Song Contest Part VII, Host: Sepp Blatter, Theme: Ashes, Noms Due: Sunday 7:00pm ACDT

[CakeEater]

Yes, that's my criticism. There's far more out there that can be read and studied to learn so much more about humanity, yet the default always seems to be "let's read Shakespeare"...

Shandog doth protest too much.

 

[El Dubya]

Did a unit at uni on adaptations of Shakespeare and that was really good.

 

[CakeEater]

I had a pretty standard literary upbringing

Lord of the flies
The chocolate wars.
A drunk English teacher who told us what was going to be in the Mock TEE in our year.

 

[ShanDog]

Shandog doth protest too much.

Not enough...

 

[CakeEater]

Did a unit at uni on adaptations of Shakespeare and that was really good.

All's well that ends well then?

 

[ShanDog]

Did a unit at uni on adaptations of Shakespeare and that was really good.

Had one specific-to-Shakespeare course which was, thankfully, run by a very good lecturer who made it enjoyable. Several others had Shakespearean content though. That was probably the source of my frustrations lol

 

[ShanDog]

Can't remember too much about the texts we studied at high school. Was over 15 years ago now... *Things that make you feel old thread*.

I do recall reading The Things They Carried which was interesting. Also recall having to watch the movie Clueless about 8 times and the final exam was half about that. I basically ignored the question and wrote an essay on how filthy she was for getting it on with her brother, and that Hollywood must be full of disgusting people.

 

[GreyCrow]

Can't remember too much about the texts we studied at high school. Was over 15 years ago now... *Things that make you feel old thread*.

Required reading in our school. Ruined many a good backpack back in the millenia

 

[The Filth Wizard]

I recall reading 'The Chocolate War', 'Careful, He Might Hear You', 'Space Demons', Tomorrow, When The War Began', 'Looking For Alibrandi'... add in your usual classic literature like Romeo & Juliet, 'Of Mice And Men', 'To Kill A Mockingbird' etc.

 

[DroopStDanny]

From what I remember:

Year 9
Z For Zachariah

Year 10
Animal Farm
Of Mice & Men
The Chrysalids

Year 11
Lord Of The Flies
Macbeth

Year 12 English
The Accidental Tourist

Year 12 English Lit.
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Northanger Abbey
Medea
Othello
A Streetcar Named Desire
And a shitload of poems.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

In Year 9 we watched Apocalypse Now which was also great. Studied Hearts of Darkness at uni too.

Yr9: sixth sense
10: bend it like Beckham
11: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
12: Witness

Media studies year 10 horror films we studied:

Dracula
Psycho
Scream
Misery

 

[raskolnikov]

All's well that ends well then?

Much ado about nothing tbh.

No need to say what my favourite book is. Have read it about 8 times.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Me and some mates spent a few hours a week locked in the school media room allegedly working on a high school horror movie but that was done easy so we spent most of our time watching Die Hard With A Vengeance. One time we missed a whole bomb scare coincidentally.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Me and some mates spent a few hours a week locked in the school media room allegedly working on a high school horror movie but that was done easy so we spent most of our time watching Die Hard With A Vengeance. One time we missed a whole bomb scare coincidentally.

Were you the evil one ?

 

[ShanDog]

From what I remember:

Year 9
Z For Zachariah

Year 10
Animal Farm
Of Mice & Men
The Chrysalids

Year 11
Lord Of The Flies
Macbeth

Year 12 English
The Accidental Tourist

Year 12 English Lit.
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Northanger Abbey
Medea
Othello
A Streetcar Named Desire
And a shitload of poems.

Damn. Far sight better than what we had. Sad to admit I only just read and studied Animal Farm for the first time last year for uni. Friggen shitty school I went to...

 

[CakeEater]

Much ado about nothing tbh.

No need to say what my favourite book is. Have read it about 8 times.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Apt for this contest I think.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Were you the evil one ?

In the movie we made?

I was.

 

[CakeEater]

Much ado about nothing tbh.

No need to say what my favourite book is. Have read it about 8 times.

Isnt that from Billy Madison?

 

[Bet on Blue]

Isnt that from Billy Madison?

 

[CakeEater]

Inspired by Shakespeare wasnt it?

 

[El Dubya]

Me and some mates spent a few hours a week locked in the school media room allegedly working on a high school horror movie but that was done easy so we spent most of our time watching Die Hard With A Vengeance. One time we missed a whole bomb scare coincidentally.

We made a couple of shitty action/ horrors in high school. Also one time I wagged and missed a bomb scare. I also missed Dannii Minogue by wagging.

 

[Ulahoopski]

We made a couple of shitty action/ horrors in high school. Also one time I wagged and missed a bomb scare. I also missed Dannii Minogue by wagging.

Bummer about the bomb scare.

 

[NinjaSwan]

What I did:
Year 8:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (had to do this two terms in a row because I changed schools)
Lord of the Flies

Year 9:
The Matrix
All Quiet on the Western Front
Some collection of sonnets, wasn't by a specific author or anything.
Stolen

Year 10:
Crash
Macbeth
Animal Farm
Mississippi Burning

Year 11:
Othello
Some Australian poetry selection.
Gran Torino
Mississippi Burning (chosen as a related text)

Year 12:
Metropolis
1984
The Motorcycle Diaries
Interstellar (chosen as a related text)
Hamlet
Poems of W. H. Auden
House of Cards (chosen as a related text)

Almost through with the playlist, I'll have votes in shortly.

 

[Smeg Head]

Bet on Blue how are we looking?

 

[Bet on Blue]

Bet on Blue how are we looking?

Just Ninja and BOO.