| Es muy facil, es mucho mejor |
[May. 5th, 2006|11:57 am] |
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| | Es Muy Facil - Los Mitos | ] |
I just saw Red Dust for the first time. It was sexy.
Had a big stress/crying fit last night over uni and work. I don't know how I'm going to get through the next few weeks.
Stel, like totes zomgz, these Spanish songs are good. "Es Muy Facil" makes me happy. And "Oye" is just "Hey There" in Spanish, isn't it? It reminds me of the time I heard that Destiny's Child song "Independent Woman" in Hungarian. Funky.
I'm going to listen to lectures, then go for a walk then summarise a book due in tomorrow. The last one will be tricky because Jeremy Black is the most boring historian on the planet. A good historian, and his work forms an important part of my argument in this essay, but I fall asleep every time I try to read his books. Dear historians, please try to be interesting. Nobody is going to be interested in the tactical military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus at the rate you're all going so far.
Spanish, Italian and French historians are way funner. They use exclamation marks, write paragraphs that go nowhere and get really passionate about things like the spread of the trace italienne over the Alps in the 15th century. Or was it the 16th? I know nothing.
Next history course I take I want to do cultural or social history again. That's where the fun is. Last year I got to study 16th century peasant life in France and read this brilliant book on French folktales. The French version of Little Red Riding Hood is crazy - the wolf makes her eat her own grandmother and then strip and get into bed with him before he eats her. Then I read the story of The Great Cat Massacre... which I won't go into here, most people get really freaked out by it, with reason. But that's the fun history - I enjoy studyig politics and economics and wars up to a point, but what I really love is studying culture and mentalities and ordinary lives, which is notoriously difficult to write about, but absolutely fascinating.
Oh God, I just spammed your flists with my history nerd-dom. Sorry. I'll go listen to those lectures now.
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Bahahaha... and who on your friends list isn't a history nerd? I bet most of them are.
You may have a point... ;)
YAY!!!! Red Dust is one of my faves
I think it's one of my new faves too. I really, really enjoyed it.
Ha, there's one good thing with having a username starting with b - I'm first on the friends list! :P
Yay! Your icon is cute, by the way.
I LOVE Red Dust! Mary Astor is my home girl.
I like these LJ collage thingies - so much fun!
And glad you liked the song - if you want more, just lemme know and I'll gladly upload more for you :D Yeah, 'Oye' is 'Hey There', and the literal translation of 'Oye' is 'Listen', lol
Anyway, I'm a history enthusiast myself, so I don't mind any history banter XD
I tried downloading Los Brincos songs, but they only came in txt files. If you have any more of them or Los Mitos, that would be fantastic. I'm listening to Libre Solterito Y Sin Nadie at the moment, it's so swishy :) Thank you so much for all of these, they're fantastic. Have you ever heard a song called "Communicando"? I think it's from the 60s, and I've been searching for it for ages.
History banter - yay!
I'll gladly try to upload some more for ya, as soon as I get ahold of the CD :D
Communicando? Hmmm - I'll sift through my parents CDs and try to look for it :D!
Red Dust!!!! *swoons* That movie is precode in all its sexy glory!!! LOL.
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