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gerard · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 581 Location: Internet Cafe

Lets start one of those "fun" posts like my friend Kent in Russia does. In Korea it was Frankie Valli Cant Take My eyes off of You. (Which is in the Deer Hunter for any movie fans.) Jeez you couldnt get through a day without hearing this bloody thing. In a bar walking down the street-everywhere. At home you wouldnt be caught dead listening to this crap.

In China it is Rivers of Babylon. OK I owned a Boney M record circa 1980. But do we really need to hear Ra Ra Raspution 100 times a day??? Do they put music on a slow boat and it takes a decade to get here??? And if I hear My Heart Will Go On again I will shoot myself. Havent these people heard of Eminem or anything recorded after 1983???

I know there are more. Old school metal was also popular in Korea-Scorpions and Bon Jovi sort of stuff. If they would play Black Sabbath I would be OK with that. Help me-or better yet shoot me.

johnslat · Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 10:23 am Post subject: Bad feelings

My all-time favorite love-to-hate song: " Feelings ", by Debbi Boone, Pat's
daughter ( it must be genetic ).
Regards,
John

R · Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 277 Location: United Kingdom

if you live next door, perhaps you could sneak out and rewire their speakers to your stereo/clapped-out tape player/walkman. Instant revenge and new deluxe sound system to boot! You probably don't want to get caught, though...

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

Speaking of the Carpenters,they are still very popular here in Japan,along with Peter,Paul and Mary and the Beatles.I still like the Beatles but the Carpenters drive me crazy.ABBA is also still popular.I feel like I stepped into a time machine.Help...!! Shocked

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

And then when you go back to wherever you though home was, you will find that you do not know about the contemporary musci. TEFL is a time machine. If you are at this for any period you will become dislodged in time, like a character in one of Vonnegut's novels (Slaughterhouse 5 ?)

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

Slaughterhouse five was a great movie.The main character drifted from one time to the next.We never knew what was real time or imagined time.
I guess it's alot like living and working in a foreign country.When you go back home you really feel displaced,like you just dropped from the sky.
Good analogy,scot 47.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I was thinking of the book not the movie. Vonnegut is one of the great contemporaries but seems more like a cult writer. Ask most people and they have never heard of him. One of my literary heroes.

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

I have to admit that I never heard of him.I only saw the movie.If the movie was close to the book,then I would agree that he was a great writer.What else did he write?

guest of Japan · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1601 Location: Japan

Scot47,
I hope you are not right about most people not having heard of him.

Shonai Ben, It's a great book. You'll enjoy it.

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

Maybe Kurt Vonnegut has gone out of style. I don't know. Many years ago when I was a high school English teacher in the States, Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle were on a number of recommended reading lists for high school literature courses, those novels that students entering university were expected to have read.

By the way, does the character Billy Pilgrim ring a bell?

Best wishes!
Smile

johnslat · Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 2:59 pm Post subject: And so it goes

All you ( other ) Vonnegut fans - here's a great web page with links to reviews of just about all his books, plus lots of other stuff:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/lifetimes/vonnegut.html

Regards,
John

MissMolly · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 99 Location: China (USA)

scot47, johnslat, Ben round....do you suppose the the community on Dave's is a karass (I spelled it wrong, didn't I). I don't remember the exact definition - something like a group of people who are all working towards the same goal? Can anyone help me out with this one?
Molly
About the music - I, too, hear the Carpenters almost daily. Crying or Very sad

Ben Round de Bloc · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1946

Good golly, MissMolly, sure like to . . . well, um, anyway Embarassed

. . . from the early early mornin' till the early early night . . .

I think you've got it!

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

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arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

Yes, in China, still the Carpenters (I made the mistake of telling my students that Karen carpenter was dead...some were too sad to come to class the next day)
In the US it's considered bad if the radion station plays the same song six time in the same day. Here they play the same song six times in the same hour. Last year it was "I'm a big big girll in a big big world" The term ad nauseum doesn't even come close

In China they have an ancient Chinese secret. At the door of the music shop that blast the music so lod it breaks the ear drums. Thus when you enter the store, you are tone deaf, and can not tell good music from bad music. i understand this is useful in sales. I mean, they play the music loud, put the speaker near the door, so all passerbys must cringe for 30 seconds

We had Vonnegut in high school (guess i am old), but we had a male english teacher. Never could understand the point to Catcher in the Rye