The BBC is far to linguistically correct to accept a four book "trilogy".
And in honor of the Dolphins I had a sardine sandwich for lunch today.
Best, Jon
Douglas Adams had a rather fine sense of the ridiculous, and there are many
quotations one could use for examples. "Tasting not entirely unlike tea".
But my favorite, in a early book, is the description of whats-her-name's
bathroom. "It was large enough to swing a cat, provided it was a very
tolera
I got the information about the band from the book.
Thanks for the correction!
Thomas
Am Die, 2004-05-18 um 18.38 schrieb Howard Posner:
> > How was the band's name whose music one can only bear to listen when
> > being on a different planet?
>
> Not quite that. In the interests of accuracy,
> How was the band's name whose music one can only bear to listen when
> being on a different planet?
Not quite that. In the interests of accuracy, from Douglas Adams' "The
Restaurant at the End of the Universe", chapter 17:
"Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagracka Mind Zones, ar
How was the band's name whose music one can only bear to listen when
being on a different planet?
Thomas
Am Die, 2004-05-18 um 17.07 schrieb Alain Veylit:
> Jon,
> Some of the music my daughters listens to sounds much like electrified
> Vogon poetry ... But they also enjoy the Baltimore consor
Jon,
Some of the music my daughters listens to sounds much like electrified
Vogon poetry ... But they also enjoy the Baltimore consort and the Beatles.
So that makes the balance, I guess
Alain
At 11:10 PM 5/17/2004, Jon Murphy wrote:
>Which is worse Alain, volume or Vogon poetry? I would hate to
Bill,
Not contentious at all, but perhaps inaccurate. You use the phrase "the hoi
polloi", which has an internal redundancy (I used to live in Greenwich
Village - which translates as green village village). "Hoi" is the article
"the" (although it is only the letters "oi" with the accent that puts
Which is worse Alain, volume or Vogon poetry? I would hate to have to learn
the answer .
Best, Jon
i've devised a little test to gauge one's tolerance of popular culture
and snob rating:
have a good friend of long standing point to your lute and say "awesome
lute, dude!" and see if you can maintain equanimity.
pip-pip
On Venerdì, mag 14, 2004, at 18:55 Europe/Rome, Howard Posner wrote:
>
At 10:15 AM 05/14/2004 -0700, Howard Posner wrote:
>Eugene Braig wrote:
>
> > I determine the degree of my emotional response to all artistic
> > endeavors based upon an inverse log scale to the degree of popularity of
> > said art.
>
>A laudable goal, but your market research expenses must be ast
Eugene Braig wrote:
> I determine the degree of my emotional response to all artistic
> endeavors based upon an inverse log scale to the degree of popularity of
> said art.
A laudable goal, but your market research expenses must be astronomical.
Frankly, I determine the degree of my emotional response to all artistic
endeavors based upon an inverse log scale to the degree of popularity of
said art.
Eugene
>i hope you all won't view this as too contentious but if i've taken
>your collective measure - as it were - correctly i would say
You wrote:
> if i've taken
> your collective measure - as it were - correctly i would say that a
> popularization of the lute repertoire would probably cause most of you
> to drop it immediately and go off in search of something even more
> esoteric
* * *
> for the
ening distance. And likely less.
>
>Best, Jon
>
>- Original Message -
>From: "Alain Veylit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Lute Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 5:37 PM
>Subject: Re: Friendly fire, music and cruelty to ani
Bill,
You are talking to someone who has made extensive efforts to make lute
music more accessible to more people. As long as "popularize" means
spreading the word and sharing the goodies with a larger number of fellow
primates, it's all for the better. If "popularize" means debase for the
sake
Am Fre, 2004-05-14 um 12.41 schrieb bill:
Hi Bill,
I don't think it's the rareness which attracts us. I think the lute has
a very special sound and a fantastic repertoire which raises interest.
Most of us may have come into contact with that repertoire over the
guitar. Others may have listend t
On Venerdì, mag 14, 2004, at 04:30 Europe/Rome, Alain Veylit wrote:
> There is a potential
> annoyance if lute music were to be tagged or associated with
> supermarket or
> elevator music for base commercial reasons. I have mixed feelings when
> I
> hear Cutting while picking my yoghurt and bro
lute won't generate more than about 60db or so, if
measured at a reasonable listening distance. And likely less.
Best, Jon
- Original Message -
From: "Alain Veylit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lute Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 20
You wrote:
> but it seems to me that
> those big chain supermarket music compilations must represent big bucks for
> someone (not necessarily the recording artists).
Probably true. The recording artists get royalties at whatever the
negotiated rate is. I suspect it's lower for store soundtracks
Howard & Alain,
I thought "muzak" - background the businesses that play music to the public
in the US do need to report to the performing rights organizations (BMI &
ASCAP). Bars, dentist's offices ect. often subscribe to get music of a
particular type and there are companies that put these tog
Howard,
You are most probably right on the copyrights, but it seems to me that
those big chain supermarket music compilations must represent big bucks for
someone (not necessarily the recording artists). There is a potential
annoyance if lute music were to be tagged or associated with supermarke
You wrote:
> more lute music is to be heard at Ralph's than anywhere else in Southern
> California... Probably some studies showed that (low decibel level) early
> music can put people in the comfortable (zombie) state conducive to the
> happy consomption of supposedly happy (yet now dead) chicken
Although this is not totally lute-related (how many decibels can a lute
generate?) I find it amusing/ironic:
Paul McCartney, a known animal-rights advocate, is in trouble with
Greenwich people: even though he rehearses across the river, complaints
from residents were issued, most notably one per
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