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I have officially joined but what exactly is it?

Ye Olde Desert Island Game

If you were going to be marooned on a desert island, and you could only take three books besides the bible, three movies, and three CDs, what would you take?

For me--

Books:
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis
Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkein

Movies:
Pride and Predjudice
Persuasion
and I will have to think about the third, but probably a Pixar movie, maybe Finding Nemo, so I could hear Dori sing 'just kep swimming, just keep swimming....'

CDs:
This Side, Nickel Creek
Storm, Fernando Ortega
The Messiah, preferably the two-disc complete version with Kathleen Battle as Soprano.

Classical Music

Until recently, classical music had always set the standard for good music. Lately, with modern musicians like John Cage and Arnold Scheonberg trying to give classical music a new sound, dissonance is the rule. John Cage said "the highest purpose is to have no purpose."
He has successfully applied this principle and composed such songs as 2:30, where he walked on stage and set a clock for two minutes, thirty seconds. The traditional realm of classical music has become one of uneven meters and industrial sound.
Real innovation in the original classical style has migrated to movie scores. Many classically inspired movie-composers such as John Williams, Howard Shore, and Harry Gregson-Williams build on the tradition of Bach, Beethoven, and Vaughn-Williams. Developing their own unique styles, just as classical composers did, they are devoted to beauty in their craft. Movie soundtracks now outsell modern classical recordings. Music catalogs such as Musical Heritage and B.M.G. have whole pages exclusively for movie music. Both modern classical composers and movie score composers attempt to modernize classical music, but only the last successfully developed new music worthy of its predecessors.

Music - 2005

Why, does it seem, most of the music we listen to seems to be from older people. Not saying young people don't make good music but why don't we listen to more music from 2005? Is it not music also? But a different kind. Don't you think? What have we gone to. It seems that some music, such as Rap, is based on saying words in some type of rythme. Not singing. And most of them use improper grammer. Why wasn't Rap sung a long time ago? What is so different? I think we have declined in our standards of music along with our standards in everything else.

Question.

Hey Thermodude,
Thanks for inviting me to join up! I'm very honored. :)

I have been wondering if we wanted to do anything with the links bar over on the side? I was thinking I could fix it up to link to all of our individual blogs...

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Questionable qualifications

OK, so I'm not exactly a PB youth (even though it IS permanently engraved on my resume ;-). But I was so very cordially invited to this little party, and I do have some manners. Plus I've been told that the better part of the secret to having a good life is just *showing up* for it. So here I am.

But I will just lurk here now and then... unless provoked. ;-) Y'all have fun.

XOXOXO

Folly and Wisdom (but mostly just wierdness

Disclaimer: these thoughts came from the internet, not my head. I am not responsible for any insanity herewith.

Save a tree: eat a beaver.
(But what do beavers taste like?)

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division.
(I like that)

An adventure without peril is no adventure at all.
(Whoever said that sounds like he was studying Gandalf's rhetoric.)

My fantasies are all that keep me sane. My reality is all that keeps me alive.
(Ooooooookaaayyy.)

When the eagles are silent, the parrots beging to chatter. - Winston Churchill

If you don't have to move, don't.
(But Thermodude and Darkside had to.)

You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same.
(Is that good of bad?)

A day without sunshine is like....................................night.
(True, very true.)

Books are the quietest and most consistent of friends and the most patient of teachers.
- Charles W. Eliot

Do not disturb. I am disturebed enough already.
(OH YEAH!!!)

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair.

Tread sofly, for you tread on my dreams.
(This could be cool or very, very wierd, depending.)

What can I say? I'm a creature of habit.
(Not very exciting by itself, but this could come in handy.)

Before you insult someone, walk two miles in their shoes. Then, when you insult them, you are two miles away from them, and you have their shoes.
(*evil, sadistic cackle*)

I hold in my paws a device so powerful, so revolutionary, that it will change the balance of power amongst all species, making the CAT the MASTER! A device so simple that it took a mind as brilliant as mine to create it! So briliant, in fact, that simple by harnessing the power of one live frog, it........uh........*He looks into the box and roughly pokes the frog before looking back up* World domination has encountered a momentary setback. Please talk amongst yourselves.
(Please read Disclaimer, again)

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

I took the road less-traveled. Now where the heck am I?

Where exactly is your fancy? And what if its not even ticklish?

(That's it, for now.)

Test, 1 2 3

This is a test. I repeat, this is a test.