What's the point of listening to so much music?

[DavidW]

I am glad to say I have never been in the supermarket yet where the carrots were the spawn of Satan.

(Where do you go shopping, Ben?)

; )

It's gotta be walmart!   Oh wait they don't have walmart in the UK do they?  What a heavenly place that must be. 0:)

[owlice]

Karl, thanks for the bunnies!

(I'm hoping that someone will be able to answer my question over on the Great Recordings thread, about the piano on the Richter English Suites recording, because not knowing what the piano was is *really* bugging me! Please oh please let there be a piano credit on the recording, and let someone here have the recording and post that information!!)

must consider the possibility that WalMart is the spawn of Satan

[Brian]

It's gotta be walmart!   Oh wait they don't have walmart in the UK do they?  What a heavenly place that must be. 0:)

God. I would KILL for a Walmart right now. Actually, I nearly killed for a Walmart a month ago, when Marks & Spencer had only one variety of pillow, the housewares store was "out" of all dishes and silverware, and I had to settle for 50% cotton sheets because the real cotton sheets were something like $40 each. Seriously, the perceived evil factor of Walmart is easy to tolerate when the alternative is an absurd concatenation of bad service, bad stocking, tiny selections, and silly hours.

...as I found out when I finally went to the English store chain which Walmart bought out a few years ago, and discovered that they do indeed have everything:



To give you an idea how loved ASDA is here, there are actually officially city buses, the red double deckers, which literally exist as ASDA shuttles. The little electronic signs in the windshields actually say, "To ASDA," and ASDA actually has a giant bus stop and several bus lanes for them all.

[Mirror Image]

Oh, aye, he has a certain concrete consistency ; )

Lol...

[Benji]

I am glad to say I have never been in the supermarket yet where the carrots were the spawn of Satan.

(Where do you go shopping, Ben?)

; )

It's gotta be walmart!   Oh wait they don't have walmart in the UK do they?  What a heavenly place that must be. 0:)

must consider the possibility that WalMart is the spawn of Satan

BINGO! 

Asda Walmart    They do in fact stock the Spawn of Satan - I bought a bag of spinach and it was crawling with the bane of my life: aphids!        Those little buggers killed off five of my chilli plants, my chives, and now my chervil. Those herbs are for my consumption! 

[karlhenning]

At least they didn't charge you extra for the aphids . . . .

Don't worry about the flies: we won't weigh 'em!

[Benji]

At least they didn't charge you extra for the aphids . . . .

Well I couldn't eat the stuff after that horrific revelation. They should have labelled it Big Bag of Pestilence.

[karlhenning]

Oh, of course not! Ptui!

[Florestan]

The composer writes music and NOBODY knows what he/she was thinking or how it should be played

Sorry to ressurect this topic but the phrase above is not true --- pace John.  0:)

Exhibit A : Mahler / Strauss / Willem Mengelberg.

Exhibit B:

Chopin said with respect to Carl Filtsch: "My God! What a child! Nobody has ever understood me as this child has...It is not imitation, it is the same sentiment, an instinct that makes him play without thinking as if it could not have been any other way. He plays almost all my compositions without having heard me [play them], without being shown the smallest thing - not exactly like me [because he has his own cachet], but certainly not less well."