|
People who listen to a lot of music and read a lot of books (pg. 8)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
You read something by Paulo Freire? Why!?
I didn't know he was known outside Brazil. |
He's being taught in English classes HERE! Why? I have no clue other than that being supplied by the right-wing-nut conspiracy theorists that communist moonbats have infiltrated higher education and are hijacking regular academic courses for the purposes of indoctrination. Two different teachers were teaching it, too, lending credibility to the wingnut's theories!
It's ing awful. |
|
|
| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
He's being taught in English classes HERE! Why? I have no clue other than that being supplied by the right-wing-nut conspiracy theorists that communist moonbats have infiltrated higher education and are hijacking regular academic courses for the purposes of indoctrination. Two different teachers were teaching it, too, lending credibility to the wingnut's theories!
It's ing awful. |
I know. He's quite popular around here as well, but reading his works is just painful. He's got his heart in the right place, as far as I know, and he revolutionised education here in Brazil. But his style and his Marxist inclinations are appalling. |
|
|
| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
He's got his heart in the right place, as far as I know, and he revolutionised education here in Brazil. But his style and his Marxist inclinations are appalling. |
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." or should I use Nietzche's quote on whoever fights monsters ;) ? |
|
|
| weymouth |
I think this has a lot to do with age. Now that I'm a little bit older(28) I vary up what I do during my free time. I don't listen to music for longer than an hour a day anymore unless I'm driving around a lot.
When I was younger though I would listen to music non-stop or do some activity non-stop until I was just totally drained of energy from doing it and then move on to the next activity.
I think I learned that moderation is what keeps me happy and stable. |
|
|
| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." or should I use Nietzche's quote on whoever fights monsters ;) ? |
Nah, "the road to hell" is a much better quote. Though the consequences of his thought are not bad at all around here. It's paradoxical actually.
Well, not unless you just cite him, reason why I don't think people actually read him around here. They just pass on the good stuff and hide the most bizarre raves and rants under the carpet.
How do you say his name in English, by the way? It's supposed to be something like Pow-loo Fray-ree (stress always on the first syllable). |
|
|
| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Nah, "the road to hell" is a much better quote. Though the consequences of his thought are not bad at all around here. It's paradoxical actually.
Well, not unless you just cite him, reason why I don't think people actually read him around here. They just pass on the good stuff and hide the most bizarre raves and rants under the carpet.
How do you say his name in English, by the way? It's supposed to be something like Pow-loo Fray-ree (stress always on the first syllable). |
The point I was getting at ^
I don't think there are a lot of those filters employed, here. I also don't think that the American students being taught are really smart enough to get a lot of the complexities of Freire's pap let alone understand the implications of being taught of his writings. They certainly aren't willing or able to think that for an English Composition class there aren't more relevant authors to be studying who are less focused on ideals and more demonstrative of technique. For that matter, I really don't think that they have the capacity to entertain and be swayed by Freire's propaganda.
They are there for the diploma - certification that they have been to college and, having read some of their papers, I know full well that they're barely capable of backing up that square of rain-forest pulp with any actual intellect. It's so chock full of a galling sort of irony that it could be made into a Peter Sellers style movie - that could only be profitable if they were educated enough to understand it. :stongue: |
|
|
| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
What first bought you to tranceaddict if you're generally not that hot on music in the first place? |
Wha-? I love music and listen to it all of the time. I just feel far more stimulated by certain genres or artists at certain parts of the year over others. In the same way that one can get kind of sick of winter or fall, I get sick of listening to certain music, and it's often quite concurrent with what particular season it is. I know my interest will come back, I just have to give it time.
I do care, thank you. |
|
|
| SYSTEM-J |
| You're named after the fluffiest song Orbital ever made. I'll bet you ing munched on pills back in 2004. |
|
|
| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I keep my reading and listening at a natural level. I can read three books in a week or nothing in three months depending on what's going on. Sometimes I'll take my MP3 player out with me but ten minutes into an album think "This isn't working" and just take my earphones out. I'm definitely not someone who thinks they "should" be reading something, and I'm wary of anyone who treats reading as a way of bettering themselves, or as a self-consciously intellectual activity. |
I see where you're coming from with that last sentence, but I don't agree with the bettering yourself part. I read for enjoyment but I also enjoy the process of learning. Even reading simple fiction like The Kite Runner, I usually learn a great number of things I didn't know, in that particular case about Afghanistan. I would classify learning as "bettering yourself". However, I agree with you about the self-conscious part. There's nothing clever about doing what 99% of the Western world can also do.
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Besides, people who read lots of conceptual non-fiction or "proper" literature because they think they're supposed to are pretentious and probably insecure about their intelligence. |
Rhetorical, but does anyone in particular spring to mind? |
|
|
| Lews |
That book was so ing depressing..
Anyways, I don't know. I read a lot, but sometimes I need to take a break from all the philosophy and science and just read a light Sci-Fi or Terry Pratchett novel. I listen to lots of different genres, just electronic more than anything else by a long run. |
|
|
| nefardec |
what the hell, since this turned in to a drawing thread i'll post the project im working on. basically a series of studies of movements of bodies over time. there is an element of voyeurism. still trying to develop where i want to go exactly with the series, if its going to be narrative or just purely formal - these first two are pretty narrative. the first one is done, to where i want it, the second is not finished at all.
the first is a woman sitting down over time, the second is some kind of misogynist seduction narrative.
sorry for the quality, i had to piece them together from several scans
the first drawing was someone i knew, the second was a paid model. after i did the second drawing here (which is still very very unfinished), i thought instead of drawing live models i might do this kind of accumulation of naked forms by going through porn videos frame by frame and then kind of tracking out the typical porn narratives in a linear, continuous line drawing. these drawings are pretty large, and i want to do like a series of 8-12.
Drawing 1 (finished)
Drawing 2 (WIP) |
|
|
| Lira |
By the way, I see nothing wrong with reading lots of non-fiction. I won't read a fictional work unless there's a philosophical undertone (like Dostoevsky's works), and I devour non-fiction books on a weekly basis.
But that's just because I love this stuff, and I feel I know next to nothing compared to how much I can learn :)
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
I listen to lots of different genres, just electronic more than anything else by a long run. |
Hah, when I say I listen to lots of different genres, it's implied that I listen to a lot of different styles of EDM: I can listen to pretty much everything from epic trance to power noise, with the exception of prog :p
When it comes to other genres, I like melodic hardcore, melodic hardcore, and bebop. Melodic hardcore because it is fast, and bebop because it's fast and makes me feel like a pretentious wanker. For some reason, I just find that absolutely amusing :D |
|
|
|
|
