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First things first, this has nothing to do with the Sound of Music, so don't panic.
The subject of this thread is, what are your favourite things, specificaly, books, films, songs, bands etc.
I shall begin.
Favourite book: 1984, quell suprise
Favourite film: V for Vendetta
Favourite band: Pink Floyd
Favourite song by favourite band: Wish you were here
Favourite song not by favourite band: Everything Louder than Everything else by Meat Loaf
Favourite TV show (if any): Various between Dr Who and Firefly
Favourite Radio Station: BBC Radio 2
Feek free to add on anything not included on list.
GDGB
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"To such devices have we descended" A Handmaids Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Favorite Book: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Favorite Film: A Clockwork Orange
Favorite Band: The Beatles
Favorite Song by Favorite band: "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
Favorite Song not by Favorite Band: "Melt with You" by Modern English
Favorite TV Show: Blackadder or Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Favorite Radio Station: WDRV 97.1 FM The Drive
Comrade Aleks wrote:
Favourite song not by favourite band: Everything Louder than Everything else by Meat Loaf
You're a Meat Loaf fan too? I like the BOOH albums too. Come to think of it, the song (if it can be called that) immediately before ELTEE (Wasted Youth) is a classic in my book almost on par with "I'd do anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" _________________
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Comrade Aleks wrote:
First things first, this has nothing to do with the Sound of Music, so don't panic.
The subject of this thread is, what are your favourite things, specificaly, books, films, songs, bands etc.
I shall begin.
Favourite book: 1984, quell suprise
Favourite film: V for Vendetta
Favourite band: Pink Floyd
Favourite song by favourite band: Wish you were here
Favourite song not by favourite band: Everything Louder than Everything else by Meat Loaf
Favourite TV show (if any): Various between Dr Who and Firefly
Favourite Radio Station: BBC Radio 2
Feek free to add on anything not included on list.
GDGB
Aleks
I started hearing the Sound of Music thanks to you
Favorite book: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Favorite film: Solaris
Favorite band: Queen
Favorite song by favorite band: Bohemian Rhapsody
Favorite song not by favorite band: Time - Pink Floyd
Favorite TV show: Battlestar Galactica _________________
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Favourite book: It changes often. Right now I'd say Voltaire's Candide with Dostoevsky's Notes from the underground a close second
Favourite film: Again, the answer to this depends largely on when I am asked. Names like "The Maltese Falcon", "Hoshi no Koe" and "The great dictator" come to mind.
Favourite band: Not a massive follower of popular music, don't really have any band allegiances, I'll say Shiina Ringo and her band Tokyo Jihen.
Favourite song by favourite band: La Salle de Bain
Favourite song not by favourite band: The Moonlight Sonata unquestionably ... but I guess that's not really a song. A little more contemporary One winged Angel Specifically the version on the Piano OST.
Favourite TV show (if any): Serial Experiments Lain
Favourite Radio Station: I like radio 2, but I probably listen to BBC Radio 4 more often, even though it can get pretentious *coughTheMoralMazecough* .
_________________ "I wanted to know the world that was outside of the well.
So I tried hard to get out from the bottom of the well.
I wanted to know the world that was outside of the well.
So I climbed up numerous of times despite falling down over and over again.
But then I realized it.
The higher and higher I climb, the pain increases when I fall down again.
When my interest in the world outside of the well began to equal the amount of pain,
That was when I finally realized the meaning of the story to Der Froschkönig."
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Favourite book: This changes every few months, but as of the moment, I would say The Divine Comedy.
Favourite film: Batman Forever (Yes, THAT Batman Forever).
Favourite band: CCR.
Favourite song by favourite band: Bad Moon Rising
Favourite song not by favourite band: It might be stretching it to call it a song, but I would say Mozart's "Lacrimosa".
Favourite TV show (if any): Don't really watch TV much except for the Tonight Show and old Batman reruns, so that pretty much narrows it down.
Favourite Radio Station: Don't really listen to the radio either, so I can't say I have an answer. _________________ Due to the fact that my political and religious stance has developed into something completely different than before. I have drawn lines through that which I no longer believe or practice. I hope this will clear up any confusion in future debates.
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Batonfromage wrote:
Favourite book: This changes every few months, but as of the moment, I would say The Divine Comedy.
Favourite film: Batman Forever (Yes, THAT Batman Forever).
Favourite band: CCR.
Favourite song by favourite band: Bad Moon Rising
Favourite song not by favourite band: It might be stretching it to call it a song, but I would say Mozart's "Lacrimosa".
Favourite TV show (if any): Don't really watch TV much except for the Tonight Show and old Batman reruns, so that pretty much narrows it down.
Favourite Radio Station: Don't really listen to the radio either, so I can't say I have an answer.
Holy crap kid, you like THAT Batman movie? The worst movie in history? The one with Uma Thurman? Yuck... And you watch Batman reruns? :O _________________
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Mephis Ladder wrote:
Holy crap kid, you like THAT Batman movie? The worst movie in history? The one with Uma Thurman? Yuck... And you watch Batman reruns? :O
Batman forever is terrible, especially as they wrecked on of the best villains Poison Ivy, but old Adam West batman reruns have great comedy value, I'll watch them from time to time. _________________ "I wanted to know the world that was outside of the well.
