December 2010
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I'm off to catch my flight
to Geneva.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to you all.
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Sufjan playing Pacman, his brother Marzuki next to him, proclaiming that he can play Pacman forever, or at least ‘20, or 25 minutes’.
Sufjan losing shortly thereafter, genuinely upset about it. Oh man.
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi814416921/
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Glögg
would like some.
From St. Nicholas to Santa Claus
The cult of St. Nicholas virtually disappeared in Protestant Europe, with the exception of one country: the Netherlands. If you love Christmas with all the trappings of Santa Claus and stockings and presents, thank the Dutch. If you despise all that, try to ignore my last name for the time being. The Puritans had done away with St. Nicholas and banned Christmas...
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EIGHT
EIGHT new Sufjan Christmas songs guys. I am so excited. They are so good. Vol. VIII was a bit odd (apart from Christmas in the Room) but this one…
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Iceland pt. 3 (yes, it was necessary)
DUDE. You don’t even know. It’s the Eurasian tectonic plate in front, North-American tectonic plate in the back. WHUUUT. Totally was on North-American soil that day, sort of. This is in Þingvellir (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈθiŋkˌvɛtl̥ɪr̥]
I am in this picture, but it is now so small you will never know where. Other people are in it too. LOOK HOW AWESOME.
Providing the...
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Iceland pt. 2
It’s clearly Seljalandsfoss. Remembered that name all by myself. Also, we’re all wearing massive wintery coats because it was FREEZING. Never been so cold. They named the country quite aptly.
Weird landscapes. Awesome landscapes. Satnav for the single ‘highway’ Iceland has. Baha.
I can’t even.
Driving through Iceland whilst listening to Sigur Ros and...
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Iceland pt. 1
Yes, it’s been exactly a year… this is the last of these I’m doing, I promise. Maybe. Last winter, three friends and I made the clever decision to go to Iceland during the darkest days of the year. Ha. But, though the sun only got up at about 11 AM, we had a lot more sun in Iceland than we did in Sweden at that time, because the sun basically goes up… up… up, and...
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Weekend at home
I would do a sarcastic post or whatever but I’m not very funny today/ever.
It’s always nice to spend a weekend at home every once in a while. Though most of this weekend was in fact spent helping my sister move, I did have time for a walk in the snow (not much of it here, while it’s been pissing it down with snow in Utrecht - typical)…
… play the banjo and enjoy...
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CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
HAVE STARTED!!
Just need to finish this Semantics take home exam and do the MER assignment and go to the individual consultation and figure out a proper topic for my Language Acquisition paper.
Other than that, woo!
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Et cetera.: Untranslatable Words →
hexameters:
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with…
Oh god, this day…
Syntactic poetry
One of my classmates wrote this today:
Oh syntactic tree
How you grow form that snow-white paper
Your branches binary
that infinitely vary
Your projections that towards CP taper
Oh syntactic tree
standing tall in a linguistic storm
with structure so deep
and yet not complete
till it reaches its logical form
Oh syntactic tree
With so much to explain, how can you be!?
your wild...
