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Lebanese pop music - where are we going to?
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Pedoviejo
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 RE: Lebanese pop music - where are w... (in reply to mottallica)
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if i turn to an easier life then yes engineering if i want to help society (which i do i'm just not so sure if enough) ill go with medicine
I had to become a lawyer in order to afford decent guitars. Engineering and medicine might do as well. Professional guitarist? Long shot. 
And Ramzi - Great thread. Now I want to know more about Lebanese broadcasting in Lebanon in American-accented English. And I know that the connotations in English are the same in French (but not Spanish - "le chat" versus "la chatte," bien entendu - pero gatos y gatas? No quiere decir mucho en el Castellano) - is it really the same in Arabic?
And I loved it when the comic-commentator corrected Ms. Link's garbling of "schmuk" - Yiddish adopted into American English now finds its way to an Arabic-speaking country. But did she understand what it really meant? Schmuks and schmekkels? (Jewish American guy telling his friends about his vacation trip to Israel, the highlight of which was a camel ride. "And, to top it off, they let me ride the most virile, macho camel of them all!" he says.
"How could you know that?" his friend asks.
"Because wherever I rode, everyone pointed my way and said, 'Look at the schmuk on that camel!'")
BTW, my girlfriend is a physician, and at present her "chief" is from Lebanon - seems to have followed the exact path you noted: Go to U.S., become super specialist, rise in the ranks to chief of service. But it's not just the "Lebanese plan", but also the Turkish, Iranian, Indian, Israeli, Chinese..........
Back to Mottalica: I'm not certain how much you will help society by going into medicine - at least if you plan to go to or end up in the U.S. Seems we are going to follow the "market forces" model to the bitter end, and everything, including and in particular medicine, has been reduced to profit, profit, and did I remember to say profit? So we have the M.B.A.'s telling the M.D.'s how they should practice medicine while medical care becomes less and less affordable to the average citizen. But there's always Médecins Sans Frontière, for no money at all, of course.
Thanks again to all, and keep up the toque...
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Date Jun. 18 2012 23:46:21
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Pedoviejo
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RE: Lebanese pop music - where are w... (in reply to Ron.M)
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It's great to see the late 60's return again 'cos that's exactly the way it was back then.
Young people were just sick of being told what to do, what to like, how to behave, crummy music and the crummy old-man authoritarian politics that was going nowhere.
The young folk of America, UK and Europe were never closer united as back then and nobody cared about money except for living day to day.
Oh, Ron, the nostalgia, the whimsy! I donated my copy of "Europe On $5 a Day" to the Smithsonian Institute as a great historical curiosity.
But, I sadly point out, George W. Bush was from our generation too, and the right wing is back with a particularly nasty vengeance - fronted by lots of very youthful faces... and I say that without having been a "lefty" in my youth. The modern right wing makes Richard Nixon look like an old-style socialist.
If I could only travel again, going from youth hostal to youth hostal, all provided by the Dutch government for $5 or less a night, Heinekens waiting at the reception, my bed next to a radiator with drying stockings belonging to the as yet seen girl who will soon be sleeping in the bed next to mine. But this while some of my classmates disappeared into the jungles of Viet Nam.
Have we improved at all? Maybe we just passed the buck on to Ramzi, Motallica et als., with a note: "Gave it a shot, eh. Sorry about that. Your turn now."
I'm still working on a better epitaph.
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Date Jun. 19 2012 1:24:30
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BarkellWH
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RE: Lebanese pop music - where are w... (in reply to Pedoviejo)
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I'm still working on a better epitaph.
The Sixties was the best of times and the worst of times. While there were a lot of good things, there also was a lot of foolishness that was passed off as "insight."
As for the "better epitaph," in my opinion nothing beats the observation in Lady Caroline Lamb's diary about Lord Byron: "He was mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Now that's what I would like engraved on my tombstone!
Cheers,
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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Date Jun. 19 2012 1:52:18
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