Showing posts with label Random Musings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random Musings. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

El perro by Cilantro





I'm an American Dad fan. They have an episode called "Roy Rogers McFreely". In the episode Roger, the alien, is obsessed with the "fictional" mexican singer Cilantro. Though Cilantro's album is mentioned many times during the episode there is only 1 song played, "El Perro".

If you don't laugh upon reading it, at the very least you'll smirk.

Here's a link to a clip from the episode. "El Perro" plays in the background.

Below is the Hilarious translation.


El Perro by Cilantro aka Dave Navarro


El perro, el perro, es mi corazon!

(The dog, the dog is in my heart!)

El gato, el gato, el gato no es bueno!

(The cat, the cat, the cat is no good!)

Cilantro es cantante, Cilantro es muy famoso!

(Cilantro is singing, Cilantro is very famous!)

Cilantro es el hombre con el queso del diablo!

(Cilantro is the man with the devil's cheese!)

El perro, el perro, nunca sin razon!

(The dog, the dog is never without reason!)

El gato, el gato, el gato es obsceno!

(The cat, the cat, the cat is obscene!)

Cilantro es caliente!

(Cilantro is kind!)

Cilantro es cariƱoso!

(Cilantro is affectionate!)

Cilantro es carinoso mejor que su esposo!

(Cilantro is more affectionate than your husband!)


"Roy Rogers McFreely" has become one of my favorite episodes as Roger plays "El Perro" a few times and in some very funny situations.

Bottomline: I'm CTFU


Thursday, May 14, 2009

The Continental drift.


While doing research for a book, I came across Pangaea. Some of you might already know of it, but I had no idea the theory of a Supercontinent existed. Mainly because I never pondered what the earth (continent wise) looked like 250 million years ago. 

 

I more questioned things pertaining to daily life, i.e. how the first Neanderthal couple figured out the logistics of sex and then pregnancy. In my head they spend 9 months confused and freaking out until she finally pops. (Later topic of discussion.)

Refocusing, first hypothesized by Alfred Wegener, Pangaea is a single landmass (or supercontinent) that was comprised of earth’s current continents some 250 million years ago.

Due to the continental drift, an idea introduced by Abraham Ortelius and later fully developed by Alfred Wegener, Pangaea drifted apart into several pieces over millions of years thus giving us the continental configuration we know today.

My research in to Pangaea led me to its predecessor Rodinia, a bigger supercontinent. But my research into Rodinia was some what of a dead end. There isn’t much information about it, but there was enough information to get the wheels of imagination turning. 


Rodinia has since been added into my story. I gave myself a shit load of holes to fill with this one, but hey, I’m a writer and filling in the gaps is what we do.

The "Continental drift" of course became my next target. I wanted to know if we were still "drifting"?  And if we were still “drifting” would we come back together at some point? And if so, when?

After hours and days of scouring the WWW for a legitimate answer, which btw I never got, I received enough theoretical answers to satisfy my curiosity. As far as believers are concerned, we ARE still "drifting" and will eventually "drift" back into one single Supercontinent. 

I also learned that Rodinia was not the first supercontinent. 

*insert inspiration overload here*

I don’t know about the rest of you, but this was exciting news for me. There are so many things one can do with this information. Well, a fictional writer like myself anyway.

 In short: I’ve learned something new.     

FYI: The PALEOMAP Project is the go to place for continental drift visuals. They have illustrations that cover earth’s tectonic changes for the last 1100 million years. They also have some pretty nifty illustrations  of earths formation 250 million years from now. 

Sunday, May 3, 2009

It's fun to dream......


I recently received a laptop (Dell Inspiron) as a gift. I love it, but the thing was looking a little plain, so i jazzed it up with some skin courtesy of Miss Rhonda "Ronni" Childress and Dell.SkinIt.com.



The art work was done by 
Ronni
I love to dream asleep or awake, explains why this piece is so fitting.

Dell.SkinIt.com allows you to design a unique skin via photo upload and a very simple design tool. Once your creation is complete they mail you a custom made sticker and fool proof instructions.



P.s. I don't work for Dell, I'm just a very satisfied customer. 

Friday, May 1, 2009

The Tree was there first





This tree resides around the corner from me. Saying it freaks me the Fuck out would be the understatement of the century, but there’s no other way to explain the feeling it brings,

“It freaks me the FUCK OUT!”