theme songs for life
Black Fedora, Crazy Eyes: There is some guy sitting across the way from the table I'm sitting at down here in the Underground Cafe, and he's playing one of those PS2 handheld things. I'm trying so hard not to stare and laugh, because he's looking so intense as he plays whatever game he's playing. He's wearing a long, black peacoat, a green scarf, a black fedora, and he's got like, Crazy Eyes for the PS2, LOL. Like, he looks like he wants to kill it. This is way too amusing.
That's totally random, but I had to share. ;D
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Theme Songs For Life: So I know y'all are probably getting tired of hearing me babble about my New Millennium Studies class, but I had to share this, because it's just too awesome not to.
The entire class today, Rob was playing various television theme songs. Including, but not limited to:
X-Files
The Simpsons
MASH
The Brady Bunch
CSI
The Price Is Right
The Partridge Family
Gilligan's Island
The Wonder Years
Sanford & Son
We're reading Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street for class right now, and if you aren't familiar with the book, it's basically a series of vignettes, each one maybe a page or two long. The main character and narrator, Esperanza, just talks about various aspects of her life. A lot of it relates back to identity (which is a central theme for the New Millen. class). Each vignette has a title.
In class today, we had to come up with titles of our own - titles we would use if we were to write vignettes about our own lives. We then had to come up with a list of titles for vignettes that we would be interested to read, written by people we're getting to know (like our classmates).
Here's how the theme songs tie in to all that: our assignment for next week is to pick two titles - one from the list of personal titles and one from the universal list that the whole class agreed on. Using those two titles, we have to think about what kind of vignettes we'd write for them, how those titles relate to something from our own lives. We don't have to actually write the vignettes (we turned in two personal vignettes today), but we have to decide on a song that represents what those vignette titles mean to us. Pick a theme song for them. And then we have to bring those two songs in to class next Tuesday, along with an explanation for why we picked them and how they relate.
Seriously. That is my homework. Perusing through my own music. I wish all my courses had homework like this.
This class just continues to bowl me over with how much fun it is.
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bonemeadow!
(And forgive me if some of you may already know a few of these; I'm horrible at remembering what I have and haven't necessarily talked about here before.)
1. Some of my favorite books from childhood were Harold and the Purple Crayon, Where The Wild Things Are, Goodnight Moon and Dinotopia.
2. When I was 8, I nearly ran my parents car through several campsites while we were camping in Yellowstone National Park. I had gotten bored and was sitting in the car, which was parked on a slight incline, and not having the vaguest idea what my actions could potentially cause, I started playing with the gear shifter. Yeah. Put it in Neutral and the car just started rolling forward. O_O Luckily, there was a huge tree trunk separating the campsites, and it was only a few feet from where the car had been.
3. I started teaching myself how to read when I was 2. My parents would come to my bedroom to check on me after I was supposed to be in bed already, and I'd be sprawled out on the floor by the nightlight with my Sesame Street magazines, sounding out words to myself.
4. I had an imaginary friend when I was little. Only he wasn't human - he was a bunny rabbit. His name? Phooey. I'm totally serious.
5. I have never been able to open my eyes under water. I am in awe of people who can.
6. One random, off-the-top-of-my head song that never fails to fill me with a sense of calm and quiet happiness: 'Goodnight Elisabeth' - Counting Crows
7. When I was a kid (I have a lot of childhood ones, don't I?), I used to go down to the backyard here with a bug jar and I'd collect snails and roly-poly/pillbugs. I did that far more often than I ever tried collecting lightening bugs.
8. TV shows I miss: The Cosby Show, Felicity...and Family Ties. The last one mainly because of Alex P. Keaton. An incredibly young Michael J. Fox playing an obnoxious Republican (redundant? ;) LOL) who always made me laugh because he said "I'm SORE-y." ;D
9. Random word I like: peculiar.
10. For several years during my childhood, there was a gay couple who lived on the second floor of this building, in the apartment underneath my parents'. Out of curiosity, I asked my mom a year ago or so if I actually knew they were gay when I was really little. She said that she thought I had an idea, at least, even as early as when I was around 5. Why? Ken (or was it Tim? I can't remember now) used to work at home sometimes, and if I got to being too rowdy, running up and down the hallway, he'd call upstairs and ask my mom if she could get me to calm down because the sound was carrying and bothering him. The one time he called, when my mom came and told me I needed to settle down because it was bothering him, I got quite indignant and said, "Well he and Tim should just go ahead and have a kid already, because then they'd understand why I like to run around!" ;D
That's totally random, but I had to share. ;D
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Theme Songs For Life: So I know y'all are probably getting tired of hearing me babble about my New Millennium Studies class, but I had to share this, because it's just too awesome not to.