So I tried hard to get out from the bottom of the well.
I wanted to know the world that was outside of the well.
So I climbed up numerous of times despite falling down over and over again.
But then I realized it.
The higher and higher I climb, the pain increases when I fall down again.
When my interest in the world outside of the well began to equal the amount of pain,
That was when I finally realized the meaning of the story to Der Froschkönig."
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JD-sama wrote:
Mephis Ladder wrote:
Holy crap kid, you like THAT Batman movie? The worst movie in history? The one with Uma Thurman? Yuck... And you watch Batman reruns? :O
Batman forever is terrible, especially as they wrecked on of the best villains Poison Ivy, but old Adam West batman reruns have great comedy value, I'll watch them from time to time.
Wow, some people like licensed schlock. _________________
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Teimuraz Sakirovadze wrote:
Wow, some people like licensed schlock.
Aww come on. You've come home with some friends, everyones had a bit too much to drink and some questionable foodstuffs in hand. You turn on the TV, it's an Adam West Batman rerun, the next half hour is guaranteed to be epic. _________________ "I wanted to know the world that was outside of the well.
So I tried hard to get out from the bottom of the well.
I wanted to know the world that was outside of the well.
So I climbed up numerous of times despite falling down over and over again.
But then I realized it.
The higher and higher I climb, the pain increases when I fall down again.
When my interest in the world outside of the well began to equal the amount of pain,
That was when I finally realized the meaning of the story to Der Froschkönig."
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JD-sama wrote:
Teimuraz Sakirovadze wrote:
Wow, some people like licensed schlock.
Aww come on. You've come home with some friends, everyones had a bit too much to drink and some questionable foodstuffs in hand. You turn on the TV, it's an Adam West Batman rerun, the next half hour is guaranteed to be epic.
I don't have cable TV, lol, and I rarely drink. x8 _________________
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Mephi wrote:
Holy crap kid, you like THAT Batman movie? The worst movie in history? The one with Uma Thurman? Yuck... And you watch Batman reruns? :O
JD-sama wrote:
Batman forever is terrible, especially as they wrecked on of the best villains Poison Ivy
I believe you guys are thinking of the last of the Schumacher-era films : "Batman and Robin" which stared Uma Thurman (Poison Ivy) and the Governator (Mr. Freeze). I will admit this was not the best of films. I, however, was refering to the previous one (Val Kilmer as Batman, Jim Carrey as The Riddler, and Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face). Batman Forever mixed all of the elements of previous films and produced a masterpiece. It wasn't as dark as Batman Returns (which is still in my list of top 5 greatest movies) nor was it as light as the Adam West Batman. It embodies the state of perfection to be desired in a film.
As far as Adam West Batman goes : it's THAT AWESOME. Where else will you find exploding sharks. _________________ Due to the fact that my political and religious stance has developed into something completely different than before. I have drawn lines through that which I no longer believe or practice. I hope this will clear up any confusion in future debates.
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Favourite book: Always changes. I'd say 1984, but not always
Favourite film: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Favourite band: Radiohead
Favourite song by favourite band: Paranoid Android
Favourite song not by favourite band: (Currently) Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 (he's currently my avatar)
Favourite TV show (if any): House/Blackadder (I would love House more if FOX wasn't the one behind it)
Favourite Radio Station: None.
Adding a few...
Favorite Music Video: The Perfect Drug
Favorite Magazine: Wired
Favorite Author: Orwell/Kafka/Joyce
Favorite Book that I Have Never Read: Ulysses
Favorite Book to bring on a Literary Excursion to Show One's Talent although One will regard it as torture to read it all: Ulysses by James Joyce
Favorite Book that I will almost certainly never read: Ulysses
Favorite Book (if I'm asked by some student magazine): Ulysses
Favorite Book that I keep on mentioning: Ulysses
Favorite Poem: Nightpiece (Joyce)
Favorite MSN friend: Anzan who is almost always on nowadays
Favorite Homophobe: (guess) _________________
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Sindark Nave wrote:
Favourite book: Always changes. I'd say 1984, but not always
Favourite film: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Favourite band: Radiohead
Favourite song by favourite band: Paranoid Android
Favourite song not by favourite band: (Currently) Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 (he's currently my avatar)
Favourite TV show (if any): House/Blackadder (I would love House more if FOX wasn't the one behind it)
Favourite Radio Station: None.
Adding a few...
Favorite Music Video: The Perfect Drug
Favorite Magazine: Wired
Favorite Author: Orwell/Kafka/Joyce
Favorite Book that I Have Never Read: Ulysses
Favorite Book to bring on a Literary Excursion to Show One's Talent although One will regard it as torture to read it all: Ulysses by James Joyce
Favorite Book that I will almost certainly never read: Ulysses
Favorite Book (if I'm asked by some student magazine): Ulysses
Favorite Book that I keep on mentioning: Ulysses
Favorite Poem: Nightpiece (Joyce)
Favorite MSN friend: Anzan who is almost always on nowadays
Favorite Homophobe: (guess)
Would you believe me if I said I've never listened to Radiohead?
