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That's certainly different to Mozart! Well I'm 95% an ale man as you know, but occasionally I like a bit of red wine or bottle of...

Champagne is also a wine but I have been reliably informed that it is best served to young blonde females, unlike ale of course that's still the...

Great idea. A must in the lazy genre is the book by Tom Hodgkinson How to be Idle, it's practically the idle manifesto. I intend to bike out to a...

I've been exploring of rediscovering a lot of Mozart's works that I have yet to explore in great depth. Today it was the Haffner Serenade and the...

Thank you both Buh4Bee and Delta, I appreciate your comments and support. Yes while this poem has personal significance to me, I usually do not...

Mozart's No. 20 piano concerto. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h71c4u_95P8 I'm in the mood for Mozart this week, which usually means the piano...

Is this being offended though or is it just being annoyed by idiots? I think there is a difference. It reminds me of a similar situation when a...

This poem was written about something very personal that has nothing to do with race. It is not about any individuals nor any group of people.

Give me the claim I'll give the reference book. For technology you can skip right ahead and check the works of Needham, particularly the Cambridge...

Including myself. I consider Lean's Brief Encounter as the best British film and if you haven't seen it you can't credibly discuss his work as it's...

Although it's a long time since I read East of Eden, I found it a very tedious read and don't remember the ending. The last lines of The Great Gatsby...

Yes, he was less-prolific than many directors, but I think that was more to do with only wanting to do films that turned him on. I can understand...

If you are into bodice rippers ( metaphorically speaking of course) why not give Barbara Cartland a go?

Interesting new study on the very subject:...

Stanley Kubrick. He's no Mozart, Beethoven or Rembrandt, but I'd happily put him up against Bach.

Actually, if you check what I wrote, I agreed with that myself. I'll just repeat that I'm neither denying Chinese influence or the extent of it,...

No, its translation is. The flavor of the original is different (coming from someone who has more than half of it memorized). We like to think of...

as an answer to that, I would say Chinese literature is right now incredibly unattractive to Chinese students, and has always had a weird place in...

This!

I honestly wasn't using you as an example, merely your words. Didn't mean to sound accusatory :)

Hilarious. And absurd.

That is completely false. Site your source, please. And if it isn't a peer-reviewed article from a scientific journal, it isn't worth citing. ...

Film has done very badly because it is controlled by money men and ego-maniacs who think they can rewrite the work of great authors. The move from...

Thinking like this makes me very sad. I don't mean you personally Darcy, but your post is a good example of how many people I have encountered seem...

Hey Cafolini, I'm not sure where you got the information in your post, but some of it is WRONG, and I feel the need to correct it. I, too, hate the...

Neither would I and putting it ahead of Citizen Kane is simply silly. However, that's the current view of Sight and Sound. In my view Vertigo...