Not there

I feel like I’m making stuff up, and that this is a load of rubbish that has very little bearing on intended (or realised) meaning. But it doesn’t do well to tell someone that their discipline (linguistic analysis, it seems) masqurading as English is completely unhelpful and generally full of crap. This feels so much like “close textual referencing” in the Advanced HSC course. Extension was sensible and was far more concerned with the context and comprehension of a text… this, I suppose, pretends to touch on comprehension but in practice seems to be far more about composition without any regard for context. Yet, somehow, we’re not meant to argue against the grain. This sorcery is enough to make me want to abandon the subject altogether — the subject of this analysis is a dead horse, and I am neither a jockey nor a necromancer. Still to conjure: several hundred words. Why? About what? There is nothing useful here! Empty parallels and distinctions have no bearing on meaning or characterisation! If it only asked for a contrast between the two, that would be fine. The idea that grammatical analysis makes a (meaningful) contribution to this particular excerpt is, at best, farcical. And I am venting here so hopefully I do so less in the essay proper. I so don’t get this subject.

Later: Well, the fiction is over. I don’t want to think about the exam, though at least that is limited in the scope of rubbish expected. I’m having one of those I-really-want-to-take-a-semester-off/drop uni nights.

Folded paper concealing cursive curses cornered

How is this going to get any better? No longer running over a whiteboard because there’s not that much content to go around. I don’t even like the idea of this, everything was just founded upon some presupposition that things were meant to be easier than they are. Which they aren’t. So it wasn’t. So I’m wrong. And its midday. I’m getting sunburnt whilst typing.

Can’t. Win. This. Week.

Pick the real clause. One of them is, I think. Whatever. Just over it.

Not even afraid of getting it wrong because I already have and it doesn’t seem to make anything perceptibly worse. Now it’s just broken things strewn everywhere. The wreckage of now.

(WordPress, sometimes it just seems wrong to tick a box)

Emoing

They don’t jam, they emo. Only without the emotion.

– Erin

Bravia Paint

New ad from Sony Bravia. The Sony brand doesn’t get much of a work out this time around, it’s only displayed separately from the Bravia and “like no other” brands. It seems they’re linking like no other and Bravia more with this campaign? Anyway, it’s great test-reel fodder with a 720 HD download available from their site. Only 90 seconds, I’m hoping they’re going to release a longer one. As with the last one, the making-of is worth watching. I actually found it way more emotive than the slightly-austere real thing, because there was a cheering crew (of 200!!) and crowd and real explosion sounds. The real ad is brilliant, sure, but the making-of is more moving.

Pot of gold?