Posts by Wilde

Hate to say it, ww2, but no one would have noticed if you hadn´t pointed it out.

Hey, there were some good movies this year: batman begins, the constant gardener, the Island, March of te Penguins...

Why? Why must that bloody game plague Western civilization even more?? Why must Peter Jackson lower himself to this level? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

oh, I know! Orlando Bloom for the Master Chief! (I kid, I kid...)

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>Gengar, Golduck, <b>Golem </b> <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> Dammit, Golems are Jewish monsters only! Why does everyone insist on commercializing our mythical protectors??!? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

zazie - actually, I have been to a performance of the TSO recently. And it was well-played, but the composition was too typically of the romantic era. Twas blah. Though to add to my list, Max Bruch and Jean-Baptiste Lully are amazing composers, though not so well known.

What about Nikolai and Konn??? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Poo. we didn´t see that in Canadia. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

I know it´s hard to believe, Jacob, but most adults in vibrant relationships actually do have sex on occaision. Shocking, I know. But really. Having said that, point is well taken. We´ll be less obvious about it.

Ahem. A life discussing chicken is a life worth having <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Well, very true zazie. Mm I forgot about Holst! Holst is good. From a distance.

Mmm...chicken... A mustard and yoghurt marinade, chopped garlic, olive oil, red wine, oregano, thyme, fresh sprigs of rosemary, roasted in the oven for about an hour. Works best with thighs. It´s more of a dinner thing, but still... Or a similar recipe with sage. Argh´s sounds good, I shall have to try it out.

Ah. Much better. The flow could be tweaked, but its much less cliched.

The scientist bit sounds somewhat overly typical. But other than that it´s good.

Finalday, I believe the Canon was in D major. And yes, DS9, his views on the Jews (ooh! rhyme! views on the Jews who bring news of the snooze...or blues...) do matter, considering that he was his own librettist and the characters of the scheming, evil, short, ugly, hooknosed, covetous Nibelung Dwarves basically had ´Jew´ stamped all over them. Several Jews (my grandfather, in fact) make it a point not to see Wagner´s operas and especially the Ring cycle because this simply is so offensive. More relevant to Wagner´s music, however, was the fact that he was just a disgusting human being: an arrogant, self-obsessed, narcissistic, mysogynist (did I spell that right???), elitist prick of gargantuan porportions. Edited by - Wilde on 10/1/2005 4:05:42 PM

I´m sure Plotinus would applaud me too <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Taw--keep in mind the Nazis are simply a product of underlying Gnosticism and Martin Luther. Most of europe were proto-nazis <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> My favourites: Accolay Kriesler Vivaldi Correli Verdi Tchaikovsky Bach Beethoven

I figured someone would make that argument Chips. The two are absolutely incomparable. I play violin and electric guitar, and I´ve handled electric violins. While truly there is a great difference in expression between an electric guitar and an acoustic guitar, the difference is more comparable to that between a gut-stringed violin and a metal-stringed violin. Baroque-age French music one can´t play nearly as well with a metal-stringed violin, but with gut one can´t play Wagner. Similarly, Hendrix´s music sounds absolutely amazing with an electric guitar, as does Sting´s with an acoustic. The difference all lies in style. With an electric violin one sacrifices everything for volume--volume that the violin virtuoso can produce on a wood instrument with expression as well . Point blank, an electric violin simply cannot produce the quality of sound or portray emotion or convey beauty in anything near the same manner as a wood violin. An electric guitar´s tone is fantastic and alive and brilliant....and an electric violin is just loud. Taw--soul as in Martin Buber´s &quot;spirit&quot;. I mean this in the way he speaks of art, as conveying a deep sense of beauty and truth and goodness and emotion that transcends any one individual and arrives at a kind of universal statement. Note: Truly great computer art is as valid an art form as anything else. It´s just that the medium in and of itself because it is so simple truly requires a true artist to use it. Otherwise its just kitch. Edited by - Wilde on 10/1/2005 12:13:52 PM

Hey, jabez: the argument really stands that most computer art (note: not all) is soulless. It´s like playing an electric violin.

...which isn´t saying much. I seriously doubt anyone on this site can claim to possess all sanity.