Archive for May, 2007

Greek to Me

Monday, May 21st, 2007

“Since a number of students apparently were, and are, choosing courses, majors and even careers based on foreign language requirements,” says Horwitz, “I felt some urgency in determining what was causing the anxiety. Over the past 25 years or so, the FLCAS has shown us that students with debilitating foreign language anxiety can be identified […]

Johnny Are You Queer?

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

You may be getting the impression that all I do with my free time is surf YouTube looking for videos. That would not be entirely incorrect, though I also, you know, download music and watch actual videos on my actual DVD player. Anyhow, the above is a well-executed bit of slash video featuring Jonathan Rhys […]

Robert Smith and Korn: fulfilling the musical fantasy of thousands of teenagers circa 1996

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Korn is one of those bands I just never got. When I was in 8th grade or so, all my friends were really, really into them, but I don’t think I could name a single one of their songs. My clearest Korn-related memory is that in the yearbook room junior year, someone had carved the […]

The Only Girl in the World

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Someone recently turned me on to WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, where they have posted all of Barbara Cartland’s Album of Love Songs, which is, as you may have guessed, an album of love songs sung by Ms. Cartland.
I think the closest description I can nail is, “Based on the compliations John Waters has […]

Growing up with GNR

Monday, May 7th, 2007

So, tracks from Chinese Democracy, the album Guns ‘n’ Roses Axl Rose has been laboring over for the last decade have been leaked to the internet in various stages of complete for at least the past 12 months. Now, there’s a handful of tracks circulating as “complete.” I have to say, it sort of sounds […]

the magic number

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

So, unless you live under some sort of rock that doesn’t have a wireless connection, you’ve probably read about this whole Digg mess — basically, some dude hero figured out the AACS key that keeps people from ripping HD-DVDs, and links to this information kept getting posted on Digg. Digg responded by censoring the posts […]