Epic Fail

So, yes, my memory presentation didn't go well.

I got stuck on "say may name"... afterword (from memory, scout's honor) it would have gone Enter Sandman, Sabotage, Mmmbop, My Heart Will Go On, Loser, What a Man, Jump around, Black Hole Sun, My name is..., Mr. Jones, Livin' La Vida Loca, Ice Ice Baby, Tearin' my Heart to pieces,

Then I cross the street (In my memory theatre)

Creep (Love Radiohead by the way), No Diggity, Wannabe, Semi-Charmed Kind of Life, Wonderwall, Everybody Dance Now, Good riddance (Time of your life), Jeanie in a Bottle, Iris, I wanna sex you up, Two Princes, Shine, My Lovin', Killing me Softly, I only wanna be with you, You're still the one, Good Vibrations, 3 A.M., Who will save your soul, Man in the Box.

It was just a little embarrassing (OK, maybe more than a little) to fall flat on my face in class. With the accident downtown I had to change my memory theature, which I started right away on friday. My new memory theature, however, was less concrete, a little shaky, and when I stood up in front of the class... poof... I couldn't remember my new memory theature, much less the songs attached to it.

I can do the songs "smells like teen spirit" through "Say My Name" rather automatically because they still reside in parts of my old memory theature; parts that weren't part of the accident downtown, but most everything after that was originaly located around Boodle's and the Rockin' R.

Anyway, My apologies for my ever-so-epic failure. Dr Sexson said that given my situation he was not going to hold it against me, however I don't feel inclined to let myself off so easily. I may be redoing my recital come Wednesday.

Congrats to everyone that nailed their demonstrations. See you all on Wednesday

Memory theatre catastrophe

So, I'm sure I needn't inform anybody of yesterday's misfortunes; the accident at Boodle's and the Rockin R Bar, and I probably wouldn't bring it up in a blog for this class except for the fact that...

Downtown Bozeman is my MEMEORY THEATURE! And now it is quite exploded.

So, I can pretty well remember what is no longer there, and imagine the Rockin R and Boodle's, (And Starkey's if that is gone too) but at the same time a nagging part of me wants to "adjust" my memory theatre. It shouldn't be hard but it means re-aligning all of my songs (I'm memorizing songs) to the new locations, so... I will be downtown this weekend (hopefully it will be accesable) putting songs into diferent shop windows... should be a blast. (I didn't intend for that to be a tasteless pun)

muses and Ong's points of orality

9 things, 27 answeres

-Thermostat= Erato= Additive
-Chalkboard= Clio = Agregative
- Overhead screen= urania= redundancy
-Quiet Desk= Thalia= conservative
-Projector= Polyhymnia=lifelik
-Table= Therpsicore=agonistic
-bulletin board= caliope=empathetic
-snowman= euterpe=homeostatic
-thingmagig/ mel with a pomogranate (sp)= melpomene=situational

Test Info: A Recap.

So we went over the test today... what would be on it, And for my benefit (yours as well) I'm typing out a recap. Enjoy!

Info from Kane (for the record, Kane is my favorite so far):

1) Moonbones (Illustrate's repetition)
2) Property and it's effect on an oral culture
3) Agriculture's effect on the human connection to the land (and consequently it's conection to orality)
4)Practicality of orality (Red sky at night, sailors take delight; Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning)
5)White berries (don't eat them!)
6) Caribou and frogs (frog as the guardian of the river, caribou returning to the spirit world.)
7)Kane's definition of Myth: The song the earth sings to itself. We just happen to hear every now and then.

Info from Ong:

1) Primary Orality: An oral culture uses only oral comunication (thought: American indian cultures had smoke signals, but are commonly thought of as primarily oral)
2) Secondary orality: A mostly oral culture heavily influenced by written language (welcome to everything as we know it)
3) Chirographic- Writing culture (pre- printing press)
4) Typographic- Typing culture (Hello modern era: Post printing press)
----Parataxis- clauses joined without conjunction
----Bicameralism- Decisions made with both the mind and the soul
5)Vision vs. sound (check out p. 72)
6) Platos Denounciation of written language (p. 79 in Ong and p. 38 in Yates)

Info from Dame Yates:

1) The story of Simonedes tells the importance of memory (remember the banquet catastrophy) 2)Rhetoric> Ethics> Cosmos (Cronological view of memory. Check out p. 38-39)
3)The story of Augustin (p. 48) Knowledge of the devine.

Our contribution (well, YOUR contribution. I wanted to talk about agriculture bu it was covered):

1) Seven liberal arts (GGRAMAD) Gramar, Geometry, Rhetoric, Arithmatic, Music, astronomy, and dialect.
2) Neoplatonism = Mysticism
3) John Nay's B-day!!!
4) Anamnesis: The recolection of EVERYTHING
5)Bruno was burned february 17, 1600 (dates... not my forte)
7)The 9 muses and Ong's 9 properties of orality (Erato turns up the heat)
8) Bicameralism (look it up in Ong)
9)Esoteric: Secrets from the unwashed masses!
10) Imagination= 1 hour photo for memory.
11)Remember Shahar Azad (Spelling?) of 1001 nights
12)The distinction between natural and artificial memory.
13) Collective Vs. Personal unconsiouse.
14)Plato: Writing establishes outside of the mind that which should remain in the mind. (Plato was paranoid)
15)Green Blood... Nuf' said.
16)Kevin's three topics of interest concerning memory ARE: Memory, imagination and soul
17) The three epthets given by Ong: Sturdy Oak, Beautiful Princess, Brave Soldier (our own are Keen Kenning Ben and Kate of the Beautiful Eyes)







Jeeze! it's late!!!

