The song is "West End Girls" and has to do with people from the different sides of the same city.
Kung-fu is a generic, Westernized term for Chinese martial arts, not Japanese.
On a related note, I just heard "Mr. Roboto" ("...with parts made in Japan")on the radio for the first time in at least fifteen years the other day. Can't say I'd missed it.
Of course, "Art" itself has undergone some degradation, now that people can shit in jars, put it on a stand, and call it 'art.' And it seemed like a fad a couple of years ago for women to tack used tampons onto canvasses as well.
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Sigh... There was a time when artists had to know a substantial amount of geometry, anatomy color theory and even history to be considered worthy of the title. Art was considered the height of discipline, not some random spasms put on display.
And no, I'm not against modernism, or certain things called postmodern. I just have standards, deconstruct them at your own peril.
IIRC, the city of Ithaca, NY, has it's own local currency. I don't remember the name, but it was something lackluster like "Ithaca dollars" or some such thing. I forget how it's issued, but the idea is, its limited circulation is a symbol of, and/or a force for, the local merchant economy.
You can always trade it for the regular US dollar, and nobody has a right to force you to use it, but it apparently has a lot of popular and civic support.
(This information comes secondhand from my ex-girlfriend, who graduated from Cornell a while ago. It may not even be current at this point.)
Actually, Kanewas pretty multimediated for its day; the "News on the March" segment, Thatcher's journal, all the superimposed newspaper headlines--they gave the impression of having cobbled up the story from different sources and media. The storyline was pretty nonlinear as well, what with all the fast-forwarding and same story/different angle approach. (And this was before Rashomon, the film version at least.)
The most important lesson you could learn from watching Kane, though, is that all the multimedia/nonlinearity is there for a reason--content. It tells a story--and a damned great one at that. It's not there just to be clever, and Welles/Mankiewicz didn't make it that way just because they could. It was a story, in part, about the power of media and the power of memory. And the title character's pathos brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it.
Ummm...that's what the headline in the NYT article said: All Science is Computer Science. And the tone of the article is slanted toward that view. So yes, the argument was made, albeit feebly.
Johnson's article was not particularly well-written, either. It almost seems like he came up with a sensational headline, then came up with a ratiocination that kinda fits the facts, if you squint a little. ("So you see, Luke, what I said was true...from a certain point of view.")
I'm only pissed that dillon_rinker got here before I did, because this was the same kind of argument I was going to make. (*Sigh*, that I can't slashdot 24/7.)
"I wonder how many creative geniuses are dieing behind a Ritalin (sp?) haze."
("Ritalin" is spelled correctly, "dying" is not.)
Myself, I am currently not in a haze, thanks to the much-maligned drug in question. I am no less creative, nor any less of a genius, when I take it, either. I can, however, remember what I was thinking about three minutes ago.
I am also an adult, who had severe problems in every school I went to until I was diagnosed with ADD (and even when I heard about it, and recognized the symptoms in myself, I resisted getting help for five miserable years). I did not take Ritalin until college--my last two years of undergrad, as opposed to the first six. These problems were not related to my being "different"--I am different now, noticeably so, from most of the people I work with, so it has not warped (or straightened) my personality out in any way.
Also, two of the four schools I have attended actually did encourage individuality, free thinking, and self-expression; yes, I did much better there than in the other schools, but my inability to focus still hampered me academically.
Point being, ADD/ADHD (while it may be improperly diagnosed, and Ritalin definitely overprescribed) is more than just being different in terms of dress, beliefs, or speech. It is a hindrance--often a severe one--even in social spheres where your personality is accepted.
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Kung-fu is a generic, Westernized term for Chinese martial arts, not Japanese.
On a related note, I just heard "Mr. Roboto" ("...with parts made in Japan")on the radio for the first time in at least fifteen years the other day. Can't say I'd missed it.
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Sigh... There was a time when artists had to know a substantial amount of geometry, anatomy color theory and even history to be considered worthy of the title. Art was considered the height of discipline, not some random spasms put on display.
And no, I'm not against modernism, or certain things called postmodern. I just have standards, deconstruct them at your own peril.
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Sarchasm is, I believe, defined to be "the gap between the listener and the intelligence level needed to realize a witticism has just been uttered."
I think it was John Entwhistle who said that. Right band, wrong instrument.
Add a proprietary license.
Shake well, without a lid.
(BTW, anyone see their un-spell-checked home page? Or is there something called a "source cod" that I haven't heard of before?)
Dang...my nick should've been Bonobo.
The only healthy outlet for the urge to view child pornography is the therapist's couch. (No pun intended.)
You can always trade it for the regular US dollar, and nobody has a right to force you to use it, but it apparently has a lot of popular and civic support.
(This information comes secondhand from my ex-girlfriend, who graduated from Cornell a while ago. It may not even be current at this point.)
"Cheaper than Food."
The most important lesson you could learn from watching Kane, though, is that all the multimedia/nonlinearity is there for a reason--content. It tells a story--and a damned great one at that. It's not there just to be clever, and Welles/Mankiewicz didn't make it that way just because they could. It was a story, in part, about the power of media and the power of memory. And the title character's pathos brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it.
Johnson's article was not particularly well-written, either. It almost seems like he came up with a sensational headline, then came up with a ratiocination that kinda fits the facts, if you squint a little. ("So you see, Luke, what I said was true...from a certain point of view.")
I'm only pissed that dillon_rinker got here before I did, because this was the same kind of argument I was going to make. (*Sigh*, that I can't slashdot 24/7.)
...We could call it Cox in a box.
Myself, I am currently not in a haze, thanks to the much-maligned drug in question. I am no less creative, nor any less of a genius, when I take it, either. I can, however, remember what I was thinking about three minutes ago.
I am also an adult, who had severe problems in every school I went to until I was diagnosed with ADD (and even when I heard about it, and recognized the symptoms in myself, I resisted getting help for five miserable years). I did not take Ritalin until college--my last two years of undergrad, as opposed to the first six. These problems were not related to my being "different"--I am different now, noticeably so, from most of the people I work with, so it has not warped (or straightened) my personality out in any way.
Also, two of the four schools I have attended actually did encourage individuality, free thinking, and self-expression; yes, I did much better there than in the other schools, but my inability to focus still hampered me academically.
Point being, ADD/ADHD (while it may be improperly diagnosed, and Ritalin definitely overprescribed) is more than just being different in terms of dress, beliefs, or speech. It is a hindrance--often a severe one--even in social spheres where your personality is accepted.