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

The king

January 3rd

I noticed that the less the monarchs were working politicians the more money they spent ornamenting them. The culmination of this development is the huge Crown Imperial, an art nouveau job created for the coronation of Edward the Fat in 1901, when the Archbishop of Canterbury placed the world’s most expensively useless hat on the world’s most expensively useless head.


FROM: A report to the trustees o the Bellahouston Travelling Scholarship. Alasdair Gray

Wizard

23rd December

From what I heard:

be a matter of principle - be something that you feel you must or must not do, because of your moral principles.

See how differently is the word MATTER used. http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/matter_1

On the basis

Go along - if you do something as you go along, you do it without planning or preparing it.
He was making the story up as he went along. Or: I never had formal training, I just learned the job as I went along.

Be valid for smth.

Somebody, who is good at something, can be called a wizard. A financial wizard; a wizard at chess.

Turned to reading:

You may not know this lanky lass from Littleborough, England, her by her birth name—Laura Hollins—but you're sure to know the blonde-haired, blue-eyed stunner's supermodel moniker: Agyness Deyn. While she won her first modeling contest at age thirteen, the bona fide It Brit put off modeling until she was discovered on the streets of London and urged by friends, including roommate and childhood pal, Henry Holland, to walk the catwalk full-time. Soon after signing to an agency 2006, Deyn was shipped off to New York to walk such in-demand runways as Marc by Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, and Zac Posen.


Yet it's Deyn's unparalleled style sense—her peroxide-blonde pixie cut and wild wardrobe—that could gain the face of Burberry's The Beat perfume a spot among other iconic mannequins like Twiggy and Kate Moss in the fashion industry's Hall of Fame. After all, Deyn was named "Model of the Year" in 2007 by the British Fashion Awards as well as tapped as one of the world's next supermodels by Vogue on the cover of their May 2007 issue, making this model a surefire fashion legend in the making.

Clues:
new, no much attention
new, to remember
mention the structure, expression

Torn out

October 30th

I've found a piece of writing:

Idioms

New words, important to remember
New words, just for looking
Set expressions
Phrases I am fascinated by

Business art. Art business. The Business Art Business.

October 29th

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it’s like watching television – you don’ feel anything.



Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it’s all television. When you’re really really involved with something, you’re usually thinking about something else. When something’s happening, you fantasize about other things. When I woke up somewhere – I didn’t it was at the hospital and that Bobby Kennedy had been shot the day after I was – I heard fantasy words about thousands of people being in St. Patrick’s Cathedral praying and carrying on., and then I heard the word “Kennedy” and that brought me back to the television world again, because then I realized, well, here I was, in pain.


So I was shot at my place of business: Andy Warhol Enterprises. At that point, in 1968, Andy Warhol Enterprises consisted of a few people who worked for me on a fairly regular basis, a lot of what you might call free-lancers who worked on specific projects, and a lot of “superstars” or “hyperstars” or whatever you can call all the people who are very talented, but whose talents are hard to define and almost impossible to market. <…> An interviewer asked me a lot of questions about how I ran my office and I tried to explain to him that I don’t really run it, it runs me. I used a lot of phrases like “bring home the bacon” so he didn’t really understand what I was talking about.


<…>


Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the thing called “art” or whatever it’s called, I went into business art. I wanted to be an Art Businessmen or a Business Artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of business – they’d say, “Money is bad”, and “Working is bad,” but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol 

Journal

October 28th

From “The books of Albion” by Peter Doherty.

 In relation to her gains, to her sexual harvest.

 Did a content person achieve anything except his own smug expression?

From “The continuing adventure of Spaniel O’Spaniel”. (Part II, at the Careers Officer’s.) (Peter Doherty)

 In his passion, only a passion for life, he would, with deliberation, never hurrying, deliberately, get the words wrong.


 Mr … breathed a sigh of despair.


 I am quiet and lonesome, and full of heavy mercury, industrial melancholy. I have patience without insight and insight without care for coherence. I love without the use of any organs. I make music in my head and wish that I was dead.


 When I’ve become immune to my own instincts.


 When I know for a fact that the days in the sun were allusions. When I see the tears & tears in my proud father’s coat, When my Saviour, my Lord, the one who promised me life is drinking in Stepney with his soon to be wife, then, sure as McFuckety, It’s time for death on the stairs.

