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Ivan Moravec. :)
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Hilary. 8)
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Sherlock Holmes as portrayed by Jeremy Brett.
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Yay, my first avatar :D.
Australian artist Russel Drysdale's Man feeding his dogs (1941).
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My first avatar, as well. I really don't like The Merry Widow. ;D
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Marx
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a smurf:
a blue elf living in toadstools, 3 apples tall, can't play music for nuts.
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Michelangeli
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And as my son pointed out to me, some say he is "a fellow traveller"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs_and_communism
Where you'll see an argument that Papa Smurf resembles Michel's Avatar
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Papasmurf.jpg)
Tovarisch Egebedieff
hahaha!
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The OSU Music Cognition background.
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Who Knows?
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Tony,
A Dr. Who villan as I recall, but as usual...I cannot remember his name.
Mike
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My avatar is my favourite chess World Champion, Vassily Smyslov (born 1921, and thankfully still with us). He always related music to chess. Indeed, he was a professional-level baritone singer, and auditioned for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscva (Moscow) in 1950. He failed in the audition, but competition was stiff to get in there. And also keep in mind that he was already a world-class chess player by that time, having come in 2nd in the 1948 match-tournament that was to determine the new World Champion after the death of Alekhine in 1946. Only 6 people were invited to that tournament (one of them, Rueben Fine, declined to play so it ended up being only 5). It was meant to be the best of the best, and coming in second behind the great Botvinnik showed Smyslov's already tremendous strength.
Smyslov won the supertournament at Zurich in 1953 and went on to play Botvinnik for the world title the following year. It was a drawn match, Botvinnik keeping the title. Smyslov went through the candidates' cycle yet again, an almost impossible feat that would later be matched by Boris Spassky in the 1960s. This time, he managed to unseat Botvinnik, who had finessed himself a rematch clause just in case this happened. Smyslov lost the return match narrowly, but even so, was almost certainly the best player in the world in the mid to late 1950s (even Botvinnik himself thought so; the best doesn't always win, in chess or anything else).
I first got interested in Smyslov when learning about his climb to the candidates' final match at the advanced age of 63. People who are not into chess may not realise how impossible this is. He failed to qualify for the World Championship match with Karpov in 1984 only because he was eliminated by Garry Kasparov, who went on to become the strongest player of all time. No shame in that at any age, but at 63! This was the candidates' final, the very last step before the World Championship itself, and at the age of 63. It would be like a 50+ year old winning a 100 metre dash in the Olympics, it's just unthinkable. I consider this the most phenomenal age-related achievement in all of competitive events, physical sport or games or anything you can name.
Anyway, Smyslov's autobiography was called "In Search of Harmony". He believed that a game of chess, like music, should involve all components working together in harmony. His greatest strength was the endgame, where his power in his heyday was unmatched by any, even Botvinnik himself (who was known for his endings as well).
Smyslov used to sing occasionally with another world-class chessplayer, Ukrainian Mark Taimanov, playing the piano. Taimanov was a concert pianist, and is now in his 70s. He was married to Lyubov Bruk, and they recorded together playing works for 2 pianos. A double-disc set of them was released in Philips' "Great Pianists of the 20th Century" series. (http://tinyurl.com/32x8s3)
By the way, here is an audio file of Smyslov singing with an orchestra. Could anyone identify the piece?
http://www.patrick.k12.va.us/josh/audio/smyslov.wav
Mildly related asides: Prokofiev was a very strong chess player for an amateur. Here are four of his games:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=61923 Capablanca would be World Champion in 1921, and Lasker had been prior to 1921. The Capablanca game is listed on that page as a tournament, but it was not; Prokofiev wasn't that strong! It was a simultaneous exhibition.
Hungarian Lajos Portisch was another world-class chessplayer who was (is) a singer. Here is an interview with him from just the other day, translated by a fan:
http://www.chessninja.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=001504
Portisch: I confess I have greater ambitions now. I would like to sing songs for which later I will not have the time or the voice.
Q: Is this more important to you?
Portisch: Classical music is an inexhaustible treasure-house, at least as huge as chess. I know professional singers who sing merely twelve songs. I know from Schubert at least 70-80 songs. I have hardly performed any Brahms songs in front of an audience. At the moment I am studying Wolff-songs and Wagner airs - my voice is especially suited for heroic figures of Wagner, or it would've been suited had I sang any operas. We chessplayers tend to have a heroic temperament.
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Portisch: I looked at the games from the recent Linares tournament, I took notes of what interests me and discarded the rest. Although it does happen occasionally that I study chess in the evening and in the morning I search the litter because I realize I shouldn't have thrown out everything. I've always been like this, sometimes whole bunches of analysis landed in the wastebasket because I wasn't succesful with the particular opening, and later I searched for the papers in vain. I have been and still am impulsive. Occasionally I even threw out music sheets, although not as often as chess analysis. I know it's a sin with musicians, but music sheets can be copied as well.
Q: Sorry for asking, but why the music sheets?
Portisch: In case I sang something in a bad tune, and got angry.
Q: Which position of your games would you put on your birthday cake, which is the most memorable?
Portisch: I couldn't choose, I have many nice games. But I couldn't choose a music either, the history of classical music is so rich.
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It is gelato.
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It is gelato.
Don't lie, we know what that really is (or the brown one at least.)
You need to see a Dr. >:D
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Who Knows?
The Master as played by the late great Roger Delgado.
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Don't lie, we know what that really is (or the brown one at least.)
You need to see a Dr. >:D
But it tastes sooo goood! I thought id sell it in a cone for $3.99. I know I will call it Cold Stone Creamery. :)
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But it tastes sooo goood! I thought id sell it in a cone for $3.99. I know I will call it Cold Stone Creamery. :)
In certain neighborhoods, you could make a ton of money as a taster. ;D
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In certain neighborhoods, you could make a ton of money as a taster. ;D
Nero's Rome is a thing of the past.
Mike
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When you're very young, sleeping is easy.
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Must I really?
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Must I really?
Anne-Sophie Mutter seems to have been burning the candle at both ends I see.
Mike
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A fine picture of great Ginette.
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Marx
Very interesting Michel. I just happen to live in the "Karl Marx Hof" here in Vienna, Austria. Small world isn't it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Marx-Hof
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Wow, that is one amazing apartment complex!
I was in Vienna just before Christmas, meant to go to Heiligenstadt but never made it.
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Pee-Wee Herman! Wasn't that obvious?
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I suspect Nipper needs no introduction, but you can find out more about him here: http://www.danbbs.dk/~erikoest/nipper.htm
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My girl again, in a very Nordic pose (in other words, my type 'a thang).
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Mike, you still have the same avatar, how boring! :D Even Sarge changed his avatar. ;D
Modify I was mistaken, that was Sarge's sig that I was looking at, not his avatar.
My avatar is Robson Green. He starred in Touching Evil and Wire in the Blood. I have loved Touching Evil ever since I first saw it, but only recently had a chance to watch the first series of Wire in the Blood. He is playing the same type of character, and he's awesome. :) In both series he catches murderers by getting into their heads, how they think, to profile them and also sometimes anticipate their actions.
I can already tell you now that my next avatar will be (http://www.violetdesigns.co.uk/Foyles%20War%20copy2.JPG) the other show I'm currently watching. I'll say more in a week or two when I change my avatar. :)
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Now, that second show is really worth watching, esp the first series. Quite original and superbly acted.
Mike
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Now, that second show is really worth watching, esp the first series. Quite original and superbly acted.
Mike
Yeah it is really great. The library has all but the previous season, which comes to pbs this summer. It's my favorite show right now. Drama and subtle, but deep, acting elevates Foyle's War beyond the exaggerated melodrama that I'm used to from tv shows. The mysteries are pretty clever and the premise of the show is an interesting one.
I also watch Inspector Lynley-- it's amusing that the show caught on and became so popular in Britain, because it's written by an American author. Elizabeth George lives in California! :D Since I don't know anything about the UK, I wouldn't even know what would be inaccurate about it, but I like it. Anyway Lynley was my previous avatar, and before that it was Psych. ;D
So while Bill's avatars are different, we both are working on the same theme. :)
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You seen Rebus or Messiah (DI Red Metcalf) with Ken Stott...you would like those David.
Rebus is set in Edinburgh, Scotland. Ken Stott must be the hardest Detective on the Planet (Being Scottish you can well guess, Mike will confirm this ;D )
The Angriest Actor I have ever come across, bar none.
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Oh Rebus... that's Ian Rankin, I've read one of those novels, but that was a few years back, I don't recall it that well. Just recall it being very dark! :D
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Oh Rebus... that's Ian Rankin, I've read one of those novels, but that was a few years back, I don't recall it that well. Just recall it being very dark! :D
Very dark and seedy David, bit like a Mahler 6th ;D
Stott is the guy who played Hitler in Uncle Adolf, the Chubbiest, Scottish sounding Nazi you are ever likely to come across ;D First time I ever saw Hitler Nut somebody in the Head. LOL
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The Inspector Lynley mysteries are pap I think. The books are bad enough, but the TV adaptations eviscerate even the set up between the detectives. She is clueless about British society and it is more fantasy than anything else.
George spent a lot of money and time trying to prove that Jack the Ripper was the painter Walter Sickert. The 'evidence' was the usual guess work or tenuous, it would not even get him arrested these days.
As to Rebus...top show, Stott is so believeable and indeed it is dark. The actor John Hannah, (He who was incapable of sustaining an English accent in The Mummy.) bought up some of the book rights and was Rebus in several of the stories, hopeless, like a gawky daft laddie. Stott is the real deal. And I always like to see Edinburgh, even its underbelly.
Mike
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Just an amazing photo I found while surfing
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Mike, you still have the same avatar, how boring! :D Even Sarge changed his avatar. ;D
Modify I was mistaken, that was Sarge's sig that I was looking at, not his avatar.
I remain fundamentally opposed to cosmetic surgery and frequent changes of avatar. I first used my avatar five years ago and it has been an unchanging presence thoughout cyberspace. I walk into a chatroom anywhere and I'm instantly recognized. Kids beg for my autograph; men slap me on the back and offer to buy me a beer; women want my body. My unwavering commitment to those 100x100 pixels is celebrated in some circles as an example of steadfastness and loyalty that all persons of clean mind and sound body should emulate...or was that sound mind and clean body? Whatever... I know who I am, I am what I am, and I will go to my grave with my Sgt Rock avatar. The only way they'll make me give it up is to pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Sarge, feeling a bit Charlton Heston'ish tonight ;D
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That was a real good speech, Sarge! :D 8)
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That was a real good speech, Sarge! :D 8)
I beg to differ. $:)
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Major??
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Well, it was very moving... Made me think about my own rather happy-go-lucky avatar customs...
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Well, it was very moving... Made me think about my own rather happy-go-lucky avatar customs...
I guess changing avatars can get confusing, but I assure you this time its all in fun. :)
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You won't fool me that easily! I can see your face behind the Sgt Rock pic... George! >:D
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You won't fool me that easily! I can see your face behind the Sgt Rock pic... George! >:D
Stinker! :P
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Hey, for a while there I thought it was Sarge who changed his screen name to Major... ??? ??? ??? That was a really confusing idea... ;D
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Hey, for a while there I thought it was Sarge who changed his screen name to Major... ??? ??? ??? That was a really confusing idea... ;D
I should've put Minor, that would have been most confusing. ;D
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Well, anyway: we proved Sarge's point. Seeing his avatar I instinctively treated the post as coming from Sarge without even thinking about the name that was displayed next to it.
Then I decided it was a newcomer.
Then I noticed the eerily high post count. And started to wonder what sort of hacker the newcomer was... ::) ;D)
And back on topic: my current avatar is a blurred pic of my daughter standing in our bedroom door.
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I remain fundamentally opposed to cosmetic surgery and frequent changes of avatar. I first used my avatar five years ago and it has been an unchanging presence thoughout cyberspace. I walk into a chatroom anywhere and I'm instantly recognized. Kids beg for my autograph; men slap me on the back and offer to buy me a beer; women want my body. My unwavering commitment to those 100x100 pixels is celebrated in some circles as an example of steadfastness and loyalty that all persons of clean mind and sound body should emulate...or was that sound mind and clean body? Whatever... I know who I am, I am what I am, and I will go to my grave with my Sgt Rock avatar. The only way they'll make me give it up is to pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Sarge, feeling a bit Charlton Heston'ish tonight ;D
That was classic! LOL....a lot. I put in a submission to The Mad Hatter to see if I might don my old Bogart avatar, but have not heard back yet. :D
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Well, anyway: we proved Sarge's point. Seeing his avatar I instinctively treated the post as coming from Sarge without even thinking about the name that was displayed next to it.
Then I decided it was a newcomer.
Then I noticed the eerily high post count. And started to wonder what sort of hacker the newcomer was... ::) ;D)
And back on topic: my current avatar is a blurred pic of my daughter standing in our bedroom door.
I am honored that I wasn't your first, second or third guess. ;D
Mine is now Sviatoslav Richter.
I was maybe gonna go back to the Moravec one, but the image is no longer available. Karma I guess. ;D
Anyone have a link to the old forum?
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That was classic! LOL....a lot. I put in a submission to The Mad Hatter to see if I might don my old Bogart avatar, but have not heard back yet. :D
I still say the Bacall one was tops! :)
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Dead on Sarge, but I think I have an easier way to get respect from men, adoration from women, and beer... steal your avatar when I need it! ;D ;) :D
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Anyone have a link to the old forum?
Here you go:
http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php (http://www.good-music-guide.com/forum/index.php)
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Dead on Sarge, but I think I have an easier way to get respect from men, adoration from women, and beer... steal your avatar when I need it! ;D ;) :D
I can say from personal experience that stealing Sarge's avatar will not accomplish that goal. It only made the mods a little nervous and me feel like a traitor to my country. I'll never do that again.
I now believe that the powers of Sarge's avatar lie within him and are not transferable to others.
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Dead on Sarge, but I think I have an easier way to get respect from men, adoration from women, and beer... steal your avatar when I need it! ;D ;) :D
;D :D ;D
With you and George on this forum, I better copyright my avatar and/or petition Rob to impose a no-imping rule.
Sarge
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An expressionist rendition of Paganini in action. I wouldn't conceive of any other. :)
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That was classic! LOL....a lot. I put in a submission to The Mad Hatter to see if I might don my old Bogart avatar, but have not heard back yet. :D
Truthfully, I enjoyed your changes of avatar when they all had some link to Bogart. That was pretty damn cool.
Sarge
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Truthfully, I enjoyed your changes of avatar when they all had some link to Bogart. That was pretty damn cool.
Sarge
I believe it is about ime to revert back to Bogey.....and stay there within the Bogart framework like you pointed out Sarge, no matter the temptation of one night flings. I will have to deal with Mad Hatter later. ;D :D Maybe I will send him a couple of cds for his trouble. Would this be considered buying him off........you bet! 8)
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An expressionist rendition of Paganini in action. I wouldn't conceive of any other. :)
That's a great avatar, Steve. Good color. Don't ever change it.
Thus spake Sarge ;D
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I believe it is about ime to revert back to Bogey.....and stay there within the Bogart framework
Well, you got my vote, Bogey.
Sarge
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Morbo from Futurama.
"I will destroy you."
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"I will destroy you."
I am glad that you longer have this text beneath your avatar, for I don't think it suits you. :)
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I am glad that you longer have this text beneath your avatar, for I don't think it suits you. :)
Oh, I thought it was great! Cracked me up everytime I read it.
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I believe it is about ime to revert back to Bogey.....and stay there within the Bogart framework like you pointed out Sarge, no matter the temptation of one night flings. I will have to deal with Mad Hatter later. ;D :D Maybe I will send him a couple of cds for his trouble. Would this be considered buying him off........you bet! 8)
Hey, great, I log off the boards for a couple of days to work and get offered free CDs! I'll have to do this more often.
Bill/Bogey, I'm trying to think of another suitable image to Google, the man in the trenchcoat is all yours once I do...and I think I just did...
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The man is Tom Waits, I believe from the photoshoot for the album Alice.
Because Bogey can't be the only one with a theme...
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The man is Tom Waits, I believe from the photoshoot for the album Alice.
Because Bogey can't be the only one with a theme...
Thank you again Mad Hatter....you are a great sport!
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Don't mention it - he suits you better :)
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A rare single of George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord."
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Don't mention it - he suits you better :)
I agree. Bill = Bogey. :)
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Great Zeus
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Great Zeus
That one's a keeper! :)
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Great Zeus
Carlos,
Your coin avatars are always a pleasure to take in.
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Bogey's back! Cool!
Sarge
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Bogey's back! Cool!
Sarge
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:yq63Uxb0q2jDYM:http://casablanca.blogs.ma/ecrire/imagesusers/casablanca_blogs_ma/ricks.jpg)
Yes, Rick's Cafe is officially reopen for business.
Good morning Sarge....your table is waiting.
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Great Zeus
Nice one, carlos, keep them coming! 8)
This is a commemorative 5,000 drachma golden coin from 1980, anticipating the 1982 13th European Field Games, held in Athens. The ΚΑΛΟΣ ΚΑΓΑΘΟΣ (kalos kagathos - "good and virtuous") inscription is from an apofthegm by Plato.
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That's a great avatar, Steve. Good color. Don't ever change it.
Thus spake Sarge ;D
I wouldn't dare, lest someone might come and take it from me ;D
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A rare single of George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord."
Very excellent choice my friend.
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A rare single of George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord."
You could use the song My Sweet Lord was pinched from, He's so fine.
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Very excellent choice my friend.
Gracias. :)
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Well you all know who is on my avatar. ;D
And I will try to keep it!
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Well you all know who is on my avatar. ;D
And I will try to keep it!
Unless I grab the same image ;)
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Don, will you be visiting the Identify your avatar thread soon? I am curious....
My avatar?
It's what you get when a Divertimentian is enjoying a serenade...
0:)
Okay...
It's trumpeter extraordinaire Dizzy Gillespie giving us a lesson in bubble blowing (or an artist's rendering thereof).
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My avatar?
It's what you get when a Divertimentian is enjoying a serenade...
0:)
Okay...
It's trumpeter extraordinaire Dizzy Gillespie giving us a lesson in bubble blowing (or an artist's rendering thereof).
Cool. Now I see it. Thanks. :)
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Another George Harrison photo.
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Since I'm now posting much more often than I used to on the old GMG, I've decided to change mine every two weeks (and not once a month, as I have done until now).
It is, of course, the same recurrent theme: my daughter + various members of the family (usually me ;D).
Maciek
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The Sesame street gang. 8)
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The Sesame street gang. 8)
Love it!
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The king of the castle.
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Love it!
:)
Yes, I think I found my permanent avatar.
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The late, great Bill Shankly
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Yes, I think I found my permanent avatar.
No, George! This one!
(http://www.vatsaas.org/rtv/arsenal/teamrocs/bert/ebg.jpe)
;D
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Yes, I think I found my permanent avatar.
Dear Members of GMG,
I will be starting a "pool". Please send me the date and time of day that you believe our friend George will change his avatar again. One entry per member and grand prize to be determined later. ;D
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Dear Members of GMG,
I will be starting a "pool". Please send me the date and time of day that you believe our friend George will change his avatar again. One entry per member and grand prize to be determined later. ;D
;D ;D ;D
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No, George! This one!
;D
Dave, gettin' all gangsta up in this mofo. :D
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Dave, gettin' all gangsta up in this mofo. :D
Why did you choose a Sesame Street avatar, may I ask?
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Yes, I think I found my permanent avatar.
I love it too. (In a way, it's very much like my own, actually... LOL! ;D)
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Tchaikovsky it is, and it will stay that way, afterall he is the greatest right! ;D
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Why did you choose a Sesame Street avatar, may I ask?
I believe George's original avatar for the longest time was (http://www.goldenweb.it/software/immagini/icone/cartoons/henson/Ernie.gif)
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I believe George's original avatar for the longest time was (http://www.goldenweb.it/software/immagini/icone/cartoons/henson/Ernie.gif)
I know, but why...?
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(http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/images/Wanderer-above-the-Mists-Friedrich.jpg)
The Wanderer above a sea of fog by Caspar David Fredrich
I especially enjoy Fredrich's paintings. I love art, poetry and of course music from the late Romantic era in particular.
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I know, but why...?
We should just wait for George to chime in....nah....I believe that Ernie was to him back in the day, as Richter is to him now, that is, just a favorite from his childhood. I even remember changing mine to Bert for a few days.... ;D
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By the way Dave, wasn't it you that used to come hard with the classic monsters from the Universal Library (and I'll include Chaney Sr. here for fun)? Those were sweet!
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By the way Dave, wasn't it you that used to come hard with the classic monsters from the Universal Library (and I'll include Chaney Sr. here for fun)? Those were sweet!
That was me. My current avatar is just as scary methinks. ;)
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I know, but why...?
1. back in the day I didn't know how to do images.
2. Rob had a number of images on the old GMG for people like me.
3. I searched them and chose the Ernie, because Sesame Street was a big part of my life growing up. I'm more of a Bert than an Ernie, therefore I thought it would be fun to be Ernie for awhile.
(http://www.goldenweb.it/software/immagini/icone/cartoons/henson/Ernie.gif)
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We should just wait for George to chime in....nah....I believe that Ernie was to him back in the day, as Richter is to him now, that is, just a favorite from his childhood. I even remember changing mine to Bert for a few days.... ;D
Good times. :)
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Changed for Bill.
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Changed for Bill.
Let me guess, vacationing in Lake Michigan last year? ;D
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Let me guess, vacationing in Lake Michigan last year? ;D
:P
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:P
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Changed for Bill.
That may be one of the best designs that Universal put out Dave....though there was not a weak one in my books. I do not believe that The Creature was designed by makeup artist Jack Pierce. I believe that he was let go from Universal before this one started. Maybe you can correct me on this point. No matter, Pierce was DA MAN! and the Creature design was top-shelf, no matter who came up with it. I happen to have (bragging tone engaged) an autographed picture from Ben Chapman....neat stuff.
I have Photo #3
http://www.the-reelgillman.com/store/gillstore.html
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I do not believe that The Creature was designed by makeup artist Jack Pierce. I believe that he was let go from Universal before this one started. Maybe you can correct me on this point.
A little internet research and I find the name "Bud Westmore."
Not sure how accurate that is.
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A little internet research and I find the name "Bud Westmore."
Not sure how accurate that is.
I'll dig around starting with that name. Thanks!
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A little internet research and I find the name "Bud Westmore."
Not sure how accurate that is.
Looks like he did all three Creature films....and the Abbott and Costello Meet ____________ films as well. Nice little resume of work:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922863/
It might say on the Creature DVD set if he came up with the design or simply carried it out....good excuse to give those another viewing. ;D
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It's my conception of the dream that led to Stockhausen's infamous Helicopter String Quartet, drawn with some sort of freebie art program stuff given me by the bro-in-law.
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Love your avatar Dave. It reminds me of the first Pez dispenser I ever bought back in 1965 which I still have to this day and keep in a display box hanging on my wall.
(http://www.juicyraoul.com/pez/pictures/p77.jpg)
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Love your avatar Dave. It reminds me of the first Pez dispenser I ever bought back in 1965 which I still have to this day and keep in a display box hanging on my wall.
(http://www.juicyraoul.com/pez/pictures/p77.jpg)
As you should Hollywood, as that dispenser went for over $320 on EBAY!
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Love your avatar Dave. It reminds me of the first Pez dispenser I ever bought back in 1965 which I still have to this day and keep in a display box hanging on my wall.
(http://www.juicyraoul.com/pez/pictures/p77.jpg)
Very cool, Hollywood!
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Great Fritz,warmest of violinists. Y love him and
all his works.
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My angel, my All, my other self.
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My angel, my All, my other self.
This she is also huh.
From my private collection! ;D
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My angel, my All, my other self.
She's still your girlfriend, right? ;D
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I think I threw up a little in my mouth.
:P
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I think I threw up a little in my mouth.
:P
Sorry, dave.
Sorry, Dave.
;D
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This she is also huh.
From my private collection! ;D
\ :D >:D
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I think I threw up a little in my mouth.
:P
Awwwwww....
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Sorry, dave.
Sorry, Dave.
;D
"Nuthin' burps like bacon!"
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\ :D >:D
I kept this picture Andy to remind you once in a while what a beauty she is, and to torture myself in seeing what I am missing. ;D
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I think I threw up a little in my mouth.
:P
Throw up of joy or disgust? :-\
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Throw up of joy or disgust? :-\
Something green ;)?
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Something green ;)?
Ha. Nope. I already got one. It-za real niiiize.
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This she is also huh.
From my private collection! ;D
You have a COLLECTION? I believe that's called a HAREM!
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You have a COLLECTION? I believe that's called a HAREM!
You are a wise man for your age, I am sure! :)
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Ha. Nope. I already got one. It-za real niiiize.
Eccellente! My best wishes for both of you!
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You have a COLLECTION? I believe that's called a HAREM!
:D ;) ;)
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You are a wise man for your age, I am sure! :)
Harry, you need to start a thread devoted to your Harem, or, one devoted to Scarlett. :)
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Harry, you need to start a thread devoted to your Harem, or, one devoted to Scarlett. :)
I am absolute besoothed by Scarlett, can't help it.
A thread, no I am not worthy enough my friend.
And my harem is private! ;D
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I am absolute besoothed by Scarlett, can't help it.
A thread, no I am not worthy enough my friend.
And my harem is private! ;D
No more inviting looks from her, Harry, 'tis not FAIR!!! :-[
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I am absolute besoothed by Scarlett, can't help it.
A thread, no I am not worthy enough my friend.
And my harem is private! ;D
I live for big brown eyes, pale creamy skin, and long brown hair. But for a blonde, Scarlett is quite extraordinary!
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No more inviting looks from her, Harry, 'tis not FAIR!!! :-[
Tis not indeed, George!
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I live for big brown eyes, pale creamy skin, and long brown hair. But for a blonde, Scarlett is quite extraordinary!
I suspect that's because she's not a real blonde? :-\
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I suspect that's because she's not a real blonde? :-\
She's not? Hmmmm...
It's interesting (well, for me at least): many people see Scarlett as the embodiment of Viking/Valkyric loveliness. But she's part-Jewish!
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And my harem is private! ;D
Beware of an "Abuduction from the Seraglio"!
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Beware of an "Abuduction from the Seraglio"!
;D ;D ;D
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Morgan Webb, X-Play (the video game review show, not what you might be thinking)
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Great Michael Rabin. Big head :o
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Emperor Kangxi
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Eva (yummy) Green.
The third most delectable woman on the planet
:)
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Eva (yummy) Green.
The third most delectable woman on the planet
:)
Why settle for third best?
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Why settle for third best?
The other two won't have me!
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The other two won't have me!
;D
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My avatar is Ditters. :)
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(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/EgonSchiele-SelfPortrait1912.jpg)
Egon Schiele - Self-portrait (1912)
It also looks like me a bit.
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(http://www.askewreviews.com/images2/pop1280.jpg)
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(http://www.askewreviews.com/images2/pop1280.jpg)
I believe that the little "fella" off center to the left at the bottom of your book is the icon for Vintage Crime/Black Lizard if I am not mistaken David....here is more on their efforts.
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/blacklizard/
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mPXrCrtLL._AA240_.jpg)
I'm considering this one for my new avatar.
(Yes Bill, I know.....) ::)
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I believe that the little "fella" off center to the left at the bottom of your book is the icon for Vintage Crime/Black Lizard if I am not mistaken David...
You are not mistaken.
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The quiet one. 0:)
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<------- What it says on the tin
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/3121EYYX15L._AA240_.jpg)
for the picture itself, the artist, the voice, a great series of records (American Recordings I to V).... so good that the outtakes are even better than other artists's best of ;D
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Eva (yummy) Green.
The third most delectable woman on the planet
:)
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/berlin/Lenin.jpg)This is Eva Green??? She looked a lot better in The Dreamers and Casino Royale. Laid out too long in the sun, I guess. The beard doesn't turn me on either. ;D
Sarge
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<------- What it says on the tin
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/3121EYYX15L._AA240_.jpg)
for the picture itself, the artist, the voice, a great series of records (American Recordings I to V).... so good that the outtakes are even better than other artists's best of ;D
Amen, Papy
Sarge
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Der Paukenspieler (1940) by Paul Klee.
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Der Paukenspieler (1940) by Paul Klee.
Hooray for Klee!
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My new avatar is an alleged self-portrait of Sandro Botticelli.
I saw the original just two weeks ago. 8)
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Der Paukenspieler (1940) by Paul Klee.
nice...... 8)
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I saw the original just two weeks ago. 8)
How fortunate. That's an excellent avatar, my friend. :)
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Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred days.
Profession: none, or "starlet"
Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze?
Why are you hiding, darling?
(I Talk in a daze, I walk in a maze
I cannot get out, said the starling).
Where are you riding, Dolores Haze?
What make is the magic carpet?
Is a Cream Cougar the present craze?
And where are you parked, my car pet?
Who is your hero, Dolores Haze?
(http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/images/lolita_hayes.jpg)
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Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred days.
Profession: none, or "starlet"
Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze?
Why are you hiding, darling?
(I Talk in a daze, I walk in a maze
I cannot get out, said the starling).
Where are you riding, Dolores Haze?
What make is the magic carpet?
Is a Cream Cougar the present craze?
And where are you parked, my car pet?
Who is your hero, Dolores Haze?
(http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/images/lolita_hayes.jpg)
One of my favorite books.
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Wir betreten feuertrunken
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That's my favorite portrait of Beethoven, or anyone.
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A new book by Pema Chodron.
I like the suggestion. :D
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My fiancee during Halloween '06. She was heavy into Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Darkthrone, etc. at the time. I used to keep my own Roman Catholicism from her, for fear of losing her. Today she's with me as an RC but we still have huge amounts of fun, dressing up, etc.
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That's my favorite portrait of Beethoven, or anyone.
Yeah, I agree. I tried to find a poster of it to frame and hang up in my room, but unfortunately was unsuccessful.
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(http://armsandinfluence.typepad.com/photos/arms_and_influence_refere/bogart1.jpg)
The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.
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(http://armsandinfluence.typepad.com/photos/arms_and_influence_refere/bogart1.jpg)
The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.
That's a sweet avatar you got there Bill.
Almost makes it easier to miss Lauren. ;D
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That's a sweet avatar you got there Bill.
Almost makes it easier to miss Lauren. ;D
Oh, she'll be back....when you expect her least. :)
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Mary at Medjugorje, Hungary
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It's that annoying ad I see every other time on this forum
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Annoying because you only get to see it every other time? :D
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Procol Harum's second album:
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NCV89SMRL._SS500_.jpg)
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(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=2006;type=avatar)
Procol Harum's second album:
You are a man of passions my friend.
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You are a man of passions my friend.
I love the surreal quality of that cover. Plus, it has a piano so it seems appropriate here. 8)
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Hedonism Bot from Futurama, specifically the opera-themed episode, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings."
My longstanding "thing" about Hedonism Bot is well-known in my social circles. Some of the best quotes from later Futurama came from Hedonism Bot.
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The quiet one returns.... 8)
I challenge three other Beatle fans to pick an available Beatle and make him your avatar. :)
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Is that Jesus? I didn't know you were religious.
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Summer of Love Album Cover 8)
Maybe my all-time favorite picture of Harrison, George.....hmmmm, something inherently wrong with this sentence.
I will pass on the challenge. But if I were to pick up the banner, mine might be:
(http://members.home.nl/jpgr/paul1969.jpg)
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Warning, warning! Screen name change! $:)
Cheers,
MrOsa
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Warning, warning! Screen name change! $:)
Cheers,
MrOsa
Farewell, MrOrsa...
Sarge
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Same for me:
I will pass on the challenge. But if I were to pick up the banner, mine might be:
(http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/images/shining1.jpg)
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The quiet one returns.... 8)
I challenge three other Beatle fans to pick an available Beatle and make him your avatar. :)
You know they'll have to pry my avatar out of my cold, dead hands before I give it up. But if I took up your challenge, it might be this one:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/berlin/lennon.jpg)
It looks good reduced to avatar size:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/berlin/lennonju.jpg)
Sarge
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You know they'll have to pry my avatar out of my cold, dead hands before I give it up. But if I took up your challenge, it might be this one:
It looks good reduced to avatar size:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/berlin/lennonju.jpg)
Sarge
Due to your leadership in this area Sarge, I was able to avoid the temptation of change in so far as at least maintaining the "Bogey" theme. ;D
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Due to your leadership in this area Sarge, I was able to avoid the temptation of change in so far as at least maintaining the "Bogey" theme. ;D
Good man 8) Now, if I can just convince George to keep the George themed avatars, my work here will be accomplished.
