Wednesday, October 8th
Went to another session of history class this morning. A list of a few fun facts and areas covered for the day:
-Looked at the ‘Marriage Series’ by Hogarth
-Brief discussion of rationalism and the Enlightment (I studied this much further in depth in my art history courses with Larry Ball, so luckily I had an idea of what was going on)
-Women’s rights- Jane Austen and Mary Wallstonecraft
-British composers- Motzart, Handel, and Hayden (‘the creation’ dealing with the Enlightenment)
-1791- Handel Festival- 1000 performers- Westminster Abbey
-also learned that men were castrated to maintain high voices for singing in order to have a more successful career… hm, interesting…
The latter part of the class was dedicated to a walking tour encompassing the University of London. Upon entering the University, I realized that this was the place that my philosophy professor had mentioned to our class before leaving last semester. In this class we learned about the political philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, a strong advocate of utilitarianism. He ordered his body be used for educational purposes for study after his death, and to be displayed in the university afterward. Don’t worry though… his head is preserved in a small case, but only brought out for special occasions…
Luckily, another guy on the trip, Mike was there to share the reminiscence of the craziness with me, having learned the full story in the infamous class of David Williams in the same political philosophy class. We decided to take a picture with the encased body to send to our beloved professor. What a crazy guy… but oh so witty and brilliant.
After class, I went back to my room and decided to have an afternoon of strict productivity. Got all of my laundry done, wrote two papers, and finished one other assignment. Well done, if I do say so myself.
Went to dinner and following that, attended the AMAZING production of SPAMALOT! What a show! It was basically a musical spoof off of the film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail… if it is possible to do a spoof of such a film. Absolutely hilarious, although some of the content is very controversial- throwing out comments about Jews and homosexuals. Some of the highlights for you:
-fighting the French with French bread
-of course, the shrubbery and the knights of “NEE”
-coconuts
-numerous hilarious musical numbers
-the Trojan bunny
-the “throw out your dead” cart
-the bunny, or course
-laughing my butt off the entire night
After the show, I bought the most amazing souvenir, which I cannot disclose here, as I intend to give it as a gift to someone who is reading, however, let me assure you, this person will be laughing for quite some time, probably uncontrollably.
We walked back to ISH and MTH, and from there, I am here journaling again.
Went to another session of history class this morning. A list of a few fun facts and areas covered for the day:
-Looked at the ‘Marriage Series’ by Hogarth
-Brief discussion of rationalism and the Enlightment (I studied this much further in depth in my art history courses with Larry Ball, so luckily I had an idea of what was going on)
-Women’s rights- Jane Austen and Mary Wallstonecraft
-British composers- Motzart, Handel, and Hayden (‘the creation’ dealing with the Enlightenment)
-1791- Handel Festival- 1000 performers- Westminster Abbey
-also learned that men were castrated to maintain high voices for singing in order to have a more successful career… hm, interesting…
The latter part of the class was dedicated to a walking tour encompassing the University of London. Upon entering the University, I realized that this was the place that my philosophy professor had mentioned to our class before leaving last semester. In this class we learned about the political philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, a strong advocate of utilitarianism. He ordered his body be used for educational purposes for study after his death, and to be displayed in the university afterward. Don’t worry though… his head is preserved in a small case, but only brought out for special occasions…
Luckily, another guy on the trip, Mike was there to share the reminiscence of the craziness with me, having learned the full story in the infamous class of David Williams in the same political philosophy class. We decided to take a picture with the encased body to send to our beloved professor. What a crazy guy… but oh so witty and brilliant.
After class, I went back to my room and decided to have an afternoon of strict productivity. Got all of my laundry done, wrote two papers, and finished one other assignment. Well done, if I do say so myself.
Went to dinner and following that, attended the AMAZING production of SPAMALOT! What a show! It was basically a musical spoof off of the film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail… if it is possible to do a spoof of such a film. Absolutely hilarious, although some of the content is very controversial- throwing out comments about Jews and homosexuals. Some of the highlights for you:
-fighting the French with French bread
-of course, the shrubbery and the knights of “NEE”
-coconuts
-numerous hilarious musical numbers
-the Trojan bunny
-the “throw out your dead” cart
-the bunny, or course
-laughing my butt off the entire night
After the show, I bought the most amazing souvenir, which I cannot disclose here, as I intend to give it as a gift to someone who is reading, however, let me assure you, this person will be laughing for quite some time, probably uncontrollably.
We walked back to ISH and MTH, and from there, I am here journaling again.
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