Outclassed “This Could Be Coincidence” 12” EP
Whoa. I find it baffling that in the harrowingly expansive, uber-derivative state underground music exists in today that more people don’t catch onto it being as much about what you don’t do as what you do. And that those who don’t catch on send this tripe over to fucking Termbo. Good call! I don’t think I’ll review this. But here’s what I will do. I’ll leave you with a sample dollop of their beautifully pretentious upward-reaching scarf-wrapping prose they’ve set atop erratic, emotional math-metal tinged nu-hardcore: So consider this my letter of resignation, of slurred word on cracked concrete, life cannot be defined by these lines of symmetry, this sterile pulse, this silent motive. But we keep searching the sky for answers, when will we realize they are held firmly in our hidden wispers (sic) locked deep in the silence of our greatest fears and dearest friends… Oh, okay. My friends almost graduated high school. Now they make fun of kids like you from their bar stools upon returning from the mill and warehouse. Sometimes I wish I could fool myself into believing in the sincerity of this schlock, as I’d estimate they impress more babes with their ability to turn a supposedly damaged psyche into a an extroverted quest for a hug than say, oh, I don’t know, Black Flag did with their relentless masochism. Life is tough, y’know? But it’s not a lost cause. Keep on keepin’ on. Keep dreaming. Girls always buy that shit. GO STEELERS.
(Forcefield Records // www.forcefieldrecords.org)
Monday, June 22
I don't think I'll review this
Remember when that band Outclassed played at my house? It was some time last summer I guess. They were touring with another band called No Babies and they both smelled completely awful and played that super-loud, super-fast, screamy hardcore that bands were so fond of playing at that house, but they ended up probably being some of the nicest dudes that ever slept on my living room floor. So I was kind of bummed to see that Terminal Boredom gave them what must be the worst/deuchiest review a band has ever received.
What Koreans were reading last week.
From Korea Beat:
Overall top 10 ranking.
1. A long look at how much Real Madrid will be paying its players this year.
2. A guide to relieving stress, losing weight and improving your health through the proper selection of fruit smoothie.
3. More Real Madrid stuff.
4. Speculation on how Park Ji-sung will perform in the next World Cup.
5. Park Chan-ho recorded his third win of the season, this one coming against the Boston Red Sox.
6. North Korea qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
7. Manchester United announced its intention to sign “world class players.”
8. Park Ji-sung injured a toe.
9. A bird in Cardiff, in the UK, managed to eat a 1.2-meter snake caught in the water.
10. Choo Shin-soo recorded his ninth homer of the season against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Saturday, June 20
Thursday, June 18
Tuesday, June 16
Monday, June 15
Friday, June 12
a lackadaisical attitude
Korean papers are always printing these stories about foreign teachers being drunk and stupid. I want to say they're exaggerated but the majority of non-Koreans I've met here have been obnoxious assholes.
“I heard the teacher sometimes uses words like ’shit’ and ’shut up’. When the teacher is in a bad mood he tosses out the book. I heard one day he had the children write ‘I don’t want to study’ 100 times. It’s just so bizarre.”
40-year old Ilsan housewife Ms. Kim, a mother of two, didn’t know what to do.
With native-speaker English teachers increasing in number doubts about their character remain. There qare of course teachers who take a lackadaisical attitude to lessons or end them when they feel like it and others who have forged credentials.
According to the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology on the 11th, there were 2,456 native speaker English teachers in public schools nationwide at the end of September 2006, and that increased to 3,693 in 2007. Last year that increased by over 1,700 to reach 5,417 by the end of September.
The increase of 3,000 people in two years is part of the rapid expansion policy, but there continue to be cases of native-speaker teachers who have poor credentials or characters.
Yonhap News learned from parents and teachers of middle school D in Jangan-gu, Suwon, where a native-speaker teacher from the United Kingdom came to school drunk and caused a disturbance.
The drunken teacher began teaching sex education to the students in words they could not understand, saying “the reason I’m not married is I don’t want to have kids like you,” and “Dokdo is Japanese.”
An English teacher named Choi who works at a high school in Jeollanam-do said, “they don’t know the basic purpose of education. During lesson song times they just sing songs over and over, 10 or 20 times. I totally fail to see how you can learn English through pop songs.”
Thursday, June 11
The English Garden
I gave them a picture and told them to list ten taboos that they see they see portrayed in it. But instead of writing about the picture, they seem to have just added ten more taboos to it. I think my favorite part is the nice round ass they gave me. The drawing on the board of stick figures doing it doggy style is pretty good too. And look at the little black kid. Is he getting spat on and flipped off simultaneously? Why is his dick so big? And why is the fat-headed sex addict's hat so pointy? My students are awesome.
Monday, June 8
Saturday, June 6
Wednesday, June 3
Most-read
Last week was pretty eventful in Korea - the former president comitted suicide and the North fired five short-range missiles into the Yellow Sea and tested a nuclear weapon (successfully), after which they announced their withdrawal from the armistice that ended the Korean war and that the inspection of any of their ships would be considered an act of war. But Koreans say fuck it. Five of the ten most-read internet articles on Naver (Korean google) last week were about Park Ji-Sung, the South Korean who plays for Manchester United and by all accounts is completely mediocre, and though there are several articles in the list about President Roh's suicide, completely missing is an article about the nuclear test, missile launches or the threats of war.
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