![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Nobody ever wants to study Canadian.
File this under "Kids Say the Darndest Things":
On the final day of the NKU World Languages Camp, we had a pageant day in which all of the language groups got to give a presentation to all of the other language groups. This year we had a grand total of four different Spanish groups, which was twice as many groups as the other languages had.
There was on particular student in my Japanese group who was only ten years old and prone to often saying completely awesome things right out of the blue. On the pageant day he did not disappoint. Halfway through the presentation from the third Spanish group, he turned to me and asked, "Why are there so many Spanish groups?"
"That's because a lot of people wanted to study Spanish this year," I told him.
He pondered this for a moment, then said to me, "That makes sense, I guess. Since nobody ever wants to study Canadian and Spanish is the next closest country to us."
Bless his heart. I'm going to miss this kid so much.
Next, file this under "Dads Say the Darndest Things":
So my dad is not a native English speaker, which means that he is still occasionally prone to mixing up his English idioms when he speaks. We still make fun of him for this one time that, after a particularly gluttonous meal, he declared to me and my sister, "I'm stuffed like a pork!" For many years I thought that nothing could ever top "I'm stuffed like a pork". Well, until yesterday, that is.
My dad and my stepmom came to visit me, and while we were having lunch together, my dad decided to tell me a story about his latest and greatest harrowing adventure being mistreated by United Airlines employees at O'Hare International. Halfway through this story, in order to convey that he had been getting angrier and angrier, my dad said, "And by that time I had really got my mustard up--"
My stepmom and I started laughing. So he stopped and said, "What?"
"Dander," my stepmom corrected him. "You mean they got your dander up."
"Oh, okay," my Dad said. Then literally two minutes later, he said again: "And I didn't mean to be rude, but they kept raising my mustard so I wasn't about to back down, you know?"
And then I just started laughing again. I mean, I can understand exactly where I'm stuffed like a pork came from, as that's a very common mistake for non-native speakers to make. But where on Earth is this mustard thing coming from, and how did it even get into my dad's vocabulary in the first place?! It's a total mystery to me.
Next, file this under "Things I Wish I Had Paid More Attention To When I Was A Little Girl":
Recently I've been on an 80's music video binge. And I know that the art of the music video really didn't start to take off until the late 80's, but I had forgotten how often the best music videos of the early 80's often had absolutely nothing to do with the songs that they were made for. (Unless you believe that "Total Eclipse of the Heart" actually is a song about a sexually frustrated pedophile teacher who wants to diddle Catholic school boys, I guess.) But this weekend I had the joy of rediscovering what is absolutely my all-time favorite 80's music video that in no way shape or form even remotely comes close to matching the song that it's made for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66aqcOsnP2E
Okay, so embedding is disabled for that particular video, but just in case you can't see it and/or don't want to click: That is the music video in which PAT BENATAR FIGHTS NAZIS.
Yes, really.
So flist, do you have any favorite epic music videos in which the video doesn't particularly match the song?
On the final day of the NKU World Languages Camp, we had a pageant day in which all of the language groups got to give a presentation to all of the other language groups. This year we had a grand total of four different Spanish groups, which was twice as many groups as the other languages had.
There was on particular student in my Japanese group who was only ten years old and prone to often saying completely awesome things right out of the blue. On the pageant day he did not disappoint. Halfway through the presentation from the third Spanish group, he turned to me and asked, "Why are there so many Spanish groups?"
"That's because a lot of people wanted to study Spanish this year," I told him.
He pondered this for a moment, then said to me, "That makes sense, I guess. Since nobody ever wants to study Canadian and Spanish is the next closest country to us."
Bless his heart. I'm going to miss this kid so much.
Next, file this under "Dads Say the Darndest Things":
So my dad is not a native English speaker, which means that he is still occasionally prone to mixing up his English idioms when he speaks. We still make fun of him for this one time that, after a particularly gluttonous meal, he declared to me and my sister, "I'm stuffed like a pork!" For many years I thought that nothing could ever top "I'm stuffed like a pork". Well, until yesterday, that is.
