From frsh:
What do you think about video games, television and electronic entertainment?
I’m not a gamer, so I don’t suppose I really have an opinion one way or the other about video games. As for television… uh, I watch it. I watch very little when it’s actually on, but thanks to the wonderful invention that is the DVR, I catch all kinds of things. Well, thanks to the DVR and Netflix. I wouldn’t have seen The Wire if it hadn’t been for Netflix, and wow, I am so grateful that I’ve seen The Wire. Except I still haven’t seen all of The Wire because… okay at this point it’s pretty ridiculous, isn’t it? I need to catch up. But what a great show. Though I think perhaps I’ve finally gotten past the point where every time I see Idris Elba in anything I have to say “Stringer Bell!” Also, to anybody who’s seen R. Kelly’s ridiculo-tastic hip-hopera, Trapped in the Closet did you notice that Omar is the cop? How much do you love that? Am I embarrassing myself? Do I care? Is it therefore not embarrassing?
Electronic entertainment. Such as…? Music? Pretty much my entire collection is on my computer now, and if it’s not on my computer, I don’t make much of an effort to listen to it, because I’m too lazy to dig up my old CDs. Movies? I don’t know. I’m not a Luddite. Technology is aces.
Also, what do you think about the spanish language? Do you like to read books by people like Jorge Luís Borges?
I like Spanish. It’s a beautiful language, and I studied it for five years. At one point I was fluent or nearly fluent, but now I’m… not. Lack of practice. I think I could probably pick it back up if I tried to, though I also studied Italian and I have a problem with mixing the languages together now. I can still read Spanish though, and I have this goal of reading Cien años de soledad in the original, but that’s harder than I originally hoped it would be. I’ll do it someday, though. It’s a goal. As for Borges, I like him. I remember reading “El Evangelio según Marcos” in a Spanish class a long time ago, and it’s stuck with me all these years. What an incredible story. I seem to have lost the book it was in, and I wanted to read it again, but I could only find it translated into English. Still a good story, but not the same. Writing really does lose something in translation, no matter how good the translation is.
Pues a mi me gusta muchísimo leer a Borges. Es tan original y tan mágico, existencial en un nivel que pocos escritores pueden llegar a serlo. Sin ser cursi. Borges es espiritual sin caer en lo ridículo.
Yo te preguntaba sobre los video juegos porque llevo años preguntándome porque demonios me gustaba tanto jugar las benditas porquerías cuando estaba chiquito. Hoy solo me gusta leer libros, sobre todo la Biblia y cosas así. La verdad que de chiquito casi no leía, pero hoy que estoy grande leo mucho.
Me caes bien Jamelah. Tu nombre traducido del árabe quiere decir Emilia (Emily en inglés). No hablo árabe, pero mi papá si, porque el es de Palestina, pero somos cristianos católicos no musulmanes
Keep on rocking.
Posted by frsh | November 20, 2009, 5:29 pmHola. Trato de responder en español, pero lo siento si no escriba bien… como te dije, hace muchos años que había usado esta lengua, y mis palabras vienen un poco lentamente ahora, pero puedo entenderte bien. Debo leer más de Borges.
Mi padre es de Yemen, y él es musulmán, pero soy cristiana como mi mamá. Nunca he oído mi nombre traducido por Emilia. En árabe (puedo hablar árabe un poco… poquito poquito) es como Linda en español. Es un nombre muy común, y cuando estoy visitando a mi familia, no es raro para oír Jamelah y tres mujeres responden. Pero en inglés, es un nombre diferente y a mi trabajo nuevo, nadie puede pronunciarlo. Bueno.
Posted by jamelah | November 21, 2009, 9:48 am