Scary.
The Egyptian sphinx, which just sit there, or the Greek sphinx, which eats people alive if they miss a quiz answer?
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Scary.
The Egyptian sphinx, which just sit there, or the Greek sphinx, which eats people alive if they miss a quiz answer?
I'm a know it all, so Greek. I wouldn't eat them though, I'd pat them on the head and tell them the correct answer.
Are you good with kids?
Yes, but I don't have any, so I hang out with you and Clopin instead. :(
Same question.
Pretty bad, I really don't like them, except my niece who is my favourite person in the worldQuote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Do you believe in UFO's/Aliens?
Hey Buck. Nope.
Do you think human nature is fundamentally good, bad, or neutral?
Clopin and I are mature young men, okay??
Humans don't have natures. We just flit chaotically from moment to moment, no pattern or personality involved!
Strangest thing to make you tear up?
My sons would have been mature young men by now, too, get it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Aeschylus' gravestone is the weirdest thing. The only thing he wanted people to remember about him was that he had fought like a man at the Battle of Marathon.
Same question.
Bah! A mature man wouldn't have used two question marks. And I know people whose children are also mature young (or middle-aged) men ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
So your answer would be neutral, as is mine 8)Quote:
Humans don't have natures. We just flit chaotically from moment to moment, no pattern or personality involved!
Strangest thing to make you tear up?
Strangest thing to make me tear up? I'm pretty sure the right answer is onions.
What do you want to read next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFf4AgBNR1E
Not even kidding, I cried a little at that.
EDIT: Journey to the West.
What is bravery?
Bravery is the forgetting of fears. Those who are most brave, manage to do so for a longer time than others.
Who will be the next president of the United States?
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. Scčne 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
Ysa˙e: 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?
E: No I don't brush my teeth with baking soda. . .
Excellent!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Not a big fan of the taste of mint mouthwash.
What's the latest thing you've read?
Plutarch's Life of Fabius Maximus--I'm slowly reading an unedited complete Plutarch.
Same question.
The Beggar Maid (Who Do You Think You Are in Canada)
Coral (the color) or lilac?
Coral the color. Gorgeous. The exoskeleton thing is nice too.
What kind of sea mammal do you most closely relate to?
These cuties:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aykEV2wv_ag
What did you read as a kid?
Tolkien, Rowling, lots of Disney comics (Barks, Rosa in particular).
Same question.
Also Tolkien, Lewis, L'Engle, Pullman, Rowling, just tons and tons of fantasy, crap and otherwise.
Wait, North Star, you read Rowling as a kid? How old are you, if you don't mind me asking?
What games did you like to play as a kid?
24.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
I played some SNES games, some card games.
Who's your favourite living composer?
You're the only person qualified to answer that, but as I said before, I do like some Pärt.
Is there a reality beyond social construction?
I'm not sure (partly because I haven't heard too much of it) how good Pärt's more recent work is. Silvestrov is one you should check out, and one I need to investigate in more depth. Others include György Kurtįg, although I don't know if he's composed much lately.
Some that have died during the past ten years: Ligeti, Dutilleux, Elliott Carter, Henze, Ronald Stevenson (whose Passacaglia on DSCH is among the grandest piano pieces ever written). And Boulez has written some very good music, although he has written very little in total. Electronic music is an area I haven't explored in much depth yet.
And yes there is, but it's not possible to experience it.
Whose poetry should I read now? I got two nice anthologies in the mail this week. (Hulse & Rae's The 20th C. in Ptry, Moore's Penguin Book of Am. Vse)
Her:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-imaginary-iceberg/
and him:
http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems...f-limestone-3/
I feel the same way about reality, though I also can't quite accept it.
Does complexity necessarily have more potential than simplicity?
Ah, Auden and Bishop. Nice choices. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
The potential of complexity vs. simplicity? Complex things have more variables, but the difference between, say, two orchestra configurations is often much smaller than that between two trios - a piano trio and some wind trio, for example. To quote the composer Roger Sessions' paraphrasing of Einstein: "I also remember a remark of Albert Einstein, which certainly applies to music. He said, in effect, that everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler." Complex things should be complex only because they demand it - i.e., a scientific theory must be presented as clearly and simply as possible, but not more simply than that (well, to some audiences, of course), and likewise, writing, music, painting, photograph, whatever, shouldn't be obscured by unnecessary complexity, irrelevant details. Simpler expression has greater potential than complex ones. Think of all those catchy melodies of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Schubert, Chopin etc etc. They all mastered every technical aspect of composing music, but it's those melodies that made them great, in the end. Think of a haiku, think of Whitman - there is something simple in every great artistic expression, for that's what it essentially is, showing the essence of something.
Auden or Bishop? :) (not asking which I should read)
Auden by a good deal. Read both of course.
Have you read Proust? I'm obsessed with him right now. I bring him up because I think he is an unusual counterexample to your valid point; he reveals the complicated heart of things, the great fugue of perception that is the link between the experiential and the real.
Do you write poetry?
I haven't read Proust, apart from small snippets. I should, though - but again, I'm always a bit less keen to read a translation to a second language, but then again, my English is about as good as my Finnish.
I don't think of myself as even aspiring to be an amateur writer, but it's only natural that reading inspires one to write.
I wrote this earlier this year, and a couple of entries in the poetry competitions here.
The tree is unlit,
And all that is left at dawn,
Is the Christmas table -
The celebrators have split.
Once again a year has gone,
And the same old fable
Goes on and on.
I saw from your blog post that you do. Written anything recently?
Oh, my blog -- that horror :blush:
Yeah I have. I'm trying to publish so I'm not posting them on here but if you're curious I can PM something to you.
Have you ever felt religious, even briefly?