Favorite music video: Smack My Bitch Up - Prodigy (If none of you have watched it before, watch it now )
Favorite magazine: Time
Favorite author: William Shakespeare
Favorite MSN friend: Becca
Favorite homophobe: Ingsoc Officer or Carldiesturmer _________________
Favorite Book: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Favorite Film: A Clockwork Orange
Favorite Band: The Beatles
Favorite Song by Favorite band: "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
Favorite Song not by Favorite Band: "Melt with You" by Modern English
Favorite TV Show: Blackadder or Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Favorite Radio Station: WDRV 97.1 FM The Drive
Chairman, I see your additions to the list and add my own.
Favorite music video: "Psycho Killer" by The Talking Heads (or, indeed, Just David Byrne, his guitar, and a rhythm track).
Favorite magazine: Weekly World News (defunct), MentalFloss (current).
Favorite author: At the risk of sounding pretentious, Thomas Pynchon.
Favorite homophobe: Jack T. Chick
Favorite piece of Classical Music: "Perpetuum Mobile" by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Warning: to Paraphrase Woody Allen, Pop fans may think it's too classical, classical fans may think it's too pop, and the only person who can tell for sure got arrested yesterday on moral charges.
Favorite version of the song upon which this thread is named: John Coltrane's versions. _________________
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If you only read the books I read and met the scientists I know, then you would be great like me. As you age you'll find yourself right on some things and wrong on some other things, but please, in the process, don't be arrogant.
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Mephis Ladder wrote:
Favorite music video: Smack My Bitch Up - Prodigy (If none of you have watched it before, watch it now )
Favorite magazine: Time
Favorite author: William Shakespeare
Favorite MSN friend: Becca
Favorite homophobe: Ingsoc Officer or Carldiesturmer
Nice try meph but now meph do you want to thoughtcrime the thread with your usual flame-bait material? _________________
What is a Democratic Socialist?
It is a Communist who is cowardly
enough to call himself what he's not, for fear of backlash on the Semantics. It is about the "Speed" of the "Revolution".
Like Hitler said "get them persuaded and us elected"
Caveat Emptor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Socialism DO NOT USE BIG BROTHER'S LIBERTARIAN POLICIES AND BELIEFS AGAINST HIS HIMSELF AND HIS FORUM
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Favorite Book: The last major book I read that interested me was The Interperetation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. I can't say I'm a really big fan of works of fiction (There are a few exceptions, of course) even though I write it.
Favorite Film: The Corporation
Favorite Band: Flogging Molly
Favorite Song From Band: Tobacco Island
Absolute Favorite Song:
Favorite TV Show: House, though I end up watching documentaries more than TV shows if I watch TV at all.
Favorite Radio Station: Eska Rock Poznan, or Hit Gdansk. I don't listen to radio often, though. _________________
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Ingsoc Officer wrote:
Favourite film: Blade Runner. Probably not a surprise to any of the regulars.
You know, when I first saw the movie, I saw "Republicans" instead of "Replicants" in the intro. Would make a much better movie.
So, I'll post the whole list, and the last of each I read/saw/heard/whatever
Favourite book: 1984 (last: The Fountainhead)
Favourite film: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (last: The Blues Brothers)
Favourite band: Pink Floyd
Favourite song by favourite band: "Time" (last: "Keep Talking")
Favourite song not by favourite band: "Intolerance" by Tool (last: "Sex Type Thing" by Stone Temple Pilots)
Favourite TV show (if any): South Park, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Show with Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, or Doctor Who. (last: Malcolm in the Middle)
Favourite Radio Station: 97.1 FM WDRV Chicago... not that I listen to much radio! (last: god only knows...)
And now for part 2!
Favorite Music Video: "Land of Confusion" by Genesis (last: "Land of Confusion" by Genesis)
Favorite Magazine: - (last: -)
Favorite Author: Rand, Orwell
Favorite Book that I Have Never Read: Atlas Shrugged
Favorite Book to bring on a Literary Excursion to Show One's Talent although One will regard it as torture to read it all: War and Peace
Favorite Book that I will almost certainly never read: War and Peace
Favorite Book (if I'm asked by some student magazine): Atlas Shrugged
Favorite Book that I keep on mentioning: Atlas Shrugged
Favorite Poem: Howl (Ginsberg)
Favorite MSN friend: either Kirov or someone none of you guys would know.
Favorite Homophobe: Fred Phelps. He's just so soft and cuddly that I want to take him home...! (And yes, JD, I do mean this in the Rena Ryuugu way.)
_________________
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I've read all the "favourite books I haven't read" so far, boo ya. Although I regret reading Atlas shrugged and the middle bit of War and Peace (the endless recounting of battles) was a real struggle.
My favourite book I haven't read: In search of lost time (À la recherche du temps perdu)
Am I the only one that finds Marcel Proust completely impenentrable? I've tackled this book a bunch of times but never finished it.
TEC of the Rebellion wrote:
Favorite Homophobe: Fred Phelps. He's just so soft and cuddly that I want to take him home...! (And yes, JD, I do mean this in the Rena Ryuugu way.)
Hau! Omochikaeri! _________________ "I wanted to know the world that was outside of the well.
So I tried hard to get out from the bottom of the well.
I wanted to know the world that was outside of the well.
So I climbed up numerous of times despite falling down over and over again.
But then I realized it.
The higher and higher I climb, the pain increases when I fall down again.
