at George Eastman House

Adult: That’s how a puppy dog sits?
Child: No. That is how Lilly sits.
Adult: M-hm. Does she sit the same way as other puppy dogs?
Child: No.
Adult: She doesn’t?
Child: Another puppy dog doesn’t sit like this.
Adult: Other puppy dogs don’t sit like that?
Child: Yes.
Adult: Right. I understand. I see. That’s how puppy dogs sit. That’s how they sit. They sit like that. They sit like that. That’s how puppy dogs sit. That’s how they sit. That is how they stand and that’s how they sit. That’s how they eat and that’s how they walk.
Child: That’s true and this is how they stand.
Adult: How do they run?
Child: They should run like this.
Adult: That looks like hopping. They run like that? That is how they run?
Child: They have to run like this. Like this.
Adult: That is how they run. That is how they run. That is how they run. I see. I see. That is how puppy dogs run.
Child: And if puppy dogs have a bed you have to sleep like this.
Adult: Sleep like that? Do they stretch out or do they curl up? Do they stretch out or curl up when they sleep? … Sometimes they curl up and sometimes they stretch out, don’t they?
Child: They curl up
Adult: They curl up? They curl up when they sleep?
Child: They curl up like this.
Adult: And they stretch out when they wake up?
Child: No. They stretch out like this
Adult: M-hm.
Child: Like this. And when they open their blanket they should make their head like this…like this.
Adult: M-hm
Child: Like this!
Adult: Like that?
Child: Yes.
Adult: Are you a puppy dog?
Child: Yes.
Adult: Yes, I am. Are you a puppy dog? Yes, I am. I am a puppy dog. I am a puppy dog. Are you a boy puppy dog or a girl puppy dog?
Child: Girl puppy dog.
Adult: Can puppy dogs talk?
Child: No.
Adult: They can’t.
Child: No.
Adult: Can you talk?
Child: No.
Adult: You are a puppy dog so you cannot talk.
Child: Yes.
Adult: OK. You cannot talk. You are not talking.

I am a puppy dog and I can’t talk. (sings)
I am a puppy dog and I cant talk.
I am a puppy dog and I cannot talk.

Don’t lick me. Don’t lick me, puppy dog. Sit down and stop licking . Puppy dog! Stop licking me.

Go on. Hop down. Hop down. Come on. Hop down here. Come on puppy dog.

Puppy dogs are not allowed on the bed and puppy dogs are not allowed in the house.

Child: But I am a clean puppy dog.
Adult: Oh I see. You are a clean puppy dog.
Child: Yes.
Adult: You are a talking puppy dog
Child: No.
Adult: But you said “I am a clean puppy dog”… You talked. I heard you. You talked.
Child: No. I am showing you that I am a clean puppy dog. see? I already have a bath last night.
Adult: Oh you had a bath last night? OK.
Child: Yes. So I am a clean puppy dog.
Adult: A clean puppy dog. Are you a talking puppy dog? Can you talk?…Oh you cannot talk. Can you shake your head? … Can you nod your head? …

Nod your head! Shake your head.
Nod your head. Shake your head. …

I am nodding my head.
I am shaking my head.
I am nodding my head.
I am shaking my head. …

Nod shake. Nod shake. Shake nod.

Child: What about rowing?
Adult: What about what?
Child: What about rowing?

Row row row your boat…

Adult: …gently down the stream

Child: Gently down the stream.
If you see a crocodile don’t forget scream (screaming sound)

Adult: That’s right. If you see a crocodile don’t forget to scream.

Row row row your boat
gently down the stream.
If you see a crocodile
don’t forget to scream.

Child: (screaming noise)

Adult: It’s a lovely day.
Child: (wailing sound)
Adult: Its a beautiful day, isn’t it?
Child: …
Adult: Hm?
Child: …
Adult: Yes or no?
Child: …
Adult: Oh. Puppy dog! The puppy dog cannot talk.

