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Title: I'm back
Post by: DavidW on January 12, 2012, 10:29:21 AM
Hello. :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Gurn Blanston on January 12, 2012, 10:33:37 AM
Yikes :o :o

8)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Antoine Marchand on January 12, 2012, 10:39:02 AM
It's great to see you around here, David. Welcome back!

:)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: DavidW on January 12, 2012, 10:45:14 AM
Thanks Antoine! :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: mahler10th on January 12, 2012, 10:46:06 AM
Welcome back!
:D

***runs away screaming***
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Karl Henning on January 12, 2012, 10:47:17 AM
Yo, Davey.
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: springrite on January 12, 2012, 10:48:00 AM
I just thought you changed your user name.

Welcome back!
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Conor71 on January 12, 2012, 10:50:01 AM
Welcome back David - good to see you around again :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: DavidW on January 12, 2012, 11:00:31 AM
Thanks everyone, it's cool to get a warm welcome so quickly!  Thought people wouldn't even notice for a few hours or a day or two! :D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: bhodges on January 12, 2012, 11:04:41 AM
Hola!

--Bruce
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Sergeant Rock on January 12, 2012, 11:15:33 AM
Quote from: DavidW on January 12, 2012, 10:29:21 AM
Hello. :)

You're back just in time for the rumble: the Davids vs the Johns (see the Havergal Brian thread  ;D )

Sarge
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: madaboutmahler on January 12, 2012, 01:13:57 PM
Welcome back, David :) I believe we know eachother through facebook? :)

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 12, 2012, 11:15:33 AM
You're back just in time for the rumble: the Davids vs the Johns (see the Havergal Brian thread  ;D )

Sarge

Sounds fascinating... shall go and take a look now :D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: DavidW on January 12, 2012, 02:41:54 PM
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 12, 2012, 01:13:57 PM
Welcome back, David :) I believe we know eachother through facebook? :)

I'm not on facebook. :-X  But I think I vaguely recall you on the forum awhile back though. :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: SonicMan46 on January 12, 2012, 05:32:00 PM
Hi David - you've returned yet again!  ;) ;D

Welcome back and please stick around for a while - looking forward to your input, as usual - Dave :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: ibanezmonster on January 12, 2012, 06:13:30 PM
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My hero has returned!

Sound the trumpets!

(http://panda.net.au/dotc/dotc-trumpets.gif)

Get the red carpet!

(http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/attachments/graphic-design-forum-announcements/4766d1312979859-rolling-out-red-carpet-red-carpet-pic.jpg)

All shalt bow or else shalt be given a HAMMER SMASHED FACE.

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hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, David.  :)
It's your friend, Greg.  :)
You remember me?  :)
Teehee...  :)


I have a message for you:

Ubloobideega!, bom BOM BOM!

Do not team up with Ubloobideega in the future. This is planet Neptune saying, "Be forewarned about the past in the netherfuture."
And then I exploded.


Cereal tastes good. You eat cereal? You know, I think they should make cereal out of oil and clay. You like oil and clay, David? I think they taste mighty fine, but I won't them in public because people don't have sophisticated taste, sheesh!  ::)

bom BOM BOM!

like a drum...               Ha HA!

comedy... it doesn't work any more.

That's because golden carpets.


You know, once I had a fish and that fish ate rats and those rats ate mice and then I played video games and I almost spelled "video" as "veoh," which is a website where you watch videos, and that is such as coincidence, but actually it isn't because it just sounds similar and something something something fish grass seawater poop rabbits lala whatever bubblegum power pink pop attitude.








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hi, David...  :)

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hi...  :) :) :)

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hi again...  :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Mirror Image on January 12, 2012, 06:44:23 PM
Welcome back, Dave! Good to see you around here again. I've missed your posts. 8)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Bogey on January 12, 2012, 07:15:25 PM
My brother from another....welcome back, David!
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Opus106 on January 12, 2012, 07:32:45 PM
Quote from: DavidW on January 12, 2012, 10:29:21 AM
Hello. :)

Oh, boy! You have a lot -- and I mean a LOT -- of catching-up to do in the Haydn thread.

Quote from: DavidW on January 12, 2012, 11:00:31 AM
(I)t's cool to get a warm welcome so quickly!

