I don´t think you´ve read The Catcher in the Rye, but maybe the translation in your language (El Guardián en el Centeno) which you can find in our library in the Fernando Esquío. In any case, its author, american JD Salinger, died wednesday at 91, after a very private life
J.D. Salinger probably wouldn't want you to read this.He denounced publishing, refused interviews and declined Hollywood's advances to turn his seminal novel of alienation, hunting caps and phonies into a movie.
Salinger's signature novel was published in 1951. The story of Holden Caufield would go on to influence a library's worth of loner tales, and, more darkly, prove a touchstone for John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman and would-be President Ronald Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr.
Have a go at describing some of the characters in the videos we have been posting lately: - Rihanna (I think her hairdo is awful!) - The boy playing russian roulette with her - Madonna at "Secret". Her boyfriend in the video. The members of the jazz band in the video. -The walking man from The Verve -Prince
I like this songmashup because in her are the best of 2009 is in it and it´s very well synchronized. Do you like it? Every yearDJ Earworn does the same thing with the best songs, and this one is of last year. I hope that you like it ;)
Some people just seem to know a good thing when they see it. The musician and producer Timbaland is a good example. He has a history of spotting new talent and creating great collaborations. Whether producing songs or laying down backup tracks, he has worked with dozens of famous musicians, including Justin Timberlake, 50 Cent, and Beck.
Now Timbaland has a new album out. As usual, a lot of other artists show up in his songs. And it’s a surprisingly eclectic group, including Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, and Nelly Furtado. Find out what Dale and Beren think about Shock Value II.
Beren: That is. That’s the beat that made him famous. And the sample of the crying baby. And Aaliyah. Aaliyah and Missy Elliott and Timbaland, they were unstoppable in the…is that mid to late nineties?
Dale: It’s somewhere around there. And the guy is now coming out with his second studio album called Shock Value II.
Beren: I didn’t know there was a Shock Value I.
Dale: And I agree. Maybe the II means it’s always with somebody else, ‘cause I don’t remember hearing him just go solo.
Beren: No. I guess the one time I have heard him do anything other than just be behind the drum machine or whatever it is he does is…wasn’t he on the Justin Timberlake, the big hit, “Sexy Back”?
Dale: See that, again, he’s with another person. He’s with Rihanna and Mariah Carey, Chris Cornell.
Beren: Chris Cornell?
Dale: I don’t even understand it, if this guy is just by himself…
Dale says he thinks Timbaland knows how to ride somebody’s coattails. When a noun ends with apostrophe (‘) + s, it usually means that the noun is possessive. Something belongs to it. For example, in the sentence, “Timbaland’s new album is called Shock Value II,” the new album belongs to Timbaland. In Dale’s sentence, the coattails belong to somebody.
On the other hand, when you see a noun that ends in s or es, it is probably a plural, meaning that there is more than one. If you say, “Timbaland has worked with a lot of great artists,” you mean that there is more than one artist with whom Timbaland has worked.
Do you know how to form a plural possessive? For instance, what is the possessive form of the noun artists?
Timbaland first became famous in the late 1990s when he worked with artists like Missy Elliott and Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash in 2001. Dale and Beren like some of the songs he has made with other musicians, but they do not know much about his own music.
Beren thinks Timbaland must be good at finding and working with talented people. But Dale isn’t sure Timbaland would be good on his own. Maybe he has become successful by riding other people’s coattails.
Do you think Timbaland is a talented musician? Do you know anyone who rides other people’s coattails?
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