My 50 items.

I chose to barrow the top 50 songs of the 1990's for my list... It's the list provided by the VH1 countdown and apears as fallows:

1. Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991, #6 US)
2. U2 - "One" (1991, #10 US)
3. Backstreet Boys - "I Want It That Way" (1999, #6 US)
4. Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You" (1992, #1 US)
5. Madonna - "Vogue" (1990, #1 US)
6. Sir Mix-A-Lot - "Baby Got Back" (1992, #1 US)
7. Britney Spears - "...Baby One More Time" (1999, #1 US)
8. TLC - "Waterfalls" (1994, #1 US)
9. R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (1991, #4 US)
10. Sinéad O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1990, #1 US)
11. Pearl Jam - "Jeremy" (1991, #79 US)
12. Alanis Morissette - "You Oughta Know" (1995)
13. Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) - "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang" (1992, #2 US)
14. Mariah Carey - "Vision of Love" (1990, #1 US)
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge" (1991, #2 US)
16. MC Hammer - "U Can't Touch This" (1990, #8 US)
17. Destiny's Child - "Say My Name" (1999, #1 US)
18. Metallica - "Enter Sandman" (1991, #16 US)
19. Beastie Boys - "Sabotage" (1994)
20. Hanson - "MMMBop" (1997, #1 US)
21. Celine Dion - "My Heart Will Go On" (1997, #1 US)
22. Beck - "Loser" (1994, #10 US)
23. Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue - "Whatta Man" (1993, #3 US)
24. House of Pain - "Jump Around" (1992, #3 US)
25. Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun" (1994)
26. Eminem - "My Name Is" (1999, #26 US)
27. Counting Crows - "Mr. Jones" (1993)
28. Ricky Martin - "Livin' la Vida Loca" (1999, #1 US)
29. Vanilla Ice - "Ice Ice Baby" (1990, #1 US)
30. *NSYNC - "Tearin' Up My Heart" (1998)
31. Radiohead - "Creep" (1993)
32. BLACKstreet - "No Diggity" (1996, #1 US)
33. Spice Girls - "Wannabe" (1997, #1 US)
34. Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life" (1997, #4 US)
35. Oasis - "Wonderwall" (1995, #8 US)
36. C+C Music Factory - "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" (1991, #1 US)
37. Green Day - "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" (1998)
38. Christina Aguilera - "Genie In A Bottle" (1999, #1 US)
39. Goo Goo Dolls - "Iris" (1998)
40. Color Me Badd - "I Wanna Sex You Up" (1991, #2 US)
41. Spin Doctors - "Two Princes" (1993, #7 US)
42. Collective Soul - "Shine" (1994, #11 US)
43. En Vogue - "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" (1992, #2 US)
44. The Fugees - "Killing Me Softly With His Song" (1996)
45. Hootie & the Blowfish - "Only Wanna Be With You" (1995, #6 US)
46. Shania Twain - "You're Still the One" (1998, #2 US)
47. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - "Good Vibrations" (1991, #1 US)
48. Matchbox Twenty - "3 A.M." (1997)
49. Jewel - "Who Will Save Your Soul" (1996, #11 US)
50. Alice in Chains - "Man in the Box" (1990)

Skiing and Memory

I just had a thought while I was sitting here listening to Dave Matthews and I thought I would share it (since you're all dieing tho hear).

I was a ski racer for six years through middle school and high school and the sport contains more memory involved than I gave much thought to for that entire time. What could we possibly have to remember? Well we had to remember to bring out skis, boots, poles... I'm just kidding.

Actually, before every run the racers spend time inspecting the course, that is memorizing it. We were responsible for memorizing every nook and cranny of the run so we would have fewer surprises during our run. This would beg the dedication of three to five runs in which we stop at every gate to inspect and memorize the pitch, fall line, distance between gates etc.

This was especially important in slalom races (short, tight turns down a steep pitch). We were accountable for every gate, which we numbered one through the last. We kept them in mind and counted them as we made the run, not because the number of the gate was particularly important, but the terrain around that gate or the coarse feature was.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-7-8 are a hairpin, 9, 10,11,12, 13 and 14 are a corridor leading into a roller, 15 leads into a significant change in pitch, steeper so we crank on the edges more... 16, 17, 18... and so on.

We reach the bottom out of breath and with the numbers echoing through our heads, only now instead of just features we remember our own performance at each gate... Its our very own "memory trail".

My Starry Sky

Dr. Sexson make far too much of the stars that I put on my ceiling. They are old and I was young and the notion of making a realistic night sky out of my bedroom ceiling was far beyond my grasp. There are a few of the more commonly known constelations: Ursa Minor (naively recreated as a miniature of the big dipper), Ursa Major, Pegusus, Big dog, Little dog, and Orion are the only constelations I have, and they're not even in the right places.

I would feel dishonest if I led anyone to believe I had a fabulouse recreation of the night sky on my ceiling, but all the same, I think I did pretty darn good considering I was only eight years old at the time.