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Happy Global Handwashing Day!
That's right, ladies & gentlemen, it's the first annual Global Handwashing Day. I think this is my new favorite day of the year.
Clean hands save lives. http://www.globalhandwashingday.org/
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[15 Oct 2008|11:34am] |
I get sucked into this popular meme.
Put your music player on shuffle
Post the first 40 songs that come up. You can repeat artists if you want. If you have any repeats, skip to the next track.
( Filthy Forty )
( Q&A )
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| If only I say this to you now: I love you still, I always will. |
[15 Oct 2008|04:38pm] |
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Sorry I post so much nowadays. It gives me something to do in-between filling in application forms and uh, nothing else. AND "Cardinology" leaked yesterday and I've just listened to it and I need to babble.
I feel like since "Easy Tiger" and now with "Cardinology" Ryan and the Cardinals have really come together and become a cohesive unit. Like how they've been advertising them (at least for the UK dates) as The Cardinals featuring [band member etc]. Which is heartwarming and I'm happy for them all but... the album is practically twelve three minute tracks with the same tempo, which isn't something I'm a massive fan of anyway or something I associate with Ryan. The sound is tight, but I miss the excess of the seven minute songs with beautiful rambling lyrics.
( my favourite tracks, two plays in. )
I'm disappointed in this album, but I was prepared for it not being what I wanted (i.e. "Heartbreaker" or "Cold Roses" or "Gold") and I'm incredibly excited about seeing them next month despite all that. The songs tend to sound completely different live (rockier or softer or with an extended jam session) and add a new dimension to the album versions - I was mostly apathetic towards "The Sun Also Sets" until I heard it live last November - so I have hope. The closing track, "Stop" doesn't really grab me even though it's all slow and piano-led and strings, but I bet it's one of those tracks that is incredible live.
edit: & so "Magick" really does sound like Oasis but it's still fucking awesome, okay? "Let Us Down Easy" is fast growing on me.
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[15 Oct 2008|11:36am] |
Queer cinema in Europe / Robin Griffiths.
CONTENTS : Introduction: contesting borders: mapping a European queer cinema / Robin Griffiths -- Queering the family in Francois Ozon's Sitcom / Michelle Chilcoat -- Representing gay male domesticity in French film of the late 1990s / Todd W. Reeser -- The films of Ducastel and Martineau: gay identity, the family, and the autobiographical self / Christopher Pullen -- The body picturesque: the films of Bavo Defurne / Michael Williams -- The mechanical reproduction of melodrama: Matthias Muller's 'home' movies / Robert L. Cagle -- The animated queer / Aylish Wood -- Bars to understanding? Depictions of the 'gay bar' in film with specific reference to Coming out, Les nuits fauves, and Beautiful thing / Steve Wharton -- Queer as Turk: a journey to three queer melodramas / Baris Kilicbay -- Bodies without borders? Queer cinema and sexuality after the fall / Robin Griffiths -- School is out: British 'coming out' films in the 1990s / Santiago Fouz-Hernandez -- Trans-Europe success: Dirk Bogarde's international queer stardom / Glyn Davis -- Subjection and power in Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch's Seduction - The cruel woman: an extension of the configuration of power in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's late oeuvre / Andrea Webber -- Berlin is running: Olympic memories and queer performances / Andrew Webber -- Transgressive drag kings, defying dildoed dykes: a look at contemporary Swedish queer film / Louise Wallenberg.
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[15 Oct 2008|11:01am] |
Privacy : a manifesto / Wolfgang Sofsky ; translated by Steven Rendall.
CONTENTS : Traces -- Power and privacy -- Retrospectives -- Freedom and privacy -- Territories of the self -- Secrets of the body -- Private spaces -- Property -- Information -- Freedom of thought.
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[15 Oct 2008|10:30am] |
Heterosexual Africa? : the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS / Marc Epprecht.
CONTENTS: A puzzling blindspot, a troubling silence, a strange consensus: reflections on the heterosexual norm in "African AIDS" -- The ethnography of African straightness -- Ethnopsychiatry and the making of gay shaka -- Slim disease and the science of silence -- Alternatives and ambiguities : African voices in literature and film.
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| Bellen! Hash it Out |
[15 Oct 2008|08:42am] |
If you ever wanted to know something about either candidate watch this episode of Frontline. I recommend everyone watch it.
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| That one in the hat, that's me. |
[15 Oct 2008|09:54am] |
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Do you ever spend so much time trying to decipher your emotions that you render yourself emotionless? It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon.
