Hilldog surely.
Which will be the next party in power in Finland?
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Hilldog surely.
Which will be the next party in power in Finland?
Center Party. There's no reason to assume that anyone else would have a better chance to build a cabinet.
Have you actually followed the elections?
Nope, haha. I have no idea who the president of my own country is -- I think it's this guy named Toby.
Did you know that certain red dyes are made with beetle blood?
Yes I did. Campari at least used to get its colour from one such dye. A friend's father actually made the Finnish alcohol monopoly (for ABV over 4.7%) to start importing it many a decade ago.
Did you know that sepia comes from the cuttlefish sepia?
No I did not! Interesting.
Thing (abstract or physical) you most want to come in powdered form?
Happiness. Although not in the form of drug.
Should the Alabama law against fake moustaches that cause laughter in church be abolished?
Absolutely not. Such laws are the pride of our democracy.
Most giddily excited you've ever been? What was the occasion?
I'm glad you know what is the purpose of the state :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Giddily excited? Probably when I've received a parcel of book(s) or CDs in the mail.Quote:
Most giddily excited you've ever been? What was the occasion?
What are your favourite pieces of music?
Koln Concert
Beethoven 7
Beethoven 9
Hammerklavier
Goldberg Variations
Visions
Blood on the Tracks
Either/Or
For Long Tomorrow
In Rainbows
Kind of Blue
My Favorite Things
Vespertine
American VI
JPN
Daydream Nation
Pink Moon
Loveless
St. Matthew Passion
10 Intermezzi - Brahms
EDIT: Forgot Zauberflote and
Clarinet Quintet - Mozart
no particular order and I'm forgetting some surely
same Q
Visions? I'd like to interpret that to mean Visions fugitives. ;)
Hmm, lets see... This is a rather long list, but I haven't the time to make a shorter one now.
Miles Davis: Nefertiti, KoB, Miles Smiles
Coltrane: MFT, Olé
Mingus: Ah Um
Bill Evans & Jim Hall: Undercurrent
Grant Green: Idle Moments
Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles
Sonny Rollins: The Bridge
Thelonius Monk: Monks's Dream
Wayne Shorter: JuJu, Speak No Evil
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
Deep Purple: Machine Head
Dire Straits: Dire Straits
Queen II
Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour
Alkan: Etudes in all the minor keys
Beethoven Sonatas op. 106, 109, 110, 111, SQs op. 59, 130&133, 131, symphonies nos. 3-9
Bach: Cantatas, Clavier-übung III, sonatas & partitas for solo violin, cello suites, SMP, GV
Bartók: Dance Suite, PCs, VC2, Out of Doors, Contrasts
Bernstein: WSS
Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette - III. Scène d'amour
Berg: VC, 3 Pieces, PS
Brahms: Nänie, Deutsches Requiem, pretty much all the chamber music, PC2
Britten: Serenade for tnr & horn, Les Illuminations, Nocturne, VC, Peter Grimes
Bruckner: Symphonies nos. 8 & 9
Chopin: Mazurkas, Barcarolle, Ballades, Scherzi, Etudes, Preludes
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Debussy: Preludes, book I, Images L.122, Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp (1915), Cello Sonata, Six épigraphes antiques for piano, four hands,
Dowland: Lachrymae
Dutilleux: String Quartet 'Ainsi la nuit'
Dvorak: PQnt no. 2
Elgar: The Music Makers, CC, VC, Dream Children, Falstaff
Faure: Nocturnes
Feldman: Crippled Symmetry
Gershwin RIB, AIP
Hartmann: symphonies, Concerto funebre
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76
Ives: Holidays Symphony, Unanswered Question, Central Park in the Dark
Janacek: String Quartets, Violin Sonata, Pohadka, On the Overgrown Path, In the mist, PS, VC, Sinfonietta, Cunning Little Vixen
Josquin: Miserere
Ligeti: Etudes, Atmospheres, Lontano, Melodien, PC, VC, Requiem
Martinu: Nonet, Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani, Folk cantatas
Mompou: Musica Callada
Monteverdi: Vespers
Mozart: La nozze, Gran Partita, the mature PCs
Mussorgsky: Pictures (piano, Pletnev's recording)
Nielsen: concertos, symphonies nos. 2-5
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Poulenc: Sonatas for winds & pf, vc & pf, Concerto for 2 pf & orch.