:D

Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 12, 2012, 01:13:57 PM
Welcome back, David :) I believe we know eachother through facebook? :)

He used to go by the name of mahlerfan(999?) a long time ago.
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Que on January 12, 2012, 10:25:27 PM
Welcome back, David! :)

Q
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Willoughby earl of Itacarius on January 12, 2012, 11:26:48 PM
Welcome back my friend. :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Wanderer on January 12, 2012, 11:40:40 PM
Quote from: springrite on January 12, 2012, 10:48:00 AM
I just thought you changed your user name.

Me, too. It's hard to tell these days.  ;D

Welcome back!
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Opus106 on January 12, 2012, 11:43:55 PM
Quote from: Wanderer on January 12, 2012, 11:40:40 PM
Me, too. It's hard to tell these days.  ;D

Who was it then the two of you were talking to thinking it was this David? ;D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: mc ukrneal on January 12, 2012, 11:53:22 PM
Quote from: Opus106 on January 12, 2012, 11:43:55 PM
Who was it then the two of you were talking to thinking it was this David? ;D
You mean there really is more than one David?!? :)

Welcome back!
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Opus106 on January 13, 2012, 12:02:47 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on January 12, 2012, 11:53:22 PM
You mean there really is more than one David?!? :)

As a wise man, or so I thought :P, once said to me, everyone's a David -- even you!
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: mc ukrneal on January 13, 2012, 12:10:22 AM
Quote from: Opus106 on January 13, 2012, 12:02:47 AM
As a wise man, or so I thought :P, once said to me, everyone's a David -- even you!
What about Goliath?
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Opus106 on January 13, 2012, 12:13:16 AM
Quote from: mc ukrneal on January 13, 2012, 12:10:22 AM
What about Goliath?

He's dead.
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Wanderer on January 13, 2012, 12:17:25 AM
Quote from: Opus106 on January 12, 2012, 11:43:55 PM
Who was it then the two of you were talking to thinking it was this David? ;D

I can't recall, but I think we established that he wasn't.  ;D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: mc ukrneal on January 13, 2012, 01:00:34 AM
Quote from: Opus106 on January 13, 2012, 12:13:16 AM
He's dead.
Touchee.
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: DavidW on January 13, 2012, 04:58:14 AM
Thanks everyone!  It's cool to also see the return of Ubloobideega! ;D ;D

I had been very, very busy the past few months but things have finally slowed down. :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Karl Henning on January 13, 2012, 05:03:10 AM
(Maybe I'll pull a Mitt and claim that Greg's post was my idea . . . .)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: DavidW on January 13, 2012, 05:08:36 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 13, 2012, 05:03:10 AM
(Maybe I'll pull a Mitt and claim that Greg's post was my idea . . . .)

Can you believe that stuff about him being Hispanic?  It's like okay technically true, but that guy is as white as they come! :D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Karl Henning on January 13, 2012, 05:10:42 AM
I'm Italian! : )
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Mirror Image on January 13, 2012, 06:46:48 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 13, 2012, 05:10:42 AM
I'm Italian! : )

I'm Portuguese! :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Florestan on January 13, 2012, 07:09:01 AM
Hey, welcome back, David! I missed your pushing my buttons...  :D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: ibanezmonster on January 13, 2012, 07:46:43 AM
I'm black!



(but not back)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: madaboutmahler on January 13, 2012, 09:19:34 AM
Quote from: DavidW on January 12, 2012, 02:41:54 PM
I'm not on facebook. :-X  But I think I vaguely recall you on the forum awhile back though. :)

Ah, silly me - I am thinking of the wrong David.  ???


Quote from: Opus106 on January 12, 2012, 07:32:45 PM
He used to go by the name of mahlerfan(999?) a long time ago.

I think we are going to get on very well, David!  ;D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Karl Henning on January 13, 2012, 09:20:41 AM
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 13, 2012, 09:19:34 AM
I think we are going to get on very well, David!  ;D

Oh, I should think you will: one of his former handles is mahlerfan ; )
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Opus106 on January 13, 2012, 09:22:49 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 13, 2012, 09:20:41 AM
Oh, I should think you will: one of his former handles is mahlerfan ; )

I think the two will get along very well.