Sarge
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(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/berlin/lennonju.jpg)
Looks just like you Sarge!
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Looks just like you Sarge!
Ah, you noticed! Most people don't because I have a mustache and beard now.
(http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/20/johnlennon_narrowweb__300x460,0.jpg)
Sarge
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Ah, you noticed! Most people don't because I have a mustache and beard now.
(http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/12/20/johnlennon_narrowweb__300x460,0.jpg)
Sarge
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Aw, we could have been fab. :( ::) :'(
(http://members.home.nl/jpgr/paul1969.jpg) (http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/berlin/lennon.jpg)
(http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/images/shining1.jpg) (http://www.youthink.com/quiz_images/quiz154outcome3.jpg)
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Same for me:
(http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/images/shining1.jpg)
Didn't Ringo do one of the voices for Thomas the Tank Engine? Is that the point of the picture? (Great pic, in any event.)
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Didn't Ringo do one of the voices for Thomas the Tank Engine? Is that the point of the picture? (Great pic, in any event.)
Indeed, that is classic Ringo. :)
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Aw, we could have been fab.
Yes, it makes me sad to think, What might have been...
Sarge
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Yes, it makes me sad to think, What might have been...
Sarge
We all, shine on.... :)
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Who knows mine? :)
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Didn't Ringo do one of the voices for Thomas the Tank Engine? Is that the point of the picture? (Great pic, in any event.)
Yes, Ringo played the part of Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station before George Carlin.
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Who knows mine? :)
(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=610;type=avatar)
Don't worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88mph the instant the lightning strikes the tower... everything will be fine.
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Must watch that again some time...
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(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=610;type=avatar)
Don't worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88mph the instant the lightning strikes the tower... everything will be fine.
Yes, I was going to respond but Tony got Back in Time! :D
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Audrey Hepburn..........from the film Sabrina (1954).
(http://www.vueweekly.com/upload/01c065cf-a092-494b-939e-0a69cf8a9474.jpg)
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Veni, Creator Spiritus. The 1st movement of M8.
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Audrey Hepburn..........from the film Sabrina (1954).
(http://www.vueweekly.com/upload/01c065cf-a092-494b-939e-0a69cf8a9474.jpg)
Great movie, but Bogey's totally miscast in that one!
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Great movie, but Bogey's totally miscast in that one!
Agreed.....but what a leading lady to be miscast with!
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Agreed.....but what a leading lady to be miscast with!
She sure brightened my day! 0:)
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Glenn.
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(http://bluepyramid.org/ia/pfvn.jpg)
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George, you and I look like we're gonna bust some safes. Or some heads. ;D
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George, you and I look like we're gonna bust some safes. Or some heads. ;D
That was too weird looking at myself...don't know how you do it Mark. :-\
Anyway, back to ol' George Harrison. 8)
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My last avatar was spiderman doing a hindi dance.
Can anybody guess this one? ;D
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Nothing. I even gave up Dana's pipe.
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Odilon Redon - The Siren Rising from the Waves Clothed in Barbs (1988)
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Humphrey Bogart.
Casablanca = Awesomeness.
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Humphrey Bogart.
Casablanca = Awesomeness.
People will confuse your posts with Bogey's!
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Wait!
Someone else uses Humphrey Bogart?
Crap, gotta find something else.....
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Wait!
Someone else uses Humphrey Bogart?
Crap, gotta find something else.....
:) Many thanks.
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Changed it to Oscar Wilde.
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde = Awesomeness.
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Changed it to Oscar Wilde.
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." - Oscar Wilde = Awesomeness.
Very, very witty... very, very witty
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/oscarwil.htm
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Very, very witty... very, very witty
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/oscarwil.htm
Nice - I laughed out loud.
Oscar Wilde = Legend.
Have you read 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' ? It's really good, I recommend it.
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Havergal Brian (1876-1972)
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Havergal Brian (1876-1972)
YES!!!
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/ngmg/bUTTHEAD.gif)
Sarge
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Nice - I laughed out loud.
Oscar Wilde = Legend.
Have you read 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' ? It's really good, I recommend it.
One of my all-time favorite books....and I only read it for the first time this year! ;D
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One of my all-time favorite books....and I only read it for the first time this year! ;D
Same here aaaaand same here.
Looks like we're twins or something...
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Shakyamuni Buddha
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A Japanese flag with the Chinese words "Shameless" written over it.
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Mawangu Mingiedi, leader of Konono no. 1 who plays a mean electric mbira
(http://www.arttowermito.or.jp/2006/jpg/mingiedi.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konono_N%C2%B01 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konono_N%C2%B01)
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Nydia, la jeune aveugle aux fleurs de Pompéi.
Statue by Randolph Rogers. 1855-56
She's a good listener:
(http://www.insecula.com/Photos/00/00/02/28/ME0000022893_3.JPG)
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Same here aaaaand same here.
Looks like we're twins or something...
For a time there I thought you might go (http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:rrW4sXACVEMxRM:http://www.britfilms.tv/images/news/willis%2520die%2520hard%25204.jpg) on us.....which would be very cool as well.
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Yeeeeah...
Realized it now...
Maybe I will change it someday...
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Nice - I laughed out loud.
Oscar Wilde = Legend.
Have you read 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' ? It's really good, I recommend it.
I actually wrote a paper on this a few months ago for my last English seminar in college... I studied the use of music in the work. I actually read through it in great detail a second (and third) time and marked every single instance in which music in any shape or form was mentioned. I then made a 3-page index on Microsoft Word of them, which I used as my main reference in writing the paper. It was tedious but well worth the effort.
Your quote can be attributed to Lord Henry, no?
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My avatar is obviously a wolf. Wolves have always fascinated me and "spoke to me", so to speak. I once created a scratchboard piece of art, and it was a portrait of a wolf. It was my favorite. I was also particularly good at sketching wolves and equus.
I chose the wolf on the left because I find it beautiful. The snarl is a gesture commanding respect, not necessarily condoning violence.
Wolves have fascinated me because of their sense of affinity towards one another. Such companionship and ensemble is rarely paralleled in this world.
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My avatar is obviously a wolf. Wolves have always fascinated me and "spoke to me", so to speak.
You are in good company. Mrs. Rock loves wolves too, and I'm sure you know Hélène Grimaud owns a nature reserve devoted to wolves.
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gmgpictures/GrimaudBeethoven.jpg)
Sarge
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Mine is Anton Bruckner, but I have seen several other Bruckner avatars floating around, so maybe it is time for a change?
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Ah, there were are... changed to Albert Camus, but I may change again.
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Take a guess. ;)
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Why Felix, of course. :D
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Bob Dylan from the cover the great: "Bringing it all back home." 8)
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The Lady of Medjugorje
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Judas! 8)
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The Knight of Infinite Resignation
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I play bass.
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One of my paintings.
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(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/30/ce/b2b0228348a03338cbb81110.L.jpg)
:)
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It's identified beneath the image, but I wanted to share a larger image here, since it's a little hard to see as an avatar:
(http://www.jaysonjo.com/theologue.JPG)
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(http://www.elbauldelartesano.com/sitebuilder/images/theologue2-600x231.jpg)
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It's identified beneath the image, but I wanted to share a larger image here, since it's a little hard to see as an avatar:
Sort of like full screen vs. letterboxing/widescreen buddy. 8)
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Sort of like full screen vs. letterboxing/widescreen buddy. 8)
Yes and once again, letterboxing wins!
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I thought I'd retire Kierkegaard and give in... to temptation. >:D
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In honour of the massive revelations bestowed upon me my these Metal Kings, most recently by their double dvd "Absolute Power" and the "Gods of War" masterpiece cd, Manowar KILLS WITH POWER!
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Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, with a Spartium junceum bush in full bloom in the foreground.
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Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, with a Spartium junceum bush in full bloom in the foreground.
One of my favorite "maintained" avatars on this forum. Never tire of seeing it.
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One of my favorite "maintained" avatars on this forum. Never tire of seeing it.
Might we hear more about the backstory of your current avatar?
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Might we hear more about the backstory of your current avatar?
As you have been able to tell, I have been changing avatars like socks. However, the WWII avatar that I tried recently hit a chord with me and images from this period I find to be powerful. Lately I have been doing some reading on WWII and also have been getting back into some WWII figure painting (1:35 scale). So, I thought that I would change my avatar based on the month/date and connect to some WWII events/images. On a more personal connection, my grandfather and Uncle Bill (whom I was named after) served during WWII, so I am also doing it to honor them and all the other veterans that came before, now serve, and will come after. Just a lot of layers here for me that have all come together at once buddy.
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A caricature of painter Arnold Böcklin, of " Isle of death" fame....
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A caricature of painter Arnold Böcklin, of " Isle of death" fame....
Did the caricature have any script with it?
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No script... it's a clip from a 1930-ies (French) magazine and gives no clue at all....
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My favorite writer and the greatest single artistic influence on my life (so far, of course). I'm rereading the short stories.
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I'm not quite sure what I should install as an avatar, so i just chose myself.
My favorite music celebrities are already taken.
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I took this photo when I was visiting the Yellowstone National Park last year. This is from the top of one of the many waterfalls.
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David with Igor, father and son. IMHO,Igor was a fantastic
violinist undervaluated and unjustly compared with his father.Can you believe that he's 77 years old?.
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I changed my avatar today. But I stayed with Havergal Brian - this photo is from 1966, Brian's annus mirabilis, when 'The Gothic' got its first professional performance under Sir Adrian Boult.
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picture of me from the tour, back in September. As I joke, when we played a song that rips off "Rock n Roll" by Led Zeppelin, the singer handed me a bow, and I played a whole verse hitting the chords with it.
d.
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Stephen Patrick Morrissey
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(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/index.php.png)
Bogey, my man, why?
By the way, this is my favorite Star Trek character, the Klingon warrior Worf, House of Mog:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/worf.jpg)
A little known fact about Worf is that he tried to make it as a pop singer before entering Star Fleet Academy. Long out of print, this, his only album, has become quite a collector's item:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/whippedworf.jpg)
Sarge
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(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/whippedworf.jpg)
Sarge
BAY-bee!
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Stephen Patrick Morrissey
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A little known fact about Worf is that he tried to make it as a pop singer before entering Star Fleet Academy. Long out of print, this, his only album, has become quite a collector's item:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/whippedworf.jpg)
Sarge
Qapla'! ;D
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Andrei Korsakoff, an outstanding virtuoso who died
too soon and too young. But I'm afraid that only Harry Collier and I know him.
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No changing mine. But IF I did it would be a pic of Alfred Schnittke
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No changing mine. But IF I did it would be a pic of Alfred Schnittke
But you didn't identify your avatar. ???
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But you didn't identify your avatar. ???
If its not Schnittke, then it must be...
Pettersson!
;D
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But you didn't identify your avatar. ???
Oh apologies
I thought everyone knew that is a photo of Allan Pettersson, scandanavia's greatest composer.
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Oh apologies
I thought everyone knew that is a photo of Allan Pettersson, scandanavia's greatest composer.
Thanks. :)
I had thought it was you, actually.
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Today's avatar is a moose out huntin' for Texans. ;D
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Qapla'! ;D
;D :D ;D
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My current one is a pic of me, sans me. ;)
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Thanks. :)
I had thought it was you, actually.
What you can't read faces yet?
There's greatness and genius beaming forth from that face.
next to Pettersson i look sort of bozo ;D
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What you can't read faces yet?
There's greatness and genius beaming forth from that face.
next to Pettersson i look sort of bozo ;D
Prove it. ;D
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Prove it. ;D
This is what i would look like if I stood next to the great man, Pettersson.
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This is what i would look like if I stood next to the great man, Pettersson.
LOL
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This is what i would look like if I stood next to the great man, Pettersson.
But you have to admit there is an undeniable resemblance between you and Pettersson.
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/PPcomparison.jpg)
I can understand George's confusion.
Sarge
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Currently a testament to Super Bowl XLII's most extraordinary play!
Next weekend I will be changing it to a portrait of Antonin Dvorak. :)
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(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/index.php.png)
Bogey, my man, why?
By the way, this is my favorite Star Trek character, the Klingon warrior Worf, House of Mog:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/worf.jpg)
A little known fact about Worf is that he tried to make it as a pop singer before entering Star Fleet Academy. Long out of print, this, his only album, has become quite a collector's item:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/whippedworf.jpg)
Sarge
LOL! Was it Benji that used to put the Klingon head on HvK....that was hilarious as well. I have to admit that I have difficuly sticking to the same avatar....just too much fun. Maybe I should start a thread where folks nominate choices that I can choose one from. However Sarge, you must admit that the gotee is damn cool.
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But you have to admit there is an undeniable resemblance between you and Pettersson.
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/gm2/PPcomparison.jpg)
I can understand George's confusion.
Sarge
I really think you have found your true vocation, Sarge! ;D
Keep 'em coming, good man!
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Hm, not so sure about this new avatar. Doesn't seem to fit my style ... Maybe I should start a "Choose Brian's Avatar" thread. :-\
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Gee, Mark, your new one looks like you're morphing into King Henry VIII :o
(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=7530;type=avatar) (http://join2day.com/abc/H/holbein/holbein59.JPG)
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Doesn't bode well for his wife.... :-\
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Wife # 1 was merely repudiated. I'd feel more worried if she was one of her successors...
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Ha ha! Very good, chaps. ;D
I'm rather pleased with my new avatar. Yes, it reveals I'm putting on a few pounds. But it also looks like me, which I feel so few photos of me do.
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Kicking my can all over the place, singing...
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And so my NEW avatar is some sort of something I put together while listening to Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses; I'm not sure what it is, but I think it captures the intensity of that electronic maelstrom well enough.
LOVE it! :)
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My new Avatar is a photo of Gerhard Richter's painting Candle which sold for close to eight million Dollars at a recent auction at Sotheby's!
:o
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My new Avatar is a photo of Gerhard Richter's painting Candle which sold for close to eight million Dollars at a recent auction at Sotheby's!
:o
I noticed it earlier & I like it. :-)
BTW, for those who didn't know, my current one is from Maurice Sendak's Where Wild Things Are.
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My new Avatar is a photo of Gerhard Richter's painting Candle which sold for close to eight million Dollars at a recent auction at Sotheby's!
:o
Hm, thought it was just a cover for a Sonic Youth album.
(http://www.copons.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/daydreamnation.jpg)
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Gee, Mark, your new one looks like you're morphing into King Henry VIII :o
(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=7530;type=avatar) (http://join2day.com/abc/H/holbein/holbein59.JPG)
Ha!
They do look somewhat similar...
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Myaskovsky
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Mine's a young Ralph Vaughan Williams. :)
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The Exorcist
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The Exorcist
One of my favorites.
I'll be spinning Boys From Brazil once more, after 25-plus years, tomorrow.
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The debut album from Stone Temple Pilots.
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Flauto traverso (aka baroque flute) after J. Denner (c. 1720 Germany) made by Daniel Deitch in San Francisco, CA.
FangLin
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Hal Peary (1908 - 1985) who created the character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve. Gildersleeve evolved as a guest character on the radio series Fibber McGee and Molly during the late 30s before receiving his own show in 1941. The Great Gildersleeve ran to 1957 (I think), though Peary left the show in '50. Anyone go back far enough to remember hearing this show on the air?
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Some German dude.
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The Exorcist
Why would you want to identify yourself with some image from a crappy horror film?
(I recovered from a mild case of demon infestation. :D. Now I'm back to almost normal.)
(http://entimg.msn.com/i/100/mo/exorcist_whiteface_125x125.jpg)
The Gibson Firebird compels you!!
See.....much better. 0:)
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Some German dude.
Yeah me too just some random German dude ;)!
marvin
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Why would you want to identify yourself with some image from a crappy horror film?
(Laughing) the BEST horror film (love #3 as well. Go GEORGE C.!)
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(Laughing) the BEST horror film (love #3 as well. Go GEORGE C.!)
Yeah I do too, including #3, but hate #2. George C. Scott can just make a movie can't he? Which reminds me one of my favorite horror movies is The Changeling with George C. Scott. :)
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Mr. Sviatoslav Richter pondering a good divertimento.
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Mr. Sviatoslav Richter pondering a good divertimento.
And here I thought he was pondering a pickup line in a Chelsea bar. ;D
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I usually remember to shave only once every two or three weeks; this is the unhappy result. Whatever you do, don't let tartar sauce get stuck in your beard. But that's probably too much information already.
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Johan Julius Christian Sibelius.
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Yeah I do too, including #3, but hate #2. George C. Scott can just make a movie can't he? Which reminds me one of my favorite horror movies is The Changeling with George C. Scott. :)
The Changeling is a little know movie that is extremely cool. Scott really was like a force of nature. I completely agree, Exorcist 2 was a total dud.
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(Laughing) the BEST horror film (love #3 as well. Go GEORGE C.!)
(http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/3363/exorcist2shot4lqn1.jpg)
This one was so bad it wasn't even fun.
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(http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/3363/exorcist2shot4lqn1.jpg)
This one was so bad it wasn't even fun.
A waste of Richard Burton, indeed!
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Some German dude.
Andy, as much as I love Wagner (and you know I really, really do ;) ) I have to admit I love your girlfriend more. I prefer the avatars where she was featured 8)
Sarge
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;)
From a "Black Metal" modeling gig.
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;) ;)
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And here I thought he was pondering a pickup line in a Chelsea bar. ;D
;D
He tried it and flamed out so he went back to pondering non-threatening things... ;D
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One of my favorites.
I'll be spinning Boys From Brazil once more, after 25-plus years, tomorrow.
You have stirred my juices for another Marathon Man viewing.
(http://www.lazydork.com/movies/marathonman.jpg)
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You have stirred my juices for another Marathon Man viewing.
(http://www.lazydork.com/movies/marathonman.jpg)
Another excellent movie that few people know about.
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;) ;)
Thanks, Andy. Even better than an avatar ;) She is a goddess.
Sarge
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Thanks, Andy. Even better than an avatar ;) She is a goddess.
Sarge
You are very kind, Vielen Dank'!
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;) ;)
He, stop that, don't torture us, man she is too beautiful, we almost get blinded by it..... 8)
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From a "Black Metal" modeling gig.
I remember you posting that one before. I miss my visits to Lake Champlain.
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I remember you posting that one before. I miss my visits to Lake Champlain.
The view can be nice, but the water...yech!
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The view can be nice, but the water...yech!
I used to swim in it as a kid....come to think of it, this might explain a lot of things. ;D
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My new one is a shop shutter from Barcelona. Some such is clearly graffiti, very skilled. Some may have been commissioned by the shops. Difficult to tell with this one.
Mike
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I used to swim in it as a kid....come to think of it, this might explain a lot of things. ;D
(laughing like a loon)
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Queen's debut album cover.
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Queen's debut album cover.
The first and second (if I remember correctly) had some fairly heavy stuff on them, didn't they? Maybe I should check 'em out again.
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The first and second (if I remember correctly) had some fairly heavy stuff on them, didn't they? Maybe I should check 'em out again.
To me all of their early albums (up to and including A Day at the Races) have heavy stuff on them - to varying degrees, of course. Keep Yourself Alive has to be one of the greatest debut singles of any rock band. Gotta love that guitar work (especially the intro) and the positive message of the lyrics.
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Still to this day one of my favorite movies of all time, Jaws (1975)
Robert Shaw as Quint also one of my favorite performances, not to mention Roy Scheider as Chief Brody. :)
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Another Maurice Sendak pic-- this time from the cover of my favourite book of his, In the Night Kitchen.
(http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~rflynn/0064434362.jpg)
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Another Maurice Sendak pic-- this time from the cover of my favourite book of his, In the Night Kitchen.
(http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~rflynn/0064434362.jpg)
Gonna miss your last one Josh. Hope it, or something from "the island" makes a return.
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Havergal Brian at 90 (1966), for those who don't yet know...
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Gonna miss your last one Josh. Hope it, or something from "the island" makes a return.
RRROARRR! ;D
I may just start circulating through a few Maurice Sendak drawings every now & then. :)
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Thoth-Amon!!!
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Thoth-Amon!!!
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ixnzOu5S2QhOeM:http://www.thecimmerian.com/wp-content/uploads/random/reh_sidebar_studio.jpg)
Mr. Howard and I are both pleased with you choice Dave.
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(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ixnzOu5S2QhOeM:http://www.thecimmerian.com/wp-content/uploads/random/reh_sidebar_studio.jpg)
Mr. Howard and I are both pleased with you choice Dave.
8)
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The Thing to combat Dave's sinister Victor von Doom. 'Nuff said.
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The Thing (Kirby style) to combat Dave's sinister Victor von Doom. 'Nuff said.
I remember being introduced to one of my favorite characters (Adam Warlock) in the pages of Fantastic Four. Back then he was "Him".
Really cool avatar, Bill.
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The Thing (Kirby style) to combat Dave's sinister Victor von Doom. 'Nuff said.
Where are the other three?
You are going to need them!
Bwa-ha-ha-HAAAA!!! >:D
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Where are the other three?
You are going to need them!
Bwa-ha-ha-HAAAA!!! >:D
(Dave's most nefarious Dr. Doom voice)
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I remember being introduced to one of my favorite characters (Adam Warlock) in the pages of Fantastic Four. Back then he was "Him".
Really cool avatar, Bill.
Like any tale, your story is only as good as your villain in it Ange. When Dr. Doom goes, I am afraid The Thing will have to follow.
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Where are the other three?
You are going to need them!
Bwa-ha-ha-HAAAA!!! >:D
Yeah? Just wait, sooner or later I'll get my mitts on you!! Just wait!! (See FF #15).
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Yeah? Just wait, sooner or later I'll get my mitts on you!! Just wait!! (See FF #15).
It's CLOBBERIN' Time!
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Yeah? Just wait, sooner or later I'll get my mitts on you!! Just wait!! (See FF #15).
Ooo. You're quoting from scripture. 0:)
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Dave,
Looks like Bach and Vivaldi are good 'ole pals. Why is Handel on the other side of the organ? :D
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Dave,
Looks like Bach and Vivaldi are good 'ole pals. Why is Handel on the other side of the organ? :D
I have no idea what you're talking about. 0:)
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And so my NEW new avatar is something inspired by Tangerine Dream's Through Metamorphic Rocks, from their Force Majeure album. I've been revisiting that band's past glories quite a bit lately.
(http://a836.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/91/l_c64a8b57af5ed9be8ba11b8ced7ae50b.jpg)
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And so my NEW new avatar is something inspired by Tangerine Dream's Through Metamorphic Rocks, from their Force Majeure album. I've been revisiting that band's past glories quite a bit lately.
(http://a836.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/91/l_c64a8b57af5ed9be8ba11b8ced7ae50b.jpg)
Beautiful...works well as a small image, too.
--Bruce
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(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=8543;type=avatar)
What a beautiful girl. Yours, Haffner? :D Almost as beautiful as my... avatar.
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What a beautiful girl. Yours, Haffner? :D Almost as beautiful as my... avatar.
I'm drooling... over Sibelius.
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Now I want an old composer avatar too.
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Now I want an old composer avatar too.
I knew you would. They're so sexy!
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I knew you would. They're so sexy!
How's this?
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How's this?
Salome would wet her panties.
Sarge
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How's this?
Salome would wet her panties.
;D ;D
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What a beautiful girl. Yours, Haffner? :D Almost as beautiful as my... avatar.
That's my lady during her "Gothic" era, a few years back.
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That's my lady during her "Gothic" era, a few years back.
My 'Gothic' era will never end. ;)
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My 'Gothic' era will never end. ;)
...that's probably just a stuck needle, Johan...
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My 'Gothic' era will never end. ;)
I tried reading Melmoth the Wanderer recently. Crumbs, Maturin could go on and on.
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...that's probably just a stuck needle, Johan...
Yes, I've been listening to that cluster chord in the Judex for over 25 years now...
I tried reading Melmoth the Wanderer recently. Crumbs, Maturin could go on and on.
I see you have found a use for 'Crumbs' already, Dave! Never read Maturin, btw. Just as well, judging by your exasperated sigh... (I seem to remember HPL mentioning him favourably in his 'Supernatural Horror' essay.)
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I see you have found a use for 'Crumbs' already, Dave!
;D
Never read Maturin, btw. Just as well, judging by your exasperated sigh... (I seem to remember HPL mentioning him favourably in his 'Supernatural Horror' essay.)
I'm no HPL.
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That's my lady during her "Gothic" era, a few years back.
Goth agrees with her.
Sarge
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Goth agrees with her.
Sarge
It's really cool (for me at least). She still likes to dress up, but she doesn't like the music much anyore.
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It's really cool (for me at least). She still likes to dress up, but she doesn't like the music much anyore.
No matter, the former is far more important. ;D
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No matter, the former is far more imprtant. ;D
I like disrobing better.
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I like disrobing better.
Now, now. :-*
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I like disrobing better.
This is very much a valid point ;D.
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This is very much a valid point ;D.
Next weeks avatar? ;D
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Next weeks avatar? ;D
I am SO there. :-*
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Next weeks avatar? ;D
(laughing and grateful that today is a hot day, as my girl is indeed naked. Life is good for Andy, JA!)
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(http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/4703/gentlemenjb4.jpg)
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(laughing and grateful that today is a hot day, as my girl is indeed naked. Life is good for Andy, JA!)
Do you not have air conditioning?
... wise choice. ;D
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(laughing and grateful that today is a hot day, as my girl is indeed naked. Life is good for Andy, JA!)
I'll be back in a few minutes.
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Do you not have air conditioning?
... wise choice. ;D
Took alot of advance scheming. Hold off on the a/c as long as possibly tolerable.
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Took alot of advance scheming. Hold off on the a/c as long as possibly tolerable.
And you're sitting there, posting on the Internet.
You are a SICK man!
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And you're sitting there, posting on the Internet.
You are a SICK man!
Computer exhaust heating up the room. ;D
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Hey, now you guys have me worried about Cuddles! ;D
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And you're sitting there, posting on the Internet.
You are a SICK man!
Nah, he's just resting. ;D
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I'll be back in a few minutes.
Post of the day. ;D
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Post of the day. ;D
I have to agree...
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Do all your clothes shopping at....... Wal-Mart!
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My new avatar is awesome.... unfortunately, it's only custom made.....
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My new avatar is awesome.... unfortunately, it's only custom made.....
Have a bad time at Lowe's?
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Have a bad time at Lowe's?
I bought something and they overcharged me.....
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I bought something and they overcharged me.....
So, go get your money back.
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MN Brahms! Love it.
Don't ever change your avatar or username. You got the one now. :)
Maybe I'll change mine to BruckNut :P
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So, go get your money back.
lol, I was completely kidding. I work there.
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Don't ever change your avatar or username.
Okay, I won't. :-*
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lol, I was completely kidding. I work there.
:P
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lol, I was completely kidding. I work there.
I'm thinking about flying to Japan tomorrow by myself and then getting lost in a forest (while listening to Mahler) and then dying. I have the money, why not?
Maybe it won't be tomorrow, maybe it'll be a few days from now, still gotta work out the details....
So I don't think i'll talk to that girl, either, what's the point ::)
just checked prices...... all i can see are $4,000 flights....... ok....... am i checking the wrong places? There has to be something cheaper.
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[...]and then dying. I have the money, why not?
Haffners avatars...
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Now I have a screenshot of my all-time favorite video game, Chrono Cross.
It's the protagonists mom saying, "You shouldn't break promises like that. Girls can be pretty scary if you make them angry."
Just randomness from google search.
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Now I have a screenshot of my all-time favorite video game, Chrono Cross.
It's the protagonists mom saying, "You shouldn't break promises like that. Girls can be pretty scary if you make them angry."
Just randomness from google search.
Do better. ;D
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Do better. ;D
There. The main character in his evil form, after switching bodies w/ the antagonist.
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...must...change...avatar...
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...must...change...avatar...
Oh no!! He's changing again... :o
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Oh no!! He's changing again... :o
Well, it has been two hours since his last change. Long overdue actually.
Sarge
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Well, it has been two hours since his last change. Long overdue actually.
Sarge
Hey!!! It's been daaaaaaaaaaaays!!!
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Hey!!! It's been daaaaaaaaaaaays!!!
Yes, to be fair - you have been extremely restrained... Until now. ;)
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And the new avatar entirely suits his personality! >:D
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And the new avatar entirely suits his personality! >:D
>:(
:-\
;D
0:)
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>:(
:-\
;D
0:)
Actually, if you mixed those four emoticons together, I'm pretty sure that Mr K's face is what you'd get. ;D
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My avatar is of the late, great Hollywood actor Richard Widmark who died recently (1914-2008).
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It's one of my works, a Gouache on Japanese ricepaper and Damar varnish, now in the permanent collection of Joe Feddersen:
http://www.froelickgallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=235
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lol
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lol
hmmmmmmm....... who could that be? ;)
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hmmmmmmm....... who could that be? ;)
It's a Peeping Dave! *scream*
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It's a Peeping Dave! *scream*
I'm outside yer window, checkin' out yer CDs.
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I'm outside yer window, checkin' out yer CDs.
Nah, you're checking out my daughter. ;D
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Nah, you're checking out my daughter. ;D
:-[ ;D :-[
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I'm outside yer window, checkin' out yer CDs.
I hear the secrets that you keep
(dum, da-dum)
when I look at your CDs
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Now your posts no longer make sense. ;D
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Now your posts no longer make sense. ;D
The content of my posts are determined by the I Ching.
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The content of my posts are determined by the I Ching.
Awesome. You're just like Philip K. Dick.
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In a small cemetery in upstate New York I found a tombstone engraved only with the the name George W.
I had to get a picture of it.
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In a small cemetery in upstate New York I found a tombstone engraved only with the the name George W.
We can only hope .........
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In a small cemetery in upstate New York I found a tombstone engraved only with the the name George W.
I had to get a picture of it.
You'd have missed it if it had been hidden by a bush.
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lol
The thread asked me to identify my avatar. I did. What's so funny????? >:(
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I was laughing at my own funny face. ;D
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Cato the Younger: a conservative republican from the last days of the Republic.
To protest Caesar's rise to power, he committed suicide by slashing open his abdomen with his own sword.
A horrified servant called for a doctor to stitch his master back up, and Cato regained consciousness, but was horrified that his honorable suicide had been sullied.
So with his bare hands, he ripped out the stitches! :o
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I was laughing at my own funny face. ;D
Hey, it's Stewart Copeland from The Police! :D
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Hey!!! It's been daaaaaaaaaaaays!!!
John Belushi: "We're on a mission"
Dan Aykroyd: "From Gad"
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Cato the Younger: a conservative republican from the last days of the Republic.
To protest Caesar's rise to power, he committed suicide by slashing open his abdomen with his own sword.
A horrified servant called for a doctor to stitch his master back up, and Cato regained consciousness, but was horrified that his honorable suicide had been sullied.
So with his bare hands, he ripped out the stitches! :o
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Either he had a sense of purposefulness, or he didn't like to be contradicted. ::)
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He probably knew he was going to die from an infected wound and wanted to get it over with.
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Heinrich Shiff
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Heinrich Shiff
is he eating one of his fingers?
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is he eating one of his fingers?
Of course.
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Of course.
I think he is eating the 'c' in Schiff, Dave... ;)
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I think he is eating the 'c' in Schiff, Dave... ;)
I seem to be dropping letters these days.
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I seem to be dropping letters these days.
There are worse things you can drop.
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There are worse things you can drop.
Indeed.
Current avatar: Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo
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Indeed.
Current avatar: Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo
thanks for identifying. I thought it was Pee Wee Herman. ;D
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Bach's head. ;D
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Bach's head. ;D
It's handsome.
Not.
;D
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He looks like Archie Bunker.
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He looks like Archie Bunker.
Boy, da way Glenn Miller played...
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080304-bach-video-ap.html
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My latest purchase. ;D
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My latest purchase. ;D
and your last......