at MorBCN

Mark: Hello there Brad. How are you?
Brad: Just a moment there.
Mark: What are you eating there?
Brad: I am eating this delicious apple.
Mark: Wow!
Brad: Sorry about this.
Mark: That is all right.
Brad: It is a very special apple. It is a …Mosquito Bay apple… Mosquito City apple.
Mark: Right. Ok. How are you today?
Brad: I feel great. How about yourself?
Mark: I feel ok. I had a strange dream last night. I dreamed that Frank… that my boss Frank was my friend Peter…
Brad: That is right. I know who you are talking about.
Mark: And Peter was Frank and Peter’s sister, Stephanie was Peter..was Frank. It was kind of strange.
Brad: What do you mean? What are you talking about? A dream or reality?
Mark: Yeah I had a dream where everybody was everybody else.
Brad: Well that happens to me all the time. I have so many absolutely strange dreams. But the thing is with the strange dreams…how do you feel? How does it make you feel?
Mark: After your dream?
Brad: Yeah. After your dream.
Mark: Right ok.
Brad: How does it make you feel?
Mark: That is the important thing?
Brad: Well for me it is.
Mark: Right Ok.
Brad: And for you if you stay in Mosquito Bay, it will become.
Mark: Calm?
Brad: Become.
Mark: It’ll become?
Brad: It’ll become. Yeah.
Mark: Become? Become calm? Become calm.
Brad: Oh definitely. Calm.
Mark: I want to be calm.
Brad: You will be calm.
Mark: Oh my god! I have got to get to work. It is Monday morning. See you later, Brad.
Brad: Have a nice day.
Mark: You too mate.
Brad: (?)

at M J M

Mark: Ok. It’s Monday morning and I have to go to work. Ok. I am going to walk to work. Ok. It is not very far. Ok. Here we are. Here we are. The Mosquito Herald. Ok. I am going in to work now I am just walking inside and there is my boss. Hi Frank!
Frank: Hi Mark. How are you doing? Walk in. How was it?
Mark: Sorry?
Frank: How was the interview?
Mark: With Peter?
Frank: Yes. Of course. With Peter?
Mark: Great. Great.
Peter: Oh. Great.
Mark: I have written a couple of pieces. You didn’t get those emails? Did you get those emails?
Yeah, we did. We did. We did. I haven’t opened them yet.
Mark: Good. Good.
Frank: I’ll open them now.
Mark: Ok. Frank?
Frank: Yeah?
Mark: Do you mind if I ask you you a question?
Frank: Go ahead.
Mark: I need a place to live and I am like…Brooklyn…I was thinking of moving into Brooklyn. How do you find a place to live in Mosquito City. Like ah…?
Frank: You couldn’t have thought of a better place than Brooklyn to live
Mark: Yeah?
Frank: Do you like… But there again it is very arty. Do you like art and music?
Mark: Yes, I do.
Frank: Oh it is buzzing with art and music.
Mark: Everybody likes art and music.
Frank: Oh yeah. The cafes. Beaming with amazing sounds. You know?
Mark: Right? Ok. Ok. So you are talking like a studio apartment… atelier type thing?
Frank: Yeah. Yeah. There are some great ones. In fact I have one.
Mark: You live down in Brooklyn?
Frank: I know you want to sort things out yourself. You know…You are an adult. But I have a perfect place in Brooklyn.
Mark: Really?
Frank: And it is empty.
Mark: Really?
Frank: It is empty. It is extraordinary.
Mark: It is your place or…?
Frank: Of course.
Mark: It is your place?
Frank: I own half of Brooklyn.
Mark: You own half of Brooklyn?
Frank: I am the richest man here. You know? I mean… I don’t want to sound deceitful…
Mark: Richer than Peter Bestluck?
Frank: What is the word? Conceited. That is the word?
Mark: Richer than Peter Bestluck?
Frank: Oh! (laughs)
Mark: Hang on a minute! Peter! Frank! Frank! Peter! It’s you! Frank, you are Peter! Peter, you are Frank! Oh my god! Peter Bestluck! You are Frank. Frank, you are Peter Bestluck!
Frank: Hang on! Hang on! My goodness. I just had this strange dream. I lost my consciousness. Is everything ok? Sorry take a seat. I will make you a cup of tea.

