Pretty much like this t-shirt.
How often do you cook with rice?
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Pretty much like this t-shirt.
How often do you cook with rice?
lately, its been barely, but usually its a couple of times a week. I love brown rice and chili beans.
I read an enjoyable book recently about the MIT students who took las vegas (and other casinos) for many millions. the book is called bringing down the house. the movie version is called 21. I would recommend both.
the students didn't do anything illegal, but what they did was highly frowned upon by the powers that be. one of them was caught roughed up pretty badly, and the risk of that was always present.
if you had the mental capability they did---would you go to casinos and use it?
No, I'd go to Wall Street and make some real dough.
Should the Colorado movie theater shooter get not guilty by reason of insanity?
That sounds less ethical though :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
As for the shooter, he seems crazy from what I hear. I don't know exactly how the sentencing would change to reflect that, but a life sentence seems fair and reasonable.
Have you ever known someone who became schizophrenic?
No, I haven't. Me neither.
What is your favorite kind of flower?
Haha. People with schizophrenia don't really develop multiple personalities, though, you know.
Some kind of orchid I guess? I don't know much about flowers.
What was the topic of the best essay you've written?
The persistence of a Christian Jew hatred.
How about you?
An analysis of the femme fatale in Dickinson's 764, Macbeth, The Homecoming by Pinter, and Hitchcock's Vertigo. I don't know what I was smoking, but it was fun to write.
I also wrote one on Adrienne Rich's poems in Dark Fields of the Republic, but that one was, uh, for a friend, so I don't know if it counts... heh.
What about the worst essay you've ever written?
God I hated Emma... "You can't marry him, he's a farmer! Blah blah blah, I'm an annoying entitled skank".Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Worst essay I've ever written? In education theory exam, I suppose.
Favourite work for solo piano? Impossible to choose one. Janáček's In the mist (and the piano sonata and On the overgrown path), Ravel's Gaspard & Miroirs, Bartók's Out of Doors, Suk's About Mother, Ligeti's etudes, Mompou's Musica callada, Debussy's Preludes, Scriabin's late works (Vers la flamme, the last sonatas, počmes), Brahms's late pieces - the last two opuses in particular, Liszt's Annees des Pelerinage, Schumann's first sonata, Fantaisie, Carneval, Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, Chopin's mazurkas, and pretty much all of the rest, Fauré's nocturnes & ballades, Mussorgsky's Pictures, Busoni's elegies and sonatinas, Alkan's etudes in the minor keys, Satie's Gnossiennes & Gymnopedies, Schubert's last sonatas (nos. 14, 15, 18-21), Beethoven's sonatas, Mozart's later sonatas (no. 10 and later), Fantasy in c minor, K.475, Rondo in a minor, K. 511, Adagio in b minor, K. 540, Haydn's Op. 50 sonatas are corkers, too. And Shostakovich's Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87.
Which are your favourite pieces for solo piano?
I believe I mentioned that I play keyboards very badly? Now if we are doing Beethoven's Fifth on my bass guitar, that's different!
Favorite song and why?
ohh way too many to pick just one favorite....I might have a top 40 though!
go your own way, give a little bit, the ecstasy of gold, little black submarines, the letter, wild mountain thyme, come to my window---just to name a few.
have any of you heard "voice inside my head" by the Dixie chicks? as far as I can tell the song is about giving up a baby for adoption, and then regretting it as an adult and dealing with the guilt.
or springsteen's "worlds apart" which I take to be about an American man and a muslim woman caught up in loving each other despite the circumstances in which they find themselves.
the short answer to "why" would have to be, the songs just resonate with something inside and create a strong emotional response.
who's your favorite marvel avenger? (the choices would be iron man, the hulk, thor, captain America, black widow or hawkeye)
The only Avenger who ever interested me was Mrs. Peel.
Do you know how to sail?
you might enjoy black widow then...
if you count rigging a tent fly onto a canoe in order to get across the lake easier, yes.
if you mean on a sailboat, no--ive only had a couple of occasions to be out on them.