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and your last......
???
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(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_01/StunGunDM0309_468x388.jpg)
you're under arrest!
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"Don't taze me bro!"
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"Don't taze me bro!"
;D
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The tazer gun can be a lethal weapon. The mere idea that it can be 'fun' to taze someone is testimony to the "virtual" society we have entered into :P.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tcR19y7GPM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tcR19y7GPM)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tcR19y7GPM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tcR19y7GPM)
There are a lot of odd people on this forum. ;D
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(http://store.liamshow.com/images/muffins_boys.jpg)
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This one may be a keeper.
May...be...
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This one may be a keeper.
May...be...
Why? That would be a revolution!
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Why? That would be a revolution!
Or I could use this:
(http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c2605.jpg)
;D
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Yes, do! Although the frustration a prospective buyer would be experiencing could be a horror story in itself... ;)
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Yes, do! Although the frustration a prospective buyer would be experiencing could be a horror story in itself... ;)
Yes, if you see one of his books for sale, don't hesitate.
No, really! Don't hesitate!!! ;D
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I have George to thank for my avatar. Good going, bud! ;D
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I have George to thank for my avatar. Good going, bud! ;D
Don't mention it! $:)
BTW, monkey see, monkey do!
My avatar, Mel Brooks and :o (from Blazing Saddles) 8)
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I have George to thank for my avatar. Good going, bud! ;D
I was going to suggest the EXACT quote you put under your avatar. ;D
Great minds...
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I was going to suggest the EXACT quote you put under your avatar. ;D
Great minds...
Zoiks! That's too cool! :D
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Zoiks! That's too cool! :D
Not as cool as my new Blazing Saddles avatar. $:)
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Not as cool as my new Blazing Saddles avatar. $:)
:D :D
Everyone could use a Blazing Saddles avatar!
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Not as cool as my new Blazing Saddles avatar. $:)
"Hello, boys, I missed you... " ;D
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Listening to:
Tokyo String Quartet - Bia 436-2 Op 59 #2 Quartet #8 in e for Strings 3rd mvmt - Allegretto
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"Hello, boys, I missed you... " ;D
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Listening to:
Tokyo String Quartet - Bia 436-2 Op 59 #2 Quartet #8 in e for Strings 3rd mvmt - Allegretto
;D
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:D :D
Everyone could use a Blazing Saddles avatar!
Two :D - well done! Took me a minute! ;D
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Sfz liked it. ;D
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:D :D
Everyone could use a Blazing Saddles avatar!
Let's see, there are the three of us, plus Todd - now we need Dave to be Miss Lili von Shtupp and Saul to be this guy:
(http://www.huntsmancancerfoundation.org/news_images/16BurtonGilliam.jpg)
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Let's see, there are the three of us, plus Todd - now we need Dave to be Miss Lili von Shtupp and Saul to be this guy:
(http://www.huntsmancancerfoundation.org/news_images/16BurtonGilliam.jpg)
;D
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The great Stevie Wonder.
I just may have found a permanent avatar.
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The great Stevie Wonder.
I just may have found a permanent avatar.
But ... what about the great Governor William J. LePetomane?!?
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But ... what about the great Governor William J. LePetomane?!?
Wasn't groovy enough, Hedy! 8)
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<----Henry Purcell
0:) 0:) 0:)
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<----Henry Purcell
0:) 0:) 0:)
You know you're cool when one of your favorite composers is on a stained glass window.
But you're only really cool if one of your favorite composers is in an illuminated manuscript. :D
(http://www.malaspina.com/jpg/machaut.jpg)
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Very nice, Corey. :)
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Very nice, Corey. :)
That's Machaut, by the way. I've reminded myself I need that big set of motets.
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That's Machaut, by the way. I've reminded myself I need that big set of motets.
I know it's Machaut. ::) (I peeked at the image's source.)
I have this.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mS%2B2AHrFL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
;D
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My architecture addiction is taking over... Liverpool anglican cathedral underneath the bell tower, a f'ugly building (in many ways) but also very impressive. From this angle it looks like something from Judge Dredd:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Liverpool_Anglican_Cathedral_North_elevation.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Liverpool_Anglican_Cathedral_North_elevation.jpg)
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(http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Judge_Dredd-bobble.jpg)
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Damnit! 2000ad nostalgia ;_: Just when I burnt off all my comics for HD space... Some of the art holds up very well.
(http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1282/judgedreddp3300dpidocgx9.jpg) (http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1282/judgedreddp3300dpidocgx9.jpg)
(http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/2065/productimagephpep9.jpg) (http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/2065/productimagephpep9.jpg)
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My architecture addiction is taking over... Liverpool anglican cathedral underneath the bell tower, a f'ugly building (in many ways) but also very impressive. From this angle it looks like something from Judge Dredd
Do you know the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool? It's a wonderfully Tolkienian looking building. I have been there (1987)...
(http://lh3.google.com/__Le_vMi7wPE/RSn2Hul1ABI/AAAAAAAAANc/oXGB98S7iVo/s800/Liverpool_Metropolitan_Cathedral_at_dusk_(reduced_grain),_corrected_perspective.jpg)
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Though like a lot of Liverpool, it looks better in the dark, as above >:D >:D
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Though like a lot of Liverpool, it looks better in the dark, as above >:D >:D
I like the muggers best in broad daylight. >:D >:D
('Sorry!' said Boris)
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Do you know the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool? It's a wonderfully Tolkienian looking building. I have been there (1987)...
(http://lh3.google.com/__Le_vMi7wPE/RSn2Hul1ABI/AAAAAAAAANc/oXGB98S7iVo/s800/Liverpool_Metropolitan_Cathedral_at_dusk_(reduced_grain),_corrected_perspective.jpg)
It's probably the jointly most successful "modern"* cathedral in England, IMO, along with Coventry. It has a more effective unified effect than C, but its simplicity also means that it lacks the impressive ambition of the other. Guildford is notable, but falls short due to the exterior looking like a glorified 70s fire station. I hadn't seen Liverpool at night before, the lighting compliments it a lot better than most gothic ones...
*Discounting deliberately backwards looking ones like Truro and Westminster, which are just ugly IMO.
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(http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/2065/productimagephpep9.jpg) (http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/2065/productimagephpep9.jpg)
Where is that from?
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Where is that from?
A Sinister Dexter strip from 2000ad, I think the artist was Greg Staples - he did quite a lot of Judge Dredd for that magazine as well. Those signature "splatter" effects are quite distinctive.
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The great Stevie Wonder.
I just may have found a permanent avatar.
Think of Ebony and Ivory, try not to hurl...and then get rid of that avatar ;D Get back to George.
Sarge
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Think of Ebony and Ivory, try not to hurl...and then get rid of that avatar ;D Get back to George.
Sarge
Is that an order? :P
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A Sinister Dexter strip from 2000ad, I think the artist was Greg Staples - he did quite a lot of Judge Dredd for that magazine as well. Those signature "splatter" effects are quite distinctive.
Thanks. I'm not familiar with any of them (strip, magazine or author). Yes, 'splatter' effect in nicely done but it's still just an effect. What I liked was toned down, just blue-orange, color scheme and composition of vast masses of buildings in first picture.
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The Harvey Korman mourning period is over. :(
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The Harvey Korman mourning period is over. :(
I noticed. You're back to good ol' Dvorak. I think I'll stick with Brian a bit longer. People are used to him/it, I think.
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The Harvey Korman mourning period is over. :(
I'll miss seeing Headley every day. :-\
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Thanks. I'm not familiar with any of them (strip, magazine or author). Yes, 'splatter' effect in nicely done but it's still just an effect. What I liked was toned down, just blue-orange, color scheme and composition of vast masses of buildings in first picture.
2000ad was very extensively torrented on Demonoid a few years ago - there was a project to get all 1500+ scanned (with an incomplete collection of them weighing in at about 30gb), so I presume a lot are still in digital form if you want to look for them. It's a brilliant magazine IMO, while I stopped following it, I get major nostalgia :) It has great universes/characters, and somehow Judge Dredd remained kind of fresh after 30 years - and proved pretty original and creative with a lot in its universe. At a time when other dystopian sci-fi was focusing on the breakdown of society due to a lack of resources/a catastrophe, I just find it funny that a lot of JD's criminals were doing it out of boredom, as many jobs had become mechanised, and they were given a "pension" style income to live on - little things like that make the comic more creative than its copycats.
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2000ad was very extensively torrented on Demonoid a few years ago - there was a project to get all 1500+ scanned (with an incomplete collection of them weighing in at about 30gb), so I presume a lot are still in digital form if you want to look for them. It's a brilliant magazine IMO, while I stopped following it, I get major nostalgia :) It has great universes/characters, and somehow Judge Dredd remained kind of fresh after 30 years - and proved pretty original and creative with a lot in its universe. At a time when other dystopian sci-fi was focusing on the breakdown of society due to a lack of resources/a catastrophe, I just find it funny that a lot of JD's criminals were doing it out of boredom, as many jobs had become mechanised, and they were given a "pension" style income to live on - little things like that make the comic more creative than its copycats.
I stopped folowing magazines something like 15 years ago but do get occasional bouts of nostalgia myself. And yes, I certainly agree that ennui makes far more elegant reason for corruption than plain need and dire circumstances.
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The cover of The Economist this week was a striking photograph of an Iraqi in a dreadful-looking stall of some sort, the building almost falling almost falling apart, the man sitting at his work-bench building an oud. He is an extraordinary craftsman, too, judging from the work which he's putting into it, the glorious beauty of the soon-to-be-finished product, and the meager tools at his disposal. The photo really touched me and I'm sad that I can only use this tiny detail as an avatar.
Here's the photo:
(http://www.economist.com/images/covers/currentcoverus_large.jpg)
Incidentally, my great-grandmother was one of the finest oud teachers in Turkey; we still have several CDs which were released on major Turkish and "world music" labels by her most prominent students. My love of the instrument and the incredible beauty of this man making something so timeless in a scene which time has left behind combine to make this picture especially meaningful for me.
I noticed. You're back to good ol' Dvorak. I think I'll stick with Brian a bit longer. People are used to him/it, I think.
Perhaps I should switch to Brian. :D
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Incidentally, my great-grandmother was one of the finest oud teachers in Turkey; we still have several CDs which were released on major Turkish and "world music" labels by her most prominent students. My love of the instrument and the incredible beauty of this man making something so timeless in a scene which time has left behind combine to make this picture especially meaningful for me.
Perhaps I should switch to Brian. :D
A beautiful and fascinating aside about your great-grandmother, Brian.
Re the other Brian: you are, perhaps more than I am, entitled to using his avatar (in a sort of visual pun)! But I trust you'll allow me its continued use.
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Symbol for the International Day of Peace
http://www.iansa.org/un/day-of-peace-2005.htm
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Re the other Brian: you are, perhaps more than I am, entitled to using his avatar (in a sort of visual pun)! But I trust you'll allow me its continued use.
Thank you. And permission granted, sir. ;)
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no. it is not a picture of me. ;D
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Revueltas - because in oktober conductor Dirk Brossé will lead the Brussels PhO in Noche de los Mayas, Villa Lobos ' Amazonas and a Leo Brouwer guitar Concierto ! Students from the GHent conservatory will play the extra percussion. I hope it will all be broadcast & taped.
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Will it play in ghent or in Brussels ? I wish I could attend!
I was in Ghent last month only. If one could time vacations with events such as these... :-\
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Hi Lilas, it will be played in Ghent - and only once! ( incredible!!). I will try to attend - it takes me ca 45 minutes to get in Ghent.
Ghent doesn't have a modern concerthall, but invested a lot of money in the Bijloke - site . More about that later - I must rush...
Peter
(http://www.vrp.be/img_site/activiteiten/Banner_WD_2007.jpg)
De Bijloke where the 13th century meets the 21st.
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Keep us posted!
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That concert is part of Leo Brouwer masterclasses / guitar.
I will keep you posted.
Peter
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New avatar, image from "Hedgehog in the fog". http://youtube.com/watch?v=lCsJZV7aCdY
I think it goes well with this forum. As a classical music consumers, we're seeking for truth, for good works in the foggy forest of already composed music.
The hedgehog is searching for his baggage though. The light scene is the sweetest scene there.
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Nice, Wurstwasser! (But I am missing Sibelius a bit...)
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Hey! I wanna play! What's an avatar? And where is the beginning of this thread?
Yael
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Hey! I wanna play! What's an avatar? And where is the beginning of this thread?
Yael
An avatar is the little picture you use to be immediately recognizable. Yours is some flower (?), mine is the composer Havergal Brian. This is page 26 - just click on 1 at the bottom of the page, and you'll get to the beginning of the thread.
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It should be pointed out that most people have changed theirs since their initial identifications...
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Huh? Changed it? How do you do that?
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Huh? Changed it? How do you do that?
::)
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Natalie Portman wearing killer shoes, though no animals were harmed in the making of them.
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You better get your eyeballs checked. They keep rolling up and down.
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George, I'm enjoying your Bored? link especially the Ownage game >:D
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You better get your eyeballs checked. They keep rolling up and down.
I just did. They are still there.
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George, I'm enjoying your Bored? link especially the Ownage game >:D
I'll check it out. 8)
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I just did. They are still there.
You have to check them with knitting needles. >:D
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You have to check them with knitting needles. >:D
With gods like you, who needs satan? ;D
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Everyone knows who mine is, but the circumstances behind the photo are interesting. From ainola.fi:
Georg von Wendt, a physician and amateur photographer, took a series of colour photographs of Jean Sibelius in 1939. These were probably the only colour photographs of Sibelius ever taken.
(http://www.ainola.fi/gfx/photo_js_harmaa.jpg)
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Georg von Wendt, a physician and amateur photographer, took a series of colour photographs of Jean Sibelius in 1939. These were probably the only colour photographs of Sibelius ever taken.
OMG! Sibelius was a white dude!
And you say this was the photographer?
(http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/quefuede/George%20Wendt01.jpg)
(Looks as if he and old baldy had a lot in common!)
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It's two bunnies.
In two cups.
Two bunnies in two cups.
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In two cups.
Two bunnies in two cups.
Lisa: Almost done -- just lay still.
Linguo: Lie still.
Lisa: I knew that. Just testing.
Linguo: Sentence fragment.
Lisa: "Sentence fragment" is also a sentence fragment.
Linguo: [shifts eyes around] Must conserve battery power. [shuts
himself down]
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And you say this was the photographer?
(http://www.lacoctelera.com/myfiles/quefuede/George%20Wendt01.jpg)
(Looks as if he and old baldy had a lot in common!)
LOL!!
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It's two bunnies.
In two cups.
Two bunnies in two cups.
Planets aligned...now move along folks, nothing to see here. $:)
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(http://www.ainola.fi/gfx/photo_js_harmaa.jpg)
What's this on his head?
[ ] Shadow
[ ] Leprosy
[ ] Down shaven hair
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It's two bunnies.
In two cups.
Two bunnies in two cups.
A classic!
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What's this on his head?
It's a shadow, but you knew that anyway. ::)
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It's a shadow, but you knew that anyway. ::)
I though it was a skull cap :<
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For those who don't know, the mugshot is my own. ;)
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(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=10909;type=avatar)(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/9569/19sharkdm468x591ht0.jpg)(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=113;type=avatar)
Teeth seem to be popular on this board. ;D
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Teeth seem to be popular on this board. ;D
Bark. Bitehoven. Mauler... All teeth-related composers.
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Teeth seem to be popular on this board.
Lots of dentists, apparently. ;D
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Bark. Bitehoven. Mauler... All teeth-related composers.
Don't forget Chompin'... $:)
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Don't forget Chompin'... $:)
*looks for towel to wipe cereal and milk off the computer monitor*
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Chew-bert?
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Don't forget Chompin'... $:)
How could I? ;D
Chew-bert?
Of course! ;D
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Bark. Bitehoven. Mauler... All teeth-related composers.
Chew-bert?
*looks for bigger towel*
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Bark. Bitehoven. Mauler... All teeth-related composers.
Conducted by Munch...
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Conducted by Munch...
Of course. None better.
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Almost forgot! My avatar is a Buchla 100 series modular synth, as pioneered by my namesake. Work beckons so...
TTFN.
Me.
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*looks for bigger towel*
;D
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Pizazz and Beatrice, our 2 dogs
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For those who don't know, the mugshot is my own. ;)
Me too.
But I am still convinced this is Mark doing some work on the side:
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Pizazz and Beatrice, our 2 dogs
Cute. Never seen those two before. :)
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Cute doggies, Chamber. You should keep that avatar a while. :)
Mine is the Mael brothers (Sparks).
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Mine is my little brother.
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Cute doggies, Chamber. You should keep that avatar a while. :)
Brahms' will be on vacation for awhile. 0:)
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Brahms' will be on vacation for awhile. 0:)
MN has already tripled the length of time holding his previous avatar. ;D
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This is me playing bass clarinet in the Ochestra of the Southern Finger Lakes on March 4, 2007. Dvorak's The Noonday Witch and Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition were on the program.
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Ascension Church in Kolomenskoye, somewhere outside Moscow. It's on UNESCO's World Heritage list, and apparently was built "to celebrate the birth of the prince who was to become Tsar Ivan IV ('the Terrible')." The big picture with snow is nice.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Kolomen00.jpg)
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Ascension Church in Kolomenskoye, somewhere outside Moscow. It's on UNESCO's World Heritage list, and apparently was built "to celebrate the birth of the prince who was to become Tsar Ivan IV ('the Terrible')." The big picture with snow is nice.
Coincidentally I was watching Eisenstein's Ivan last night and they used the church as exterior in some scenes. Here are screenshots, not the best quality:
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Coincidentally I was watching Eisenstein's Ivan last night and they used the church as exterior in some scenes. Here are screenshots, not the best quality:
That's interesting. I still haven't seen that film....By the way, how do you capture screenshots of a film?
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This is me playing bass clarinet in the Ochestra of the Southern Finger Lakes on March 4, 2007. Dvorak's The Noonday Witch and Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition were on the program.
Mark, you would seriously be my wife's hero :) She played bass clarinet in high school, and loved it! She wishes she hadn't stop playing it.....but is thinking of taking it up again. 0:)
Both those wonderful works have some great material for the bass clarinet. :)
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That's interesting. I still haven't seen that film....By the way, how do you capture screenshots of a film?
I suppose it depends on how one is viewing it; on one of the program on my computer you simply press C whilst the film is paused. But the other more usual methods of screen-capturing work too.
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I suppose it depends on how one is viewing it; on one of the program on my computer you simply press C whilst the film is paused. But the other more usual methods of screen-capturing work too.
What is your avatar, btw, Luke?!
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Some mountain I'm obsessed with; linked to the piece I'm writing, in fact.
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Some mountain I'm obsessed with; linked to the piece I'm writing, in fact.
Shades of Close encounters Of The Third Kind ?
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Shades of Close encounters Of The Third Kind ?
Ha! Never thought of it like that! ;D
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How strange! Ever since you adopted it I had that in mind ;)
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I suppose it depends on how one is viewing it; on one of the program on my computer you simply press C whilst the film is paused. But the other more usual methods of screen-capturing work too.
Print-Screen doesn't work while the film is playing. I found a page which suggested disabling "use overlays" in Windows Media Player but that didn't work, neither did disabling video acceleration. I think I'm doing something incorrectly so will try again this evening.
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Print-Screen doesn't work while the film is playing. I found a page which suggested disabling "use overlays" in Windows Media Player but that didn't work, neither did disabling video acceleration. I think I'm doing something incorrectly so will try again this evening.
Try VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/), which has an inbuilt screencap feature. VLC can often play files that WMP has trouble with, so it's useful to keep around...
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For a long time, Print Screen hasn't worked on my computer - perhaps that may be the problem you're having. Currently I use MWSnap 3 (http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dlmwsnap.html), though only because it's the first bit of freeware I found which isn't time-limited. I would imagine you'd be able to use this to take screenshots of a film (I know it works on my PC)
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Try VLC media player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/), which has an inbuilt screencap feature. VLC can often play files that WMP has trouble with, so it's useful to keep around...
I've been using VLC for a year or two but wasn't aware of this. Thank you very much, it works perfectly. I wanted to take a screenshot of a recent film and use it as my desktop wallpaper but unfortunately it doesn't look right. Pic attached.
Thanks Luke. VLC is very simple for this.
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Just in time for the Halloween season: Bogart in The Return of Dr. X. I believe it his only "true" attempt at the horror genre (I'll have to check his extremely early work). I guess Karloff was wanted, but not available. In short, they should have waited for Boris.
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Mr. Tone Poem
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The Last of the Famous International Playboys AKA Born Again Atheist AKA Ringleader of the Tormentors AKA
Stephen Patrick Morrissey 8)
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Mr. Tone Poem
I, for one, want the cute dogs back. $:)
:D
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I, for one, want the cute dogs back. $:)
:D
They'll be back in the rotation some day. 0:)
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Mr. Tone Poem
Funny, he doesn't look like Sibelius. :D
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Mr. Tone Poem.
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Funny, he doesn't look like Sibelius. :D
Gasp! Keemun, bite your tongue young lad! :-X :D
In all fairness, I'm not much familiar with Sibelius' tone poems, and everything else in general. I will visit his works thoroughly some day.
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Gasp! Keemun, bite your tongue young lad! :-X :D
In all fairness, I'm not much familiar with Sibelius' tone poems, and everything else in general. I will visit his works thoroughly some day.
But for now you have Richard Strauss, a tremendous composer with a wealth of astoundingly well crafted Tone Poems!
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Gasp! Keemun, bite your tongue young lad! :-X :D
In all fairness, I'm not much familiar with Sibelius' tone poems, and everything else in general. I will visit his works thoroughly some day.
At 33 I'm not sure I'm eligible for the young lad category. 8)
I'm much more familiar with Sibelius' tone poems that Strauss', which is why I thought of Sibelius when I read "Mr. Tone Poem".
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At 33 I'm not sure I'm eligible for the young lad category. 8)
I'm much more familiar with Sibelius' tone poems that Strauss', which is why I thought of Sibelius when I read "Mr. Tone Poem".
We are almost the same age, and I still consider myself a young lad 8)
;)
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We are almost the same age, and I still consider myself a young lad 8)
;)
Yes, I suppose it's all relative. :)
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Some of the past few posts lend itself nicely to yet another (possibly done-to-death) poll topic. :D
Mr. Tone Poem 1885
The Finalists
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:AdRd0fc3cnvYSM:http://sausagelynx.com/Liszt%2520-%2520Henri%2520Lehmann.jpg)(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Uu5AwC5s-OjFqM:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Jean_sibelius.jpg/225px-Jean_sibelius.jpg) (http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:7kOVAhQVRkgoHM:http://facstaff.uww.edu/allsenj/MSO/NOTES/0607/images/strauss.jpg])
Herr Strauss, what would you do if you were crowned Mr. Tone Poem?
Of course, Liszt was too old then to be standing on stage for an extended period of time.
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:A9RqoqOUyEwDrM:http://www.dartmouth.edu/~music33/Mus33projects/nodes/PianoHistory/images/liszt.jpeg)
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Will there be a swimsuit contest? If so, I think I'll avoid that thread. 8)
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Ugh. *shudders*
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Will there be a swimsuit contest? If so, I think I'll avoid that thread. 8)
"Und now vee haff Meester Rikart Shtrauss, bedeck'd in one of this fall's most stunningly alluring Teddys..."
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OK, let's change the plan. My vote goes for a "Haffner girl vs. Haffner girl" swimsuit contest. KEEMUN! Still here?
I like the Sibelius decadent picture so much. It goes well with the situation here. He looks like "Ah great, the strippers arrive, Yeah, fun, let's just drink some champagne and smoke expensive cigars ..."
I'll still have to listen to all the Strauss Tone Poems one day ... I know all Sibelius ones. Who's the third guy on the opus67 pictures? Young Liszt?
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OK, let's change the plan. My vote goes for a "Haffner girl vs. Haffner girl" swimsuit contest. KEEMUN! Still here?
No objection coming forth here. ;)
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Who's the third guy on the opus67 pictures? Young Liszt?
Yep.
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Hey Haffner, btw, if you're sick of comments like this just change your Avatar to the Aphex Twin/Windowlicker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=l7ovoPCZSQw) (a must know video) girls:
(http://www.line.at/members/zara/windowlicker.jpg)
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Hey Haffner, btw, if you're sick of comments like this just change your Avatar to the Aphex Twin/Windowlicker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcCT3J38db8) (a must know video) girls:
(http://www.line.at/members/zara/windowlicker.jpg)
Cool album! My girl likes them especially.
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Just one guy, Richard James from Cornwall. As for the videos, "Come to daddy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZ8Q9GNqFs) and "Rubber Johnny" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXVnnNzob4&feature=related) are good as well. Rubber Johnny is pretty frightening. I loved "Come to daddy" as a music track as much as Ventolin, his greatest stuff.
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Just one guy, Richard James from Cornwall. As for the videos, "Come to daddy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZ8Q9GNqFs) and "Rubber Johnny" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wXVnnNzob4&feature=related) are good as well. Rubber Johnny is pretty frightening. I loved "Come to daddy" as a music track as much as Ventolin, his greatest stuff.
We have the "Come to Daddy" ep. Scary/cool stuff. Aphex Twin has alot of that kind of creep-ya-to-yer-bones tracks.
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Yep, true. I liked the mummy mix of that ep. I have all his stuff. Now the idm scene is pretty dead. And strange, mainstream hasn't developed since. People still listen to the old Moby/Scooter/Frankfurt/whatever techno stuff which appeared in the 90s. Or even 80s, not sure. What I want to say is: Old Aphex Twin stuff (and of others, like Autechre) is still fresh, modern, and even avantgarde. You should also have "Ventolin" :D.
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Yep, true. I liked the mummy mix of that ep. I have all his stuff. Now the idm scene is pretty dead. And strange, mainstream hasn't developed since. People still listen to the old Moby/Scooter/Frankfurt/whatever techno stuff which appeared in the 90s. Or even 80s, not sure. What I want to say is: Old Aphex Twin stuff (and of others, like Autechre) is still fresh, modern, and even avantgarde. You should also have "Ventolin" :D.
Have most of the old stuff, but not Ventolin...yet. Moby never appealed to us like Aphex Twin and the old Merzbow.
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OK, let's change the plan. My vote goes for a "Haffner girl vs. Haffner girl" swimsuit contest. KEEMUN! Still here?
Still here. . . . 8)
Hey Haffner, btw, if you're sick of comments like this just change your Avatar to the Aphex Twin/Windowlicker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=l7ovoPCZSQw) (a must know video) girls:
(http://www.line.at/members/zara/windowlicker.jpg)
Those are some large teeth. :o
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Where ya from, you sexy thaaaang!
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Where ya from, you sexy thaaaang!
She's using air quotes while saying that, so I'm not sold on her sincerity. :P
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She's using air quotes while saying that, so I'm not sold on her sincerity. :P
;) ;D
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I don't know who this is, but it sure makes me bust out laughing every time I see it.
Oh, and it looks particularly striking right below Andy's avatar.
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Now come on Greg, you shouldn't make fun of your girlfriend like that.
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Tarzan art by Frazetta
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Tarzan art by Frazetta
WOW! Niiiice.
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Now come on Greg, you shouldn't make fun of your girlfriend like that.
I should apologize, shouldn't I?
If she finds out, she might eat my head off......
i did meet her at the graveyard, when I saw her digging herself out of the ground, so that might explain a little.....
anyways, i couldn't take it anymore (already) so I changed it to the mainland map of the greatest video game of all time. 0:)
(avatar of the guy in the background was the main character of this game)
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I'm not sure this one will last long.
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Old photographs are quite wonderful. I'm not a real collector - but over the years I've collected many.
This "little boy with big dog" ( undated / possibly ca 1935-1945) is touching . They're friends for life!
P.
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M, what happened to your shark? :) Is it time to make shark fin soup?
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G-d
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He reminds me of Marx.
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He reminds me of Marx.
Groucho or Harpo?
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Karlo.
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Karlo.
:D
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It's actually W.G. Grace :D
(http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/inline/content/image/13423.html?alt=player)
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Wow. It is.
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;D
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(http://bp2.blogger.com/_9etVnS4R1As/R6FCbNXnDsI/AAAAAAAAAWI/uyXrmpMSc3k/s400/1935RileyOldBeardCap2W.jpg)
Terry Riley....but he smiles!
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G-d
Demi-G-d. ;)
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Demi-G-d. ;)
It still applies in some circles. ;)
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Mike - good choice, an unearthly building in a perfect location.
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G-d
Davedude, very cool!
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From a great Serbian comedy - Balkan Spy
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Balkanski_spijun.jpg)
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Mike - good choice, an unearthly building in a perfect location.
Thanks Sarah; it was taken from our room, when we were recently in Lincoln. We had a really interesting tour through the vast roof spaces of the cathedral, which felt like being in the hull of a ship. They still have in place 85% of the original 800 year old timber!
Mike
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Thanks Sarah; it was taken from our room, when we were recently in Lincoln. We had a really interesting tour through the vast roof spaces of the cathedral, which felt like being in the hull of a ship. They still have in place 85% of the original 800 year old timber!
Mike
I agree. It is a good avatar.
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From most front angles it tends to remind me of a shrouded, winged-thing hovering over the town. It is fortunate not to have any recent tall buildings nearby to spoil the effect.
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A street in Suburban Maryland is named after my favorite composer.
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Find mn dave an avatar.
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(http://failurecasca.de/wp-content/uploads/awesome_med.png)
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hmmm
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Hahaha ;D
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Hahaha ;D
Does this reflect my many facets?
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Does this reflect my many facets?
If it doesn't, here's a template to adjust it to your taste :P
(http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/5489/grinbitsqj0.png)
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If it doesn't, here's a template to adjust it to your taste :P
(http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/5489/grinbitsqj0.png)
You know, you could help find me one. ;D
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That thing affords remarkably little creativity, but there is a nice "general sense of bemusement" one.
(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1151/animation1fw8.gif)
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Every time I change (or lose) my avatar I get PMs asking for Morbo to come back.
I guess he's here to stay.
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I guess he's here to stay.
As he should. Good man.
Sarge
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(http://failurecasca.de/wp-content/uploads/awesome_med.png)
Excellent find, Corey. If I had to vote for just one of Dave's thousands of avatars, this would be my choice for a permanent one. It is Dave :D
Sarge
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Excellent find, Corey. If I had to vote for just one of Dave's thousands of avatars, this would be my choice for a permanent one. It is Dave :D
Sarge
It might not be cool enough. 8)
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It might not be cool enough. 8)
I could photoshop a few icicles hanging off the smiley's chin ;D
Sarge
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I could photoshop a few icicles hanging off the smiley's chin ;D
Sarge
No! Put a viking helmet on it!
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No! Put a viking helmet on it!
That would work ;D
Sarge
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That would work ;D
Sarge
It's your project for the weekend. ;D
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It's your project for the weekend. ;D
Already done:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/julygmg/red-viking-helmet-i%20copy.png)
Sarge
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Already done:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/julygmg/red-viking-helmet-i%20copy.png)
Sarge
I'll have to wait till I get home. I'm getting the red x, here at work.
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I'll have to wait till I get home. I'm getting the red x, here at work.
Leave work early :D
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Leave work early :D
I should. I'm not feeling well. :-X
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Thanks, Corey and Sarge. ;D
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Misaki from "Welcome to the NHK"
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(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/julygmg/red-viking-helmet-i%20copy.png)
Hilarious! ;D
[But knowing Dave's predilection for the horror genre, why not give it fangs, too?]
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Hilarious! ;D
[But knowing Dave's predilection for the horror genre, why not give it fangs, too?]
;D
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Hilarious! ;D
[But knowing Dave's predilection for the horror genre, why not give it fangs, too?]
Yes, what could be cooler than a Viking Vampire ;D
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/julygmg/red-viking-helmet-i%20copy_fangs.png)
Sarge
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Yes, what could be cooler than a Viking Vampire ;D
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/julygmg/red-viking-helmet-i%20copy_fangs.png)
Sarge
that's awesome, you just need blood drool coming out of his mouth.