at The Field Museum Library

Kiwi: I grew up…well that was our weekend treat,…was to go out to the holiday house at Rangitoto Island and one of the friends on Rangitoto Island about four years older than myself; he got into boat building; served his time with the New Zealand Navy as a boat builder. In those days they were building wooden clinker type boats. That’s where the planks are overlapping each other. All your planking is steamed for the shape…You have the…
Ozzie: That’s a clinker?
Kiwi: Yeah. You have the internal ribs which have to be steamed. You know?
Ozzie: Tongue and groove?
Kiwi: No, no. Your planks actually overlap each other but each plank has to be individually shaped.
Ozzie: Like weatherboard?
Kiwi: Yeah. Shape the edge then bring the other one over the top of it and then they are riveted through with copper rivets to an internal ribcage (that) you have inside there so you actually build the boat on a wooden frame first. You form the shape of your boat on a wooden frame. Ok? The whole thing.
Ozzie: The wood. The frame is wooden too?
Kiwi: Well it is just a temporary frame but it is the shape of what the boat is to look like.
Ozzie: Right.
Kiwi: So you build your frame first, ok?
Ozzie: Right.
Kiwi: And then you lay your planks around the frame, ok?
Ozzie: M-hm.
Kiwi: To get the shape of the frame. And this is where the clinker type came…that the planks overlapped each other maybe by about ten twelve millimetre. Each plank had to be individually shaped and then they were copper riveted through to hold the two planks together. And then once you had formed the shape of the boat over the frame, you turned the boat up the correct way. You had this internal wooden frame inside.
Ozzie: Right.
Kiwi: Then you started to remove that frame and you put these what we call ribs inside. They were a thin strip of timber mainly formed from green oak and you put that through there and again you riveted through from the exterior planking through that rib with a little copper nail with a little copper washer over them. You cut it roughly to length; left it a little bit longer and you riveted it over so it held the rib to the actual wooden side plank.
Ozzie: Right. And it is all copper to stop corrosion.
Kiwi: All copper nailed. Yeah. All copper nailed. And that was the real traditional boat-building style before fibre-glass boats came on the market. And of course they taught that skill at the New Zealand Navy. All their small boats, training boats; they had sails and all that sort of thing…were formed in that type of fashion.

at denis collette

Mark: Ok so I am sitting in the back of my friend Peter’s limousine and we are driving back from his castle; Mt Sphinx Castle. We are just driving through the streets of the old heritage village; Mt Sphinx Heritage Village. Peter is giving me a lift home. It was really nice to meet your sister today, Peter.
Peter: I have just been on the phone to Stephanie and she thinks you are a very very special guy.
Mark: Really?
Peter: Mm. That’s right.
Mark: I thought she was really nice too.
Peter: Oh fantastic! I am so glad to hear it. I thought there was some sort of chemistry when I watched you talking.
Mark: Yeah. She is a very very nice person. Very calm and gentle. Interesting too.
Peter: She is. She is a great person.
Mark: Everybody is nice here. This is such a great place. I am just so happy to be alive.
Peter: mm.
Mark: I do have a bit of a problem though.
Peter: What is that?
Mark: Well not really a problem but you know how when I came here I got some free accommodation in the hotel? And I have to leave the hotel and get my own place so I need a place to live so I have to think about finding a room or an apartment or a house or somewhere. I have got a pretty good job so I might rent a house. What is Brooklyn like? Is that a nice place to live?
Peter: Brooklyn is pretty good. Yeah.
Mark: Some people live in Mt Sphinx. Some people live in Brooklyn.
Peter: Well look! I tell you what. You see that jungle over there?
Mark: Yeah.
Peter: There is a banana leaf hut. You can rent that.
Mark: I…I…
Peter: I am only joking. Look. I have got another castle very close to mine. You can just use it. It’s empty anyway. I mean there’s servants and there is a swimming pool.
Mark: Oh Peter that is very kind of you but really I have got to get my own place I mean you are very generous.
Peter: Do you like a sauna in the mornings?
Mark: Yes, I do.
Peter: And you like breakfast cooked exactly the way you want it?
Mark: Yes, I do.
Peter: Ok and do you like clean sheets on your bed?
Mark: Yes. Yes I do?
Peter: And do you like the most exquisite garden to walk in in the mornings?
Mark: I do like exquisite gardens.
Peter: And do you like a motor launch to use at any time you want?
Mark: A hydrogen powered motor launch?! A totally clean…?
Peter: Of course. Well think about it anyway. You know? Where are you gonna move now, if you are not gonna…?
Mark: You are too kind. This is too much. I am embarrassed Peter. You have been so kind to me. Everybody has been so good to me since I got here. I…This is just too much. You are so kind. Really. I am overwhelmed.

(crying)

Peter: Come on.
Mark: It is so beautiful.
Peter: Mark, you are such a great guy. You are having a little…it is like almost therapy, isn’t it? You know? Mosquito Bay is like therapy, isn’t it? Just take a seat on the sofa and relax and cry with happiness.
Mark: Everybody has been so kind to me since I came here.
Peter: Cry with happiness! Because you are now…
Mark: Life is so good. Life is so good!