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How much IS "Pavarotti" worth?
TENOR
( = )
See what they did there?
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[14 Oct 2008|11:10pm] |
re: Cannibal Corpse: someone on last.fm defends their favorite band:
"What the fuck, Fail trolls are fail. Leave CC alone, seriously."
This makes me think of that "Leave Britney Alone!" YouTube video. That guy should redo the same video, but for Cannibal Corpse, instead of Britney.
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[14 Oct 2008|11:05pm] |
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A few weeks back LJ had a writer's block on one-hit wonder day (the exact day escapes me) and which ones were our favorites. It took me a bit of time but I believe this is my favorite one hit wonder.
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| Kinky |
[14 Oct 2008|09:42pm] |
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I can hardly describe how excited I about the new Kinky album. (Sorry if you're only reading this because of the misleading subject line, lol ;-) I don't know if anyone on my flist has even heard of them, but, they're a Mexican alternative/Latin/electronica band, and I love love love them. I thought a few of the songs on their first, self-titled album were great, but the next two albums disappointed me, and I'd been hoping that someday they'd reach the level of my favorite early tracks "Mas" and "Soun Tha Mi Primer Amour." Barracuda has about a half dozen songs I'm already in love with.
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| Peter Arno Rip-off! |
[14 Oct 2008|06:51pm] |
If you don't know about Peter Arno, you've got problems.
Feel free to create your own captions for this one too.
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| Things that are happening. |
[14 Oct 2008|01:35pm] |
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1) The gorgeous yet timid Colleen Voiles, who I regrettably seem to have fallen out of touch with, said something to me before I left UArts that I really wish I had taken more seriously: If I leave I'll want to come back, because there is no where else like it. I don't think I've said this out loud yet (or in text), but I believe I might hate UB. It's nothing like UArts and I miss it terribly. I hate being a media study major, I'm a fucking film student.
2) I like working in a Haunted House. A lot. It's a combination of the adrenaline rush and anonymity that allows me to go fucking nuts when groups come through. And my vocal ability has benefited me immensely, I scream harder and louder than anyone who comes through. I am the champion of scream-offs. I kick walls, climb on boxes, and shriek ARCHEOLOGY. I work at Frightworld, in Return of the Mummy's Curse. Mummys aren't scary in the twenty first century, people only see them in museums and Egypt and the top undead are zombies. Our house just isn't scary. So why can't I just be a shrieking psychopath? I am. Also according to all the people who come through and request my phone number, it's: "WAAAAAAAH ONE ONE". But, it also might kill me. I am acquiring new and ugly injuries faster than the old ones can heal. After Frightworld closes, I'm just going to go to a doctor and have all of it checked out. I might have muscle damage to my leg, and internal bleeding, and etc. Or I'm just a hypochondriac, but either way, why bother to go to a doctor if I'm just going to keep getting beat up.
3) I bought $5O worth of comics at this lame comic book convention last weekend, which was really just a vendor expo, including the majority of Grant Morrison's run of Animal Man, a bunch of Doom Patrol, and the first eight issues of the very rare Faust. Aside from the first issue being a second printing, I got an awesome deal on this, as each is worth like $10, and I got the set for $30. Also the art is gorgeous and gory as fuck. Love it. I passed up Hellraiser and Splatter comics for it.
4) Mama and Gramma come up this weekend :-D :-D :-D GRAMMA
5) Lil Mam/Cerda/Tangent might be sick and dying :-(
6) Tonight might be the night the Film Club I have always wanted to run gets off the ground. I'm excited, also nauseous. ALL MY DREAMS MIGHT COME TRUE. I can pretend to be a festival curator!!!
7) I am hungry.
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[14 Oct 2008|01:21pm] |
Stat-spotting : a field guide to identifying dubious data / Joel Best.
CONTENTS : Getting started -- Spotting questionable numbers -- Background -- Statistical benchmarks -- Severity and frequency -- Varieties of dubious data -- Blunders -- The slippery decimal point -- Botched translations -- Misleading graphs -- Careless calculations -- Sources: who counted--and why? -- Big round numbers -- Hyperbole -- Shocking claims -- Naming the problem -- Definitions: what did they count? -- Broad definitions -- Expanding definitions -- Changing definitions -- The uncounted -- Measurements: how did they count? -- Creating measures -- Odd units of analysis -- Loaded questions -- Raising the bar -- Technical measures -- Packaging: what are they telling us? -- Impressive formats -- Misleading samples -- Convenient time frames -- Peculiar percentages -- Selective comparisons -- Statistical milestones -- Averages -- Epidemics -- Correlations -- Discoveries -- Debates: what if they disagree? -- Causality debates -- Equality debates -- Policy debates -- Stat-spotting on your own -- Summary: common signs of dubious data -- Better data: some characteristics -- Afterword: if you had no idea things were that bad, they probably aren't -- Suggestions for those who want to continue stat-spotting.
"Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the Web, seemingly everywhere. But all too often, even the most respected publications present numbers that are miscalculated, misinterpreted, hyped, or simply misleading. Following on the heels of his highly acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics and More Damned Lies and Statistics, Joel Best now offers this practical field guide to help everyone identify questionable statistics. Entertaining, informative, and concise, Stat-Spotting is essential reading for people who want to be more savvy and critical consumers of news and information."
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| And its a hard rains a-gonna fall |
[14 Oct 2008|12:05pm] |
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I'm crampy and dizzy today. I've been bleeding heavily for over a week now. I think I'm going to attempt a lot of sitting today lol. Maybe some of this will be fixed in a week or so. *crosses fingers*
My vacation responder is on in my email.
I'm trying to play catch up with all the things I'm behind on or don't want to get behind on.
I'm going to raid a supermarket sometime this week and endure extraneous activities with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) anotherkaren.
Just got off the telephone with my grandmother... she just got back from visiting her sister and friends in Staten Island. She's been friends with the same group of people for 70-80 yrs. Crazy!
I'm in love with Cherry Vanilla Diet Dr. Pepper and no one will tear us apart....
I smell good... I mean real good... mm perfume oils.. dragon's blood
And because Bryan Ferry is tres hawt!
"What’ll you do now, my darling young one?
I’m goin’ back out ‘fore the rain starts a-fallin’
Walk through the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioners face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the colour, and none is the number
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountains so all souls can see it
Then I’ll stand in the ocean until I start sinking
But I’ll know my song well before I start singing
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall"
( covering positively 4th street )
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| Delicious ice-cream of Italy, vanilla and strawberry dream. |
[14 Oct 2008|11:36am] |
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Kaiser Chiefs // I Heard It Through The Grapevine |
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My favourite pub quiz question from last night:
Poll #1278273 just one cornetto.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None How much is "Pavarotti" worth?
All will be ~revealed sometime tomorrow. There might be prizes... if not that many people get it right. (Putting the government's money to good use in this time of economic crisis ftw.)
edit: Thank you, PETA, for informing me that Michael Guy Chislett (my new favourite!) saves more than 100 animals every year by not eating them. I'm assuming this means that the average person eats a hundred animals a years? And does that hundred includes a healthy mixture of animals or does it mean a hundred cows or chickens or sheep? I'm a little awestruck that I manage to chomp my way through that much delicious flesh in a year... and painfully amused my mother has just got odds and ends out of the freezer that include chicken, lamb AND beef for tonight. Om nom nom.
edit2: ...by NOT eating them. That sentence gets more and more lolarious every time I read it.
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| Too much red meat and ale will make you pay. |
[14 Oct 2008|10:48am] |
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My stomach feels so chronic* right now. After the pub quiz last night (we came third! \o/) mymateLiz and I partook in a jumbo sausage from the Chicken Hut which was a Bad Idea, especially as neither of us were at all intoxicated. Sam is to crappy takeaway places as moth is to _____? And is it terribly wrong and exploitative that I like to go to the Muslim-run ones because there's a good chance that they'll give me the "is clearly of Asian descent" discount? Paying one pound instead of one-fifty for some cheesy chips counts as a win in my book.
*is this new slang? or new-old slang? or old-new-old slang? because the scene kiddies on the bus kept saying it and I had a moment of omg am oooooold. also, "fatal"? I lament the good old days of "buzzin'."
My insides doing flip-flops are not helped by this being the first thing I see upon opening my email:
( but really I can't complain )
His stupid gaping shirt and gorgeous suit jacket. ♥_♥
And then saykendrawithme posted this which made me literally semicolon d:
( :D :D :D )
Pastels are soothing, and chalk is supposed to calm an unsettled stomach, right?
+The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you! I think everyone on my friendslist has posted this baby by now. I suck at these things so HARD, but my aim for today is to ask everyone who posts this at least one question. We'll see.
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