(Just to keep the cycle going.)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: madaboutmahler on January 13, 2012, 09:24:30 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 13, 2012, 09:20:41 AM
Oh, I should think you will: one of his former handles is mahlerfan ; )

Precisely! :D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: DavidW on January 13, 2012, 09:31:16 AM
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 13, 2012, 09:19:34 AM
I think we are going to get on very well, David!  ;D

Yeah Mahler's awesome! ;D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Karl Henning on January 13, 2012, 09:31:55 AM
Quote from: Opus106 on January 13, 2012, 09:22:49 AM
(Just to keep the cycle going.)

Sorry, Nav! : (
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Opus106 on January 13, 2012, 09:32:30 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 13, 2012, 09:31:55 AM
Sorry, Nav! : (

;)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: madaboutmahler on January 13, 2012, 09:33:46 AM
Quote from: DavidW on January 13, 2012, 09:31:16 AM
Yeah Mahler's awesome! ;D

:D

Which is your favourite of his, David? Mine would be either 6,7 or 9. As you can see, I love the later symphonies in particular. :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: DavidW on January 13, 2012, 09:36:01 AM
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 13, 2012, 09:33:46 AM
:D

Which is your favourite of his, David? Mine would be either 6,7 or 9. As you can see, I love the later symphonies in particular. :)

The ninth is my favorite. :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: madaboutmahler on January 13, 2012, 09:43:39 AM
Quote from: DavidW on January 13, 2012, 09:36:01 AM
The ninth is my favorite. :)

Excellent! :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Lisztianwagner on January 13, 2012, 09:48:57 AM
Welcome David, nice to meet you! :)

Quote from: Opus106 on January 12, 2012, 07:32:45 PM
He used to go by the name of mahlerfan(999?) a long time ago.
QuoteOh, I should think you will: one of his former handles is mahlerfan ; )
QuoteYeah Mahler's awesome! ;D

Well, I have just to admit that I'm rather surprised about how much Mahler is adored in this forum; definitely no problem though, he's also one of my absolute favourite composers. ;)



Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: ibanezmonster on January 13, 2012, 11:01:18 AM
Quote from: DavidW on January 13, 2012, 09:36:01 AM
The ninth is my favorite. :)
That makes 3 on this forum... no, wait, 4... (at least)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Gurn Blanston on January 13, 2012, 11:07:16 AM
I'm just here for balance... :)

8)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: madaboutmahler on January 13, 2012, 12:21:09 PM
Quote from: Greg on January 13, 2012, 11:01:18 AM
That makes 3 on this forum... no, wait, 4... (at least)

Make sure I am included in that list! :)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Ataraxia on January 13, 2012, 12:21:48 PM
What's this thread about?
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Antoine Marchand on January 13, 2012, 12:36:20 PM
Quote from: Ataraxia on January 13, 2012, 12:21:48 PM
What's this thread about?

'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'

8)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Ataraxia on January 13, 2012, 12:38:05 PM
Quote from: Antoine Marchand on January 13, 2012, 12:36:20 PM
'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'

8)

Mahler has risen from the dead? No one told me.
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: DavidW on January 13, 2012, 12:40:54 PM
Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on January 13, 2012, 11:07:16 AM
I'm just here for balance... :)

8)

Must be a Mahler 6th fan! ;D
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Antoine Marchand on January 13, 2012, 12:56:45 PM
Quote from: Ataraxia on January 13, 2012, 12:38:05 PM
Mahler has risen from the dead? No one told me.

But I will tell you that you are apparently confusing two different parables: the lost son was not physically dead, but just lost, as our DavidW. It was Lazarus who rose from the death.  ;)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Gurn Blanston on January 13, 2012, 12:58:53 PM
Quote from: Antoine Marchand on January 13, 2012, 12:56:45 PM
But I will tell you that you are apparently confusing two different parables: the lost son was not physically dead, but just lost, as our DavidW. It was Lazarus who rose from the death.  ;)

Yea verily, and they are as brothers; Minnesota Dave and Oklahoma Dave. The Dave brothers. :)

8)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Antoine Marchand on January 13, 2012, 01:06:20 PM
Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on January 13, 2012, 12:58:53 PM
Yea verily, and they are as brothers; Minnesota Dave and Oklahoma Dave. The Dave brothers. :)

8)

;D

BTW, Gurn, your quote of Clever Hans (a very clever quotation, indeed) has a slight typo.
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Ataraxia on January 13, 2012, 01:27:10 PM
Quote from: Antoine Marchand on January 13, 2012, 12:56:45 PM
But I will tell you that you are apparently confusing two different parables: the lost son was not physically dead, but just lost, as our DavidW. It was Lazarus who rose from the death.  ;)

Oh, I thought it was from the Book of Romero.
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Ataraxia on January 13, 2012, 01:28:04 PM
Quote from: Gurnatron5500 on January 13, 2012, 12:58:53 PM
Yea verily, and they are as brothers; Minnesota Dave and Oklahoma Dave. The Dave brothers.