I recently read an account (book) of the 1998 yacht race between Sydney and Hobart (on Tasmania) where a lot of lives were lost.
knowing there is sometimes a risk of death, does doing a yacht/sailboat race sound more appealing, or less appealing? or put another way, do dangerous situations attract you?
No, not anymore. (And I don't sail, btw).
In your opinion, is their a substantial difference between Protestant and Catholic Christianity?
One is better organized?
How ironic is that the day before our bookstore closes down for good, we are celebrating California bookstore day?
Very ironic, Lykren.
What are you going to do when the goose that laid the golden egg closes?
This! :)
Do you ever not read for long periods of time, say a few weeks?
Good luck! :)
No, I almost always read some every day or night.
Would you like to live overseas for a period of your life?
I think if I had a good friend, or girlfriend or wife to do it with, id say yes.
who was your favorite bond girl?
I'm not really fond of any of them.
If everyone does it, does that make it alright?
No. Everyone could simply be sharing the same delusion. Or people could just be doing it to fit in.
What is a good excuse for skipping your shift at work?
Global warming.
What should I get my niece for her confirmation?
A nice white dress
Do you ever argue with yourself?
All my conversations with myself are arguments.
What was the worst party experience you've had? If it's too embarrassing, what was the occasion for celebration?
It was an undergraduate party long ago, and the occasion was for everyone to get drunk
Do more good things or bad things remain in your memory over time?
I got extremely drunk off of someone's home made bathtub beer one New Years and made out with a couple girls not up to my uh... standards. It was also the first and only time I've ever been truly blackout drunk with no memory of what happened for several hours. A female friend of mine told me I was her New Year's kiss and that her boyfriend almost started a fight with me (which would have been my first and only fight), but I don't remember any of it happening. I didn't throw up but I should have, I felt terrible the next day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
And Pomp I remember bad or embarrassing situations forever, often I'll be lying in bed and remember something stupid I've done or said and just say "nooooo" out loud and be unable to sleep for thinking about it.
Ever had a sexually transmitted disease?
Me too, although it usually doesn't interfere with my sleep. It's strange that the good things a person does require more effort to remember, but maybe that's just natural selection's way of keeping us from making the same stupid mistakes again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Not unless crabs count, and I'm pretty sure I got that from a coat I found in a thrift store.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clopin
Same question.
Haven't had any STDs.
What do you think of Frank Sinatra?
Talented crooner.
How about Bob Dylan?
Don't care for his singing, but the music is good.
What about Jimi Hendrix?
Talented guitarist, but I don't often care to be jarred like that by music.
Janis Joplin?
Rusty vocal cords, but love her "Me and Bobby McGee."
David Bowie?
One of my favorite bits from the Monterey Pop film is when Joplin and her band are performing "Ball and Chain", and the camera cuts to Cass Elliott in the audience just sitting open-mouthed. I think if Joplin had survived her lifestyle, she would have become an astonishing blues singer.
Edit (too slow again): Bowie is an artist in the best sense--creative, fearless, and seldom does the same thing twice.
Billie Holiday?
E: Holiday is one of the greats.
Joplin is alright, can't say I've listened to her that much, though
[Do Little Wing, Castles Made of Sand and The Wind Cries Mary jar you too, or All Along the Watchtower?]
Gary Moore?
Ardently alwaysQuote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Medieval theology?
Moore was okay, but only borderline as real blues goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
Orson Welles?
I have seen too little of Orson Welles' work, but I've liked what I've seen, Touch of Evil in particular.
Rory Gallagher?
See Gary Moore. :)
H.G. Wells?
the 2-3 books of his ive read, ive enjoyed, so on a limited basis I have to say yes to wells.
there's an interesting contemporary book where the author (his name escapes me) placed Sherlock holmes and professor challenger smack dab in the middle of the war of the worlds.
should Sylvester stallone left it at one rocky movie?