America figures quite largely in today's post. be forewarned. and leave if necessary.
just dont go blowing any embassies up y'hear? :)
i'm reading vonnegut at the moment (yes AGAIN). this time its Breakfast of Champions. and in there he has the American Anthem.
now im a fan of the states as much as the next non-US person, but i gotta agree with him on this:
"this was [the americans] national anthem, which was pure balderdash, like so much they were expected to take seriously:
O, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's
last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
thru the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so
gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs
bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our
flag was still there.
O, say does that star-spangled banner
yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home
of the brave?
There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation [americans] belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish sprinkled with question marks."
how true is that?!
oh yeah another thing.
1492
apparently that's the date taught to American children as the year America was discovered. but as Vonnegut pointed out, there were millions of people IN america BEFORE that time who were quite comfortably living their lives.
Do we honestly think they hadnt discovered the land they were sleeping, eating and hunting on?
not to mention screwing on. its very hard to reproduce without noticing the ground you're on. it has this habit of poking u in the back and stuff.
although there are some drugs i noe of that make you feel like you're floating..............
:)
but enough of that.
Kurt Vonnegut is really a pretty damn good author. strangest thing is, though, that his most famous book, "slaughterhouse-5", did absolutely NOTHING for me. didnt make me laugh, think, or feel weird at all. whereas the book that its so often compared to, Catch-22, did all 3 of those things.
but the rest of V's books are great. beyond the shadow of a doubting Thomas.
(Burgess, people?)
guess not. although if anyone recognises that name it should be YOU mar. IF you even noe which book im talking about!!!!
:)
volleyball was good today! 3 1/2 hours of gym work. now that i'm home and all i can feel the ache settling in.
tomorrow's gonna be just dandy :)
probably aint gonna be able to take one fucking step without cringeing. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
anyone out there type "bbbbbbbbbb" in the tag board i will HUNT YOU DOWN.
and then i'll go "cccccccccccccccc"
:) cmon man. you MUST have seen that one coming from a mile off!
joke:
a tourist enters the public washroom in the Vatican one afternoon. hearing strange moaning from a cubicle, he worries and kicks the door down, only to see the Pope himself inside, jacking off.
thinking quickly, the man grabs the ever-present camera hanging around his neck and quickly snaps a couple of photos.
the Pope, having put his (oh for God's sake you-know-what) away, begins to make offers for the camera and the film inside it, knowing how badly such photos wld spoil his and the Church's image.
the tourist, a clever SOB, asks for $1.5 million.
the Pope, left with no choice, transfers the money to the tourist's account the next day.
5 weeks later, the Pope is showing the camera to a second-hand camera dealer and asking how much it's worth. he tells the dealer its already second-hand, and the dealer says "well how much did you pay for it? its only worth about $160". the Pope replies "1.5 million". the dealer, whistling, says "Man, thats a lot more than it' worth. that guy must have seen you coming."
:)
alright alright alright. :D
we LOST. yeah i should get over it... but i cant. i need therapy man.
Rahul's leaving for England! that's right mate, England! he flies tomorrow. dammit la that guy's one dickhead of an Indian (no racism intended - believe me Chinese, Malays and Caucasians are ALL capable of being dickheads too) but still he's really fun.
gotta make sure i keep in touch.
speaking of which, i've fallen outta touch with QUITE a lot of people.
my bad!
*nice to noe my poems are still appreciated! and good to know that they're still half-decent. thanks for that.
"doesnt matter if you lose/ as long as you came with it/ and you can cry/ aint no shame in it"
"Just the Two of Us" - - - - Will Smith.
just dont go blowing any embassies up y'hear? :)
i'm reading vonnegut at the moment (yes AGAIN). this time its Breakfast of Champions. and in there he has the American Anthem.
now im a fan of the states as much as the next non-US person, but i gotta agree with him on this:
"this was [the americans] national anthem, which was pure balderdash, like so much they were expected to take seriously:
O, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's
last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
thru the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so
gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs
bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our
flag was still there.
O, say does that star-spangled banner
yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home
of the brave?
There were one quadrillion nations in the Universe, but the nation [americans] belonged to was the only one with a national anthem which was gibberish sprinkled with question marks."
how true is that?!
oh yeah another thing.
1492
apparently that's the date taught to American children as the year America was discovered. but as Vonnegut pointed out, there were millions of people IN america BEFORE that time who were quite comfortably living their lives.
Do we honestly think they hadnt discovered the land they were sleeping, eating and hunting on?
not to mention screwing on. its very hard to reproduce without noticing the ground you're on. it has this habit of poking u in the back and stuff.
although there are some drugs i noe of that make you feel like you're floating..............
:)
but enough of that.
Kurt Vonnegut is really a pretty damn good author. strangest thing is, though, that his most famous book, "slaughterhouse-5", did absolutely NOTHING for me. didnt make me laugh, think, or feel weird at all. whereas the book that its so often compared to, Catch-22, did all 3 of those things.
but the rest of V's books are great. beyond the shadow of a doubting Thomas.
(Burgess, people?)
guess not. although if anyone recognises that name it should be YOU mar. IF you even noe which book im talking about!!!!
:)
volleyball was good today! 3 1/2 hours of gym work. now that i'm home and all i can feel the ache settling in.
tomorrow's gonna be just dandy :)
probably aint gonna be able to take one fucking step without cringeing. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
anyone out there type "bbbbbbbbbb" in the tag board i will HUNT YOU DOWN.
and then i'll go "cccccccccccccccc"
:) cmon man. you MUST have seen that one coming from a mile off!
joke:
a tourist enters the public washroom in the Vatican one afternoon. hearing strange moaning from a cubicle, he worries and kicks the door down, only to see the Pope himself inside, jacking off.
thinking quickly, the man grabs the ever-present camera hanging around his neck and quickly snaps a couple of photos.
the Pope, having put his (oh for God's sake you-know-what) away, begins to make offers for the camera and the film inside it, knowing how badly such photos wld spoil his and the Church's image.
the tourist, a clever SOB, asks for $1.5 million.
the Pope, left with no choice, transfers the money to the tourist's account the next day.
5 weeks later, the Pope is showing the camera to a second-hand camera dealer and asking how much it's worth. he tells the dealer its already second-hand, and the dealer says "well how much did you pay for it? its only worth about $160". the Pope replies "1.5 million". the dealer, whistling, says "Man, thats a lot more than it' worth. that guy must have seen you coming."
:)
alright alright alright. :D
we LOST. yeah i should get over it... but i cant. i need therapy man.
Rahul's leaving for England! that's right mate, England! he flies tomorrow. dammit la that guy's one dickhead of an Indian (no racism intended - believe me Chinese, Malays and Caucasians are ALL capable of being dickheads too) but still he's really fun.
gotta make sure i keep in touch.
speaking of which, i've fallen outta touch with QUITE a lot of people.
my bad!
*nice to noe my poems are still appreciated! and good to know that they're still half-decent. thanks for that.
"doesnt matter if you lose/ as long as you came with it/ and you can cry/ aint no shame in it"
"Just the Two of Us" - - - - Will Smith.
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