It seemed strange to me that a credit-bearing college course should be dedicated to telling students why they should go to college, but the entire first-year sequence turns out to be an almost surreal riff on the socialization process of higher education, where secondary characteristics of college graduates become the actual subjects of the courses. Having read in 'Your College Experience' that graduates have better health outcomes, students could look forward a few weeks down the line to tackling topics like 'optimal body weight' ... Because college graduates exhibit a collection of socially beneficial traits, we have come to believe that the development of these traits is college's primary purpose.
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28.9.11
felo-de-se
1.
a. One who ‘deliberately puts an end to his own existence, or commits any unlawful malicious act, the consequence of which is his own death’ (Blackstone).
[c1250
Bracton iii. ii. xxxi,
Eodem modo quo quis feloniam facere possit interficiendo alium, ita
feloniam facere possit interficiendo seipsum, quæ quidem felonia dicitur
fieri de seipso.]
1651
W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 124
He that murders himself, is by us tearmed Felo de se.
1689
E. Hickeringill Speech Without-doors iv. 30
How desperately they stabb themselves, and are Felones de se.
1814
Byron in T. Moore Life Ld. Byron
(1851)
255/1 (Note)
That ‘felo de se’ who‥Walk'd out of his depth and was lost in a calm sea.
1874
G. W. Dasent Half a Life i. 85
Dick‥pronounced him‥to be, in fact, felo de se.
b. fig.
1678
Lively Orac. iii. 40
Making their Natures a kind of felo de se to prompt the destroying itself.
1704
E. Ward Dissenting Hypocrite 34
That Church is Moderate and Easy T' excess, which would be Felo de se.
1749
H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xiv. 287
That Protestants‥should be‥such Felos de se, I cannot believe it.
1767
W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 31
This modus is felo de se and destroys itself.
1840
T. De Quincey Style in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 4/1
A man‥would be a madman and a felo-de-se, as respected his reliance upon that doctrine.
27.9.11
2007 UK Campaign against gender violence
http://osocio.org/message/act_until_women_and_children_are_safe/
A picture of a celebrity with fake bruises may seem like a cheap trick, but at least you noticed her. It's the 500K plus British women that are abused by their partners every year who go unnoticed.
26.9.11
gender studies at reduced prices
Not sure I am too keen on Amazon given their recent labour practices, but just in case…
Lars ...
Lars von Trier on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon:
Watching Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon is a pleasure, like eating a very good soup. It is very stylised and then suddenly comes some emotion [when the child falls off the horse]. There is not a lot of emotion. There are a lot of moods and some fantastic photography, really like these old paintings.Thank God he didn't have a computer. If he had a computer at that time, you wouldn't care, but you know he has been waiting three weeks for this mountain fog or whatever. It is overwhelming with the boy, because it is suddenly this emotional thing. The character Barry Lyndon is not very emotional. In fact, he is the opposite. He is an opportunist.
I saw the film when it came out. I was in my early twenties. The first time I saw it, I slept. It was on too late and it is a very, very long film. What is interesting is that Nicole Kidman told me Kubrick hated long films. If you have seen Barry Lyndon, the last scene of the film, where she is writing out a cheque for him, is extremely long. It goes on and on and on, but it's beautiful.
The good thing is that Kubrick always sets his standards. Barry Lyndon to me is a masterpiece. He casts in a very strange way, Kubrick. It is a very strange cast. But that is how the film should be, of course. This thing that he liked short films was very surprising. And he liked Krzysztof Kieslowski very much. He was crazy about Kieslowski.
I don't know if Kubrick saw any of my films, but I know Tarkovsky watched the first film I did and hated it! That is how it is supposed to be.
Tom Waits: I Don't Wanna Grow Up
When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up
Seems like folks turn into things
That they'd never want
The only thing to live for
Is today
I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old Tomb
On Grand Street
When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up
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