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  1. Yeah, great! Just about to take the dogs for a run before the football kicks off. What are you researching?
  2. Originally posted by iTim:Yeah, great! Just about to take the dogs for a run before the football kicks off. What are you researching?

    The marginalization of Rush, why they're not really considered one of the big classic rock bands and why they're always getting bad reviews and shit. Pretty fun essay.

    Next one is investigating the definition of "camp" (as in campiness) and I'm using ZooTV as a case study
  3. I do recall you mentioning your Zoo TV assignment actually. I couldn't think of many better subjects for an assignment. I've always had boring technical essays to write
  4. Originally posted by iTim:[..]

    You're welcome


    --------------------
    So, I'm casually video hopping on YouTube, watching some sciencey videos and I came across this video below. At first, I thought it was utter rubbish because it's just a ball of water floating around; so I start reading the comments and one in particular set me off:

    Scott Williams - 1 day ago
    Watch it with your eyes closed.

    I can't watch past 1:20

    [YouTube Video]

    He mentioned he was going to use that water to make his coffee later!
    Im still wondering how he's going to do that?
  5. Inject some instant coffee into the blob and open wide
  6. It would be cold coffee I was wondering hot? So thats what he meant?
    feeling really blonde now.
  7. I think he means that he's going to turn the anti-gravity machine off and recycle the water once he's done playing with it
  8. Err gross im sure he said for his coffee later,
    but it was a interesting video iTim.
  9. A good night on YouTube always starts with Vsauce. Last night happened to start with the Canadian Space Agency, hence zero-gravity water demonstrations by a man that gets way too excited.
  10. Originally posted by iTim:I do recall you mentioning your Zoo TV assignment actually. I couldn't think of many better subjects for an assignment. I've always had boring technical essays to write

    Really though, being in music means writing fun essays but probably not having much to do with the degree!
  11. Just finished playing my first ever vinyl on my first ever turntable, had to be The Joshua Tree, sounded great

    My parents were like "Why? I mean it's what we grew up with" and I said "there's something extremely satisfying about taking a record out of a big arty sleeve, putting it on the turntable and dropping that needle, and just sitting there watching it spin and listening to the music" and to that they went "yeah that's OUR world"

    My story is done
  12. I think I've told my story before, but anyway.

    A huge part of the English I can speak now was learnt by listening, reading and singing along to Achtung Baby. My parents had (and still have) a great vinyl edition, and in the booklet there's the usual lyrics, but on the other side of the booklet it's the translated lyrics.



    I have spent COUNTLESS hours learning these lyrics, getting used to the pronunciation, studying the grammar differences between my language and this new language. When I was 6-7 and the kids in my class were having the first English lessons (one, two, three, blue, red, t-shirt, trousers), I could already recit a good bunch of perfectly worded song lyrics When I was 9 I sung a U2 song a capella in my English class, it was Stay (Faraway, So Close!) and I got quite a bit of recognition by my classmates and my teacher.

    One of the earliest memories I have in my life was asking my mum to put on the "Melon album" (Zooropa), I was 3, Zooropa had just been released and I was hooked to songs like Lemon, Daddy's Gonna Pay and Numb. And another memory that's burnt into my brain is my parents going out shopping, me (something like 9 years old) playing the War album on our turntable at a defeaning volume and being absolutely fascinated by AND unable to sing the "She tried to be a good girl and a good wife, raise a good family, lead a good life, it's not good enough... She got herself up on the 48th floor, she's gotta find out, find out what she's living for" part of Surrender - and rewinding it once and again and again until I could perfectly sing that part.


    That's why I say I've actually learnt my English with U2, specially with three albums I listened several times a week during years (Achtung, Zooropa, War).


    Good night
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