When my interest in the world outside of the well began to equal the amount of pain,
That was when I finally realized the meaning of the story to Der Froschkönig."
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Holy crap. xD
Guess I get to put in my two units.
Favorite Music Video: Hangar 18 - Megadeth -It's a classic.
Favorite magazine: Hustler .... Yeah, shut up.
Favorite author: Shit, I dunno.
Favorite film: Six-String Samurai / any good silent film ...
Favorite band: Pink Floyd
Favorite song by favorite band: Wait - Pink Floyd
Favorite song by non-favorite band: Blame Hoffman - Tool*
Favorite TV show: It's either test patterns or South Park.
Favorite radio station: I'm the only one here who listens to an AM station - 790, KFGO. What? it's Coast to Coast. I like hearing strange shit from 12 to 4 in the morning.
Part deux:
Favorite Book that I Have Never Read: We
Favorite Book to bring on a Literary Excursion to Show One's Talent although One will regard it as torture to read it all: The Bible
Favorite Book that I will almost certainly never read: War and Peace
Favorite Book (if I'm asked by some student magazine): 1984
Favorite Book that I keep on mentioning: The Life and Death of Lenin
Favorite Poem: .... I don't know.
Favorite MSN friend: Anyone who talks to me, because I'm on too much. |-D
Favorite Homophobe: Fred Phelps, because he's so homophobic - he can't touch himself. xD
(By the way, I'm surprised that a few people listed me as their favorite MSN friend )
-Anzan
(*Correction: see TEC's wikilink. :] ) _________________
27-X-90 - 25-XI-08
ДА ЗДРАВСТВУЕТ НАШЕГО КИРОВА!
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JD-sama wrote:
I've read all the "favourite books I haven't read" so far, boo ya. Although I regret reading Atlas shrugged and the middle bit of War and Peace (the endless recounting of battles) was a real struggle.
Heh... well, I'll end up getting around to making an attempt at Atlas Shrugged in summer, or something, after I'm done taking my physics tests and whatever.
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My favourite book I haven't read: In search of lost time (À la recherche du temps perdu)
Am I the only one that finds Marcel Proust completely impenentrable? I've tackled this book a bunch of times but never finished it.
I've made attempts at Proust, but yes, quite difficult, really.
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TEC of the Rebellion wrote:
Favorite Homophobe: Fred Phelps. He's just so soft and cuddly that I want to take him home...! (And yes, JD, I do mean this in the Rena Ryuugu way.)
Hau! Omochikaeri!
Geeky inside jokes are amazing.
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Favorite song by non-favorite band: Blame Hoffman - Tool
I believe that's "Blame Hofmann?" Slight difference. (Wiki link for others, not you.)
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(By the way, I'm surprised that a few people listed me as their favorite MSN friend Embarassed )
Come on, dude, you kick a pretty significant amount of ass... _________________
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Ingsoc Officer wrote:
TEC of the Rebellion wrote:
Ingsoc Officer wrote:
Favourite film: Blade Runner. Probably not a surprise to any of the regulars.
You know, when I first saw the movie, I saw "Republicans" instead of "Replicants" in the intro. Would make a much better movie.
Well, both Republicans and replicants lack empathy...
Ah hah, you do present a good point, IO! I loved Blade Runner, but I was mildly disappointed when I found out he wasn't killing Republicans. Still badass. _________________
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Teimuraz Sakirovadze wrote:
TEC wrote:
I believe that's "Blame Hofmann?" Slight difference. (Wiki link for others, not you.)
Eh, close enough, lol.
You got a point. Interesting to note: Albert Hofmann just died last week. Holy fucking shit, Batman... It's a week later, not sure if I should post a topic on it.
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TEC wrote:
Come on, dude, you kick a pretty significant amount of ass...
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Favourite book: Probably Nineteen Eighty-Four, along with Asimov's Foundation series and Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Favourite film: Possibly The Good, The Bad and The Ugly or The Godfather, although as a sort of cineophile, this definitely doesn't tell the whole story in terms of my film enjoyment.
Favourite band: Again, difficult to decide, but probably the Pixies.
Favourite song by favourite band: Probably "Monkey Gone to Heaven".
Favourite song not by favourite band: Don't actually know.
Favourite TV show (if any): Doctor Who, Top Gear.
Favourite Radio Station: RTÉ Two, BBC Radio 4, Shortwave 11545kHz (a.k.a. The Lincolnshire Poacher - look it up!)
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Favourite Computer Game: Half-Life 2, followed by Fallout, System Shock 2 and Operation Flashpoint. _________________ "Rejection of technology ruins a good mind." - RAK
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Favorite author: At the risk of sounding pretentious, Thomas Pynchon.
You mean the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award? ...but he wrote the foreword of 1984, so I won't complain.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra is too pop for me. Yes, I understand that saying this will just project an image of a highbrow upper-class twit...but well, I like "Song for A Telephone Dial Tone" or something like that.
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I've read all the "favourite books I haven't read" so far, boo ya.
Fuck you. I don't believe you've seen Ulysses. (Joyce, NOT Homer) If yes I bet you haven't seen Finnegan's Wake! Or Dubliners(started)! Or Pomes Pemysach (seen)! Or A Portrait(finished)! Ha!
