Musician?
"Does he want to be a musician or an airline pilot?"
- A professor auditioning an electronic musician in the movie FAME
"Does he want to be a musician or an airline pilot?"
- A professor auditioning an electronic musician in the movie FAME
"I'm a Modern Man"
George Carlin, November 5th, 2005
Beacon Theater, NYC
I'm a modern man.
I'm a modern man.
I'm a modern man.
I'm a modern man.
I'm a modern man,
A man for the millennium,
Digital and smoke free.
A diversified multicultural postmodern deconstructionist,
Politically anatomically and ecologically incorrect.
I've been uplinked and downloaded.
I've been inputted and outsourced.
I know the upside of downsizing.
I know the downside of upgrading.
I'm a high tech lowlife.
A cutting edge state-of-the-art bicoastal multitasker,
And I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond.
I'm new wave but I'm old school,
And my inner child is outward bound.
I'm a hot wired heat seeking warm hearted cool customer,
Voice activated and biodegradable.
I interface from a database,
And my database is in cyberspace,
So I'm interactive,
I'm hyperactive,
And from time-to-time,
I'm radioactive.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
---From the notebooks of Lazarus Long (1966-4272)
Stan. You need to lay off the cough syrup. Seriously. I'm worried about you, man.
- Cartman from *South Park*
"You can even write cocoa programs in Java.
Don't write cocoa programs in Java."
- Aaron Hillegass
I'm free! Free from the spell of those diabolical teletubbies!
Thank You.
When the world is mine, your death shall be quick and painless.
Stewie - Family Guy
I was constantly surprised at the facility with which, by the aid of a few sonorous phrases, they refuted, without having comprehended me. They had learned, I know not where, that a monk... had formerly invented a mode of noting the gamut by ciphers: a sufficient proof that my system was not new.
J. J. Roussea *Confessions*
This amusement engaged me so much that [friends] were obliged to force me from it; and thus it is with every inclination I give into, it continues to augment, till at length it becomes so powerful, that I lose sight of everything except the favorite amusement. Years have not been able to cure me of that fault, nay, have not even diminished it... behold me, like an old dotard, infatuated with another, to me useless study, which I do not understand, and which even those who have devoted their youthful days to the acquision of, are constrained to abandon, at the age I am beginning it.
- J. J. Rouseau, *Confessions*
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
- Hunter S. Thompson
"The wiz man never fit you like the wiz kid did." --Ben Folds
*sigh**