Prokofiev: PC2, VS1, Romeo & Juliet, The Fiery Angel, PSs, Visions fugitives
Pärt: Fratres, Cantus, Tabula Rasa, Stabat Mater
Ravel: PCs, PT, and pretty much everything else
Rakhmaninov: Symphonic Dances, All-night Vigil
Satie: Socrate
Schumann: Piano Quintet, Carnaval, Kreisleriana, Kinderszenen, concertos
Schubert: SQ no. 15, String Quintet, late PSs, the last two symphonies
Schoenberg: 5 Orchestral Pieces
Shostakovich: PT2, Piano Quintet, String Quartets, Symphonies nos. 4, 5, 7, 8 10, 13, 14 & 15, VC1, CCs 1&2, Preludes & Fugues
Schnittke: Choir Concerto, Requiem, Faust Cantata
Sibelius: Symphonies nos 3-7, Tapiola, Luonnotar, Pohjola's Daughter
Silvestrov: Silent Songs
Stravinsky: Petrouchka, Rite of Spring, Symphony of Psalms, Mass, Agon
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies nos. 4-6, PT,
Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia, Symphony no. 5
Varese: Ameriques, Ionisation
Villa-Lobos: Choros
Zelenka: Missa votiva
Ysaÿe: Solo vln sonatas
E: And Enescu's 3rd VS, Langgaard's Music of the Spheres, Liszt's Yeas of Pilgrimage
Who's your favourite musician that you've seen live?
Visions.
Bob Dylan, Lang Lang, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, New York Phil performing The Messiah was great. Annie-Sophie Mutter Trio was even better. Dylan live was awful.
Do pain and pleasure really, like Socrates said, follow each other wherever they go?
Ok Computer
Pet Sounds
Revolver
Appetite For Destruction
Lost in Space--Aimee Mann
Temple of Low Men--Crowded House
Aching Baby
The Bends--Radiohrad
Under the Iron Sea--Keane
The Art of Pepper--Art Pepper
Grey December--Chet Baker
Guitar Town--Steve Earle
Killing Time--Clint Black
Van Halen
Houses of the Holy--Led Zeppelin
Never mind--Nirvana
In Utero--Nirvava
Vs.--Pearl Jam
Superunknown--Soundgarden
Secret Samadhi--Live
Altered Beast--Matthew Sweet
Automatic for the People--R,E.M.
Life's Rich Pageant--R.E.M.
Fables of the Reconstruction--R.E.M.
The Beatles (The White Album)
Tea for the Tillerman--Cat Stevens
Sam's Town--The Kilers
Born to Die (The Paradise Edition)--Lana Del Rey
Born to Run--Bruce Springsteen
The Ghost of Tom Joad--Bruce Springsteen
Sketches of Spain--Miles Davis
War--U2
My favorite musicians I've seen live are:
The Boss
R.E.M.
U2
Crowded House
Metallica
Steve Earle
Cool, Mutter playing Mozart & Rihm with an ensemble of musicians of BPO & VPO is among my favourites as well - almost as good as Barnabas Kelemen's Brahms VC a week before that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Yes they do, as the body releases endorphins. I'm not sure if pleasure inevitably leads to pain, though.
Did you actually read the whole list? ;)
No :) about 70%.
I'm listening to the Tallis Fantasia on your say-so right now, by the way.
Do you like the taste of mint mouthwash?
Yes, it's okay, although toothpaste is usually sufficient for my talkin' and kissin' needs.
Do brush your teeth with baking soda like some kind of a hippie or something?