Humour - Election Debate

Election Debate

Holy every step you make

wanderlust - desire to travel


be on the move -


a) to be travelling from one place to another
b) to be busy and active
c) to be changing and developing a lot, especially in a way that improves things:
Museums are on the move, adding exhibits that entertain and educate.


tend to do something - if something tends to happen, it happens often and is likely to happen again



compelling - 
 - compelling reason/argument/case etc - an argument etc that makes you feel certain that something is true or that you must do something about it:
Lucy had no compelling reason to go into town.
The court was presented with compelling evidence that she'd murdered her husband.

 - very interesting or exciting, so that you have to pay attention:

His life makes a compelling story.
  - compelling need/desire/urge (to do something) - a strong need, desire etc to do something, making you feel that you must do it:

Footnote To Howl

Allen Ginsberg

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! 
     Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! 
The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! 
     The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand 
     and asshole holy! 
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is 
     holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an 
     angel! 
The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is 
     holy as you my soul are holy! 
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is 
     holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy! 
Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy 
     Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cas- 
     sady holy the unknown buggered and suffering 
     beggars holy the hideous human angels! 
Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks 
     of the grandfathers of Kansas! 
Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop 
     apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana 
     hipsters peace & junk & drums! 
Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy 
     the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the 
     mysterious rivers of tears under the streets! 
Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the 
     middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebell- 
     ion! Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles! 
Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria & 
     Seattle Holy Paris Holy Tangiers Holy Moscow 
     Holy Istanbul! 
Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the 
     clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy 
     the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch! 
Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the 
     locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucina- 
     tions holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the 
     abyss! 
Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! 
     bodies! suffering! magnanimity! 
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent 
     kindness of the soul! 

                                   Berkeley 1955

-It is I, Arthur..-Pull the other one!

29th January


There is no need to introduce Monty Python!
I decided to watch their movie - Monty Pyhton and the Holly Grail. Got much into British humour. Here are the examples. 

Scene 1 

GUARD #1 Halt!  Who goes there?

  ARTHUR:  It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle

      of Camelot.  King of the Britons, defeator of the Saxons, sovereign –KING - of all England!

GUARD #1:  Pull the other one! 

ARTHUR:  I am.  And this my trusty servant Patsy.

      We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights

      who will join me in my court of Camelot.  I must speak with your lord

      and master.

GUARD #1:  What, ridden on a horse?

  ARTHUR:  Yes!

  GUARD #1:  You're using coconuts!

  ARTHUR:  What?

  GUARD #1:  You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin'

      'em together.

  ARTHUR:  So?  We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this

      land, through the kingdom of Mercea, through--

  GUARD #1:  Where'd you get the coconut?

  ARTHUR:  We found them.

  GUARD #1:  Found them?  In Mercea?  The coconut's tropical!

  ARTHUR:  What do you mean?

  GUARD #1:  Well, this is a temperate zone.

  ARTHUR:  The swallow – ласточка - may fly south with the sun or the house martin

      or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not

      strangers to our land.

  GUARD #1:  Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

  ARTHUR:  Not at all, they could be carried.

  GUARD #1:  What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?

  ARTHUR:  It could grip it by the husk – shells- !

  GUARD #1:  It's not a question of where he grips it!  It's a simple

      question of weight ratios!  A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound

      coconut.

  ARTHUR:  Well, it doesn't matter.  Will you go and tell your master

      that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.

  GUARD #1:  Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow

      needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?

  ARTHUR:  Please!

  GUARD #1:  Am I right?

  ARTHUR:  I'm not interested!

  GUARD #2:  It could be carried by an African swallow!

  GUARD #1:  Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European

      swallow, that's my point.

  GUARD #2:  Oh, yeah, I agree with that...

  ARTHUR:  Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court

      at Camelot?!

  GUARD #1:  But then of course African swallows are not migratory.

  GUARD #2:  Oh, yeah...

  GUARD #1:  So they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...

      [clop clop]

  GUARD #2:  Wait a minute -- supposing two swallows carried it together?

  GUARD #1:  No, they'd have to have it on a line.

  GUARD #2:  Well, simple!  They'd just use a standard creeper!

  GUARD #1:  What, held under the dorsal – back - guiding feathers?

  GUARD #2:  Well, why not?

Be against regulations  - against rules

Scene 3

  ARTHUR:  Old woman!

  DENNIS:  Man!

  ARTHUR: Old Man, sorry.  What knight live in that castle over there?

  DENNIS:  I'm thirty seven.

  ARTHUR:  What?

  DENNIS:  I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old!

  ARTHUR:  Well, I can't just call you `Man'.

  DENNIS:  Well, you could say `Dennis'.

  ARTHUR:  Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.'

  DENNIS:  Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?

  ARTHUR:  I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind

      you looked--

  DENNIS:  What I object to – oppose/disapprove - is you automatically treat me like an inferior – подчинённый -!