Somewhere I like the words, somewhere the ideas.

LARS! LARS! LARS!

October 15th – October 27th

For several weeks I was short of time to write on my blog. I summarise everything in one post now.

It is Reading I start with.

I quit reading The Forsyte Saga on the page 250. Despite the fact that the book isn’t boring, I got fed up with it. Not only one cause is to mention. I find almost everyday the new stuff to read: merely up-to-date information or which I consider essential for my mental development. This book isn't modern, so there was only one reason to read left. I started to read it, because I wanted to undertand another nation. I have some vision of it now. Eagerness for something more modern has come.
 The famous Saga exhausts with its formal old-fashioned language. Try to perceive useful vocabulary from dozens of unknown words isn’t a good perspective to a person who wants to learn fast.
I had come across a film on television, which had been based on this book, recently. I have been aware of plot since that, so reading became not as adventurous as it had been before.

I don’t regret reading this book, nevertheless.

Fellini – never expect him to be loud and clear.

Make a difference! – was my motto. I watched Fellini’s “8 ½” in Italian for not to spoil the right atmosphere, submitting the film with English subtitles. The Italians are used to speaking fast, and I didn’t manage to read and understand everything. The text was metaphorical too. While it has been a memorable experience, I will watch in English in future.

W-A-R-H-O-L

Andy’s book “Philosophy of Andy Warhol” has different chapters named Work, Time, Love, Fame, Atmosphere, Success and etc. These are the extracts from Beauty.

When you’re interested in somebody, and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won’t notice them. Maybe, say, you have a permanent beauty problem you can’t change, such as short legs. Just say it. “My legs, as you have probably noticed, are much too short in proportion to the rest of my body.” Why give the other person the satisfaction of discovering it for themselves? Once it’s out in the open, at least you know it will never become an issue later on in the relationship, and if it does, you can always say, “Well I told you that in the beginning.”

On the other hand, say you have a purely temporary beauty problem. < …> If you don’t point out these things they might think that your temporary beauty problem is a permanent beauty problem. Why should they think otherwise if you’ve just met them? <…> So it’s up to you to set them straight and get them to use their imagination about what your hair must look like when it’s shiny, and what your body must look like when it’s not overweight, and your dress would look like without the grease spot on it. Even explain that you have much better clothes hanging in your closet than the ones you’re wearing. If they really do like you for yourself, they’ll be willing to use their imagination to think of what you must look like without your temporary beauty problem.


If you’re naturally pale, you should put on a lot of blush to compensate. But if you’ve got a big nose, just play it up, and if you have a pimple, put on the pimple cream in a way that will make it really stand out- “There! I use pimple cream!” There’s a difference.

I am on the page 189 now. A great book! Perfect for reading in a lounge. Emotional and represents Andy from the several sights.

Listening

It happened that I watched the HARD TALK on the BBC with a lawyer, Michael Mansfield.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8280547.stm

It isn’t bad to watch with a dictionary in hands.
• Legislation
• Oblige
• Oppose
• And my favourite one: “I talk facts, you talk emotions.” – Stephen Sackur.

The Antichrist

I had gone to the cinema due to the director and had found the film very original…until the moment when a wife attempted to kill his husband.

You still can watch till that moment and thank yourself for not being a fool and staying at home.

Grammar

I completed 2 tasks on re-writing a formal text into an informal one, did the tasks on reading with filling the gaps with the missing pieces.

I learnt the Quoting rules.

In addition to this, I went into vocabulary of rise and fall, go up and drop and reduction, decline, lows and highs, pie charts, bar charts, flowcharts and segments, etc. to prepare for IELTS. Also I went thought the IELTS task “Business and Industry” filling in the gaps with a suitable words – antonyms. I’ve got 11 out of 19 correct.

Vocabulary I got out of it:

• Revenue - money that a business or organization receives over a period of time, especially from selling goods or services.
• Shortage - situation in which there is not enough of something that people need. (A shortage of skilled labour. Water/food/housing shortage. Acute/chronic/severe shortage.)
• White- and blue-collar jobs. 1.) In banks, offices…2.) Factories, building sites…
• Lay off – stop employing people, because there is no work to do.