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My favourite book I haven't read: In search of lost time (À la recherche du temps perdu)
I haven't read that - and it's an impossible read! - but I've seen the Monty Python sketch.
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Yes. Anyone here don't know Radiohead? Hope someone has heard of them...long live electronica/alt. rock.
...well, I know of them. I can't say for sure if I've really heard anything by them, but it is possible; I'm not so sure. I know for a fact that I don't have their albums on my computer. At the mention of alt. rock; I was born in the later end of 1990 (Sept. 4 1990, to be exact), so I kind of grew up with it. I listen to a fair number of alt-rock bands or albums that are distinctly alt-rock-influenced despite not being by alt-rock bands (cf. Counterparts). So, it's certainly in there among my listening habits. Electronica not so much. I listen to few electronica/industrial or similar bands, but I have a fair number of early Kraftwerk albums, so. _________________
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Favorite Book: Lord of the Night by Si(mon?) Spurrier
Favorite Film: The Longest Day
Favorite Music Group: Infected Mushroom
Favorite Songs by the group: Heavyweight and Bust A Move
Favorite TV Show: South Park
Favorite Radio Station: WBBM (the news)
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Favorite Strategy Game: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Favorite Race to play in DoW: Orks, 'cause deyz da biggest and da strongest! (Necrons come a close second, though)
Favorite Shootemup: F.E.A.R.
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Sindark Nave wrote:
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Favorite author: At the risk of sounding pretentious, Thomas Pynchon.
You mean the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award? ...but he wrote the foreword of 1984, so I won't complain.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra is too pop for me. Yes, I understand that saying this will just project an image of a highbrow upper-class twit...but well, I like "Song for A Telephone Dial Tone" or something like that.
His writings have influenced me to add bizarre sex scenes in my books, which haven't been published yet. The song title is "Telephone and Rubber Band", by the way.
FYI: He never won the "Bad Sex in Fiction Award." In 2006, his infamous "Reader, she bit him" scene from Against the Day made him shortlisted, but he lost to a first-time writer.
Sindark Nave wrote:
Fuck you. I don't believe you've seen Ulysses. (Joyce, NOT Homer) If yes I bet you haven't seen Finnegan's Wake! Or Dubliners(started)! Or Pomes Pemysach (seen)! Or A Portrait(finished)! Ha!
I have. I actually read this for fun in Freshman year of High School after my English teacher mentioned that it was one of the most difficult books in the English Language, and later went through a similar thing with Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow, specifically). I also read Finnegans Wake soon after. That one is much more difficult, although the extent to which it can be rightly said to be of the English language is questionable. Of course, I probably wouldn't have been tempted to read these books if not for my extraordinarily high IQ (176). _________________
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I have. I actually read this for fun in Freshman year of High School after my English teacher mentioned that it was one of the most difficult books in the English Language, and later went through a similar thing with Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow, specifically). I also read Finnegans Wake soon after. That one is much more difficult, although the extent to which it can be rightly said to be of the English language is questionable. Of course, I probably wouldn't have been tempted to read these books if not for my extraordinarily high IQ (176).
But have you read Moby Dick yet? It's a great book, as well as a difficult read.
I've always been tempted to read Ulysses myself, being a Dubliner. There's a much higher chance that I'll understand the references to specific places. That said, I've read few of those sorts of "classic" books since I started in college - even though I have the resources of the country's biggest library at my disposal. Then again, I'm a science-faculty student, and going up to the Arts Building and the BLU library complex when it isn't necessary feels somewhat uncomfortable, due to the jocular rivalries between arts and science students (they get far less hours than the science students, but we steal most of their funding). _________________ "Rejection of technology ruins a good mind." - RAK
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Mephis Ladder wrote:
orwelliantherye wrote:
my extraordinarily high IQ (176).
What, did you cheat on one of those internet tests?
Actually, this was before I used the internet anywhere near where I do now and certainly before I knew anything about internet IQ Tests. All I remember is that I was tested sometime in the 1st or 2nd grade (around seven years old), that my test was apparently one that was usually given to adults (my guess is that it was one of the Wechsler tests), and that I scored 176. I only learned about my score (and before then, I didn't even remember having been tested) from my mother a few weeks ago. Before that, I knew that I was very intelligent (certainly more than my classmates), but the true extent of my intellect was unknown to me until then. _________________
Rev. Ted Haggard wrote:
If you only read the books I read and met the scientists I know, then you would be great like me. As you age you'll find yourself right on some things and wrong on some other things, but please, in the process, don't be arrogant.
Eddie Murphy wrote:
I was upset when I met a man with no shoes.....But then I met a man with no penis
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orwelliantherye wrote:
Actually, this was before I used the internet anywhere near where I do now and certainly before I knew anything about internet IQ Tests.
Haha, a likely story.
orwelliantherye wrote:
All I remember is that I was tested sometime in the 1st or 2nd grade (around seven years old), that my test was apparently one that was usually given to adults (my guess is that it was one of the Wechsler tests), and that I scored 176. I only learned about my score (and before then, I didn't even remember having been tested) from my mother a few weeks ago. Before that, I knew that I was very intelligent (certainly more than my classmates), but the true extent of my intellect was unknown to me until then.
