Okay, one - how dare those fuckers remake yet another classic Canadian horror movie?! Seriously I am a bit offended. I read an article recently about how all Canadian cinema was basically the equivalent of independent American cinema, and that's true. Whole lotta independent films at your local multiplex? Exactly. Which is why horror is such an important genre to our industry because you can make a movie on a nothing budget, with no stars, and actually get it on some screens. Two words: Ginger Snaps.
Two: Congrats on your breast thingie. Holy shit. We will talk more about this and you can give me the blow-by-blow
Three: Hahahah. Profs have time to fill, and they just stand up there and blab. One technique to deal with it is to get into it with him, ask questions, have a debate. Watch out also for the inevitable "devil's advocate" debater to emerge from your fellow classmates, the guy who just likes to fuck with people and argue on the opposite site of of something they believe in strongly and then say it's an academic devil's advocate thingie - when in truth he either really does believe in the position he's arguing, or he believes in nothing. Not to be confused with the defensive guy who at some point brings up the fact that since he's paying for this education the prof owes him something.
Good English? Gah. Tell him people who self-identify as grammar and spelling Nazis set up a dynamic where one has to be educated to express an opinion, and this is a multi-cultural world and not everybody speaks English as a first language, and it's more important that people speak than that they speak well. And that the second invention of moveable type by Gutenberg happened at a time when the English language was still in a state of flux.
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Date: 2009-01-22 11:33 pm (UTC)Two: Congrats on your breast thingie. Holy shit. We will talk more about this and you can give me the blow-by-blow
Three: Hahahah. Profs have time to fill, and they just stand up there and blab. One technique to deal with it is to get into it with him, ask questions, have a debate. Watch out also for the inevitable "devil's advocate" debater to emerge from your fellow classmates, the guy who just likes to fuck with people and argue on the opposite site of of something they believe in strongly and then say it's an academic devil's advocate thingie - when in truth he either really does believe in the position he's arguing, or he believes in nothing. Not to be confused with the defensive guy who at some point brings up the fact that since he's paying for this education the prof owes him something.
Good English? Gah. Tell him people who self-identify as grammar and spelling Nazis set up a dynamic where one has to be educated to express an opinion, and this is a multi-cultural world and not everybody speaks English as a first language, and it's more important that people speak than that they speak well. And that the second invention of moveable type by Gutenberg happened at a time when the English language was still in a state of flux.
(Tell him whatever you want. xoxox)