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Yes, what could be cooler than a Viking Vampire ;D
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/julygmg/red-viking-helmet-i%20copy_fangs.png)
Sarge
Sorry for a belated reaction - but a classic like this has a whole eternity ahead of itself... ;D
[And don't you change it, Dave! I warn you...]
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[And don't you change it, Dave! I warn you...]
That would be rude.
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That would be rude.
You're a gentleman (with White Fangs).
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You're a gentleman (with White Fangs).
And a super-funky helmet!
Grrr!! ;D
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MN Dave's next avatar:
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MN Dave's next avatar:
A new one already?
I like it.
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Solstice, painting on silk by Maria Bablyak (http://www.geocities.com/maria_bablyak/)
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Solstice, painting on silk by Maria Bablyak (http://www.geocities.com/maria_bablyak/)
Ooo!!! Are we changing our forum names now? ;D
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It is the distant future, space year 2019, and all hail Mog. You're not Mog, you're little people.
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It is the distant future, space year 2019, and all hail Mog. You're not Mog, you're little people.
I'm not in the business — I am the business.
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I'm not in the business — I am the business.
But you're not more feline than feline!
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Nicely done, Ben!
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Brother Cadfael. My very first avatar and screen name from the old GMG forum.
-Bogey (Bill)
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Self explanatory (unless you are my no-good son, nothing is easy for that little tick-terd.)
;)
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Self explanatory (unless you are my no-good son, nothing is easy for that little tick-terd.)
;)
LOL...a lot!
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LOL...a lot!
;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcyNKXnX2lA&feature=related
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I think King Karajan should change his avatar to the now famous Karajan Lizard ;D
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DFO
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Hassan i Sabbah
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan-i_Sabbah)
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Mahler by Bernstein: 7, 9, & 10 (adagio).
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Mahler by Bernstein: 7, 9, & 10 (adagio).
All excellent.
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;D
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;D
Nice shot! 8)
(we'll see how long this one lasts...) ;D
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Nice shot! 8)
(we'll see how long this one lasts...) ;D
Avatars are like potato chips.
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Avatars are like potato chips.
Or butterflies. 8)
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Beethoven with a large head and a small piano (in case you couldn't tell).
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Beethoven with a large head and a small piano (in case you couldn't tell).
Love it!
I may soon go with this one:
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Avatars are like potato chips.
Saturday night gas.
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KammerNuss needs to lose that dog avatar. I keep thinking he's Don. ;D
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KammerNuss needs to lose that dog avatar. I keep thinking he's Don. ;D
He has a bulldog. I have a pug. ;D If that helps you.
I was thinking of changing the avatar today......but.
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He has a bulldog. I have a pug. ;D If that helps you.
I was thinking of changing the avatar today......but.
No, it does not help. I see a beige, smoosh-faced dog and I think "Don". ;D
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No, it does not help. I see a beige, smoosh-faced dog and I think "Don". ;D
;D
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Hey, look at me! I'm so rad. 8)
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Bang Bang's teacher. 8)
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Bang Bang's teacher. 8)
Really?
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Really?
You don't remember me? :-[
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You don't remember me? :-[
WTF are we talking about here? ;D
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WTF are we talking about here? ;D
Clever. $:)
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Clever. $:)
I give up.
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I give up.
My, Bang Bang, what big teeth you have. ;D
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No, that's Gurn. I mean Gorn!
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Not being a trekkie, I have no idea what you're talking about. I will therefore assume that either you were simply aiming at a good wooden word or else you had the eminent bansuri virtuoso (http://www.stevegorn.com/) in mind.
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Not being a trekkie, I have no idea what you're talking about. I will therefore assume that either you were simply aiming at a good wooden word or else you had the eminent bansuri virtuoso (http://www.stevegorn.com/) in mind.
I wouldn't call myself a Trekkie. I watched it but I'm no nut. ;D
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I wouldn't call myself a Trekkie. I watched it but I'm no nut. ;D
Not yet. But a Star Trek avatar is surely the first step. 8)
Kirk should have taken that Gorn in the first round...
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Today's image ;D was taken from the GMG supply. It is familiar to me but I can't place it. Can you? Something ancient, I assume.
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Today's image ;D was taken from the GMG supply. It is familiar to me but I can't place it. Can you? Something ancient, I assume.
It's a cute li'l Mesopotamian lion
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/IshtarLionIconFacingLeft.jpg)
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Ernie of Sesame Street
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Ernie of Sesame Street
Who? ???
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Who? ???
Bert's boyfriend, you know, Ernie?!
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Who? ???
Ernie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie)
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Hm. Never heard of him.
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Hm. Never heard of him.
I watched Sesame Street all through grade school. (The 70's)
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I watched Sesame Street all through grade school. (The 70's)
"The Electric Company!"
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"The Electric Company!"
Yeah baby! Captain Kangaroo, 3-2-1 Contact, Laverne and Shirley, Sanford and Son and Free to Be You and Me. 8)
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It's a cute li'l Mesopotamian lion
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/IshtarLionIconFacingLeft.jpg)
Thanks. I was thinking Mesopotamia, but doubted myself. :'(
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Yeah baby! Captain Kangaroo, 3-2-1 Contact, Laverne and Shirley, Sanford and Son and Free to Be You and Me. 8)
Chico and the Maing
(For earlier) All in the Family
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Chico and the Maing
(For earlier) All in the Family
"Fish," "Happy Days," "Dukes of Hazzard" - good times, huh? Oh yeah, "Good Times," too. 8)
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Bert's boyfriend, you know, Ernie?!
See, I knew that was common knowledge. I showed someone a picture of them holding hands and said sarcastically, "That doesn't look gay at all," and he said he never knew they were like that. ::)
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"Fish," "Happy Days," "Dukes of Hazzard" - good times, huh? Oh yeah, "Good Times," too. 8)
"Weezie!"
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some guy......
no, i didn't take the picture. pssshhh i don't even know him. $:)
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I like the new username, Greg. 8)
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some guy......
Me too. ;)
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Herbert, Sviatoslav, Slava and King David conspire.
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Herbert, Sviatoslav, Slava and King David conspire.
Was this the photo that Karajan famously cut short the recording session to make time for?
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Guess!
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Snoopy, with Woodstock on the pianoforte.
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My favorite Martian.
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My favorite Martian.
Dude, you have finally found your permanent avatar! Seriously, it's perfect!
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Dude, you have finally found your permanent avatar! Seriously, it's perfect!
ALLELUIAH!!!
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Dude, you have finally found your permanent avatar! Seriously, it's perfect!
There's nothing permanent about MN Dave....
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There's nothing permanent about MN Dave....
Nicely played. That works on at least a few levels.
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Guess!
Nobody knows my avatar?
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Nobody knows my avatar?
Op. 110 :D!
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Op. 110 :D!
One of my favorites!
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All right!!
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Op. 110 :D!
It seemed longer when I last heard it.
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It seemed longer when I last heard it.
;D ;)
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Cato the Younger was a conservative Roman republican who opposed Julius Caesar's dictatorship. After being defeated in the civil war, he committed suicide rather than live under dictatorship.
The suicide was reported (by Plutarch) as taking place in two stages: he plunged his sword into his abdomen, but his hands were injured in the battle against Caesar, preventing him from cutting himself for a quick death. After he fainted, his horrified servants called for a doctor, who put his intestines back into place, sewed him up, and revived him. Cato was horrified that his suicide had been sullied, and ripped out the stitches and pulled out his intestines with his bare hands. :o
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Cato the Younger was a conservative Roman republican who opposed Julius Caesar's dictatorship. After being defeated in the civil war, he committed suicide rather than live under dictatorship.
The suicide was reported (by Plutarch) as taking place in two stages: he plunged his sword into his abdomen, but his hands were injured in the battle against Caesar, preventing him from cutting himself for a quick death. After he fainted, his horrified servants called for a doctor, who put his intestines back into place, sewed him up, and revived him. Cato was horrified that his suicide had been sullied, and ripped out the stitches and pulled out his intestines with his bare hands. :o
Yeh, yeh.....but what did he think of Alexander Glazunov? ;D
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Yeh, yeh.....but what did he think of Alexander Glazunov? ;D
Good question! I suspect Cato would have been highly skeptical at least of Glazunov's "undisciplined nature."
Cato was a Stoic, and they took no prisoners on such things! 0:)
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Good question! I suspect Cato would have been highly skeptical at least of Glazunov's "undisciplined nature."
Cato was a Stoic, and they took no prisoners on such things! 0:)
I like all those Stoic writings. Must be one. :)
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well my picture here was taken on Long Island. I waited for like 8 months to develop the film and then this retard exposed some of the film partially. that's why the picture has an orange tint, but overall it looks pretty badass. no photoshopping was involved!
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well my picture here was taken on Long Island. I waited for like 8 months to develop the film and then this retard exposed some of the film partially. that's why the picture has an orange tint, but overall it looks pretty badass. no photoshopping was involved!
Looks more like Fire Island. >:D
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I'm thinking of changing my avatar once my friend's pic is uploaded. She did a lying on the floor pose to pretend being asleep for me, since it's almost impossible to catch her sleeping to take a picture. I'm thinking of having that as my picture, with my name as "Sergeant Sword Raper."
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Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica.
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Some picture I found.
I like the purple ;).
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I like the purple ;).
Yes, it's a rather deep hue, methinks.
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I don't know why I even post in here. ;D
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I know, I'm lame. Sorry!
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I know, I'm lame. Sorry!
No, no. I meant my avatar changes so often, what's the point?
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Ah, I thought you were poking fun at Andy, me, and our lameness (not that Andy is lame).
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Ah, I thought you were poking fun at Andy, me, and our lameness (not that Andy is lame).
Wait, I'm lame and happy :D ;)! And yes, methinks the purplish hue quite deep as well, kind freund!
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No, no. I meant my avatar changes so often, what's the point?
I used to change mine because it was fun. Now I'd really love to find one to stick with. :-\
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I'm thinking of having that as my picture, with my name as "Sergeant Sword Raper."
Do you know: were you ever dropped on your head when you were young?
Mike
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Do you know: were you ever dropped on your head when you were young?
Mike
Tsk, Mike, ever so tactful. ;D
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Tsk, Mike, ever so tactful. ;D
I was going to piggy back that with "Dented Skull Terrorist," but then I thought better of it. ;D
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No, no. I meant my avatar changes so often, what's the point?
[emphasis mine]
That is exactly the point. You change it so often, that you need to keep informing people what the new one is about. :P This thread was made for you.
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[emphasis mine]
That is exactly the point. You change it so often, that you need to keep informing people what the new one is about. :P This thread was made for you.
If Dave's avatar remained the same for more than a few days, I wouldn't recognize him. ;D
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<--- no explanation required 8)
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<--- no explanation required 8)
No, sir, I'm afraid it does. :(
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No, sir, I'm afraid it does. :(
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
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Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Ah. Much appreciated. :)
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Ah. Much appreciated. :)
Sometimes I forget how old I am. ;D
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Sometimes I forget how old I am. ;D
:D Nah, it's just that I'm more familiar with Dittersdorf than Dylan.
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Do you know: were you ever dropped on your head when you were young?
Mike
Yeah...so? ;D ;D ;D
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I used to change mine because it was fun. Now I'd really love to find one to stick with. :-\
Excellent 8)
Sarge
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I used to change mine because it was fun. Now I'd really love to find one to stick with. :-\
B&W Richter looking up or the Stevie Wonder one worked the best IMO. The George Harrison looking out the window also makes the cut here. I am going to try to keep the one I have for a calendar year (riiiiiiiiight).
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. . . I am going to try to keep the one I have for a calendar year (riiiiiiiiight).
I like it!
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B&W Richter looking up or the Stevie Wonder one worked the best IMO. The George Harrison looking out the window also makes the cut here. I am going to try to keep the one I have for a calendar year (riiiiiiiiight).
What is it?
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Gil Grissom from CSI, Dave.
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Excellent 8)
Sarge
Am I the only one that pictured this (http://www.woopidoo.com/reviews/news/rich-list/monty-burns.jpg) when they read the above? ;D
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B&W Richter looking up or the Stevie Wonder one worked the best IMO. The George Harrison looking out the window also makes the cut here.
Since this is a classical forum, I am trying to stick to classical artists. (I know, Woodstock never recorded for DG ;D) This kinda rules out Stevie as a permanent avatar, but then it is very cool. That and the Richter one are very dark, something I didn't really like. The new one makes me feel warm inside when I see it.
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I like it!
Yours is great, BTW, Karl! :)
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Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Not any more.
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Am I the only one that pictured this (http://www.woopidoo.com/reviews/news/rich-list/monty-burns.jpg) when they read the above? ;D
Heh... no. ;D
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Am I the only one that pictured this (http://www.woopidoo.com/reviews/news/rich-list/monty-burns.jpg) when they read the above? ;D
Not at all. THE SIMPSONS is part of the culture. I was watching an episode of something a week ago or so, and one of the characters said "excellent" in full Mr. Burns mode, i.e., with hand signals, and it was funny. No one commented further. No CSI-style overexposition ("You know. Homer's boss. On THE SIMPSONS"). The moment came and went, and either you got it or you didn't. I loved it.
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Since this is a classical forum, I am trying to stick to classical artists. (I know, Woodstock never recorded for DG ;D) This kinda rules out Stevie as a permanent avatar, but then it is very cool. That and the Richter one are very dark, something I didn't really like. The new one makes me feel warm inside when I see it.
I wonder how many days you could stick with one avatar, George. This one (Woodstock and Snoopy) would be a nice place to start.
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John Michael Stipe, ca 1982?, voice for R.E.M.
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Do you know: were you ever dropped on your head when you were young?
Mike
Please rephrase that sentence- it was too complex for my mind to understand.
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Please rephrase that sentence- it was too complex for my mind to understand.
You baby noggin go boom boom, make dum dum?
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For some reason I couldn't get mine to show, after several attempts. So my avatar for now is X.
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John Michael Stipe, ca 1982?, voice for R.E.M.
Yes, I think that's 82. A really nice photo shoot, that one, IIRC, if, as I think it is, it's the one with Stipe in a tin bath at one point. Or am I misremembering?
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Yes, I think that's 82. A really nice photo shoot, that one, IIRC, if, as I think it is, it's the one with Stipe in a tin bath at one point. Or am I misremembering?
The poster it was taken from has a big window with 4 panes, two on top of two others, one member of the band in each pane. I don't recall the one of Stipe in a bath.
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Please rephrase that sentence- it was too complex for my mind to understand.
I think youi told us all we need to know.
Mike
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You baby noggin go boom boom, make dum dum?
Uh huh, head head go hurt hurt on pavement. Then I fall in to wawa and drown drown. :'(
The water was red. redrum
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Uh huh, head head go hurt hurt on pavement. Then I fall in to wawa and drown drown. :'(
The water was red. redrum
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-kitten-asks-if-you-fell-down.jpg)
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(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-kitten-asks-if-you-fell-down.jpg)
yes yes, that right right. :'(
i hear head head go boom boom on concrete and skullcap go fly fly. blood blood go gush gush and no taste good. me put back together and no think it were the same way it were before.
redrum
This my life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/PI1vMglP8tI
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yes yes, that right right. :'(
i hear head head go boom boom on concrete and skullcap go fly fly. blood blood go gush gush and no taste good. me put back together and no think it were the same way it were before.
We can rebuild you.
(http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content08/bionic-eye-six-million-dollar-man.jpg)
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(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=16655;type=avatar)
Moon Knight, correct?
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We can rebuild you.
(http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content08/bionic-eye-six-million-dollar-man.jpg)
You m-m-m-m-make me h-h-h-happyyyyy.... :)
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(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=16655;type=avatar)
Moon Knight, correct?
You got it in one.
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You m-m-m-m-make me h-h-h-happyyyyy.... :)
Just don't look in the mirror.
(http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/u0526098/images/AnimatronicCyborg.jpg)
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Didn't you used to have an avatar that looked like that, Dave....or close. Did it say, "You rang." under it?
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Didn't you used to have an avatar that looked like that, Dave....or close. Did it say, "You rang." under it?
My life is a blur of avatars. Who can remember? ;D
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My life is a blur of avatars. Who can remember? ;D
I'll find it. ;D
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I'll find it. ;D
How? Magic?
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This one is close, but not quite....or is it
(http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:7YA963UvYZ_F2M:http://zaurin.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/zombi_2_zombie.jpg)
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This one is close, but not quite....or is it
(http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:7YA963UvYZ_F2M:http://zaurin.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/zombi_2_zombie.jpg)
Damn, you're good. That's an image from the movie Zombie. A must see if you'd like to see a zombie battling a shark on the ocean floor.
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Damn, you're good. That's an image from the movie Zombie. A must see if you'd like to see a zombie battling a shark on the ocean floor.
After reading that comment there was nothing in the world, nothing I wanted to do more than see a zombie fight a shark. So I did.
How on Earth did we manage before Youtube? ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSPG9QQg4C0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSPG9QQg4C0)
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After reading that comment there was nothing in the world, nothing I wanted to do more than see a zombie fight a shark. So I did.
How on Earth did we manage before Youtube? ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSPG9QQg4C0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSPG9QQg4C0)
Watch the whole movie. The scenes on the island (early in the movie) are some of the most dread inducing ever in film. The last half of the movie lives up to the build up. In spades.
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George, George, George!
An extremely nostalgic moment.....seeing that album cover for Def Leppard's Pyromania! :)
My sister had that LP, when I was 9 years old, and we'd listen to it every morning while we were waiting for the school bus to arrive and pick us up for school.
And of course, I had that "backpatch" later on when I was a teenager. ;) ;D Def Lep was my true first "favorite band", and stayed that way for many years!
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George, George, George!
An extremely nostalgic moment.....seeing that album cover for Def Leppard's Pyromania! :)
My sister had that LP, when I was 9 years old, and we'd listen to it every morning while we were waiting for the school bus to arrive and pick us up for school.
And of course, I had that "backpatch" later on when I was a teenager. ;) ;D Def Lep was my true first "favorite band", and stayed that way for many years!
You sound Hysterical! (pun intended) ;)
BTW, as much as I loved Pyromania, I thought that Hysteria was pretty bad. Could have been my age, I suppose.
Gunter glieben glauchen globen 8)
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>:D
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>:D
;D
It's better to burn out, than to fade away....... >:D
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You sound Hysterical! (pun intended) ;)
BTW, as much as I loved Pyromania, I thought that Hysteria was pretty bad. Could have been my age, I suppose.
Gunter glieben glauchen globen 8)
High and Dry and Pyromania were fun! Hysteria sounded ultra-programmed, really bad in my humble opinion.
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High and Dry and Pyromania were fun! Hysteria sounded ultra-programmed, really bad in my humble opinion.
Exactly.
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Exactly.
The term "Overly Processed Product" comes to mind.
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High and Dry
My favorite! :)
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I will post have a different avatar starting today every day for the next week indicating some of my favorite CDs/tapes growing up:
Day 1 - Def Leppard's 'High n Dry' :)
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The term "Overly Processed Product" comes to mind.
The drummer lost his arm and the band lost their credibility. :-\
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The drummer lost his arm and the band lost their credibility. :-\
To be fair, they had to make some adjustments with Rick Allen losing his arm (if they wanted him to still be in the band). Going with the electronic drums definitely changed their signature sound a bit. And being a long time between Pyromania and Hysteria, they felt I guess that a new direction was needed, because maybe people had forgotten about them, so they needed a commercial hit? :-\ Just a thought. I still think there are some excellent tunes on Hysteria, including the title track.
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And being a long time between Pyromania and Hysteria, they felt I guess that a new direction was needed, because maybe people had forgotten about them, so they needed a commercial hit?
Well, they had plenty of commercial hits with Pyromania - Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin - so I don't think a change was needed to score a hit on Hysteria. :-\
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Well, they had plenty of commercial hits with Pyromania - Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin - so I don't think a change was needed to score a hit on Hysteria. :-\
True, I agree there. I think they originally planned on going status quo (ie. the hard driving HnD and Pryo sound), but along the way they decided to go way more commercial 'pop rock'. Most definitely, High N Dry and Pyromania best capture the true energy and feel of what Def Leppard was, for me. Those two still would sound great today (but I won't be). :) I've moved on.
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Well, they had plenty of commercial hits with Pyromania - Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin - so I don't think a change was needed to score a hit on Hysteria. :-\
To be fair, 1987 was pretty abysmal. It was the real beginning of the Hair Metal saturation era (you know, the one that killed heavy metal for a time). Motley Crue, Poison...one of the only good albums that came out of it was former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale's Whitesnake (self titled album). And even that was a bit of a sell out, salvaged mostly by the phenomenal guitar playing of ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist John Sykes.
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...one of the only good albums that came out of it was former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale's Whitesnake (self titled album).
Yeah, I need to re-buy that one. GREAT album, if very 80's sounding. :)
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My first album of there's was:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VSVXn9SSL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
I believe I bought it in the summer of '83. It was an import disc and came in really loose cellophane and cost a few dollars more. Good stuff. As for their later works, I enjoyed them but not nearly as much as my mom....yup, you heard me right folks. :)
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Off topic a bit Lethe, but my wife and I were laughing out loud at the combination of your avatar and signature:
(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=11883;type=avatar)
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.
Do not not what the story is, but we found the two together a riot.
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I found the cute cat via a combination of keywords in a Google image search which I have unfortunately since forgotten. It was cropped from a larger pic of the kitten sitting on a girl's shoulder (you can see her head on the right).
The sig quote was one of the responses in a thread on a cooking forum where somebody posted a recipe which purported to produce "delicious cookies", but was actually an attempt to set off as many smoke detectors as possible. Lots of replies in CAPS LOCK featuring some choice works were exchanged :D
I didn't notice the combination, but they do work perfectly together ;D Thanks for pointing it out!
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To be fair, 1987 was pretty abysmal.
not really ;)
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The year the music died, Poop... ;D
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not really ;)
Well, there were still some really good Metal releases (I think Seventh Son of a Seventh Son came out that year, and a few others), but MTV played that awful Girls Girls Girls, and Poison junk day and night. A nightmare. For me, at least.
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Well, there were still some really good Metal releases (I think Seventh Son of a Seventh Son came out that year, and a few others), but MTV played that awful Girls Girls Girls, and Poison junk day and night. A nightmare. For me, at least.
I actually think Greg was born in 1987. ;D
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I will post have a different avatar starting today every day for the next week indicating some of my favorite CDs/tapes growing up:
Day 1 - Def Leppard's 'High n Dry'
Day 2 - Van Halen's 'Fair Warning'
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Well, there were still some really good Metal releases (I think Seventh Son of a Seventh Son came out that year, and a few others)...
Among The Living 0:) 0:) 0:) 0:) >:D 0:) 0:) 0:) 0:)
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I will post have a different avatar starting today every day for the next week indicating some of my favorite CDs/tapes growing up:
Day 1 - Def Leppard's 'High n Dry'
Day 2 - Van Halen's 'Fair Warning'
We are gonna have to hang out some day. I dig your taste in music. (http://xs116.xs.to/xs116/07264/van_halen_emoticons_1.gif)
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Among The Living 0:) 0:) 0:) 0:) >:D 0:) 0:) 0:) 0:)
I went crazy over that one, really cool stuff "I'm the walkin' dude!". I think Testament's first album, the Legacy, came out that year as well, also a really good one.
Kreator, "Terrible Certainty".
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I will post have a different avatar starting today every day for the next week indicating some of my favorite CDs/tapes growing up:
Day 2 - Van Halen's 'Fair Warning'
I always thought that was their best album. Plenty of Edward experimentation on it, it really shows his more risk taking side. Plus there's the atomic blues on "So This is Love". It's also a fairly dark-ish sounding album, which is a big change form most VH.
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I always thought that was their best album. Plenty of Edward experimentation on it, it really shows his more risk taking side. Plus there's the atomic blues on "So This is Love". It's also a fairly dark-ish sounding album, which is a big change form most VH.
It really is their most creative album, and creative in a good way. I think the bass on that album is just phenomenal.
They really should have included "Hang 'em High" on Fair Warning. It didn't belong on "Diver Down", IMO. ;D
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It really is their most creative album, and creative in a good way. I think the bass on that album is just phenomenal.
They really should have included "Hang 'em High" on Fair Warning. It didn't belong on "Diver Down", IMO. ;D
What a riff! You know, now that I think about it, that song might be one of the few VH songs that could be classified as "Heavy Metal". The lyrical content, the whole dark feel. Kind of like "On Fire" in that respect.
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I went crazy over that one, really cool stuff "I'm the walkin' dude!". I think Testament's first album, the Legacy, came out that year as well, also a really good one.
Was that the one with the instrumental number as the last track?
Kreator, "Terrible Certainty".
Yes! That one, too.
Now that I look back at 1987 :o Appetite for Destruction (love'em or hate'em, that was a darn good album), King Diamond - Abigail. How about Helloween KOt7K Part 1? or Exodus - Pleasures of The Flesh, Overkill - Taking Over (my very first CD ever ;D) and Mekong Delta's first (the much better Erich Zann to be released the next year I think)
Overall I call that a pretty good year :D
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So, I learn orbital was into metal.
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So, I learn orbital was into metal.
Big time Dave. I wore an Anthrax pendant (6-7 inches wide) that kept on piercing my neck (those pointy corners of their logo ;D)whenever I ran, or jumped into the sea.
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Big time Dave. I wore an Anthrax pendant (6-7 inches wide) that kept on piercing my neck (those pointy corners of their logo ;D)whenever I ran, or jumped into the sea.
Hardcore. :)
I was never really a metalhead. I just dabble. I should probably stop. ::)
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Hardcore. :)
I was never really a metalhead. I just dabble. I should probably stop. ::)
I love it too much. When I say "Metal", though, I include alot of Wagner, Beethoven's symphonies (1st movement of the Eroica...Metal baybeee!), Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Mozart's Requiem and Don Giovanni, etc.
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Was that the one with the instrumental number as the last track?
Yes! That one, too.
Now that I look back at 1987 :o Appetite for Destruction (love'em or hate'em, that was a darn good album), King Diamond - Abigail. How about Helloween KOt7K Part 1? or Exodus - Pleasures of The Flesh, Overkill - Taking Over (my very first CD ever ;D) and Mekong Delta's first (the much better Erich Zann to be released the next year I think)
Overall I call that a pretty good year :D
Whoa, you kick a$# Orbital!
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My first album of there's was:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VSVXn9SSL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
I believe I bought it in the summer of '83. It was an import disc and came in really loose cellophane and cost a few dollars more. Good stuff. As for their later works, I enjoyed them but not nearly as much as my mom....yup, you heard me right folks. :)
I have this LP, not an import where I bought it. Got it the day after I saw them live at the Northamptonshire Cricket Club. All downhill after that!
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I actually think Greg was born in 1987. ;D
You got it!
Not to mention the artist who got me into music in the first place got famous for an album he released in 1987- i wouldn't be surprised if it was the first album I listened to all the way through, from beginning to end, by myself..... voluntarily.
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I will post have a different avatar starting today every day for the next week indicating some of my favorite CDs/tapes growing up:
Day 1 - Def Leppard's 'High n Dry'
Day 2 - Van Halen's 'Fair Warning'
Day 3 - Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America'
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I'd wager that ChamberNut had cookies for breakfast. 8)
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I'd wager that ChamberNut had cookies for breakfast. 8)
Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got.......Not much of a girlfriend, I never seem to get a lot.....What she got?....Not a lot!
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Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got.......Not much of a girlfriend, I never seem to get a lot.....What she got?....Not a lot!
...bah dah dah dah, dah dah dah da-da dah dah da-da...
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I will post have a different avatar starting today every day for the next week indicating some of my favorite CDs/tapes growing up:
Day 1 - Def Leppard's 'High n Dry'
Day 2 - Van Halen's 'Fair Warning'
Day 3 - Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America'
Day 4 - The Police's 'Zenyetta Mondatta'
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I will post have a different avatar starting today every day for the next week indicating some of my favorite CDs/tapes growing up:
Day 1 - Def Leppard's 'High n Dry'
Day 2 - Van Halen's 'Fair Warning'
Day 3 - Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America'
Day 4 - The Police's 'Zenyetta Mondatta'
Day 5 - Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother'
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I will post have a different avatar starting today every day for the next week indicating some of my favorite CDs/tapes growing up:
Day 1 - Def Leppard's 'High n Dry'
Day 2 - Van Halen's 'Fair Warning'
Day 3 - Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America'
Day 4 - The Police's 'Zenyetta Mondatta'
Day 5 - Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother'
Day 6 - Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds'
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I love it too much. When I say "Metal", though, I include alot of Wagner, Beethoven's symphonies (1st movement of the Eroica...Metal baybeee!), Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Mozart's Requiem and Don Giovanni, etc.
Shouldn't it really be the other way around? Classical existed long before metal. So metal is actually classical!
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Shouldn't it really be the other way around? Classical existed long before metal. So metal is actually classical!
;D
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Shouldn't it really be the other way around? Classical existed long before metal. So metal is actually classical!
This man is truly a genius. We metalheads need you!
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This man is truly a genius. We metalheads need you!
;) ;D
Well, I'm not sure how to say this but my friends and I spent many a year in the underground scene - first hardcore then metal (back in the day I mean, early/mid 80s)...
...ran the gamut of all the coolest bands, attended as many concerts as possible in whatever decrepit dump would bother to build a stage and let bands perform there before the fire marshal condemned the place, watched the skinheads turn a thriving scene into a war zone, talked to Bad Brains' lead singer in the men's restroom while he preached about Jah, roadied/ran lights for my friends who had the coolest hardcore then metal bands that never made it, smoked/swallowed/snorted just about everything I could get my hands on, together with my friends built the most awesome skateboard halfpipe with specs from Thrasher with wood/materials stolen from all corners of our immediate area (and later got a writeup in Thrasher!), watched the hardcore scene - and several of the bands in it (Agnostic Front, Corrosion Of Conformity) - morph into that hardcore/metal hybrid scene for awhile until metal eventually won out, cried as my favorite metal band - Fates Warning - never achieved the fame that was due them (on par with Metallica, I mean) all the while looking on in disgust as Metal Church totally sold out on their second album, hoping for the return of Poison Idea to the throne of hardcore while Social Unrest just couldn't keep it together for a repeat of "Rat In A Maze", and Trouble sped up to 45rpm (on LP) sounded almost as cool as regular 33rpm (those guys took slow to new...slows...but wow!!)...
...but...
...despite all this, despite all the energy, raw power, excitement, and adrenalin of that whirlwind time, NOTHING comes close to the sheer hypnosis/catharsis/draining power that is classical music.
All I need now is to find a men's restroom and start preaching...
:)
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;) ;D
Well, I'm not sure how to say this but my friends and I spent many a year in the underground scene - first hardcore then metal (back in the day I mean, early/mid 80s)...
...ran the gamut of all the coolest bands, attended as many concerts as possible in whatever decrepit dump would bother to build a stage and let bands perform there before the fire marshal condemned the place, watched the skinheads turn a thriving scene into a war zone, talked to Bad Brains' lead singer in the men's restroom while he preached about Jah, roadied/ran lights for my friends who had the coolest hardcore then metal bands that never made it, smoked/swallowed/snorted just about everything I could get my hands on, together with my friends built the most awesome skateboard halfpipe with specs from Thrasher with wood/materials stolen from all corners of our immediate area (and later got a writeup in Thrasher!), watched the hardcore scene - and several of the bands in it (Agnostic Front, Corrosion Of Conformity) - morph into that hardcore/metal hybrid scene for awhile until metal eventually won out, cried as my favorite metal band - Fates Warning - never achieved the fame that was due them (on par with Metallica, I mean) all the while looking on in disgust as Metal Church totally sold out on their second album, hoping for the return of Poison Idea to the throne of hardcore while Social Unrest just couldn't keep it together for a repeat of "Rat In A Maze", and Trouble sped up to 45rpm (on LP) sounded almost as cool as regular 33rpm (those guys took slow to new...slows...but wow!!)...
...but...
...despite all this, despite all the energy, raw power, excitement, and adrenalin of that whirlwind time, NOTHING comes close to the sheer hypnosis/catharsis/draining power that is classical music.
All I need now is to find a men's restroom and start preaching...
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Wow. I had no idea. I wish you'd preach to some guys I know.
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;) ;D
Well, I'm not sure how to say this but my friends and I spent many a year in the underground scene - first hardcore then metal (back in the day I mean, early/mid 80s)...