On the other hand, the passage, called “Visit London's Science Museum” from IELTS was completed perfectly.

A bit more vocabulary:

• Newspapers are frequently accused of invasion of privacy by celebrities and other media stars.
• The government was trying to suppress freedom of speech.
• Upbeat – (adj.) making you feel that good things will happen. Opposed to - downbeat.
• Media/property/business/newspaper tycoon.

I am sure, I have forgot something, which I don't remember now. Let it be.

The decent people

October 6th - 12th

For these days no much self-study work was done. Andy Warhol’s book first of all was being read till the page 170. I will probably quote some extracts from there, but a bit later.

Second, I properly started to study on the EUfAP.com. This is a source for the training of Accuracy, Listening, Writing, Speaking etc.

I started my journey  from a part on Accuracy.
http://www.uefap.com/accuracy/accfram.htm - read here how this skill is important.
http://www.uefap.com/accuracy/accfram.htm - I did this task but without writing. I was waiting for more exciting tasks to come. But still this one is useful for it covers many fields of knowledge.
 
Proof-read
This page is important in every single way.http://www.uefap.com/accuracy/accfram.htm
Read Pascal's funny words, learn how to read properly, view an article about Janis Joplin and what's more, a thilling task for finding the mistakes in a text. Pull the arrows to the wrong words and see the right variant.
Hightly recommended.
 
 

How Andy puts his Warhol on?

October 2nd-3rd-4th


It seems, that weekends turn into the days of massive reading.

Annie Leibovitz continues to recount what her life was like. She was so much into other people and their life stories that she forgot to make her own. “The life through the lens”, I guess that is a name of the documentary about Annie, tells perfectly about her unstoppable professional career, full with different projects and aspects of photography, but which also rejected any chances on her personal life. (65-100 pages read.)

What’s more, I have got Andy’s book now. “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol”.
So here he writes: "In the late 50s I started an affair with my television set which has continued to the present, when I play around in my bedroom with as many as four at a time. But I didn't get married until 1964 when I got my first tape recorder. My wife. My tape recorder and I have been married for ten years now. When I say "we", I mean my tape recorder and me. A lot of people don't understand that."
Or
"In "Tub Girls" the girls had to take baths with people in tubs. They met in a tub. And a girl would have to carry her tub to the next person she'd have to take a bath with, so she'd put her tub under her arm and carry her tub...We used a clear plastic tub."


I also worked on vocabulary. When I read I mark the unknown words, which I look up later, when a chapter or some part of reading is finished.
It will be introduced in the next post.

British Classics

October 1st

After a little break I’m coming back.
I thought about a new structure a bit, so from now you can find the divisions into Sport, Photography, Reading, Dictionary Work, Academic Work, Listening, Watching and Supplement.

Watching and Sport come together. The Hancock’s Half Hour is an influential British comedy of the 50s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQcZLDGqcN4&feature=related

When a national newspaper asked for its definition of 'Britishness', the most quoted reply was this: "Being British is about driving in a German car, wearing Italian clothes, heading to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer and some Greek olives, then going for an Indian curry washed down with some Australian beer before going home to collapse on your Swedish furniture to watch American shows on a Japanese TV. And the most British thing of all? Being suspicious of anything foreign."

Call me a bookworm!

September 23rd - September 27th

These 5 weekdays I’ve spent on the long-term reading. Every day I was getting closer to the end of The Forsyte Saga, the Leibovitz’s biography and The Calligrapher.

You write, I read

September 22nd



As you might have understood, I couldn’t not to abandon myself to reading of The Calligrapher. (Some 16 pages read where you meet a man, who begs his friend to draw his girlfriend attention from him in order to flirt with a lady in an art gallery, who just has given him a wink.)

Vocabulary,

but not from this book, just out of somewhere.

• The best/worst part
• The film is violent in parts.
• Casualisation – a tendency make things less formal.
• Paddle/ Go for a paddle
• Be gasping for something – spoken- feel that you urgently need smth.

I'm gasping for a pint!

• You wish! – spoken

'I'm going to be famous one day.' 'You wish!' – meaning “Most probably not.”

God is speaking

September 9th


B.Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. A monologue of the god Ra makes it worth to start.

http://drama.eserver.org/plays/modern/caesar_and_cleopatra.html