(hysterical laughing)

at The Library of Congress

Mark: Ok. Well here I am. I am standing on the balcony of Sphinx Castle. Peter Bestluck’s castle and…Peter…
Peter: Mark, what do you think of the view? Isn’t it absolutely extraordinary?
Mark: It’s lovely. I can see Brooklyn over there.
Peter: Panoramic view.
Mark: Yes. Mt Sphinx behind us.
Peter: That’s right and you can see the kind of tropical rain forest over there to your left.
Mark: Yeah, and behind us the Mosquito City Trade Towers.
Peter: That’s right.
Mark: Yeah. Where your office is.
Peter: Anyway let me just interrupt for a minute. I’ve got somebody…you may have noticed another person on the balcony.
Mark: Oh and who is this?
Peter: I think I told you about her?
Mark: Your sister?
Peter: My sister.
Mark: Please introduce me.
Peter: Come over here. This is Stephanie.
Mark: Hello Stephanie. My name is Mark.
Stephanie: Hello how are you?
Mark: Nice to meet you.
Stephanie: Are you having a good time?
Mark: I am having a great time.
Stephanie: Oh that is so wonderful. Well what can I say? It is so wonderful to have you here. My brother has been telling me so much about you.
Mark: Really?
Stephanie: Are you having a good time?
Mark: I am really having a good time.
Stephanie: What are you doing?
Mark: Well, I have got this great new job and I have made friends with Peter and he has shown me all these wonderful places and I have met all these friendly people and there is fresh food and the air is so fresh and Peter tells me there is no pollution here and I went to the university and I interviewed a doctor there and… building the hydrogen engine … This is a fantastic country. I wish all countries were like this.
Stephanie: I can see you are going to have a good time. You have only been here for a very short time, haven’t you?
Mark: Yes. Yes.
Stephanie: How long is it?
Mark: It is only a week now.
Stephanie: Only a week?
Mark: Only a week. But I think I am going to stay here forever.
Stephanie: Oh really?
Mark: Yeah.
Stephanie: Oh. That is fantastic because I would love to take you around…
Mark: Oh that would be great.
Stephanie: …the island.
Mark: That would be great. What do you do anyway? Do you? Do you have a regular job?
Stephanie: I do want I want.
Mark: Or are you a student or…?
Stephanie: I am student…all my life.
Mark: Right.
Stephanie: A student of life.
Mark: I suppose you are from a wealthy family. You don’t really have to work. So you just spend your time studying.
Stephanie: Well we do many things but it is all because we want to do them.
Mark: Right. Right. I came from a poor family and I had to work hard to make a living but since I came to Mosquito City, life is so easy.
Stephanie: You must be very strong to have that sort of history.
Mark: Well I mean … I say “poor family” My family wasn’t that poor . Like I…You know…I…There is a lot of poverty in the world. I wasn’t really poor like in some places.
Stephanie: You look very very healthy.
Mark: Thank you. You look fairly healthy yourself.
Stephanie: And also you look very very strong.
Mark: You are making me blush.
Stephanie: Oh! I am so sorry. Would you like a glass of wine?

at Marvin PA

Mark: Ok well here I am. I am still in Mosquito City. I have been here about a week now. I have got a job and I have become a good friend of the richest man in town. He is a great guy: Peter Bestluck and Peter has a castle just outside town and I am…he has invited me out for lunch. I have just got here. I have taken a taxi. It is quite expensive but I am making so much money in my new job (that) I don’t care. Well here is Peter’s castle. Well, here we are. I am going to go inside. Hello Peter
Peter: Hello Mark. Welcome to one of my homes.
Mark: Oh thanks. How are you?
Peter: I am feeling great. Do you like the castle?
Mark: Yeah it is beautiful. It is lovely.
Peter: It is great, isn’t it?
Mark: How old is it?
Peter: Oh it is medieval.
Mark: Right.
Peter: Hundreds of years old.
Mark: Right. Ok.
Peter: It has got an extraordinary history.
Mark: Right! Wow! Tell us about the castle.
Peter: Well, let’s pop up. I have got somebody waiting to meet you. I told her …I told her about you.
Mark: Oh! Who is she?
Peter: She is my very younger sister.
Mark: You are going to introduce me to…
Peter: There is about ten years between us as far as age is concerned.
Mark: You are going to introduce me to your sister?
Peter: Yeah. I am going to introduce you.
Mark: I would love to meet her.
Peter: She would make a very good guide.

at M J M

I think grammar is beautiful.
I think grammar is beautiful.
I think it’s beautiful.
Grammar is music.

Music.
Words are music.
Music.
Everything has music.

