Are you an eccentric?

[Mozart]

I prefer being alone also, mainly because you can get to know someone well, and as soon as a third person joins the conversation people try to pick sides and act like idiots.

[Sean]

Hi Heather, I wish I was closer to where you live- you're exactly the girl for me: I could have written most of that! (maybe not the dresses & bonnet bit).

[Bonehelm]

I'm definitely an eccentric. Free-thinking leads to that inexorably.

If I were you I wouldn't be proud of being that.

[Mozart]

What is a free thinker anyways? Everyone is influenced by things outside themselves...

[71 dB]

If I were you I wouldn't be proud of being that.

I wouldn't say I am proud of being an eccentric. I am proud of being a free-thinker thou.

What is a free thinker anyways? Everyone is influenced by things outside themselves...

Yes, everyone is influenced. Free-thinkers can control how. Influencies are evaluated critically (intellectually) and discarded if found bad.

Narrow-mindness is a result of poor evaluation processes of influencies together with social feedback mechanism. Education gives better evaluation tools but unfortunately also enforces blind authority faith. People should never care about who says something but instead what was said. Even clever people can say stupid things. There tends to be more bad influencies than good. This creates a negative feedback mechanism in society. We are negatively influenced and we start to influence others even more negatively. People's brains would corrupt totally without "doses of sanity" (education, words of free-thinkers, etc.) Force-feeding of reason is obligatory in order to restrain the negative feedback mechanism. That's probably why evolution has created free-thinkers who are mentally capable of avoiding narrow-mindness better.

So, I speak for Dittersdorf because total ignorance of this fine composer would be insane.

[greg]

So, I speak for Dittersdorf because total ignorance of this fine composer would be insane.

i've never heard this guy's music, but just the name itself begs people to not take him seriously!
every time i read the guy's name on this forum, i picture one of these dwarves from this video game that wears buckets on its head.

Eccentric doesn't mean your crazy, it just means you do/think things that are normal to you but other people think are weird. Its not even like specific examples, its in many of the things you do. For example, I hate to be bare foot, but I hate to wear shoes. Socks for me. I used 2 types of soaps when I shower. I have a habit of making inappropriate faces in conversation. I dunno lemme think what else people find weird about me. I'm obsessed with good digestion, I eat things so they will digest well. I don't know what else but people tend to find lots of weird things about me. Even the way I move, I find it difficult to walk straight sometimes mainly because I don't care which way I'm going as long as I get to wear im heading.


Also I tend to judge how well people get along by how synchronized their walking and movements are. Anyone else do that?

ok, then i'm normal, i guess.
but probably a couple things odd about me are my/OUR musical tastes (everyone here, i mean), and also, i can also spend lots of time alone, as long as i have something to study. I mean, i could sit in my room and do nothing and just study all day, if i can. That does get old eventually, but I could last a lot longer than most people.

also, my acquaintance Ubloobideega, and the stories he inspires me to write 

[Don]

i've never heard this guy's music, but just the name itself begs people to not take him seriously!
every time i read the guy's name on this forum, i picture one of these dwarves from this video game that wears buckets on its head.

Dittersdorf does deserve to be taken seriously.  Not a hack - and not a master of art.

[LaciDeeLeBlanc]

Eccentric.....

I almost think of that word like the word "forte".  The dynamic "forte" is a relative term that is unique for every piece of music.  There isn't a defined number of decibels that equals forte. For instance, one could listen to a piece of music and almost write out the rhythms exactly the way they were played, but they couldn't write out exactly the dynamic markings. All they would know is that this section was louder than this section and this part became suddenly softer and so on.

Am I eccentric? My question is: Relative to what?

[Tancata]

Eccentric.....
Am I eccentric? My question is: Relative to what?

Relative to normal people, of course...




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[Kullervo]

I thought this was the norm:

[Tancata]

I thought this was the norm:

It depends on the country. In England, this is the norm:

[Kullervo]

In all seriousness, I think presidential candidate John Edwards is as "normal" as anyone can be, despite paying $200 for a haircut.

[Tancata]

In all seriousness, I think presidential candidate John Edwards is as "normal" as anyone can be, despite paying $200 for a haircut.

I'm not so sure...

[Kullervo]

I also see some of Tom Cruise in him.

[71 dB]

i've never heard this guy's music, but just the name itself begs people to not take him seriously!
every time i read the guy's name on this forum, i picture one of these dwarves from this video game that wears buckets on its

Do you really think names tell us how important the composers have been? You let your imagination create naive "fairytale" images to fill the black holes of your knowledge. Why don't you pick up one of Dittersdorf's CDs on Naxos (cheap but good) and find out yourself he was a mighty composer, not a funny video game character

[Steve]

Do you really think names tell us how important the composers have been? You let your imagination create naive "fairytale" images to fill the black holes of your knowledge. Why don't you pick up one of Dittersdorf's CDs on Naxos (cheap but good) and find out yourself he was a mighty composer, not a funny video game character

Why can't he be both? 

[Gurn Blanston]

i've never heard this guy's music, but just the name itself begs people to not take him seriously!
every time i read the guy's name on this forum, i picture one of these dwarves from this video game that wears buckets on its head.

ok, then i'm normal, i guess.

Umm, no, I don't think so 

Anyway, the guy's name was Ditters. Carl Ditters. Not such a weird name. I happen to think that Mahler is a weird sounding name, but hey, that's just me.   Anyway, he was so good at what he did that his boss, who was powerful enough to do so, made him a noble. When you are made a noble, you need a name to go with it. Since there was a town named Dittersdorf in the area where he came from, he became Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. It's simple logic. What you have in your mind is this:



Tim Conway as Dorf. I'll admit, he IS amusing...

[Mozart]

Fascinating story about such a double bogeyed (awesome golf reference) composer. Mozart's sinfonia concertante runs circles arounds Dittersdorfs 

[greg]

Do you really think names tell us how important the composers have been? You let your imagination create naive "fairytale" images to fill the black holes of your knowledge. Why don't you pick up one of Dittersdorf's CDs on Naxos (cheap but good) and find out yourself he was a mighty composer, not a funny video game character

no, i don't have an opinion of him since i haven't heard him yet
i'll get to him some day, don't worry 

[71 dB]

no, i don't have an opinion of him since i haven't heard him yet
i'll get to him some day, don't worry 

Okay greg!