  ARTHUR:  Well, I AM king...

  DENNIS:  Oh king, eh, very nice.  An' how'd you get that, eh?  By

      exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma

      which perpetuates – leave for a long time - the economic an' social differences in our society!

      If there's ever going to be any progress--

  WOMAN:  Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here.  Oh -- how d'you do?

  ARTHUR:  How do you do, good lady.  I am Arthur, King of the Britons.

      Who's castle is that?

  WOMAN:  King of the who?

  ARTHUR:  The Britons.

  WOMAN:  Who are the Britons?

  ARTHUR:  Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.

  WOMAN:  I didn't know we had a king.  I thought we were an autonomous

      collective.

  DENNIS:  You're fooling yourself.  We're living in a dictatorship.

      A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--

  WOMAN:  Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.

  DENNIS:  That's what it's all about if only people would--

  ARTHUR:  Please, please good people.  I am in haste.  Who lives

      in that castle?

  WOMAN:  No one live there.

  ARTHUR:  Then who is your lord?

  WOMAN:  We don't have a lord.

  ARTHUR:  What?

  DENNIS:  I told you.  We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.  We take

      it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.

  ARTHUR:  Yes.

  DENNIS:  But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified

      at a special biweekly meeting.

  ARTHUR:  Yes, I see.

  DENNIS:  By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--

  ARTHUR:  Be quiet!

  DENNIS:  --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--

  ARTHUR:  Be quiet!  I order you to be quiet!

  WOMAN:  Order, eh -- who does he think he is?

  ARTHUR:  I am your king!

  WOMAN:  Well, I didn't vote for you.

  ARTHUR:  You don't vote for kings.

  WOMAN:  Well, 'ow did you become king then?

  ARTHUR:  The Lady of the Lake,

      [angels sing]

      her arm clad in the purest shimmering – сиять - samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I,

      Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.

      [singing stops]

      That is why I am your king!

  DENNIS:  Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords

      is no basis for a system of government.  Supreme executive power

      derives – come from - from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

  ARTHUR:  Be quiet!

  DENNIS:  Well you can't expect to wield – have - supreme executive power

      just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

  ARTHUR:  Shut up!

  DENNIS:  I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just

      because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd

      put me away!

  ARTHUR:  Shut up!  Will you shut up!

  DENNIS:  Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

  ARTHUR:  Shut up!

  DENNIS:  Oh!  Come and see the violence inherent in the system!

      HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!

  ARTHUR:  Bloody peasant!

  DENNIS:  Oh, what a give away.  Did you here that, did you here that,

      eh?  That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me,

      you saw it didn't you?

Give away – tell 

An invincible belief, attitude etc is extremely strong and cannot be changed

—invincibility - [uncountable]

You are also involved.

Derek Jarman - some call him London's Andy Warhol.

Primarily known as a movie director. His opinion.

“The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.”

“I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.”

The hall of fame

18th January


History of photography.


http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/2006/?id=303




confident about your abilities: confident, self-confident, sure of yourself,assured, poised
too confident: overconfident, cocky - informal, brash
not confident: lack confidence, be insecure, be unsure of yourself

full face

1 showing the whole of someone's face.

In portraits, chiefs were invariably shown full face.

2 covering or protecting your whole face:

a fullface helmet.

give-and-take [uncountable]

a willingness between two people or groups to understand each other, and to let each other have or do some of the things they want:

In any relationship there has to be some give-and-take.

Mentality

16th January


As I got the first step of applying to a university over and passed my German exam, something is lacking. The shortage of something has taken over. Fear of somthing I can't explain to myself.
I watched "Donnie Darko" today. I had better not done it. This strange and popular Hollywood movie is remarkable for its absurd story. You hope until the end that the story will start at last, but it seems it wallows and remains at the outset.
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a high-school boy, who is believed has a mental desease. Sometimes it becomes apparent that he is, but then in one minute he turnes out to be a resonable person.

Grandma Death, floods, picturesque siteseeings, visits to a psychiatris...,and a banal, ordinary American life on the other hand. The film contains philosophical questions and answers, which is an advantage, but they aren't obvious...I read a script afterwards to understand some parts, because Donnie Darko doesn't say everything clearly.

  DR. THURMAN

       Do you feel alone right now?

 DONNIE

       I'd like to believe that I'm not...but

       I've just never seen any proof. So I just

       choose not to bother with it. It's, like,

       I could spend my whole life thinking

       about it... debating it in my head.

       Weighing the pros and cons. And in the

       end, I still wouldn't have any proof. So...I don't even debate it any more. Because it's absurd. I don't want to be alone.

         So, does that make me, like, an atheist?

        DR. THURMAN

       No. That makes you keep searching.

Donnie isn't a boy to forget! He makes this film memorable. And life around us - scary...