0 |
| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
koganbot
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1:49p |
Like a brick over troubled water
Brief discussion of a Nelly Furtado lyric, including this from skyecaptain: Anyway, Frank was right to bring up Nelly Furtado -- her lyrics are often a deal-breaker for me, and I will never forgive her for putting "with my mouth I could sing you another brick that I laid" into the most gorgeous song ever. Though I like piratemoggy's hearing of it as "with my mouth I could sing you another bridge that I laid."
Woops, "FROM my mouth I could sing you," which is admittedly much less egregious. Current Music: Nelly Furtado "Say It Right" |
dubdobdee
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6:02p |
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koganbot
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10:42a |
How "indie" became a pejorative
Interchange between me and Tal on the Jukebox; runs similar to my attempts to restate my "PBS" idea to Marc the other day. I'm curious if anyone has any thoughts on how to clarify and/or improve the idea. (Cliffs Notes version of the idea here.) By the way, Will is doing a terrific job in framing and collating our responses in the best-off. Man's a writer. Current Music: María Daniela Y Su Sonido Lasser "Duri Duri" |
| Monday, December 14th, 2009 |
kawaii_not
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7:40p |
kawaii not #307
Happy Hanukkah, Kawaii Not style!
And here's an icon to celebrate: 
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ratmmjess
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10:34a |
Listen to me.
The mp3 of my IEET seminar talk, "Those Who Cannot Remember Doc Savage Are Condemned To Repeat Him: The 20th Century Backlash Against Posthuman Bodybuilders," is up here. Current Mood:  busy |
coagula
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2:30a |
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| Sunday, December 13th, 2009 |
coagula
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10:40p |
walls of water
We had to let the dogs into the house... it was raining so much. They were quite obedient and stayed on a specific blanket. Overnight they slept in the garage. Now it has stopped raining but they are acting like it is ordinary to come in the house with us. Having to re-train them all over again. |
beatonna
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10:50p |
that's a good one old buddy
 I saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol today. I love Dickens, I will always love A Christmas Carol. Even if they don't do smoking tricks in it. |
martinskidmore
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6:07p |
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martinskidmore
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6:04p |
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koganbot
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11:03a |
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| Saturday, December 12th, 2009 |
sarinda
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9:23p |
not so long ago, you asked how it was that i managed to seem so giddy and gleeful (life as usual) here in this word-based space. how did i do it, when in person i seemed grim and almost resigned? this is the best answer i am able to give. i'm still whistling past that graveyard, but my feet are sore and my throat is dry. Current Mood:  numb |
koganbot
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3:49p |
Noted lj user gets pissy over on Tumblr
In a shock to my many fans, I get pissy with nice-guy desnoise* over on Tom's Tumblr, the subject being "PBS" and "Poptimists" and "Indie," perhaps, if those are actual subjects. *I think that's Marc Cohen, but correct me if I'm wrong Hogan. Current Music: Jerry Lee Lewis "Who Will The Next Fool Be?" |
dubdobdee
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11:00a |
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| Friday, December 11th, 2009 |
jauntyalan
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10:49p |
00-09 a less hairy decade
00 - new year 99/00 in Egypt lovely, year goes badly tho. depression, split, move out of Queen's Park 01 - Meet ILXors IRL and go to a Club Sussed (late on) 02 - First date w Emma 03 - Moved in to lovely rented North Ken flat with Emma 04 - NW bliss it would seem 05 - Leave ILX (mostly). move into also lovely BOUGHT garden flat in leafy Harlesden 06 - Marry Emma 07 - Harry born 08 - Late of the Pier are awesome 09 - Theo born, imminent move to our new HOUSE (which is of course going to be lovely) in Zone 8 a big decade, with the only non-change being my work. but i'm sure there's loads of things i've forgotten. it's certainly been a great, if more sedate, decade. the 90s was drinking and raving and drucqks, all with long hair the 00s was marrying and kids and happy, all with short hair, and less by the day it seems. hur hur randomly this http://jauntyalan.livejournal.com/5828.html |
koganbot
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2:40p |
The Decade In Frank
2000: Well-rehearsed lip-sync routine to Britney Spears' "Lucky" by Jordana and Lia with their friend Audrey becomes basis for my impromptu review of Korean-American hip-hop CD. 2001: Film Criticism vs Music Criticism thread on ILM. 2002: I cover Oxes for the Village Voice; sneering letter to editor suggests that I should stick to reviewing jazz fusion. 2003: Thomas Kuhn Thread. (Also, max out credit card for first time.) 2004: Real Punks Don't Wear Black. 2005: On Rolling Country (?!?) I discuss 2nd Lindsay Lohan album. 2006: Rolling Teenpop 2006. 2007: The Rules Of The Game. 2008: I post picture of dog that is wearing Taylor Swift dress. I also read Plato. 2009: Tendon calcification in right shoulder inspires lj-cut text that takes the form "Combination _________ And __________." (Other significant events have occurred as well, but my station chief case worker PO ethical sense requires that I not mention them online.) Current Music: MC Hammer vs. Britney Spears "Can't Touch 3 (Bedbug Mix)" |
princeofcairo
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2:49p |
Delightful Deep Ones? There's An App For That
Thanks to Derek "Monsieur Le SuperCool" Pearcy, you can now get a Where the Deep Ones Are as an iPhone or iPod Touch app.I honestly have no idea what clicking that link will lead to on your end; on mine, it opened the iTunes Store to the app's sales page, which is probably right. But I'm sure a minimum of faffing around on iTunes will uncover it, too. |
beatonna
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3:34p |
The Old Fox
 Death of military personnel: my comics specialty. Anyway, I like Montcalm. He wasn't, I don't think, as talented as his young rival James Wolfe, but he was among the best they had and a well experienced, hard working man who did his job as best he could. Montcalm had a hot temper and didn't like Quebec, but he tried to save it, even though he was almost always at heads with Vaudreuil the Canadian born Governor- to whom he was supposed to defer. Vaudreuil was experienced in North America and cared passionately for Quebec, but had never really encountered modern European warfare, and didn't understand it. Montcalm hated the corruption in New France, thought the war was useless, and tried to leave but wasn't allowed. In his final letter to his wife he writes, "I think I should have given up all my honors to be back with you, but the king must be obeyed; the moment when I shall see you again will be the finest of my life. Good-bye my heart, I believe I love you more than ever." I like Montcalm. Wolfe, of course got the most famous painting in this country's history done up for him some years after the Plains of Abraham. Montcalm got one eventually. It's ok. |
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