Hear us roar.
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Gurn Blanston on January 13, 2012, 01:32:06 PM
Quote from: Antoine Marchand on January 13, 2012, 01:06:20 PM
;D

BTW, Gurn, your quote of Clever Hans (a very clever quotation, indeed) has a slight typo.

Fixed. The wonders of copy and paste.... :D

Gracias,
8)
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Karl Henning on January 13, 2012, 06:30:24 PM
The Dave Brothers. They're on a mission from God.
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Mirror Image on January 13, 2012, 08:35:36 PM
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on January 13, 2012, 09:48:57 AMWell, I have just to admit that I'm rather surprised about how much Mahler is adored in this forum

???
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Lisztianwagner on January 14, 2012, 02:46:18 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 13, 2012, 08:35:36 PM
???

:)

Maybe I had to add: "apart from Mirror Image" :P But I think you've appreciated some of Mahler's symphonies John, at least one/two, or it is only a conviction created by my unconscious?
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Karl Henning on January 14, 2012, 04:26:47 AM
Mahler Industries has been hard at work, for decades, on re-branding The Neurotic Austrian : )
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Mirror Image on January 14, 2012, 08:43:45 AM
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on January 14, 2012, 02:46:18 AM
:)

Maybe I had to add: "apart from Mirror Image" :P But I think you've appreciated some of Mahler's symphonies John, at least one/two, or it is only a conviction created by my unconscious?

Oh, well certainly I like Mahler's 5th a lot. Some may not care much for it but I think it holds up well. I like the 7th a lot too. The 9th is pretty darn good too. I particularly like that last movement Adagio. Very powerful. But in all honesty, Mahler just isn't a composer that hits me the same way Ravel, Bartok, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, Villa-Lobos, etc. does. I don't know what it is that I don't like about the music but I just don't find it compelling and it just doesn't ignite much interest from me. It's really one of those unexplainable things. It's kind of like why doesn't Holmboe's music touch me? Why doesn't Schnittke appeal to me when his style is so fascinating? I don't know why, I just know that I don't like the aesthetic of it. Does any of this make any sense?
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: zamyrabyrd on January 14, 2012, 09:06:31 AM
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on January 13, 2012, 09:48:57 AM
Welcome David, nice to meet you! :)

Well, I have just to admit that I'm rather surprised about how much Mahler is adored in this forum; definitely no problem though, he's also one of my absolute favourite composers. ;)

Count me in. Love his songs, too.
ZB
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Lisztianwagner on January 14, 2012, 10:02:33 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 14, 2012, 08:43:45 AM
Oh, well certainly I like Mahler's 5th a lot. Some may not care much for it but I think it holds up well. I like the 7th a lot too. The 9th is pretty darn good too. I particularly like that last movement Adagio. Very powerful. But in all honesty, Mahler just isn't a composer that hits me the same way Ravel, Bartok, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, Villa-Lobos, etc. does. I don't know what it is that I don't like about the music but I just don't find it compelling and it just doesn't ignite much interest from me. It's really one of those unexplainable things. It's kind of like why doesn't Holmboe's music touch me? Why doesn't Schnittke appeal to me when his style is so fascinating? I don't know why, I just know that I don't like the aesthetic of it. Does any of this make any sense?

Yes, it's not so simple to explain, though I may understand; something similar happens to me as well, especially with the Italian composers of opera: I may listen to their works, I might appreciate what I hear, but I'm not brought to listen to more and I'm not interested in knowing that music better, it's not attractive and powerful enough.

QuoteCount me in. Love his songs, too.
ZB

That's great; what about the symphonies?
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Karl Henning on January 14, 2012, 01:48:49 PM
Mahler wrote symphonies?
Title: Re: I'm back
Post by: Lisztianwagner on January 14, 2012, 02:01:00 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on January 14, 2012, 01:48:49 PM
Mahler wrote symphonies?

Very funny ;)