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[listersgirl]

True confessions time: I don't think I've ever actually knowingly heard an Oasis song until just this very moment. Also, I think I had them confused (or not confused so much as kind of assumed they were the same thing) with Coldplay (who I also haven't ever knowingly heard). Coldplay's the one that is constantly referencing The Beatles, right?

This is what happens when you work around music -- you spend so much time listening to the Icelandic music for bass clarinet that the stuff everyone else knows slides right by.

Last night when I opened Firefox on my laptop I got a page of sports scores, instead of all the tabs I had open before -- tabs with things I needed to read, potential Christmas gifts, reminders to myself. I had to double check that it was even my computer (sports scores!). :D I was very sad that all my tabs had been deleted, though. I can't remember exactly where/what most of them were, unfortunately.

Today my French class was a little less boring (because we were finally learning something new) but infinitely more frustrating. Look, I'm very fast at grammar exercises, and part of that is because I'm excellent at copying the pattern of the example. Whether this is teaching me what I actually need to learn, who knows, but it does mean that I'm going to argue with the teacher if he comes up with random sentences for answers that don't follow the sentence pattern as set out in the book (and that don't even include the thing we're trying to learn, argh). Plus he kept saying the wrong version of lequel/laquelle/lesquels/lesquelles, which was just confusing the people in the class who were having a hard time. This class is just really not working for me.

I am coasting through this day on French class annoyance. Whee.

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[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

actually, it's Oasis, who constantly compare themselves to The Beatles (in the sense that they are both British bands, this has some truth to it ;-) ). Coldplay are the ones who took Radiohead's sound (before they went hyper-esoteric) and made it pop-pier.

*Note: all opinions & snark are strictly IMHO

** French prof note: Having taught French, I have sympathy for the making-verbal-mistakes-while-teaching; however, I did strive to avoid the ones that concerned the grammar being taught.

[listersgirl]

Dammit! Sigh. Luckily neither of those bands are Canadian, so I don't really have to pay too much attention to them. :)

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

thank you for not paying attention to the random comma I threw in after "Oasis".

...and speaking of Canadian artists, I just saw k d lang a couple of weeks back (swoon!).

[sh1mm3r.livejournal.com]

Oasis are the brothers who can hardly stand each other enough to perform together. Their song "Champagne Supernova" instantly transports me to the week I worked as a temp for Nike when that song played incessantly on the radio and I punched in six-digit footwear development codes.

Tell me more of this Icelandic music. One of my absolute favorite crap-CD is this Nordic Roots CD with Nordid pop-folk groups. I adore it!!!

[listersgirl]

Oh, yeah, that song kind of rings a bell, although I tend to get it mixed up with that song by The Verve that was so huge for a while there. :D

We have a bit of a fascination with CDs of classical music for unusual instruments here - there was the disc of concertos for tuba and contrabassoon, and now this disc of Icelandic music for bass clarinet. I kind of love it!

[starfishchick]

Oasis is who DriveShaft (a la LOST) reminds me of - probably intentional, if I get the reference. (I'm not much for nuance about that kind of thing.)

The lead singer of Coldplay is married to Gwyneth Paltrow.

That is all I know about either band, I think.

[listersgirl]

I think it's definitely intentional - I mean, the brother's name is even Liam!

[mystery-diva.livejournal.com]

One of the many draws to a job at CBC is the thought of possible free french lessons. But then I think, oh...I'd have to actually learn the french. And, like you, I get frustrated when instructors deviate from the patterns! Gah!

Also, I remember German class in university, and feeling really betrayed when we learned the clauses. But, why didn't you tell me this before! You taught me wrong things, and now I have to relearn? Gah!

Daniel bought a good CD rom program for learning french, which he took to Sudan. Obviously learning by computer isn't idea, but it was something. He gave it to me and keeps asking me if I've started it. When would I do that, exactly?? Gah!

[listersgirl]

Considering you're taking two other classes, now might not be the best time to attempt to learn French, too, I think...