RANT
verb: to speak or shout in a loud, uncontrolled or angry way, often saying confused or foolish things.
noun: a long, angry and confused speech Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictonary
INVECTIVE
noun: criticism that is very forceful, unkind and often rude Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
DIATRIBE
(Greek 'rubbing through')
It now has the more or less exclusive meaning of a rather violent attack on a person or work, couched in vitriolic language. The Penguin dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, 4th edition, J. A. Cuddon, Penguin books, 1999
...ma lažem, ali ak' napišem u tri mjeseca, onda se ne rimuje!
Mladi aspiring filmaš Nikola Kuprešanin, poveo je dvojicu prijatelja na neobično putovanje o kojem sve dobro i loše napisano, a bome i fenomenalno fotografirano, možete vidjeti na njihovom blogu Transazija.
Tri mlada i luda Hrvata od Mongolije do Japana - to ne može ne bit zanimljivo, a hrvatskosportkim frikovima će bit posebno interesantan post o Nikolinoj školskoj kolegici Blanki, dok onima koji su sportskimakljažno nastrojeni ne bi smio promaknuti ovaj post.
Kliknite, samo kliknite... U Transaziji biste mogli izgubiti sate i sate, ali fenomenalno ćete se provesti!
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.
SFera, u suradnji sa Zagrebačkim foto-kino savezom, organizira ciklus predavanja i projekcija pod nazivom "Vintage SF”.
U prostorijama Kino-kluba Zagreb (Trg žrtava fašizma 4) SFera će jednom mjesečno organizirati projekciju starog filmskog SF klasika, popraćenu predavanjem o filmu, autorima, književnim predlošcima, triviji i svim ostalim stvarima koje oduševljavaju filmofile koliko i SF geekove.
Ciklus kreće projekcijom filma Izgubljeni svijet (The Lost World), nijemog filma iz 1925. godine, snimljenog prema esefičnom romanu oca Sherlocka Holmesa, Arthura Conana Doylea. Film traje 1 sat i 8 minuta, projekcija započinje nakon uvodnog predavanja Aleksandra Žiljaka, dugogodišnjeg kritičara SF filmova u SFerinom glasilu Parseku.
Cijela stvar počinje danas, 27. rujna u 19:00 sati, a upad je besplatan. Dobro nam došli!
U zadnjih pola godina, opet sam opsjednuta muzikom... Imam osjećaj da je godinama nisam slušala... I naravno skidam na sve strane kojekakvu glazbu. Pa sam naletjela na pjesmu iz djetinjstva koju sam bila potpuno zaboravila...
Premalo vremena, previše posla. Nedovoljno sati u danu.
Barem jedan dio toga izazvan je činjenicom da dio mene neprekidno žudi za vremenom kad su se dani protezali unedogled, kad je iduće ljeto bilo svjetlosnim godinama daleko, i kad je nesanica bila samo dobra prilika da pročitam knjigu u jednom dahu, umjesto da zbog učenja, izlaska ili čega već moram prestati baš na najzanimljivijem dijelu.
[NB: žudi = prevrće po umu, u potrazi za načinom da opisano stanje nanovo ostvari]
[NB: ljeto = vikend, tjedan, mjesec, Uskrs, rođendan]
I što radim? Organiziram se. Naravno. I manage time. (Gorda, aren't I? Condoscending, too; jer moja iduća misao glasi: Being female, to samo znači da radim dvije-tri stvari odjednom dok ne pregorim, dok mi mozak toliko ne ubrza da prestajem biti suvisla, i u mislima i u govoru. A nikako da puknem. Koncentracija se pretvorila u sjećanje na bolno udaljeni osjećaj jasnoće, lakoće i jednostavnosti. Ali o tom, potom.)
[NB: organiziram = šizim, kasnim, zaboravljam, plačem, slažem navrat-nanos, molim se, dišem, dišem, dišem]
[NB: naravno = mrzim cijeli svijet. mrzim, mrzim, mrzim. mrzim strašću trogodišnjakinje koja oće sladoled, a tata ne da]
A što doista radim? Surf to relax. Pa tu i tamo naletim na zbilja dobar izgovor. Poput ovog:
* While a single paper book is portable, when you start collecting them, the size adds up quickly.