...ran the gamut of all the coolest bands, attended as many concerts as possible in whatever decrepit dump would bother to build a stage and let bands perform there before the fire marshal condemned the place, watched the skinheads turn a thriving scene into a war zone, talked to Bad Brains' lead singer in the men's restroom while he preached about Jah, roadied/ran lights for my friends who had the coolest hardcore then metal bands that never made it, smoked/swallowed/snorted just about everything I could get my hands on, together with my friends built the most awesome skateboard halfpipe with specs from Thrasher with wood/materials stolen from all corners of our immediate area (and later got a writeup in Thrasher!), watched the hardcore scene - and several of the bands in it (Agnostic Front, Corrosion Of Conformity) - morph into that hardcore/metal hybrid scene for awhile until metal eventually won out, cried as my favorite metal band - Fates Warning - never achieved the fame that was due them (on par with Metallica, I mean) all the while looking on in disgust as Metal Church totally sold out on their second album, hoping for the return of Poison Idea to the throne of hardcore while Social Unrest just couldn't keep it together for a repeat of "Rat In A Maze", and Trouble sped up to 45rpm (on LP) sounded almost as cool as regular 33rpm (those guys took slow to new...slows...but wow!!)...
...but...
...despite all this, despite all the energy, raw power, excitement, and adrenalin of that whirlwind time, NOTHING comes close to the sheer hypnosis/catharsis/draining power that is classical music.
That's the longest sentence I've ever read in my life.
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;) ;D
Well, I'm not sure how to say this but my friends and I spent many a year in the underground scene - first hardcore then metal (back in the day I mean, early/mid 80s)...
...ran the gamut of all the coolest bands, attended as many concerts as possible in whatever decrepit dump would bother to build a stage and let bands perform there before the fire marshal condemned the place, watched the skinheads turn a thriving scene into a war zone, talked to Bad Brains' lead singer in the men's restroom while he preached about Jah, roadied/ran lights for my friends who had the coolest hardcore then metal bands that never made it, smoked/swallowed/snorted just about everything I could get my hands on, together with my friends built the most awesome skateboard halfpipe with specs from Thrasher with wood/materials stolen from all corners of our immediate area (and later got a writeup in Thrasher!), watched the hardcore scene - and several of the bands in it (Agnostic Front, Corrosion Of Conformity) - morph into that hardcore/metal hybrid scene for awhile until metal eventually won out, cried as my favorite metal band - Fates Warning - never achieved the fame that was due them (on par with Metallica, I mean) all the while looking on in disgust as Metal Church totally sold out on their second album, hoping for the return of Poison Idea to the throne of hardcore while Social Unrest just couldn't keep it together for a repeat of "Rat In A Maze", and Trouble sped up to 45rpm (on LP) sounded almost as cool as regular 33rpm (those guys took slow to new...slows...but wow!!)...
...but...
...despite all this, despite all the energy, raw power, excitement, and adrenalin of that whirlwind time, NOTHING comes close to the sheer hypnosis/catharsis/draining power that is classical music.
All I need now is to find a men's restroom and start preaching...
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Dude. You rule.
And it was a horrible shame about Metal Church, such a mega-promising debut.
I believe the future will be more kind to Fates Warning.
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A feller from the Old West.
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I just changed my avatar to a picture of an Italian Greyhound. I'm thinking of getting one soon, so I want to look at pictures of them.
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I just changed my avatar to a picture of an Italian Greyhound. I'm thinking of getting one soon, so I want to look at pictures of them.
Excellent choice. 0:)
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I will post have a different avatar starting today every day for the next week indicating some of my favorite CDs/tapes growing up:
Day 1 - Def Leppard's 'High n Dry'
Day 2 - Van Halen's 'Fair Warning'
Day 3 - Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America'
Day 4 - The Police's 'Zenyetta Mondatta'
Day 5 - Pink Floyd's 'Atom Heart Mother'
Day 6 - Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds'
Day 7 - Ozzy Osbourne 'Diary of A Madman'
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Wow. I had no idea.
Mild mannered reporter by day...
I wish you'd preach to some guys I know.
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Dude. You rule.
And it was a horrible shame about Metal Church, such a mega-promising debut.
I believe the future will be more kind to Fates Warning.
:)
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Excellent choice. 0:)
Do you have an Italian Greyhound?
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Do you have an Italian Greyhound?
I want one.
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...ran the gamut of all the coolest bands, attended as many concerts as possible in whatever decrepit dump would bother to build a stage and let bands perform there before the fire marshal condemned the place, watched the skinheads turn a thriving scene into a war zone, talked to Bad Brains' lead singer in the men's restroom while he preached about Jah...
I never talked to H.R. but I danced with him once 8) I was at the front of the stage at a Bad Brains concert (in Tübingen Germany, 1983), when I was somehow elevated onto the stage. I danced a bit and then dove off into the crowd.
Here's a pic of me shortly before my ascension ;D Click on thumbnail:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/icons/BadBrainsSgtRock.jpg) (http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/BadBrainsSgtRock.jpg)
We (my punk friend and I) often encountered skinheads at punk concerts but we could usually handle them with little problem. The funniest instance was at a club that was featuring German punk bands. For some insane reason, a hippie, in flowing robes, decided to get out on the floor all by himself and do some kind of lame ballet. A skinhead took him out...which angered a girl I was talking to. She was a communist, a street performer, about five feet tall. She rushed out onto the floor, confronted this hulking 6 feet plus skinhead and shamed him into retreating. ;D One of the bravest, and coolest things I've ever seen.
Musicians I did manage to talk to in my punk days: Henry Rollins after a Black Flag gig at the Löwenbräü Keller in Munich. We invaded the dressing room and gave Henry a 13 ball (long story) we'd stolen from the company day room. We had a drink with Charlie Harper (singer of the UK Subs) after the Sub's show in Heidelberg.
Sarge
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I never talked to H.R. but I danced with him once 8) I was at the front of the stage at a Bad Brains concert (in Tübingen Germany, 1983), when I was somehow elevated onto the stage. I danced a bit and then dove off into the crowd.
Here's a pic of me shortly before my ascension ;D Click on thumbnail:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/icons/BadBrainsSgtRock.jpg) (http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/BadBrainsSgtRock.jpg)
;D Nice! Looks like a great time for all. So were you actually a Sarge at that time?
I have to say the memory of that Bad Brains "sermon" in the men's room has stuck with me to this day. The most memorable line: "No worry. No fears. No World War III, man. There will be no WWIII. The missiles, when they are up in the air...Jah will pluck them from the sky" - all while motioning with his hands in a plucking motion. 8)
It might have been pure fantasy but it sure had the men's room crown hanging on every word! ;D
We (my punk friend and I) often encountered skinheads at punk concerts but we could usually handle them with little problem. The funniest instance was at a club that was featuring German punk bands. For some insane reason, a hippie, in flowing robes, decided to get out on the floor all by himself and do some kind of lame ballet. A skinhead took him out...which angered a girl I was talking to. She was a communist, a street performer, about five feet tall. She rushed out onto the floor, confronted this hulking 6 feet plus skinhead and shamed him into retreating. ;D One of the bravest, and coolest things I've ever seen.
That is brave! Unfortunately something like that in my neck of the woods (Dallas) probably would've netted her a kick in the head. We had the misfortune of having a rigorous and very well organized skinhead movement. Started small but eventually grew so large that they would show up in Deep Ellum (the hardcore/punk hangout in downtown) in such numbers they seemed like locusts. They were everywhere. And they weren't looking to have a nice tea with the lads. They were out to bust heads.
It got so bad the police finally had to step in - in equally large numbers, of course. So now the scene had to withstand a double-whammy from two sides: the skinheads who wanted to destroy everything and the police who began to practically infiltrate our every move - for our protection, I suppose, or the protection of the city streets. The weight of it all eventually helped fragment the hardcore scene - almost to the point of collapse. There simply were no places (halls/dumps) left willing to cater to such an incendiary crowd.
Luckily the Feds eventually broke up the skinheads and normalcy again returned to the alternative scene. But Deep Ellum was never the same. Though honestly we really have the next great organized movement to thank for that: the yuppies. Hey, they can see dollar signs in anything! ;D
Musicians I did manage to talk to in my punk days: Henry Rollins after a Black Flag gig at the Löwenbräü Keller in Munich. We invaded the dressing room and gave Henry a 13 ball (long story) we'd stolen from the company day room.
Ok, 13 ball? ;D
Ironically, one of THE coolest talks my friends and I ever had was with the band Agnostic Front (back when they were punk). Ironic because they were thoughtful, articulate, pacifist...and one of the leading skinhead bands around. They were themselves puzzled at all the violence in the scene but hadn't a clue how to stop it.
We had a drink with Charlie Harper (singer of the UK Subs) after the Sub's show in Heidelberg.
Cool, Sarge!
One of my all-time favorite shows was the twin-bill of The Exploited and the UK Subs. I don't think I'd ever seen the Twilight Room (the scene's "premier" hall) so packed! Absolute wall-to-wall people. Despite this I managed to plant myself right up front and remained there the whole show.
Ah, those were the days...
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Arthur Brown
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Well Dave, that diet he has been on has had both positive and negative effects; but over all, a success I feel.
Arthur Brown
(http://thm-a04.yimg.com/image/3a4c2dcfb43b2388)
Mike
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Well Dave, that diet he has been on has had both positive and negative effects; but over all, a success I feel.
Arthur Brown
(http://thm-a04.yimg.com/image/3a4c2dcfb43b2388)
Mike
Hm. Might be a different guy, Mike. ;D
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/149765312_d141a2beeb_o.jpg)
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(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/149765312_d141a2beeb_o.jpg)
Why why WHY can't I be him :'(?
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Sara!! I do believe that is the first time I've seen you change your avatar. :o
No more talky cat? 8)
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Indeed! I've had about 4 avatars in as many years - they don't change very often 0:) The cat will be back after Newman has either been beaten or run off :D
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Indeed! I've had about 4 avatars in as many years - they don't change very often 0:) The cat will be back after Newman has either been beaten or run off :D
Well, then we have a goal to achieve!! The cat simply must come back! :D
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By the way, I commend you on the striking dissonance between your nickname and avatar! :D It gave me a bit of a shock when Brahms disappeared for Bruckner.
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An angry baby.
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By the way, I commend you on the striking dissonance between your nickname and avatar! :D It gave me a bit of a shock when Brahms disappeared for Bruckner.
I know.....I actually thought about that the other day. People will think I am a nut for calling myself ChamberNut and having an avatar of a predominantly orchestral composer! 8)
I change mine regularly, so I'm sure Brahms, et al will make a re-appearance.
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So Sarge's stage diving? Better wear a hat then.
(http://nobenjaminbutton.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/binoche1.jpg)
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I like Dave's wolf avatar the best it this point in time. I think we should all change our avatars to wolves. Our gangs of wolves unite in support of our beloved Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!
0:)
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You're hungry...like the wolf.
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I like Dave's wolf avatar the best it this point in time. I think we should all change our avatars to wolves. Our gangs of wolves unite in support of our beloved Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!
0:)
"Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - boys becoming men, men becoming wolves" ;D
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"Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - boys becoming men, men becoming wolves" ;D
Now there is a scary avatar. ;D
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(http://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/american-werewolf-in-london-lifesize-2.jpg)
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Now there is a scary avatar. ;D
Hopefully funny too. We'll see ho many 30 Rock fans we have here. 8)
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Picasso - Old Man with a Guitar
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The composer outside the recently re-opened Fenway entrance to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (http://mfa.org/).
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Mine's all wolves' Mother. 0:)
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Cover of a recently acquired rare Moravec CD, his first recording of the Chopin Preludes.
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Um...
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Where's the bloody lancet!?
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It will have to come out.
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Changed it again. EAP
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Yes, yes, I am!
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Yes, yes, I am!
:D
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Stole this idea from a gentleman either on a jazz or SH music forum. Fred Flintstone playing some vinyl on a system that probably sounds better than mine. ;D
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Stole this idea from a gentleman either on a jazz or SH music forum. Fred Flintstone playing some vinyl on a system that probably sounds better than mine. ;D
:D ;D
Got it now, Bill.
So is Fred still running a stock stylus beak or has he upgraded to the Waverly XLP-3000?
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:D ;D
Got it now, Bill.
So is Fred still running a stock stylus beak or has he upgraded to the Waverly XLP-3000?
Here is a shot of me downloading my most recent avatar. I read about this new system in the Daily Slab and had to have it. (http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/img/other/objects/fredcomputer.jpg)
My first pressing of the Bedrock Twitch really grooves on it. ;D
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Here is a shot of me downloading my most recent avatar. I read about this new system in the Daily Slab and had to have it. (http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/img/other/objects/fredcomputer.jpg)
My first pressing of the Bedrock Twitch really grooves on it. ;D
:D :D :D
Boy, you LP hounds are hardcore! ;D
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We hates it...
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Josef Hofmann's hands. 8)
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Pierre Boulez. :)
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My avatar is a California Thrasher that crossed my path during a birding excursion at San Elijo Lagoon near Solana Beach, CA last summer.
Full size version here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvk116/2749884575/in/set-72157606650321090/
And another view:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvk116/2749884425/in/set-72157606650321090/
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Elizabeta Gilels, Leonid Kogan's wife. A great violinist on her own right.
But Leonid didn't let her made a career. :(
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I couldn't take it anymore. :P
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I couldn't take it anymore. :P
I'm glad to see it. :)
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:)
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A very young and handsom Nathan.
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I couldn't take it anymore. :P
Awesome! I love it. The Schu!! :)
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OK, I'll join in.
- Frederic Chopin
8)
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It's a raccoon-dog. I considered putting up a mythological tanuki, but I didn't know if the swinging over-sized testicles would hurt sensibilities. :D
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It's a raccoon-dog. I considered putting up a mythological tanuki, but I didn't know if the swinging over-sized testicles would hurt sensibilities. :D
That's the same reason why I didn't put up a picture of myself as my avatar. 8)
:D :D
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That's the same reason why I didn't put up a picture of myself as my avatar. 8)
:D :D
LOL
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I say! It's MN Dave out on his yacht! $:)
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I say! It's MN Dave out on his yacht! $:)
Aw, I miss the pudgey 'lil guy on the scale. He was cute!
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Oh, how dreadful!
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I say! It's MN Dave out on his yacht! $:)
;D
I woulda went with this one:
(http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?uid=AAAAAQAQD7Tq2qiMMweYONYBdnYz9QAAAAoRBJXzWS8woaSJ4V-Hc7KA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U
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;D
I woulda went with this one:
(http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?uid=AAAAAQAQD7Tq2qiMMweYONYBdnYz9QAAAAoRBJXzWS8woaSJ4V-Hc7KA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U
Yes, you woulda.
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I've change young Nathan for young Vladimir. After all, they where
close friends, they leave Russian together (with Gregor), and even
they recorded together a Brahm's sonata. ;D
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Still JB.
(http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Juliette+Binoche+Launches+Portraits+Eyes+ZoBKK_zHVYel.jpg)
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My avatar is self-explanatory if you know that I can play the Celtic harp (and have curly hair). The hat is optional.
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Picture or young Harry. Err....I mean young Peter :D
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Picture or young Harry. Err....I mean young Peter :D
Seriously, I keep thinking you are Harry. ;D
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Sa fuzzywuzzy.
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Seriously, I keep thinking you are Harry. ;D
Yep, I have the same problem...
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<<<<<< My two musical heroes.
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Cupid
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My avatar is me playing in a band in 1970. I bought the guitar for some ridiculous price like $50. Here's one almost exactly like it:
(http://www.guitarcrazy.com.au/Firebird%20Re%20shoot.jpg)
Mine had dot inlays, though. You can take this one home for $17,500. So, the lesson is get the dot one. $:)
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Oberhoffer was the Minnesota Orchestra's principal conductor until 1922. He has been followed by Henri Verbrugghen (1923–31); Eugene Ormandy (1931–36); Dimitri Mitropoulos (1937–49); Antal Doráti (1949-60); Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1960–79); Neville Marriner (1979–86); Edo de Waart (1986–95); and Eiji Oue (1995–2002). In 2002, Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä was appointed the ensemble's 10th music director and assumed the post in September 2003. In 2005, Vänskä extended his tenure with the Minnesota Orchestra through 2011.
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Yes, I am now color coordinated with the forum.
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I decided on a new look. The New York neon boot has been given the boot.
(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k119/demster_2006/DSCF0216.jpg)
The Russian Orthodox church in Tampere Finland, taken early in the morning.
Mike
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I changed my avatar for "Arrested Development Friday." But I am too lazy to change it back. Who knows when the oud-maker will be returning... :P
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I changed my avatar for "Arrested Development Friday." But I am too lazy to change it back. Who knows when the oud-maker will be returning... :P
GREAT Avatar!!!!
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A little small, but it's Asahina Mikuru from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
I had to change it because girls with the personality of Haruhi (my previous avatar) lately just make me irritated. So I can't look at her picture every day- at least not for awhile.
Mikuru is the sweetest, nicest character... (though I'll admit girls like her are often painfully boring to talk to).
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Mikuru is the sweetest, nicest character... (though I'll admit girls like her are often painfully boring to talk to).
Cartoon characters? Yeah I'd imagine! ;D
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Well, in terms of personality... but, talking to a real life cartoon character actually would probably be fun. ;D
Ugh, why'd you have to change your avatar to that?
I just killed one of those by accident less than an hour ago, and another 2 or so weeks ago. Never a fun thing.
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Well, in terms of personality... but, talking to a real life cartoon character actually would probably be fun. ;D
Ugh, why'd you have to change your avatar to that?
I just killed one of those by accident less than an hour ago, and another 2 or so weeks ago. Never a fun thing.
For some reason I thought you lived in Australia. :D What do you live in a southern state of the good ol' US of A? :)
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For some reason I thought you lived in Australia. :D What do you live in a southern state of the good ol' US of A? :)
You're serious- you thought that? :o
Here I was, thinking that everyone on this forum knew I live in Florida, when the person that I've talked to possibly longer than anyone in terms of overall time (how many years has it been?) thinks I live in Australia. Ha! :D
Still, that's not as bad as my friend blurting out in front of everyone in class, "Oh, so THAT's his name. I didn't know what it was, even though we talk to each other every day, for several months now. I just called him 'dude.'"
She does have the best personality of any girl that I've known for awhile, but sometimes, I really don't know what to think...
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You know how you manage to turn every conversation back to that girl... yeah that's called obsession. ;D
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Women are ok. Your avatar has gone belly up, btw.
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Happy Honegger. :)
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Chedric Fropin
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You know how you manage to turn every conversation back to that girl... yeah that's called obsession. ;D
Nah, that was someone else I'm talking about.
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Nah, that was someone else I'm talking about.
Ah okay. :) Wait a minute, does that make me the obsessed one? ;D
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Ah okay. :) Wait a minute, does that make me the obsessed one? ;D
I don't know, are you? ;)
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Petrouchka
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Petrouchka
Is Petrouchka a martial arts exponent?
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Is Petrouchka a martial arts exponent?
Ha :) No, Petrouchka is a clown-like puppet that is brought to life by his "owner", the Charlatan. Two other puppets are also brought to life (The Ballerina and The Moor)
Oops, spelling mistake on ballerina, fixed.
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Ha :) No, Petrouchka is a clown-like puppet that is brought to life by his "owner", the Charlatan. Two other puppets are also brought to life (The Ballerian and The Moor)
Interesting... :)
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A special reminder that tomorrow is Rodent Avatar Friday. (or for Brian, 'Arrested Development' character day). :)
For those who are already into Friday, you know what to do. ;D
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Robert E. Howard's
SOLOMON KANE
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Big red letters.
Sort of looks like that 'Wanderer...' painting.
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"I am not yet ready for Hell."
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian poet, essayist and short-stories writer.
Another poem of gifts
I want to give thanks to the divine
Labyrinth of causes and effects
For the diversity of beings
That form this singular universe,
For Reason, that will never give up its dream
Of a map of the labyrinth,
For Helen's face and the perseverence of Ulysses,
For love, which lets us see others
As God sees them,
For the solid diamond and the flowing water,
For Algebra, a palace of exact crystals,
For the mystic coins of Angelus Silesius,
For Schopenhauer,
Who perhaps deciphered the universe,
For the blazing of fire,
That no man can look at without an ancient wonder,
For mahogany, cedar, and sandalwood,
For bread and salt,
For the mystery of the rose
That spends all its color and can not see it,
For certain eves and days of 1955,
For the hard riders who, on the plains,
Drive on the catttle and the dawn,
For mornings in Montevideo,
For the art of friendship,
For Socrates' last day,
For the words spoken one twilight
For that dream of Islam that embraced
A thousand nights and a night,
For that other dream of Hell,
Of the tower of cleansing fire
And of the celestial spheres,
For Swedenborg,
Who talked with the angles in London streets
For the secret and immemorial rivers
That converge in me,
For the language that, centuries ago, I spoke in Northumberland,
For the sword and harp of the Saxons,
For the sea, which is a shining desert
And a secret code for things we do not know
And an epitaph for the Norsemen,
For the word music of England,
For the word music of Germany,
For gold, that shines in verses,
For epic winter,
For the title of a book I have not read: Gesta Dei per Francos,
For Verlaine, innocent as the birds,
For crystal prisms and bronze weights,
For the tiger's stripes,
For the high towers of San Francisco and Manhattan Island,
For mornings in Texas,
For that Sevillian who composed the Moral Epistle
And whose name, as he would have wished, we do not know,
For Seneca and Lucan, both of Cordova,
Who, before there was Spanish, had written
All Spanish literature,
For gallant, noble, geometric chess,
For Zeno's tortoise and Royce's map,
For the medicinal smell of eucalyptus trees,
For speech, which can be taken for wisdom,
For forgetfulness, which annuls or modifies the past,
For habits,
Which repeat us and confirm us in our image like a mirror,
For morning, that gives us the illusion of a new beginning,
For night, its darkness and its astronomy,
For the bravery and happiness of others,
For my country, sensed in jasmine flowers
For Whitman and Francis of Assisi, who already wrote this poem,
For the fact that the poem is inexhaustible
And becomes one with the sum of all created things
And will never reach its last verse
And varies according to its writers
For Frances Haslam, who begged her children's pardon
For dying so slowly,
For the minutes that precede sleep,
For sleep and death,
Those two hidden treasures,
For the intimate gifts I do not mention,
For music, that mysterious form of time.
Translated by Alan Dugan
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Great Ruggero Ricci as a child. He's more than 90 now.
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian poet, essayist and short-stories writer.
Oh, I didn't know that it was his photo adorning your posts. The Library of Babel is close to the top of my To-read list. :)
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian poet, essayist and short-stories writer.
Another poem of gifts
Thanks for posting something I don't recall reading by one of my favorite writers. That was quite beautiful.
My avatar: one of many images of gas stations by Ed Ruscha, one of my favorite artists. Here's another one in the photo below.
--Bruce
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Oh, I didn't that it was his photo adorning your posts. The Library of Babel is close to the top of my To-read list. :)
Where did you get Ratticus Bachulus?
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Where did you get Ratticus Bachulus?
From the intert00bs, of course, where else? (http://api.ning.com/files/wFvIiebu4VCwMo0yS*7b0vkzDtlp5ur62PtS5K8ZDDhVh2u39VmKeT57sqDM6s*U9Q-zouz4bY1koQeIMmR2tGhXgBkWHorq/JMouseSebastionBach.jpg) ;)
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Where did you get Ratticus Bachulus?
Well, it's rather an imposition for a blind man, my friend.
:)
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Sorry. You've lost me.
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Opus106,
I love it!!! ;D :D ;D I can't believe I was able to coax you into changing your avatar? You NEVER waver from your original avatar!
:)
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Oh, I didn't know that it was his photo adorning your posts. The Library of Babel is close to the top of my To-read list. :)
Yes, Opus, the old and great Borges. I love his short stories and poems, but especially his wonderful essays. I don’t know how many times I have read his collection of essays called Other Inquisitions, but I adore that book.
Thanks for posting something I don't recall reading by one of my favorite writers. That was quite beautiful.
You’re welcome, Bruce. Borges is one of my favorite writers, too. Probably you will enjoy this, if you don’t know it yet:
http://www.youtube.com/v/Hav8-ZLxdJY
Sorry. You've lost me.
I’m not surprised at all, Dave. Just a stupid (and incomprehensible) joke: in Spanish walking stick = báculo, from the latin Bacŭlum, then I thought that a blind man needs a Bachulus… I know, I know, incomprehensible, too long, too complicated… ;D
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You’re welcome, Bruce. Borges is one of my favorite writers, too. Probably you will enjoy this, if you don’t know it yet:
Wow, how totally cool is that--the closest we'll ever get to seeing Borges as "stand-up comedian"! I didn't quite "get" all of the sonnet in Spanish, but never mind. That was a treat.
PS, my first exposure to Borges was reading him in Spanish when I was 17 or so, studying the language in high school. As you can imagine, my mind was completely blown, trying to make sense out of The Circular Ruins or The Garden of Forking Paths--difficult enough in one's native language, but quite a challenge in a "new" one!
Anyway, thanks again for that little diversion.
--Bruce
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I’m not surprised at all, Dave. Just a stupid (and incomprehensible) joke: in Spanish walking stick = báculo, from the latin Bacŭlum, then I thought that a blind man needs a Bachulus… I know, I know, incomprehensible, too long, too complicated… ;D
Thanks. :)
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Robert E. Howard's
SOLOMON KANE
And a GREAT read, by the way.
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And a GREAT read, by the way.
Yes. REH = Great. 0:)
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Opus106,
I love it!!! ;D :D ;D I can't believe I was able to coax you into changing your avatar? You NEVER waver from your original avatar!
:)
Just a twenty-four hour trial. Crazy Thursday it was, listening to Bartok and changing my avatar. ;)
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Just a twenty-four hour trial. Crazy Thursday it was, listening to Bartok and changing my avatar. ;)
I think it should be your permanent avatar. ;D ;)
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I think it should be your permanent avatar. ;D ;)
Yeah, and I should have Stockhausen on repeat mode. :P
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Boris and Dieter.
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The Moon. Beautiful.
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The sun. Even more beautiful.
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An ocelot.
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We moved back to Amarillo (for the third time) when I was in the second grade, and I remember being excited at being able to look out my bedroom window and see the lights of the Holiday Inn and the Ramada Inn on Rt 66, and also the thrill of seeing license plates from all over N. America funneling through that stretch of highway.
Later I learned that one of them carried the Stravinskys and Craft, who once spent the night in my home town. Hard for me to feature that. '
Great little snapshot--not to mention learning of Stravinsky and Craft being steps away from you! PS, I've been to Amarillo a number of times, since I used to live in Lubbock years ago.
--Bruce
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Great little snapshot--not to mention learning of Stravinsky and Craft being steps away from you! PS, I've been to Amarillo a number of times, since I used to live in Lubbock years ago.
--Bruce
Then you should be pleased to know Bruce, as reported on the news a few days ago, Lubbock is no longer a dry city! ;D It was the largest dry city in Texas. :D
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Then you should be pleased to know Bruce, as reported on the news a few days ago, Lubbock is no longer a dry city! ;D It was the largest dry city in Texas. :D
Well, it's about time! (Actually I was way too young to drink when we lived there.) But I'm sure people are happy not to have to drive to another town to be able to buy a bottle of wine!
Thanks, hadn't heard that. Will pass on to my family members to get their reaction!
--Bruce
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??? Now David (W) looks like BaxMan, who is now (back to being) HaydnGuy. And yesterday, the two rodents (David (W, again) and Ray), even though they weren't even the same species, had me confused.
:-\
And now Dave (MN, but in reality another W) is just ChamberNut -- a former self of, actually -- from a different angle!
There's only so much a little mind like mine can handle...AAARGH! :'(
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??? Now David (W) looks like BaxMan, who is now (back to being) HaydnGuy. And yesterday, the two rodents (David (W, again) and Ray), even though they weren't even the same species, had me confused.
:-\
And now Dave (MN, but in reality another W) is just ChamberNut -- a former self of, actually -- from a different angle!
There's only so much a little mind like mine can handle...AAARGH! :'(
;D ;D ;D
I'll add that 'Secondwind' had me confused with David (W), with her rodent avatar, which looked like David's first rodent avatar from a few weeks ago! :D
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Haha confusion is wonderful! :D
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DFO Russian commemorative silver 2 roubles coin
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DFO Russian commemorative silver 2 roubles coin
Very nice.
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Yes, officer. The avatar is mine.
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When John listens to Varese, he turns into George. ;D
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When John listens to Varese, he turns into George. ;D
Oh, I quickly changed that.
As you can see from the new avatar, I REALLY DO turn into George! ;D (Sorry George 0:) )
Here was the quick switch I made, from the first to the second whilst listening to Varese...
From the first to the second in under 5 mins...
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Guess what ? You'll finally get rid of that insufferable third line character, Lilas Pastia.
As of January 1, a new, improved avatar will take his place. Name and pic already chosen. Stay tuned ;)
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Guess what ? You'll finally get rid of that insufferable third line character, Lilas Pastia.
As of January 1, a new, improved avatar will take his place. Name and pic already chosen. Stay tuned ;)
Look forward to seeing what it is Andre! :)
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Guess what ? You'll finally get rid of that insufferable third line character, Lilas Pastia.
As of January 1, a new, improved avatar will take his place. Name and pic already chosen. Stay tuned ;)
I bet the new one will be Smurfin great. 8)
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Jan Toorop - Desire and Satisfaction (1893)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Desire_and_Satisfaction_1893_Jan_Toorop.jpg)
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Frazetta (http://frazettaartgallery.com/)
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The Mog who stole Christmas.
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My new Avatar is a wren, we call it "Zaunkönig". A very small, but loud Bird. I like that bird, we always have got some in our garden, because I take care of having some hidden near-ground places in my garden.
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Bad Santa and Mrs. Claus' sister
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My new Avatar is a wren, we call it "Zaunkönig". A very small, but loud Bird. I like that bird, we always have got some in our garden, because I take care of having some hidden near-ground places in my garden.
We had a nesting pair in our yard this spring/summer. Cool avatar!
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Bad Santa and Mrs. Claus' sister
;D :D ;D
Sarge
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My new Avatar is a wren, we call it "Zaunkönig". A very small, but loud Bird. I like that bird, we always have got some in our garden, because I take care of having some hidden near-ground places in my garden.
Our Garten should offer suitable habitat too but I've never seen one. We do host about a dozen other species of bird.
Sarge
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;D :D ;D
Sarge
I do hope you saw the movie (Bad Santa), Sarge, for I am willing to bet you'd love it.
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I do hope you saw the movie (Bad Santa), Sarge, for I am willing to bet you'd love it.
Along with the Griswold's Christmas, Bad Santa is my very favorite holiday movie. Yes, I love it ;D
Sarge
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Along with the Griswold's Christmas, Bad Santa is my very favorite holiday movie. Yes, I love it ;D
Sarge
Haven't seen the Griswold's flick except in bits and pieces on TV years ago. I'll look out for it. A Christmas Story is another fave of mine, I bought that one this week.
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A Christmas Story is another fave of mine, I bought that one this week.
I think I've only seen that once. I should get a copy.
Sarge
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A Christmas Story is another fave of mine, I bought that one this week.
That's my favorite one, followed by the Griswold's Christmas Vacation.
My wife and I just watched 'Four Christmases' with Vince Vaughan and Reese Witherspoon. We thought it would be a really big stinker, but it was actually very funny, quite enjoyable! :D
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That's my favorite one, followed by the Griswold's Christmas Vacation.
My wife and I just watched 'Four Christmases' with Vince Vaughan and Reese Witherspoon. We thought it would be a really big stinker, but it was actually very funny, quite enjoyable! :D
I bought Fred Claus recently with Vince but haven't seen it or the one you mention with him yet.
The films he chooses seem to either be hilarious or real stinkers.
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We had a nesting pair in our yard this spring/summer. Cool avatar!
Thank you. We also had a nesting pair, inside a hazel bush. The image is basically a 3 step process with Photoshop.
