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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Pix - Jan 31, 2005 9:46:30 am PST #2490 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

May I still join the We Hate Pizzicato! club?

But yes. You may, so long as you have been a second violin.


DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 9:47:15 am PST #2491 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

In England, yes. The Tems. In CT? Thhhhhhhhames.

The main drag in Newport is pronounced Thhhhhhhhames Street, too, so not just a Connecticut thing.

Fritters are nasty and who thought it would be a good idea to put cooked corn into a doughnut in the first place?

I stand in kernel-free (as opposed to colonel-free) solidarity with Nutty on this.


Katie M - Jan 31, 2005 9:47:32 am PST #2492 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

and a Buena Vista ("BYOO-na". I shit you not)

There's a Buena-pronounced-BYOO-en-uh right down the road from me too. (Also back in NY a Berlin pronounced BER-lin, just to be difficult.)

Alibelle, you can totally join the We Hate Pizzicato Club. I bitched about boring parts, but honestly I didn't envy the melody people most of the time. That stuff looked hard.

And my irritating song is Canon in D

Oh, I liked Canon in D--yeah, yeah, I'm a plebeian--but the cellists all hated practicing it. Poor cellists. It was like they wanted to change notes every now and then or something.


Pix - Jan 31, 2005 9:48:27 am PST #2493 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Fritters are nasty and who thought it would be a good idea to put cooked corn into a doughnut in the first place?

I stand in kernel-free (as opposed to colonel-free) solidarity with Nutty on this.

I have to agree.


Calli - Jan 31, 2005 9:48:29 am PST #2494 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Fritters are nasty and who thought it would be a good idea to put cooked corn into a doughnut in the first place?

I would never put corn into a doughnut. Apple fritters, however, are nummy goodness.


Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 9:48:48 am PST #2495 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Stravinsky's "Firebird"

God, but what a gorgeous piece. Particularly the finale.


Pix - Jan 31, 2005 9:50:09 am PST #2496 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

God, but what a gorgeous piece. Particularly the finale.

Isn't it amazing? Playing it was such an incredible rush. I absolutely adored performing it.


Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 9:52:27 am PST #2497 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Playing it was such an incredible rush.

I can believe that, considering that just *listening* to it makes me feel like I'm soaring.


P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 9:52:30 am PST #2498 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I'm pretty sure I don't remember this one from any nostalgic seafaring yarns I've read. Are you sure he's really in the Navy?

I'm certain he's not, actually. He's a marine diesel engineer in the private sector, working in the guts of cargo ships, which keeps him gone for most of the year.

I think, though my sample size of guys on large boats is two (brother and FiL), that "stupid asshole head engineer" is actually the technically term for that position.


JohnSweden - Jan 31, 2005 9:54:54 am PST #2499 of 10002
I can't even.

Stravinsky's "Firebird"

God, but what a gorgeous piece. Particularly the finale.

I love it too, but mostly the Skynyrd version.

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