12 June 2004 00:47
que sera que serakinda katchy eh? i've always kinda known that it means "what will be will be" or "what happens, happens." you could take the "stuff happens" approach, though i prefer esther's take, "if i perish, i perish." more of a passive acceptance than an agressive "i don't care." (although it's true that forrest gump's expression of "stuff happens" was pretty passive in the movie).
i tried to get babelfish to tell me what the literal translation was, but all i got was "that sera, that sera." based on the que, i'm 99% sure it's spanish, though one website claimed it was german. what-ever.
he was a blogger though, and he happend to have blogged recently on "the day after tomorrow" which i haven't seen. from his june first blog:
(corny lines abound here – but hey, it is a disaster movie)
Corniest line: [gruff, grim american voice] I think we’ve reached a critical desalinisation point. [ oh no! says onlookers Not a critical desalinisation point! Call my family! Get my cat!] --http://www.monkey830.co.uk/
here we go, from doris day herself:
Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
What will be, will be
Que Sera, Sera
someday i want to watch a whole bunch of classic films, and between hitchcock, stewart, and title, i think this would be a good one. "the man who knew too much" is actually a catchy title so long as it's not on a paperback book with a guy holding a gun on the front. please, not another spy thriller.
and while we're on the subject of foreign phrases...
cogito, ergo sum (latin)
I think, there for I am
for some reason, i had the latin phrase tucked away in some notes right above the following sentence:
It may be that your whole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
but then i have notes allllll over the place. i have no idea where those two came from.
more from my notes, this address Impressionism. (Rebekah, I kept the picture for you, but i bring it up here for the french in it). the original had a man standing on the left hand side, but if you look at the note to the bottom right of the first picture i gave you, you'll see Didi wrote
Pouf! Disparu le touriste!
which babelfish translated directly
Pouf! Disappeared the tourist!
which i thought funny :).
i like htis song that has been out of late, wonderwall by oasis:
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
But I don't know how
the minor chords on winding and blinding are especially catching.
this is a violent shift in direction from that song, but here is a quote that a radio station played from a movie. back when i was in high school, there was a rock station that would play movie clips between songs, some of them quite hilarious. the only one i can remember was a female saying "you gonna take these handcuffs off or will i have to do this with my teeth?" but i like the idea. anyway, i heard htis a coupld times last month, a guy talking to his buddy...
"she gave me all this crap about not listening to her enough or something. i don't know, i wasn't really paying attention."
you know, it's like a dirty joke, something that's really quite funny (esp the way he said it), but that in principle i shouldn't laugh at.
here's a saying used oft in jamaica that a few of us could stand to learn...
"respect"
they use it as both in greeting and parting.
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