Showing posts with label Compare and Contrast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Compare and Contrast. Show all posts

22 March 2009

Wine, Women & Slag Heaps


Someone somewhere must have quite the sense of humour.
They must.

23 February 2009

Actually, No

Compare and contrast:

In a meeting with a nice but confusing, and confused, gentleman:

NBC,AC,G: Mumble, mumble, vague...and I'm going to be completely up front with you now...vague, digression, vague, mumble...You know what I mean? You do know what I mean, don't you?

and

Public Enemy - 'He Got Game':

Flavor Flav: This is a call to all you sleepin' souls. Wake up and take control of your own cipher and be on the lookout for the spirit snipers tryin' to steal your light. You know what I'm saying?Look within-side yourself for peace, give thanks, live life and release. You dig me? You got me?

18 February 2009

Loafin' Around

Compare and contrast:

"Remember you've got to reach high to be risen."
- Michael Franti & Spearhead, 'Nobody Right, Nobody Wrong'

and

"I have immunity from the Justice Department, and I have immunity from the Risen Jesus. And nobody beats the Riz!"
- Mason Verger, 'Hannibal'

Points of View

Compare and contrast:

"The more I see, the less I know."
- Michael Franti & Spearhead, 'Say Hey (I Love You)'

and

"The more I see, the more I know. The more I know, the less I understand."
- Paul Weller, 'Changing Man'

13 November 2008

The Sounds of Summer

Compare and contrast:

American Girl by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

and

American Woman by The Guess Who

10 October 2008

Compare and Contrast

Life in the City by Michael Franti & Spearhead

and

Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think) by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians

21 July 2008

Perspectives

Compare and contrast:

"We're all victims of our upbringing."
- Bloody Ern

"You're never shot of your kids."
- Don Mary

26 October 2007

The OCD

Candy by Presidents of the United States of America
and
Completely Sweet by Eddie Cochrane

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No One Else by Weezer
and
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

09 June 2007

02 February 2005

30 November 2004

Musicology

The Archies' Sugar, Sugar and POTUSA's Candy. Compare and contrast.

(In an essay not lasting more than three minutes, adds Grumpy.)