Hell's 542nd Annual Sadie Hawkin's Dance

Video time in class! Links will be provided.

Looks like some English gangsta rap, taped entirely in black and white in what appears to be house under renovations or a factory.

TOO MANY FLASHING LIGHTS. I'm about to seize.

The two worst gangs in London get in a fight. I still haven't understood a single word the rapper has said. He does have a pretty sweet beard though so I can forgive that.

2nd worst gang in London goes on a walk though the woods, find a cemetery and people mourning. Fist bumps are exchanged.

Worst gang in London + new recruits beat up a fire. Man litters signs with controversial statements. Video ends.

Thus concludes, Fun-da-mental - Dog Tribe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dbqka3vCAw

OOOH another one. This ones in Hell! And now its crappy metal.

I really wouldn't expect any other type of music in Hell but bad metal.

Honestly I can't understand a single word of any of this. It looks like one sweet Hell party though. Do you suppose they have theme dances and parties in hell? This is just the most recent Hell Metal show, but I'd personally be looking forward to the Sadie Hawkins dance.

Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIWDXjfd5ak

And another video! Zephania. Heres a black man in dreads beating up a punching bag for way too long then reciting poetry. Lots about white stuff.

He's actually pretty good so I won't make fun of it.

Not entirely sure what we're watching this for. OOH Zephaniah accepting an honorary degree. Old man in the background is asleep in his chair.

And if there was one thing we were missing it was some crappy reggae. Thank god the prof has that covered.

Not only that, but crappy reggae set to a guy walking around, looking at things, and riding elevators.

White text set on a stairway is here to save the day! And wtf reggae over. Now lets send it back to hip-ho--NOPE reggae ag--NOPE for real its hip-hop and now its over.

General reactions, class? I have one. I don't know what in the flip-flopping fuck they said in those Fun-da-mental videos and that really affected my viewing.

Class is talking about our final video and analyzing it in a way that I want to call bullshit on. Girl's been talking for 5 minutes and hasn't said anything more than "You can interpret this in any way you want." Thanks.

Desire to learn about English multiculturalism < Desire to drink a milkshake.

Samuel Beckett, Con-man

Now this is the story all about how

Coatzee turned Beckett upside-down

and I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there

I'll tell you how Watt focused on numbers and repetition

Iiiiin Kenner's analysis, Rational Domain,

English babble's where he spends his whole essay

Cadences, pedantry, formal english drool

Talkin' about Beckett's interest in the math school

When a couple of guys who were up to no good

Started analyzing style and likelihoods

They didn't even fight, but I got scared

and said “i'm getting on facebook to get this outta my hair”

I pulled off to my notes 'round 11:38

and I said to my reading

“Homework! Smell ya later!”

Looked at my profile, I was finally there

Sit on my throne and be terrible at college.

I was hoping that would take more time. Balls.

I think Beckett found a way to write, make lots of money, and dick around while fooling everyone into believing he was the hottest shit this side of the hog confinement.

Example: this is a direct quote from Beckett's novel, Watt.

“Dis yb dis, nem owt. Yad la, tin fo trap. Skin, skin, skin. Od su did ned taw? On. Taw ot klat tonk? On. Tonk ot klat taw? On. Tonk ta kool taw? On taw to kool tonk? Nilb, mun mud. Tin fo trap, yad la. Nem owt, dis yb dis.”

All he did was write a jibberish paragraph, reverse the letters, and throw it in there. And here we are, spending thousands of dollars to discuss this riveting piece of literature.

Things I could buy with a year's tuition (around $7,000):

6,500 Rodeo burgers from BK (with tax)

A 2003 Ford Windstar off craigslist

Rent a Class A RV for 3 weeks

2,000 slip and slides.

A very large bathtub filled with delicious candy.

Ok nevermind i'm bitching.

WTF we're still talking about this? Beckett might be my new favorite author simply because I think he was and still is fucking with English scholars.

Beckett: “Dude I'm gonna write something so convoluted and weird that everybody will assume its awesome.”

Support for this: Beckett wrote an A version of this book that made sense. It had a plot, had an order and actually made sense. Beckett did two more revisions and the C version was the published and well-known version. He took pieces from the two prior, threw them together in an order that made no sense and had no context, and published it.

Coetzee: This is Beckett's response to realism, blahblah Beckett Rulez

Me: Beckett wrote a novel that made sense, it was poorly received, so he went the modernist route and fucked with it til people thought it was brilliant.

Boom, money for Beckett. High fives and sexy ladies.

Prof is pissed because nobody can answer “what was the author's intention in writing this?” I feel like me telling him my theory about his favorite book wouldn't go over well.