My dad and my stepmom came to visit me, and while we were having lunch together, my dad decided to tell me a story about his latest and greatest harrowing adventure being mistreated by United Airlines employees at O'Hare International. Halfway through this story, in order to convey that he had been getting angrier and angrier, my dad said, "And by that time I had really got my mustard up--"
My stepmom and I started laughing. So he stopped and said, "What?"
"Dander," my stepmom corrected him. "You mean they got your dander up."
"Oh, okay," my Dad said. Then literally two minutes later, he said again: "And I didn't mean to be rude, but they kept raising my mustard so I wasn't about to back down, you know?"
And then I just started laughing again. I mean, I can understand exactly where I'm stuffed like a pork came from, as that's a very common mistake for non-native speakers to make. But where on Earth is this mustard thing coming from, and how did it even get into my dad's vocabulary in the first place?! It's a total mystery to me.
Next, file this under "Things I Wish I Had Paid More Attention To When I Was A Little Girl":
Recently I've been on an 80's music video binge. And I know that the art of the music video really didn't start to take off until the late 80's, but I had forgotten how often the best music videos of the early 80's often had absolutely nothing to do with the songs that they were made for. (Unless you believe that "Total Eclipse of the Heart" actually is a song about a sexually frustrated pedophile teacher who wants to diddle Catholic school boys, I guess.) But this weekend I had the joy of rediscovering what is absolutely my all-time favorite 80's music video that in no way shape or form even remotely comes close to matching the song that it's made for:
Okay, so embedding is disabled for that particular video, but just in case you can't see it and/or don't want to click: That is the music video in which PAT BENATAR FIGHTS NAZIS.
Yes, really.
So flist, do you have any favorite epic music videos in which the video doesn't particularly match the song?
no subject
And your dad sounds pretty epic. What's his first language? I actually don't hear people attempt expressions like that very often when English isn't their first language, so it's cool that he's trying!
And as for fail music videos, I really like Haddaway's "What is Love". The song is about a guy loving this girl and her... not being really serious about him, I guess. The music video, however, is a guy chilling out in a haunted castle and being molested by some skanky lady who's supposed to be a witch or vampire or something. IDK.
It's silly.
no subject
OMG THE WHAT IS LOVE VIDEO!!!
This one, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpN60KKBAjc&feature=avmsc2
AWESOME.
no subject
Actually, come to think of it, my dad does that, too, even though English is his only language. He particularly likes saying that my mother and I are "like two fleas in a pot".
Uh, whoops?
no subject
no subject
no subject
omg I am watching the "Guns and Horses" video right now and it is EPIC. Thank you for the rec!
no subject
Also, if you haven't seen them before, do check out Planet P Project's videos, especially "What I See" and "Behind the Barrier". They will scare the LIVING CRAP out of you. At least they did me.
no subject
no subject
My current wackyville music video is "Always" by Erasure, better known as the Robot Unicorn Attack song. Tangentially, I hope Cartoon Network has a Robot Unicorn Attack float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and plays it like the year they Rickrolled the world with their float.
no subject
...What is he wearing on his head?!
Awesome.
no subject
Perhaps the whole costume is a test of concept art of the Medicine Seller from Mononoke?
I like to think that when the chick laughs at 3:34, she's finally reached the breaking point of sheer ridiculousness she can put up with in one video.
Part of me wonders if they were actually reenacting some Japanese folktale or myth. I'm certain they slaughtered it if they were.
no subject
You're right about the slaughtered part, though. ^^;; I gotta admit, though, I kind of have to bow to the awesomeness of a music video for a love song that actually shows its pair of starcrossed lovers being rolled up into a giant snowball during its climatic finale.
no subject
*looks at icon choices* ...Oh, damn, guess my paid extra icon space ran out. Siiigh.