(http://www.minnit.de/bilder/cd430cf7.20091219.jpg)
(http://www.minnit.de/bilder/6a510d83.20091219.jpg)
(http://www.minnit.de/bilder/7e2e4727.20091219.jpg)
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moon knight
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Setsuko Hara
(http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/Hara.JPG)
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Never heard of her, Monsieur Obscure. ;D
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She was the Japanese Greta Garbo. :>
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moon knight
Pick a damn avatar and stick with it! :D ;)
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Pick a damn avatar and stick with it! :D ;)
@#!% you, buddy!!! >:(
(deep breaths) :)
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I bet the new one will be Smurfin great. 8)
For the life of me, I can't recall what it is I had in my confused mind (must have had a drink too much that night) ???.
But, being a smurf of my word, I'll come up with something. :-\
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Um... Moriz Rosenthal??!! :o ;D
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Um... Moriz Rosenthal??!! :o ;D
Lemme guess, he's in the ring with Pachmann?
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Lemme guess, he's in the ring with Pachmann?
;D
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;D
I put down a sawbuck on Rosenthal. 8)
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"Les tontons flingueurs"
(clockwise from left : Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Lino Ventura)
Movie from the 60's
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A painting by Cornelius Krieghoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Krieghoff), Canada's best-known painter. He specialized in winter scenes.
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Some dude playing a piano.
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All of you should know this guy.
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John, you are hilarious.
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The tricolor at left (actually a bicolor with two unicolors at either side) is the flag of Philadelphia.
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This one just might stick:
(http://www.hollowearth.org/blog/uploaded_images/peanuts_records-723037.jpg)
Check out the composer, Ray! ;)
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This one just might stick:
(http://www.hollowearth.org/blog/uploaded_images/peanuts_records-723037.jpg)
I can dig it, bro fro anotho mo. 8)
Thread duty : Josef Hofmann's hands, as photographed for Time Life magazine.
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Thor's hammer. I'd like a pendant but there are sooo many to choose from. Oy.
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I always wished I could play the piano as good as Rowlf. So I picked him and he was my loyal Avatar for years.
(http://i39.tinypic.com/35mm79e.jpg)
Last winter I watched the tv-series Twin Peaks again (DVD) and memories came back quite rapidly. Some young lady called Sherilyn Fenn played the character of Audrey Horne .... 'nuff said: had to say goodbye to Rowlf.
(http://i39.tinypic.com/o92scj.jpg)
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This one just might stick:
(http://www.hollowearth.org/blog/uploaded_images/peanuts_records-723037.jpg)
That really is a cool avatar, Bill. Yes, stick with it...but change your username to Linus Schroeder ;)
Sarge
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Some young lady called Sherilyn Fenn played the character of Audrey Horne ....
Yummiest avatar on the forum.
Sarge
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Palau de la Música Catalana (expect most people will know it though)
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Yummiest avatar on the forum.
The avatar pic is taken at a rather dramatic and weird moment though (series Twin Peaks): the principal, with a broken voice, has just announced the murder of Laura Palmer, and all classmates are looking very compassionate and with sympathy to Laura's best friends Donna and James .... except that little snake Audrey Horne, who looks rather bored and seems to be thinking like what you did you expect with a girl like Laura anyway?
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I'm screaming for vengeance in a forum about classical music. ::)
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I'm screaming for vengeance in a forum about classical music. ::)
Hey that's my favorite Judas Priest album! :)
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Hey that's my favorite Judas Priest album! :)
Mine too! I knew I liked you.
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Mike, is that Strasbourg?
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George pointed out that someone has already been using this avatar, though on a different forum. Not sitting well at this end. Like something stuck between my teeth and no toothpick to be had.
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Bill, I love that avatar so much that I just saved it to my hard drive in case you get rid of it!
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Bill, I love that avatar so much that I just saved it to my hard drive in case you get rid of it!
Yup. George cropped it for me a few days back. Dude must actually work for Pixar as he did it in seconds. Now where is that toothpick. ;D
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Here are the other two I sport at the other forum, Brian:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ESC4bygtp2M/R0rRmdmhRpI/AAAAAAAACEY/q4qreInpREg/s400/Schulz+Schroeder+and+Lucy.gif)
and
(http://www.fabrics.net/colpics/GR_1A300.jpg)
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Mike, is that Strasbourg?
I thought it was Paris. I may be wrong. I usually use one of my own photos, but when I tried to do change it, for once the system refused to accept any of the URLs. from Photobucket. I went onto picture search and lots were rejected as not being Avatars. Eventually this one stuck...so I retained it. But I had not gone into the site itself to see what it was because I though it was Notre Dame.
Mike
Mike
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I thought it was Paris. I may be wrong. I usually use one of my own photos, but when I tried to do change it, for once the system refused to accept any of the URLs. from Photobucket. I went onto picture search and lots were rejected as not being Avatars. Eventually this one stuck...so I retained it. But I had not gone into the site itself to see what it was because I though it was Notre Dame.
A problem with the French ones is that almost all of them are officially called Notre-Dame-de-Wherever.
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Always excepting this one, Saint Chapelle Paris. A building basically without walls.
(http://www.visitingdc.com/images/sainte-chapelle-paris.jpg)
Mike
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Here are the other two I sport at the other forum, Brian:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ESC4bygtp2M/R0rRmdmhRpI/AAAAAAAACEY/q4qreInpREg/s400/Schulz+Schroeder+and+Lucy.gif)
I wonder which sonata he's playing in this one...
Thanks! Saved 'em all. :)
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I wonder which sonata he's playing in this one...
Thanks! Saved 'em all. :)
Me too.
I got a free download for the first person who figures it out.
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Me too.
I got a free download for the first person who figures it out.
Well, this would have been GREAT to see and HEAR. :)
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Aya Hirano. (she's a voice actor) 8)
(http://www.ayahirano.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/aya-hirano7.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Rxo-dVWeH5A/SbPMy4elwhI/AAAAAAAAFO0/HXvq-TA0lo4/s400/Aya_Hirano_picture_001.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Rxo-dVWeH5A/SbPM0CNREvI/AAAAAAAAFPU/9Ij9uvq8YKg/s400/Aya_Hirano_picture_005.JPG)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Rxo-dVWeH5A/SbPMzzunNMI/AAAAAAAAFPM/Xuuh35-J1lk/s400/Aya_Hirano_picture_004.jpg)
(http://myotakuhalf.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/3177_1.jpg?w=450&h=800)
What's everyone's favorite picture, btw?
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A painting by Cornelius Krieghoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Krieghoff), Canada's best-known painter. He specialized in winter scenes.
No shit.
Thread duty: The old WETA Logo in reduced form. Specifically chosen (apart from plugging WETA, that is) to be flat and not take up a lot of space in case my posts contain just a few lines.
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She nevertheless still looks only about 15.
Mike
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She nevertheless still looks only about 15.
True. If a grown man made that his avatar, the only message I'd get from that is: Never the f*#$ agree to meet that sick weirdo and make your children are locked away and safe if and when he's on the prowl. But then I don't understand the worn-underwear dispensing machines, either.
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/01/world/01oud_650.jpg)
Joao Silva for the New York Times. Published May 1, 2008; later became a cover photo for The Economist. Possibly my favorite photograph of all time, especially for the symbolism: this is a craftsman building an oud (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdr-ShQ8KIc) at his workshop in Baghdad. Out of something ugly, or ordinary, or humble, something so beautiful can be born.
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(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HzNXdX6RD8c/R2ebR3AzaxI/AAAAAAAAAX8/Jtj4SaT-if4/s320/musica+vihuela-libro+de+alonso+mudarra.jpg)
A detail from an engraving contained within Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela by Alonso Mudarra (1546).
Il Furioso was the pseudonym of the great 17th century guitarist-composer Giovanni Foscarini.
(http://www.monicahall.co.uk/images/Fos/Foscariniportrait.jpg)
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[img width=200 ]http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/01/world/01oud_650.jpg[/img]
Joao Silva for the New York Times. Published May 1, 2008; later became a cover photo for The Economist. Possibly my favorite photograph of all time, especially for the symbolism: this is a craftsman building an oud (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdr-ShQ8KIc) at his workshop in Baghdad. Out of something ugly, or ordinary, or humble, something so beautiful can be born.
Truly a gorgeous picture. Of course, even knowing it isn't you, I imagine it is. (Just like I though Sarge, a trim ex-military man, would wear a helmet. [He didn't.])
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/01/world/01oud_650.jpg)
Joao Silva for the New York Times. Published May 1, 2008; later became a cover photo for The Economist. Possibly my favorite photograph of all time, especially for the symbolism: this is a craftsman building an oud (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdr-ShQ8KIc) at his workshop in Baghdad. Out of something ugly, or ordinary, or humble, something so beautiful can be born.
When I first came back to this forum Brian, I thought that was a picture of you! :D
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When I first came back to this forum Brian, I thought that was a picture of you! :D
The same. What added to this is that your posts are well beyond the sophistication that I would have been able to create at age 20.
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On the general topic of avatars, I thought it worth reviving this thread to address something that bothers me a little.
There was a discussion in the 'Listening' thread where I was thinking out loud that I'm probably the only one along with Sarge who has never changed their avatars, and was found to be patently incorrect, and then was wondering out loud how how many have actually never changed it.
But I'd like to make something, that all this thinking out loud might have distorted, explicit:
I never intended to suggest someone who doesn't change their avatar is somehow superior, more 'settled', or whatever else, compared to one who does. To name just one example, I utterly love Bruce's gallery of avatars, and the fact that they change.
Probably the one thing that does bother me is avatars that change too quickly to keep up with - like Greg's, or MN Dave's at some point.
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Probably the one thing that does bother me is avatars that change too quickly to keep up with - like Greg's, or MN Dave's at some point.
Surely Eugene, this means you were never a fan of 'Rodent Avatar Fridays' ;D
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Surely Eugene, this means you were never a fan of 'Rodent Avatar Fridays' ;D
Surely you mean Furry-days? ;D
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*goes off and considers starting to change it every day
Avatars are like underwear!
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*goes off and considers starting to change it every day
Avatars are like underwear!
How about you pick a theme, and use variations on it?
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Mine's currently a painting by Edward Hopper. I might change it to other paintings by Edward Hopper.
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How about you pick a theme, and use variations on it?
Haha, maybe I already have, unintentionally? Anime! :D
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Mine's currently a painting by Edward Hopper. I might change it to other paintings by Edward Hopper.
That would be cool.
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Me on 9/9/09, the day the Beatles remasters were released. They had a bunch of costumes to put on at the Best Buy I went to and they took your photo once you chose your getup. Not being one to participate in things like this, I can't recall why I did it. I don't think I have ever done a realistic avatar before, so I wanted to try one out.
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Me on 9/9/09, the day the Beatles remasters were released. They had a bunch of costumes to put on at the Best Buy I went to and they took your photo once you chose your getup. Not being one to participate in things like this, I can't recall why I did it. I don't think I have ever done a realistic avatar before, so I wanted to try one out.
Are you sure a picture featuring a flourescent blue outfit can be termed "realistic"? :)
It's certainly a change of pace from from the disembodied hands.
Thread duty, since I've just changed mine:
The Seal of Rassilon, from the "old school" Doctor Who.
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There was a discussion in the 'Listening' thread where I was thinking out loud that I'm probably the only one along with Sarge who has never changed their avatars, and was found to be patently incorrect, and then was wondering out loud how how many have actually never changed it.
When I first joined the forums my avatar was a picture of Dvorak; I believe I made the change over to the gentleman with the oud in 2008. Since then, it has only been altered on rare and brief occasions - for instance, after the Giants-Patriots Super Bowl and on an 'Arrested Development Avatar Friday.' I really don't foresee making any long-term avatar changes, or not until I see a photograph which might be more interesting or more beautiful to me than this one.
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Josef Hoffman's hands from Life Magazine.
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Rather better than the 'Gilbert and George' lookalike picture.
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n98-79330
Mike
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Me on 9/9/09, the day the Beatles remasters were released. They had a bunch of costumes to put on at the Best Buy I went to and they took your photo once you chose your getup. Not being one to participate in things like this, I can't recall why I did it. I don't think I have ever done a realistic avatar before, so I wanted to try one out.
Thanks for going back. I wasn't even sure if that wasn't a different George. :(
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When I first joined the forums my avatar was a picture of Dvorak; I believe I made the change over to the gentleman with the oud in 2008. Since then, it has only been altered on rare and brief occasions - for instance, after the Giants-Patriots Super Bowl and on an 'Arrested Development Avatar Friday.' I really don't foresee making any long-term avatar changes, or not until I see a photograph which might be more interesting or more beautiful to me than this one.
Wasn't there a time you used close-up of Kleiber from the DG Brahms recording? I used to identify you with that picture... or was that someone else? ???
I wouldn't mind having the image below as my avatar, Jens' and Sarge's possible bewilderment notwithstanding, but it'll be too small.
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-2001-cat.jpg)
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Joly Braga Santos - the great Portuguese composer (1924-1988)
Try symphonies 1-4 and Symphonic Variations if you don't know them. Oops, not supposed to talk about music here :-X
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Joly Braga Santos - the great Portuguese composer (1924-1988)
Try symphonies 1-4 and Symphonic Variations if you don't know them. Oops, not supposed to talk about music here :-X
He looks a bit like Stravinsky from the side.
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He looks a bit like Stravinsky from the side.
Yes. Even Prokofiev crossed my mind for a moment.
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Wasn't there a time you used close-up of Kleiber from the DG Brahms recording? I used to identify you with that picture... or was that someone else? ???
Oh yeah! That was even before Mr Dvorak, I think. I did in fact change it because people thought I was depressed all the time.
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I did in fact change it because people thought I was depressed all the time.
Heh. ;D
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http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/YellSign.shtml
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That is the insignia of the Grammar Nazi. It should be banned in the interwebs.
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That is the insignia of the Grammar Nazi. It should be banned in the interwebs.
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That, the exclamation mark; the semi-colon and the comma, and of course, the full stop. They are all there in the logo...seems apt for the Grammar Nazi. :D
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That, the exclamation mark; the semi-colon and the comma, and of course, the full stop. They are all there in the logo...seems apt for the Grammar Nazi. :D
Works for me.
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Mine is from a contemporary artist new to me, Mark Grotjahn: Ruby Needs New Diapers (Thirteen Months of High Stakes Poker 741), 2007-2008, color pencil on paper, 67 x 47 3/4 inches
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He looks a bit like Stravinsky from the side.
I wouldn't want to look like the side of Stravinsky, even if it was his good side. (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/classic/tongue.gif)
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The lord of the jungle.
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Mine is a cartoon image of the great Villa-Lobos. One of my absolute favorite composers.
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<----- no, this is not the gun he killed his wife with
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Something I made in Photoshop. Can I have a thread now?
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I wanted one of the great buildings here in Sydney, but something other than the famous opera house on Bennelong Point. My avatar is the Queen Victoria Building (built in the 1890's) which is like a Victorian shopping mall in the heart of the city. It's really a great work of art, with it's carved sandstone facade, ornate domes and decoratively tiled floors inside. Can you believe that in the 1960's it was almost demolished for a car park? Finally in the 1980's it was bought and restored by an Asian company. The interior had to be rebuilt virtually from scratch as it had been converted to Art Deco style in the 1930's. Needless to say, this is one of my favourite buildings in this city...
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Something I made in Photoshop. Can I have a thread now?
Only if you use it for self-promotion and monetary gain...in the grand tradition of such threads. Like your avatar, by the way.
Sarge
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Don't forget to call it a limited edition - this can justify the msot absurd of mark-ups.
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Can I have a thread now?
Go for it. 8)
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Let's start the bidding low. Say, $10,000?
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Let's start the bidding low. Say, $10,000?
;D
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Philistines... you... you don't even know art!
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Philistines... you... you don't even know art!
Did I win?
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My art is too good for the world. I'm taking it back!
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I go to the lava-tree!
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Another photoshop thing. Big version:
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs338.ash2/61817_431770456537_687686537_5248779_1150013_n.jpg)
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Let's start the bidding low. Say, $10,000?
It's not as if it is a Saul piece. No princess, no fog-shrouded castle, no white horse. You call that art?
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It's not as if it is a Saul piece. No princess, no fog-shrouded castle, no white horse. You call that art?
LOL
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Another photoshop thing. Big version:
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs338.ash2/61817_431770456537_687686537_5248779_1150013_n.jpg)
Didn't quite get it at first, but then spotted that particularly telling shade of green 21 mm from the right, and 42 mm from the bottom. Perfect. And in just the right place.
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Well hey, I like Brice Marden and Barnett Newman, so go figure.
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Well hey, I like Brice Marden and Barnett Newman, so go figure.
I like it.
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My guy - Pete.
I had selected another picture, but I have a feeling that it would not have gone over so well.
:-*
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Who is that?
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Who is that?
Peter Saarsgard, Actor (sp?)
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It's Peter Sarsgaard (pretty close on the spelling there George).
Probably the actor, from this generation, that I would rank the highest in regards to the quality of his acting ability.
Plus he's just so damn cute.
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Don't think I've ever seen anything with him in it, but he is a looker indeed. :)
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Well hey, I like Brice Marden and Barnett Newman, so go figure.
Just to be clear: I wasn't knocking it. I was just having an impulsive silly moment.
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Flying the flag here in case you haven't noticed. As I don't see much fun in avatars, I'm not likely to change it (unless I move to Sweden!).
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Don't think I've ever seen anything with him in it, but he is a looker indeed. :)
Oh? You really should.
I'd suggest Kinsey, Shattered Glass, or An Education to get you started. In that order, unless you're a bit of a prude, then scratch Kinsey off the list. :-*
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This was my first avi on GMG -- the original forum in 2006.
If I recall correctly, we were all llamas when we first signed on.....not sure why? :)
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This was my first avi on GMG -- the original forum in 2006.
If I recall correctly, we were all llamas when we first signed on.....not sure why? :)
(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/FbwkkXGmFrI/1.jpg)
Release las llamas!!!
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(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/FbwkkXGmFrI/1.jpg)
Release las llamas!!!
This could be a variation on 'Rodent Avatar Fridays'! ;D Perhaps we should institute a 'Llama Lundi'? 8)
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(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/FbwkkXGmFrI/1.jpg)
Release las llamas!!!
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l468en9gvQ1qcsvnpo1_500.jpg)
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(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/FbwkkXGmFrI/1.jpg)
Release las llamas!!!
lol! So glad to resurrect the topic! ;D
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Gerhard Richter's Ice (1). I was recently able to see the permanent collection of Gerhard's work at the Museum of the Art Institute here in Chicago and they are just astounding to behold. He is probably my favorite painter still working today.
(http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/WebImg_000103/6235_883057.jpg)
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My avatar is none other than the great Henri Dutilleux. Quite possibly my favorite French composer after Ravel and Debussy.
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Gerhard Richter's Ice (1). I was recently able to see the permanent collection of Gerhard's work at the Museum of the Art Institute here in Chicago and they are just astounding to behold. He is probably my favorite painter still working today.
That's an extraordinary painting. Thanks for introducing it to me.
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That's an extraordinary painting. Thanks for introducing it to me.
It makes me think of Birch Trees.
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Yes, me too!
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(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/44/m_6204b8e5c8987d9315eb4c36fbc7cc8c.jpg)
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Dalai Parton?
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It makes me think of Birch Trees.
My reaction exactly and was going to post that when I saw your exchange. Yes; this is an example of misleading marketing.
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I think this one is going to stick. At least for a while.
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Robert Bly, my favorite poet.
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I hadn't heard of him until you made that poem your signature. I like it.
My avatar is another Gerhard painting. I love how he moves from paintings like the photo-realist work, the abstract paintings and the post-painterly abstract works like this one.
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z245/tapiola/GerhardRichter-25Farben2007.jpg)
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I hadn't heard of him until you made that poem your signature. I like it.
Glad that you like it. I first came across Bly back in 1992 with my grandfather, through one of his men conferences (we had it on tape), being that it is cyber era, I updated it, and posted it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/v/zeb8-KBq4b0
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My needs no introduction: the great Alban Berg.
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I've changed mine to another historic building of Sydney, Cadman's Cottage (1816) (the oldest residential building in the city). My avatar was previously the Queen Victoria Building. I plan to change them now and again, every few months...
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DEAD EARTH: The Vengeance Road
Available in November wherever fine alien/zombie books are sold. ;D
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Edgar Allan Bro.
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Edgar Allan Bro.
lol
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DEAD EARTH: The Vengeance Road
Available in November wherever fine alien/zombie books are sold. ;D
i.e. the Alibrary or Zombookshop.
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i.e. the Alibrary or Zombookshop.
Indeed. 8)
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this is my progeny
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this is my progeny
Hell yeah. \m/
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The man: Ludwig van. 8)
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Nice! Although I was fond of hip Edgar.
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Nice! Although I was fond of hip Edgar.
Yeah, me too. :( Though this is more appropriate for this crowd.
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Limited time Halloween avatar, then back to Schroeder with the records.
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Limited time Halloween avatar, then back to Schroeder with the records.
Very cool, buddy!
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My avatar is a creppy Expressionist painting. I have no idea who painted it.
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Damn. Now I want a Halloween avatar.
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My current favorite actor:
Toshiro Mifune
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My current favorite actor:
Toshiro Mifune
Shogun! Awesome. :)
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Shogun! Awesome. :)
Eff yeah!
8)
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Halloween Mog appearance, with profuse apologies to the weak of stomach ;D
Just because this scene is to be the basis for my halloween costume. I'm making the paper mache alien this week. Photos to follow after the fact!
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Good luck with the alien! I see another movie coming up: Alien vs Mog! :D
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A reflection in the new Art of the Americas wing of the MFA.
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A reflection in the new Art of the Americas wing of the MFA.
Thanks, I had assumed it was you playing your clarinet in a courtyard, somewhere in Beantown.
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Toonces the driving cat, from SNL. Listening to classical music, of course!
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My current one is a work by Lee Bontecou. My first time using art for an avatar, probably last since I'm not an artsy type. :)
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My current one is a work by Lee Bontecou. My first time using art for an avatar, probably last since I'm not an artsy type. :)
I call it the Shattered Glass in Wood.
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My current one is a work by Lee Bontecou. My first time using art for an avatar, probably last since I'm not an artsy type. :)
Looks great--makes a very striking avatar.
--Bruce
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Toonces the driving cat, from SNL. Listening to classical music, of course!
No, Toonces... WATCH OUT!!!
Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Good memories: One of the cats of my Ersatz-parents in Fargo was named Toonces... and she had her kittens in my room while I was staying over at their place for the summer.
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;D
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Jonny Lee Miller as Jordan Chase
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MNDAVEMNDAVE
MNDAVEMNDAVE
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I wanted to use a Tapio-like avatar but decided to use a Shosta avatar. I like him with that funny cap. Must be the 1000th DCSH avatar btw.
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I hate to confuse everybody, since I've been using the oud-maker avatar for literally years now - as long as I can remember - but I took this photo of the organ at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia during my stay in Barcelona, about ten minutes before my camera's battery died ;D , and a picture I took myself of as spectacular and musical a subject as this one, has to make for a cooler avatar... right?
By the way, the colors are like that because of light reflections from nearby stained-glass windows. And as you can see from the attachment, this avatar makes a great desktop background!
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my latest toy, a fretless gourd banjo built by Barry Sholder in GA
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I hate to confuse everybody, since I've been using the oud-maker avatar for literally years now - as long as I can remember - but I took this photo of the organ at the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia during my stay in Barcelona, about ten minutes before my camera's battery died ;D , and a picture I took myself of as spectacular and musical a subject as this one, has to make for a cooler avatar... right?
By the way, the colors are like that because of light reflections from nearby stained-glass windows. And as you can see from the attachment, this avatar makes a great desktop background!
Beautiful, Brian! (I'll miss the oud-maker...)
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my latest toy, a fretless gourd banjo built by Barry Sholder in GA
you can hear it here
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,12400.msg483976.html#msg483976
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Killer B's.
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My avatar is of one of my absolute favorite composers: Charles Koechlin.
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Love the new avatar Dave! It makes us the young Dave and the old Dave. ;D
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Love the new avatar Dave! It makes us the young Dave and the old Dave. ;D
David, your avatar looks about 19. (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/classic/grin.gif)
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David, your avatar looks about 19. (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/Smileys/classic/grin.gif)
Young Brahms: girls are pretty! :)
Old Brahms: I think I'll burn another string quartet. Why can't they be perfect!?! >:(
;D
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Paget's Sherlock Holmes.....this is the avatar that I had when the old GMG closed its doors.
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Old Brahms is letting one rip.
That Sherlock sure looks skeletal!
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Old Brahms is letting one rip.
That Sherlock sure looks skeletal!
Here you go:
http://www.arthes.com/holmes/
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old brahms
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Looks like an amalgam of Ives and Koechlin . . . .
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Looks like an amalgam of Ives and Koechlin . . . .
no
;D
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Lady Ga-Ga and Chewbacca?
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Lady Ga-Ga and Chewbacca?
ha!
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My avatar is of one of my absolute favorite composers: Charles Koechlin.
Ah, that clears that up! :)
8)
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My own image of a duck with fish in the background.
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Brahms in Duluth . . . .
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Brahms in Duluth . . . .
Brahms in Scottsdale.
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Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette
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Oh, I didn't mean to drive you from Falk, Bill!
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Oh, I didn't mean to drive you from Falk, Bill!
Well there was also Brian, just one too many Columbos! ;D
I need a new avatar myself... :)
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Oh, I didn't mean to drive you from Falk, Bill!
Naw....now decided to go with a bit of Shag art for summer grillin' and chillin'. :D
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I need a new avatar myself... :)
May I suggest Columbo? :)
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We need an av of Colombo saying to JS Bach, "Oh, one more question . . . ."
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My avatar is the great Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera.
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Haha yeah Columbo grilling Bach! :D
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We need an av of Colombo saying to JS Bach, "Oh, one more question . . . ."
Columbo: You gonna finish that fugue?
Bach: Be my guest.
*Fugue turns out to be a brand of cigar*
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My new avatar. :)
(http://thebluegrassspecial.com/archive/2011/july2011/imagesjuly2011/haydn2.jpg)
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That could kinda fit Janacek too. :)
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Artwork that we were unable to see while on our trip in Boston:
(http://www.oilpaintings-art.com/Movement/big/JanVermeer-22.jpg)
The Concert: a painting of c. 1664 by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Still has not been recovered. :-\
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Oh did you go to the MFA Bill? Or the Harvard Art Museums? They're great! :)
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<-------- Richard Diebenkorn's "Horizon Ocean View" (1959).(http://197462_1504392384620_1678568165_965437_2682085_n)
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<---- Jacques, my son's Sock Monkey. Not sure why he's French, but I made him to be, he even has a French accent. I was contemplating celebrating my 500 post with a new avatar though.
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
Good series.
Question -- I had actually made this gif avatar months earlier, but (for me) it just appeared. I had actually forgotten about it, but I guess something must have updated on my browser or something. Anyway, was I sporting it this whole time or did something change in the forums to allow it to appear?
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Question -- I had actually made this gif avatar months earlier, but (for me) it just appeared. I had actually forgotten about it, but I guess something must have updated on my browser or something. Anyway, was I sporting it this whole time or did something change in the forums to allow it to appear?
I have not seen you with an avatar in a long time, except it when it said hot linking not allowed! :D
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I have not seen you with an avatar in a long time, except it when it said hot linking not allowed! :D
Aha.
No hot linking allowed-- the 4'33 of avatars.
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At first glance, I thought MN Dave's avatar was of a baseball player. Perhaps a 'Cooperstown' image.
Now I realize it is of a violinist. :D
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Artwork that we were unable to see while on our trip in Boston:
(http://www.oilpaintings-art.com/Movement/big/JanVermeer-22.jpg)
The Concert: a painting of c. 1664 by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Still has not been recovered. :-\
Yup, it sure looks great in my living room, Bill. :D 8)
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Now I realize it is of a violinist. :D
It is. He's a nice fellow if you don't piss him off. ;D
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Artwork that we were unable to see while on our trip in Boston:
(http://www.oilpaintings-art.com/Movement/big/JanVermeer-22.jpg)
The Concert: a painting of c. 1664 by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. Still has not been recovered. :-\
I live round the corner from where Vermeer (must have) lived and worked...
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<---- Jacques, my son's Sock Monkey. Not sure why he's French, but I made him to be, he even has a French accent. I was contemplating celebrating my 500 post with a new avatar though.
I'm glad you didn't change it. Love the Sock Monkey and...well, it's so you ;D
Sarge
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I'm glad you didn't change it. Love the Sock Monkey and...well, it's so you ;D
Sarge
Thanks, Sarge.
Perhaps I'll just change it to another Sock Monkey pic. I would hate to lose the respect of my fellow GMG'rs because I deleted Jacques! :o :)
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Yup, it sure looks great in my living room, Bill. :D 8)
Ah....looks like it disappeared again, Ray! ;D Wallander for now.
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I live round the corner from where Vermeer (must have) lived and worked...
Oh!, pictures if you can.
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At first glance, I thought MN Dave's avatar was of a baseball player. Perhaps a 'Cooperstown' image.
Yup, the spittin' image of 'ol Sam Thompson, right down to the lefty stance!
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Yup, the spittin' image of 'ol Sam Thompson, right down to the lefty stance!
;D
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Mine should be obvious if you were alive during the 20th century :D
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Mine should be obvious if you were alive during the 20th century :D
(http://images1.makefive.com/images/entertainment/celebrity/hottest-celebrity-couples-past-and-present/marilyn-monroe-and-joe-dimaggio-7.jpg)
Ol' Sam had the moustache but Joltin' Joe got the babe!
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That floozie . . . .
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I live round the corner from where Vermeer (must have) lived and worked...
Is Griet still around?
;D
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2mg5g87.jpg)
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Is Griet still around?
;D
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2mg5g87.jpg)
Oh, multiple 'Grieten', this being a university town. My 'view of Delft' can be very lovely....
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Oh, multiple 'Grieten', this being a university town. My 'view of Delft' can be very lovely....
You don't say.
;)
Yes, the centre of Delft is beautiful indeed.
Here, under the 'Olle Grieze' (in Groningen), there's nothing to complain about 'wichter' (grieten) either. And you know what, entering the church of the 'Olle Grieze' is very worthwhile, too: one can find a great organ in there! :)
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You don't say.
;)
Yes, the centre of Delft is beautiful indeed.
Here, under the 'Olle Grieze' (in Groningen), there's nothing to complain about 'wichter' (grieten) either. And you know what, entering the church of the 'Olle Grieze' is very worthwhile, too: one can find a great organ in there! :)
After all that, I wouldn't have expected the organ to be small. ;D
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After all that, I wouldn't have expected the organ to be small. ;D
:P
It's the Alkmaar organ in my avatar at the moment, though (topic duty). Another beauty .... and the grieten over there say cheese. Interesting city.
(http://i54.tinypic.com/pucdw.jpg)
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Well, refreshing to see a brunette instead of the eternal blonde... 8)
I like your avatar! Mine hasn't changed since I joined in July 2007. I think people would be in shock if I changed it.
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Mine hasn't changed since I joined in July 2007. I think people would be in shock if I changed it.
I know I would.
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I know I would.
Said the man who would shock everyone if he didn't change his avatar every week.
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Said the man who would shock everyone if he didn't change his avatar every week.
I get bored. ;D
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I like your avatar! Mine hasn't changed since I joined in July 2007. I think people would be in shock if I changed it.
Could be fatal to some. Please don't change it. I have enough stress in my life.
Sarge
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It's the Alkmaar organ in my avatar at the moment...
I miss Audrey :(
Sarge
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Could be fatal to some. Please don't change it. I have enough stress in my life.
Like losing Audrey, I know. I'll be more considerate than Marc.
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Like losing Audrey, I know. I'll be more considerate than Marc.
Thank you 8)
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Here's my new one!
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I get bored. ;D
Oh my God! I actually thought it was Sarge who posted this!! I think we should all change our avatars to Sarge's. Hee hee!
Dave - you are for sure going to get nuked by Sarge now! :D
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Here's my new one!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Here's my new one!
Bastard
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Bwah-ha-haaa-a-aa-aa...
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:D :D :D
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Bwah-ha-haaa-a-aa-aa...