The entire class today, Rob was playing various television theme songs. Including, but not limited to:
X-Files
The Simpsons
MASH
The Brady Bunch
CSI
The Price Is Right
The Partridge Family
Gilligan's Island
The Wonder Years
Sanford & Son
We're reading Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street for class right now, and if you aren't familiar with the book, it's basically a series of vignettes, each one maybe a page or two long. The main character and narrator, Esperanza, just talks about various aspects of her life. A lot of it relates back to identity (which is a central theme for the New Millen. class). Each vignette has a title.
In class today, we had to come up with titles of our own - titles we would use if we were to write vignettes about our own lives. We then had to come up with a list of titles for vignettes that we would be interested to read, written by people we're getting to know (like our classmates).
Here's how the theme songs tie in to all that: our assignment for next week is to pick two titles - one from the list of personal titles and one from the universal list that the whole class agreed on. Using those two titles, we have to think about what kind of vignettes we'd write for them, how those titles relate to something from our own lives. We don't have to actually write the vignettes (we turned in two personal vignettes today), but we have to decide on a song that represents what those vignette titles mean to us. Pick a theme song for them. And then we have to bring those two songs in to class next Tuesday, along with an explanation for why we picked them and how they relate.
Seriously. That is my homework. Perusing through my own music. I wish all my courses had homework like this.
This class just continues to bowl me over with how much fun it is.
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Tagged by
bonemeadow!
(And forgive me if some of you may already know a few of these; I'm horrible at remembering what I have and haven't necessarily talked about here before.)
1. Some of my favorite books from childhood were Harold and the Purple Crayon, Where The Wild Things Are, Goodnight Moon and Dinotopia.
2. When I was 8, I nearly ran my parents car through several campsites while we were camping in Yellowstone National Park. I had gotten bored and was sitting in the car, which was parked on a slight incline, and not having the vaguest idea what my actions could potentially cause, I started playing with the gear shifter. Yeah. Put it in Neutral and the car just started rolling forward. O_O Luckily, there was a huge tree trunk separating the campsites, and it was only a few feet from where the car had been.
3. I started teaching myself how to read when I was 2. My parents would come to my bedroom to check on me after I was supposed to be in bed already, and I'd be sprawled out on the floor by the nightlight with my Sesame Street magazines, sounding out words to myself.
4. I had an imaginary friend when I was little. Only he wasn't human - he was a bunny rabbit. His name? Phooey. I'm totally serious.
5. I have never been able to open my eyes under water. I am in awe of people who can.
6. One random, off-the-top-of-my head song that never fails to fill me with a sense of calm and quiet happiness: 'Goodnight Elisabeth' - Counting Crows
7. When I was a kid (I have a lot of childhood ones, don't I?), I used to go down to the backyard here with a bug jar and I'd collect snails and roly-poly/pillbugs. I did that far more often than I ever tried collecting lightening bugs.
8. TV shows I miss: The Cosby Show, Felicity...and Family Ties. The last one mainly because of Alex P. Keaton. An incredibly young Michael J. Fox playing an obnoxious Republican (redundant? ;) LOL) who always made me laugh because he said "I'm SORE-y." ;D
9. Random word I like: peculiar.
10. For several years during my childhood, there was a gay couple who lived on the second floor of this building, in the apartment underneath my parents'. Out of curiosity, I asked my mom a year ago or so if I actually knew they were gay when I was really little. She said that she thought I had an idea, at least, even as early as when I was around 5. Why? Ken (or was it Tim? I can't remember now) used to work at home sometimes, and if I got to being too rowdy, running up and down the hallway, he'd call upstairs and ask my mom if she could get me to calm down because the sound was carrying and bothering him. The one time he called, when my mom came and told me I needed to settle down because it was bothering him, I got quite indignant and said, "Well he and Tim should just go ahead and have a kid already, because then they'd understand why I like to run around!" ;D