Hash for February 02, 2009

Deep discussion on Grounhog's Day and the movie.

-Additive and Parataxis "word for word" linked from Ong's first chapter on blog.

- "Do you do things that you've done the day before?" "Can anyone do tell us about their rituals?"

- The overacting in the movie is one of the things that made it so memorable.
~ What is it about these movies, like "Karate Kid", that keep these around?

**** The Myth of the Eternal Return - Myth is that people believe things come around and around and around. ****

- The town in Groundhogs Day becomes a memory theatre.

- He's asking us for lines from our favorite movie.
~Someone in his other class says they watched, "Three Amigos" 112 times. He thought this was strange at first, then thought that this is what life is all about, finding something to repeat and go to over and over again.

- Lynn's blog gives us a list - a long list - of important, memorable things that have to do with violent. Memorable because of those things.

- Carly got maddelyns and remembers opening all them in class because when she did there was nasty green mold all over them. She was probably a little embarassed.

**** His requirement is for us to watch Groundhog Day. ****

- He's going to remember the things that she has told him and will use those things he remembers from the days past because he's been in the same day. The message of the movie is to, ***"PAY ATTENTION!"***

- There are plenty of things to discover in each day.

- Groundhog Day is highly important to this class... it must be because we're still talking about it. He's talking about the literary people who are sitting in the town around him, and when he asks them how they would like to live the same day over and over, they tell him that it sounds just like their actual lives.

- June 16th, 1902 - Bloom's Day - Leopold Bloom from Ulysses - A whole day in 850 pg. book that lives on in inphamy - Joyce made sure the world knew about this day that was so important to him so that people would remember it - Joyce made sure that every event actually happened in real life that had happened in the book.

Kyle's system will be the system we use to memorize the room and muse:

Thermostat is Erato - heat - (erotic poetry)
Chalkboard is Clio - old - (history)
Screen is Urania - stars - (astronomy)
"QUIET" desk is Thalia - loud - (comedy)
Overhead Projector is Polyhymnia - hymns on the board
Brown Desk is Terpischore - below Polyhymnia with the beat - (dance)
bulletin board - Calliope - out there - (epic poetry)
snow man - Euterpe - happy snowman - (song)
F symbol - Melpomene - swastika - (tragic)

By Friday he would like to know what the 50 things we will memorize are...

He says we should memorize the top 100 books of MSU.... type it into the MSU page and it would become highly useful for us in the future.

Happy Birthday James!

Hoorah to the legend!

10 Easy Steps to Freestyle Perfection

http://www.flocabulary.com/freestylerap.html



If you look at this site, it's almost as if they're teaching you how to make poetry, or would it be called "floetry"? ;-)

(Using metaphors, keeping a rhythm, talkign about stuff around you, etc.)

If only we could all be master poets and make the world as perfect as it should be. Then there would be no distinction between what we speak the world as and what it actually "is", we'd be making it that more beautiful or that more ugly (depending on the type of poetry written.... I mean spoken..... I mean communicated......lol).

Hash for January 30, 2009

-Discussing blogs and the provocative information within them: My blogs on green blood and too much memory. Lynn's on housekeeping. Janna's on connections with mine and other blogs.

***Assignment - Read your classmates blogs and make connections. Expound on them.***

Ecclesiastes - "Remember your keeper in the days of your youth." Just like a human being, the metaphors after that are about a house that is representative of you.

Tai's blog - Marshall McLuhan information and fun.

Be very selective about the blog that you choose to read and expound upon.

ON TEST - Flyting - Verbal assaults such as "Yo' Mamma"

-I was distracted by looking at Free Style "How To's" on the net. He's still talking about the exchange of insults and rhymes in it still anyway, so I must not have missed to much.

****I'll post some free styling tips later ;)****

**** Assignment - Come up with some flyting examples. ***

Bo Diddly came up with great flyting examples. Shakespeare did these as well. I came up with Hook (the movie) Flyting and Branden and some others came up with childhood rhymes.