Personally I took a test administered by my double-Ph.D stepfather (otherwise it would sound weird that someone's dad gave them an IQ test) and received 147. That was when I was in 6th grade, so I was 11 or 12, I believe.
I don't have any reason to think you're lying, but 176 for a 7 year old is pretty damn high. However, it's not unbelievable because IQ tests are supposed to be age-dependant: my 147 for example is now lower, but I don't know how much lower. You probably thus don't have 176 any longer. 150? As an outsider to the whole process, I'd say that's a reasonable slope. _________________
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orwelliantherye wrote:
Actually, this was before I used the internet anywhere near where I do now and certainly before I knew anything about internet IQ Tests.
Haha, a likely story.
orwelliantherye wrote:
All I remember is that I was tested sometime in the 1st or 2nd grade (around seven years old), that my test was apparently one that was usually given to adults (my guess is that it was one of the Wechsler tests), and that I scored 176. I only learned about my score (and before then, I didn't even remember having been tested) from my mother a few weeks ago. Before that, I knew that I was very intelligent (certainly more than my classmates), but the true extent of my intellect was unknown to me until then.
Personally I took a test administered by my double-Ph.D stepfather (otherwise it would sound weird that someone's dad gave them an IQ test) and received 147. That was when I was in 6th grade, so I was 11 or 12, I believe.
I don't have any reason to think you're lying, but 176 for a 7 year old is pretty damn high. However, it's not unbelievable because IQ tests are supposed to be age-dependant: my 147 for example is now lower, but I don't know how much lower. You probably thus don't have 176 any longer. 150? As an outsider to the whole process, I'd say that's a reasonable slope. _________________
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orwelliantherye wrote:
Sindark Nave wrote:
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Favorite author: At the risk of sounding pretentious, Thomas Pynchon.
You mean the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award? ...but he wrote the foreword of 1984, so I won't complain.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra is too pop for me. Yes, I understand that saying this will just project an image of a highbrow upper-class twit...but well, I like "Song for A Telephone Dial Tone" or something like that.
His writings have influenced me to add bizarre sex scenes in my books, which haven't been published yet. The song title is "Telephone and Rubber Band", by the way.
FYI: He never won the "Bad Sex in Fiction Award." In 2006, his infamous "Reader, she bit him" scene from Against the Day made him shortlisted, but he lost to a first-time writer.
Ah...I remember seeing a Youtube movie of that; and the filler video was from Metropolis...an unlikely match but not bad all the same.
From Thomas Pynchon, my semi-favorite Homophobe
"Mouffette? She's a papillon ... a sort of French ladies' lapdog."
"A - You say," gears in his mind beginning to crank, " 'lap' - French ... lap-dog?" Somehow gathering that Ruperta had trained her toy spaniel to provide intimate "French" caresses of the tongue for the pleasure of its mistress.
"Well! you two are ... pretty close then, I guess?"
"I wuv my ickle woofwoof, ess I doo!" ...
His thoughts taking wing. The day alone with a French "lap" dog! who might be more than happy to do for Reef what she was obviously already doing for old 'Pert here! who in fact, m-maybe all this time's been just droolin' for one-them penises for a change, and will turn out to know plenty of tricks! A-and- ...
It took a while for Ruperta to get her toilette perfect and her bustle out the door. Reef found himself pacing and smoking, and whenever he took a look over at Mouffette could've sworn she was fidgeting too. The dog, it seemed to Reef, was giving him sidewise looks which if they'd come from a woman you would have had to call flirtatious. Finally after an extended farewell notable for its amount of saliva exchange, Mouffette slowly padded over to the divan where Reef was sitting and jumped up to sit next to him. Jumping on the furniture was something Ruperta seldom allowed her to do, and her gaze as Reef clearly assumed that he would not get upset. Far from it, what he actually got was an erection. Mouffette looked it over, looked away, looked back, and suddenly jumped up on his lap.
"Oboy, oboy." He stroked the diminutive spaniel for a while until, with no warning, she jumped off the couch and slowly went into the bedroom, looking back now and then over her shoulder. Reef followed, taking out his penis, breathing heavily through his mouth. "Here, Mouffie, nice big dog bone for you right here, lookit this, yeah, seen many of these lately? come on, smells good don't it, mmm, yum!" and so forth, Mouffette meantime angling her head, edging closer, sniffing with curiosity. "That's right, now, o-o-open up... good girl, good Mouffette now let's just put this - yaahhgghh!"
Reader, she bit him.
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Sindark Nave wrote:
Fuck you. I don't believe you've seen Ulysses. (Joyce, NOT Homer) If yes I bet you haven't seen Finnegan's Wake! Or Dubliners(started)! Or Pomes Pemysach (seen)! Or A Portrait(finished)! Ha!
I have. I actually read this for fun in Freshman year of High School after my English teacher mentioned that it was one of the most difficult books in the English Language, and later went through a similar thing with Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow, specifically). I also read Finnegans Wake soon after. That one is much more difficult, although the extent to which it can be rightly said to be of the English language is questionable. Of course, I probably wouldn't have been tempted to read these books if not for my extraordinarily high IQ (176).
I'm glad I have the counter-argument of "being young". Has anyone tried to translate Ulysses?
