Words Clever People Know: EP and B-Side

| April 13, 2011

EP stands for Extended Play - longer than a single, but shorter than a full album. A B-Side used to be when you bought a single on vinyl or cassette, the single would be on the A-Side and an unrealesed song would be on the B-Side.

Words Clever People Know: Iconoclast

| March 30, 2010

-A destroyer of images used in religious worship 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. 2. One who destroys sacred religious images. During the Protestant Reformation images in churches were again felt to be idolatrous and were once more banned and destroyed. It is around this time that [...]

Words Cultured People Know: Otaku

| March 20, 2010

Otaku is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga, and video games – Wikipedia Urban Dictionary: 1.Otaku is the honorific word of Taku (home). Otaku is extremely negative in meaning as it is used to refer to someone who stays at home all the time and doesn’t have [...]

Words Clever People Know: Solipsism

| March 10, 2010

1. Philosophy. the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist. 2. extreme preoccupation with and indulgence of one’s feelings, desires, etc.; egoistic self-absorption. Frequently used adjective: solipsistic Song of the day: Download One Love, Blue

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