Hey hey, occupado!
Speaking of flagrant missuse of Spanish, how annoying are T-shirts with foreign languages on them? Last night, at what was to go down in history as the worst 21st of all time, I saw this girl wearing a t-shirt that said "Los Chicas Espagna". This is shit for 4 reasons.
1)'Los' is the male form of 'the' or 'those'. 'The', plural, male.
2) Even 'Las Chicas Espagna' would roughly translate to 'those chicks spain'
3) Who the fuck would even wear a t-shirt that said "The attractive Spanish women", which I presume was the intended message?
4) It was a really ugly t-shirt. Looked like it was on sale at supre.
Like those t-shirts with Chinese characters on them. They're slightly more acceptable because at least Chinese calligraphy is an art form. And it's all very well if you understand the language on your t-shirt, but otherwise, you pretty much look like a git.
Hmm, random rant.
I'm back from Europe. Had an AWESOME time, thought Italy was the best with, surprisingly, England a close second. I plan to return to Italy at some point, either there or Spain (never been but supposedly wacky), so I might try to learn a language this semester. London was very cool, apart from those that sought to put the fun in fundamentalism, mostly because I'm a history nerd and I liked the way every piece of English history is somehow reflected in colloquial language.
Well, I am now feeling the gut wrenching dread that precedes each and every semester of uni. Frankly, this semester shouldn't be too bad for me; I'm only doing three subjects, as opposed to five last semester, and no arts, so no reading. But 2nd semester means 3 yucky things; listening lists, practical exam and weekly music techniques assignments. So lots of practice of the same 5 songs (which, even if you choose a cool line up, is boring as shit) and slaving over staves of music trying to decipher Bach's technique. Heh... I've only just realised the inappropriateness of the title 'music techniques' for that subject. You only study one technique! Singular! It should be 'Bach technique'. Just like any Arts subject should be called 'postmodernist jargon and political correctness'.
Today I went to Lisa's house to Jam. I have a strong suspicion that we rock the kasbah, and since we're now interviewing drum and bass possibilities, we will be rocking your radio in no time. Well, some time. Maybe we should record a song first.
OK, I'm gonna eat something. But I'll leave you with two Spanish phrases my enourmous brain has already absorbed;
Mira, pero no toca: Look, but don't touch (me).
No en estas zuppatos: Not in these shoes! eg, "Hola mi lynda, giggidy giggidy?"
"No en estas zuppatos signior!"
Anonymous
July 28 2005, 14:57:59 UTC 6 years ago
you are alive... i didn't even think about you during the bombing sorry. i didn't think about it at all really. gosh i'm a selfish pig.
so we have to catch up. i still have your bass guitar... gosh. remember when i wanted to play. i still do but i suck and i can't be bothered practising. i am lazier than tim thinks he is.
anyway i'm bored. talk to you soon
- cowboy lon