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Sindark Nave wrote:
orwelliantherye wrote:
Sindark Nave wrote:
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Favorite author: At the risk of sounding pretentious, Thomas Pynchon.
You mean the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award? ...but he wrote the foreword of 1984, so I won't complain.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra is too pop for me. Yes, I understand that saying this will just project an image of a highbrow upper-class twit...but well, I like "Song for A Telephone Dial Tone" or something like that.
His writings have influenced me to add bizarre sex scenes in my books, which haven't been published yet. The song title is "Telephone and Rubber Band", by the way.
FYI: He never won the "Bad Sex in Fiction Award." In 2006, his infamous "Reader, she bit him" scene from Against the Day made him shortlisted, but he lost to a first-time writer.
Ah...I remember seeing a Youtube movie of that; and the filler video was from Metropolis...an unlikely match but not bad all the same.
From Thomas Pynchon, my semi-favorite Homophobe
"Mouffette? She's a papillon ... a sort of French ladies' lapdog."
"A - You say," gears in his mind beginning to crank, " 'lap' - French ... lap-dog?" Somehow gathering that Ruperta had trained her toy spaniel to provide intimate "French" caresses of the tongue for the pleasure of its mistress.
"Well! you two are ... pretty close then, I guess?"
"I wuv my ickle woofwoof, ess I doo!" ...
His thoughts taking wing. The day alone with a French "lap" dog! who might be more than happy to do for Reef what she was obviously already doing for old 'Pert here! who in fact, m-maybe all this time's been just droolin' for one-them penises for a change, and will turn out to know plenty of tricks! A-and- ...
It took a while for Ruperta to get her toilette perfect and her bustle out the door. Reef found himself pacing and smoking, and whenever he took a look over at Mouffette could've sworn she was fidgeting too. The dog, it seemed to Reef, was giving him sidewise looks which if they'd come from a woman you would have had to call flirtatious. Finally after an extended farewell notable for its amount of saliva exchange, Mouffette slowly padded over to the divan where Reef was sitting and jumped up to sit next to him. Jumping on the furniture was something Ruperta seldom allowed her to do, and her gaze as Reef clearly assumed that he would not get upset. Far from it, what he actually got was an erection. Mouffette looked it over, looked away, looked back, and suddenly jumped up on his lap.
"Oboy, oboy." He stroked the diminutive spaniel for a while until, with no warning, she jumped off the couch and slowly went into the bedroom, looking back now and then over her shoulder. Reef followed, taking out his penis, breathing heavily through his mouth. "Here, Mouffie, nice big dog bone for you right here, lookit this, yeah, seen many of these lately? come on, smells good don't it, mmm, yum!" and so forth, Mouffette meantime angling her head, edging closer, sniffing with curiosity. "That's right, now, o-o-open up... good girl, good Mouffette now let's just put this - yaahhgghh!"
Reader, she bit him.
At the risk of sounding, er, untrained in the ways of, er, weird erotic fiction, that is one of the craziest things I've ever seen. And I've written some weird shit. Most of it's been deleted and, well, okay, precious little has been erotic...
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Sindark Nave wrote:
Fuck you. I don't believe you've seen Ulysses. (Joyce, NOT Homer) If yes I bet you haven't seen Finnegan's Wake! Or Dubliners(started)! Or Pomes Pemysach (seen)! Or A Portrait(finished)! Ha!
I have. I actually read this for fun in Freshman year of High School after my English teacher mentioned that it was one of the most difficult books in the English Language, and later went through a similar thing with Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow, specifically). I also read Finnegans Wake soon after. That one is much more difficult, although the extent to which it can be rightly said to be of the English language is questionable. Of course, I probably wouldn't have been tempted to read these books if not for my extraordinarily high IQ (176).
I'm glad I have the counter-argument of "being young". Has anyone tried to translate Ulysses?
Oh, good cover!
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(BTW, my IQ is 131)
I see. I don't take IQ tests. Never have. I just know I'm smart enough to be taking calculus and calculus-based physics at age 17. That said, given how stupid the average monkeyasshole human seems to be... I'd consider myself pretty smart. One thing that judging intelligence by classes has over the IQ test is that there will never be guesswork involved in the former.
RAK wrote:
But have you read Moby Dick yet? It's a great book, as well as a difficult read.
That reminds me, I have to put Moby Dick on my list of readings. After I'm done reading all this other weird shit for school. For my present (year 4) literature class I'm reading Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead, which, while funny and kind of interesting, is hard to follow because it almost entirely lacks a proper structure. Just when it starts to get to plot, here we go, another discussion of logic, morals, or things like that. Also among my future reading list, now that I think of it, is Waiting for Godot.
On a semi-related front, I should also piece together a list of films I still have to see. I know for certain that Eraserhead is right near the top of the list. I have a copy available right now, and hell, if I wanted to, I could watch it at my lunch break. I mean, at 10:45 in the morning, lunch clearly isn't on my mind just yet. Whoever designed my schedule should probably be beaten severely. _________________
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I see. I don't take IQ tests. Never have. I just know I'm smart enough to be taking calculus and calculus-based physics at age 17. That said, given how stupid the average monkeyasshole human seems to be... I'd consider myself pretty smart. One thing that judging intelligence by classes has over the IQ test is that there will never be guesswork involved in the former.
