Favourite quotes
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matgbJust looked up a quote to add to a comment elsewhere; I first heard it in a lecture by Bill Tupman[1], and then read it when I got Salmon of Doubt. Given it's one of my favourite "life" quotes around, I'm posting it. Douglas Adams - Wikiquote:
[1] Bill was the admissions tutor that let me into the course at Exeter. He was also the regular who propped up the bar in the Jolly Porter when I lived there, and a top bloke: great company and always worth a chat in the evenings. It was his course, with the 'assessed website' element that got me to learn the basics of coding and prompted me to register my first domain name. It was also, of course, his module that I failed to complete, leading me to get the BA without the (hons). Figures, doesn't it?
Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.The closer I get to thirty-five (less than three years now, ouch!), the more true it becomes. Mobile phone ringtones? Just wrong, damnit, phones should RING. The Internet? Bloody marvellous, I'm making a career in it. I hope.
[1] Bill was the admissions tutor that let me into the course at Exeter. He was also the regular who propped up the bar in the Jolly Porter when I lived there, and a top bloke: great company and always worth a chat in the evenings. It was his course, with the 'assessed website' element that got me to learn the basics of coding and prompted me to register my first domain name. It was also, of course, his module that I failed to complete, leading me to get the BA without the (hons). Figures, doesn't it?
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Date: 2006-Dec-24, Sunday 06:29 (UTC)But I'm not into hip hop, which I think is the key factor. The uninhibited embracing of the new is what I think goes away with age, followed by a reevaluation of what you did embrace when young - which sometimes produces cringes and sometimes, surprisingly, it doesn't.
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Date: 2006-Dec-24, Sunday 16:34 (UTC)The whole thing is, of course, a generalisation, but it's fairly accurate, and unthinking acceptance is of course a stupid idea anyway, as is unthinking condemnation.
And when I think back to some of the music I did love when younger? Ouch...
i wasn't there!
Date: 2006-Dec-29, Friday 22:07 (UTC)http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/perm.php?c=100&q=43
Re: i wasn't there!
Date: 2006-Dec-29, Friday 22:15 (UTC)Actually, I presumed you weren't dead, but the lack of updates on your 'courses wot I teach' page was a little weird. And I've seen the circus, very very cool.
So, enjoying life as a gentleman of leisure?
Re: i wasn't there!
Date: 2006-Dec-29, Friday 22:32 (UTC)Yes, i am enjoying it. Miss student contact, but they didnt want me to do what I wanted to do. Publish Literary criticism..that's fine. Stretch young minds and confront them with new experiences..or even give them opportunities...oh No, No, No, No, No.....Just tick the boxes and keep writing.
Will uodate the pages after Christmas as I intend to do some teaching for law. Politics are just too mean to make it worth my while.
music
Date: 2006-Dec-29, Friday 22:10 (UTC)I'd rather pick 8 albums, but it's supposed to be 8 singles. Will compromise on 8 tracks...and I'm not allowed to pick 8 Frank Zappas, sadly, so:
1. King Kong [Zappa Uncle Meat album] although the Deathless Horsie pushes it close.
2. A track from Forever Changes by Love...."Maybe the people would be the times or between Clark and Hilldale"..but just about any track would do.
3. "Stop hey whats that sound" by Art..from the Supernatural Fairy Tales album
4. Oh God...what's it called from the Smashing Pumpkins...something like Bullet with butterfly wings....
5. Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows"...easy!
6. Nirvana...Smells Like Teen Spirit...has to be done!
7. Breaking into Heaven...Stone Roses
8. It's all right Ma...I'm only bleeding....Dylan
Stevie Miller "Journey from Eden"...Family, Music from a Dolls House....Miles Davis "Bitches Blue" Coltrane " A Love Supreme"...Beethoven's piano concertos....Mozart's D minor....Green Onions...Moonlight Mile...Who knows where the time goes?...Pogues Fairy Tale of New York...or whatever it's called....How can anyone pick 8? Birds 8 Miles high...Going over to Susan's House....
and then there's the Beach Boys, Queen and America [who?], Jefferson Airplane, the Doors and the Zombies.
But I've picked my 8...and I wont be on Desert Island Discs...so there we all are! No Beck either! Or Oasis....or Joanie Mitchell..or Joan Baez...
Re: music
Date: 2006-Dec-29, Friday 22:17 (UTC)