I was watching television.
I saw a programme
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy.
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy.
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician.
a musician
I saw a programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician.
He was a musician.
He was a musician.
a musician.
He was a musician.

He was a musician and a composer.

I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was musician and a composer.

I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician and a composer and he traveled around.

He travelled around.

I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician and a composer and he traveled around.

I saw a programme about a guy; a Finnish guy, who was a musician and composer and he traveled around and recorded sounds.

He traveled around and recorded sounds.

I was watching TV and I saw a TV programme about a Finnish guy who was a musician and a composer and he traveled around and he recorded sounds in factories on farms.

What were you saying?
As I was saying…
As I was saying….

What were you saying?
As I was saying…

What were you saying?
What were you saying?
What was he saying?
What was she saying?
What was he saying?

As I was saying…

I was watching TV and I was watching a programme about a Finnish guy and he was a musician and a composer and he traveled around and he recorded music in factories and workplaces and he mixed it on a computer and he combined it in new ways and he played the piano accordion and he mixed his live piano accordion music with computerised recordings of the factories and workplaces; the sewing machines, the presses, the wells, the pumps, the crushers, the kneaders, the boilers, the mills, all the machines, all the sounds of the workplace.

He played in rhythm with different mixtures of these sounds on the back of a truck in the desert.

Music is everywhere.
Music is everywhere.
Music is sound.
Music is song.
Music is language.
Music is language.

It’s language
That’s what it is.
It’s language
Music is language.

When you speak, think that you are singing!
Think that you are singing, because you are.

You are singing every time you open your mouth.

every time you open your mouth

You are singing.
You are singing.
Every time you open your mouth, you are singing.
Every time you open your mouth, you are singing.

on the train
in the street

You are singing.
Every time you open your mouth, you are singing.

in the street and on the train
every time
every time
every time
in the street
on the train
every time
int he street
on the train
on the bus
in the supermarket
at home
every time

Sound is song.
Sound is music.
music
muse
muse
museum

Now I am going to tell you the story of the nine muses.

Long ago in ancient Greece there were nine sisters.

The Gods of Mt Olympus put them in charge of nine faculties.

One was in charge of epic poetry.
One was in charge of lyric poetry.
One was in charge of drama.
One was in charge of history.
One was in charge of dance.

one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of …
one was in charge of…

each
each of them
each of them
They were each in charge of different faculties.

in charge of
in charge of

The nine muses are in charge of nine different human faculties, according to the ancient Greeks.

It is from them that we have the word “music”.

Use the internet to find out the names of the nine muses. Write and tell us about the nine muses. Do not copy. Read and take notes and then write your own original text about the nine muses.

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at edmittance

Man: So multi-level marketing…
Woman: That is right.
Man: So what exactly is that?
Woman: Oh just. You can go into the website. There are just thousands. It is like I introduce two people. Two people introduce two people. And so there are tiers to this marketing.
Man: Like Amway?
Woman: Network marketing or multi-level marketing. Yeah.
Man: Tupperware and Amway. Are they examples?
Woman: They are good examples. Yeah. They are in the same category.
Man: How did you get involved in it?
Woman: A very good friend of ours introduced us to it when my husband and I came to the Gold Coast.
Man: M-hm.
Woman: We were approached by this couple who became friends and we were introduced by friends, which is the deceptive element in multi-level marketing because very often they recruit friends and because they are your friends you naturally assume…
Man: That they are ok.
Woman: Yeah… have your interests at heart. Unbeknowns to us our friends although they are good business people they themselves were quite inexperienced in this particular business so they actually without meaning to misled us.
Man: Right. Ok. And what product initially..?
Woman: Well this company is called Omega trend and it is a sort of a replica of Amway.
Man: Right.
Woman: And so they started with cleaning products and…
Man: They broke away from Amway?
Woman: Yeah. They actually are a breakaway from Amway though they didn’t like people to know that because of Amway’s rep.
Man: Amway has a bad rep?
Woman: Incredibly bad rep so that Amway had to change its name that many times to disguise its…
Man: Past.
Woman: Yeah past or…
Man: I thought Amway like…I have that heard it is expensive but the products are quite good.
Woman: Actually that is what most people say and I think there is something to be said for quality. I think it is quite good quality but the fact is there is a high profit margin so I think it is inherently unethical and they pump up the price and they have to because the different tiers of people have to make their profit along the way, to me, for me, I think it is unethical.
Man: And you felt you got burned? You felt like deceived. You weren’t happy with your experience?
Woman: I felt, yeah….