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11月17日

zt: WORLD IDEOLOGIES EXPLAINED BY REFERENCE TO COWS

从来没转过帖子,这个太搞笑了要分享下。。。
FEUDALISM
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

SOCIALISM
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn
with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The
government gives you a glass of milk.

FASCISM
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of
them, and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM
You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker
about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile,
no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of
starvation.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government
takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it
on the black market.

PERESTROIKA
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes
all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the
"free" market.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the
milk.

BUREAUCRACY
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed
them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then
it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the
drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the
missing cows.

CAPITALISM
You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows,
because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.

PURE ANARCHY
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your
neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

ANARCHO-CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica
lessons.

OLYMPICS-ISM
You have two cows, one American, one Chinese. With the help of trilling
violins and state of the art montage photography, John Tesh narrates the
moving tale of how the American cow overcame the agony of growing up in
a suburb with (gasp) divorced parents, then mentions in passing that the
Chinese cow was beaten every day by a tyrannical farmer and watched its
parents butchered before its eyes. The American cow wins the
competition, severely spraining an udder in a gritty performance, and
gets a multi-million dollar contract to endorse Wheaties. The Chinese
cow is led out of the arena and shot by Chinese government officials,
though no one ever hears about it. McDonald's buys the meat and serves
it hot and fast at its Beijing restaurant.

AMERICAN CORPORATE CAPITALISM
Both cows are bloated with toxic steroids. They are set out to graze on
privatized public parks, release massive amounts of flatulence that
destroys the ozone layer, die from excess ultraviolet light, and are
processed into meat-like products that look great as a result of clever
and unprincipled marketing strategies. When you mortgage your
artificially devalued farm at high interest rates in order to buy meat,
you consume the poisoned material and develop terminal illnesses because
there is no health care plan to treat you. The corporate management uses
your purchase price to acquire THEIR meat from cows raised "naturally"
on tree-free rain forest land outside of the country where labor and
resources are cheap.

BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
Both cows are mad
 
11月7日

11月的节目单

oxford circus的圣诞灯火已经在周三就亮起来了,但是距离圣诞假还有那么多天。11月里面给自己自娱自乐下。
 
昨天去看了三个短片的现代芭蕾Agon, Sphinx和Limen。没有特别留意现代芭蕾,只是因为全球首映,特价的票便宜得惊人才去。没有想到竟然很好。三个40来分钟的独立表演,完全不同的风格。Agon把芭蕾跳得希腊田径;Sphinx自然是埃及的美艳;最后一部抽象现代的Limen,灯光效果跟服装设计都有意想不到的别致。开始的时候是荧光蓝的屏上出现空中坠落,并且不断变化着的数字字母,舞者们在台上的不同位置分布着,但光线效果把一些人埋起来,一些人凸现出来。舞蹈也跟传统芭蕾相去甚远。外行看个热闹,几乎觉得这些现代人被大量的信息埋起来,忙碌的处理着铺天盖地的数据符号。再下一组,灯光是一个彩色的四方型在台子正中,舞者都穿两个对比强烈的彩色,有得地方几乎是独立的模特走台,虽然也有配合,但是是逻辑上的,不是情感上的(大概因为不叙事,也不同于传统芭蕾)。再下去,有一对反差很大的舞者上台,黑人着黑,白人着白。最后是所有舞者着近乎肤色的服装,回归本真,也溶入团体。音乐好多minor key,节奏也基本跟随Brownian Motion, 不寻求和谐。outlier的出现或许才是现代世界的常态。。。啊哈,现代艺术。。。
 
接下去要看的是《蒂凡尼的早餐》(Anna Friel版)。朋友都讲看过Audrey就不用看这版了,因为那部是不可能超越的经典。因为我没看过Audrey版,对Anna的信心多点,再加上真的也不比电影票贵什么,就决定去看。过去4年也没看过stage drama,这部剧情多少知道点,不至于不懂。很期待。
 
然后是到处贴着抢眼广告的《睡美人》,场景布置服装化妆就够有卖点的古典的芭蕾。只希望女主角不要真正睡掉一大半的时间才好。又订了中午场,如果我也睡过去那就亏大了。。。
 
一个地方,好像越是不会长久待下去,越是能欣赏她的好。努力发掘伦敦的可爱之处。写写就到11月7号啦,祝云淡清秋生日快乐!!!