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/aug11/MN%20Dave%20nuked.jpg)
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(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/aug11/MN%20Dave%20nuked.jpg)
If you nuke Minnesota, I'm probably a goner too. I'm too close! Use the machine gun instead. :D 8)
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Who's MN Dave? ???
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If you nuke Minnesota, I'm probably a goner too. I'm too close! Use the machine gun instead. :D 8)
Too late....
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(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/aug11/MN%20Dave%20nuked.jpg)
That'll teach him. ;D
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Too late....
Where's the nearest bunker!?!?! :'(
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Who's MN Dave? ???
The Anti-Sarge plays dumb.
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Retaliation!
(http://www.kevincharnas.com/uploaded_images/earth-exploding-731529.jpg)
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This is the end of GMG as we know it. :o
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Retaliation!
(http://www.kevincharnas.com/uploaded_images/earth-exploding-731529.jpg)
So endeth the forum of the day....
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ALL YOUR FORUM ARE BELONG TO US!
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2012 has arrived early.
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ALL YOUR FORUM ARE BELONG TO US!
;D :D ;D ..but who is us?
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ALL YOUR FORUM ARE BELONG TO US!
And all we have on board is Stockhausen!
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;D :D ;D ..but who is us?
MN Dave and all Minnesota celebrities, like Jesse Ventura, Prince, Bob Dylan, etc.
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You know, when Dave reverts to his true identity, the last two pages are going to be complete nonsense to late arrivals :D
Sarge
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MN Dave and all Minnesota celebrities, like Jesse Ventura, Prince, Bob Dylan, etc.
I could think of worse worlds 8)
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You know, when Dave reverts to his true identity, the last two pages are going to be complete nonsense to late arrivals :D
Sarge
That's what makes the 'Identify your Avatar' thread so wacky. I wish it would retain the avatars people had for the specific posts they made.
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That's what makes the 'Identify your Avatar' thread so wacky. I wish it would retain the avatars people had for the specific posts they made.
Alas. But we had our fun!
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Yep, I had fun. Thanks, guys.
Now, for a change...
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Great Cthulhu!
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This image is from a forthcoming antho in which I have a novella. :)
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Nice pic. And congrats on the publication, of course!
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Nice pic. And congrats on the publication, of course!
Thank you, sir.
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This image is from a forthcoming antho in which I have a novella. :)
Cool...
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I echo the sentiments, congrats on the publication Dave! :)
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Cool...
In this novella, the building where the orchestra plays is called "Henning Hall." ;D
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I echo the sentiments, congrats on the publication Dave! :)
Thanks, Ray.
That means you're all buying one? Right? Guys...?
;)
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No doubt I'll be seeing it on Facebook...
In this novella, the building where the orchestra plays is called "Henning Hall." ;D
Nice one!!
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Thanks, Ray.
That means you're all buying one? Right? Guys...?
;)
Sure! Where can I get it, neighbor?
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No doubt I'll be seeing it on Facebook...
Oh, no doubt at all. :P
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Sure! Where can I get it, neighbor?
Probably everywhere online, once it's released.
Any time now...
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Probably everywhere online, once it's released.
Any time now...
OK, please let me know when dude! 8)
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That means you're all buying one? Right? Guys...?
I support all forum endeavors: Andy, Cato...I'll buy Johan's book when an English translation is available.
Sarge
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OK, please let me know when dude! 8)
Will do, Ray. If you want a signed one, we can work something out. :)
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I support all forum endeavors: Andy, Cato...I'll buy Johan's book when an English translation is available.
Sarge
8)
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Will do, Ray. If you want a signed one, we can work something out. :)
Most excellent....even better! :)
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I support all forum endeavors: Andy, Cato...I'll buy Johan's book when an English translation is available.
Sarge
Aah... Who knows, a German translation might be there sooner and Mrs Rock will be able to read it! ;D
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Aah... Who knows, a German translation might be there sooner and Mrs Rock will be able to read it! ;D
Let's see this book! Link!
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Let's see this book! Link!
Not so quick. First a Dutch publisher must take the bait. Two of them - big houses - are reading a big chunk of my novel. I am waiting for their reaction. I am not in the infamous 'slush pile', because I have people 'inside' who believe in my work. They recommended me. I am now finishing part 1. Next year I'll finish Part 2. I hope Part 1 will be published then, too. And Part 2 a year later (2013). Ergo: a translation can come in 2014 at the earliest!
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Not so quick. First a Dutch publisher must take the bait. Two of them - big houses - are reading a big chunk of my novel. I am waiting for their reaction. I am not in the infamous 'slush pile', because I have people 'inside' who believe in my work. They recommended me. I am now finishing part 1. Next year I'll finish Part 2. I hope Part 1 will be published then, too. And Part 2 a year later (2013). Ergo: a translation can come in 2014 at the earliest!
Oh, okay. :) I'm sure it will be well worth the wait.
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Aah... Who knows, a German translation might be there sooner and Mrs Rock will be able to read it! ;D
I could read it too, at a snail's pace, and with the help of LEO :D
Sarge
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Where's the nearest bunker!?!?! :'(
(http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/ic/blogs/channelsurfing/uploaded_images/archie-739720.jpg)
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(http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/ic/blogs/channelsurfing/uploaded_images/archie-739720.jpg)
Duck and cover :D
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Oh, okay. :) I'm sure it will be well worth the wait.
There are unlucky people waiting much longer. I began in 1996, age 35... It's a very ambitious book, my very own 'Gothic'.
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(http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/ic/blogs/channelsurfing/uploaded_images/archie-739720.jpg)
;D
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It's a very ambitious book, my very own 'Gothic'.
Let's hope you don't have to wait forty years for a first performance.
Sarge
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There are unlucky people waiting much longer. I began in 1996, age 35... It's a very ambitious book, my very own 'Gothic'.
Excellent.
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Let's hope you don't have to wait forty years for a first performance.
There are aspects about Brian I don't much care for... ;D
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It's the Alkmaar organ in my avatar at the moment.
I miss Audrey :(
:'(
This remark made me cry. I like it when a man gets sensitive. I bet Audrey feels the same about that.
(http://i55.tinypic.com/24y62cg.jpg)
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A gunslinger dude from the iPhone shooter game Westbang.
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It's an integral - and not even a proper one!
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My avatar is the underrated Florent Schmitt whose recording catalog is downright pitiful, but I'm glad that he has been given some performances on disc.
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I like your avatar! Mine hasn't changed since I joined in July 2007. I think people would be in shock if I changed it.
I admit, when I first saw that avatar I thought that he was almost rictus in his grimmacing stare, but in larger versions the pic is far warmer. Strange.
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I admit, when I first saw that avatar I thought that he was almost rictus in his grimmacing stare, but in larger versions the pic is far warmer. Strange.
Perhaps the subconscious cues you pick up from the larger version are below the perception threshold in the small one. :D
I now find myself wondering if someone's done research to quantify that threshold for pictures of faces.
(It's pretty likely someone has!)
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Click for full-size
(http://i.imgur.com/jyRZe.png)
It's around the 5th-6th when smile becomes a snarl, I think it's due to the eyes becoming too small to focus on. Also the shadows replace real shapes, and give the perception that the face is in a more angular expression.
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The King of Cups (one of the four "Minor Arcana" suits of the standard Tarot) as drawn by an artist named Brian Williams, part of a deck published as "Renaissance Tarot". I've had this deck for a number of years, and it's very well done, the artwork drawing on the imagery and style of 16th century Italy, and each Minor Arcana suit is assigned to an Italian city--Cups, being linked to the element of Water, naturally was assigned to Venice, so the King is wearing the Doge's cap and the building serving as his throne is the Doge's Palace.
I may change to another version of this card from another suit in a little while, but I'll let this one stand long enough for folks to see it. I'm using the King of Cups because it is linked to the three decans (decan--10 degree section of the Zodiac) which include my birthday. I might also use the Nine of Cups, which is linked to my birthday's specific decan.
BTW, this is motivated by a renewed interest in collecting Tarot decks that was set off by a discussion in--where else?--The Diner.
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The King of Cups (one of the four "Minor Arcana" suits of the standard Tarot) as drawn by an artist named Brian Williams, part of a deck published as "Renaissance Tarot". I've had this deck for a number of years, and it's very well done, the artwork drawing on the imagery and style of 16th century Italy, and each Minor Arcana suit is assigned to an Italian city--Cups, being linked to the element of Water, naturally was assigned to Venice, so the King is wearing the Doge's cap and the building serving as his throne is the Doge's Palace.
I may change to another version of this card from another suit in a little while, but I'll let this one stand long enough for folks to see it.
BTW, this is motivated by a renewed interest in collecting Tarot decks that was set off by a discussion in--where else?--The Diner.
I have a deck here in my desk drawer. I tried readings for a while but freaked out my wife too often. ;D
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The King of Cups (one of the four "Minor Arcana" suits of the standard Tarot) as drawn by an artist named Brian Williams, part of a deck published as "Renaissance Tarot". I've had this deck for a number of years, and it's very well done, the artwork drawing on the imagery and style of 16th century Italy, and each Minor Arcana suit is assigned to an Italian city--Cups, being linked to the element of Water, naturally was assigned to Venice, so the King is wearing the Doge's cap and the building serving as his throne is the Doge's Palace.
I may change to another version of this card from another suit in a little while, but I'll let this one stand long enough for folks to see it. I'm using the King of Cups because it is linked to the three decans (decan--10 degree section of the Zodiac) which include my birthday. I might also use the Nine of Cups, which is linked to my birthday's specific decan.
BTW, this is motivated by a renewed interest in collecting Tarot decks that was set off by a discussion in--where else?--The Diner.
That was because of yours truly! :D 8)
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Click for full-size
It's around the 5th-6th when smile becomes a snarl, I think it's due to the eyes becoming too small to focus on. Also the shadows replace real shapes, and give the perception that the face is in a more angular expression.
I see what you mean... But I never knew my innocuous avatar could cause so much anguish and research! Neither did I ever notice anything menacing in the old man's face before. Perhaps a certificate is in order, to protect youthful visitors... !
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I see what you mean... But I never knew my innocuous avatar could cause so much anguish and research! Neither did I ever notice anything menacing in the old man's face before. Perhaps a certificate is in order, to protect youthful visitors... !
Beware of Stern Old Brian From A Distance?
Warning and puzzle, 2-in-1.
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Beware of Stern Old Brian From A Distance?
Warning and puzzle, 2-in-1.
;D
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I don't know what my avatar is. It was one of the default avatars under the "art" section and I thought it looked pretty.
I may change it at some point.
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I don't know what my avatar is.
Kazimir Malevich - The Knife Grinder
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Kazimir Malevich - The Knife Grinder
You can always count on Milos. 8)
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One of my favorite classical music villains - Rothbart
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My avatars have been changing a bit, but right now it's the incredible Shostakovich.
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My avatars have been changing a bit, but right now it's the incredible Shostakovich.
Are you sure about that? ;D
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My avatars have been changing a bit, but right now it's the incredible Shostakovich.
You change it so frequently, that "identifying" it here becomes pointless. :D
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Alfred Pennyworth, who I'm sure listens to classical.
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Alfred Pennyworth, who I'm sure listens to classical.
How can you be so sure? I can picture Alfred listening to some big band jazz from the 40s. This is as wild as he gets though. He's able to let his hair down, so to speak, with this music. :D
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<----------- still the Monkey. ;D
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As for Greg's request...
<--------------------- It's still Charlie the K (for Karl). :D
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How can you be so sure? I can picture Alfred listening to some big band jazz from the 40s. This is as wild as he gets though. He's able to let his hair down, so to speak, with this music. :D
I'm sure there's some nerdy fella out there that knows the answer.
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The great Richard Wagner :D
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Director John Ford, on location.
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<----------------- According to the 1931 Soviet authorities, this man was "Especially dangerous on the musical front in the present class war". 8)
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Karl or Brian....do recognize the lady in my avatar? ;)
(http://www.altfg.com/Stars/t/they-drive-by-night-lupino-bogart.jpg)
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Karl or Brian....do recognize the lady in my avatar? ;)
(http://www.altfg.com/Stars/t/they-drive-by-night-lupino-bogart.jpg)
Bill - is this just a 2 man contest? The actress looks like Gloria Grahame, maybe in The Big Heat? My guess - Dave :)
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Karl or Brian....do recognize the lady in my avatar? ;)
(http://www.altfg.com/Stars/t/they-drive-by-night-lupino-bogart.jpg)
It's Mad Dog Earle's babe Marie!
Ida Lupino
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It's Mad Dog Earle's babe Marie!
Ida Lupino
BINGO.....you da' man.....Dave, we have some parting gifts, I believe Yani cds ;D....now, what is the Karl and Brian connection?
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It's me playing my new guitar. (I'm really playing Segovia's transcription of Bach's Chaconne in D Minor.)
A larger view:
(http://www.guitarrum.net/sideview.jpg)
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My current avatar is my natural progression from the opening bars of the Turangalila symphony.
(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=31009;type=avatar)
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My current avatar is my natural progression from the opening bars of the Turangalila symphony.
(http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=31009;type=avatar)
;D
I changed the beautiful organ of the Laurenskerk in Alkmaar, NL (made by Van Hagerbeer & F.C. Schnitger) into the beautiful actress of Italian descent, living in France and also sister-in-law to a certain Nicolas Sarkozy: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. She's probably (I'm still struggling with my Top 3 ;D) my favourite actress, for what it's worth.
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Mine is Mahler. :)
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BINGO.....you da' man.....Dave, we have some parting gifts, I believe Yani cds ;D....now, what is the Karl and Brian connection?
Sorry, I recognize the name as a one-time Columbo guest star but I don't remember the episode! Was it the one about the football team owner with a gambling issue?
EDIT: Oh, the Johnny Cash episode! Love that one.
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Sorry, I recognize the name as a one-time Columbo guest star but I don't remember the episode! Was it the one about the football team owner with a gambling issue?
EDIT: Oh, the Johnny Cash episode! Love that one.
You got it....she was two episodes. Here she is a bit later. I recognize her more here:
(http://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/inside_out/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/maturelupino.sm_.jpg)
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Some people call it a groundhog. I call it a woodchuck.
Not sure if he's a keeper... It's difficult capturing the MN Dave essence in one image. :P
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Not sure if he's a keeper...
You're joking, right? That critter will be gone before the next sun-up ;D
Sarge
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You're joking, right? That critter will be gone before the next sun-up ;D
Sarge
Heeey... ;D
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Sarge was right! $:)
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Sarge was right! $:)
Damn...the critter didn't even make it to sundown :D
Sarge
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Damn...the critter didn't even make it to sundown :D
Sarge
Should take a poll of who will change their avatar first....Mirror Image, MN Dave, or me. ;D Right now, sporting a crop from a favored set:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51R4BjiBCAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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David with the W, when you post without an avatar, I feel that you're talking from behind a curtain.
Especially after the semi-piercing look from Glass one from the recent past (pun unintended). ;D
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David with the W, when you post without an avatar, I feel that you're talking from behind a curtain.
Especially after the semi-piercing look from Glass one from the recent past (pun unintended). ;D
Glass' gaze was too piercing, I felt self conscious! :D I need to find another avatar but I haven't decided yet. :)
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Decided on a complete and total revamp. This is from a group of icons I found on Livejournal, which featured Ludwig, Gustav and Dmitri done in SouthPark style.
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Glass' gaze was too piercing, I felt self conscious! :D I need to find another avatar but I haven't decided yet. :)
Much better.
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Yeah inspired by Jeffrey's avatar... and the fact that I've been watching alot of South Park recently. ;D
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Bub from Day of the Dead.
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A composer so obscure, that if you listen to his music, the world knows you're cool ; )
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A composer so obscure, that if you listen to his music, the world knows you're cool ; )
Hm. I don't think he composed anything. I guess that would make him pretty obscure. ;D
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My av, not your'n, goof! : )
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My av, not your'n, goof! : )
OH!
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I say that, but it surprises me now and again to find out that there's another musician (with whom I've not worked) who has heard of me . . . not that it's getting me anywhere.
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A composer so obscure, that if you listen to his music, the world knows you're cool ; )
I almost included you in my list, Karl, but then Dave specifically said "lesser" composers and I couldn't lump you in with those losers.
Sarge
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I have changed my personal text. ;D
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I have changed my personal text. ;D
;D :D ;D
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DSCH studying a score.
Huh? Not original? ;D
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DSCH studying a score.
Huh? Not original? ;D
Great avatar, Dave! ;)
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Great avatar, Dave! ;)
That's Greg! :D
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(* chortle *)
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That's Greg! :D
;D
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Galactus is the famed "Devourer of Worlds" in the Marvel Universe. His powers are nearly omnipotent. He has appointed a number of entities as his Heralds, imbuing them with the Power Cosmic. He uses energy from the core of planets and universal sources to sustain himself.
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Some old guy. ;D
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The American Prairie. Copland's music brings me there each time I listen to it.
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Ok, got rid of the DSCH pic studying a score, seemed to get confusing :P
This is Marcello Mastroianni from Fellini's film 8 1/2
My sock monkey days are over.
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A watershed moment!
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A watershed moment!
Thank you, thank you. 8)
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My sock monkey days are over.
I'm devastated. I loved your sock monkey idea - unique and memorable. Don't be seduced by the dark side!! :)
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I'm devastated. I loved your sock monkey idea - unique and memorable. Don't be seduced by the dark side!! :)
Just this post alone has got me thinking Banana, maybe I just needed a Sock Monkey update?
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I'm devastated. I loved your sock monkey idea - unique and memorable. Don't be seduced by the dark side!! :)
haha, that didn't take long, got to thinking that I'm the only sock monkey around here and if any forum deserves a sock monkey, it's GMG!
Dont have access to my own pics at the moment, so here's one I pulled from the web.
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A watershed moment!
LOL
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That's Greg! :D
:o Oh dear, not again....:D
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haha, that didn't take long, got to thinking that I'm the only sock monkey around here and if any forum deserves a sock monkey, it's GMG!
Dont have access to my own pics at the moment, so here's one I pulled from the web.
(http://blogs.powerreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Thumbs-Up.JPG)
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haha, that didn't take long, got to thinking that I'm the only sock monkey
Thank god I didn't see your avatar change to something other than a sock monkey. I might not have survived it. Dude, you are Monkey Greg...don't ever try to change!
Sarge
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Thank god I didn't see your avatar change to something other than a sock monkey. I might not have survived it. Dude, you are Monkey Greg...don't ever try to change!
Sarge
Thank you, Sarge, (sniffle) you really know how to cut to the core of me. :'(
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Thank god I didn't see your avatar change to something other than a sock monkey. I might not have survived it. Dude, you are Monkey Greg...don't ever try to change!
Sarge
Makes me wonder if I should go back to the Koechlin avatar...
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minnesota gray wolf
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(When Dave finally identifies his av . . . chances are a fresh change is imminent ; )
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Makes me wonder if I should go back to the Koechlin avatar...
John, you will always be that Koechlin avatar in my mind, even if we ever meet I will think, "Where's your long beard and pipe?"
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(When Dave finally identifies his av . . . chances are a fresh change is imminent ; )
not this time
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Contrarian! : )
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(When Dave finally identifies his av . . . chances are a fresh change is imminent ; )
not this time
I'll be sorry to see that one go....but go it will.
And so that future generations will know what I'm talking about, it's this avatar:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/jan11/avatar_6920_1331086700.png)
Sarge
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Makes me wonder if I should go back to the Koechlin avatar...
You should definitely use a Koechlin avatar. I suggest this one ;)
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/jan11/kalki-koechlin.jpg)
Sarge
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I'll be sorry to see that one go....but go it will.
And so that future generations will know what I'm talking about, it's this avatar:
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/jan11/avatar_6920_1331086700.png)
Sarge
Marry, well bethought, Sarge!
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;D
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Dave would you have you believe that he's just a harmless wolf... but he is really THE THING!
(http://www.geeksofdoom.com/GoD/img/2011/10/2011-10-11-thething1982.jpg)
;D
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:D
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William Colby.
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William Colby.
Interesting...
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Interesting...
A personal hero of mine.
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A personal hero of mine.
This is the first I've heard of him, so all I can tell is he was a competent CIA director (?) and died mysteriously, possibly killed by disgruntled CIA agents. Why do you admire him?
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This is the first I've heard of him, so all I can tell is he was a competent CIA director (?) and died mysteriously, possibly killed by disgruntled CIA agents. Why do you admire him?
He also made one of the most kick-ass video games. I admire him for his pragmatism, and his ability to steer the agency through perhaps its most troubled times at that date. I admired how prescient he was about events and how he wasn't co-opted by politicians. To sum up, he's probably the most effective director the CIA has ever had. I also adored his openness, but I could go on.
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He also made one of the most kick-ass video games. I admire him for his pragmatism, and his ability to steer the agency through perhaps its most troubled times at that date. I admired how prescient he was about events and how he wasn't co-opted by politicians. To sum up, he's probably the most effective director the CIA has ever had. I also adored his openness, but I could go on.
Just also searched Colby, wasn't familiar with him...but have to ask, what video game did he make?
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Just also searched Colby, wasn't familiar with him...but have to ask, what video game did he make?
Spycraft: The Great Game
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Spycraft: The Great Game
Never heard of it, but then again I wasn't into PC games until around 2000s, sounds good though...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycraft:_The_Great_Game
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Never heard of it, but then again I wasn't into PC games until around 2000s, sounds good though...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycraft:_The_Great_Game
It's my second favorite game. Although, for it to hold replay value you have to really space them out. Hell, just last year I learmed of an entirely new scenario.
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Well, mine is what it says under the picture - Akseli Gallén-Kallela's painting Kullervo's curse from 1899 - from the time of the Russification of Finland.
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Some dude with a sword.
My final avatar!!! EVER!!!!
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Some dude with a sword.
My final avatar!!! EVER!!!!
Are you sure? Awfully short....sword. :)
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Are you sure? Awfully short....sword. :)
The romans had awfully short swords and look what happened to...
Never mind. ;D
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My final avatar!!! EVER!!!!
Right ::)
This should be your next avatar:
(http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/pinocchio.jpg)
Sarge
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Right ::)
This should be your next avatar:
(http://cdn.qualitylogoproducts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/what-choo-talkin-bout-willis.jpg)
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Some dude with a sword.
My final avatar!!! EVER!!!!
Mine as well....or at least until Dave changes his. ;D
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I won't change mine. Leo is one dangerous cat!
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I won't change mine. Leo is one dangerous cat!
Ah....I've always wondered why he was kept behind bars. Now I understand.
Sarge
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I don't think I can remain blue for long. There's a double meaning in that.
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Mine as well....or at least until Dave changes his. ;D
the last avatar ever!!! 0:)
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I don't think I can remain blue for long. There's a double meaning in that.
Well, being the jazz fan that you are, nothing wrong with being kind of blue. :D
Thank you, thank you....I'm here all week.
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For full disclosure:
That fry pan of mine I am holding contains 4 egg whites (1 point) and 2 oz. Boar's Head 42% lower sodium branded deluxe ham (1 point). My drinking tin is coffee with 2 tbsp. of half and half and a 1 tbsp. of C&H Pure Cane Sugar (2 points all mixed).
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It's none other than the world-famous violinist, timpanist, and soprano, Beaker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA)
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I don't think I can remain blue for long. There's a double meaning in that.
Fixed.
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I like your solution, but . . . .
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I like your solution, but . . . .
Gettin' there, but I'd like to see something in a Mondrian...
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I don't think I can remain blue for long.
No - eventually you'll go green. :)
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I think I just witnessed MI go through four different photos of Tippett during the last fifteen minutes. Dave has met his match, or dare I say, his successor!
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I think I just witnessed MI go through four different photos of Tippett during the last fifteen minutes. Dave has met his match, or dare I say, his successor!
:P I've finally settled on one...
How do you like this one, Nav? I cropped the picture from the original which quite large.
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How do you like this one, Nav? I cropped the picture from the original which quite large.
Quite nice a photo. :)
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Quite nice a photo. :)
Thanks, I'll keep this one awhile.
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Just for today....Herbert von Karajan, the greatest! ;D
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Having finally got around to it, my first choice was accidental - just something to do with music making. Still, she may be playing her mandolin with ten thumbs, you never know and Morisot can't tell us. :)
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Just for today....Herbert von Karajan, the greatest! ;D
Booo! :D
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Just for today....Herbert von Karajan, the greatest after Bernstein! ;D
;D
Jokes aside, Karajan certainly is amazing. I am absolutely loving his Ring Cycle at the moment, extremely passionate and powerfully expressive performances!
So yes, happy birthday, Karajan!
EDIT: I'm sure it's extremely obvious who my avatar is! ;)
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EDIT: I'm sure it's extremely obvious who my avatar is! ;)
Mine too. ;)
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Booo! :D
;D
Jokes aside, Karajan certainly is amazing. I am absolutely loving his Ring Cycle at the moment, extremely passionate and powerfully expressive performances!
So yes, happy birthday, Karajan!
EDIT: I'm sure it's extremely obvious who my avatar is! ;)
Zurück vom Karajan! :D
Well, Bernstein was certainly amazing, superb....but Karajan was absolutely a genius, I haven't got enough words to describe his musical greatness!
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Zurück vom Karajan! :D
Well, Bernstein was certainly amazing, superb....but Karajan was absolutely a genius, I haven't got enough words to describe his musical greatness!
I don't think Karajan was a genius at all. I think the term genius should be used sparingly. Wagner a genius? Yes, I think so. Do you honestly think Karajan occupies the same kind of thought Wagner did? I think Bernstein had more know-how and was more versatile than Karajan but I wouldn't even call Bernstein a genius either because he simply wasn't. He was highly intelligent and a knowledgeable musician, but no genius. Let's reserve this word when it can actually be applied correctly.
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Zurück vom Karajan! :D
Well, Bernstein was certainly amazing, superb....but Karajan was absolutely a genius, I haven't got enough words to describe his musical greatness!
:)
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I don't think Karajan was a genius at all. I think the term genius should be used sparingly. Wagner a genius? Yes, I think so. Do you honestly think Karajan occupies the same kind of thought Wagner did? I think Bernstein had more know-how and was more versatile than Karajan but I wouldn't even call Bernstein a genius either because he simply wasn't. He was highly intelligent and a knowledgeable musician, but no genius. Let's reserve this word when it can actually be applied correctly.
Of course I don't, but I think it's not right to compare Karajan with Wagner, because they were two different types of musicians: Wagner was composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist, though mainly famous as a composer; instead Karajan was just a conductor. Karajan was certainly a master in conduting and interpreting works, he was able to extract a marvelous sound from every orchestra he led; from his performances I can really perceive all the expressive power, intesity and emotions the composers conveyed with their music. Don't you think he could be consider a genius for this?
Obviously, it's just an opinion of mine....
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Of course I don't, but I think it's not right to compare Karajan with Wagner, because they were two different types of musicians: Wagner was composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist, though mainly famous as a composer; instead Karajan was just a conductor. Karajan was certainly a master in conduting and interpreting works, he was able to extract a marvelous sound from every orchestra he led; from his performances I can really perceive all the expressive power, intensity and emotions the composers conveyed with their music. Don't you think he could be consider a genius for this?
Obviously, it's just an opinion of mine....
I don't think it was unusual to compare Wagner and Karajan because of the context in which we're using to discuss them, which, in this particular discussion, you used the word genius to discribe Karajan and I countered that with who I consider to be a real genius.
I usually associate a genius as someone who possesses exceptional creativity and originality. A conductor is certainly an important aspect of classical music, but I don't think they should be labelled as geniuses for the simple fact that they didn't write the music. I simply refer to them as good musicians.
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I don't think it was unusual to compare Wagner and Karajan because of the context in which we're using to discussing them, which, in this particular discussion, you used the word genius to discribe Karajan and I countered that with who I consider to be a real genius.
I usually associate a genius as someone who possess exceptional creativity and originality. A conductor is certainly an important aspect of classical music, but I don't think they should be labelled as geniuses for the simple fact that they didn't write the music. I simply refer to them as good musicians.
I mean this as a completely "discussion" type question. Where would Bernstein be then? Genius when he composed, and Clark Kent on the podium? :)
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I mean this as a completely "discussion" type question. Where would Bernstein be then? Genius when he composed, and Clark Kent on the podium? :)
I think Bernstein was a highly intelligent musician but he was no genius. I don't think his music is particularly noteworthy, but he did compose some good works in his time.
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;D
Jokes aside, Karajan certainly is amazing. I am absolutely loving his Ring Cycle at the moment, extremely passionate and powerfully expressive performances!
So yes, happy birthday, Karajan!
EDIT: I'm sure it's extremely obvious who my avatar is! ;)
Just wait until you get to Gotterdammerung, the best of him and the best of his Ring. I love the ventelated forward sound and a lot of the singing is marvelous.
Mike
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Booo! :D
By the way, your post reminded me a comment I saw on youtube: I was listening to Bernstein's Beethoven No.9, and as three users voted the video down, someone commented: "Three people must be Karajan's fans".
I don't think it was unusual to compare Wagner and Karajan because of the context in which we're using to discuss them, which, in this particular discussion, you used the word genius to discribe Karajan and I countered that with who I consider to be a real genius.
I usually associate a genius as someone who possesses exceptional creativity and originality. A conductor is certainly an important aspect of classical music, but I don't think they should be labelled as geniuses for the simple fact that they didn't write the music. I simply refer to them as good musicians.
Me too, but I don't completely agree about conductors; the genius can show itself in many differrent ways. I think you need exceptional creativity, originality and orchestral brilliance to interpret and conduct a piece beautifully as well, otherwise how could the expressive power and the strenght of music, in their purest form, leave the score and deeply touch the audience. Of course, not every conductor could be so, so effective to deserve to be called "genius".
Anyway, there are just three conductors I consider geniuses: Karajan, Bernstein and Carlos Kleiber.
I'm sorry we have different opinions about that, John; but it's an interesting discussion. :)
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Just wait until you get to Gotterdammerung, the best of him and the best of his Ring. I love the ventelated forward sound and a lot of the singing is marvelous.
Mike
I am very excited about it, Mike! :)
Concerning the 'genius' discussion... I think conductors could be called geniuses too, but less often than a composer could be. I would certainly call Bernstein a genius for example. And nowadays, perhaps Nelsons is heading towards that title too... but it's only conductors that have a completely different, original, and of course brilliant, idea towards the music they perform and those who convey it in the most convincing way to their orchestras and audiences that I would apply the term 'genius' to.
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Concerning the 'genius' discussion... I think conductors could be called geniuses too, but less often than a composer could be. I would certainly call Bernstein a genius for example. And nowadays, perhaps Nelsons is heading towards that title too... but it's only conductors that have a completely different, original, and of course brilliant, idea towards the music they perform and those who convey it in the most convincing way to their orchestras and audiences that I would apply the term 'genius' to.
Well said Daniel, I certainly agree :)
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Well said Daniel, I certainly agree :)
Thank you, Ilaria! :)
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I also agree about Nelsons; he's still too young to be considered a genius, but he's certainly on the right way.
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I am very excited about it, Mike! :)
Concerning the 'genius' discussion... I think conductors could be called geniuses too, but less often than a composer could be. I would certainly call Bernstein a genius for example. And nowadays, perhaps Nelsons is heading towards that title too... but it's only conductors that have a completely different, original, and of course brilliant, idea towards the music they perform and those who convey it in the most convincing way to their orchestras and audiences that I would apply the term 'genius' to.
I am not sure about genius. I have not tried ever to tie down just what it means. For sure Bernstein was protean and his learning both deep and wide. I did watch a documentry on Nelsons being engaged as the Brimingham orchestra conductor and for sure some hard bitten and experienced orchestral players would clearly buy in to the idea of genius.
Mike
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Me too, but I don't completely agree about conductors; the genius can show itself in many differrent ways. I think you need exceptional creativity, originality and orchestral brilliance to interpret and conduct a piece beautifully as well, otherwise how could the expressive power and the strenght of music, in their purest form, leave the score and deeply touch the audience. Of course, not every conductor could be so, so effective to deserve to be called "genius".
Anyway, there are just three conductors I consider geniuses: Karajan, Bernstein and Carlos Kleiber.
