Jimbo causes Blofeld to quit Options

[thekohser]

I don't know why so many "long-time editors" seem very surprised and indignant to discover that Jimmy Wales is a horrible manager of communities, and that he's basking in success and fame on the thankless labor served up by grunts who don't realize that Jimmy Wales keeps the architecture deliberately labor-intensive, because it's so addictive.

Good luck on the "outside", Blofeld!

[Dr. Blofeld]

Well I learned classical piano from age of 7-14 I think. But I never learned to play without music until recently. Yeah I love Chopin, absolute genius. Easily my favourite composer. Ballade no.1 is possibly the most astounding piece I've ever heard in terms of technical quality. Who plays it best, mmm I'd say Zimmerman just edges Horowitz on that one. Liszt and Bach are also my favourites. Admittedly Mozart doesn't really do it for me, I prefer Beethoven. For somebody who never used to like classical and was solely a rock fan for many years I've come to appreciate it in recent times. A lot of classical music doesn't float my boat and a lot of jazz I find too avant garde. I generally like very melodic "emotional" sort of music.

[Milton Roe]

Well I learned classical piano from age of 7-14 I think. But I never learned to play without music until recently. Yeah I love Chopin, absolute genius. Easily my favourite composer. Ballade no.1 is possibly the most astounding piece I've ever heard in terms of technical quality. Who plays it best, mmm I'd say Zimmerman just edges Horowitz on that one. Liszt and Bach are also my favourites. Admittedly Mozart doesn't really do it for me, I prefer Beethoven. For somebody who never used to like classical and was solely a rock fan for many years I've come to appreciate it in recent times. A lot of classical music doesn't float my boat and a lot of jazz I find too avant garde. I generally like very melodic "emotional" sort of music.

Both Rocky himself and Horowitz do this one stightly better, but you can't see their technique as we have mostly sound recordings.

This piece itself is appropriately dark and only the Russians use E-flat minor for keyboard. This one to me always sounds like old boarded up Russian mansions full of prerevolutionary furniture, ala Dr. Zhivago. You can hear the melancholy of the artist for his lost homeland. It has a buildup to a nice satisfying climax 2/3rds of the way through (for you, Horsey), and a spooky wind-down, all with a listenable theme.

[the fieryangel]

Well I learned classical piano from age of 7-14 I think. But I never learned to play without music until recently. Yeah I love Chopin, absolute genius. Easily my favourite composer. Ballade no.1 is possibly the most astounding piece I've ever heard in terms of technical quality. Who plays it best, mmm I'd say Zimmerman just edges Horowitz on that one. Liszt and Bach are also my favourites. Admittedly Mozart doesn't really do it for me, I prefer Beethoven. For somebody who never used to like classical and was solely a rock fan for many years I've come to appreciate it in recent times. A lot of classical music doesn't float my boat and a lot of jazz I find too avant garde. I generally like very melodic "emotional" sort of music.

Back in music school, when somebody practiced this, everybody smoking outside the practice rooms would all chime in at the beginning with "THIS...IS THE PIECE OF DEATH!"

sing along and see if that doesn't work....

[Milton Roe]

Back in music school, when somebody practiced this, everybody smoking outside the practice rooms would all chime in at the beginning with "THIS...IS THE PIECE OF DEATH!"

sing along and see if that doesn't work....

Damn, damn. Now I can't play the bit of this that I know without thinking that.

Think of how many fairly nice pieces of music are diminished as cliches by association with something else, often films. For me:

William Tell --- The Loooone Ranger
Flight of the Bumblebee -- The Green Hornet
1805 Overture --- The only cereal that's shot from guns!
Meditation from Thais-- one dozen boring weddings (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/bored.gif)
Guadalcanal March from Rogers Victory at Sea --- Garg, Richard Nixon's favorite march.
Der Landesvater bit of Brahms' Academic Festival Overture-- Animal House
Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concerto-- Full Moon and Empty Arms
That Handel Sarabande (noooos! Barry Lyndon/O'Neal (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/tearinghairout.gif) It means having to say I'm sorry!)
Also Sprach Zarathustra -- Man-apes and tapirs and man-apes and tapirs...
Copeland Rodeo Hoedown -- Beef (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/yecch.gif)
Beethoven's 6th-- Soylent Green euthanasia. A satyr or too from Fantasia.
Dance of the Hours-- Hippos in tutus, Camp Grenada
Anything else from Fantasia: Fantasia (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/mad.gif)

Hmmm, I see two Stanley Kubrick films up there, and it comes to me that besides the musical "synesthesia," there are quite a lot of images and associations from Kubrick films that I sort of wish were not stamped forever into my brain. All the way from the evil French army in the Paths of Glory to Strangelove ("We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when.."), Sparticus, Clockwork Orange.

(IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wacko.gif) All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/confused.gif)