Books passed around today:

Why Life Speeds Up as you get Older: How Memory shapes our Past - Douwe Draaisma

Techgnosis - Erik Davis

The Book of Memory - Mary Carruthers

There are images for each word. Some people think that this is to hard to memorize item with word. It is a good fight.... could be hard for some.

We've now started talking about the power of SMELLS in your memory. There are connections like none other when you smell something powerful.

This class is about much more than studying for academic purposes, its about remembering those things that have been lost. The important things in life.

**** Work with this in BLOG - Is it possible to remember something before you can speak? Many people don't think so.****

Shakespeare 130 - Remembrance of things past - We talked on it.

Talking about a French book where a man had every childhood memory come back into his head when he dipped a little mandolin cookie into a lime tea. He had to WRITE it down to remember it.

-Stanley Fish came to our class today and spoke about his blogs and related it to class.

Talked about Obama's inauguration speech being not good because it was parataxis (string things together with easy conjuctions like and....). Which is like a nursery rhyme format, really alliterative, "incantatory" (like incantation) and there's a link to the speech on Kevin's site (to see the rhetorical) to watch and study his techniques.

- *** REMEMBER FOR TEST - 6 things that are conflicts between oral and literate societies. ***

- (Parataxis is like this... you string together phrases with these conjunctions with subordinating anything... everything has equal weight in what you're saying....Can't the literate tradition use this for impact? Yes, look at the book of Mark about what Jesus did... he did this and this and this. Hemingway did this too. Cormack McCarthy does this wonderfully too - "The Road" does it great.)

- Let's do a Flyting together and write it down to blog with!

- AND AND AND AND has much more authenticity and importance than all that High Falluting Educated Language. (Parataxis is important - especially in this class)

**** ASSIGNMENT - You locate the Loci, and a recreation of people around the banquet table. Be prepared to talk about the muses in the 9 places around the class, he'll choose the best system for this.*****

Woman With Super Memory

A Southern California man employed in the entertainment business is the fourth person verified by scientists to have an ultra-rare memory gift: He recalls in detail most days of his life, as well as the day and date of key public events, says Larry Cahill, who co-leads a project on people with super-memory.

The name of the latest "bona fide" won't be released by scientists because he's a research subject, but he is free to identify himself.

Meanwhile, MRI scans on Jill Price, 43, the Los Angeles religious school administrator who in 2006 was the first person confirmed to have such an ability, reveal two abnormally large areas in her brain. That discovery could lead to breakthroughs on how memories are formed and kept, says Cahill, a neuroscientist at the University of California-Irvine. Price went public last year with the publication of her book, The Woman Who Can't Forget.

The two magnified areas in Price's brain are the caudate nuclei — typically used for memory when forming automatic habits — and a part of the temporal lobe that stores facts, dates and events, Cahill told USA TODAY.

These two areas of the brain may be working together, in a way unknown before, to make detailed recall of every day as automatic as remembering to brush your teeth in the morning or put on a seat belt, the research team speculates.

When Price first met the team eight years ago, "it seemed more of a scientific curiosity," Cahill says. "Now what we're looking at is a new chapter in the book on memories and the brain."

Hundreds of potential subjects have contacted the researchers, offering to be screened, he says. "Two or three look like the real McCoy" based on phone tests.

In addition to Price and the latest subject, the team also has verified the gift in Brad Williams of La Crosse, Wis., and Rick Baron of suburban Cleveland.

Unlike Price, the three men are left-handed, and they're not troubled by their rare ability, Cahill says. Price feels tormented by her onslaught of memories. She sees daily life in a kind of "split-screen," with present-day events, songs, smells, even TV programs cuing her back to detailed memories that she can't squelch. Gender differences in the brain could account for the differences, Cahill believes.

The larger areas in Price's brain almost certainly explain her rare gift, which was probably present at birth, says Brian Levine, a memory expert with Rotman Research Institute-Baycrest Centre at the University of Toronto.

Scientists now need to find out how the two large brain areas are connected so they can work together. "This may be a key piece of the puzzle as to how memory works, and that can be used in future research to help people with memory disorders," Levine says.