But what level of calculus? Calculus just seems to be the manipulation of differentials, integrals and limits, for instance, and in Ireland, basic calculus is an essential part of the secondary-level Leaving Certificate mathematics course, which means that students here will have started learning a part of calculus by the time they're 17. It's also examined at a higher level in the subject of applied mathematics. Obviously, by the time you get to college, if you're doing any subject with a significant mathematics portion, you'll be learning it anyway.
At the moment, half of my mathematics course (which is one of three courses I study as part of my first-year course for my degree) focuses on calculus, and because the lecturer is very much a pure mathematician rather than an applied mathematician, he lectures in a very abstract way which makes many of us confused when it comes to trying to understand his material. The linear algebra course is easier to understand, fortunately. _________________ "Rejection of technology ruins a good mind." - RAK
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The highest mathematics course I've taken is Algebra II/Trigonometry. I don't know how it goes in other nations like you guys here belong to, but in America it goes from Algebra I in Freshman year, to Geometry in Sophomore year, to Algebra II/Trigonometry in Junior year. In the states I've lived in, Geometry was the highest required mathematics class. I took AII/Trig because I wanted to go to college. I don't have major problems with math, and I also don't have a strong gift in it either. I've always felt more comfortable with subjects like English and History. Science classes I've taken like Chemistry and AP Biology were irritating to me due to the requirements that we use a lot of math, but I more enjoyed just learning about things like evolution or genetic drift, to name two topics. _________________
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I see. I don't take IQ tests. Never have. I just know I'm smart enough to be taking calculus and calculus-based physics at age 17. That said, given how stupid the average monkeyasshole human seems to be... I'd consider myself pretty smart. One thing that judging intelligence by classes has over the IQ test is that there will never be guesswork involved in the former.
But what level of calculus? Calculus just seems to be the manipulation of differentials, integrals and limits, for instance, and in Ireland, basic calculus is an essential part of the secondary-level Leaving Certificate mathematics course, which means that students here will have started learning a part of calculus by the time they're 17. It's also examined at a higher level in the subject of applied mathematics. Obviously, by the time you get to college, if you're doing any subject with a significant mathematics portion, you'll be learning it anyway.
With regards to this:
Obviously, by the time you get to college, if you're doing any subject with a significant mathematics portion, you'll be learning it anyway.
Here in the U.S., "by the time you get to college" means 19. And by the time you get to college here, all you need to have is trig. Afterwards, if you don't have pre-calculus, you take it there, then calculus. My pre-calc class last year was clogged with HS seniors. Right now, I'm taking AP Calculus AB (i.e. one year of college-level calculus, covering derivatives, integrals, parametrics, some series, differential equations, slope fields, your basic shit); next year I'll be taking a course in multi-variable calculus; how much material it will cover I know not. Regardless, based on America's required credits for graduation, I am two years ahead in mathematics credits, and furthermore taking these all at honors or AP level. Which, judging by this:
in Ireland, basic calculus is an essential part of the secondary-level Leaving Certificate mathematics course, which means that students here will have started learning a part of calculus by the time they're 17.
...basically just means I'm a little smarter than the average retard in America. In trig we were taught the basics of the derivative but were not instructed on the core work involved in differentiation, nor did we learn to take an integral or how to make antiderivatives. I don't know to what level the Irish school system requires you to learn about calculus, though.
With regards also to the physics, even though it wasn't much brought up; I am currently also enrolled in a calculus-centered physics course, which we here in America call "AP Physics C," which is also college-level; by my age most people would be taking "normal" physics here, nothing fancy. I came in with a biology credit, then took physics my first year and chemistry after. AP Physics C involves learning about mechanics and electricity/magnetism; AP Physics B, the only other type of AP physics that I know of, does not involve calculus (I think...) and, as such, does not involve the depth of Physics C, but also includes thermodynamics (I think...) and basic at least information on concepts such as hadronic force and fluid motion; that said, American education is fucking bonkers, especially if you're a "gifted" kid. Gifted, my ass; I'm just not a retard. Slight difference.
Mephi wrote:
The highest mathematics course I've taken is Algebra II/Trigonometry. I don't know how it goes in other nations like you guys here belong to, but in America it goes from Algebra I in Freshman year, to Geometry in Sophomore year, to Algebra II/Trigonometry in Junior year. In the states I've lived in, Geometry was the highest required mathematics class. I took AII/Trig because I wanted to go to college.
Hm. What states were these, out of interest? I've never heard of this shit in Illinois...
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Science classes I've taken like Chemistry and AP Biology were irritating to me due to the requirements that we use a lot of math, but I more enjoyed just learning about things like evolution or genetic drift, to name two topics.
Hm. So, for someone who is interested in genetics, evolution, etc., but thinks 99% of the remainder of biology class is shit, there is something that redeems AP biology? Then again, my biology teacher was very big on marine life. So much so that, when he left my grade school and went to my high school, he introduced a marine biolog class in his (and my) second year there. And, by the way, chemistry is, indeed, quite evil at times. But then, the year I had chemistry was the year that my chem teacher decided that his family needed to bring a kid into the world (not a jab at him; he was a great guy) so most days we did fucking book work, because we had a sub. We only barely got to titrations. Kind of disappointing... _________________
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