January 2008
13 posts
“I put a Da-Da! in the beginning,” Mr. Conti said. “any kind of Da-Da! gets your attention. Then it goes into a tune we’ve heard played so weepily throughout the movie, but now I put a beat behind it and put it in a major key.” When Rocky runs up the museum steps, musically, Mr. Conti said, “I am milking it as much as I can.”
- Bill Conti, the composer of the Rocky theme song, shedding...
“Yummy with Hummy!”
– The sign-off to Hummy’s dinner party invitation
Google left behind as Koreans Naver-gate web →
One way to look at how Koreans are different than Americans and another partial answer to the question below. “Knowledge In” seems to combines the variety of google’s results with the semi-legitimacy of wikipedia.
Wikipedia founder launches search engine →
What makes a search engine good?
“Does this bed squish?”
– Hummy, as she unsuccessfully tries to squish my bed 5 inches smaller, hoping that a full-sized bed will fit in her room
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Yams This winter will be all about the yam. Also do not forget: the red cabbage.
THE 2007 STYLE SECTION TOP 5 QUOTES OF THE YEAR: →
5. “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and...
“I think everybody should be a machine.”
– Andy Warhol in 1963, 21 years after Jackson Pollock proclaimed, “I am nature.”