-By Marilyn Elias, USA Today

On Green Blood...

I just had to post this because it's so crazy... we all thought it was a joke, but green blood can be had.

From Cabinet of Wonders (which is where I got the picture of the blue man on my last post, who became blue from drinking colloidal silver, because he looked great!) this is an article on a man with green blood:

Well we have had various colours of skin and sweat but something more internal? Well there are blue bloods and red blooded males but green blood? Surely it is a sign one's mother had conjugals with ET? The Purging Squads stand in readiness to purge the inhuman taint but meantime we will have a look at Medical News Today's round up of the report from The Lancet:

The man - a 42-year-old white Canadian - had developed a compartment syndrome (localised tissue/nerve damage due to restricted blood flow) in both lower legs after falling asleep in a sitting position. He was a smoker whose medical history included chronic shoulder pain and migraine, and was taking a number of regular medications, including sumatriptan to treat the migranes

...

In the operating theatre, multiple attempts to insert a radial arterial catheter yielded dark greenish-black blood, which was immediately sent away for analysis. Meanwhile the catheter was eventually fully inserted, and the man recovered well.

Sulfhaemoglobinaemia, rather than cyanosis, was diagnosed as the cause of the green-black blood. Cyanosis is usually caused by deoxyhaemoglobin (the deoxygenated form of the blood's oxygen-carrying haemoglobin molecule), which imparts a blue colour to the skin and mucous membranes. However, occasionally this discolouration can be caused by sulfhaemoglobin - which forms when a sulphur atom is incorporated into the haemoglobin molecule, and can be caused by medications, including sulfonamides.

Is that not the craziest thing you've ever hear!? Hopefully MS does'nt show up at his blood drawing on March 17th with green blood, because they'd probably be calling in some big time doctors if he did. ;)

Hash for January 28, 2009

Books Passed Around:

History as an Art of Memory - Patrick Hutton

Learn to Remember - Dominic O'Brien

Theatre of the World - France A. Yates

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition - Frances A. Yates

Why, even after the age of the printing press, were people still obsessed with medieval memory techniques?

The interior world is just as infinite as the exterior world. We are here to access the cosmos within us all.

We need an image to remember things that are a little irrelevant - Images

***Next appointment Dr. Sexson has to give blood to the red cross. He last gave it on January 20th (inauguration). His next sign up is a little over two months, St. Patrick's Day. March 17th.....Can't forget this because the receptionist was told by him that he would give green blood. Will be on test.***

Chapter 1 - Yates - We have to suppose we are the attorney at a trial. Someone was poisoned. MS talked about the narrative that was written about the man lying in bed.... written so that people can remember it. In his left hand was a cup, some tablets, and testicles of a ram.

Test - Testimony - Testify - Testicle - Comes from a person who was going to testify having to put their actual hand on that part of the anatomy of a man before they testified. We get our word test today from this. Test for John's Birthday on the day of the test, so now we think of Ram's Balls when we think of his B-Day. :) We also need to know the cooler for the test, Sutter's way of memory for Polyhymnia, and maybe who has beautiful eyes... :)

G GRAMAD - His Liberal Arts from the Medieval Era again.

Our room:

Thermostat

(Off-Blue) Black Board

Screen

The "Quiet" Desk

Projector

Brown Table

Cork Board

"Let it Snow" Snowman w/ three push pins

Sign of the F's w/ seven push pins

(Put the Nine Muses onto these little things in the room)

<---***This here is the real assignment for Friday.***

Our assignment now up in class:

Ong

Kane

-pg. 32 - Myth & poor remembrance

-pg. 41 - Oak + Ash

"In the oral world, it's all poetry." -MS

Yates

-pg. 4 - Heightened sight

***Assignment (not really) - Go to old people's houses and look at their relics. You'll see their cabinet of curiosities.***

"You can do it!" -MS when talking of memorizing the 50 things you will memorize.

Another assignment (not really) is to just go out and survive in nature without any technology. We'd just be naked. It'd be hard.