Throngs of Chinese youths are flocking to tattoo parlors looking to colorfully emboss their bodies with “meaningful” English language words.
“I couldn’t decide between CRYMPH or DLECH,” said Chengdu high school student Mingmei Lee. “I know they both mean beautiful flower dancing in the wind in American, but I can’t decide what looks prettier.”
This strange trend mirrors a popular body art movement in the US where many Americans — especially professional basketball players and young celebrities — get Chinese language characters tattooed on their bodies. Many believe the Chinese characters add an air of spirituality to their beings and help present them as enlightened individuals who respect and admire foreign cultures.
I honestly didn’t think this would work, but give this quiz a try and see if you’re part of the 98% population ;-P I did this and the quiz was totally right #_#
Free will or synaptic wiring? You be the judge.
Check out the following exercise, guaranteed to freak you out.
There’s no trick or surprise. Really … I mean that!
Just follow these instructions, and answer the questions one at a time and as quickly as you can! Again, as quickly as you can but don’t advance until you’ve done each of them… really.
Now, ARROW down (but not too fast, you might miss something)………
It’s the height of the festival season, and across Britain Identikit groups of tight-trousered, floppy-haired boys with guitars are taking to the stage, to thrash out a homogenous jangle. Critics have dubbed their sound ‘indie landfill’. Is it the death knell of a once-vibrant underground scene?
…Forget the filler, it’s this year’s Glastonbury headliners that should point the way for the next generation. There was Jay-Z, of course, the world’s greatest rapper. There was the Kings of Leon, who manage to make interesting noises with electric guitars (despite their preference for skinny jeans). And there was The Verve, who, almost 20 years after their formation, remind us what indie really meant to people in the days when there was no danger of troubling the pop charts, nor of paying the mortgage with music; when the words were about something, anything – politics, perhaps, or at least an original thought about love; when waifish white boys had more to say than simply, “Look Mum, I’m in a band!”; before Britpop and MySpace and landfill indie.
Interesting/funny article on generic “indie” music these days. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS WRITER BTW. Man. I am so sick of seeing all these bands who think they’re so original by singing in some high pitched voice with ridiculous skin tight jeans.
