Up since three. Guess that’s what I get for getting my ass in bed on time. <\/p>\n
Watched Fifth Element. Gotta like Bruce Willis. Not that Milla Jovovich is hard on the eyes, either. <\/p>\n
Chris Tucker may be the goofiest bastard ever. <\/p>\n
The hotel has a japanese channel, and the sumo matches have kept me entertained for hours. As I have often explained to the wife, fat guys in thck silk waistbands sweating and stomping around is a magnificent, nearly tectonic experience. She has yet to agree. Except on the tectonic bit. Japanese TV is also incredibly amusing to watch, just to figure out what the hell they’re talking about. Currently, they’re showing video of chicken shit. And some Jackie Chan looking kid eating rice with a raw egg. And now a bunch of well dressed Japanese are sniffing chicken poop pellets. Oh, now I get it, it’s a documentary about caged vs. free range chicken. I think. If I spoke more than a dozen words of Japanese this would be incredibly mundane. Lots of foreign language stuff is like this.
\nConsider Schiller’s “To Joy” put to music by Ludwig Van:<\/p>\n
Freude, sch\u00c3\u00b6ner G\u00c3\u00b6tterfunken,
\nTochter aus Elysium!
\nWir betreten feuertrunken,
\nHimmlische, Dein Heiligtum.
\nDeine Zauber binden wieder,
\nWas die Mode streng geteilt,
\nAlle Menschen werden Br\u00c3\u00bcder,
\nWo Dein sanfter Fl\u00c3\u00bcgel weilt. <\/p>\n
You hear this sung, and it sounds magnificent, stately, almost magical. And then you get the translation:<\/p>\n
Joy, beautiful spark of the gods
\nDaughter of Elysium
\nWe enter fire-imbibed
\nHeavenly, thy sanctuary
\nThy magic reunites those
\nwhom stern custom has parted
\nAll men will become brothers
\nUnder thy gentle wing <\/p>\n
Damn, it’s some touchy-feely bullshit. You fully expect it to be about hellfire and damnation, steaming bloody cacodemons rising up from the ground to visit painful death upon democrats, and before you know it, krauts in ruffled shirts are kissing each other. What a gyp.<\/p>\n
While I’m on the subject, even in our OWN language there is SUCH crap- consider Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the sky”<\/p>\n
When I die and they lay me to rest
\nGonna go to the place that’s the best
\nWhen they lay me down to die
\nGoin’ up to the spirit in the sky<\/p>\n
That fuzzy guitar, that pounding bass, and it’s more touchy feely bullshit. let me show you what the lyrics should be, with that music:<\/p>\n
I’m Gonna kill your mother-Your father too
\nthen I’m coming back to waste you
\nYou’re whole family’s gonna die
\nI’m gonna send ’em up to the spirit in the sky.<\/p>\n
Norman Greenbaum was a pussy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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