I'm sorry we have different opinions about that, John; but it's an interesting discussion. :)
I thought about this later on last night after this discussion kind of fizzled out and I have to say that I guess a musician could be considered a genius. I mean, again, I do want to use this term minimally as I can because not every classical musician is a genius. That said, it does take a considerable gift to conduct an orchestra and get them to do what you want to do creatively with the music.
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I think the distinction should be made between creative genius and interpretive genius. Composers, writers, painters are (or can be) creative geniuses; conductors, musicians, actors can be interpretive geniuses. For myself, I'd rather be a second-rate creator than a first-rate interpreter.
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I don't agree there. I would rather be working with the best of it than struggling with something second rate. But neither is an actual option, so it is not really contentious.
Mike
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David Addington
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I just realized that I don't have an avatar, I should fix that! :D
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Moar penguines!
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Moar penguines!
Monkey will eat penguins.
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I'm a penguin; eat me!
(http://quizkerala.com/club/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/357.png?w=275)
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I'm a penguin; eat me!
(http://quizkerala.com/club/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/357.png?w=275)
:o
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Monkey will eat penguins.
Lol....too funny...
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Still the Monkey-Greg, but now a face that my son drew. He called this his "angry face", not bad for a 2-year old.
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Teen-Wolf!
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Teen-Wolf!
I was going to say Chewbacca. :)
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I was going to say Chewbacca. :)
I actually thought that also when I first saw this, but I'm thinking because of the sunglasses it's Mr. J. Fox himself.
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I actually thought that also when I first saw this, but I'm thinking because of the sunglasses it's Mr. J. Fox himself.
Hmmm...well Teen-Wolf was a lucky guy (i. e. the dressing room scene). 8) Chewbacca never got lucky or at least not on film. ;)
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Hmmm...well Teen-Wolf was a lucky guy (i. e. the dressing room scene). 8) Chewbacca never got lucky or at least not on film. ;)
True, Teen-Wolf won basketball games, got a starring role in a school play and bought beer illegally. Sounds like a killer high school year!
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True, Teen-Wolf won basketball games, got a starring role in a school play and bought beer illegally. Sounds like a killer high school year!
Lucky bastard! :P
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Sorry, couldn't stand that Teen Wolf image anymore.
So now it's the Daleks, To Victory!
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peek
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My avatar is a picture of Steve Coogan playing the "air bass" in I'm Alan Partridge. One of my favorite moments of the show!
Here's the scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lecytazY6n4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lecytazY6n4)
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James Bama's Doc Savage.
He is also known for his western art:
(http://jessicacrabtree.com/journal1/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/young_plains_indian_bama.jpg)
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Spectral Warrior
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This is how I intend to pose for all future photos of myself.
Changed it again. ;D
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This is how I intend to pose for all future photos of myself.
Changed it again. ;D
What was the first avatar? With the man and umbrella?
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What was the first avatar? With the man and umbrella?
Yes. Alkan.
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Yes. Alkan.
A GMG member (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=profile;u=172), in fact.
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A GMG member (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?action=profile;u=172), in fact.
oops ;D
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My avatar is "Dirty Bastard" beer, brewed by Founders brewery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It is billed as 'Scotch style ale' - although the word 'Scotch' is not in the 'Scots' vocabulary. Nevertheless, I am intruiged by the beer...it is not available in Scotland, but young Scots drinkers would most definitely be attracted to such a product...but it is not here. Time to make some money out of this methinks..! I'll contact their distribution dept!
(http://foundersbrewing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Dirty-Bastard.png)
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Michigan is known for its dirty bastards.
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METROPOLIS, robot Hel.
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METROPOLIS, robot Hel.
Complete coolness.
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I had one of these images as an avatar for a while:
(http://www.polaine.com/playpen/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/metropolis.jpg)
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Tempting after Dave (Sonics) reviews of Blu-ray for old films.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OJUddbiEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
and at 42% off at Amazon.
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Tempting after Dave (Sonics) reviews of Blu-ray for old films.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51OJUddbiEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
and at 42% off at Amazon.
Don't hesitate, it's worth every penny, even if you already own two copies on DVD like me. :)
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I had one of these images as an avatar for a while:
(http://www.polaine.com/playpen/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/metropolis.jpg)
That's a good one. I love the cinematography from older black and white films.
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That's a good one. I love the cinematography from older black and white films.
Indeed. I will have to snag a copy. One of my favorites for "looks" was the The Third Man.
(http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/blog/Image/thirdman.jpg)
(http://www.english-online.at/entertainment/third-man/martins-at-prater-ferris-wheel.jpg)
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Indeed. I will have to snag a copy. One of my favorites for "looks" was the The Third Man.
(http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/blog/Image/thirdman.jpg)
(http://www.english-online.at/entertainment/third-man/martins-at-prater-ferris-wheel.jpg)
Great choice, and a great soundtrack.
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Casa de mi Padre (2012) w/ Will Farrell - well this was on my 'to see' list, so streamed from Amazon last night; in Spanish w/ sub-titles - Farrell plays the son of a Mexican rancher and except for a few moments speaks Spanish - held my interest (by a thread) to the end (fortunately less than 90 mins) - the gal was HOT! I'd probably do 2+* on a scale of 5; the Amazonians average out to 3+*; and IMDB only 5.5/10 - bombed on Rotten Tomatoes @ 45% (5.4/10) - now, I've never been a Will Farrell fan (i.e. in the movies) and his performance in this film might be a hint! :)
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51isbq5HXjL._SX500_.jpg)
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METROPOLIS, robot Hel.
Nice picture :)
Fritz Lang is a very fine director, I love his series of films Die Nibelungen.
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Fritz Lang is a very fine director, I love his series of films Die Nibelungen.
Same here, really good films.
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Tommy Traddles. :)
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Not sure if you caught this, Sarge?
(http://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/gallery.jpg)
RIP Joe Kubert
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/joe-kubert-comic-book-artist-sgt-rock-tor-hawkman-dead-85-article-1.1135360
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Bela from the old Aurora model kit with James Bama art:
(http://image.timepassagesnostalgia.com/watermarked/imagesg8/g819dracula.jpg)
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Bela from the old Aurora model kit with James Bama art:
(http://image.timepassagesnostalgia.com/watermarked/imagesg8/g819dracula.jpg)
That's awesome, do you own that?
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That's awesome, do you own that?
I love the old Aurora kit art. The art was always better than the kit. I have a reissue....part of my collection here:
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa35/BillandLinda/UniversalShots002.jpg?t=1277686666)
Older photo. It has expanded since to three walls+ worth, but you get the idea. ;D
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I love the old Aurora kit art. The art was always better than the kit. I have a reissue....part of my collection here:
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa35/BillandLinda/UniversalShots002.jpg?t=1277686666)
Older photo. It has expanded since to three walls+ worth, but you get the idea. ;D
That's freakin awesome!
Which is your favorite of the Universal monster films?
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That's freakin awesome!
Which is your favorite of the Universal monster films?
I think the best done, and I mean this sincerely, was Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein. As a kid, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman. I woke up one morning at about 2 AM when I was about 10 years old, turned on the tv, and there before me was Frankie (the dreadful Bela version) beating on the Wolfie....then the whole castle blew up and all were swept away! I was awake for the day! I was hooked for life! :D Now....probably the first Mummy (1932) with Karloff. Loved him in this role, even thogh the bandages came off early. :D
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For September, this cropped Frankie from
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y8m29ZLX5ag/TOCXvwarZRI/AAAAAAAAGTQ/d4zh3SxImRI/s400/BIG%252BFRANKIE%252BMODEL%252BBOX%252BFRONT%252BMOEBIUS.jpg)
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I love the old Aurora kit art. The art was always better than the kit. I have a reissue....part of my collection here:
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa35/BillandLinda/UniversalShots002.jpg?t=1277686666)
Older photo. It has expanded since to three walls+ worth, but you get the idea. ;D
Makes me wonder whatever happened to all my old monster models. I spent hours painting Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, the Creature ftBL, the Mummy...and I also loved Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein! Wonder if that's on Netflix...?
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Some dude.
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Some dude.
A really tall dude.
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Makes me wonder whatever happened to all my old monster models. I spent hours painting Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, the Creature ftBL, the Mummy...and I also loved Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein! Wonder if that's on Netflix...?
Probably on Ebay. ;D
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My features listening to Mahler.
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RE: Harry's animated cat avatar (which I love!), still does not shake my vision that Harry's avatar is always somehow associated with Tchaikovsky. :)
Heck, even the cat itself looks a bit like old Tchaik!!! ;D ;D
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RE: Harry's animated cat avatar (which I love!), still does not shake my vision that Harry's avatar is always somehow associated with Tchaikovsky. :)
Heck, even the cat itself looks a bit like old Tchaik!!! ;D ;D
Naw , Ray. :) When I think of Harry, here is the one that comes to my mind:
(http://www.bathmusicfestarchive.org.uk/assets/images/BIMF2009/Mains2009/Emma%20kirkby%20main.jpg)
Could not find the exact one Harry, my apologies.
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the imperial seal of japan
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(http://moiracourt.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/king-of-the-beach-new-crown-details-low-res.jpg)
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(http://moiracourt.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/king-of-the-beach-new-crown-details-low-res.jpg)
:)
behold his majesty:
(http://wemeantwell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/seal13.jpg)
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behold his majesty:
And the former Mrs. Seal is on the market again:
(http://cdn.blogs.sheknows.com/celebsalon.sheknows.com/2011/03/heidi-klum-hairstyle.jpg)
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Werewolf of London (1935). I always enjoy this one. Gets lost a bit due to the Chaney Jr. Wolf Man. Plus, he dressed nicer:
(http://donmankowski.com/shock_theater_files/shock_38.jpg)
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My favorite avatar on GMG is this, which belongs to classicalgeek from the 'Pacific Northwest' wherever that is. Oregon? British Columbia? Something like that...
Beaker from the Muppets, my favourite muppet!
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yQwMFLgGRME/UIHP5wPEsLE/AAAAAAAAAMU/oHV2KMYuGLc/s144-c/October192012.jpg)
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My favorite avatar on GMG is this, which belongs to classicalgeek from the 'Pacific Northwest' wherever that is.
As a geek, chances are good it's Redmond, WA. ;)
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A street pianist in Antwerp. Photo by yours truly. :)
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<-------- not just any Monkey, the original Monkey.
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<----- Um...It's a kittie.
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<----- Um...It's a kittie.
meow
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<-------- not just any Monkey, the original Monkey.
And he's back!
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meow
Yes! The monkey is back by popular demand. :D
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<-------- not just any Monkey, the original Monkey.
Oh, I liked the robot-HEL! Anyway the monkey is very nice. :)
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The Minnesoto kid's back, and the monkey too. Balance is restored. All's right with the world 8)
Sarge
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Anyway the monkey is very nice. :)
Hi. You must be new here. :)
;)
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Hi. You must be new here. :)
;)
Very funny, Nav.
;)
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My most recent avatar? Early Christmas present for George and Sarge. ;D
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I was looking for a Brahms avatar with a Santa hat. No dice. Bach will have to do! ;D
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I was looking for a Brahms avatar with a Santa hat. No dice. Bach will have to do! ;D
You want a Brahms with a Santa hat? I can get you one.
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You want a Brahms with a Santa hat? I can get you one.
Thumbs up! :D Indeed. Although, I am growing fond of Santa Bach! ;D
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Thumbs up! :D Indeed. Although, I am growing fond of Santa Bach! ;D
I'll be back in 10 minutes...
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I'll be back in 10 minutes...
Sweet! Thanks Greg! 8) :)
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Sweet! Thanks Greg! 8) :)
(http://gregscottmoeller.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/brahmssanta.jpg?w=359)
Black and white for accuracy.
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another one incoming...
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(http://gregscottmoeller.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/oldbrahms-copy.jpg?w=500)
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(http://gregscottmoeller.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/oldbrahms-copy.jpg?w=500)
Awesome Greg!! ;D I'll try uploading one of these! :) Thanks, bud!
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Done!! I chose the bearded Brahms, because I really do believe he is Santa Claus sometimes!! ;D 8)
Thanks again, Greg!
Santa Brahms has a special message for Greg:
Greg, you must buy all my complete works, especially my chamber music. I worked very hard on perfecting the music I wrote, and scrappped and tossed away in the fire a lot of works that I shouldn't have in hindsight. Dammit! Oh well, what I did not scrap, and got published, is some pretty good stuff. Keep listening to Herr Santa Brahms. You won't be disappointed! 8)
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Done!! I chose the bearded Brahms, because I really do believe he is Santa Claus sometimes!! ;D 8)
Thanks again, Greg!
Santa Brahms has a special message for Greg:
Greg, you must buy all my complete works, especially my chamber music. I worked very hard on perfecting the music I wrote, and scrappped and tossed away in the fire a lot of works that I shouldn't have in hindsight. Dammit! Oh well, what I did not scrap, and got published, is some pretty good stuff. Keep listening to Herr Santa Brahms. You won't be disappointed! 8)
Haha! You're welcome. Looks great, Ray!
And think, your avatar is one of a kind.
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Santa Bach was too good to leave languishing in limbo.....so I've grabbed him for myself.
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Haha! You're welcome. Looks great, Ray!
And think, your avatar is one of a kind.
:D The one and only! Santa Brahms! 8)
Santa Brahms wants you to listen to his Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) as soon as it arrives! Damn.....we did I trash so much of my music. Some of it was pretty wicked....oh well, hindsight is 21. ;D
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Santa Bach was too good to leave languishing in limbo.....so I've grabbed him for myself.
Awesome, Jeffrey! Happy to see that you got into the spirit!! :)
Thumbs up!! All Bach needed was a big beard, but the dude looks pretty snazzy with a Santa hat, or shades. :D
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Now we just need Daniel for Santa Mahler, Ilaria for Santa Wagner, and John (Mirror Image) for Santa DSCH/Koechlin/Tippett/which composer is he using today for an avatar.
And someone from among the Brianites can provide Santa Brian.
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And someone from among the Brianites can provide Santa Brian.
Santa Brahms just tweeted: What the heck is going on there at GMG? Havergal Brian is the most posted thread in the Composer Discussion forum? WTF???? ;D :D ;)
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Rameau. Santa Hat. Bam.
That just happened.
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Rameau. Santa Hat. Bam.
That just happened.
10 out 10 dude! 8)
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Here is Ho-Ho-Hovergal Brian! (many thanks to GMG member Hattoff)
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Here is Ho-Ho-Hovergal Brian! (many thanks to GMG member Hattoff)
Thumbs up! 8) :)
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I guess Janacek is Santa enough even without the hat?
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Can anyone create a Koechlin for me with Santa hat? I would really appreciate it!
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Can anyone create a Koechlin for me with Santa hat? I would really appreciate it!
My photoshopping skills are nowhere good enough to do the job. But doesn't CK already have a sort of Pere Noel look about him?
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My photoshopping skills are nowhere good enough to do the job. But doesn't CK already have a sort of Pere Noel look about him?
Yes, but a Santa's hat, in the spirit of Christmas, would be the icing on the cake.
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Yes, but a Santa's hat, in the spirit of Christmas, would be the icing on the cake.
I'll do one for ya, John. I did my Rameau and Ray's Brahms, my goal is to get every avatar in a Santa hat.
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I'll do one for ya, John. I did my Rameau and Ray's Brahms, my goal is to get every avatar in a Santa hat.
Well, if the hat is a must, you can make me one, too (Janacek, Ravel or Sibelius), Greg.
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Well, if the hat is a must, you can make me one, too (Janacek, Ravel or Sibelius), Greg.
I think Sibelius would make a nice Santa.
Give me a few hours, wife is doing work on the computer this morning, I tried to explain the importance of putting Santa hats on composers, but it went right over her head.
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I think Sibelius would make a nice Santa.
Give me a few hours, wife is doing work on the computer this morning, I tried to explain the importance of putting Santa hats on composers, but it went right over her head.
;D
Thanks - and there's no hurry.
I'm working on the computer, too, at the moment.
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@ NorthStar, John (Mirror Image) and Ray (ChamberNut).. I just sent you all a PM
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Thanks! (although you forgot to put the address in the PM - searching was easy, though)
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Thanks! (although you forgot to put the address in the PM - searching was easy, though)
Haha! (resending PM) ;)
Not even a Santa hat can make Sibelius smile.
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Haha! (resending PM) ;)
Not even a Santa hat can make Sibelius smile.
You've been very naughty, and I think that, instead of giving you another symphony, I'll just burn it >:D
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North Star, your text still says Kandinsky!
I'll do one for ya, John. I did my Rameau and Ray's Brahms, my goal is to get every avatar in a Santa hat.
Okay, I'm in.
(http://content.answcdn.com/main/content/img/getty/0/3/2667703.jpg)
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North Star, your text still says Kandinsky!
Thanks, Brian, fixed that now :)
I have a feeling that the hat will suite Dvorak.
Karlo
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I'll do one for ya, John. I did my Rameau and Ray's Brahms, my goal is to get every avatar in a Santa hat.
Whenever you may, good sieur.
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Whenever you may, good sieur.
Last I looked, you qualify as a composer, and I seem to remember you used a Santa Henning avatar last year (or the year before?)
As an added incentive, I'm now giving a first listen to Lunar Glare.
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The composers with Santa's hat, so nice! ;D
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The composers with Santa's hat, so nice! ;D
You know you want one!
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You know you want one!
Nice one, Brian! :) I was expecting Klieber!! :D
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Many thanks, Greg, for this! :D
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Many thanks, Greg, for this! :D
That is a great one, Daniel! Kudos again, Greg!! :) 8)
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You know you want one!
Many thanks, Greg, for this! :D
Superbly executed, these :)
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The composers with Santa's hat, so nice! ;D
A la movie 'Faceoff' with Nicolas Cage and John Travolta, I think for Ilaria, there needs a one side face = Wagner, 2nd side of face = Liszt
Then, add the Santa hat! :D ;D
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I anticipate George having Billy Bob Thornton Santa anytime now. :D :)
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You know you want one!
A la movie 'Faceoff' with Nicolas Cage and John Travolta, I think for Ilaria, there needs a one side face = Wagner, 2nd side of face = Liszt
Then, add the Santa hat! :D ;D
Well, it should be certainly very funny. ;D Why not?
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As an added incentive, I'm now giving a first listen to Lunar Glare.
Thank you! Hope you like it!
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Thank you! Hope you like it!
Quite impressed with it, in fact.
I took advantage of the fact that I'm at the public library at the moment to download the Viola Sonata performance from Mediafire (which isn't practical from my home computer, and will insert it among the DSCH later today.
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Thank you for this, Greg. :)
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Gentlemen, please, Rachmaninoff! :D :D :D TIA!
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Are we going to see Santa Shosta?! ;D
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Quite impressed with it, in fact.
I took advantage of the fact that I'm at the public library at the moment to download the Viola Sonata performance from Mediafire (which isn't practical from my home computer, and will insert it among the DSCH later today.
(* bows *)
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Are we going to see Santa Shosta?! ;D
Santakovich . . . ?
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Hat or not, Brahms looks like a perfect Santa Claus....
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Gone for the early night, but if anyone wants a Santa-Composer just let me know, I'll do them either later tonight or tomorrow.
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Hat or not, Brahms looks like a perfect Santa Claus....
Ilaria, I love the Lisztianwagner morph Santa! ;D Brilliant, Greg! 8)
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Are we going to see Santa Shosta?! ;D
Shosta Claus would be really sad all the time, though. And that's not milk he's drinking with the cookies...
Of course Santa Sibelius isn't too different.
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Quote from: Brian on Today at 23:12:18 (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php?topic=301.msg679870#msg679870)
Shosta Claus
Nice.
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Ilaria, I love the Lisztianwagner morph Santa! ;D Brilliant, Greg! 8)
Yes, Greg did an excellent job. :) I was undecided between the Liszt/Wagner picture and a Karajan one....
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I like my new avatar. :D
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Shosta Claus would be really sad all the time, though. And that's not milk he's drinking with the cookies...
Of course Santa Sibelius isn't too different.
;D
But Sibelius had a bigger glass (because of his essential tremor - that probably also affected his capability to write, especially when he couldn't 'medicate' it)
Here's a lot of info on Sibelius's boozing - including the numerous bottles he had bought/drunk, and a list of his cigars - about 50 labels ;D
http://www.sibelius.fi/english/erikoisaiheet/nautinta-aineet/naut_01.htm
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All these Santa avatars should be collected together, I think (could make for a nice GMG magazine cover)
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Courtesy of My Man Greg: Santravinsky!
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We need to inflict Santa Rock on Sarge. Nobody shall go untouched by Monkey Greg's Christmas cheer!
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I like my new avatar. :D
Me too, John. Koechlin makes a wonderful Santa! :)
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Courtesy of My Man Greg: Santravinsky!
That is one cool looking dude, hat or sans chapeu!
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Me too, John. Koechlin makes a wonderful Santa! :)
Indeed! :D
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We need to inflict Santa Rock on Sarge. Nobody shall go untouched by Monkey Greg's Christmas cheer!
Have no fear. Like a true Marine, Sarge has already risen to the challenge and made sure the job is done
(though I don't know if he or Greg is the artist to whom the blame credit goes
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/asheville/rock2_120_santa.jpg)
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I'm in. ;D
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Songs and Dances of Elves
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I just realized: the best composer Santa Claus must be Leif Segerstam!
(http://www.classicalsource.com/images/upload/6320_2.jpg)
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I just realized: the best composer Santa Claus must be Leif Segerstam!
(http://www.classicalsource.com/images/upload/6320_2.jpg)
No doubt about it. :D
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No doubt about it. :D
Santa Mussorgsky looks like he's been dipping into the Christmas nog a bit wee much. ;D
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Keep the children away from Santa Saint-Saens. :-[
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Santa Mussorgsky looks like he's been dipping into the Christmas nog a bit wee much. ;D
Ain't it? ;D
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Keep the children away from Santa Saint-Saens. :-[
;D
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I had to change my avatar. Santa Koechlin was depressing me.
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The power of avatars.
I visited this page (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/516336.Les_Revenentes) and for an instant thought GMG played host to a world-famous author.
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I had to change my avatar. Santa Koechlin was depressing me.
The Santa Koechlin was a favorite of mine :( hold on to it, it may come in handy someday.
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I visited this page (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/516336.Les_Revenentes) and for an instant thought GMG played host to a world-famous author.
Zut alors! I do look quite like him on a bad hair day, n'est-ce pas?
DF
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I need to put a Santa hat on my Wagner avatar. Can someone please help? How do I do this??
marvin
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I need to put a Santa hat on my Wagner avatar. Can someone please help? How do I do this??
marvin
I'll do one for ya, John. I did my Rameau and Ray's Brahms, my goal is to get every avatar in a Santa hat.
Perhaps maybe you can help here? ?
marvin
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@marvinbrown... pull the image from here...
http://gregscottmoeller.wordpress.com/
;D
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@marvinbrown... pull the image from here...
http://gregscottmoeller.wordpress.com/
;D
GREAT!!
Thank you so much!!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! :) :) :)
marvin
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GREAT!!
Thank you so much!!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! :) :) :)
marvin
Santa Marvin!! I mean, Santa Wagner!! Fantastic! :)
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Santa-Rameau has returned to The North France-Pole, here returns the Monkey.
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Santa Stravinsky is in for all Christmastide.
And anyway, the Russian Orthodox Christmas is 7 January.
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Santa-Rameau has returned to The North France-Pole, here returns the Monkey.
It's the Second Christmas Day here in Germany, so Sarge will continue to wear the red and white cap until 2400 CET.
Sarge
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How do you make those Santa avatars?
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How do you make those Santa avatars?
I made mine with Photoshop 6. Found a Santa cap image online and cut & pasted it onto my Rock avatar.
Sarge
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I made mine with Photoshop 6. Found a Santa cap image online and cut & pasted it onto my Rock avatar.
Cool.
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Christmas is over but I'll keep the spirit.
Bernardino Luini - Child Angel Playing a Flute (http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?oid=363)
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Dürer's Rhinoceros
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5v3rzium8wo/T2vOC1vFvHI/AAAAAAAAPqE/imq2yW4sniU/s1600/Durer-rhinoceros.jpg)
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We had that hanging in one of the MFA galleries not long since, Bill.
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Excellent. Should not flirt with a rhino, though. Alas, Traddles returns. :)
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How cruelly Steerforth needles Rosa Dartle. How innocently Davey is blind to it all.
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For all his skill in depicting the intricacies of nature realistically in his works, I thought that was almost a caricature of a rhino suitable perhaps as an accompaniment for a fantasy novel. That is, until I read that it was based solely on a description of a creature that hardly anyone in Europe had set eyes on for centuries. Astounding!
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How cruelly Steerforth needles Rosa Dartle. How innocently Davey is blind to it all.
A fire wasted for sure, Karl.
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Ah! Shouldn't one turn to Mozart for comfort for the soul?
So now I fly under Morisot's Mozart Sonata.
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(http://www.lifestyled.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Ray-Ban-Bogart-Bacall-.jpg)
Bogey and Bacall in Ray-Bans...stinkin' cool. The car is sweet as well. May keep this one for a good while.
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Bogey
Ooh...!
I thought you were a golf fan. ;D
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An abandoned homestead in Eastern Washington, about a hundred miles from anywhere. I don't know who lived there, but I think I know why they left. :P
Despite the desolation it really is a beautiful place.
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My avatar's name is Dmitrard van Wagtakoven. :P
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I will change avatar just for today. :)
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My avatar: American Impressionist composer Charles Griffes.
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A Dalek poster, from Doctor Who.
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I was guessing these, Greg. Just saw them at a shop yesterday.
(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTlKVIMQncXU7HObz2Q_Z_KyK2iZsh6XgBjqW3CfLZruYhSHAEDIQ)
but considering your choice, please visit here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-14918415
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but considering your choice, please visit here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-14918415
Ha! I like how he's not even a fan of the show. Perfect display of the Dalek's power!!!!
Thanks for sharing, Bogey. :)
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My avatar: American Impressionist composer Charles Griffes.
You can't leave out "Thomlinson"
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You can't leave out "Thomlinson"
Next time he's my avatar I'll be sure not to leave Tomlinson off. ;) :)
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From illustrator J.J. Harrison. Finn and Jake (and BMO) from the Cartoon Network show "Adventure Time", the image pays homage to the great Miyazaki film "My Neighbor Totoro".
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Frazetta Tarzan. 'Nuff said.
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Frazetta Tarzan. 'Nuff said.
Nice. :)
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Nice. :)
Fantasy artwork really does not get better. There is different, but not better.(http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd376/NormTyrsen/Misc%20Images/Norm%20Smilies%20Collection/thviking_smiley_81.gif)
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Akira Ifukube, 1936.
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Frazetta Tarzan. 'Nuff said.
Wow, Tarzan didn't last long! Bill, you're becoming as fickle as the Minnesota kid :D
Sarge
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Wow, Tarzan didn't last long! Bill, you're becoming as fickle as the Minnesota kid :D
Sarge
My avatar mentor. ;D
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Kane
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When my avatar changes, it is all about "personal growth"!
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Wow, Tarzan didn't last long! Bill, you're becoming as fickle as the Minnesota kid :D
Sarge
At least Bill does not change his user name. But when it comes to avatar fickleness, I guess they can be billed together!
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At least Bill does not change his user name. But when it comes to avatar fickleness, I guess they can be billed together!
My user name is Dave. MN Dave. 8)
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My user name is Dave. MN Dave. 8)
Love the Howard nod here, Dave.
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Love the Howard nod here, Dave.
I thought you'd say: My name is Bogey. Double Bogey.
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I thought you'd say: My name is Bogey. Double Bogey.
:)
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Love the Howard nod here, Dave.
Stratego!
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Stratego!
Indeed! Fun to play online as well....and free.
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Some guy.
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Some guy.
The man doesn't look like Mike at all. He seems more a Dave, I'd say.
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The man doesn't look like Mike at all. He seems more a Dave, I'd say.
Some other guy. :)
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Another monkey. This time a curious one.
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An expression of pure rage.
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An expression of pure rage.
Would you prefer squares? :)
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My avatar has changed abruptly from the dashing young Enescu to the craggy old Rautavaara! :D His forbidding looks belie music of great beauty and sensuous colors. Many have criticized him for sameness in his output, but I say to Rautavaara keep doing what you do best! I really hope he keeps composing in his old age. I would especially love to have another symphony from his pen. :)
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My avatar has changed abruptly from the dashing young Enescu to the craggy old Rautavaara! :D His forbidding looks belie music of great beauty and sensuous colors. Many have criticized him for sameness in his output, but I say to Rautavaara keep doing what you do best! I really hope he keeps composing in his old age. I would especially love to have another symphony from his pen. :)
I personally enjoy Rautavaara's music. Particular favorites of mine are Violin Concerto, Symphonies 7 & 8, and Autumn Gardens.
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Would you prefer squares? :)
What he really wanted to say was that he hates the binoculars on your monkey avatar!
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I personally enjoy Rautavaara's music. Particular favorites of mine are Violin Concerto, Symphonies 7 & 8, and Autumn Gardens.
I love all those works too, along with Manhattan Trilogy, Symphony no. 3 (which is twelve-tone but you'd never guess it), On the Last Frontier and PC 3.
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I love all those works too, along with Manhattan Trilogy, Symphony no. 3 (which is twelve-tone but you'd never guess it), On the Last Frontier and PC 3.
Yes, those are fine works as well.
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My avatar is now the great American composer David Diamond. He is a sadly underrated composer for one who composed music of such power, intensity and warmth. His Symphony no. 2 is a masterpiece which deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the third symphonies of Copland and Harris.
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My avatar is now the great American composer David Diamond. He is a sadly underrated composer for one who composed music of such power, intensity and warmth. His Symphony no. 2 is a masterpiece which deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the third symphonies of Copland and Harris.
Such a great composer and sadly neglected. I like his much better than Copland or Harris to be honest.
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Such a great composer and sadly neglected. I like his much better than Copland or Harris to be honest.
Copland and Harris are frustratingly uneven composers who, only in their very greatest works (both of their third symphonies IMO), really wrote music of great substance and emotion. Diamond, on the other hand, is a much more consistent composer who poured his heart into his work and produced music of great depth and communicative power. It is a travesty that many major works of his, including his Symphonies 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11, remain unrecorded. :(
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Copland and Harris are frustratingly uneven composers who, only in their very greatest works (both of their third symphonies IMO), really wrote music of great substance and emotion. Diamond, on the other hand, is a much more consistent composer who poured his heart into his work and produced music of great depth and communicative power.
I honestly don't care for Copland's or Harris' 3rd. I think these are highly overrated and not because they're 'popular' but mainly because Schuman's 3rd blows them both away. ;) :D I agree with what you wrote about Diamond. Such a lyrically expressive composer.
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Mine is a reference to John Cage's 4'33.
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Now, my avatar is the great Danish maverick Rued Langgaard. What I find fascinating about his music is that while being strikingly original and imaginative in a number of ways, its tonal language is still firmly planted in the late-romantic tradition. It is sad that his music is still largely overshadowed by his countryman Nielsen. Anyone who hasn't yet purchased the Dacapo set of his complete symphonies: GET IT NOW!!!! Simply amazing stuff from start to finish. His Symphony no. 1 is an amazingly accomplished work for a sixteen-year-old!
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Now, my avatar is the great Danish maverick Rued Langgaard. What I find fascinating about his music is that while being strikingly original and imaginative in a number of ways, its tonal language is still firmly planted in the late-romantic tradition. It is sad that his music is still largely overshadowed by his countryman Nielsen. Anyone who hasn't yet purchased the Dacapo set of his complete symphonies: GET IT NOW!!!! Simply amazing stuff from start to finish. His Symphony no. 1 is an amazingly accomplished work for a sixteen-year-old!
I see you're a fan of Super Rued.
(http://gregscottmoeller.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/img_3620.jpg)
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I see you're a fan of Super Rued.
(http://gregscottmoeller.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/img_3620.jpg)
LOL! :P
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Now, my avatar is the great Danish maverick Rued Langgaard. What I find fascinating about his music is that while being strikingly original and imaginative in a number of ways, its tonal language is still firmly planted in the late-romantic tradition. It is sad that his music is still largely overshadowed by his countryman Nielsen. Anyone who hasn't yet purchased the Dacapo set of his complete symphonies: GET IT