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Real life. No one should have to interact with someone like me.
Nasty hangover or infected splinter?
Infected splinter.
Japanese or Chinese art?
Japanese by a light year
William Blake or William Wordsworth?
William Blake
Bert Jansch or John Renbourn?
you might have pulled the too esoteric card on that one nikolaiI, but I could be wrong...smiles...
You may regret asking. :)
Chocolate chip cookies or oatmeal raison cookies?
Chocolate chip cookies.
Goya or Caspar David Friedrich?
Chocolate chip - and anyone who thinks otherwise is a monster. ;)
Unless you mean oatmeal raison cookies; whose reason is oatmeal. Then I'm just confused!
How's that for a lame pun?
EDIT: Goya by a lot.
Do you think using vision aids (glasses, contacts) makes your vision worse?
No, that's an illusion based on the fact that your vision IS worse.
Oh and this is the this or that thread. :)
Snoopy or Scooby
Whoops!
Snoopy, much cuter.
Chess or Go? If you play neither, which board looks cooler?
Actually, not only have I never played chess, but (as with basketball) I don't even know the rules. Chinese chess pieces look the coolest, although the actual boards are often just skins or paper. But western chess set certainly looks cooler than the go set.
Peking opera or nails on a black--um, I mean, Italian opera?
laughs...well pompey, given I saw you said you live(d) in tapei (more on that later), im hesitant to say Italian...but ive never experienced peking opera, so maybe I'd go with that for the newness.
arwen or eowyn?
Arwen.
Italian opera for me. Verdi!
Folk or blues?
From the actresses, Arwen, since I have a thing about dark brunettes.
"Peking opera" is actually street opera by tradition, so it really can't be compared to Italian opera. To the uninitiated, though, it can sound awfully--foreign?
Blues.
Did you guys answer this before? Red Sox or Yankees?
I can listen to folk all the time---the blues I have to be in the right mood for...but they are oh so important aren't they? a tough choice...
am going to say the blues...by a smidgen!
arwen or tauriel?
Yes - I said Wesley So over Hikaru Nakamura :D
Sci-fi or fantasy?
dag nab it! smiles...
Yankees---great history and tradition often on top.
red sox---great history and tradition often not on top.
gotta go with the underdogs! red sox.
arwen or tauriel?
dag nab it again!
sci-fi only if its star trek, otherwise fantasy.
arwen or tauriel (we'll get there eventually!)
Nymeria Sand
Billy Parham or John Grady Cole?
Seven Samurai. He was so famous by the time he made Ran that everyone was afraid to edit him.
Hidden Fortress or Kagemusha?
Sacrilege!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Kagemusha.
He was broke and unpopular when he made Ran by the way. I think Lucas and Spielberg, who were fans, funded the movie.
Ugetsu or Life of Oharu?
EDIT: Though you're right, he may still not have been edited much. Anyways, I find that the film's length is appropriate.
Not in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he wasn't. We worshipped the very wind he broke at the time. He was considered a bit old hat in Japan, I think, but I never heard it described as unpopular. Lucas and Spielberg were trying to make him more mainstream over here (Hidden Fortress and Kagemusha were obviously influences on Star Wars), but somehow that got translated into: anything the genius wants gets left in. Beautiful looking movie, but in my opinion it was killed by kindness. I remember some fairly lukewarm reviews when it was released. It wasn't the length as much as the tightness (or lack thereof) that bothered people. Doesn't mean it was a bad movie--it wan't, but personally, I prefer his older stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lykren
Don't know the other two, so someone else will have to answer.
Fair enough. Ugetsu and Life of Oharu are both excellent Mizoguchi movies, but the right answer is Ugetsu, for that same reason of tightness. (I thought Ran was actually quite balanced!).Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Startling recontextualization of cliche or subtler and more original phrasemaking? In poetry?
I like to play games with unstated cliches in my poetry, but I'm that sure original phrasemaking is a sign of a better poet.
Tragic or comic plays?
Tragic
1984 or Brave New World?
Tragic, I suppose. I haven't read that many plays though.
EDIT: Brave New World.
The exotic or the familiar?
lykren I wanna go on a date with your avatar...(don't tell dark muse though)
am going to go with the familiar, but I love exotic too.
I liked both 1984 and a brave new world but I found 1984 the more believable of the two, and so therefore more scary, which I think was its intent.
have you all seen demolition man with Sylvester stallone and Sandra bullock? im sure it was influenced by a brave new world overall, and there are some small references to the book in the movie also.
dr seuss or Aesop's fables?
Hahahaha, NO, she's MINE. Why not tell DM though? You two dating or something?Quote:
Originally Posted by bounty
Aesop's Fables. Consistently clever and way more interesting than Seuss, though Seuss is alright, not bad.
Albert Ayler or Ornette Coleman?
smiles---no no, its just that I told her I wanted to go out with her avatar too!
hmm, I don't know either, give me a few minutes. ah, jazz musicians. they both look incredibly accomplished on paper but I am out of my element. let me pass that one along and hopefully the next person will be an aficionado.
albert ayler or ornette coleman?
Free jazz isn't my element either. :(
Re: BNW being less believable than 1984, I'm not sure if that is the case.
Miles Davis' 50s quintet or 60s quintet?
50's quintet
Derrida or Foucault?
60's quintet.
Making a heart with your hands or a V sign?
ah that was really interesting north star thank you. and from that perspective, id have to amend my thinking and say there's an awful lot of "a brave new world" going on...Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
Backwards peace sign, like Churchill's.
Who was worse, Stalin or Mao?
Stalin, Mao, Hitler - none of them was any good at all...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
I don't know how one can say who was the worst human being simply by looking at how many, or what percentage, of their country's (or other countries') population they killed.
Not familiar enough with Derrida & Foucalt to answer Pike.
John Coltrane or Bill Evans?
Coltrane
Kierkegaard or Heidegger?
Coltrane when he had his good stuff going.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
More money for social programs or manned space exploration?
Social programs. As fascinating and amazing as NASA's work is, and as much as I'm looking forward to the new telescope launching, we have to live here on Earth now.
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, or Chevrolet?
Apple pie!
Okay, so baseball or Chevrolet?
Baseball but living without either is fine by me.
Learning in a small group (of fairly like-minded students) or autodidacticism?