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Future Blog Updates?
Technology terrifies me. I never planned on even touching an i-Phone until I switched to Sprint and received on for free. Tumblr terrifies me. I have no idea how to use it. I can't even deal with the constant Facebook makeovers. So, while I can't imagine continuing my blog updates after this semester ends, I can see myself learning (waaaay too late in life) how to eventually use tumblr and join the bandwagon then.
Surprise!
Ok, so for this blog post I'm supposed to write about something I wrote that genuinely surprised me. I wanna use this post to clear the air about the diagnostics paper that I wrote at the beginning of the semester. I completely forgot that turning in an IOU was a choice so instead I spaced on the paper and wrote it fifteen minutes before class started. And the junk I came up with makes me cringe. Grossing myself out is no easy feat, however, that paper surprised me in terms of the how poorly written it was.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Act I
The audience is introduced to the protagonist of Dr. Horrible and his quest to win over his dream girl Penny and to be accepted into the Evil League of Evil. Dr. Horrible is in the middle of stealing wonderflonium to create his time-stopping freeze ray when Penny asks him to sign a petition. Conflicted, Dr. Horrible decides that "A Man's Gotta Do, What a Man's Gotta Do" and go after the wonderflonium until he is interrupted by his nemesis, Captain Hammer. Captain Hammer ends up meeting and seducing Penny in the midst of thwarting Dr. Horrible.
Act II
As Dr. Horrible starts to befriend Penny through the social medium of laundromats, he discovers Penny has really fallen for Captain Hammer. Captain Hammer makes it apparent to Dr. Horrible that he's only using her to spite Dr. Horrible. Dr. Horrible decides to kill Captain Hammer as a way to get accepted in the Evil League of Evil.
Act III
Dr. Horrible crashes a banquet held in honor of Captain Hammer with his Death Ray in hand. He takes aim at Captain Horrible before it malfunctions. Captain Hammer takes ahold of the death ray and shoots it at Dr. Horrible, it instead explodes causing shrapnel to fly everywhere and pierce and kill Penny. Ironically, this was the death that Horrible needed to get into the Evil League of Evil.
Donnie Darko- Mood
What I took away from this film is having to accept our own deaths. Death is imminent and inevitable. This creates a pretty dark mood and overall tone in the film, but that's not to say it didn't have it's comedic or light moments throughout.
Donnie Darko- Gender
Well, for starters, Gretchen (Darko's love interest) isn't murdered or sexually assaulted at the end of the film. I mean she's harassed by Seth Rogen but that's beside the point. The over-sexualiztion of the young girls on Kitty Farmer's dance team is purely for satirical purposes. I think the female gender representation in this film is not nearly as bad as the representations in the comic book examples we looked at in class.
Donnie Darko- Genre
My favorite thing about the film Donnie Darko is that it can fit into so many other categories and genres other than supernatural. You start off watching it thinking it's another teen flick, it takes the feel of a horror movie, but it ends as a love story. It fits the supernatural genre based on basic plot points within the film- the end of the world, worm holes, time travel, classic Frank with the missing eye while wearing a bunny suit. The only thing that this film did wrong was Drew Barrymore. I just can't stand Drew Barrymore.
"That word... I don't think you understand what it means"
One of my favorite movies. I used to watch this film all the time with my dad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
One of the comments under the youtube video:
"Words mean precisely what they do by virtue of how they are used. So in fact, he is wrong; the word DOES mean what he thinks it means (for that itself IS the* meaning)
* = his meaning (there is no "The meaning" of words)."- Wittgensteinism
Someone needs to tell Wittgensteinism that yeah, linguistics is fun... But it's not a free-for-all.
Three Examples of Metonymy
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Coke I remember visiting Texas to see some extended family members that I've met maybe twice before the trip. Anyways, a lady who I think is my great aunt took us out to dinner our first night in Texas. The blank stares that were exchanged between the waiter and I when I ordered a Coke were actually pretty funny in hindsight. He asked me what kind of Coke, I said regular, he said regular what, and that's when the staring happened.
Q-tips I don't have a anecdote for Q-tips...
Kleenex Nor do I have a funny story for Kleenex. Only advice- buy the Kleenex made with lotion. It actually does work and it feels like you're wiping your nose on a cloud.