* Paper is difficult to search through, and hard to reference. Want to quote a snippit of a book? You have to rewrite it.
* Paper degrades over time. It starts to yellow, and will eventually fall apart.
* Distribution: Looking for a specific book? Go search through your local book stores, when you don't find it there, buy it online. Then wait for it to show up. Loose interest and/or excitement by the time it arives.
* Environment: Books are dead trees. Trees make oxygen. We breathe oxygen. The more paper books you read, the more you're killing the rest of us.
* Portability. I'm pretty sure I have mild ADD. You might as well. When I get bored with one thing, I move on to another for a while. If I carried around all the newspapers and books I could *possibly* want to read, I'd have a bad back too.
* You look like an old person when you read paper books. Look at all the kids running around with their ipods and cell phones. Do you think you look cool reading that old fashioned stack of papers? I don't think so...
* Paper Burns. You've probably read the article about the guy who's house was declared a fire hazard because of his paper book collection. If he collected ebooks, his house would be clean and tidy, and he'd still be living there.
* Personal Injury. The edge of a sheet of paper can be as dangerous as a razor blade. When I was in grade school, I would use a sheet of paper to cut my unsuspecting friends. I bet they wished that I had an iLiad back then. You can't get a paper cut from an ebook device. Also, ever hear the phrase "throw the book at him"? You wouldn't do that if it was an ebook reader. You wouldn't want to risk breaking it by throwing it at someone.
* Data integrity. If I spill something on a book, drop a match on it, or if it gets caught in a paper shredder, I'm stuck with a clump of useless wood pulp. I can't get another copy of it without buying it again, and there's no way to recover it. With an ebook, I can go back to where I bought it from, and simply download it again. No hassle, no fee, just a few clicks, and my collection is back.
Većina ljudi se trudi i ozbiljno daje prijedloge, no impresionirana nisam.
Ali - ali - fascinira me kako ne propuštaju priliku podbosti...
Lice: izražavanje nezadovoljstva, razočaranja, prijezira.
Naličje: duhovitost, smijeh.
Primjer?
NASA: Cause we've got nothing bettter to do (The Dude)
NASA! We Can't Keep it Up (mike)
NASA: Need Another Slogan Asap (Peter S Magnusson)
Fly or Die Trying (Circe Bowditch)
Houston, we have confusion. (marty kay zee)
NASA: No Fatal Accidents Since _________ (OSHA Dude) .
NASA: Sure we wear diapers. You did too when you were just starting. (Redbone)
NASA: This ain't exactly rocket science .... oh wait (Ralph)
NASA: When in doubt, subcontract out. (RockinRob)
NASA: Never Admit to Spacecraft Anomalies (RockinRob)
Ambition, fighting, war, courage. Destruction, danger, fall, ruin.
The Tower represents war, destruction, but also spiritual renewal. Plans are disrupted. Your views and ideas will change as a result.
The Tower is a card about war, a war between the structures of lies and the lightning flash of truth. The Tower stands for "false concepts and institutions that we take for real." You have been shaken up; blinded by a shocking revelation. It sometimes takes that to see a truth that one refuses to see. Or to bring down beliefs that are so well constructed. What's most important to remember is that the tearing down of this structure, however painful, makes room for something new to be built.
Ispušni ventil, moj
Jarci, kažu, ujutro mrze sebe, a popodne cijeli svijet. Zmajevi, pak, rigaju vatru. I Jarčica i Zmajica, ponekad se, eto, naljutim. Krene logično, pravo jarčevski, a ubrzo odleti, poput zmaja, bez obzira na eventualnu gravitaciju argumenata koji letenje ni u teoriji ne dopuštaju. I zato sam ovdje: da mogu rantati preko svake mjere kad me pamet napusti, a vatra ispuni.