| ENGL 221 Recap |
[May. 30th, 2007|09:46 am] |
Music, film or pop culture referred to during my 20+ hours of lectures this semester:
Ebbets Field
Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Will Smith
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Six Degrees of Seperation
Men in Black
The Pursuit of Happyness
Ali
Joanna Newsom's Ys
Hitler
Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Julia Child
Nigella Lawson
BANG 1st Birthday Party
Jane Austen
Joe Canadian ("I Am Canadian" ads)
Toques
Hockey
Summit Series 1972
Rodney King
George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech/photo-op
The Simpsons
Tron
Depeche Mode
Honda
Girl Talk
Rick Ross
Daft Punk
The Colbert Report
The Word
The O'Reilley Factor
Talking Points Memo
Waking Life
The Apprentice
The Forbidden Planet
Star Trek
Star Wars
Futurama
Kill Bill
Michael Igantieff
Lou Gehrig
Yankee Stadium
The Pride of the Yankees
Booney
The Ashes
1932-33 Bodyline Ashes
Don Bradman
Bill Woodfull
Shane Warne
Wayne Gretzky
2006 Edmonton Oilers
Finnegans Wake
Arrested Development (TV series)
Memento
Sunset Boulevard
Casablanca
Australian Football League
Michel Foucault
Woody Allen
Annie Hall
Marshall McLuhan
The Medium is the Massage (LP)
A light bulb in a lamp
Magnolia
Pulp Fiction
Juan Gris
Cubism
Norman Mailer
Jack Bauer
24
Shakespeare
Richard Burton
Naomi Klein
Banksy
Paris Hilton
Dooney's Cafe
Starbucks
"Drake You Ho This Is All Your Fault" (graffiti on a Starbucks on West Queen West, Toronto, circa late 2005-early 2006)
Eminem
Justin Timberlake
Australian Idol
American Idol
Ronald McDonald
Mick Jagger
Vanilla Ice
Eddie Murphy
Richard Pryor
Golliwogs
Florence Kate Upton
Kate Finn
Thomas D. "Daddy" Rice
Jump Jim Crow
Zip Coon
"Cross Dressed Wenches"
Cuff
Dan Emmett
Bamboozled
Spike Lee
Stephen Foster
Stanton High School Choir (circa 1955)
Old Folks At Home
Elvis Presley
Dave Chappelle
Chappelle's Show, the "Racial Pixie" sketch
Young Jeezy ("Trap or Die")
Michael Richards
Seinfeld
The "Incident"
Richards in Blackface in the Past
The Jazz Singer
Al Jolson
Bing Crosby
Fred Astaire
Huckleberry Finn
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Bob Dylan
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Guggenheim
Beaubourg
The Seagram Building
The Las Vegas Strip
The AT&T Building (now Sony-BMG Building, NYC)
Piazza D'Italia (New Orleans)
Melbourne Museum
Federation Square
RMIT
Henry Ford
Gravity's Rainbow
Don DeLillo's White Noise
Family Guy
That 70s Show
John Cage
4:33
Salvador Dali
Un Chien Andalou
Jean-Luc Godard
Matthew Barney
The Cremaster Cycle
Bjork
Michel Gondry
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Charlie Kaufman
Francis Fukuyama
Neoconservatism (Neoliberalism)
The War on Terror
Rudyard Kipling
Baudrillard
Abu Ghraib
9/11
New Media
Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope
Google
Joyce's Ulysses
Abacus
CSIRAC
ARPANET
J.C.R. Licklider
Mosaic (web browser)
John Perry Barlow
A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
Personal Homepages
Tabatha's Days At Work
What's Inside Jeremy's Wallet
Tim O'Reilley
Web 2.0
eBay
Demetri Martin
Friendster
MySpace
Rupert Murdoch
Facebook
That about sums up my course actually. |
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[Mar. 17th, 2007|08:25 am] |
I've purchased a ticket for a ball game at the House That Ruth Built, Yankee Stadium! Section Tier 1, Row M, Seat 9! You can't understand how excited this makes me as it's been a dream of mine to see a game from either Fenway or Yankee Stadium since I was a little kid. With Yankee Stadium closing after 2008, this will probably be my only chance. The only downside is that the Yankees are playing the Orioles...who the hell do I cheer for?
Also, check out my supervisor's myspace (complete with music). this explains everything. |
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[Jan. 30th, 2007|09:09 am] |
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| | Animal Collective - People (Live) | ] |
For all intents and purposes, barring some disaster, I took the teaching gig. I have my own class of 50 young, likely Catholic students.
I've started to put together a coursepack. The greatest hits of cultural and literary theory - likely Raymond Williams, Barthes, McLuhan, Baudrillard, possibly Foucault maybe, Saussure, Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson probably, Benjamin, perhaps Derrida, etc. Some pop music and pop culture theory would likely be thrown in.
Add on suggestions. The course is broadly in semiotics and cultural studies or semiotic approaches to cultural studies, which opens up to just about anything really. |
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| My Own Class? |
[Jan. 25th, 2007|07:10 pm] |
I've just received an offer out of the blue to teach a course in cultural studies and literature at the Australian Catholic University in a field only tangentially related to my field. The offer came without even a job interview so either they're just looking for anyone or my CV totally impressed someone for the first time. The money is not great in that the 120 and 100 dollars an hour wages - one for the lectures, the other for tutorials - sounds amazing until you realize that it's only for 4 hours a week, marking inclusive.
I only really sent out my CV to these unis for tutorial jobs not to actually teach something but I guess I have to start somewhere. I feel like I've been away from undergrad classrooms for too long to remember how they even run anymore but I guess I could just take the money and run.
I'm a little scared of the whole thing since I think I'd be a pretty shitty teacher at first. Well, maybe we could just talk about television and music a lot? The extra money would be aces and it would totally piss off my dickish supervisor. |
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