Sunday, February 28, 2010
Testing
This is for a Japanese 101 assignment. Unfortunately I can´t get the speech to show up in the bubble... Or maybe it´s just my browser not displaying it.
For those who are interested, I have designated in the code that the message it is to say is "わたしはJPDです。"
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Falsehoods
Don't you just love it when you think one thing is true, and find out it's exactly the opposite?
Yeah... it ticks me off.
Yeah... it ticks me off.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
So... Time
Life passes... and we forget things. Or rather, I forget things. Like this blog. So... I may be back now. For a while. To be more specific, I'm back for now. Right now. But maybe not again for a while.
Anyway...
In not writing for a while, I didn't mention, at least not on this blog, the anniversaries of the deaths of several people; in mentioning them, I'm hoping to portray the fact that I am very much affected by them. So, here they are:
February 3, 1959 - The Day the Music Died: Deaths, in an airplane crash, of Buddy Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and Ritchie Valens.
Buddy Holly had great influence on the rock and roll movement that was slowly developing at this time. He recorded for around a year and a half before his death, but the number of hits he had, and the influence that he had, was almost as great as that of people like Elvis Presley. If he had only lived longer... He was in the first group of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Ritchie Valens was one of the pioneers of the chicano rock movement. I don't know so much about him, but he is most well known for his "La Bamba," later covered by Los Lobos, whose cover is now the most popular version of the song; Ritchie Valens didn't write it, but he set it to a rock rhythm. He was seventeen at the time of his death.
J. P. Richardson wasn't quite as young, but he was at the forefront of the music world with his song "Chantilly Lace" and his other interesting contributions to radio... I don't know very much about him either.
February 4, 1983 - Karen Carpenter dies from heart failure, most likely because of complications due to anorexia nervosa. Her contributions to modern music are perhaps not quite as important as those of the other three, and definitely not when they are combined. However, she was a great singer, and is considered one of the greatest singers because of her amazing voice. She also played the drums quite well... I am personally more connected to this one, as it is more recent and therefore more accessible, but also because I am so much in awe of her voice.
As a side note, most of her recordings were covers of songs. The Carpenters (or just Carpenters) were very good at popularizing songs.
February 9, 1981 - Bill Haley dies of heart complications, I believe, that may or may not have been connected to a tumor that he had. While I also don't know much about him, he was the one who recorded "Rock Around the Clock" and was very influential in popularizing rock and roll at the time.
Anyway, I just thought I'd throw those out there. I will post later about other things of moderate importance, for I cannot do so right now, as I must leave.
Anyway...
In not writing for a while, I didn't mention, at least not on this blog, the anniversaries of the deaths of several people; in mentioning them, I'm hoping to portray the fact that I am very much affected by them. So, here they are:
February 3, 1959 - The Day the Music Died: Deaths, in an airplane crash, of Buddy Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and Ritchie Valens.
Buddy Holly had great influence on the rock and roll movement that was slowly developing at this time. He recorded for around a year and a half before his death, but the number of hits he had, and the influence that he had, was almost as great as that of people like Elvis Presley. If he had only lived longer... He was in the first group of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Ritchie Valens was one of the pioneers of the chicano rock movement. I don't know so much about him, but he is most well known for his "La Bamba," later covered by Los Lobos, whose cover is now the most popular version of the song; Ritchie Valens didn't write it, but he set it to a rock rhythm. He was seventeen at the time of his death.
J. P. Richardson wasn't quite as young, but he was at the forefront of the music world with his song "Chantilly Lace" and his other interesting contributions to radio... I don't know very much about him either.
February 4, 1983 - Karen Carpenter dies from heart failure, most likely because of complications due to anorexia nervosa. Her contributions to modern music are perhaps not quite as important as those of the other three, and definitely not when they are combined. However, she was a great singer, and is considered one of the greatest singers because of her amazing voice. She also played the drums quite well... I am personally more connected to this one, as it is more recent and therefore more accessible, but also because I am so much in awe of her voice.
As a side note, most of her recordings were covers of songs. The Carpenters (or just Carpenters) were very good at popularizing songs.
February 9, 1981 - Bill Haley dies of heart complications, I believe, that may or may not have been connected to a tumor that he had. While I also don't know much about him, he was the one who recorded "Rock Around the Clock" and was very influential in popularizing rock and roll at the time.
Anyway, I just thought I'd throw those out there. I will post later about other things of moderate importance, for I cannot do so right now, as I must leave.
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