I used to have a brilliant article explaining the hows and whys of the Moon Hoax. Simply put, it doesn't exist and is actually a satelite being run by various right-wing American organizations (like the NRA) to spy upon the American people.
No, anyone can do whatever they want to. I have no problem with that. But as a hetero-guy it just doesn't 'turn my crank'. I didn't condemn him/her did I? It just doesn't appeal to me in any way whatsoever.
Posting AC puts the 'C' in 'AC' when you're insulting.
As a Canadian I'd like to say thanks to you Brits, I rely on the beeb for all my news (excepting local news) and for much of my culture. You have no idea how bad it is over here in North America, we are culture starved here having just corps selling us stuff. And the Beeb is one of the few lights out there.
If it is any consolation, I, and many others do buy Beeb DVDs. And I wouldn't have without having cruised the website daily (Walking with... and such). If you ever feel the need to download our excellent science show Quirks and Quarks the please accept my invitation and drop by the CBC.
My experiance of recommending recordings is limited to Beethoven and Wagner. After that I just know the pieces, and not too much at that (by the standards of someone who knows classical, not the general public though).
The problem with classical music is that, while it is the best music ever made, it is such a vast field that one cannot get into it without a guide or a lot of research (which I've done on the above two composers). Thanks again!
You are right, Jaws was brilliant, I'd forgotten about it.
WotW was a horrible film with amazing special effects sequences, it was a slap in the face. If I'm paying money to see it I don't want to watch garbage, and that's what alot of the film is.
And yes, the early Spielberg is fantasitic, Jaws, Close Encounters, Empire of the Sun. He squandered away his talent though and made stuff like this and Jurassic Park.
WotW had Amazing special effects puntuated with continual, non-stop, and overwhelming scenes with bratty kids doing bratty things to endanger their daddy [Cruise]. Precious brats are no excuse for the utter lack of dialogue, can speilberg direct dialogue?
See it on a tuesday or DVD folks, the FX are amazing, but you've got to suffer through a barrage of brats to see them.
In Speilberg films, even divorces end happily. Step-fathers too.
I especially recommend String Quartet in A minor, Op.132: A Song of Thanksgiving in the Lydian mode, offered to the Divinity by a convalescent; performed by the Quartetto Italiano.
I have the double CD set from Philips (1 and 2). I would unequivocally state, is the only time I have paid what the disc was worth.
Truth be told, I still don't understand a good 9/10ths of those late quartets but of what I do, it is Beethoven at his clearest, most personel, and most pertinent. He speaks perhaps his clearest ever here. He wrote them at the end of his life, it is as if he knew he was going to die so he sat down to write the greatest music he had written yet (these were done 2 years after the 9th), and to write the most personal and messaging (for lack of a better word) music for people.
Can you recommend any of his other quartets to me?
The Ode to Joy (orignally Ode to Freedom but changed due to the censor) is Europe's new 'National' Anthem. And what better piece of music can you think of for that role? What piece of music could represent a united Europe, the cradle and defender of western civilization, now finally and perhaps permanently becoming free of the millenia of wars and internal strife?
I agree, Beethoven is, if anything, more valid today than ever before, thought he grandparent poster is being given an unnecessarily hard time over his views.
Barenboim conducted Das Konzert celebrating the end of The Wall. The 7th symphony is nothing special but the first piano concerto is a brilliant performance.
In engineering terms you are describing a Project Engineer. They get between 1/2 and 3/4's of that amount.
I don't mean to say that the 1st Violinist is overpaid, maybe that's what a great violinist is worth, but the rest of the stuff sounds like average managerial-level work.
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I lost it in a hard drive crash.
Makes me wonder how it gotted passed spell-check and proofreading?
I found Firefox on a few of the computers in my university (Ontario). It's finally getting around. No wonder MS is improving their stuff.
'It's' correctly used.
Posting AC puts the 'C' in 'AC' when you're insulting.
I googled it and wished I hadn't.
The above post is Informative. I did not know that 'G' stood for 'Grits' and in fact have wondered what it stood for all my life.
If it is any consolation, I, and many others do buy Beeb DVDs. And I wouldn't have without having cruised the website daily (Walking with... and such). If you ever feel the need to download our excellent science show Quirks and Quarks the please accept my invitation and drop by the CBC.
Finally someone else who agrees with me on WotW. It was terrible.
Got it cleant up with Ad-Aware easily, and now that they had been exposed to spyware they finally let me install and teach them Firefox.
Hope that's the end of the story.
My experiance of recommending recordings is limited to Beethoven and Wagner. After that I just know the pieces, and not too much at that (by the standards of someone who knows classical, not the general public though).
The problem with classical music is that, while it is the best music ever made, it is such a vast field that one cannot get into it without a guide or a lot of research (which I've done on the above two composers). Thanks again!
Thanks, I'll check them out.
WotW was a horrible film with amazing special effects sequences, it was a slap in the face. If I'm paying money to see it I don't want to watch garbage, and that's what alot of the film is.
And yes, the early Spielberg is fantasitic, Jaws, Close Encounters, Empire of the Sun. He squandered away his talent though and made stuff like this and Jurassic Park.
I take recommendations of any Bach (or any composer for that matter).
The competition exists for the benefit of the women in the bar, not for us. Do you understand the analogy? (i.e. Consumers == chicks here).
It's one big add for Horrorwood!
WotW REVIEW (no spoilers)
WotW had Amazing special effects puntuated with continual, non-stop, and overwhelming scenes with bratty kids doing bratty things to endanger their daddy [Cruise]. Precious brats are no excuse for the utter lack of dialogue, can speilberg direct dialogue?
See it on a tuesday or DVD folks, the FX are amazing, but you've got to suffer through a barrage of brats to see them.
In Speilberg films, even divorces end happily. Step-fathers too.
And it is the EU's new 'national anthem' (as I posted above), but I do get what you're saying.
I have the double CD set from Philips (1 and 2). I would unequivocally state, is the only time I have paid what the disc was worth.
Truth be told, I still don't understand a good 9/10ths of those late quartets but of what I do, it is Beethoven at his clearest, most personel, and most pertinent. He speaks perhaps his clearest ever here. He wrote them at the end of his life, it is as if he knew he was going to die so he sat down to write the greatest music he had written yet (these were done 2 years after the 9th), and to write the most personal and messaging (for lack of a better word) music for people.
Can you recommend any of his other quartets to me?
How can you even mention the word 'pompus' without mentioning Wagner in the same sentence?! Shame on you, Shame! Shame!
/Big Wagner fan though.
Would you recommend anything by Mahler for me please?
The Ode to Joy (orignally Ode to Freedom but changed due to the censor) is Europe's new 'National' Anthem. And what better piece of music can you think of for that role? What piece of music could represent a united Europe, the cradle and defender of western civilization, now finally and perhaps permanently becoming free of the millenia of wars and internal strife?
I agree, Beethoven is, if anything, more valid today than ever before, thought he grandparent poster is being given an unnecessarily hard time over his views.
Barenboim conducted Das Konzert celebrating the end of The Wall. The 7th symphony is nothing special but the first piano concerto is a brilliant performance.
please, what does nt or n/t mean?
I don't mean to say that the 1st Violinist is overpaid, maybe that's what a great violinist is worth, but the rest of the stuff sounds like average managerial-level work.
Wish I could though but I'm more of an appreciate than create music kind of guy I guess (a hard admission to make).
Ancilliary note:
Free Mozartrecording I got off the bottome of the Wikipediapage on him.