Well, before I start off my usual incessant weekly ramblings, let me share a definition of a word (well, it's an English blog, and we're all learning something new everyday, it wouldn't hurt):
Meme (noun): A cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation).
In other words, it is the culture counterpart for genes. For example, imitating Michael Jackson's dance on his music video "Thriller" (I remember one person, fairly corpulent, in American Idol auditions sang this song with shrill cacophony). In today's underground Internet ideology, memes spread rather perniciously like a fast reacting virus.
Star Wars Boy, The Bus Uncle, Chuck Norris "divinity", the "O RLY?" owl, babies, cats, "All Your Base Are Belong To Us", Leroy Jenkins, is but a short list of the occasionally unutterable deviations of the memes that has been contagiously disseminating in the past few years. Sometimes I wonder in slight terror on how humans have gone far, manipulating their own technologies into such an inconceivable sense.
Still don't get it? Pictures are sometimes worth more than a thousand words.
For those of you who don't get the meaning of the eBay picture, it basically says that on the website where you usually sell things to other people through auctioning, it's easy to trick people by saying that he sells a PSP, when in reality, in the box it contains a 1990's Game Boy. And it IS cheaper for a reason. The other three are probably self-explanatory.
While it is slowly harmful for other people who hasn't delved the underground Internet community, which I strongly advise for all of you not to get involved with, it is still quite an amusement for people who understand the meaning of these deviations. After all, it is not for the light-hearted. For all I know, such communities that I speak of are sometimes excessively intolerant to what they call "noobs", or people who are new to this kind of environment and demands questions to others. And then the next day someone anonymous from that community happens to hack you computer it and crashes the next time you turn the power on. sometimes you have to be careful and considerately vigilant in the Internet, because sometimes you may never know who you're interacting with over the telephone lines that connect the humongous entity of people known as the International Network, or Internet for short.
Juxtaposing a person's image and incorporates them with a satirically humerus (erhm, humorous) sentences is the cream of the crop of these phenomenon. It sometimes aims to ridicule a certain event in a movie or sometimes in everyday life, and when you introspect these at one length of time, you began to ponder upon the bare naked nature of humans. One of our sins is to degrade somebody in any sort of way that is pleasurable and somewhat hedonistic (I jokingly refer myself as one who takes pleasure in degrading myself). And yet we ceaselessly deny this fault of ours, thus making us hypocrites of our own words.
So remember kids, reflect on how you use the Internet. Don't end up like me. If you know what I mean.
Oh yeah, Garfield is also starting to be one of the victims of underground Internet memes. Don't know how it started, though.
Song of the Day: Piano Concerto No. 1 "ANTI-ARES" (Originally ピアノ協奏曲第1番"蠍火")
Artist: Virkato Wakhaminov (a Russian pseudonym for someone anonymous) Genre: Classical Dirge
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze55fm7pzZ4]
This song is AMAZING. It ultimately defines the solemnity of melancholy and lugubriousness (interested, WWJessicaD?) yet the magnitude of the feeling is almost heartbreaking and goes at a surprisingly fluctuating pace. You can assume that the piano notes are performed by a usual pianist, but in truth, it's computer-generated, because I doubt that Mozart or Bach or Chopin would play this piece effortlessly. It does incorporate an orchestra to accompany the piano; though, I doubt they use real people to record that as well. Anyways, it starts off by playing the both the lowest and highest notes of the 8-octave piano keyboard. It went on a quiet, steady pace, and it accelerated slightly before going slow again for quite a while. And then it suddenly starts to go fast and the tone becomes dramatic and tragic to the point that you'll think the tension is climaxing, but then it slows down for one last time before it makes its grand, cataclysmic finale, which is instantaneously followed by a period of silence, and followed by the piano's last solemn notes in pianissimo assai.
(....Wouldn't you believe that there is actually a musical term called pianissississississimo (pppppp)?)
....I watched The Gods Must Be Crazy on TOK class. It was kinda sad at first but I knew it was going to get sillier, if we had the chance to watch the sequel.
Until next time, stay tuned. Cheerio.
From the schizophrenically psychotic retard,
Yoga Pradana A.K.A. Dr VoltsPerSecond
1 comment:
Oh, you naughty man, you.
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